Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Series 1, Volume 13. Page: 3
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SOUTH ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON.
FROM MAY 14, 1862, TO APRIL 7, 1863.
Report o Co nandcr Drayton, U. . 8. Nay, cn,,unirnnding U. S. S.
Pawnee, transmitting report regarding the liquor traffic.
U. S. S. PAWNEE,
1ernandina, [Fla.], lay 14, 18692.
MY DEAR COMMODORE: I send with this a report on the subject of
liquor dealing in our vessels, which I really think might be stopped
to the advantage of your squadron. So long as the article is permitted
on board of a vessel for sale, I don't care what the regulations are, it
will find its way into improper hands.
I went, on the 12th, in the Darlington, inland as far as Nassau, [Fla.],
to search for a gun. which I understood to have been buried there at
the fort immediately after ourt occupation of this place, and which I
found after a little probing of the ground, as well as a quantity of shot.
The gun was an army 32, made at Tredegar foundry in 1846. I had it
removed to the beach and brought to Fernandina the next day, with
its garrison carriage complete, after burning the works on the point of
Talbot Island. Mr. Mattair, who was with me, says that the bar has
moved a half mile northerly in the last two years. I could, however,
perceive no entrance, as the breakers extended the whole way across.
Nothing new here except that, with every care, fever'is making its
appearance on board in a mild form. I have fixed up a hospital on
shore, however, and hope by keeping the sick from the well to stop it.
So fat' it has shown itself principally in the old fever and ague cases
of the Potomac.
Very truly, yours,
P. DRAYTON.
Flag-Officer S. F. Du PONT,
U. S. . l' aa/,.
[Enclosure.]
U. S. S. PAWNEE,
Ie,rnaldifla, May 11, 1862.
SIR: I would beg leave to call your attention again to the trouble
that is caused both ashore and afloat by the traffic in spirituous liquor,
which is fast becoming legalized through the private traders and our
own sutlers, who both come out with regular permission to deal in this
article, so injurious at all times to the sailors and soldiers, but doubly
so at present, when the least imprudence brings on the fever of the
country. The last case in point is that of the iMfas ac/hsetts, from
which vessel liquor enough found its way on shore to create quite an
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