ALS, 1865 October 9 : Paris, to J.S. Black.

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ALS, 1865 October 9 : Paris, to J.S. Black.

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Thompson, a Mississippi politician, was Secretary of the Interior in Buchanan's administration. He joined the Confederacy and served in the army and was a secret agent in Canada. Suspected of involvement in Lincoln's assassination he remained outside the U.S. at the war's end. In this letter to Black, a Pennsylvania, who had also served in Buchanan's cabinet he expresses some of the emotions and political views of a defeated Confederate in exile.

8 p. ; 20.5 x 13.3 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Black, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Sullivan), 1810-1883

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