The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-19

photosraph OF the statue and asiSins
him To have the seal made IN England.
tENhlbit B) On February Is, 1864. n
| Mason. informing Secretary Renjamin
/ OF the progress OF the work. said that
tho seal was being cut IN silver because
! that metal was less liable To rust than
steel The artist was J. S. Wyon
! maker of the Great Seals OF England
| (ENhibit e.
| seal sent 10 America.
! On April -. 1861. Mr.. Mason report.
! cd that he had instructed Mr. Wyon
| to pack the seal. the press and other
appliances and put them in charge OF
! MIR. liotzc. Cribs was Henry lIotzA
! confidential agent in Lundon of the
Confederate govcrnmentD (Exhibit
| D. On July 8. 1854. Mr.. Mason wrote
his government that he was sending
the ssal to America by Lieutenant
Chapman. {. S. y. The seal, he said,
is much admired by all who have seen
IT here and hope YOU will approve of
IL as fine work OF art The cost of
the seal, press. wax and other appur-
tcnanccs was ft2".1o. lExhihit ED
trhc exhibits y. Is. c. and Il are
quoted in whole or in part in 'Stycllo-
lcg:a. Being some Account Of the Greu,
or Broad Seal of The Conf dcrute
states II America--a Monograph by
loannes Didymus Archaeologos. Wash
ington,, 1873: a privately printct pamph-
let by John I. Pickett. aud in the
American Historical Rccord. Vol. Ill.
1879, page $50. article The Gr.aT Seal
of the Confederate States of America.
by Thomas j. Pickett. the same author.
with his Christian names trunsposrd
FOR reasons which are unknown.)
lieutenant Il. r. Chapman, e. = y,
arrived III Richmond SEPTEMBER 1851
and turned the seal over TO the Score
tary of State. tt;Nhibit L. letter Of
James Morris Morgan to Ciaillard Hunt
April &c. 1870
WINS seldom ussd,
Some uncertainty surrounds the
Question of the delivery of the press
and appurtcnances or the seal Ap-
parcntly the seal was never set up tor
regular use in Richmond, for it was
impressed upon few II any official
Instruments. 1t is doubtful if the
press was delivered III this country.
but the question * luimportant
"One of the officers of the Confed-
crate state Department WAS William
j. Bromwcll, who. up 10 1861. had been
clerk in the bureau OF Rolls OF the
State Department OF the United States
tScc the official register for 1850 where
his name nppcars.)
A. When Richmond was evacuated pyl
tho Confederate government in April.
1865, those records of the state De-
partmcnt, which Mr.. BENJAMIN had not.
destroyed. and the great soal were
taken in charge ny 6romwel The
records were concealed by him at first
in a barn near Richmond. and his wife
secretly carried the Great Seal out of
Richmond hidden in her dress. Later
she brought il to Washington. GEN
hbit q. letter OF Theodore J. Pickett
TO Gaillard Hunt. May 5. 1879
In 1865, Colonel John r. Pickett. a
lawyer in Washington. sometimc com
missioner Of the Confederate States in
Mexico. and All officer in the Cpnfcd-
crate army, on the staff OF General
Breckenridge, offered TO sell To the
government of the United States, as
agent for person whose identity hel
refused to disclose, the archives OF the
Confederate state Department tho ar
chives being, he said. in Canada.
Sells to Government.
'fIe made other and unsuccessful
efforts to dispose of them TO private
individuals. After prolonged negotia-
ton the government appointed AM
agent to so to Canada and inspect the
archives in April, 1872.
AS "a matter of fact. they We're
concealed in Washington. 1t was he
lievcd 1T the time. and has been be-
lcNeu SiiI''' mat Nolohel tlchctt MINI
self had the archives, and that he was
acting for himself: but his papers re-
Gently acquired by the government.
SHOW that Bromwcll had them, and
that Pickett was really his attorney.
| The papers were sent to Canada, on
the same train with tho governments
agent, Captain Thomas O. SclfridEc. l..
;. y" who was ordered TO inspect them
and who was in entire ignorance Of
their proximity To him during his
Journey to Hamilton, Ontario. He rt-
ported on the nature or the archives
and the government bought them. As
n memcnto Of tho transaction, Colonel
| Pickett gave Captain Sclfridge per-
sonally the Great Seal OF the Confcd-
cracy, having obtained it from Brom-
we'll. Doubtless Eromwcll knew not
what TO do with it, and was afraid 10
] soil IL. or 10 disclose the fact thnt N