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Goldsborough, Mary Pennington. John R. Goldsborough papers, 1861-1867.

Title: John R. Goldsborough papers, 1861-1867.

The John R. Goldsborough papers contain 25 letters from a Civil War officer to his wife (1861-1867) and one document from his command of a freed-slave colony on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Goldsborough discussed news and politics of the day and described his Civil War activities, especially related to the Atlantic blockade of South Carolina and Georgia and his time in charge of St. Simons Island. The 1866-1877 letters cover Goldsborough's travels with the Asiatic Squadron in Africa and Asia.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767571699 View

John R. Goldsborough papers 1861-1867 Goldsborough, John R. papers

Title: John R. Goldsborough papers 1861-1867 Goldsborough, John R. papers

The John R. Goldsborough papers contain 25 letters from a Civil War officer to his wife (1861-1867) and one document from his command of a freed-slave colony on St. Simons Island, Georgia. Goldsborough discussed news and politics of the day and described his Civil War activities, especially related to the Atlantic blockade of South Carolina and Georgia and his time in charge of St. Simons Island. The 1866-1877 letters cover Goldsborough's travels with the Asiatic Squadron in Africa and Asia.

ArchivalResource: 26 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-2589.6gol?rgn=main;view=text View

Florida (Battleship). Records, 1931.

Title: Records, 1931.

Correspondence, logs, photographs, papers.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders (186 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49521516 View

Goldsborough, John Rodgers, 1808-1877. John Rodgers Goldsborough letter to his wife, 1862.

Title: John Rodgers Goldsborough letter to his wife, 1862.

The collection consists of a 50-page handwritten letter to his wife, Mary Pennington Goldsborough. The letter begins on April 21, 1862 and continues until May 8, 1862 as Goldsborough waits for a ship to dock and pick up the mail. He describes or mentions the following topics: a Rebel fort on Jekyll Island, his plans to make Saint Simons Island a self-supporting colony, contrabands (slaves), his school for the slaves, the Pierce Butler estate on the island, and attack by Rebels to capture or kill the slaves, the abandoned estate of James Hamilton Couper, his visit to Frederica, the Merrimac, and his orders to exchange with Commander Sylvanus Godon and move to Warsaw, South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/608222187 View