"Special" to [the Charleston Daily] "Courier," 1861 Jan. 16.

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"Special" to [the Charleston Daily] "Courier," 1861 Jan. 16.

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Confederate spy document relayed via telegraph from P.O. Bryan, Manager, Teleg[raph] Off[ice], Washington, D.C., re Gov. Francis W. Pickens' order making "[Maj. Robert] Anderson [and] his command [at Fort Sumter] subject [to] surveillance [by] post office & other authority" but noting the "distinction ... between official & private letters." Document also alludes to a published letter from "Judge [Augustus Baldwin] Longstreet ... demonstrating from his correspondence with Thompson that [the] latter knew nothing [of] movements of troops south."

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Charleston Daily Courier.

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Bryan, P. O.

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South Carolina. Governor (1860-1862 : Pickens)

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Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871

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Anderson was born at "Soldier's Retreat," the Anderson family estate near Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Richard Clough Anderson Sr. (1750–1826), served in the Continental Army as an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the American Revolutionary War, and was a charter member of the Society of the Cincinnati; his mother, Sarah Marshall (1779–1854), was a cousin of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (Wes...

Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin, 1790-1870

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Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, lawyer, author, and college president, was born 22 September 1790, in Augusta, Georgia, and died 9 July 1870, in Oxford, Mississippi. His sketches of late eighteenth century Georgia life, GEORGIA SCENES, appeared in Georgia newspapers (1833-1836), but later writings were more political or religious. He was ordained a Methodist minister (1838) and became president of four Southern colleges: Emory College (1839-1848), Centenary College in Jackson, La. (1849), the Unive...