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Offered here are a pair of CDV images, one of James Mason and one of John Slidell.
Both pieces show the men dressed similarly in formal dress clothes. Both pieces show similar light soiling and share the same back marks of E. Anthony from Brady negatives.
In November 1861, US Captain Charles Wilkes of USS San Jacinto captured a British mail ship RMS Trent carrying two Confederate envoys on their way to Europe. The two envoys had left the Confederacy through South Carolina, slipped through the US Naval blockade, and made it to Cuba, where RMS Trent allowed them to board, fully aware of their diplomatic status. Designated as "Special Commissioners of the Confederate States of America," James Mason and John Slidell had been tasked with getting England and France to recognize the sovereignty of the Confederacy. On November 8 the RMS Trent was boarded and James Mason and John Slidell were forcibly removed. The British government quickly determined the actions of Captain Wilkes had been illegal and requested both the immediate release of Mason and Slidell and an apology. France declared that if Britain went to war, it would support them. On December 21, the cabinet voted to release Mason and Slidell. [jet][ph:L]
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