September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date retained copy of a letter by Admiral S.P. Lee, 2pp. folio, Flag Ship N.A. Blockade Squadron, Beaufort, North Carolina, September 20, 1864, addressed to Captain B.F. Sands, of the Western Bar, and relates information taken from a “Ship Carpenter” who was takne by the Rebels at the capture of Plymouth, and reads in part: “...He has been engaged lately by the Rebels at Wilmington in working on vessels belonging to the Confederate and reports that the Rebels are fitting out five blockade runners to cruise as privateers like the Tallahassee and that they are all going to go out of the port of Wilmington when the moon becomes dark...” He instructs Sands to “Keep both lines of blockaders as close in as possible and every available steamer in one or the other line. Neither the Department nor the Country will accept any excuse if these vessels are allowed to escape from Wilmington for the extensive destruction of our commerce...” Fine condition.
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