George Beall Balch papers, 1830-1924.

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George Beall Balch papers, 1830-1924.

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Official orders, reports, correspondence, and other records of the naval service of Balch. The collection includes a log of the U.S.S. "Cyane" in the Mediterranean, 1838-1840; a few papers pertaining to service in Latin American waters and the Perry expedition to Japan in the 1850s; order and letter books of the U.S.S. "Pawnee", 1862- 1865, commanded by Balch in South Carolina coastal operations, and other Civil War papers; scattered postwar papers related to various duties and to personal affairs at Baltimore; clippings about and a few brief writings by Balch; and a manuscript novel about the Naval Academy.

About 90 items (1.0 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7125578

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Cyane (Ship)

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United States. Navy

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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...

Pawnee (Ship)

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United States Naval Expedition to Japan (1852-1854)

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Balch, George Beall 1821-1908

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George Beall Balch (1821-1908) of Tennessee received an appointment in 1837 from Alabama as midshipman in the U.S. Navy. On the Princeton and the Falcon he took part in the Mexican War. As a lieutenant on the Plymouth he was a member of the Perry expedition to Japan. Balch remained in the Navy through the Civil War, commanding the Pocahontas and the Pawnee in operations along the East coast from Jacksonville, Fla. to Georgetown, S.C. After the war, Balch held a series of posts with the Navy, ret...