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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02460.16 |
| From Archive Folder | Confederate generals from the deep south: 21 letters & docs |
| Title | Naval defense of Mobile, Alabama |
| Date | 15 December 1864 |
| Author | Taylor, Richard (1826-1879) |
| Additional authors | Maury, Dabney Herndon (1822-1900) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Reports that if Mobile, Alabama is to be successfully defended, one officer, either naval or military, must have command of all the defenses. Mentions vessels and a torpedo boat in the harbor. This note is on the verso of a secretarial letter in the name of Major General Dabney H. Maury, dated 15 December 1864 from Mobile, to Lieutenant Colonel W. M. Levy in Meridian, Mississippi. Maury's letter informs that the torpedo boat has not yet gone out to attack the enemy and that he has applied repeatedly to Commodore Ebenezer Farrand to have an officer from the navy take command of the boat. Indicates that he would like the present commander of the boat, Captain John Halligan, removed. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Navy Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America Union Forces |
| People | Taylor, Richard (1826-1879) Maury, Dabney Herndon (1822-1900) Halligan, John (fl. 1864) Farrand, Ebenezer (fl. 1864) |
| Place written | Meridian, Mississippi |
| 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 | Main Western Theater |