Telegram signed : "Navy Department", to Admiral S.P. Lee, 1863 Dec. 10.

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Telegram signed : "Navy Department", to Admiral S.P. Lee, 1863 Dec. 10.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270589931

Asking him to send a ship to intercept the "Chesapeake" which had "been run away with."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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