Friday, March 23, 2018

Abraham Lincoln to Commander Andrew Hull Foote, Commandant Navy Yard, Brooklyn, April 1, 1861

[Telegram—Copy]
Washington D. C.
April 1st, 1861
Rec'd. Brooklyn, 6.50 p.m.
Commandant of the Navy Yard.

Fit out the “Powhatan” to go to sea at the earliest possible moment, under sealed orders. Orders by a confidential messenger go forward to-morrow.

Abraham Lincoln.

SOURCES: Robert Means Thompson & Richard Wainwright, Editors, Publications of the Naval Historical Society, Volume 9: Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865, Volume 1, p. 15; Roy P. Basler, Editor, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4, p. 313

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