[0.E.O]

You realize that such sensitive issues would not be put in writing, but would normally be verbally extended at a proper meeting. Such was the way business was conducted then.

So how can you say that they were there to offer to pay for stolen goods and repudiated debt?

[JCBreckenridge]

Because there exist these things called “letters” and “minutes”. You may have heard of them. Just because they were not published to the public at large does not mean that they were not kept. There would be confederate copies and union copies of important documents.

[exit82]

We are going around in a circle.

I went by the source. I wasn’t there. Neither were you.