48 pp. Bound in hardcover.  First edition, interior tight, overlaid library stamps on title page, ink presentation in upper margin of title page, small stain to upper inner blank margin of title page, one fine copy except for the title page,

Sabin calls for sixty pages, but there are only forty-eight in the present edition, published by Allen and Farham (both editions were apparently printed for "private circulation"). As temporary commander of the Mobile blockade, on Sept. 4, 1862, Preble moved too slowly in challenging a Confederate cruiser flying the British flag, and he was dismissed from the navy by Secretary Gideon Welles. This pamphlet was Preble's first challenge to the decision, which was rescinded in February 1863. HOWES P563. SABIN 12217. NEVINS I, p.231 (ref). 

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