Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy for the Year 1883

Boatswain T. G. Bell, U. S. N.

Born in North Carolina, July 3, 1810; appointed, June 18, 1838; died at
Seacliff, L. I., August 10, 1883. Total sea service, 13 years 4 months;
total time in Navy, 45 years 1 month.

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U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources, Colonial America to the Present
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