2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
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Manuscript Signed Document, "T.J. Bennett" to Geo. W. Willimas, 2pp., Charleston, May 15, 1865. In part, Please receive from Bennett's Mills the proceeds of 3216 bushels of rice ...." George Walton Williams (1820-1903) was a prominent Charleston merchant, banker, railroad executive, and civil servant. The History of Banking in South Carolina from 1712-1900 includes this description of Williams: "at the breaking out of the War between the States we find Mr. Williams at the head of two of the largest commercial houses in the South, an Alderman of the City of Charleston, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee…; director of the Bank of South Carolina, and also two railroad companies…" Charleston mayor Charles Macbeth sent a delegation led by Aldermen W. H. Gilliland and George W. Williams to greet Bennett's 21st Regiment United States Colored Infantry and request their assistance after chaos and fires ensued in the wake of the Confederate Army's departure from Charleston. Williams was later appointed by the state legislature to procure supplies for Confederate soldiers' families and was put in charge of procuring food and provisions for Charleston, even as the city changed hands from Confederate to Federal control.
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