Macomb, William Henry Alexander, 1819-1872 to Richard T. Renshaw

GLC02254.27

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GLC#
GLC02254.27-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
April 30, 1865
Author/Creator
Macomb, William Henry Alexander, 1819-1872
Title
to Richard T. Renshaw
Place Written
Plymouth, North Carolina
Pagination
1 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 34.5 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Writes Renshaw about arrangements to send the mortar schooner Henry James to Norfolk carrying ammunition. At Hatteras, the schooner Etta is to meet the Henry James and transfer more ammunition aboard. Mentions that "we have news here, which I suppose you have heard, that Johnson [sic] surrendered on the 25th on our terms -- those offered by him having been rejected." Sends orders to transform the U.S.S. Hull into a guard boat. Written on U.S.S. Shamrock stationery, as commander of that ship. On 26 April 1865, Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to William Tecumseh Sherman outside of Durham, North Carolina, after hearing of Lee's surrender at Appomattox on 9 April 1865. Commodore Macomb headed the naval force that captured Plymouth, North Carolina and lead an expedition up the Roanoke River. He was advanced for gallantry.

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