Skip to main content

Box 8

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

A. Cump, Macon, Virginia, to Thomas Ritchie, 1847 February 18

 File — Box: 8, Folder: 477
Identifier: id105022
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents

Expulsion of Ritchie from the Senate; "offence against the Senate...with which [Ritchie's] reporter was charged"; Senate's "rejection...of the bill for the increase of the army"; implication of withholding more men from the Army while the U.S. is at war with Mexico; mention of John C. Calhoun; dissatisfaction with Virginia's Congressional delegate. 3 pp. ALS.

Dates: 1847 February 18