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Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879 [Naval defense of Mobile, Alabama]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02460.16 Author/Creator: Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879 Place Written: Meridian, Mississippi Type: Endorsement signed Date: 17 December 1864 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 32 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Reports that if Mobile, Alabama is to be successfully defended, one officer, either naval or military, must have command of all the defenses. Mentions vessels and a torpedo boat in the harbor. This note is on the verso of a secretarial letter in the name of Major General Dabney H. Maury, dated 15 December 1864 from Mobile, to Lieutenant Colonel W. M. Levy in Meridian, Mississippi. Maury's letter informs that the torpedo boat has not yet gone out to attack the enemy and that he has applied repeatedly to Commodore Ebenezer Farrand to have an officer from the navy take command of the boat. Indicates that he would like the present commander of the boat, Captain John Halligan, removed.

Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879
Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900
Halligan, John, fl. 1864
Farrand, Ebenezer, fl. 1864

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