James Fountain Heustis logbooks, 1851-1853 [manuscript].

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James Fountain Heustis logbooks, 1851-1853 [manuscript].

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Books kept by Heustis of Alabama as U.S. navy surgeon on the "John Adams," including notes on weather, work, the ship's position, prescriptions, quarterly reports of cases of illness on board, medical notes, poems, and notes on church history. The logbooks were kept while Heustis's ship was stationed near Norfolk, Va., at sea, and cruising off the west coast of Africa.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

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Heustis, James Fountain, d. 1891.

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James Fountain Heustis (died 1891) of Cahaba, Ala., was a surgeon in the United States navy. He was married first to Anita Watson and later to Rachel Lyons of Columbia, S.C. From the guide to the James Fountain Heustis Logbooks, ., 1851-1853, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...