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Spanish-American War
Commodore Arent S. Crowninshield, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation, to Captain Silas Casey, Commandant, League Island navy Yard
Mar. 26th [189]8.
Navy Yard, League Island,1
Penn.
New Jersey Naval Reserve will take monitors to Portland, Maine; Boston Reserve to Boston; New York Reserve to New York, with average complement of one hundred each monitor.
When will vessels be ready for crews
Crowninshield
Source Note: DS, DNA, RG 45, Entry 29.
Footnote 1: League Island was a major shipyard in Philadelphia. It later became the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
