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Collection Reference Number GLC02115
From Archive Folder Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863 
Title Samuel Francis DuPont to Thomas H. Patterson giving orders on delivering prisoners of war to the proper authorities
Date 19 June 1863
Author DuPont, Samuel Francis (1803-1865)  
Document Type Correspondence; Military document
Content Description Written aboard the U.S.S. Wabash in Port Royal Harbor. Rear Admiral Dupont gives orders to Patterson, commander of the U.S.S. James Adger on delivering prisoners of war to the proper authorities. Instructs Patterson to " ... proceed with the James Adger, under your command to Fortress Monroe and deliver to the proper authorities there the officers and crew of the Confederate ironclad Atlanta, captured on the 17th instant in Wassaw by the ironclad Weehawken, a list of whom is herewith enclosed." Also orders Patterson to take a few other prisoners captured either at North Edisto by Acting Master Dutch of the Kingfischer, or turned in by a Confederate deserter at Savannah. States that Patterson should then proceed to Philadelphia to pick up boilers for the James Adger. Endorsement signed at top by Samuel P. Lee, a rear admiral in the US Navy.
Subjects Civil War  Military History  Navy  Union Forces  Union General  Prisoner of War  Confederate States of America  Ironclad  Fortification  Desertion  Military Supplies  
People Du Pont, Samuel Francis (1803-1865)  Patterson, Thomas H. (b. 1820)  Lee, Samuel Phillips (1812-1897)  
Place written Port Royal Harbor, South Carolina
Theme The American Civil War; Naval & Maritime
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Civil War: Theater of War Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach