Father of Judah P. Benjamin, "Brains of the Confederacy".
Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman by Robert Douthat Meade, p. 89:
"The first brief session of the Thirty-third Congress was over by April. Two months later, on 15 June 1852, Philip Benjamin died in Charleston of 'cholera morbus.' He was seventy-three years old and, since giving up his small business several years before, had been living on Nassau Street, an obscrure neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. It must have distressed (son)Judah to think how slender had been the ties between him and his father; the remittances he had sent appear to have been an expression of duty, not affection. Meantime, Benjamin returned to New Orleans…."
Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman by Robert Douthat Meade, p. 89:
"The first brief session of the Thirty-third Congress was over by April. Two months later, on 15 June 1852, Philip Benjamin died in Charleston of 'cholera morbus.' He was seventy-three years old and, since giving up his small business several years before, had been living on Nassau Street, an obscrure neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. It must have distressed (son)Judah to think how slender had been the ties between him and his father; the remittances he had sent appear to have been an expression of duty, not affection. Meantime, Benjamin returned to New Orleans…."
Father of Judah P. Benjamin, "Brains of the Confederacy".
Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman by Robert Douthat Meade, p. 89:
"The first brief session of the Thirty-third Congress was over by April. Two months later, on 15 June 1852, Philip Benjamin died in Charleston of 'cholera morbus.' He was seventy-three years old and, since giving up his small business several years before, had been living on Nassau Street, an obscrure neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. It must have distressed (son)Judah to think how slender had been the ties between him and his father; the remittances he had sent appear to have been an expression of duty, not affection. Meantime, Benjamin returned to New Orleans…."
Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman by Robert Douthat Meade, p. 89:
"The first brief session of the Thirty-third Congress was over by April. Two months later, on 15 June 1852, Philip Benjamin died in Charleston of 'cholera morbus.' He was seventy-three years old and, since giving up his small business several years before, had been living on Nassau Street, an obscrure neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. It must have distressed (son)Judah to think how slender had been the ties between him and his father; the remittances he had sent appear to have been an expression of duty, not affection. Meantime, Benjamin returned to New Orleans…."
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