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contest and then decline to serve, I consider it but prudent and just to now tender my resignation as a Captain in the United States Marine Corps. I am, sir, respectfully, your ob't serv't, Robert Tansill, Captain U. S. Marine Corps. Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, Washington, D. C. Navy Department, 24th August, 1861. Sir --Your resignation as a Captain in the Marine Corps of the United States, tendered in your letter of the 17th May, 1861, has been received. By direction of the President, your name has this day been stricken from the rolls of the Marine Corps. I am, respectfully, your obedient ser'vt, Gideon Welles. Mr. Robert Tansill, late Captain U. S. Marine Corps, Boston Massachusetts. Upon his arrival in the United States, on the 23d of August, Captain Tansill was imprisoned in Fort Lafayette, and afterwards transferred to Fort Warren. He was released on the 10th inst., being exchanged for Captain Manson, a Federal officer, and reached t