Documentary Histories
Spanish-American War
Captain Henry C. Taylor to Secretary of the Navy John D. Long
TELEGRAM.
Key West, [Florida] April 28, 1898.
Shall the Indiana, Detroit and auxiliaries drag for cable at Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo and destroy it?1
TAYLOR.
Source Note: Cy, DNA, RG 80, Entry 194, vol. 1, p. 23. Addressed before opening: “Secretary of the Navy,/Washington.”
Footnote 1: Secretary Long responded immediately that Taylor was “Not to cut cables till further orders.” See, Ibid., 23.
