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Roads, Va., and commander of the U.S.S. Roanoke. Concerns
the Federal blockade, prize vessels Thomas Watson and York,
training, discipline, discharges, desertions, deaths, prisoner
exchange, the health of sailors, ship repairs, supplies, the
Roanoke Island expedition, and the sinking of the U.S.S.
Cumberland. Correspondents include James F. Armstrong, John
S. Chauncey, Louis M. Goldsborough, Charles Green, Samuel
P. Lee, John W. Livingston, Garrett J. Pendergast, William H.
Seward, Gideon Welles, and John E. Wool.
Naval Historical Foundation collection.
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Mart, Charles Capt., USA
Certificate, 1863. 1 item.
Ration certificate for Katharina Keorper, wife of Pvt. Jacob
Keorper, 1st Louisiana Volunteers, issued after her husband
was wounded at Port Hudson, La.
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Mason, James Murray (1798-1871) C.S. Diplomat
Papers, 1838-70. ca. 3,600 items.
In part, transcripts and photocopies.
Contains instructions to Mason from Confederate secretaries
Robert M. Hunter and Judah P. Benjamin and assistant
secretary William M. Browne; letters and extracts of letters to
Mason from the British Foreign Office; dispatches to Mason
concerning Confederate victories, the conduct of the war, policy
toward Great Britain, and the Federal blockade; correspondence
on the Trent affair; the log of H.M.S. Rinaldo, Jan. 1-14,
1862; letters and documents concerning British merchant
vessels; reports on British ships captured or destroyed by the
U.S. Blockading Squadron; a report on the attack of the C.S.S.
Merrimac on Federal ships in Hampton Roads, Mar. 8, 1862;
letters to Mason from officers commanding Confederate ships
in European waters concerning fuel; and a letterbook, Feb. 2,
1862—May 1,1865. Correspondents include Judah P. Benjamin,
William M. Browne, James D. Bulloch, Robert M. Hunter, W.
S. Lindsay, Ambrose Dudley Mann, P. C. Martin, Christopher
G. Memminger, Lord John Russell, John Slidell, and James
Spence.
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Massachusetts
Civil War records, 1861-64. 10 items.
Contains a list of volunteers from North Reading in the
32d, 33d, and 35th Massachusetts Volunteers, July 10, 1862; a
list of volunteers from North Reading in Company D, 50th
Massachusetts, Sept. 19, 1862; a partial list of volunteers in
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