Letter
William H. Seward to James S. Pike, July 4, 1864
Mr. Seward to Mr. Pike
No. 164.]
Department of State, Washington, July 4, 1864.
Sir: I transmit, for your information, a copy of an instruction of the 2d instant, No. 599, which I have addressed to Mr. Dayton, and of the letter from the Secretary of the Navy of the same date, referred to therein, relative to the re-enforcement of our naval forces in European waters, and to the instructions given to Captain Winslow, of the Kearsarge, by Mr. Dayton, with a view to an encounter with the Alabama on the high seas.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
James S. Pike, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
[Note.—The enclosures above mentioned are published elsewhere in this correspondence.]
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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.