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Showing posts with label USS Pocahontas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USS Pocahontas. Show all posts
Friday, April 17, 2020

Diary of Corporal David L. Day: January 16, 1862

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MORE BOATS ASHORE AND SINKING. Three more boats ashore and leaking, one of them is the U. S. mail-boat Suwanee, from Fortress Monroe fo...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

Gustavus V. Fox to Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont, March 10, 1862

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Wabash off St. Johns   Florida—10 Mar. 62 My Dear Friend— After sending Mohican, Pocahontas and Potomska to Brunswick I sent the 6 ...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Flag Officer Samuel F. Dupont to Gustavus V. Fox, January 11, 1862

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Unofficial Flag Ship 'Wabash'                               Port Royal Harbor S.C.                        January 11 l862 ...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Commandant Samuel F. DuPont to Gustavus V. Fox, November 9, 1861

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Wabash, 9th Nov. Port Royal, S.C. My Dear Mr. Fox— During the disheartening events of our passage, my faith never gave way, but at ...
Monday, July 23, 2018

Result Of Gustavus V. Fox's Plan For Reinforcing Fort Sumpter; In His Own Writing

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My plan for reinforcing Fort Sumpter was this— From the outer edge of the bar to Sumpter through the swash channel it is four miles in a...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Gustavus V. Fox to Montgomery Blair, April 17, 1861

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Baltic, 17th April At Sea, 1861    Dr Blair, As I have no writing materials and wish to save tomorrow's mail I use a pencil. ...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Gideon Welles to Commander John P. Gillis, April 5, 1861

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Navy Department April 5th, 1861. Commander J. P. Gillis Com'dg U.S.S. Pocahontas, Norfolk, Virginia.   Sir: You will proc...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

Gideon Welles to Captain Samuel Mercer, April 5, 1861

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Navy Department April 5th, 1861. Captain Samuel Mercer Com'dg. U.S.S. Powhatan, New York. The United States steamers “Powhata...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Diary of John Hay: Monday, April 22, 1861

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. . . . The whining traitors from Baltimore were here again this morning. The President, I think, has done with them. In conversation with ...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, November 17, 1861

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CAMP PIERPONT, VA., November 17, 1861. I went into town yesterday to attend to my Lake Survey accounts at the Treasury, which I believe...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Washington News

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WASHINGTON, May 16. – The Senate to-day confirmed the nomination of Brevet Major General Wool to be Major General for gallant conduct on the...