Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies/Series 2/Volume 3/State Department correspondence/1863/Sept 24 - The President to A. D. Mann
Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America to A. Dudley Mann, greeting.
Reposing special trust and confidence in your prudence, integrity, and ability, I do appoint you, the said A. Dudley Mann, special envoy of the Confederate States of America, to proceed to the Holy See and to deliver to its most venerable chief, Pope Pius IX, sovereign pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a communication which I have addressed to his Holiness under date of the twenty-third of this month. Given under my hand and the seal of the Confederate States of America at the city of Richmond, this 24th day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
[SEAL.]Jefferson Davis.
By the President:
J. P. Benjamin, Secretary of State.