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to John T. Pickett

Discusses the secession of the South and the movement of the Union Army into Savannah and Charleston. Reports on the South's success at Leesburg and at Columbus, Kentucky. Includes personal news. Affixed clippings pertain to the arrest of...

GLC03587.38

Weekly Catawba journal. [Vol. 3, no. 126 (January 7, 1862)]

News items include Battle at Picken's Re-Opened, General Pillow Resigns at Columbus, The Attempt to Block Charleston Harbor, The Battle at Fort Pickens, Colonel McIntosh's Recent Battle, General McClellan Sick With Typhoid Fever, Federal Vessels...

GLC05959.28.02

to unknown

Comments on the lack of comfort and rest he has recently received. Informs the recipient he may travel to New York at the end of May. Discusses Dickinson (possibly Daniel S. Dickinson), John Slidell, and the corruption of New York politicians....

GLC05339.08

Items related to John Slidell [Decimalized .01-.02]

Letter by Slidell and print of him, clipped from a newspaper.

GLC05342

to Chevalier L. Debray

Slidell introduces a Senator from California to Debray (possibly a representative of Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian) to discuss plans regarding the colonization of Sonora, Mexico.

GLC05342.01

[Print of John Slidell]

Print of John Slidell, clipped from Harper's Weekly. The print was based on a photograph. The caption under the print states: "The captured rebel commissioner Slidell." Photographed by "Brady." The verso of the newspaper is part of "A Strange...

GLC05342.02

to Pierre G. T. Beauregard

Introduces Mr. Pike, who has arrived in camp to pay the Louisiana troops for prior service.

GLC02469.23

[Refusal to furnish instruction to Mr. Slidell. Message from the President]

Polk's refusal to furnish correspondence between Minister Plenipotentiary of Mexico Slidell and himself on the grounds that the orders contained therein relate to negotiations that are ongoing. Polk does include reports from the Secretaries of War...

GLC00267.126

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Slidell, a United States Senator from Louisiana, regretfully declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "The Democracy of...

GLC02925.18

[Receipt for fifteen hundred dollars to John Slidell]

Partially printed document acknowledging receipt of $1,500, for use as "Commissioner of the Confederate States to France." Money received from William J. Bromwell, the "Disbursing Clerk of the Department of State."

GLC03006