Letter
Wodehouse to the Duke of Newcastle, November 20, 1863
[Enclosure 4 in No. 2.]
Sir P. Wodehouse to the Duke of Newcastle.
Government House, Cape Town, November 20, 1863.
My Lord Duke: With reference to my recent despatches respecting the federal and confederate war-steamers Vanderbilt and Alabama, I have the honor to forward communications received from the naval commander-in-chief of this station, from which your grace will learn that acts of very questionable legality have been committed by the federal steamer Vanderbilt.
As the crew of the captured vessel have not yet reached Cape Town, I am not in a position to supply your grace with more precise information by this mail.
I have, &c.,
P. E. WODEHOUSE.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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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.