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Contains 32 Results:

Letter to Rev. Watson from Bishop Thomas Atkinson, 1865 January 27

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Letter to Rev. Watson from Bishop Thomas Atkinson stating that it was permissible, given the area was under control of "the enemy," that prayers be omitted for the president and congress of the Confederate States. "The enemy" was Union troops following the fall of Fort Fisher two weeks earlier.

Dates: 1865 January 27

Letter from Rev. Watson to Brig. General Joseph R. Hawley, 1865 March 16

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Letter from Rev. Watson to Brigadier General Joseph R. Hawley of the Union asking to be allowed to resume church services, which had been suspended once Union soldiers occupied the church.

Dates: 1865 March 16

Letter from Rev. Watson to President Abraham Lincoln, 1865 April 12

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Letter from Rev. Watson to President Abraham Lincoln, discussing the importance of separation of church and state and his general feelings regarding the war and its imposition on St. James, which had been occupied by Union soldiers. The letter was never sent, as Lincoln was assassinated three days after it was written.

Dates: 1865 April 12

Letter to Rev. Watson from Bishop Thomas Atkinson, 1865 May 29

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Letter to Rev. Watson from Bishop Thomas Atkinson stating that the church should resume prayers for the president of the United States given the status of the war.

Dates: 1865 May 29

Letter of introduction to E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War, 1865 July 26

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Letter of introduction for Rev. Watson to Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton, by former Assistant Treasurer of the United States, John J. Cisco.

Dates: 1865 July 26

Letters of introduction to President Andrew Johnson, 1865 July 26

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Two letters of introduction for Rev. Watson to President Andrew Johnson by Maunsell "M." B. Field, assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, Samuel P. Chase.

Dates: 1865 July 26

Letter to Rev. Watson from Reverend Charles H. Hall, 1865 July 26

 Item — Box: 17, Folder: 20
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Letter to Rev. Watson from Reverend Charles H. Hall stating that he spoke with Secretary Stanton about the reverend and St. James Church. Hall was rector of the Epiphany Episcopal Church near the White House and had Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, prior to the war, as parishioners. Hall read at President Lincoln's funeral at the White House.

Dates: 1865 July 26

Post-war correspondence, 1868-1886, undated

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 21
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Contains correspondence to and from Rev. Watson, as well as two letters from his assistant rector, George Patterson. Includes Watson's resignation letter from 1884.

Dates: 1868-1886, undated

Photographs, circa mid-1800s

 File — Multiple Containers
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Contains four photographs of Rev. Watson. Two are duplicates, one of which is on paper from a book or other printed publication.

Dates: circa mid-1800s

Print material, 1872, 1884

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 23
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Contains a printed sermon given by Rev. Watson in June 1872 at St. James, as well as the sermon, program, and newspaper clippings from Watson's consecration as Bishop of East Carolina in 1884.

Dates: 1872, 1884