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John Slidell
John Slidell, former U.S. senator from Louisiana and Confederate emissary to France, ca. 1861.
National Archives, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer (original glass plate negative shows damage that occurred prior to transfer to the National Archives)
On display in Part I of "Discovering the Civil War" in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, April 30, 2010-September 6, 2010.
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“…to destroy the peaceful commerce of the United States.”
In this letter dated March 8, 1864, U.S. ambassador Anson Burlingame informed Chinese Foreign Minister Prince Kung that the Confederate ship Alabama had been attacking U.S. merchant ships. He asked Kung to consider China’s treaty obligations and the interest of international commerce and to deny the Alabama or any other Confederate ship entrance to Chinese waters. Kung agreed. Burlingame maintained this Chinese-language copy of the letter in his files.
National Archives, General Records of the Department of State
On display in Part I of "Discovering the Civil War" in the Lawrence F. O'Brien Gallery of the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, April 30, 2010-September 6, 2010.
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Carver Hospital
Carver Hospital, Washington, DC, ca. 1863.
National Archives, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
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A raid in Virginia
This letter describes a raid on Falls Church, Virginia, by one of the Confederacy’s most daring partisan commanders. John Singleton Mosby and his cavalry, Mosby’s Rangers operated behind Union lines in Northern Virginia, seizing supplies and capturing prisoners. They were seen as “partisans” and not “guerrillas” because they wore Confederate uniforms and were authorized by the Confederate Government.
National Archives, Records of U.S. Army Continental Commands, 1821–1920
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Virginians fear Union raiders
Virginia and Tennessee both joined the Confederacy. And both states held sizable numbers of Union supporters, especially in the mountains of eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. In this petition Confederates from a town in southwestern Virginia asked Governor John Letcher to arm their home guard against Union raiders from eastern Tennessee who were “hostile to the cause of Southern Independence.”
National Archives, War Department Collection of Confederate Records
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