Papers, 1864, 1886-1917.

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Papers, 1864, 1886-1917.

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Papers consisting primarily of letters, 1886-1917, written by Admiral Nathan C. Twining, a native of Boscobel, Wis., to his brother Clarence referring mainly to family and budgetary matters. A few discuss public affairs in which the admiral was involved: preparations for the Spanish-American war and naval battles at San Juan and Santiago, Cuba; American expansion (1899); life in the Philippines (1902); plans to prevent "flare backs" in the firing of naval guns (1907); world politics in the Pacific (1908); conditions in the Bureau of Ordnance which he headed, 1911-1913; and the Wilson administration and World War I.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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