[Telegram—Copy]
Washington April 1st 1861
Rec'd. Brooklyn, 6.30 p.m.
Commandant, Navy Yard.
Fit out the Powhatan to go to sea at the earliest possible moment.
GIDEON welles
Secretary of the Navy.
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. 17
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