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WILLIAM H. SEWARD

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WILLIAM H. SEWARD
(1801 - 1872) American politician and Lincoln's Secretary of State, responsible for preventing official European recognition of the Confederacy. Fine genealogical content A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., Auburn, Sep. 23, 1853 to influential Virginia politician Alexander Boteler. In part: "...I thank you...for sending on the petition of Richard Seward for a commission in the Revolutionary Army of the United States. The family from which I am derived was in New Jersey during the war of independence and the father of my father was a Colonel of the Militia in active service...The ardor of his patriotism is pleasing to me...". Very good. Boteler's own patriotism would be called into question a few years hence when he served in the Confederate Congress.