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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09204 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1861 |
| Title | Gabriel E. Manigault to Governor Francis W. Pickens suggesting providing privateers with captured guns to arm their vessels |
| Date | 13 June 1861 |
| Author | Manigault, Gabriel E. (fl. 1861) |
| Recipient | Pickens, Francis Wilkinson |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Suggests furnishing privateers with captured guns. "Frequent applications are made at the Ordnance Office by persons wishing to fit out privateers, for guns to arm their vessels...this is one of the most economical and effectual modes of carrying on the war and distressing the enemy. With autograph endorsement of Pickens. |
| Subjects | Privateering Confederate States of America Artillery Weaponry Military History |
| People | Pickens, Francis Wilkinson (1805-1869) Manigault, Gabriel E. (fl. 1861) |
| Place written | Charleston, South Carolina |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Naval & Maritime |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | From the wartime papers of South Carolina Governors Francis W. Pickens and Milledge L. Bonham. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |