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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09274 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 |
| Title | Stephen R. Mallory to C.C. Memminger, regarding the cancellation of a requisition for nearly three million dollars |
| Date | 1 September 1863 |
| Author | Mallory, Stephen Russell (1813-1873) |
| Recipient | Memminger, Christopher Gustavus |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | As Confederate Secretary of the Navy, to C. C. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury, cancelling a requisition for nearly three million dollars "Captain Samuel Barron C. S. Navy, having returned to the treasury department the drafts drawn in his favor… I have the honor to request that the said requisition be cancelled on books of the Treasury Department." This may relate to the money that was to have paid for two ironclad turret ships secretly being built in England for the Confederacy, supervised by Capt. Barron. Federal diplomacy resulted in their seizure by the British government in October 1863, before delivery. |
| Subjects | Confederate States of America Military History Navy Ironclad Finance Global History and Civics |
| People | Mallory, Stephen Russell (1813-1873) |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Foreign Affairs; Naval & Maritime |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |