Letter from James M. Haynes to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; December 24, 1863

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Letter from James M. Haynes to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; December 24, 1863

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Clark, Charles, 1811-1877 Haynes, James M.

Events

Crime Crime--Smuggling Military Events--Blockade

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Confederate States of America--War Department. Quartermaster Department Watercraft

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Commercial agents Manufacturers

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Alabama--Mobile County. Mobile Mississippi--Noxubee County. Macon

Letter from James M. Haynes to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; December 24, 1863

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Macon Miss Decr 24^th/63

Governor

After my interview with you a few days ago. I visited Mobile for the purpose of confirming with the gentleman who proposes to run the blockade with such articles of necessity, as the Government might need, but found him absent.

I had an interview with the agent of the man and he agreed for me to make the following proposition—viz—

He will furnish such goods as you or the QMaster General may order at a Confederate port (to be agreed upon by the contracting parties) at cost and charges, providin the Government will permit him to run out cotton to the volume of three times the amount of your purchases—

He is to have a special order for the transportation of the cotton to the port from which it is to be shipped

He can-not introduce clothing but will furnish all of the material for its manufacture in the Confederacy.

I am respectfully

James M. Haynes

To
Gov. Chas Clarke
Macon
Miss,,