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- GLC#
- GLC08372
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 23 October 1862
- Author/Creator
- Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870
- Title
- to Gen. Benjamin Butler
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
"I am now determined to go ahead upon the forts at Mobile, I am only held by the Courts & Boards of examination but will never be in any better condition for the attack than at present, for they are taking away my officers every mail & I will soon be paralyzed for want of officers to govern the vessels. How long will your expedition be gone to Opolusa for. I am becoming very impatient, & will have to go it alone . . . "
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