Letter
Lieutenant-Commandant Eben Farrand to Lieutenant-Commandant Farrand, United States Navy, August 28, 1849
[697] *Commandant Newton, United States Navy, to Lieutenant-Commandant Farrand, United States Navy.
[Handed with sealed orders.]
August 28, 1849.
Sir: Proceed to sea at once with the United States schooner Flirt, under your command, and be governed by the accompanying sealed orders, which you are expressly enjoined not to open until after you have crossed the bar and discharged the pilot.
I am, very respectfully, &c.,
- JOHN THOMAS NEWTON Commandant.
- Lieutenant-Commandant Eben Farrand.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr
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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.