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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, February 2, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23d ultimo, and its accompaniment, relative to an order of Major General Dix for the appointment of a military commission to investigate the cases of persons arrested and detained at Fort Lafayette and Fort Warren, other than prisoners of war and convicts. I have communicated a copy of the papers to the Secretary of War, and I shall have the honor to communicate with your lordship after conferring with him upon the subject

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.