Letter
Edwin V. Sumner to William H. Gardner, July 16, 1861
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE PACIFIC,
San Francisco, July 16, 1861.
Capt. WILLIAM H. GARDNER, Commanding Navy-Yard, Mare Island, Cal.:
CAPTAIN: I have received your letter of yesterday. I have sent an order to Benicia to furnish you with the 24-pounder and field carriage. I am glad to learn that the Active and Shubrick are under your command, and I should think it would be very well, in order to show that we are wide awake, to let one or both of them make a cruise occasionally down the coast.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
E. V. SUMNER,
Brigadier-General, U. K. Army, Commanding.
Brigadier-General, U. K. Army, Commanding.
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Charleston Harbor, S.C., 1861. Location: San Francisco.
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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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