Letter June 30, 1863.

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Letter June 30, 1863.

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Letter to Arthur [last name not given], 30 June 1863, from USS Chocura off Cape Fear River, North Carolina, where Wood is on blockade duty. He reports that they have not caught any prizes yet and steamers go by undetected. USS Florida caught a steamer and sailing vessel recently. He is anxious for news of the war, has news that Robert E. Lee is in Pennsylvania and McClellan is in command.

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Naval War College, Henry E. Eccles Library

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Naval War College, Henry E. Eccles Library

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McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885

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George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. A graduate of West Point, McClellan served with distinction during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), and later left the Army to work on railroads until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Early in the conflict, McClellan was appointed to the rank of major general and played an important role i...

Wood, Yvonne (Yvonne Lucely)

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Chocura (Screw steam gunboat)

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Florida (Cruiser)

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The C.S.S. Florida was a Confederate steamer stationed near Mobile, Ala. From the guide to the Florida Log Book, ., 1862-1863, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...