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Senator John Slidell ALS 1857

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:19.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
Senator John Slidell ALS 1857
<B>Senator John Slidell Autograph Letter Signed,</B></I> 5 x 8, 4 pages, July 17, 1857, Washington. Fine. John Slidell (1793 -1871), a native of New York City, moved to Louisiana and became a U.S. representative and a U.S. Senator from that state in the mid-nineteenth century. During the American Civil War Slidell was one of the two CSA diplomats involved in the <I>Trent </B></I> Affair in November, 1861. After having been appointed the Confederate States of America's commissioner to France in September, 1861, he ran the blockade from Charleston, South Carolina, with James Murray Mason of Virginia. They then set sail from Havana on the British steamer RMS <I>Trent,</B></I> but were intercepted by the U.S. Navy while en route and taken into captivity at Fort Warren in Boston. After the resolution of the <I>Trent </B></I>Affair, the two diplomats set sail for Europe on January 1, 1862. <I>From the collection of Henry E. Luhrs</B></I> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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