Raynors HCA 2015-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2015
Autograph Letter Signed of Aaron Oberly, Assistant surgeon, 2p. octavo, U.S. Ship Sabine, Navy Yard, New York, January 20, 1862, in part: "...We are gradually coming to the conclusion of repairs and likely will be ordered away ere many a day...Our destination is unknown..." About VG. During the Civil War, Sabine was actively employed along the east coast searching for Confederate raiders. She participated in the relief and reinforcement of Fort Pickens, Florida, in April 1861, under command of Capt. Adams; the rescue of 500 marines and the crew of chartered troop transport Governor during a violent storm off South Carolina on 2 and 3 November 1861; the search for Vermont in March 1862, after the ship-of-the-line had been badly damaged by a storm while sailing to Port Royal, South Carolina; and the hunt for CSS Alabama in October 1862 and CSS Tacony in June 1863.
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