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- GLC#
- GLC03523.21.62-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 2 December 1861
- Author/Creator
- McSherry, Henry F., fl. 1837
- Title
- to Gideon Welles
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 31.7 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written by McSherry as Assistant Surgeon aboard the USS "Vandalia" to Welles as Secretary of Navy. Marked "Copy" at bottom. Acknowledges receiving Welles's order of 30 November 1861 to proceed to Philadelphia and to report to Commodore Pendergast for duty on board the "USS Sciota," a steam gunboat. Written at the Navy Yard.
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