Mr. Seward to Mr. Webb.
U.S. Department of State · 1862
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Description
James Watson Webb received the year's last printed Brazilian order from Secretary of State William H. Seward, dated 27 September 1862. It is Document 581 in the 1862 volume of Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs.
Seward wrote ten days after Antietam and five days after the emancipation order, though neither fact could shape Webb's conduct in Rio for months. The instruction still mattered. It fixed the Department's line for Brazil on the war. It also fixed the line on slavery's new place in the war. And it stated the neutral rules the Union expected in Brazilian ports. The Brazilian file ends the volume's American missions south of the equator, a thin correspondence stretched by distance over the whole geography of the war.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | U.S. Department of State |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1862 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2435 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian |
Source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d581