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- GLC#
- GLC00267.362
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- January 19, 1865
- Author/Creator
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878
- Title
- Letter from the Secretary of the Navy...
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 v. : 45 p. : Height: 22.4 cm, Width: 14.4 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Title continues, "...in Answer to a Resolution of the House of the 20th instant, transmitting report of Chief Engineer King, as also May, in relation to iron-clad vessels and dock-yards of Europe." Report submitted by Secretary of the Navy Welles to the House of Representatives. Report is the correspondence from Chief Engineer J.W. King. Contains five foldout maps between pages 26-27 of Keyham and Devonport, two of Cherbourg, Portsmouth, and the extension of Chatham Yard. Dated from the date it was ordered to be printed. Appears to have been pulled from a larger book.
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