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Recipient of this letter is presumed to be Lieutenant Thomas Waring Mikell (1837-1893) of South Carolina [son of William Archibald Mikell (1815-1840) and Jane Yates Mikell (1840-1910)].
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The definitive biography of a controversial South Carolina leader Upon its initial publication in 1944, Pitchfork Ben Tillman was a signal event in the writing of modern South Carolina history. In a biography the Journal of Southern History called "definitive," Francis Butler Simkins, a South Carolinian and Columbia University-educated historian, brings his research skills and professional dispassion to bear upon a study of one of the state's most controversial political leaders. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of Reconstruction. Tillma...
Contested election case between Robert Smalls, a negro, and George D. Tillman, of South Carolina, for a seat in the House of representatives of the United States.