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- GLC#
- GLC03479.23-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 4 August 1855
- Author/Creator
- Stewart, Charles, 1778-1869
- Title
- to Thomas Turner
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Written in a secretarial hand and signed twice by Stewart as Commander of the Philadelphia Navy Yard to Lieutenant Turner of the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Tells him to take command of recruits given to him by Commander Engle and to proceed to Amboy by railroad and then to New York and report to Captain Boannan. Turner is to return after this is done. Boannan signed the letter and stated that Turner arrived in New York on 8 August. Stewart signed it and noted that he reported back to Philadelphia on 23 August. The letter is mounted with paste on another sheet of paper.
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