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John A. Dahlgren Collection, 1823-1945

Title: John A. Dahlgren Collection 1823-1945

Papers of the U.S. naval officer, established ordnance system. Collection includes correspondence (1836-1905); 13 diaries (1834-1870); notebooks, memoranda, articles, and other papers relating to Dahlgren's naval career, including his pioneer work in naval ordnance, and the development of the Dahlgren gun. Includes a diary of his wife, Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, and a Civil War journal of an unidentified person. Correspondence includes that of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Percival Drayton, Andrew H. Foote, R.B. Forbes, R.P. Parrott, Henry Augustus Wise, and others.

ArchivalResource: 2.0 linear ft.

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Parrott, John Fabyan, 1767-1836. Papers, 1792-1878.

Title: Papers, 1792-1878.

General, political, and family correspondence, and a family history describing Portsmouth social life as well as life at sea, with logs of 2 voyages (Manila-Germany-Cape Ann, 1822-1823, and Calcutta-Boston, 1845), and descriptions of Calcutta (1835) and Surinam (1832-1834).

ArchivalResource: 3 ft. (ca. 2500 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70963842 View

Read, John Braham. John B. Read papers, 1861.

Title: John B. Read papers, 1861.

Papers consist of two letters, a statement, and drawings pertaining to Dr. John B. Read's invention of the "Read shell" for rifled cannon. A letter (contemporary copy, June 1861) to Dr. John B. Read in Tuscaloosa (Ala.) from Gen. Benjamin Huger (commander of the Department of Norfolk) in Norfolk (Va.) recognizes that the rifled cannons used in Virginia and procured from Parrott were of Read's design and that Read should get credit and reward for them. A letter (Sept. 1861) from John B. Read in Norfolk addressed to Gen. [sic] A. J. Gonzales in Richmond (Va.) forwards drawings of the shells and gives detailed information about them. A statement by Read dated September 7, 1861, details information about the range of the "Read shell" and mentions several battles in which they were used. Drawings by Read depict the shells and include explanatory notes.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/722808899 View