Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, February 27, 1862


My Dear Friend

Will you do me the favor to give the enclosed letter the proper direction to Lord Lyons. It contains a letter to my friend Capt. Hancock of the Immortalite— whose address I had not.

I am off so soon as the tide is up, three days gale just over—the first we have had.

Ever faithfully in haste
S. F. DUPONT
Cap. Fox
Navy Dept

Wabash 27th Feby. 62
Port Royal.

SOURCE: 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. 108

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