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Confederate Officials and the Cabinet of the Confederacy
A Washington letter recalls the Confederate Cabinet's many holders five years after secession. It lists Secretaries of State Judah Benjamin Bob Toombs R M T Houter and others, notes deaths and survivals, and mentions Postmaster General John H. He and several War Treasury and Navy officials. The piece also covers Confederate Congress members now in U S. Congress and ends with local items on advertising and age demographics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressman Restan
Washington
Cincinnati Times-Star
Treasury
Judah P.benjamin
London
Paris
Bob Toombs
Georgia
Bunker Hill
Methodist Church
R. M. T. Houter
Virginia
Confederacy
Lloyds
Essex County
George W. Randolph
A. Sedden
J. S. Breckinridge
L. Pope Walker
Alabama
Huntsville
Jesse James
John A. Campbell
Baltimore
Campbell
Supreme Court
Lincoln
Fortress Monroe
C. G. Memminger
South Co
George A. Trenholm
Memminger
Charleston
G. A. Trenholm
Judges
Navy Department
R. Mallory
Florida
Navy
Attorney General's Office
Thomas Bragg
North Carolina
Thomas I. Watts
George D. Davis
Mr. Watts
Hhis Old State
Montgomery
Davis
Wilmington
Gen. Lee
John H
Congress
Texas
Provisional Congress of
Provisional Government of the
Confederate Congress
Congress of the United States
West
Missouri
United States Senate
Pugh
Confederate House
Senate
Garland
Arkansas
House
Singleton and Barksdale
Mississippi