Edward Yorke McCauley Collection, 1845-1847.

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Edward Yorke McCauley Collection, 1845-1847.

The collection consists of McCauley's illustrated seamanship and gunnery notebook, kept while he was a midshipman at Annapolis; his illustrated diary aboard USS Powhatan during its visit to Japan under Commodore Matthew Perry; and orders and telegrams received, as well as letterpress copies of official correspondence sent, most while McCauley commanded USS Lackawanna as part of the Asiatic Squadron.

0.85 linear ft. (1 box, 3 v.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7587624

New-York Historical Society Library

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Perry, Matthew Calbraith, 1794-1858

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Powhatan (Side-wheel steamer)

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McCauley, Edward Yorke, 1827-1894

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Born into a naval family, Lieutenant Commander McCauley was already a 20-year veteran of the service when the Civil War began. He had fought pirates in the China seas and had served as navigation officer on the U.S.S. Niagara during Cyrus Field's early attempts to lay the transatlantic cable. Because transporting the cable required a huge vessel, the United States sent the 5,200-ton Niagara, the world's largest warship, to link with the H.M.S. Agamemnon in the mid-Atlantic. In 1858, during McCau...