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- GLC#
- GLC00832.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- June 24, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Memminger, Christopher G., 1803-1888
- Title
- to George Schley
- Place Written
- Richmond, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30.6 cm, Width: 20.2 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Memminger, Secretary of the Confederate Treasury, discusses an attempt to raise funds for the Confederacy (refer to GLC00832.01) with Schley. He states that bonds in the form that Schley proposed cannot be issued, due to a recent act passed by the Confederate Congress. He discusses specific details related to domestic and foreign issuance of bonds, as well as their principal and interest. Docketed "For Mr. Washington" and marked as a copy. Schley was a prominent Georgia cotton manufacturer.
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