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17,141 lettersMarch 4, 1864. No. 7. Richmond, Va., March 4, 1864. Commandants of conscripts will forthwith order all officers engaged in conscription service in their respective States to be examined by…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 340.] Department of State, Washington, May 5, 1863. Sir: Your despatch of April 15, No. 299, has been received. Your proceeding in calling the…
Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 303.] Paris, May 1, 1863. Sir: Your despatches from No. 320 to No. 330, both inclusive, are received. Mr. Kasson, commissioner from the United…
[Extract.] Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 302.] Paris, April 27, 1863. Sir: I send you herewith what, for the want of time, I could not get ready for the…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERALâS OFFICE, March 4, 1864. No. 28. Richmond, March 4, 1864. I. Paragraph V, General Orders, No. 13, 1864, is thus amended: Officers of the…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 336.] Department of State, Washington, April 24, 1863. Sir: Your despatch of April 9, No. 297, has been submitted to the President. You have…
Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 301.] Paris, April 24, 1863. Sir: In pursuance of the written request of Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys, I called at the foreign office yesterday,…
Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 300.] Paris, April 20, 1863. Sir: In answer to my communication to Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys that the confederate privateer Japan was probably on…
Richmond, Va., March 2, 1864. His Excellency M. L. BONHAM, Governor of South Carolina, Columbia, S. C.: Sir: Your letter of the 23d ultimo is received. In reply I have…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 335.] Department of State, Washington, April 17, 1863. Sir: In reply to your despatch No. 290, of the 21st ultimo, in which you ask…
Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 299.] Paris, April 15, 1863. Sir: Having learned from the newspapers and a telegraphic despatch the escape of the confederate steamer Japan from Greenock,…
Richmond, Va., March 2, 1864. Governor Z. B. VANCE, Raleigh, N. C.: YouR EXCELLENCY: I am duly in receipt of yours of 17th ultimo. I have already written you of…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 331.] Department of State, Washington, April 15, 1863. Sir: Your despatch of March 21 (No. 293) has been received, and I give you my…
Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 297.] Paris, April 9, 1863. Sir: In a conference with Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys, had this day, he inquired particularly as to our action…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 2, 1864. No. 27. Richmond, March 2, 1864. I. The attention of the Army is called to the second and third sections…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 328.] Department of State, Washington, April 8, 1863. Sir: Your despatch of March 20, No. 288, has been received. The account it gives of…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 325.] Department of State, Washington, April 7, 1863. Sir: The Canada’s mails have arrived just as I am closing my despatches for Europe. I…
GENERAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSP. GENERAL’S OFFICE, March 1, 1864. No. 26. Richmond, March 1, 1864. The following act of Congress and regulations are published for the information and guidance…
Mr. Dayton to Mr. Seward No. 293.] Paris, March 27, 1863. Sir: That £3,000,000 loan to the confederates has been taken up, as you will have seen before this, in…
Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton No. 322.] Department of State, Washington, March 26, 1863. Sir: Your despatch of March 6, No. 283, has been received. Reports of communications between emissaries…