...to the Confederacy. Seward's involvement with the diplomatic corps and especially his relationship with Baron Edouard de Stoeckl, Russian Minister to the United States, were crucial to achieving this goal. (See Albert Woldman's Lincoln...

...Manifest Destiny. In the early hours of March 30, 1867, Seward and the Russian minister to the United States, Edouard de Stoeckl, signed a treaty under which the United States would purchase Alaska for $7.2 million in gold. The U.S. Senate...