ISAAC TOUCEY - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 01/13/1859 - HFSID 17299

Manuscript LS: "Isaac Toucey" as Buchanan's Secretary of the Navy, 1p, 8x9¾. Washington, D.C., 1859 January 13. On letterhead to the Navy Department to Chief Engineer Wm. W.W. Wood, U.S. Navy, Philadelphia. In full: "Proceed to Washington, D.C.…"

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ISAAC TOUCEY. Manuscript LS: "Isaac Toucey" as Buchanan's Secretary of the Navy, 1p, 8x9¾. Washington, D.C., 1859 January 13. On letterhead to the Navy Department to Chief Engineer Wm. W.W. Wood, U.S. Navy, Philadelphia. In full: "Proceed to Washington, D.C., without delay, and report in person at the Department." WILLIAM WOOD was one of the pioneers of the U.S. Steam Navy. He had superintended the construction of the boilers and engines of the steam frigate Merrimac in 1854-1857. During the Civil War, he was on special duty connected with steam-engineering at the navy yards in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. He was drowned in a boat capsized by a squall in 1882 at the age of 64. ISAAC TOUCEY was Secretary of the Navy during Buchanan's entire presidential term. After he left office in 1861, Toucey was charged with favoring the cause of the seceding states by deliberately sending some of the best vessels of the Navy to distant seas to prevent their being used against the Confederates. This was denied, but it was generally thought that he sympathized with the South and opposed prosecution of the war. Toucey's name was put in nomination at the 1860 Democratic Party Convention in Baltimore. Light ink offset on left portion from another letter. Fine condition.

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