Porter Praises the Work of Coast Survey

AUGUST 5, 1863, 150 years ago.

REAR ADMIRAL PORTER praised the work of the U.S. Coast Survey men assigned to him in a letter to A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the Coast Survey. 

He especialy cited the quality of the charts made for him. Because of them "gunboats have steamed through where the keel of a canoe never passed, and have succeeded in reaching points in the enemy's country" where they never expected attack.


The work of the Coast Survey during the war is another often overlooked aspect.

--Old B-Runner