Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 5. Page: 68
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68 OPERATIONS ON THE POTOMAC AND RAPPAHANNOCK.
[Telegram.]
NAVY DEPARTMENT, August 24, 1862.
Send immediately, if not already done, one of the double-end gun-
boats and four lighter draft boats to Aquia Creek to cooperate with
the Army. Let them report by letter to the Department.
GIDEON WELLES,
Secretary of the Navy.
Commodore CHARLES WILKES,
Commanding James River Flotilla, Fortress Monroe.
[Telegram.]
FALMOUTH I VA.], August 24, [1862]-2:20p. m.
(Received at Washington 2:50 p). in.)
The five or six gunboats which were to be sent to Aquia Creek have
not yet arrived. It is advisable that they should be sent there at once.
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major-General.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
[Telegram.]
FORTRESS MONROE, August 25, 1862.
(Received at Washington, D. C., August 26-11 a. m.)
SIR: The vessels, one double-ender and four smaller steamers of light
draft, have been dispatched, agreeably to your order by telegram.
They will report to you on arrival at Aquia Creek by letter.
Respectfully, yours,
CHARLES WILKES,
Commanding James River Flotilla.
Hon. SECRETARY OF THE NAVY,
Washington.
Letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Commodore Wilkes, U. S. Navy,
commanding James River Flotilla, relative to gunboats for duty in
Aquia Creek, Virginia.
NAVY DEPARTMENT, August 25, 1862.
SIR: I sent you a telegram yesterday, directing that five gunboats
be sent immediately to Aquia Creek to cooperate with the Army. This
order was in a verbal requisition to the Department for five or six light-
draft gunboats at that point. I did not specify which boats, for I
knew not which boats could be spared with least detriment to you.
They will doubtless have been dispatched before this reaches you.
The change that has taken place in the army movements and the
withdrawal of the troops from the Peninsula will render necessary a
corresponding change in the flotilla, which was organized to cooperate
with and aid the Army in its then contemplated demonstration upon
Richmond.
Until the military forces shall have become consolidated under the
new order, the flotilla will continue to menace Richmond, but the
Department is not prepared to advise offensive operations, nor do I
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