Number of Pages
5
Date
July 17, 1860

President James Buchanan writes to John T. Henry and several other men regarding a meeting of “the National Volunteers” of New York, sectional tensions, and the Presidential Election of 1860. "May the kind Providence which has watched over our Country from the beginning restore the ancient friendship & harmony among the different members of the Confederacy," as Buchanan notes. Transcript included.

Time Period
Location
MC 1998.10, B4, F3
Origin
Gift of Boyd Lee Spahr
Letter from James Buchanan to John T. Henry