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Confederate States of America Records, 1854-1889, (bulk 1861-1865)

Title: Confederate States of America Records 1854-1889 (bulk 1861-1865)

Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial records, letterbooks, orders, reports, and other records of the Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War Department. Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes.

ArchivalResource: 18,500 items; 124 containers plus 5 oversize; 28 linear feet; 71 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003052 View

Mason, J. M. (James Murray), 1798-1871. James Murray Mason Papers, 1838-1870.

Title: James Murray Mason Papers, 1838-1870.

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, dispatches, supply lists and other materials relating to James Mason's years as a diplomatic commissioner for the Confederary in Europe during the Civil War. Topics include cotton and the Confederate economy; naval matters, including the Union blockade of the Confederacy; and the activities English groups opposed to the war, such as the Society for Promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America, and the Southern Independence Association. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin, Henry Hotze, R.M.T. Hunter, John Russell, John Slidell, and General James William.

ArchivalResource: 3 reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122387790 View

J. M. Mason Papers, 1838-1870, (bulk 1862-1865)

Title: J. M. Mason Papers 1838-1870 (bulk 1862-1865)

United States senator and representative from Virginia and Confederate diplomatic agent in Great Britain. Chiefly diplomatic communications sent while Mason was a Confederate commissioner. Includes correspondence; dispatches; lists of supplies for the Confederate States from London; statements and depositions regarding piracy, claims, the blockade, and other naval and marine matters; cotton bonds and warrants; circulars; and printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3,600 items; 9 containers; 1.8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010229 View

Thompson, John Reuben, 1823-1873. Civil War journal, 1864.

Title: Civil War journal, 1864.

Thompson describes events and conditions in Richmond, Va., particularly in regard to the war; and his life in England where he travelled in June and where he met Albert T. Bledsoe, Thomas Carlyle, Alexander Collie, Lord and Lady Donoughmore, Walker Fearn, Henry Hotze, James E. MacFarland, Norman Walker and David Watson.

ArchivalResource: 1 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54077030 View

Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887. Papers of Henry Hotze [manuscript], 1861-1866, 1959-1972.

Title: Papers of Henry Hotze [manuscript], 1861-1866, 1959-1972.

Papers of Henry Hotze, include a draft of a letter to P. Hamber of London, ca. 1861, "Some arguments in favor of Confederate independence"; a draft of a letter to unidentified editors, ca. 1862 "Anniversary of Washington's birthday" on the Civil War; a draft of a letter to Lord Campbell, 1863 January 24, on the Civil War and British involvement; a draft of a letter to the editor of the New York Herald, 1865 January 24, on the Civil War and French involvement; and the draft of a pamphlet, 1863-66 "Les principes de la colonization par rapport a la question Mexicaine" with an additional section in another hand. There is also a copy of a thesis "Henry Hotze, Confederate propagandist" by Charles P. Cullop; and a photocopy of "Rebel propagandist: Henry Hotze" Chapter 8 of Charles L. Dufour's "Nine men in gray." There is also research material, 1963-1972, regarding Hotze and William Parker Snow.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647880309 View

Hotze, Henry, 1833-1887. Papers [microform].

Title: Papers [microform]. 1861-1865.

ArchivalResource: 187 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39200169 View

Bannon, John B., 1829-1913. John B. Bannon papers, 1863-1927.

Title: John B. Bannon papers, 1863-1927.

Chiefly Civil War correspondence of John B. Bannon to his family re Civil War, affairs in Ireland, recruitment of Irish soldiers, Catholicism, sermons, and preaching; including commission, 12 Feb. 1863, appointing J.B. Bannon as Chaplain, Provisional Army, Confederate States of America, signed by James A. Gedding, Secretary of War. Special orders, 3 Sept. 1863, commanding J.B. Bannon to report for special service; letter, 4 Sept. 1863, Richmond, Va., from Judah Philip Benjamin, to John Bannon, re Bannon's assignment as agent to Ireland and discussing attempts by United States to recruit Irish soldiers. Two letters, 17 Nov. 1863 and 22 Nov. 1863, Dublin, Ireland, from J.B. Bannon, to J.P. Benjamin, Richmond, Va., re causes for Irish emigration to U.S., U.S. attempts to prevent immigration, and Irish sympathies re Civil War; records, 12 Dec. 1863-25 May 1864, Dublin, Ireland, re propaganda circulars printed by United States government; account, 1863-1864, of J.B. Bannon, for Confederate State Department listing expenses for travel to Liverpool, England, and for printing and mailing circulars. Letter, 18 Feb. 1864, London, England, from Henry Hotze to J.B. Bannon, re "Society for promoting the Cessation of Hostilities in America" call to end Civil War; circular, Jan. 1864, re inhumanity of the war, petitioning Parliament, and English sentiment in favor of Southern cause; 3 letters, 9 Mar. 1864, 9 Apr. 1864, and 28 May 1864, Dublin, Ireland, from J.B. Bannon, to J.P. Benjamin, re Irish sympathies favoring the Confederacy, Northern recruiting of immigrants, and Bannon's circulars. Letter, 8 Feb. 1866, Charleston, S.C., from Patrick Niesen Lynch, Bishop of Charleston, re traveling abroad and end of Civil War; letter, 29 Nov. 1882, Dublin, Ireland, From J.B. Bannon, to Capt. Joseph Boyce, St. Louis, Mo., re memories of the Confederacy; and biographical sketches, 8 Mar. 1914 and 28 Dec. 1916, of John Bannon. Also including Bannon's diary, 1861-1863, Corinth and Vicksburg, Missipppi, and elsewhere, re religious activities conducted while serving as Catholic priest in Confederate States Army during Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. and other battles.

ArchivalResource: 66 items and 1 volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42450798 View