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Grimball, John, 1840-1922. Correspondence, 1856-1909.

Title: Correspondence, 1856-1909.

Correspondence of the 1850s includes letters from Grimball on board the U.S.S. Macedonian at foreign ports including Leghorn, Italy and Alexandria, Egypt to his family members describing shore leave in Marseilles, France, and elsewhere and a fancy ball given by the "Pacha" of Egypt; and letters to Grimball from W.A. Kerr, a friend serving on the U.S.S. Roanoke. Civil War correspondence consists of letters between Grimball and his family and friends during his service on the Confederate ships Shenandoah, Lady Davis, Fingal, Arkansas, and Baltic. Correspondents include his father and mother, sister Elizabeth (Munro), George Strong Storrs (Alabama), and George W. Gift (C.S.S. Chattahoochee). His parents' letters from Charleston and Spartanburg, S.C., (a wartime refuge for the Grimballs) relate news of the war and family members. Grimball's correspondence with his family contains descriptions of his daily life and includes letters concerning reports of U.S. troops landing at Beaufort, S.C. (1861 June 13); his difficulty finding the C.S.S. Arkansas, which had sailed up the Yazoo River (Miss.) for safety (1862 May 2); and conditions in Vicksburg (1862 May 8). Early post-war correspondence includes a letter (1865 Nov. 26) from John at Caen, France, to his mother regarding his future plans and the possiblity of sheep ranching near Buenos Aires; and letters (1866) to John in Liverpool, England, and Cordova, Mexico, from his father. Later correspondence mainly consists of letters to John in Charleston, S.C., and New York City from his brother Berkley in Charleston regarding family, estate, and business matters; and John Grimball's legal and business correspondence, including a letter (1870 Oct. 8) to him from D.M. Scales in Memphis, Tenn., and many letters (1878-1906) to Grimball and Richard B. Tunstall from Lewis and Carrie (Ostenheim) Morris (New York residents living in Europe) regarding Morris financial affairs.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft.

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J. Glendy Sproston ship journals, 1851-1856

Title: J. Glendy Sproston ship journals 1851-1856

This collection consists of two volumes, with journals kept by J. Glendy Sproston of the U. S. Navy aboard various ships, including the Macedonian, commanded by Captain Abbott and attached to the Perry Expedition to Japan. The journals date from 1851 to 1856

ArchivalResource: .33 linear foot (2 volumes)

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Preece, William F. Letter, September 12, 1866.

Title: Letter, September 12, 1866.

Holograph letter to LCDR and Mrs. Thomas Selfridge in Portland, ME, from the petty officers and seamen of the USS Macedonian during the U.S. Naval Academy practice cruise, 1866, thanking him for his kindnesses and presenting him with a gift.

ArchivalResource: 1 item ; 8 x 12.5 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758360926 View

Macedonian logbooks, 1853-1855

Title: Macedonian logbooks 1853-1855

These three logbooks were kept on board the U.S.S. Macedonian during a trip from New York to Japan between February 1853 and May 1855. Two were kept by John R. C. Lewis and the third was kept by Lawrence F. Lewis. The Macedonian was one of the ships which joined Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition and accompanied him on his second visit to Japan. John R. C. Lewis' volumes include journal entries which describe numerous places passed on the voyage including the Azores, Canary Islands, Island of St. Helena, Hong Kong, Canton, Formosa, Bonin Islands, Japan, Samoda, Whampoa, and Manila. Lewis also provides an account of Commodore Perry's landing in Japan and of the Japanese Head Commissioner's visit to Perry, as well as a fight between the Rebel party and Mandarin party of China in Whampoa Reach. His logbooks also include a few sketches of some of the ships in the expedition and some of the harbors, as well as a sketch of Perry's landing Lawrence F. Lewis' logbook was kept on board the same ship, during the same voyage

ArchivalResource: .29 linear foot (1 volume)

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Blake, George S. (George Smith), 1803-1871. Letter, May 12, 1863.

Title: Letter, May 12, 1863.

Letter from Commodore George Smith Blake, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, May 12, 1863, ordering Mahan to duty in USS Macedonian. He was to report to Comm. J.P. Montgomery, CO of the Boston Navy Yard.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/17944215 View

Macedonian (Sloop of war : 1852-1875). Macedonian logbooks, 1853-1855.

Title: Macedonian logbooks, 1853-1855.

These three logbooks were kept on board the U.S.S. Macedonian during a trip from New York to Japan between February 1853 and May 1855. Two were kept by John R. C. Lewis and the third was kept by Lawrence F. Lewis. The Macedonian was one of the ships which joined Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition and accompanied him on his second visit to Japan. John R. C. Lewis' volumes include journal entries which describe numerous places passed on the voyage including the Azores, Canary Islands, Island of St. Helena, Hong Kong, Canton, Formosa, Bonin Islands, Japan, Samoda, Whampoa, and Manila. Lewis also provides an account of Commodore Perry's landing in Japan and of the Japanese Head Commissioner's visit to Perry, as well as a fight between the Rebel party and Mandarin party of China in Whampoa Reach. His logbooks also include a few sketches of some of the ships in the expedition and some of the harbors, as well as a sketch of Perry's landing. Lawrence F. Lewis' logbook was kept on board the same ship, during the same voyage.

ArchivalResource: .29 linear foot (1 volume)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/733074072 View