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, July 15, 1864.

Sir: Recurring to your note of the 2d of March last, relative to A. Cauvet, alleged to have been improperly enlisted into the United States, army, I have the honor to enclose, in reply, a copy of a communication of the 8th instant from the Secretary of War, from which it appears that the person to wham your note relates died from wounds received in battle.

Accept, sir, a renewed assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Mr. L. de Geofroy, &c., &c., &c.

Mr. Stanton to Mr. Seward

War Department, Washington City, July 8, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of the report of the Adjutant General in the case of A. Cauvet, a French subject, alleged—in the note of the minister of France of the 2d March last, a translation of which accompanied your letter of the 9th same month—to have been fraudulently enlisted into the military service of the United States.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State.

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Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, D. C., July 6, 1864.

Secretary of State forwards papers from the French minister relative to the fraudulent enlistment of one A. Cauvet, a French subject, enlisted in the 3d regiment “V. H. V.” The commanding officer 3d New Hampshire volunteers reports that E. Caulet, who is borne on the records of this office as a native of France, and who is supposed by this office and by the commanding officer of the 3d New Hampshire volunteers to be the man referred to by the French minister as “A. Cauvet, 3d V. H. V,” was wounded at Drury’s Bluff May 16, 1864, and died May 22, 1864. No further action is therefore deemed necessary in the case.

SAM’L BRECK, Assistant Adjutant General.