Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
U.S. Department of State · 1862
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Description
Washington's orders went out to Charles Francis Adams, the American minister in London in a dispatch dated 2 April 1862. Congress received it as Document 41 in the foreign affairs volume that went with the President's message. It was written in the spring of 1862, a year into the war, while the North worked to block foreign aid to the South.
The text is Washington speaking: orders, guidance, and the facts the envoy was told to stress. Letters of this kind are the raw record from which the story of wartime diplomacy is built. Foreign Relations of the United States, the official record series, is where the full exchange can be traced.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | U.S. Department of State |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1862 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 1865 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian |
Source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d41