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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 2: Lee's invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. (search)
itish ministry, restrained by the good Queen, steadily refused to take decided action in the matter. Only the Pope of Rome, of all the rulers of the earth, acting as a temporal prince, officially recognized Jefferson Davis as the head of a real Government. In the autumn of 1862, Pope Pius the Ninth addressed a letter to the Archbishops of New York and New Orleans, enjoining them to employ their prayers and influence for the restoration of peace. These were published, and on the 23d of September, 1863, Jefferson Davis, in his official capacity, addressed a letter to The Most Venerable Chief of the Holy See, and Sovereign Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, thanking him, in his own name and that of the Confederate States, for his Christian charity and love, declaring that they then were and ever had been earnestly desirous that the wicked war should cease. To this the Pope replied on the 3d of December, in a letter To the Illustrious and Honorable Jefferson Davis, President of t