Sunday, October 12, 2014

John M. Forbes to Colonel Richard Borden, April 17, 1861

Boston, April 17, 1861.
To Colonel Borden, on Boat Agent, Fall River:

Letter received. Seen Crowninshield. Four hundred and fifty men leave at two o'clock. Want State of Maine ready on terms proposed. Men will take cooked bread and meat. Put in other things, including salt provisions for a week, and hard bread at actual cost — balance to be landed. Will she be ready?

J. M. Forbes.

SOURCE: Sarah Forbes Hughes, Letters and Recollections of John Murray Forbes, Volume 1, p. 208

No comments: