Cuban Blockade (1 results)
Published by 16 January On letterhead of the Navy Department Office of the Assistant Secretary Washington 1899
- Manuscript
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4to, 1 p. Fifteen lines of typewritten text and seven-line autograph postscript. Text clear and complete. Good on lightly aged and creased paper. Concerning Southerland's involvement in the Spanish-American War, in which he commanded the gunboat Eagle in the blockade of Cuban ports. He is glad Chapman is pleased with the report.… He will send 'the photograph of the ARGONAUTA and one of the SANTO DOMINGO'. He asks for them to be returned, as they are 'amongst the few small mementos I have of the war'. In the postscript he writes that he has 'an 8'' by 10'' photo. of the gun and its crew, of the Eagle which fired the first shot at an enemy's vessel (hi Galieia) during the war. - A typical sailorman crew of 4', which he will not send because he thinks Chapman has 'enough from the Eagle already'.
