Letter
Edwin V. Sumner to U. S. Collector, July 11, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, July 11, 1861.
IRA P. RANKIN, Esq., U. S. Collector, Port of San Francisco, Cal.:
SIR: I am inclined to think that it would be well just at this time to require all vessels entering or going out of the harbor to show their colors. If you think it advisable, could you not give them this order through the pilots and tide waiters? As the matter now stands, ves: sels are constantly passing the forts without being known at all.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. V. SUMNER,
Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.
Brigadier-General, U. S. Army, Commanding.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: San Francisco. Summary: Brigadier General E. V. Sumner requests the U.S. Collector to enforce a regulation requiring all vessels entering or leaving San Francisco harbor to display their colors for identification amid Civil War security concerns.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 1
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