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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