was the son of Dr. Isham Fannin, who was born in the Orangeburg District of South Carolina.
"Disturb not their slumbers, let the heroes here sleep
Neath the boughs of the willows that over the weep!
Their arms are unnerved, but their deeds remain bright
As the stars in the dark-vaulted heaven at night!
O, wake not these heroes! their battles are o'er!
Let them rest undisturbed on Antonio's fair shore!
On the river's green border as flowery dressed,
With the hearts they loved fondly let the heroes here rest!"
The Birth of the Citadel
In 1836, shortly after the Alamo tragedy, South Carolina Governor George McDuffie was one of the first to suggest that a military college be established in the state. Lt Col Travis and many South Carolinians perished in the Alamo and other battles fighting for Texas Independence. The heroic adjutant and messenger of the Alamo, James Butler Bonham, another South Carolinian, was the brother of Gen Milledge Luke Bonham, Adjutant General of the South Carolina Militia, and member of The Citadel Board of Visitors during the Civil War. Several other notable South Carolinians that settled in Texas include Thomas S. Lubbock and Francis R. Lubbock two brothers from Charleston. Thomas became one of the early
