Letter
Totten , Commanding United States Steamer Water Witch to Lieutenant-Commandant Totten, United States Navy, August 20, 1849
[695] *Commandant Newton, United States Navy, to Lieutenant-Commandant Totten, United States Navy.
Commandant’s Office, Navy-Yard, Pensacola, August 20, 1849.
Sir: You will proceed to sea at once with the steamer Water Witch, under your command; and you are hereby strictly enjoined not to open the accompanying sealed parcel until after your vessel crosses the bar and the pilot leaves you.
I am, very respectfully, &c.,
- JOHN THOMAS NEWTON, Commandant.
- Lieutenant-Commandant Geo. M. Totten, Commanding United States Steamer Water Witch.
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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.