Saturday, March 31, 2018

Gideon Welles to Commodore Samuel Livingston Breese, April 1, 1861 – Received 6:30 p.m.


[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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