Defection of CSN Engineers

[DaveBrt]

Interesting.

OR Series 1, Volume 42, part 2, page 568:

HQ Army of the Potomac
Office of the Provost Marshall General
City Point, August 29, 1864

Major General Humphreys, Chief of Staff

***** Our agent brought through with him night before last a Mr. Makewater, engineer on the rebel steamer Beaufort, and a week from now he will bring the chief engineer of the rebel gunboat Fredericksburg. It will be necessary to keep a lookout for these people, as after having effected their escape they are not desirous, on account of their families and friends, of giving information which will afterward appear in the papers, and consequently conceal their former occupation. *****
George H. Sharpe, Col.

 

[jgoodguy]

Looks like an engineer.

 

[DaveBrt]

Looks like an engineer.
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Don't understand your comment.

 

[jgoodguy]

Don't understand your comment.

Your title is.
Defection of CSN Engineers
I found one engineer.

Perhaps an image of the page you referenced or a link to it would clear things up.

 

[DaveBrt]

Your title is.
Defection of CSN Engineers
I found one engineer.

Perhaps an image of the page you referenced or a link to it would clear things up.

Re-read my transcription -- one from the Beaufort and one from the Fredericksburg

 

[DaveBrt]

Your title is.
Defection of CSN Engineers
I found one engineer.

Perhaps an image of the page you referenced or a link to it would clear things up.

Re-read my transcription -- one from the Beaufort and one from the Fredericksburg

 

[jgoodguy]

Re-read my transcription -- one from the Beaufort and one from the Fredericksburg

Thanks for the transcription.

 

[jgoodguy]

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[jgoodguy]

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