Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

[By telegraph.]

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

Department of State, Washington, July 15, 1863.

Sir: Port Hudson unconditionally surrendered on the 9th of July. Bragg is reported to be retreating from Chattanooga. Lee is retiring from the Potomac. The movement at Charleston has begun favorably.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.