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From: South Carolina. James Bonham, officer of the Alamo garrison, son of James and Sophia Butler (Smith) Bonham, was born at Red Banks (present-day Saluda), Edgefield County, South Carolina, on February 20, 1807. Recent evidence indicates that he was a second cousin of William B. Travis.

James Butler Bonham (February 20, 1807 – March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. His younger brother, Milledge Luke Bonham, was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, and served as...

Bonham died in the battle of the Alamo, while manning one of the cannons in the interior of the Alamo chapel. On December 18, 1938, the Texas Centennial Commission erected a statue of James Bonham on the courthouse square of the town of Bonham, named in his honor. Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith

William N. Bonham, James Butler Bonham: Messenger of Defeat (Halifax: 1990). No one is sure exactly how many times Bonham escaped from the Alamo to smuggle pleas for Travis. Historians know he went once, and suspect he may have gone twice. In any case, he knew no help would arrive to save them, yet still he returned to die alongside his friends.

Soldier. Bonham was born in Edgefield District on February 20, 1807, the son of James Bonham and Sophia Butler Smith. He was expelled from South Carolina College in 1827 for participating in a protest over the quality of the food served at the college boardinghouse. He then studied law and set up practice in Pendleton in 1830.