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- GLC#
- GLC03836.38-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 31 October 1862
- Author/Creator
- Paulding, Hiram, 1797-1878
- Title
- to Lewis West
- Place Written
- Aboard USS "Alabama" at St. Andrews Sound, Georgia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Commodore Paulding orders Acting Master West to go to Philadelphia without delay and report to Commodore Pendergrast for duty aboard the USS "Juniata." Note signed by Navy Agent James S. Chambers says West was paid 9 dollars for travel from New York to Philadelphia. Docket signed by G. J. Pendergrast says West reported for duty on 1 November 1862. Pendergrast died of a paralytic stroke on 7 November 1862.
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