CSA CIVIL WAR SECRET SERVICE AGENT JACOB THOMPSON AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED

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CSA CIVIL WAR SECRET SERVICE AGENT JACOB THOMPSON AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED:
$375.00

JACOB THOMPSON (1810 - 1885) Confederate politician who first warned of the planned relief of Fort Sumter, served under Beauregard and Pemberton attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, and later was sent by Jefferson Davis in 1864 to Canada as head of the C.S.A. Secret Service to prepare subversive acts such as the St. Albans Raid and the burning of New York. Scarce A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., [n.p., docketed on envelope Dec. 1858 during his term as Secretary of the Interior] to President James Buchanan, in part: \"...I do not think Mr. Corning [?] has written anything about Mr. Granger. I remember him once speaking to me in relation to Mr. Granger. I do not think he made the specific charge that he voted for, or supported his appointment. I send you two letters [not included] on file now...I know nothing of the writer of either letter...\".Accompanied bythe original envelope from the House of Representatives, very good condition and desirable autograph letter signed from this mercurial Civil War notable.Member UACC and MS, authenticity guaranteed.