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(Southern Partisan) – In a state that has long embraced lost causes like the Civil War, Saluda County has a special fondness for one that happened a thousand miles away.
The county, nestled in the pine forests and rolling farmland of western South Carolina, bills itself as “The Birthplace of Alamo Heroes.” It reveres native sons William Barret Travis and James Butler Bonham, who died along with roughly 180 others defending the former Spanish mission to the death in 1836 in the fight for independence for Texas.
And long before the latest movie of “The Alamo,” local historians have been telling and retelling how Travis unloaded both barrels of his shotgun as he took a ball to the forehead and Bonham sneaked through Mexican lines at least twice with letters asking for reinforcements.
“It’s a great story about two dashing young idealistic men,” said Saluda County Historical Society Executive Director Bela Herlong.
They’ve been proud for a long time. In 1947, a monument was dedicated on the courthouse lawn remembering the pair as “comrades in arms” who “perished together in battle.”
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