As the union begins to crumble, Treasury Secretary Dix orders a revenue cutter in New Orleans back North; the captain refuses, and Dix sends this telegram to his agent in the South:
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Gen. John Adams Dix (State House)
A nine-foot-tall portrait of the NH native who, as President Buchanan’s Secretary of the Treasury, set “the hearts of the people everywhere ablaze”…
