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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