Letter from the Secretary of War

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Steamboat Era Museum

Secretary of War, Bay Letters: Origsize: 6¼" x 9½"; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Negno: n/a
Secretary of War, Bay Letters

Origsize: 6¼" x 9½"; Origformat: Print-Photographic; Negno: n/a

Name/Title

Letter from the Secretary of War

Entry/Object ID

2012.9.3

Scope and Content

Correspondance Between Secretary of War Robert T Lincoln and various Engineers -- including H. G. Wright (Brig. & Bvt. Maj. Gen., Chief of the Engineers, U.S. Army), Jas. Mercur (Captain of Engineers), Jno. P. Darling (Assistant Engineer), Geo. H. Elliot (Assistant Engineer), H. C. Hudgins (General Freight and Passenger Agent), S. T. Abert (U.S. Civil Engineer) -- where the engineers report to the Secretary of War the results of various surveys done on various points of interest along the Chesapeake Bay, Pamlico, Currituck, and Albemarle Sounds, including surveys of the Clubfood, Harlowe, & Newport Rivers, Quantico Va., Elizabeth City and Norfolk and Southern,Railroad, Edenton Bay, Great Wicomico River, Piankatank River, Roanoke River, Quantico Creek, Indian Point in Northumberland County and Reference to Maryland Steamboat Company, Robertson's Wharf, the Roanoke Norfolk & Baltimore Steamboat Company