William Porcher Miles

He was Mayor of Charleston from 1855 to 1857 ; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congress es and served from March 4 , 1857 , until his retirement in December 1860 . He was a member of the Confederate Provisional Congress in Montgomery, AL , in February 1861 ; member of the Confederate Congress from February 1862 to March 1864 ; colonel on the staff of General Beauregard ; and president of the University Of South Carolina At Columbia from 1880 to 1882 .

He died in Burnside, LA , on May 11 , 1899 and was interred in Union Cemetery, Union, Monroe County, WV . He designed one of the Flags Of The Confederate States Of America .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Daniel, Ruth McCaskill. ''William Porcher Miles: Champion of Southern Interests.'' M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1943.

Miles, William Porcher. ''The annual address delivered before the Cliosophic Society, March 29, 1847.'' Charleston: T.W. Haynes, 1847.

———. ''How to Educate Our Young Lawyers. Address to the law class of the University of Maryland.'' Columbia, S.C.: The Presbyterian Publishing House, 1882.

———. ''Oration delivered before the Fourth of July Association. By Wm. Porcher Miles on the Fourth of July 1849.'' Charleston: James S. Burges, 1849.

Smith, Clarence McKittrick, Jr. ''William Porcher Miles, Progressive Mayor of Charleston, 1855-1857.'' Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 12 (1942): 30-39.

Walther, Eric. H. "Abstractions: William Porcher Miles." In ''The Fire-Eaters'', pp. 270-96. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

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