George A. Tittle to his sister, reporting a pleasant cruise to Cadiz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tittle, George A., active 1862-1864, author.

Contributor:

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families.

Military history.

Spain--Cádiz.

Genre:

Correspondence

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

Aboard USS Kearsarge at Cadiz, Spain : [producer not identified], 1863.

Summary:

Says they arrived at Cadiz this morning from "a very pleasant cruise." Reports that he left Cadiz for the cruise on 26 March and that he visited all the "'Western Islands,' Madeira to Gibraltar in 69 hours." Received new officers at Fayal Island, Captain Winslow and Lieutenant Commander Thornton. Says they will be leaving for another cruise in a few days, but cannot inform her where they will be going. Assumes Lisbon will be the first place they go though. Says to keep sending letters to him at Cadiz. Says this is the only letter he has written since the end of March because "I have not had an opportunity."

Notes:

Collection Reference: GLC02828.09

Folder Information: Surgeon steward Tittle details the "Kearsarge's" 1862-1864 cruise, including her engagement with the CSS "Alabama." The USS "Kearsarge" eventually fought and sank the Confederate raider off the French coast on 19 June 1864.

From folder: Letters written by George A. Tittle while cruising the North Atlantic aboard the USS Kearsarge

Sub-collection: Papers and Images of the American Civil War

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