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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC00684.01 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of John McIntosh Kell, Commander in the Confederate Navy |
Title | Appointment of John Kell to midshipman in the Navy of the United States |
Date | 11 January 1843 |
Author | Tyler, John (1790-1862) |
Additional authors | Upshur, Abel P. (1790-1844) Hardin, L.B. (fl. 1843) |
Document Type | Government document; Military document |
Content Description | Partially printed commission effective from 9 September 1841. Co-signed by L.B. Hardin and Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy. Seal missing. |
Subjects | President Navy Confederate General or Leader Government and Civics |
People | Tyler, John (1790-1862) Upshur, Abel P. (1790-1844) Hardin, L.B. (fl. 1843-1856) Kell, John McIntosh (1823-1900) |
Place written | Washington, D.C. |
Theme | Naval & Maritime |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | John Kell was a midshipman aboard the Falmouth until he transferred to the Savannah on 25 August 1843. Abel P. Upshur served as Secretary of the Navy under John Tyler from 11 October 1841 to 23 July 1843. |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |