Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Ohio River Valley Business Collection, 1788 - 1961. 20 cu. ft.
Call No.
Mss. BB O36 57
Content
The William O. Bonnie file contains a short story entitled "A Gentle Captain in Blue" concerning Captain Americus Whedon And Hunter's Brigade (3rd Division, 14 Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland) concerning his friendship with a girl in Barnwell, SC and how this friendship saved a house from destruction. Story takes place during Sherman's 1865 march through South Carolina.