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The Capture of New Orleans : What the Navy Did - Letter from Ex-Secretary Gideon Welles [dated 30th August 1875]; Letter from Ex-Secretary Welles [dated November 6, 1875; followed by comment by the editor of the Army and Navy Journal]


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