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Alexander Hamilton Stephens letter to James M. Calhoun
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS580f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a letter written by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens to James M. Calhoun, mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. The letter discusses Calhoun's recent appointment to civil governor of Atlanta by General Braxton Bragg. Stephens writes that the prohibition of the sale of alcohol to soldiers is unconstitutional according to the Confederate Constitution and the Rules and Articles of the Confederacy. He also states that Calhounās new position as civil governor of Atlanta...
Dates:
1862 September 8