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Confederate States of America - Message to Congress February 26, 1861 (European Commission)

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MONTGOMERY, ALA., February 26, 1861.

Hon. Howell Cobb, President of the Congress. ,

Sir: I hereby transmit for the advice of the Congress the following nominations, in accordance with a resolution passed Febuary 13, 1861, to provide for a commission to proceed to Europe under instructions to be given: W. L. Yancey, of Alabama; P. A. Rost, of Louisiana; A. Dudley Mann, of Confederate States.

JEFF'N DAVIS.

Source:
Richardson, James D.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy
Including the Diplomatic Correspondence 1861-1865
Nashville : United States Publishing Company, 1905
127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511.