Correspondence to Daniel Garrison Brinton, n.d.
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Blair, Andrew Alexander, 1848-1932
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Andrew A. Blair attended the United States Naval Academy and in 1867 was assigned to the U.S.S. Reseca as a midshipman. The Resaca had been commissioned in 1866 and ordered to relieve the U.S.S. Jamestown which was cruising the Mexican and Central American coast. After yellow fever broke out among the crews of the two ships, they were ordered to Alaskan waters in an effort to reduce the spread of the disease. The ships arrived in Sitka in August 1867, and participated in the October 1867 transfe...
