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Secretary of the Navy
He also received the following letter: The Commonwealth of Virginia To Captain Samuel Barron ** Greetings,
Know you, that from special trust and confidence reposed in your fidelity...courage ami good conduct, our Governor,_in persuance of the authority vested in him by the Constitution and laws of the Commonwealth, dojth commission you a Captain in the Navy of Virginia.
John Leljcher
Governor of Virginia By the Governor George W. Munford, Sect, of the Committee.
The official records df the Confederate Navy give proof that Governor I etchers confidence andl trust in Captain Barron was well! placed. The odds just seemed against him, but he left; no detail unattended to, if it wjas possible; to do something.
On August 2, 1864 he wrote to the Secretary of the Navy, concerning the Rappahannock. “This vessel has been from the day she entered Calais a source ,of intense anxiety and annoyance to both Mr. Slidell and myself, and f now feci mortified at our. ill success.”
Commander James Dj. Bulloch,: Confederate States Navy, was always ready to help Captain Barron in every way possible, but he had not the confidence in the attitude; of the French toward the Confederacy that Captain Barron had. In fact it was just the opposite.
He had come to Europe in the early days of the War Of the Rebellion to buy ships for the Confederacy. He had been given a free Continued on page eight
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