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Durand, George R. George Durand Collection, 1861-1865.

Title: George Durand Collection, 1861-1865.

The collection includes journals and diaries Durand kept while serving aboard ships in the North and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons, some of which incorporate both written entries and clippings pasted in from the US Navy Journal. The 1862-1863 volume includes printed accounts of the battle between the Confederate steamship Merrimack and USS Monitor in 1862.

ArchivalResource: 6 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/479721841 View

Hayden, Levi. Levi Hayden diaries, 1864-1884.

Title: Levi Hayden diaries, 1864-1884.

Levi Hayden was a marine engineer from New York City. In these diaries, he describes his service with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee; other military actions in the United States Civil War; his work and travels for the firm of Morris & Cummings, New York; dredging rivers and harbors at New York harbor, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, and elsewhere; and of his travels on the Neva River from St. Petersburg, Russia, to its mouth, with extensive details of his life there. The diary also includes notes from Hayden's travels in England and Europe between 1883 and 1884.

ArchivalResource: .84 linear foot (4 volumes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/746172452 View

Colby, James L. (James Lloyd), 1823-1887. Civil War sketches of James L. Colby, 1862-1864.

Title: Civil War sketches of James L. Colby, 1862-1864.

53 drawings made between February 1862 and August 1864 in a small sketch pad that Colby was carrying with him. The sketches depict Burnside's expedition to North Carolina (January - July 1862); St. Helena Island and Seabrook Island; the assault and siege of Fort Wagner (July 1863), St. Augustine, Fla. (September 1863 - February 1864), and two failed 1864 attempts to capture Richmond -- Benjamin F. Butler's Bermuda Hundred Campaign and Winfield Scott Hancock's Deep Bottom campaign. The drawing made in 1862 include images of the pilot station at Pamlico, N.C; the regimental headquarters, a picket near New Berne; the side-wheel gunboat Louisiana, a ship of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and the rear of the camp of the 44th North Carolina Infantry Regiment. The 24th defeated the Confederate regiment at the battle of Tranter's Creek (June 5, 1862); a picture of the battle that Colby reconstructed in 1864 is also included in the book. The 1863 sketches contain various views of the camp, including the hospital, the suttler's tent, a picket post, the quartermaster's office, and the interior of Colby's own tent. Also included is a sketch of an African-American family in their home: the mother washing clothes, the father plucking a goose, and a little baby peeking out of the large bed in the corner. A group of drawings follow the events of the battle of Morris Island with pictures of the landing place on Folly Island, "the monster 300 pounder Parrott Gun" that had been delivered for the siege of Fort Wagner, the Union batteries in front of the fortifications, "our Shaprshooters before Wagner" and the "Bombardment of Fr. Wagner, by the Iron Clad." The Florida drawings, made in December 1863, includes views of St. Augustine, Fla. including Fort Marion, four outposts and picket posts, the regimental "Olympic" theater, and the USS transport General Burnside that was wrecked crossing the St. Johns River. The sketched made in 1864 are views of the picket posts at Bermuda Hundred, Va., Union fortifications, pontoon bridges at Deep Bottom Bluff, Va., a few camp scenes and a scene entitled "My toilet in the James River. July 1, 1864. All on a Washing day" featured the artist, knee-high in water, holding up his patched pants, with other articles of clothing hung to dry on the brances of a free severely damaged by the artillerty fire, and a Union gunboat in the background.

ArchivalResource: 48 pages, 13.7 x 24.0 cm, bound sketch book; oblong octavo, roan-backed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318616643 View

Levi Hayden diaries, 1864-1884

Title: Levi Hayden diaries 1864-1884

Levi Hayden was a marine engineer from New York City. In these diaries, he describes his service with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Admiral Samuel Phillips Lee; other military actions in the United States Civil War; his work and travels for the firm of Morris & Cummings, New York; dredging rivers and harbors at New York harbor, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, and elsewhere; and of his travels on the Neva River from St. Petersburg, Russia, to its mouth, with extensive details of his life there. The diary also includes notes from Hayden's travels in England and Europe between 1883 and 1884

ArchivalResource: .84 linear foot (4 volumes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1364 View

Silas Casey Papers, 1771-1941, (bulk 1862-1903)

Title: Silas Casey Papers 1771-1941 (bulk 1862-1903)

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

ArchivalResource: 300 items; 6 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010003 View

Marston, John, 1796-1885. Papers of John Marston, 1850-1862.

Title: Papers of John Marston, 1850-1862.

Official correspondence, orders to duty, circulars, and general orders relating to Marston's duties as senior officer of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Includes plans for blockading Confederate ports. Correspondents include James F. Armstrong, Samuel L. Breese, Louis M. Goldsborough, Samuel V. Merrick, Garrett J. Pendergast, Silas H. Stringham, Isaac Toucey, and Gideon Welles.

ArchivalResource: 250 items.1 container.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80974143 View

Samuel Phillips Lee Papers, 1860-1869, (bulk 1861-1865)

Title: Samuel Phillips Lee Papers 1860-1869 (bulk 1861-1865)

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.

ArchivalResource: 19,000 items; 65 containers; 26 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011176 View

Beckwith, E. G. (Edward Griffin), 1818-1881. Papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith and John Laurence Fox, 1805-1909 (bulk 1837-1865).

Title: Papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith and John Laurence Fox, 1805-1909 (bulk 1837-1865).

Professional and personal papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith -- his journals, ledgers, accounts, military records, personal and official correspondence, chiefly related to his post-Mexican War service. His journals that he kept during his service in California and letters to his wife recount his life in the West, including details of death of John William Gunnison and his encounters with Mormons. The collection also contains letters of John Laurence Fox to his parents, wife, and son written between 1837 and 1864. Included are letters dealing with the Exploring Expedition, the mission to the Mediterranean, slave trade in West Africa, Matthew C. Perry's mission to Japan, foreign intervention in China, Taiping Rebellion, and the Civil War. This portion of the collection also contains his surgeon's commission (1847), and newspapers clippings related to the death of Charles Eben Fox.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1000 pieces.11 boxes : also 2 ledgers, 5 letterbooks, and 4 oversized folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499739 View

Joseph Bloomfield Osborn Papers, 1862-1865

Title: Joseph Bloomfield Osborn Papers 1862-1865

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 diary and biographical sketch of Osborn.

ArchivalResource: 295 items; 1 container; .4 linear feet; 2 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012189 View

Hutchinson, Calvin Gibbs, ca.1836-ca. 1912. Papers of Calvin Gibbs Hutchinson, 1862-1912, (bulk 1862-1864).

Title: Papers of Calvin Gibbs Hutchinson, 1862-1912, (bulk 1862-1864).

Letters from Calvin G. Hutchinson to his wife Roxanna (1862-1864); letters to William W. Hill, assistant editor of the Boston Morning Journal, many of them intended for publication; a prize list (Jan. 1865) of the capture of the Stag, a Confederate steamer, official correspondence relating to Hutchinson's duties of the paymaster, his memoirs (1911-1912), and ephemera.

ArchivalResource: 331 pieces.1 case.1 bound volume.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499598 View