Letter

Scruggs to By the President: T. F. Bayard, September 17, 1885

Author

Scruggs

Recipient

By the President: T. F. Bayard

Date

September 17, 1885

Type

Letter

Language

English

No. 166.

Mr. Scruggs to Mr. Bayard.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States, Bogota, September 17, 1885. (Received October 26.)

No. 234.]

Sir: The capture of the rebel flotilla and the opening of the Magdalena River to navigation, as reported in my No. 230, of the 29th August last, is now confirmed by official reports. The report of the capture of Ricardo Gaitan, the “general” in command of the rebel forces on the river, was, however, premature. It was another Gaitan who was captured. Ricardo made his escape, and is now supposed to be somewhere in the State of Antioquia.

With the exception of a few small bands of guerrillas in the remote districts (which are rapidly disappearing) the civil war is considered over for the present. I say “for the present,” because there seems to be a very general impression here that we are to have another “revolution” soon. * * * *

I have, &c.,

WILLIAM L. SCRUGGS.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.