John Tyler (c1860 LOC - LC-USZ62-13010)
From The New-York Times August 7, 1861:
EX-PRESIDENT TYLER TAKES A DRINK.
The Richmond Enquirer has this paragraph:
“Ex-President TYLER (member of Congress) has been detained at his estate in Charles City County, by illness. We are glad to hear, however, that he is convalescent, and although in bed when the news was read to him of the glorious victory achieved by our troops on the field of Manassas, he called for champagne, and made his family and friends drink the health of our Generals.”
John Tyler, the tenth president of the United States, sided with the Confederacy. He was elected to the CSA Congress but died in January, 1862. “Tyler’s death was the only one in presidential history not to be officially mourned in Washington, because of his allegiance to the Confederacy.”
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