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- GLC#
- GLC02680.28-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 6 April 1864
- Author/Creator
- Woolsey, Melancthon B., 1817-1874
- Title
- to John B. Marchand
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 31.3 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Letter enclosing papers [no longer present] regarding "Information obtained from four rebel deserters" and other reports. Written on board the U.S.S. Princess Royal, commanded by Woolsey off Sabine Pass, Texas during the blockading of Confederate ports in that area. Woolsey commanded the "Princess Royal" in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. After the war, he commanded the Navy Field at Pensacola, where he died from yellow fever.
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