USS Hale

Item NMC-6950

Description

Original Civil War document, war dated. Summary Statement of Receipts and Expenditures for USS Hale, July 31, 1864.

From Wikipedia:
The USS E. B. Hale was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used as a gunboat by the Navy to patrol navigable waterways of the Confederacy to prevent the South from trading with other countries.
Commissioned: 4 September 1861
Decommissioned: 11 May 1865
Acquired: July 1861
Fate: sold, 20 June 1865