(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE DIPLOMACY) Heavily docketed postal

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SIGNED BY A MAJOR GENERAL AND SECRETARY OF WAR (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE--DIPLOMACY.) Heavily docketed postal cover rejecting the right of aliens to pass through the lines. Autograph Note Signed by Major General Samuel Jones, Secretary of War James A. Seddon, and others. 2 pages, 8 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches, featuring an address panel with Confederate #8 stamp and inked Charleston cancellation stamp and numerous manuscript notes and docketing in red and black; moderate foxing, worn with large seal tear and three smaller holes. Vp, September-November 1864

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This cover originally held a 6 September 1864 letter from Henry Meyer, the Prussian consul in Charleston, SC, "proposing to receive bona fide aliens into the Federal lines" with the cooperation of the Union Army at Hilton Head. It was addressed to Confederate Major General Samuel Jones, who wrote "resp'ly forwarded as requested" and added his signature on 8 September. Secretary of War James A. Seddon added his own note and initials on 26 October: "No such privilege can be accorded. Aliens will be allowed to return by our ports to their own or neutral countries, but not to go to or communicate with the enemy. JAS." Adjutants John W. Riely and D.H. Poole also added their own dockets and signatures through 14 November.