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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)
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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Confederate States of America. (Card 6)
Unpublished finding aid in repository.
Transfers, gifts, and purchases, 1906-66.

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