Item description: Report of Commander Smith, U. S. Navy, of a reconnoissance up the James River, May 23, 1862.

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Item citation: Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.. Series I, Volume 7. Washington : G.P.O., 1898. C970.75 U58no Ser. I, Vol. 7. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.