Naval Grouping

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006

Group of naval related letters, includes: Manuscript Letter Signed, “H.H. Bell” 1p. folio, November 17, 1863, U.S. Ship ‘Pensacola’ Off New Orleans, ordering Acting Masters Mate Henry Girand to report for duty on board of the U.S. Steamer ‘Tennessee’. Good...plus; Manuscript Letter Signed, “H.H. Bell” Commodore, November 17, 1863, 1p. folio, U.S. Ship ‘Pensacola” making Henry Girand Acting Masters Mate and ordering him to take the “prescribed Oath of Allegiance...” About VG...plus; Partly-printed Document Signed, “Gideon Welles” 1p. quarto, November 29, 1864, ordering Girand to be “detached from the U.S.S. Mobile and you will report to Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding for duty on board the U.S.S. ‘Nereus’. About VG...plus; Autograph Letter Signed, “Henry E. Girand”, 2p. quarto, Off New Orleans, January 15, 1864, in part: “...I am happy....everbody likes me for I mind my own business & do my duty like a man I do not drink, I do not go ashore but once a week...I am soon agoing to be promoted to an Ensign then I will have a pair of shoulder straps & a stripe around my sleve & a star on each wrist...” Fine...plus; Partly-printed Document Signed by Asst. Secretary of the Navy Fox, 1p. quarto, May 9, 1865, Navy Department, May 9, 1865, ordering Girand for “detail from the Receiving Ship ‘North Carolina.’...” About VG...plus; Department of the Interior penison document and partly printed letter. VG.

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