Attempted Sale of the Federal fleet. [from the New Orleans, la , Picayune, Sunday, December 11, 1904.
Remarkable episode in the operations on the Mississippi.

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Desertion of Lieutenant D. W. Glenney, U. S. N., in 1863.
Planned to deliver part of the gunboat fleet to the Confederate Officials—Scheme came to Naught—Glenney's escape to Mexico.

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The attempted sale by Lieutenant Daniel W. Glenney, of the United States Navy, of a portion of the gunboat fleet in the Missippi river to the Confederate authorities, in May, 1863, has not been heretofore fully given to the public. The correspondence which follows gives all details which are attainable.

On the 7th of May, 1863, John J. Pettus, Governor of Mississippi, addressed a letter from Jackson to Hon. Jefferson Davis, as follows:

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0290%3Achapter%3D1.15

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David Upton