ALS signed “S. P. Chase,” one page, 5.5 x 8.75, June 1, 1861. Handwritten letter to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, in part: "Please read this letter of Magruder's. I certainly did express to him the very confident opinion, well warranted as I thought, that his indisposition would under the circumstances, be accepted. I sincerely hope that it has been & that the rumor which has reached him is unfounded. If not let me request a favor that his wish in respect to the revocation…of the order may be complied with. A man who resigns avowing his loyalty and his determination never to lift hand against the flag he loves, certainly ought to have no stigma placed on his name."
Chase writes on the integral leaf of a letter to him by "G. A. Magruder" of Cincinnati, in part: "Since my arrival here I have been informed that my name has been closed with the resigned officers who have been stricken from the rolls, thus placing me most injustly if not cruelly with those who have taken part against the country and the flag, and that too after I had placed up on record & sent by your hands a communication avowing my loyalty and fidelity to the Constitution & the Union. In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Chase's hand to "Hon. Gideon Welles," and franked in the upper right, "S. P. Chase." G. A. Magruder may have been mixed up with John B. Magruder, who resigned his US Army commission in April 1861 to become a Confederate colonel.
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