Autobiography and reminiscences, 1886.

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Autobiography and reminiscences, 1886.

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Autobiography and reminiscences of William G. Saltonstall of Salem, Mass. include a preface on the Saltonstall family ancestry, a 32-page autobiography, and typewritten reminiscences of his experience as a volunteer in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Saltonstall was in the Battle of Big Bethel in 1861, witnessed the battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack, participated in the siege of Washington, N.C. (Pamlico River) and commanded various vessels including steamers and a gunboat, until his resignation from the Navy in Sept. 1865. Saltonstall later was involved in shipping cotton from the South to the North, an Australian shipping business, and in 1873 was elected Treasurer of the York Manufacturing Co. of Saco, Maine, with offices in Boston.

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