Farragut David Glasgow (1801-1870) Autograph Letter Signed from the U.S. Flagship Hartford

Farragut, David Glasgow (1801-1870) Autograph Letter Signed, from the U. S. Flagship Hartford , off New Orleans, 1 May 1862. Single leaf inscribed over one page of lined wove paper. To Surgeon Stewart Kennedy, serving aboard the U.S.S. Hartford , ordering him to accompany the sick and wounded from the Gulf Blockading Squadron to the Pilot Town in the Mississippi River and thence to the frigate Colorado , and to report for duty to the commanding officer; docketed by John L. Davis, Lieutenant and Commanding Officer of the Colorado , in upper left corner, with his signature, and the note, "Reported for duty, May 2d 1862," old folds, a correction in the text, in Farragut's hand, where he originally ordered the sick and wounded be taken to quarantine, he modified it to read Pilot Town, former mount on verso, 12 1/2 x 8 in. [Together with] the carbon of a letter from 1954, acknowledging a gift to the Navy of a letter written by Kennedy relating the tale of Farragut's capture of the city of New Orleans on 29 April 1862, with the text transcribed, with the original envelope.