Secretary William H. Seward to General Andrew Porter, Arrest Order for George Wallace Jones, December 19, 1861

Source citation
U.S. States, et al., The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1894), IV: 1300. 
Type
Executive record
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Adapted by John Osborne, Dickinson College
Transcription date
The following transcript has been adapted from The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1894).

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, December 19, 1861.

General ANDREW PORTER, Provost-Marshal, Washington.

GENERAL: 

I will thank you to cause George W. Jones, late U. S. minister to New Granada, who is understood to be now in this city, to be arrested and taken to Fort Lafayette, N. V., in charge of a trustworthy person.

I am, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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