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- GLC#
- GLC03309
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 26 July 1864
- Author/Creator
- Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
- Title
- to Virginia Farragut
- Place Written
- Mobile, Alabama
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written aboard the USS Hartford. Written by Rear Admiral Farragut to his wife Virginia in Hastings on the Hudson, New York. Signed by Farragut as well as initialled after a postscript. Says he wanted to let her know he was well. Remarks that he gave General Sickles a passage home in the USS "Governor Hahn." Writes: "He is the little fellow who made such a flourishing speech for me, on my arrival, at New Orleans when I came down the River after passing Port Hudson..." Says "Eaton takes my sword Home to you, if the pirates do not get it." Claims there is nothing of interest, but reports that the entire fleet is in good health. One full length engraving of Farragut included.
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