Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to A resolution of the House of the 5th instant, transmitting all the papers and testimony relating to the claim of Philip Epstein and others. December 14, 1865 ...
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Link Singerman ID: supp1711
Year: 1865
Entry: United States. House. Philip Epstein and others. Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to A resolution of the House of the 5th instant, transmitting all the papers and testimony relating to the claim of Philip Epstein and others. December 14, 1865 ... [Washington, 1865]. 51 p.
Author/Editor: United States Secretary of War
Location: Washington, DC
Holdings: In most federal documents collections
Title: Letter from the Secretary of War, in answer to A resolution of the House of the 5th instant, transmitting all the papers and testimony relating to the claim of Philip Epstein and others. December 14, 1865 ...
Printer/Publisher: None
Language: English
Notes: Epstein and the four other Jewish traders from Richmond, Va., were suspected barricade runners and their property, chiefly boxes of tobacco and money, was seized by an intercepting Union schooner in 1864. The group, labeled throughout the report as "foreign Jews," therefore presumed guilty, claimed to be fleeing the Confederacy and were seeking amnesty as refugees. At head of title: 39th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives. Ex. Doc. No. 9.