Autograph letter, signed, from a sailor to his wife during the Mexican-American War

by Mexican-American War

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

An affectionate 1847 Mexican-American War naval letter from a sailor aboard the U.S. store ship Fredonia off Anton Lizardo, describing the fall of Tabasco and the secure occupation of the Veracruz coast, and discussing a hoped-for transfer to Maury’s Naval Observatory: an intimate, on-the-spot glimpse of how large strategic events were experienced and understood by an individual sailor in the Gulf Squadron. A very affectionate letter from a sailor to his wife back home,

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