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- GLC#
- GLC04572.10-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 26, 1863
- Author/Creator
- Villeneuve, Alexandre-Marie Ducrest de, 1813-1893
- Title
- [to the commander of the C.S.S. Georgia] [in French]
- Place Written
- Cherbourg, France
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 34 cm, Width: 22 cm
- Language
- French
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
No. 2367. Signed as a Major General of the French Navy. Believes that William Cullen is a French sailor named Bouvier. Cullen claims that the North American (United States) commercial vessel he was on was sunk by the Georgia. Villeneuve asks that the man's story be confirmed and requests to know the name of the vessel and the state of its origin.
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