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. Pike

No. 164.]

Department of State, Washington, July 4, 1864.

Sir: I transmit, for your information, a copy of an instruction of the 2d instant, No. 599, which I have addressed to Mr. Dayton, and of the letter from the Secretary of the Navy of the same date, referred to therein, relative to the re-enforcement of our naval forces in European waters, and to the instructions given to Captain Winslow, of the Kearsarge, by Mr. Dayton, with a view to an encounter with the Alabama on the high seas.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

James S. Pike, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

[Note.—The enclosures above mentioned are published elsewhere in this correspondence.]