Creator:
Sedgwick, C. B. (Charles Baldwin), 1815-1883.
Inclusive Dates:
1814- 1891
Abstract:
Papers of the
New York State lawyer, U.S. Congressman (1859-1863),
abolitionist, born near Pompey, N.Y. Correspondence (1847-1891);
genealogical material; legal and financial records
(1814-1879); writings (1837-1884), including essays, speeches, and
published letters; and memorabilia. Largely family
correspondence with additional letters of Louis Agassiz, Samuel
Bowles, Salmon P. Chase, F.J. Child, James Freeman Clarke,
Roscoe Conkling, George W. Curtis, John A. Dahlgren, Richard H.
Dana, H.L. Dawes, Daniel S. Dickinson, J.T. Fields, John M.
Forbes, John C. Frémont, William Lloyd Garrison, George W. Geddes,
George F. Hoar, John Jay, Thomas Starr King, Samuel J.
May, Robert B. Minturn, Levi P. Morton, Charles Eliot Norton,
Elizabeth P. Peabody, Wendell Phillips, William H. Seward,
Gerrit Smith, Israel Washburn, R.S. Watson, Andrew D. White, and
others.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Essays.
Genealogies (histories)
Speeches (documents)
Subject:
New York (State) -- History.
Syracuse (N.Y.), History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Lawyers.
Social reformers.
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- United States.
Lawyers -- New York (State)
Slavery -- United States -- Anti-slavery movements.
Social reformers -- United States.
Creator:
Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870.
Inclusive Dates:
1823- 1945
Abstract:
Papers of the U.S. naval officer, established ordnance system.
Collection includes correspondence (1836-1905); 13 diaries (1834-1870);
notebooks, memoranda, articles, and other papers relating to Dahlgren's
naval career, including his pioneer work in naval ordnance, and the
development of the Dahlgren gun. Includes a diary of his wife, Madeleine
Vinton Dahlgren, and a Civil War journal of an unidentified person.
Correspondence includes that of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, Percival
Drayton, Andrew H. Foote, R.B. Forbes, R.P. Parrott, Henry Augustus Wise,
and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Diaries.
Subject:
United States -- History, Naval.
Admirals.
Military history
Civil War (U.S.)
Naval art and science.
Naval gunnery.
Ordnance, Naval.
Creator:
Robinson, Horatio G.
Inclusive Dates:
1866- 1867
Abstract:
Letters from Navy sailor Horatio Robinson to his mother, while posted to the USS
Powhatan, flagship of the South Pacific Squadron, dated from locations in Chile and Peru.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Callao (Callao, Peru) -- Description and travel.
Chile -- History -- War with Spain, 1865-1866 -- Personal narratives.
Valparaiso (Chile) -- Description and travel.
Sailors.
Military history