Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion, Series I, Volume 27 by United States Department of the Navy

Author:United States Department of the Navy
Language: eng
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Tags: Official Records, Civil War
Publisher: United States Department of the Navy
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

See Official Records, Union and Confederate Navies, vol. 13, p. 456

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468 OPERATIONS OF SUPPLY VESSELS.

Report of Acting lJlaster Cressy, U. S. Navy, comirbanding U. S. S. Courier, of arrival at New York.

BROOKLYN NAVY YARD, Decentber 5, 1862.

SIR: I have the honor to report the arrival of the U. S. ship Courier at this station from Port Royal. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, W. K. CREssY, Acting Master, Commanding. Hon. GIDEON WELLES,

Secretary of the Navy, Washington, P. C.

Order of the Secretary of the Navy to the connmandant navy yafd, New York, urging the immediate return of the U. S. ship Courter to Rear-A diniral Pu Pont, U. S. Navy.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, December 5, 1862.

SIR: Rear-Admiral Du Pont states that he has made requisitions on the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting for stores urgently needed in the squadron and asks that the Courier may be sent back as early as possible with these stores, together with any others the Bureau of Provisions and Clothing may wish to send. The Depart- ment directs that the Courier may be dispatched accordingly as soon as possible after her arrival. I am, respectfully, etc., GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy. Rear-Admiral H. PAULDING, Commandant Navy Yard, New York.

Instructions of the Secretary of the Navy to Acting Volunteer Lieu- tenant Eaton, U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Circassian.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, Pecember 9, 1862.

SIR: The Circassian having been fitted up to run regularly as a supply, passenger, and dispatch steamer to the Gulf Squadrons, you will proceed with her from New York on this service on the 15th instant, observing the following instructions: On the outward trip touch at Port Royal, S. C., and Turtle Har- bor, near Carysfort light, and leave at those places, respectively, the passengers, mails, and other matter you may have for the squadrons of Rear-Admiral Du Pont and Acting Rear-Admiral Wilkes; also furnish any vessels of the squadron of the latter you may meet with any needed fresh supplies. The Eastern Gulf Blockading Squadron commences at Cape Canaveral. It will be your duty to communicate with all the vessels on blockading service from that point to the extreme limits of the blockade on the coast of Texas, both on your outward and homewar

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trips, delivering to them mails, passengers, etc., furnishing them with needed fresh supplies, and receiving their mails, passengers, and invalids to be brought north.

Complaint has been made of the failure on previous occasions of the supply steamers to touch off Apalachicola and other points on the Gulf coast. Be careful to pass by none of the blockading stations without communicating. Have your mails for the respective vessels properly assorted and ready for delivery. On your homeward trip touch at Turtle Harbor, Port Royal, off Wilmington, and at Hampton Roads. From the latter point for- ward your mails via Baltimore to the Department, and after com- municating with the senior officer present continue your course to New York. Key West is the depot of Acting Rear-Ajmiral Bailey,

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