Levi Hayden diaries 1864-1884

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Levi Hayden diaries, 1864-1884

Levi Hayden diaries 1864-1884

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

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

.84 linear foot (4 volumes)

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division