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Document Details


Title: Letter from Samuel Francis DuPont to Gideon Welles, December 12, 1861
Document type: Letter
Accessibility: Paid Only
Repository: Alexander Street Press
Collection: The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Subscription only)
URL: http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/cwld/documentidx.pl?aspdocid=S1481-D031
Original Language: English
Time span: 1861
Speaker: DuPont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865
Speaker gender: Male
Speaker date of birth: 27-Sep-1803
Speaker place of birth: Bergen Point, NJ; New Jersey; United States; North America
Speaker race: White
Speaker occupation: Military personnel
Age at speaking: 58
Document location: Port Royal, SC
Document date: 12-Dec-1861
People discussed: Drayton, Percival, 1812-1865; Percival Drayton
Locations discussed: Hutchinson Island, SC; North America; Otter Islands, SC; Sea Islands; South Carolina; United States
Topics discussed - ASP terms: Drayton, Percival, 1812-1865; Hutchinson Island, SC; North America; Otter Islands, SC; Percival Drayton; Sea Islands; South Carolina; United States
Topics discussed - Other terms: Agriculture; Commanders; Communities; Domestic life; Fugitive slaves; Military; Plantations; Property destruction; Reconnaissance; Writing formats; Writing from field
ASP release: 2006-01
Document code: S1481-D031-3901