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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 8 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 1 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
e same place on the 23d. The number of delegates present was one hundred and thirty. Ex-Governor Alexander Mouton, an intimate friend and willing instrument of Slidell, The politicians more directave had the management of the Convention. It had been all arranged beforehand, apparently, that Mouton should be made President of that body. He was elected on the first ballot. As early as the 14tfrom the Capitol at Washington, To the Convention of the State of Louisiana, directed to Hon. Alexander Mouton, President of the Convention, &c. This letter (the original is before me) occupies six pe original. was chosen President, and J. Thomas Wheat, Secretary. J. L. Manning, Signature of Mouton and Wheat. of South Carolina, and J. A. Winston, of Alabama, Commissioners from their respectivelt was known, there was an outburst of the most enthusiastic applause. It ceased, and then President Mouton arose, with great solemnity of manner, and said:--In virtue of the vote just announced, I n