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your Obdt Servant
Davis D Porter
Rear Adml & Supt

Washington, Octr. 10/65

Hon'ble Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy,

Sir,
I join in the foregoing recommendation of Admiral Porter.

I have the honor to be, Sir,
Respectfully Yours
S.P. Lee
Captain U.S. Navy & 
late commander of the Mississippi Squadron