RAGLAND PAPERS found.

Rebel - KGC · Mar 13, 2018

Wife & I went to Jones Memorial Library in L'burg, today; she did Family Research (she's from Maryland), and I looked for the RAGLAND PAPERS. Found 'em in @ 10 boxes; Chuck gave me the Index of Contents there-in... found NOTHING pertaining to "Topic of Interest" (CSA Treasury/Beale Treasure...). BUT! MANY famous names on those correspondents... Risque, Ward, Astor, Langhorn, etc. NOT gonna go thru 'em, tho. :tongue3:

If you go, just ask for the RAGLAND PAPERS.

franklin · Mar 14, 2018

Rebel - KGC said:
Wife & I went to Jones Memorial Library in L'burg, today; she did Family Research (she's from Maryland), and I looked for the RAGLAND PAPERS. Found 'em in @ 10 boxes; Chuck gave me the Index of Contents there-in... found NOTHING pertaining to "Topic of Interest" (CSA Treasury/Beale Treasure...). BUT! MANY famous names on those correspondents... Risque, Ward, Astor, Langhorn, etc. NOT gonna go thru 'em, tho. If you go, just ask for the RAGLAND PAPERS.

The information you seek about the "Laws of Nations" should be in those papers? Maybe you could find something out about the attorney that ended up with the copy that Major Hutter saved from the burning inferno in Danville, Va. The copy that belonged to Judah Benjamin.

Rebel - KGC · Mar 14, 2018

franklin said:
The information you seek about the "Laws of Nations" should be in those papers? Maybe you could find something out about the attorney that ended up with the copy that Major Hutter saved from the burning inferno in Danville, Va. The copy that belonged to Judah Benjamin.

Thought so too... BUT! Not listed on the list that Chuck gave me; Attorney Gibbs was Maj. ES Hutter's Son-in-Law. Will have to ask Chuck, if he has VLoN... WOULD be nice; VLoN is on-line... ALL lawyer-ese, (legal terms, etc.).

Rebel - KGC · Mar 14, 2018

franklin said:
The information you seek about the "Laws of Nations" should be in those papers? Maybe you could find something out about the attorney that ended up with the copy that Major Hutter saved from the burning inferno in Danville, Va. The copy that belonged to Judah Benjamin.

"JB", CSA was Jewish; don't know if his Vattel's LAW OF NATIONS (SECRET Book of the CSA Gov't) was in French or English. Maj. ES Hutter, CSA saved it from the flames in Danville, Va., then bought it to L'burg, Va. (last state capital of VIRGINIA, April 6-10, 1865); reckon he figured it would be helpful running the REBEL Gov't from L'burg. dunno. On the OTHER hand, if Judah Benjamin "coded" it in Hebrew... ONLY "CSA Max" (Jewish) could decode it... HA!

ECS · Mar 14, 2018

Most likely the Vattels LAW OF NATIONS, that Judah P Benjamin used was 1853 edition translated from the French by Joseph Chitty, Esq, published by T & JW JOHNSON , Law Booksellers of Philadelphia.
Copies of this book was given to all members of both Houses of Congress, when Benjamin, Jefferson Davis, and David Levy Yulee were Senators, as well as others in Congress who became part of the Confederate government.

Rebel - KGC · Mar 15, 2018

Think yer correct,

Rebel - KGC · Mar 15, 2018

franklin said:
The information you seek about the "Laws of Nations" should be in those papers? Maybe you could find something out about the attorney that ended up with the copy that Major Hutter saved from the burning inferno in Danville, Va. The copy that belonged to Judah Benjamin.

Per your request: "Newspaper article in RAGLAND POSSESSION (2004); Among the most prized possessions of Attorney H.M. GIBBES is a volume that once formed part of the law library of the Confederacy and which has a most romantic and interesting history. The volume is a copy of Vattel's LAW OF NATIONS; as edited by the great jurist Joseph Chitty, and the copy in the possession of the local attorney is in most excellent preservation." (to be continued...).

Rebel - KGC · Mar 15, 2018

Rebel - KGC said:
Per your request: "Newspaper article in RAGLAND POSSESSION (2004); Among the most prized possessions of Attorney H.M. GIBBES is a volume that once formed part of the law library of the Confederacy and which has a most romantic and interesting history. The volume is a copy of Vattel's LAW OF NATIONS; as edited by the great jurist Joseph Chitty, and the copy in the possession of the local attorney is in most excellent preservation." (to be continued...).

"It bears the inscription, probably written by Judah P. Benjamin, 'Confederate States, Department of State', and was saved from the general destruction of the secret archives of the Confederacy by Maj. E.S. Hutter, who was Mr. Gibbes' father-in-law". http://old.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRID=58563572

Rebel - KGC · Mar 15, 2018

NOW! Note TWO things; above newspaper article is... 2004! Peter Viemeister's LAST book (NOVEL) on the BEALE TREASURE was CONFEDERATE TREASURE COVERUP: Duty, Honor, & Deceit, dated... 2004! "Martha Rugerman" in the "note of release" was a MADE UP NAME. There were/are NO Rugerman family listed in Lynchburg, Va.