Letter

Pinckney Walker to Sir P. Wodehouse, November 15, 1863

Author
Pinckney Walker
Recipient
Sir P. Wodehouse
Date
November 15, 1863
Type
Letter
[Enclosure 5 in No. 2.]

Rear-Admiral Sir B. Walker to Sir P. Wodehouse.

Narcissus, Simons Bay, November 15, 1863.

Sir: I beg to forward, for your excellency’s information, the copy of a letter I have received from Captain Forsyth, of her Majesty’s ship Valorous, who has this morning returned to this anchorage from Ichaboe, reporting the capture of the colonial vessel Saxon, by the United States ship-of-war Vanderbilt, at Angra Pequena, on the 30th ultimo.

I have, &c.

B. W. WALKER.
Topics
19th CenturyCivil WarDiplomacy
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗
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.
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