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Microfilm Ms 13, 744 Confederate States of America.
Records, 1859-1872. 29 ft. (ca. 18,500 items) In Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. A self-constituted governmental body formed by a provisional congress of Southern states to uphold the rights of states to secede from the United States. Records prior to the official establishment of the Confederacy on Frbruary 4, 1861, include peripheral materials and miscellany; those post dating the capitulation of Confederate General Robert Edward Lee (2807-70) (continued on next card)
Microfilm Ms 13, 744 Confederate States of America. (Card 3) Legislative Branches, 1861-1864, including correspondence, proclamations, and messages of the President; 4) Confederate constitutional documents; 5) records of the Department of Justice, 1861-65, containing court cases, minute books, docket books; 6) records of the Department of the Treasury, 1860-65, consisting of letters received by Bolling Baker, Lewis Conger, and A.J. Guirot, customs records, and estimates and receipts; 7) records of the Post Office Department, 1861-65, (continued on next card)
Microfilm Ms 13, 744 Confederate States of America. (Card 5) correspondence of state officials, railroad material, and memorabilia. Correspondents include: Judah Philip Benjamin (1811-84), John Forsyth (1812-77), Henry Hotze (1834-87), Ambrose Dudley Mann (1801-89), John Thomas Picket, T. A. Rost, John Slidell (1793-1871), Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-83), and William Lowndes Yancey (1814-63). Described in Handbook of manuscripts in the Library of Congress, Washington, 1918, pp. 70-76 (continued on next card)
Microfilm Ms 13, 744 Confederate States of America. (Card 2) on April 9, 1865, include certain continuation records of the Confederacy Department of State, and general miscellany descriptive of the Civil War. The bulk of this collection of official and semi-official organisational files is for the period 1861-65. It consists of 9 general series: 1) records of the Department of State, 1859-72; 2) James Wolcott Wadsworth (1846-1926) collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes (1809-77); 3) records of the Executive and (continued on next card)
Microfilm Ms 13, 744 Confederate States of America. (Card 2) containing Appointment Bureau letterbooks, orders, reports, accounts, mail routes; 8) records of the War Department, 1861-65, containing correspondence, letterbooks of correspondence between Hamilton Prioleaux Bee (1822-97) and Albino Lopez; and 9) records of the Navy Department, 1861-64, consisting mostly of accounts, receipts, a few logs, reports, and some correspondence. There is also a large miscellaneous series, not directly related to the official Confederate body, but including (continued on next card)
Microfilm Ms 13, 744 Confederate States of America. (Card 6) Unpublished finding aid in repository. Transfers, gifts, and purchases, 1906-66.
MICROFILMED 1967 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PHOTODUPLICATION SERVICE
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No. 1
Hon J.P. Benjamin Department of State Richmond, C.S.A.
Vichy July 30. 1862
Sir
I have just received notice from Mr Fearn that he leaves London on the 2nd of August for the Confederate States, and have only time to write a few hasty lines in consequence of the lateness of the advice given.
In consequence of the want of communication between Nassau and the rest of the Word I was detained there three weeks, and only reached London by the [...shire?] Mail Steamer onthe 29th June. I found public opinion there very much in the same condition as when I left that place in January, with a tendency to depreciation in consequence of the [illegible] of reverses our army had experienced.