Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress, Part I
Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State · 1865
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Description
Part I of the 1865 papers pairs a presidential message with one great file. President Johnson opens the volume in grief. He marks Lincoln's death and the war's end. The correspondence that follows is all Great Britain. It runs to hundreds of documents. Adams and Seward carry the exchange.
The British file works through the war's residue. Neutrality duties fill Earl Russell's long letters. London holds to its declared course as ports change hands. Claims over ships and seizures await settlement. The tone shifts as the Confederacy collapses. What began as crisis management becomes accounting. This volume is the Anglo-American record of the war's last phase. It shows two governments stepping back from the brink.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1865 |
| COLLECTION | DECLASSIFIED |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3164 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian Ebook Catalog API (public domain U.S. government work); converted from official EPUB |
Source: https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1865p1