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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09197 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Francis W. Pickens to the House of Representatives |
| Date | 28 January 1861 |
| Author | Pickens, Francis Wilkinson (1805-1869) |
| Recipient | House of Representatives |
| Document Type | Government document |
| Content Description | Informs the legislature of J. W. Hayne's confidential mission to negotiate with Buchanan over the right to reinforce Fort Sumter. "The letter of the President...asserts in plain terms, his right to send reinforcements, and I cannot disconnect this positive assertion of his right from an intention, or expectation, speedily to exercise it." |
| Subjects | Fort Sumter Fortification President Confederate States of America Military History Government and Civics |
| People | Pickens, Francis Wilkinson (1805-1869) Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) |
| Place written | Executive Department |
| Theme | The American Civil War; The Presidency; Government & Politics |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Additional Information | From the wartime papers of South Carolina Governors Francis W. Pickens and Milledge L. Bonham. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |