Letter

Geoege Moore to Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons, June 16, 1863

Author

Geoege Moore

Recipient

Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons

Date

June 16, 1863

Type

Letter

[Enclosure 2 in No. 2.]

Consul Moore to Lord Lyons.

Washington, June 16, 1863.

My Lord: Since I had the honor of addressing your lordship from Richmond, I have orally explained the reasons which induced me to appear before you personally without awaiting your lordship’s instructions, in consequence of the unexpected order issued by Mr. Benjamin, the secretary of state of the so-styled Confederate States, prohibiting all further direct communications “between the consuls of neutral nations in the confederacy and the functionaries of those nations residing in the north.”

Therefore, as my exquatur as consul for the State of Virginia has been annulled, I propose (if it should meet with your lordship’s concurrence) to proceed forthwith to England, and report myself to Earl Russell.

I also have the honor of enclosing herewith the copy of a communication dated Confederate States of America, Bureau of Conscription, Richmond, Virginia, May 22, 1863, addressed to the commandant of conscripts, Macon, Georgia, on the subject of persons who are not held as liable to conscription.

I have, &c.,

GEO. MOORE.

Topics

19th Century Civil War Diplomacy

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second 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 Second Session Thirty-eighth.