Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 4, 1883

No. 260.
Mr. Hoppin to Mr. Frelinghuysen.

[Telegram.]

London, November 1, 1883.

Mr. Hoppin telegraphed to Mr. Frelinghuysen that a police officer brings later accounts, stating that O’Donnell left Ireland in the spring of 1846, with his parents, his brother, and sister; that in 1852 he came back and probably returned to America at the time of the war, as they say; that two or three times he took bounty and deserted, never belonging to any regiment. In 1867–’68 he returned for the second time to Ireland, and he lived with his parents until the spring of 1871, when he went back to America.