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Henry Bohlen Confederate Letters, 1862, Date acquired: 09/01/1948

 

Summary

Creator:
Bohlen, Henry
Extent:
3.00 items
0.00 Linear Feet
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

{Title of Item], [Date of Item], Henry Bohlen Confederate Letters, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1964-071

Background

Scope and content:

The collection donated by Henry Bohlen includes a letter by Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of War, CSA, in which he reprimands the firm of R.S. Archer for furnishing a large number of field guns "cast in a cupola furnace, you well knowing the extreme danger of using such guns, the almost certainty of their explosion... It is bad enough that our brave defenders should expose their lives to the fire of the enemy under such odds as exists against us, but to furnish them arms more dangerous to themselves than to the enemy is utterly inexcusable..." Also includes a letter of R.S. Archer who complains of orders by Josiah Gorgas, Chief of Ordnance, CSA, and a letter of Gorgas to Archer on the subject of the criticism of his firm.

Acquisition information:
Gift of Henry Bohlen (no address given, Sept. 1948).
Processing information:

Processed Feb. 3, 1964. Inventory encoded by Burt Altman.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been transferred to the Florida State University Libraries.

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

{Title of Item], [Date of Item], Henry Bohlen Confederate Letters, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1964-071

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA