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the voyage of the Currituck from New York to Hampton Roads
as an escort to the U.S.S. Monitor, the destruction of the U.S.S.
Congress and U.S.S. Cumberland, blockade duty in Chesapeake
Bay, reconnaissance and patrol duty on the James and York
Rivers during the Peninsular Campaign, assistance rendered
to runaway slaves and Unionist refugees, the capture of Confederate
blockade runners American Coaster and Planter, and
skirmishes with Confederate shore batteries.
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Shaver, W. T. Adj., 12th Missouri Cavalry
Memoir, undated. 8 p.
Transcript.
Describes the organization and service of the 12th Missouri
Cavalry, Nov. 1863-Apr. 1866. Includes remarks on
skirmishes at Holy Springs, Tallahatchie River, and Abbeville,
Miss., and the Franklin and Nashville Campaign.
844
Shaw, Lemuel (1781-1861)
Family papers, 1648-1923.
Microfilm, 61 reels.
Includes three letters from Philip Dolan to Mrs. Shaw writ-
Jten.from the U.S.S. Merrimac and from camps in North Carolina,
1862-63, concerning the voyage of the 43d Massachusetts from
Boston to North Carolina, camp life, training, and morale, and
sentiment in the Army toward Gens. George B. McClellan,
David Hunter, and John G. Foster. Also contains a few military
passes issued to Sgt. Herbert B. Cushing in 1861.
Published guide available.
Originals in the Massachusetts Historical Society.
845
Shellenberger, John K. Capt., USA
Papers, 1862-1913. 20 items.
Chiefly postwar letters to Shellenberger written in response
to his articles on the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. Correspondents,
mostly participants, include Capt. A. P. Baldwin, Gen. Mendal
Churchill, Col. Joseph Conrad, Maj. Ephraim C. Dawes, Col.
John Q. Lane, Lt. Col. William G. Le Due, Gen. Stephen D. Lee,
Gen. David S. Stanley, Henry Stone, Capt. Edward G. Whitesides,
and Gen. Thomas J. Wood. Also includes copies of two letters
by Gen. John D. Cox concerning a promotion for Col. Emerson
Opdycke for his performance in the Battle of Franklin.
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