Letter

PORTER, For Secretary of Navy to Hamilton Fish, August 4, 1869

Vice-Admiral Porter, for Secretary of the Navy, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication in relation to the Spanish gun-boats.

Orders have been issued to the commanding officer at New York to afford all the aid in his power to assist in preventing their departure, and three men-of-war have been ordered to that place.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

DAVID D. PORTER,
For Secretary of Navy.

Hon. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
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.