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[Diaries of John W. Phoenix, A company, 28th regiment, Wisconsin, infantry]

1864-1865

Phoenix, John W., fl. 1864-1865

Diaries are decimalized.

GLC03956
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Diary

[Diary of Robert Moses kept during the French and Indian War]

12 July 1755 - 15 September 1755

Moses, Robert, fl. 1755

Moses served in a New Hampshire regiment under the command of Colonel Joseph Blanchard. He describes, sometimes in graphic detail, accounts of fighting Indians and the French in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire during the early...

GLC04944
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Collection of three items related to Dighton Goddard [Decimalized]

1863-1865

GLC03608
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Diary

[James B. McPherson diary describing early Union successes in the western theatre.]

1861-1864

McPherson, James Birdseye, 1828-1864

Notebook with McPherson's diary discussing the western theatre under Grant, with some 1861 diary entries relating to Fort Donelson, diagrams on making pickets, lists of artillery at different forts, and a hand-drawn map of Chickasaw (from 1864)...

GLC03746.01
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Autograph manuscript signed

Journal of a cruise in the U.S.S. Portsmouth on the East Indian station. A. H. Foote Esq. commander book I.

1856-1857

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Calf cover. As part of the East Indian Squadron, the U.S.S. Portsmouth, under the command of Andrew Hull Foote, was ordered to observe British operations against Canton, China during the Second Opium War (1856-60) and to protect American interests...

GLC05911.02.01
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Autograph manuscript signed

Journal of a cruise in the U.S.S. Portsmouth on the East India station, A. H. Foote Esqre commander, book III.

1857-1858

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Calf cover. Refit at the Norfolk, VA Navy Yard completed on 26 April 1856. Covers U.S. activity in Asia, cruises to Hawaii, Hong Kong, China, attacks on the Barrier Forts and the second visit to Japan by an American ship.

Excerpts:

[21 September...

GLC05911.02.03
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Diary

Diary of Lt. Commander Edward Simpson

20 July 1863-15 May 1864

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Diary of captaincy of the "Submarine Battery 'Passaic'". Details attacks upon Charleston, Fort Moultrie and Battery Gregg; inner workings of a Monitor and intraservice rivalries. Quarter calf, marbled boards, pencil loops.

The USS Passaic, one of...

GLC05911.04
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Autograph manuscript

Journal of a cruise in the U.S.S. Isonomia no. 1

19 August 1864-18 November 1864

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

No. I and II cover the record of the blockade ship Isonomia from the beginning of its service off Wilmington SC in August 1864 to 25 December 1864 when Simpson released command of the vessel. Calf covers.

[30 August] "At daylight, Flag Pond...

GLC05911.06.01
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Autograph manuscript

Journal of a cruise in the U.S.S. Isonomia, no. II

19 November 1864

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

No. I and II cover the record of the blockade ship Isonomia from the beginning of its service off Wilmington SC in August 1864 to 25 December 1864 when Simpson released command of the vessel. Calf covers.

[24 November] "…a seaman by the name of...

GLC05911.06.02
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Autograph manuscript

Abstract journal U.S.S. Mohican N. P. [North Pacific] squadron

18 August 1866-11 August 1867

Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888

Written as commander, details cruises to and from South America. Photograph of the U.S.S. Mohican on p. 1. Hand drawn coastal and harbor charts for northern coast of South America, Panama and Uruguay. Engravings (clipped from magazine, news...

GLC05911.08

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