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- GLC#
- GLC03836.66-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 28 April 1864
- Author/Creator
- Rowan, Stephen Clegg, 1805-1890
- Title
- to Lewis H. West
- Place Written
- Morris Island, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 34 cm, Width: 20.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written in secretarial hand and signed by Commodore Rowan as commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Orders Acting Master West from the USS "New Ironsides" to the USS "Fernandina." Tells him to report to Commander William Reynolds, the Commander of the Naval Depot at Port Royal, South Carolina, to arrange passage to St. Catherine's, Florida where the "Fernandina" is stationed. Docket signed by three officers. Top signature is illegible, but the other two are by Rowan and Reynolds. Written while aboard the USS "New Ironsides"
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