Letter, April 12, 1861.

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Letter, April 12, 1861.

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Holograph letter signed to the Honorable Henry Stoughton, 12 April 1861, from USS Illinois off Charleston, South Carolina, regarding the transit to Fort Pickens, Florida to reinforce the Union garrison there. Describes troops and ammunition on board, their landing, preparations to defend the fort and his feelings about war and resistance.

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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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Stoughton, Henry, 1815-1873.

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Gilman, Jeremiah H., 1831-1909.

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Jeremiah Howard Gilman was born in Thomaston, ME, November 11, 1831. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY in 1856. He defended Fort Barrancas from the state militia in April 1861 and held Ft. Pickens, Pensacola, FL until it was reinforced. He served in other Civil War campaigns and retired in 1895. From the description of Letter, April 12, 1861. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 733942785 ...

Illinois (Ship)

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Whaling vessel, out of Sag Harbor, N.Y., mastered by Daniel Jagger, on voyage from 4 July 1845-27 Aug. 1847 to the Tristan, East Cape, Dutch Banks, New Holland, New Zealand, Japan, and Malishes Banks whaling grounds; owner-agent: John Budd; built at New York, N.Y., 1826; bought from New York, N.Y., 1843, for the Sag Harbour, N.Y. whaling fleet (1843-1850); sold to New Bedford, Mass, 1850; whaling as ship out of New Bedford (1850-1869); altered to a bark ca. 1872; sunk in Arctic in 1876. ...