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In the same letter where he referred to Davis as president he also referred to the conflict as a civil war.

There is no necessary exclusion between granting recognition and noting the existence of a civil war.

No diplomats were assigned.

False. The confederate diplomats to the vatican were recieved at length and even taken in by a cardinal under diplomatic immunity when their yankee counterparts tried to have them arrested. The vatican continued making diplomatic contact and written exchanges witht the confederate ambassadors from the time of the letter to the war's conclusion.

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There is no necessary exclusion between granting recognition and noting the existence of a civil war.

There is no automatic granting, either.

The confederate diplomats to the vatican were recieved at length and even taken in by a cardinal under diplomatic immunity when their yankee counterparts tried to have them arrested. The vatican continued making diplomatic contact and written exchanges witht the confederate ambassadors from the time of the letter to the war's conclusion.

And this is detailed where?