2021-05 Raynors HCA Live
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SLIDELL, John (1793 - 1871) was an American politician, lawyer, and businessman. As a young man and became a Louisiana Representative and Senator. He was one of two Confederate diplomats captured by the United States Navy from the British ship RMS Trent in 1861 and later released. MASON, James Murray (1798 - 1871), Was a senator from Virginia, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1851 until his expulsion in 1861 for supporting the Confederacy. On his way to England in November 1861, he was forcibly removed from a British ship by agents of the U.S. Navy, giving rise to the Trent Affair.Docketed "John Slidell, USS, La." on collectors request for his signature, 1859.Clipped signature, "Virginia, J Mason".Also, engraved litho CDVs of both Senators, each with name printed on the mount.
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