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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

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George E. Belknap Papers

Identifier: MSS52696
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, articles, memoranda, and miscellaneous papers relating to Belknap’s naval career.

Dates 1857-1903
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Cartter Family Papers

Identifier: MSS52134
Abstract

Members of the Cartter family of Ohio. Correspondence mainly between members of the Cartter and Hanford families, including David K. Cartter, his wife, Nancy Hanford Cartter, and their sons, David K. Cartter, Jr., and William H. Cartter, who served in the Civil War.

Dates 1836-1893
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Silas Casey Papers

Identifier: MSS51482
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journal, daybook, bills, receipts, commissions, and other papers relating to Casey’s naval service.

Dates 1771-1941; Majority of material found within 1862-1903
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John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren Papers

Identifier: MSS17624
Abstract

United States naval officer, inventor, and author. Correspondence, letterbooks, journals, reports, logbooks, orders, notebooks, nautical charts and calculations, scrapbooks, and design drawings related to Dahlgren's activities in the development of ordnance for the United States Navy and as chief of the Bureau of Ordnance.

Dates 1794-1889; Majority of material found within ( 1826-1870)
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Andrew H. Foote Papers

Identifier: MSS20933
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, letterbooks, manuscript of "Africa and the American Flag" (1854), journals, logbooks, miscellaneous ships' records, and other papers relating principally to Foote's naval career, trade with Japan, missionaries in Hawaii, Civil War naval actions, and Foote's personal life. Also includes a journal, 1845-1847, kept by Madison Rush on a cruise from New York to China and South America.

Dates 1822-1890; Majority of material found within 1847-1857
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Benjamin Franklin Fuller Papers

Identifier: MSS86182
Abstract

Union army soldier and clerk in the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Correspondence, photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to Fuller's military service and family.

Dates 1856-1971; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1899)
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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Papers

Identifier: MSS23044
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, military records, financial papers, printed material, illustrations, and other papers concerning Goldsborough's career in the United States Navy.

Dates 1797-1874
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James D. Lee Papers

Identifier: MSS86518
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Correspondence and other papers relating primarily to Lee's military service during the American Civil War.

Dates 1852-1890; Majority of material found within 1861-1866
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Samuel Phillips Lee Papers

Identifier: MSS52639
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, logbook abstracts, reports, lists, memoranda, requisition orders, and printed material relating to the naval activities of the Union forces in the Civil War and pertaining chiefly to Lee's service commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and the Mississippi Squadron.

Dates 1860-1869; Majority of material found within ( 1861-1865)
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Low-Mills family papers

Identifier: MSS30619
Abstract

Prominent family engaged in China trade. Correspondence, diaries, journals, writings and genealogical material documenting the Low, Mills, Hillard, and Loines families from the early years of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. Of special interest are papers concerning the family's activities in the China trade and the journal of Harriet Low Hillard documenting her stay in Macau, 1829-1834.

Dates 1767-1971; Majority of material found within ( 1806-1940)
 Collection

Stephen Bleecker Luce Papers

Identifier: MSS52787
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, order books, subject files, scrapbooks, notebooks, newspaper clippings, and miscellany documenting Luce's naval career, including his work to establish the United States Naval War College and the Naval Historical Society, his service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and his diplomatic role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries dispute (1887).

Dates 1799-1955; Majority of material found within 1842-1912
 Collection

A T. Mahan Papers

Identifier: MSS31062
Abstract

Naval officer and historian. Correspondence, family papers, subject files, speeches and writings, scrapbooks, biographical file, printed matter, and other papers relating to Mahan’s naval career, writings, and personal and family life.

Dates 1779-1970; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1914)
 Collection

J. M. Mason Papers

Identifier: MSS31591
Abstract

United States senator and representative from Virginia and Confederate diplomatic agent in Great Britain. Chiefly diplomatic communications sent while Mason was a Confederate commissioner. Includes correspondence; dispatches; lists of supplies for the Confederate States from London; statements and depositions regarding piracy, claims, the blockade, and other naval and marine matters; cotton bonds and warrants; circulars; and printed matter.

