Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of Rebellion, Series I, Volume 3 by United States Department of the Navy

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

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OPERATIONS OF THE CRUISERSUNION. 593

Not seeing or hearing of any vessels wearing the Confederate flag, I left the Irish Channel [Sea] on the 15th August, arrived at Cadiz on the 24th, whence, after having coaled ship and taken on board from the storeship a few necessary provisions, I sailed on the 28th ultimo. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, THOS. T. CRAVEN, Hon. GIDEON WELLES, Commodore, U. S. Navy. Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C.

Order of the Secretary of the Navy to Acting Rear-Admiral Godon, U. S. Navy, commanding Brazil Squadron, commending his course toward Brtttsh men-of-war.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, September 28, 18G5.

SIR: Having referred your dispatch No. 5, dated the 12th nltimo, to the Secretary of State, he has returned it with the following expression of approval of the course pursued by you toward the British men-of-war with which you came in contact on your outward passage: I have read the dispatch submitted with much interest, and have to inforni you in reply that under the special circumstances of the case Acting Rear-Admiral Godons proceedings are deemed proper, and that the rules by which he announces that he intends to govern himself are satisfactory to the President.

Very respectfully, etc., G. WELLES,

Acting Rear-Admiral S. ~. GODON, Secretary of the Navy. Commanding Brazil Squadron, Bahia, Brazil.

Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of State, relative to the ram Stonewall and steamer Harriet Lane.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, October 4, 1865.

SIR: 1 have the honor to inform you that it is proposed by this Department to dispatch a steamer to Havana about the 20th of this month for ~he purpose of bringing the Stonewall to the United States. In informing you of this purpose I take occasion to suggest that an enquiry be made of the Spanish minister at Washington whether the Harriet Lane, a vessel belonging to this Government which had been seized and held by the rebels, or other property recently in the posses- sion of the rebel Government that may be in the waters of Cuba, will be surrendered to the United States at the same time. If so, arrange- ments can be made for the removal of the same to some one of our own ports. The Harriet Lane, you will remember, was a vessel belonging to the U. S. Navy ainmd captured by the insurgents at Galveston, Tex. Very respectfully, etc., – GIDEON WELLES –

Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of the Navy. Secretary of State. N W RYOL III...—3

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594 OPERATIONS OF THE CRUISERSUNION.

Report of Commander Banichead, U. S. Navy, commanding U. S. S. Wyo- ming, qf the arrival of that vessel at Singapore, in search of the C. S. S. Shenandoah.

U. S. S. WYOMING, Singapore, October 5, 1865.

SIR: I have the honor to inform the Department that the Wyoming, nuder my command, reached this port on the 25th ultiino, twenty-two days from Mauritius, touching at Port [Point] de Galle (Ceylon) and Penang. having some repairs to put upon the engines which could not be done on board, I shall remain here until they are finished.

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