- GLC#
- GLC04604.08-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 21 July 1825
- Author/Creator
- Southard, Samuel Lewis, 1787-1842
- Title
- to Isaac Mayo
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.6 cm, Width: 19.3 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Southard as Secretary of the Navy asks Lieutenant Mayo to report to Captain James Banon, President of the Naval Court Martial, as a witness in the case of Charles Stewart. Stewart was being accused of convoying a foreign (British) ship into a blockaded port. He was eventually acquitted.
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