Letter

WOODFORD, Colonel 103, United States Army to H. Pinckney Walker, March 6, 1865

Author

WOODFORD, Colonel 103, United States Army

Recipient

H. Pinckney Walker

Date

March 6, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

Colonel Woodford to Mr. Walker

Headquarters, City of Charleston, S. C., March 6, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 3d instant, in which, after referring to the matter of granting trade permits by the military authority now holding the city of Charleston under martial law, you inquire of me whether her Britannic Majesty’s subjects may not be allowed to return to her Majesty’s dominions by the vessels leaving this port.

In reply, I would state that while no vessels are leaving here for British ports, I can see no objection to granting papers to British subjects who have done no act affecting their neutrality, allowing them to proceed to other places in the United States for which vessels may be leaving, from which they may be able to return to her Majesty’s dominions, provided the granting of such papers does not, at the time, interfere with the use of our transports for military purposes.

I am, &c.,

STEWART L. WOODFORD, Colonel 103, United States Army.

H. Pinckney Walker, &c., &c., &c.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth C 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 First Session Thirty-ninth C.