Dates 1838-1870; Majority of material found within ( 1862-1865)
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Matthew Fontaine Maury Papers

Identifier: MSS31682
Abstract

Naval officer and oceanographer. Correspondence, letterbooks, diaries, journals, speeches, articles, and other writings, notebooks, electrical experiment book, charts, and printed material relating chiefly to Maury's naval career, scientific activities and interests, service as a Confederate agent in England, and work as an immigration official for Southern expatriates in Mexico, and to the Maury (Morey) family.

Dates 1825-1960; Majority of material found within 1830-1880
 Collection

Joseph Bloomfield Osborn Papers

Identifier: MSS35253
Abstract

Soldier and sailor. Mainly Civil War correspondence of Osborn, who served in Company F, 26th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry and in the U.S. Navy, together with a biographical sketch of Osborn.

Dates 1862-1865
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David D. Porter Family Papers

Identifier: MSS36574
Abstract Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logbooks, orders, reports, memoranda, family papers, drafts of articles, memoirs, poems, short stories, and other literary writings, sketches, photographs, and printed matter documenting David D. Porter's naval career. Includes material on his years as a midshipman, his service in the Mexican War, trips to the Mediterranean to secure camels for use by the United States Army, Civil War service, superintendency of the United States Naval Academy,...
Dates 1799-1899
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Frederick Rodgers Papers

Identifier: MSS61670
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, reports, journals, notebooks and diaries, charts and maps, writings, legal papers, photographs, and printed matter relating to Rodgers's naval career and family.

Dates 1852-1920; Majority of material found within ( 1860-1905)
 Collection

Francis Asbury Roe Papers

Identifier: MSS54437
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, notebooks, and other papers pertaining to Roe's cruises and an engagement between the USS Sassacus (side-wheel steamer) and the CSS Albemarle (ironclad ram) in 1864.

Dates 1842-1901; Majority of material found within ( 1846-1869)
 Collection

Stephen C. Rowan Papers

Identifier: MSS22236
Abstract

United States Navy officer. Journals and a letterbook relating to Rowan's naval service.

Dates 1826-1890; Majority of material found within ( 1841-1870)
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T. O. Selfridge Papers

Identifier: MSS52720
Abstract

Naval officer and explorer. Correspondence, journals, logbooks, notebooks, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous papers relating primarily to the American naval expedition to the Isthmus of Darien (Panama) headed by Selfridge. Includes other aspects of his naval career.

Dates 1852-1926; Majority of material found within ( 1858-1880)
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Robert Wilson Shufeldt Papers

Identifier: MSS52688
Abstract

Naval officer, explorer, and diplomat. Correspondence, journals, diaries, notebooks, logbooks, subject files, newspaper clippings, and printed matter relating to Shufeldt's career in the navy and as an explorer and diplomat.

Dates 1836-1910; Majority of material found within 1860-1880
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Frank L. Stickney Papers

Identifier: MSS41509
Abstract

Civil servant with the Department of Navy. Correspondence and other material relating to the family of Frank L. Stickney, including letters to his father, Francis H. Stickney, while a warrant clerk in the United States Navy during the Civil War.

Dates 1850-1938
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Henry Willis Wells Papers

Identifier: MSS86487
Abstract

Civil War naval officer and merchant marine sailor. Correspondence, journals, transcriptions, and miscellany relating to Wells's experiences at sea in the 1850s and 1860s.

Dates 1851-2012; Majority of material found within 1851-1865
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Charles Wilkes Papers

Identifier: MSS45716
Abstract Naval officer and explorer. Official and family correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial papers, autobiography and other writings, and scientific notebooks relating to Wilkes's command of an expedition (1838-1842) to the Antarctic, Hawaii and various other Pacific islands, and the northwest coast of the United States; his capture of J. M. Mason and John Slidell in the Trent affair (1861); and his command of the James River Flotilla and West...
Dates 1607-1959; Majority of material found within ( 1841-1865)
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Francis Winslow Papers

Identifier: MSS22293
Abstract

Naval officer. Correspondence, journals, logs, and other papers documenting Winslow's naval career.

Dates 1833-1863