Letter
WINSLOW, Captain to Gideon Welles, December 11, 1863
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No. 17.]
United States Steamer Kearsarge, Brest, France, December 11, 1863.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that, during the last cruise of the Kearsarge from this port, I took the opportunity of landing at Queenstown sixteen refugees who secreted themselves on board of this vessel prior to her departure from that port on the 5th ultimo.
The accompanying papers afford all information of the character of that act, with the correspondence which followed.
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JNO. A. WINSLOW, Captain.
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.
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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.