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- GLC#
- GLC03836.56-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 24 September 1863
- Author/Creator
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878
- Title
- to Lewis West
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25.4 cm, Width: 20.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Printed document signed by Welles. Orders that West is now detached from the USS "Ladona" and that he is to proceed to New York without delay. He is to report to Rear Admiral Paulding for passage to Charleston, South Carolina and to report to Rear Admiral Dahlgren for duty on an ironclad under his command. Stamp dated 28 September says West was paid 9 dollars in mileage fees. Countersigned by Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding. He noted that West reported for duty on 28 September. Commodore Cornelius Kinchilo Stribling had served in the War of 1812 and the Mexican War before the Civil War. Verso is endorsed by Stribling, Dahlgren and Captain Stephen Rowan of the USS "New Ironsides." It says West reported for duty in Charleston on 5 October.
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