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Autograph Letter Signed by J.M. Seixas to General Daniel Ruggles, November 21, 1861

One-page autograph letter signed "J.M. Seixas" dated November 21, 1861, addressed to General Daniel Ruggles. The letter discusses the writer's inability to deliver an enclosed letter from General Gladden in person and mentions the St. Charles Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. J.M. Seixas, a Charleston Jew, was sent to Wilmington, N.C. by the Confederate War Department to find blockade runners to keep the Southern supply line moving. He was later appointed a War Department Agent at Wilmington, North Carolina.

Associated People/Businesses

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897
Seixas, J.M. (James Madison Seixas)

Geography

Charleston

Subjects

Blockade
Military correspondence

Physical Location

Arc.MS.56, Box 1, Folder 181