Confederate States of America records
Contributors: Wadsworth, James Wolcott, 1846-1926; Confederate States of America. Dept. of Justice; Confederate States of America. Dept. of State; Confederate States of America. Dept. of the Treasury; Confederate States of America. Navy; Confederate States of America. Post-Office Dept.; Confederate States of America. War Dept.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18500
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Confederate States of America. Army. Army of Tennessee; Armed forces; Officials and employees; Surgeons; Executive departments; Confederate States of America; Confederate States of America. Congress; Legislative bodies; Confederate Diplomatic and consular service; Foreign relations; History
Description: Correspondence, proclamations, messages of the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records, financial papers, letterbooks, orders, reports, accounts, receipts, and other records relating to the formulation of the government of the Confederacy and the conduct of its internal, external, and military affairs.  Includes records of the departments of state, justice, treasury, navy, war and post office along with material related to the president, congress, and constitution.

Records of the Department of State have been traditionally known as the Pickett Papers and include correspondence of secretary of state J. P. Benjamin with diplomats in Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Mexico, the James Wolcott Wadsworth collection of related material, and other records.

Correspondents include Bolling Baker, G. T. Beauregard, J. P. Benjamin, C. C. Clay, Lewis Conger, Jefferson Davis, Edwin DeLeon, Anthony J. Guirot, Charles J. Helm, Lewis Heyliger, Henry Hotze, L. C. Q. Lamar, A. Dudley Mann, J. M. Mason, C. G. Memminger, John T. Pickett, John A. Quintero, John H. Reagan, Raphael Semmes, John Slidell, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Jacob Thompson, William Henry Trescott, LeRoy Pope Walker, and William Lowndes Yancey.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition available, no. 13,744.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1967.

Microfilm of originals in private hands. [S.l.].

Private

Transfers, gifts, and purchases, 1872-1956.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet.

Microfilm 10,164 previously cataloged separately under Confederate States of America. Army of Tennessee.