Elihu Benjamin Washburne was an American politician. A member of the Washburn family, which played a prominent role in the early formation of the United States Republican Party, he served as a congressman from Illinois before, during and after the American Civil War. He was a political ally of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant. During Grant's administration, Washburne was the 25th United States Secretary of State briefly in 1869, and was the United States Minister to France from 1869 to 1877.
Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne. Department of State, Washington, August 16, 1870. Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatches, numbered 232 to 242, both inclusive.…
Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne. No. 158.] Department of State, Washington, August 30, 1870. Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of yesterday, which, although…
[Telegram.] Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne. Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1870. If provisional government has actual control and possession of power, and is acknowledged by French…
Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne. No. 161.] Department of State, Washington, September 8, 1870. * * * * * * About an hour after the receipt of your…
Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne. No. 175.] Department of State, Washington, September 27, 1870. Referring to your No. 280, relating to the political occurrences at Paris, on the…
Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne. No. 182.] Department of State, Washington, October 4, 1870. This Government desires and intends to maintain a perfect and strict neutrality between the…
Mr. Fish to Mr. E. B. Washburne. No. 189.] Department of State, Washington, October 11, 1870. I inclose for your information and use four printed copies of a proclamation issued…
Mr. Fish to Mr. E.B. Washburne. No. 190.] Department of State, Washington, October 18, 1870. On the 30th of August last the Department inclosed to Mr. Bancroft a copy of…
Jules Fame to Mr. E. B. Washburne. Paris, October 18, 1870. Sir and Bear Minister: Conformably to the desire which you have done me the honor to express to me…
Mr. Ward to Mr. Washburne. Legation of the United States, Paris, October 27, 1870. According to your instructions, and having previously obtained from the governor of Paris, General Trochu, the…
Count Bismarck to Mr. Washburne. Versailles, October 29, 1870. Sir: Having before them the resolution adopted by the government of national defense, to continue a hopeless struggle and to defend…
[Translation.] Versailles, December 15, 1870. Sir: I had the honor to receive the letter winch you have kindly addressed to me under date 12 December, in relation to the English…
[Untitled] Versailles, January 15, 1871. Sir: I beg to inclose extracts of three letters addressed by persons residing in Paris to correspondents abroad. They are taken out of a balloon…
Count de Bismarck to Mr. E. B. Washburne Versailles, January 28, 1871. Sir: I had the honor of receiving your answer, dated the 19th instant, to my two letters of…