Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, December 14, 1864.

SIR: Referring to Lord Lyons’s note of the 4th ultimo, requesting information concerning the fate of John Warrington, I have the honor to inform yon that, in a letter of the 9th instant from the War Department, it is stated that Warrington is a convalescent patient at the general hospital at Fort Monroe, but not able to perform field duty.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.