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13 December 1802
Murphy, Sarah (fl. 1802-)
to Sons
GLC01450.600.080
10 July 1797
Duane, Walter (fl. 1797-)
to Sir [David Murphy]
GLC01450.600.081
4 December 1861
West, Lewis H. (b. 1829)
to R. West
References his mother's letter of 26 November. Says the Confederates are trying to avoid the blockade by stopping in Nassau and transferring their cargo to smaller ships to slip past the Union Navy. Says the Union controls the sea islands off South...
GLC03836.28
19 November 1861
Written aboard the USS "Alabama." Encloses a one-page hand-drawn chart of the 7 November 1861 naval battle at Port Royal Harbor, which he had copied by "placing a sheet of thin paper" over the original. Reports that the original chart had been made...
GLC03836.27
24 February 1865
to Harriet Moore
References her letter of 28 January. Reports that he heard of the news of the fall of Charleston. Says that all the ports into the Confederacy are now closed and that Mexico is the only way to bring goods into the South now. Reports that "The rebel...
GLC03836.86
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