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- GLC#
- GLC03836.74-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 19 September 1864
- Author/Creator
- Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870
- Title
- to Lewis West
- Place Written
- Port Royal Harbor, Jamaica
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written in a secretarial hand and signed by Rear Admiral John Dahlgren as commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron to Acting Commander West. References West's letter of 12 September. Praises him for finding a channel at St. Catherine's, Georgia. Will send a small steamer to verify the channel and help buoy it. Written while abraod the USS "Philadelphia".
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