Box 1
Contains 13 Results:
General Order, from Admiral David Porter, dated U. S. Ship Peacock, 1828 February 4
Calls for the drawing and retaining of full rations as the vessels under his command are destined for the suppression of piracy.
Samuel Miner to Commodore Silas H. Stringham, dated USS Wabash, 1861 July 4
Requests instructions for his vessel and the Cumberland as to who should anchor and who should engage. ALS.
Benjamin F. Butler to Gideon Welles, dated Headquarters Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1864 April 20
Requests Welles to pay Capt. James Taylor the money due to him for repairs to his boat while in the service of the government. Also tells of iron plating of cargo ships for transport up the Mississippi from New Orleans through guerrilla sharpshooters. Copy.
Charles to my sister (Miss Snow), dated New Orleans, 1864 June 3
Tells of information received about the actions and plans of Grant and Farragut, asks for news from home. Transcript of letter included. ALS.
John G. Walker to Percy Drayton, dated U. S. Naval Headquarters, New Orleans, 1864 August 7
Congratulates him on the Battle of Mobile Bay and expresses some opinions on it. ALS.
From M. Palmer, 1864
Talks a little about Mobile. Incomplete. ALS.
Admiral Thornton A. Jenkins, Chief of Bureau, to 1st Asst. Engineer N. B. Clark, dated Navy Department, Bureau of Navigation and Office of Detail, 1867 October 11
Order to report for medical survey. DS.
Mrs. S. G. Shine to Commander Alexander M. Pennock, dated Tallahassee, 1870 October 15
Requests any information that Pennock has concerning David Farragut's mother, Elizabeth Shine of North Carolina. Written to Pennock as David Farragut died at his residence. ALS.
Commander J. Crittenden Watson to William T. Meredith, dated Mare Island, California, 1877 February 20
His account of the lashing to the rigging. ALS.
J. Crittenden Watson to William Meredith, dated Mare Island, California, 1877 February 20
Introduces and gives instructions for the previous letter concerning the lashing to the rigging. ALS.
John H. Knowles to Friend and Shipmate, dated USS Phlox, Naval Academy, Annapolis, 1881 May 10
Talks about the old crew of the Hartford and David Farragut surveying the dead and wounded after Mobile Bay. ALS.
John H. Knowles to Friend, dated Annapolis, 1895 March 20
Talks about being given the option of a discharge or reduction in rank and asking his friend to intervene. ALS.
Manuel de la Camara to Edward L. Lalinsky, Commander of U. S. Artillery, dated Vigo (Spain), 1908 May 18
Regrets that circumstances will not permit him to meet Loyall Farragut but directs him to contact his nephew in Malaga during his stay. ALS.