Letter
Hitchcock to James Magee, April 8, 1863
(H.)—Commander Hitchcock to Mr. Magee.
Susquehanna, Pensacola Bay, April 8, 1863.
Sir: Your communication of the 4th instant has this moment been received by flag of truce. In relation to your connexion with the transaction of shipping specie from Mobile I know very little. The commander of the Vesuvius told me he came to transact government business with the British consul, and that he believed he (the consul) had some money to send by him. To which I replied, “We cannot examine an English man-of-war; we trust all you do will be right and proper. You could go up to the city, if you wished, where we do not go.” Further than this I have no knowledge.
Very respectfully,
N. B. HITCHCOCK.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.