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. 1028.]

Department of State, Washington, July 11, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 23d of June, No. 721, which relates exclusively to the naval conflict which ended in the destruction of the pirate Alabama. I have given in a distinct paper the views the President takes of such incidents of that transaction as you have mentioned in your despatch.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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