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Heisek and the Diplomatic Pouch
Charles heidsik was a French cotton merchant in New Orleans. He agreed to carry the diplomatic pouch that contained incriminating evidence about France's involvement with the confederate army. But when his ships were gunned down by union gunboats, everything went to the bottom of the ocean. His house of champagne has gone broke and he ends up in jail on an island where alligators would try to get their snouts in through the bars. The lincoln administration realized that rather than have an international incident, it would be better just to release iseak and send him home.
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