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WAR DATE (CIVIL WAR.) PORTER, DAVID D. Letter Signed, as Acting Rear Admiral, to General S. A. Hurlbut, sending two female refugees from Vicksburg with their children, but advising that they be guarded as "there is no trusting these Rebels and as General Pemberton may have taken this method of communicating with Joe Johnson." 1 page, single 4to sheet, Flag Ship Black Hawk stationery. Np, 9 June 1863
WAR DATE (CIVIL WAR.) PORTER, DAVID D. Letter Signed, as Acting Rear Admiral, to General S. A. Hurlbut, sending two female refugees from Vicksburg with their children, but advising that they be guarded as "there is no trusting these Rebels and as General Pemberton may have taken this method of communicating with Joe Johnson." 1 page, single 4to sheet, Flag Ship Black Hawk stationery. Np, 9 June 1863
- Notes: Porter (1813-91) Union Admiral, led the flotilla during the capture of New Orleans, commanded the Mississippi Squandron from October 1862 through the end of the western rivers campaigns.
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