Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

[168] *Adjutant-General Kelton to General Terry.

[Telegram.]

Adjutant-General’s Office,
Washington , October 5, 1869.

Brevet Major-General A. H. Terry,
Commanding Department of the South, Atlanta, Georgia:

The Secretary of War directs that you instruct, by telegraph, the commanding officers of the troops about the mouth of the Cape Fear River to aid the United States marshal to detain the steamer Lady Sterling, alias Hornet.

J. C. KELTON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.