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Showing posts with label Confederate States of America. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate States of America. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Speech of Alexander H. Stephens, February 10, 1861

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GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS, for though we met as strangers from different and independent States, we are once more citizens of a common...
Friday, September 15, 2017

The Confederate Sequestration Act, August 30, 1861

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AN ACT for the sequestration of the estates, property, and effects of alien enemies, and for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate S...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

1st Lieutenant George W. Snyder to Major Robert Anderson, April 4, 1861

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FORT SUMTER S.C., April 4 , 1861 . Maj. ROBERT ANDERSON, First Artillery, U. S. Army Commanding Fort Sumter : MAJOR: In compliance...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Colonel Joseph G. Totten to Simon Cameron, April 3, 1861

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WASHINGTON, April 3 , 1861 . To the SECRETARY OF WAR: Under the strongest convictions on some military questions upon which great p...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

William H. Seward to Charles Francis Adams, April 10, 1861

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Department Of State, Washington, April 10, 1861. Sir : Although Great Britain and the United States possess adjacent dominions of lar...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

William H. Seward to Abraham Lincoln, March 15, 1861

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Department of State Washington, 15th March, 1861. The President submits to me the following question, namely, “Assuming it to be poss...