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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Geofroy

Department of State, Washington, March 9, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 2d instant, relative to the case of one Cauvet, a French subject, unlawfully enlisted into the military service of the United States, and who, on the 23d of December last, was serving in the 3d regiment of V. H. V., at Morris island. I now have the honor to inform you that the matter has been referred to the proper department for investigation.

Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my high consideration,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Mr. L. de Geofray, &c., &c., &c.