30 November 1863
Seymour, Truman (1824-1891)
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Ira Harris
General Seymour writes to Harris, a United States Senator from South Carolina. Replies to Harris's question regarding what the Union can do to engage and defeat Charleston. States "It all is comprised in a single word- Nothing. Expectations of brilliant fears of arms here must be disappointed- there is now nothing to be done." Referring to General Quincy Adams Gillmore, commanding Union operations in Charleston Harbor, writes "General Gillmore came here with an express understanding that he was to remove, or place beyond power of offence, the chief obstacle to the entrance by the monitors…
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