CIVIL WAR SIGNED LTC PETER GAILLARD CONFEDERATE CHARLESTON SC WIA WAR HERO #2

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You're bidding on a historic piece of Civil War history. This signature cut was taken from a 1879 Charleston SC court document and signed by Charleston County Treasurer Peter Charles Guillard who just happened to be one of the most heroic Confederate Civil War heroes of the South Carolina militia as a wounded in action Lt. Colonel.
You'll receive:
an original 100% authentic cut autograph from LTC Guillard
an original 100% original State of South Carolina letterhead with handwritten notations from LTC Guillard
a copy of the biographical history with facsimile CDV of LTC Guillard and his wife on 8x10" paper
Gaillard graduated West Point in General George G. Meade's class and fought in the Seminole War, and during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as Lieutenant Colonel of the Seventeenth and as Colonel of the Twenty Seventh South Carolina Volunteers. He lost his left arm in performing a daring feat. The battery was being enfiladed by the gunboats and his command was exposed upon the face of the battery. He desired to communicate with headquarters in order to obtain permission to place his men under shelter. The attempt to reach headquarters required an exposure to the shells that was almost certain death. He declined to order a courier to such a trap of death, but decided to go himself. He went unharmed and obtained the permit, and in returning, his arm was shattered by the fragments of a shell. After his recover he went to Virginia with his regiment and served throughout the war surrendering with Johnston at Greensborough.
During the war of Secession, he served in defence of his State and of the Confederacy, being commissioned Lt. Colonel 17th South Carolina Militia, 9th November, 1861 ; Lt. Colonel Charleston Battalion, (Regular Army) 5th April, 1862; and Colonel, 27th South Carolina 3d October, 1863; he participated in defence of Sumter and Wagner, and at the latter lost his left arm; commanded his Battalion at Secessionville, and was wounded; he was engaged in the battles of Port Withal, 2d Cold Harbor, Weldon Railroad, Drury's Bluff and Petersburg; these services and the affectionate regard of his co-patriots and soldiers, caused him to be chosen first President of the Survivor's Association of South Carolina.
Elected Mayor of Charleston in 1865, he was removed from office by military authority and resumed his factorage business. Appointed Treasurer of Charleston County in 1877, he filled that office til 1 his death, on the 1889—he is buried in his family lot in Magnolia Cemete