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Secretary of the Navy John D. Long to Captain Alexander H. McCormick, 3/7/1898
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Spanish-American War
Secretary of the Navy John D. Long to Captain Alexander H. McCormick
Dated March 7, 1898.
Oregon, Bremerton, Washington:
The situation is getting worse. You should go to San Francisco as soon as possible and get ammunition.1
Long.
Source Note: CCDecyS, DNA, RG 45, Entry 28, p. 550. Note attached: “Translation of cablegram.”
Footnote 1: Oregon arrived in San Francisco on 9 March. See, RAdm. William A. Kirkland to Long, 9 March 1898, DNA, AFNRC, M625, roll 319.
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