Letter of Charles Gayarré, undated.

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Letter of Charles Gayarré, undated.

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Gayarré, Charles, 1805-1895

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Charles-Étienne Arthur Gayarré (January 9, 1805 – February 11, 1895) was an American historian, attorney, slaveowner and politician born to a Spanish and French Creole planter family in New Orleans, Louisiana. A Confederate sympathizer and a writer of plays, essays, and novels, Gayarré is chiefly remembered for his histories of Louisiana and his exposé of US Army general James Wilkinson as a Spanish spy. Born on his grandfather's plantation just outside the city limits of New Orleans (now Aud...