Charles Bolivar Sterling notes concerning family, poem, and portrait, 1800s.

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Charles Bolivar Sterling notes concerning family, poem, and portrait, 1800s.

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Two copy prints, one a manuscript poem and notes about Sterling's family, the other a portrait of him. Negatives of the copy prints are also in the folder.

2 photographic prints.

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Sterling, Charles Bolivar, 1825-

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Charles Bolivar Sterling was born in Ouachita, Louisiana in 1825. In the mid 1830s, his family moved to Kentuky where he attended the Lafayette Seminary in Louisville. While a child, Sterling spent lots of time at "Sterlington," the plantation owned by his uncle John T. Sterling (in what is now Sterlington, Louisiana). In 1843 he joined the U.S. Navy and served on the ships Ontario and Nonesuch; during the Mexican War he served on the the sloop-of-war Preble with the Pacific Squadron. He left th...