Congress and the North enthusiastically hail Charles…

December 1861 CE

Congress and the North enthusiastically hail Charles Wilkes as a hero while the Lincoln administration works quietly to correct the “error”.

To avert armed conflict, Secretary of State William Seward replies on December 26, that Wilkes had erred in failing to bring the Trent into port for adjudication, thus violating America's policy of freedom of the seas.

The Confederate commissioners are released shortly thereafter.

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