Confiscation Suits and a Forty Thousand Dollar Fee
A Civil War era note recounts Pierre Soulé receiving a forty thousand dollar fee from the Confederacy in a case involving the Miramon steamers seized on the Mexican coast. It discusses cotton seizures, wartime commerce, and rumors of concealed loot, then shifts to exhibition reports and public works like the Blackfriars bridge in England and a letter on Union reconstruction.
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