Watts, Thomas Hill, 1819-1892 to John Cabell Breckinridge

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GLC#
GLC02469.31-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
1 April 1865
Author/Creator
Watts, Thomas Hill, 1819-1892
Title
to John Cabell Breckinridge
Place Written
Montgomery, Alabama
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 26.2 cm, Width: 22.1 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Watts, Governor of Alabama, discusses salt production in Alabama with John C. Breckinridge, Confederate Secretary of War. Writes, "I desire authority from the War Department permitting the bonded agriculturists to sell to the State salt commissioner... supplies necessary to operate successfully the salines of Clarke County:- or authority to purchase from major J. J. Walker commissary General in this State, such surplus produce, as may be necessary to carry on this enterprise so important to the citizens of Ala..." Mentions B. M. Woolsey, the state salt commissioner. Written on Executive Department of Alabama stationery.

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