Letter from Gustavus V. Fox, Acting Secretary of the Navy to James Pollock, Director of the Mint

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In this letter, the Acting Secretary of the Navy orders Medals of Honor to be reproduced in bronze, and sets the reverse of the medal to read "For Personal Valor" with a blank for the recipients name.

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Any Definitment
may 15th 1862
fin :
J have remied your letien of the
10th rist stating the cost of the medal
design Mol. via goes Delver arm coloper
bronged The for this object
is one thousand dollars Barra naw
will follows funnies h are many menals
in brounge of alonged not as the apop
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refriction will allow. Each menal
to be engreased am The bace
blank for name, ifn formal valor
The designs are returned you for mail
with this you will observe mil is in m
a frackage by itself and marken approved
Very w espectfully
James Polloeve Eoge
to gmaints Phila,
Acting decretary

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