urn:taro:utexas.cah.00468 A Guide to the William Seward to Edwin Stanton Letter, 1862 February 16, 2006Encoded in XMetal 2 by Courtney Chartier according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. Descriptive Summary Seward, William Henry. William Seward to Edwin Stanton Letter, 1862Materials are written in English. 1 item Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Letter of recommendation for Lemuel D. Evans for service as a confidential agent to the War Department. Scope and Contents

Letter from William Henry Seward, Secretary of State, to Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, dated March 1, 1862, recommending Lemuel D. Evans as a confidential agent to the War Department.

A lawyer, former district judge in Harrison County, Texas, and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Evans left Texas during the Civil War and was commissioned by Seward as a special agent for the Union, responsible for monitoring the movement of supplies and munitions from Mexico to Texas. Unable to safely reach Texas and carry out his assignment, Evans resigned his commission on March 3, 1963.

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William Seward to Edwin Stanton Letter, 1862, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms Evans, Lemuel D. (Lemuel Dale), 1810-1877. Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872. Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 1814-1869. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory: 2J24 Letter from William Seward to Edwin Stanton, 1862