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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 1094.]

Department of State, Washington, September 19, 1864.

Sir: I have received your despatch of the 1st of September, No. 769, relating to the action of Mr. Lancaster in the engagement between the Kearsarge and the Alabama. The course you propose to adopt in regard to this case is approved.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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