Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress

Mr. F. W. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, June 14, 1862.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 12th instant, touching the cases of British subjects, prisoners of war, who may have been forced against their will into the service of the enemy of the United States, and to inform you that I have invited the attention of the Secretary of War to the matter.

I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to your lordship the assurance of my high consideration.

F. W. SEWARD, Acting Secretary.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.