Report to the President of the United States of the Action of the Navy Department in the Matter of the Disaster to the United States Exploring Expedition Toward the North Pole Accompanied by a Report of the Examination of the Rescued Party, &C.; June 17,

Excerpt from Report to the President of the United States of the Action of the Navy Department in the Matter of the Disaster to the United States Exploring Expedition Toward the North Pole: Accompanied by a Report of the Examination of the Rescued Party, &C.; June 17, 1873

This report is made directly to yourself, as the person under whose orders the expedition was organized, and I have myself signed it, con curring as I do in all its statements and conclusions. In some of the testimony as given will be found some statements of facts, and several strong expressions of feeling on the part of some of the witnesses against the officer remaining in command of the ship after the death of Captain Hall.

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