Letter from the bark Ohio, 1863.

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Letter from the bark Ohio, 1863.

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Anonymous letter (1863 December 27; South Atlantic) written from the bark Ohio of New Bedford, Mass., Daniel Flanders, master. The writer notes that whales were taken in the South Atlantic. Having learned that a Confederate raider, the screw sloop Alabama, was in the vicinity, the Ohio sailed to the Indian Ocean where it also fished for whales and later returned to the South Atlantic.

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