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Under the authority vested in me by the Act approved July 14, 1862. I have ``selected the following candidates from the Sons of officers or soldiers who distinguished themselves in the service of the United States'' &c. for admission into the Naval Academy as Midshipmen:
1 H. Livingston Mansfield.
2 James McB. Stembel.
3 Wm. H. Emory.
4 R. M. Cutts.
5 Morris A. [Morris R.S.] Mackenzie.
6 George Mansfield Totten, and
7 Henry W. Wessells.
I am, respectfully
Honble Gideon Welles
Secretary of the Navy.
[1] D, DLC-RTL. This appears to be a draft or copy of a letter sent. The act referred to had been approved on July 14, 1862. The candidates appointed by this letter graduated at Annapolis with the exception of Mansfield and Stembel, who resigned.