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Stringham, Silas Horton, 1797-1876 to Samuel Mercer

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03097.01 Author/Creator: Stringham, Silas Horton, 1797-1876 Place Written: Hampton Roads, Virginia Type: Letter signed Date: 8 September 1861 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 25.1 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy

Written at Fortress Monroe. Stringham, Flag Officer and Commander of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron, writes to Mercer, Captain of the Wabash, flagship of the Squadron. Reports, "It affords me pleasure to be the medium for forwarding to you a copy of the Hon. Sec. of the Navy congratulations on our recent victory at Forts Hatteras & Clark. You will please have it read to the Officers and crew." Gideon Welles served as Secretary of the Navy 1861-1869. In August 1861 General Benjamin Franklin Butler's army joined force with Stringham's Squadron, capturing Forts Hatteras and Clark, located on the Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, in a key naval victory for the Union.

Stringham, Silas Horton, 1797-1876
Mercer, Samuel, fl. 1861
Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

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