Letter

BENJAMIN, Secretary of State to Major General J. B. Magruder , Spottswood Hotel. D, October 17, 1862

Author

BENJAMIN, Secretary of State

Recipient

Major General J. B. Magruder , Spottswood Hotel. D

Date

October 17, 1862

Type

Letter

Mr. Benjamin to Major General Magruder.

Department of State, Richmond, October 17, 1862.

Sir: Herewith you will find enclosed a letter addressed to Mr. B. Théron, French consular agent and vice-consul for Spain at Galveston, Texas, requiring that functionary to depart immediately from the confederacy.

The president requests that you will have this order executed as promptly as can be done without undue harshness, and that you have Mr. Théron conveyed under surveillance to Matamoras, or other convenient point on the Mexican frontier, whence he can depart for Europe if he chooses.

Mr. Théron will be allowed to make such disposal of the books and papers of his consulate as he may deem proper.

Please acknowledge receipt of this communication.

Your obedient servant,

J. P. BENJAMIN, Secretary of State.

Major General J. B. Magruder, Spottswood Hotel.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth .