Letter

BARLOW, United States Marshal to Hamilton Fish, July 15, 1869

Author

BARLOW, United States Marshal

Recipient

Hamilton Fish

Date

July 15, 1869

Type

Letter

Language

English

Mr. Barlow, United States marshal, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

New York, July 15, 1809.

Secretary of State:

Authorization received. Some two hundred persons are on Gardner’s Island. They refuse to leave on the request of my officers and the cutter. They have robbed the light-house keeper. I must send down a sufficient force to oblige them to leave. I shall act very discreetly. If I cannot get enough marines may I ask for a few troops?

FRANCIS C. BARLOW,
United States Marshal.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.