05997cpcaa2200961 4500 mm 70052787 DLC 20260227111613.0 cr ||||||||||| 730514|||||||||||| eng mm 70052787 ms 71001377 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Luce, Stephen Bleecker, 1827-1917. Stephen Bleecker Luce papers, 1799-1955 (bulk 1842-1912). 8,000 items. 23 containers. 19 microfilm reels. 9 linear feet. Arranged in 5 series. Series 1: Journals and Orders, 1842-1900; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1799-1955; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1862-1878; Series 4: Subject File, 1839-1917; and Series 5: Miscellany, 1806-1917. Open to research. Correspondence, journals, order books, notebooks, subject files, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and other papers relating primarily to Luce's naval career. Documents his service with the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War and aboard the USS Columbus (Ship of the line) of the U.S. Navy East India Squadron. Also documents his role in establishing the Naval War College (U.S.) and the Naval Historical Society (U.S.), his diplomatic role in the arbitration of the Canadian fisheries dispute (1887), service as head of the commission representing the U.S. at the Exposición Histórico-Americana in Madrid, Spain (1892), and work as an author. Subjects include the the seizure of the American steamer Haytien Republic, USS Monitor (Ironclad), naval bases, dry docks, legislation, naval songs and poetry, ordnance and gunnery, and naval strategy, tactics, and training. Correspondents include Nelson W. Aldrich, Philip R. Alger, William Bainbridge-Hoff, George E. Belknap, Charles J. Bonaparte, Charles A. Boutelle, William E. Chandler, George Dewey, Earl English, William Mayhew Folger, Albert Gleaves, Caspar F. Goodrich, Albert Bushnell Hart, Israel C. Jones, Henry Cabot Lodge, A.T. Mahan, John Bassett Moore, Robert E. Peary, Theodore Roosevelt, John Sherman, William Sowden Sims, E.A. Sophocles, John Austin Stevens, John Crittenden Watson, and William C. Whitney. Microfilm edition available, no. 19,003. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984. Naval officer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084 Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection. Aldrich, Nelson W. (Nelson Wilmarth), 1841-1915 Correspondence. Alger, Philip R. (Philip Rounseville), 1859-1912 Correspondence. Bainbridge-Hoff, William, -1903 Correspondence. Belknap, George E. (George Eugene), 1832-1903 Correspondence. Bonaparte, Charles J. (Charles Joseph), 1851-1921 Correspondence. Boutelle, Charles A. (Charles Addison), 1839-1901 Correspondence. Chandler, William E. (William Eaton), 1835-1917 Correspondence. Dewey, George, 1837-1917 Correspondence. English, Earl, 1824-1893 Correspondence. Folger, William Mayhew, 1844-1928 Correspondence. Gleaves, Albert, 1858-1937 Correspondence. Goodrich, Caspar F. (Caspar Frederick), 1847-1925 Correspondence. Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Correspondence. Jones, Israel C. Correspondence. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 Correspondence. Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 Correspondence. Moore, John Bassett, 1860-1947 Correspondence. Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 Correspondence. Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Correspondence. Sherman, John, 1823-1900 Correspondence. Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 Correspondence. Sophocles, E. A. (Evangelinus Apostolides), 1807-1883 Correspondence. Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910 Correspondence. Watson, John Crittenden, 1842-1923 Correspondence. Whitney, William C. (William Collins), 1841-1904 Correspondence. United States. Navy. United States. Navy. East India Squadron. United States. Navy. South Atlantic Blockading Squadron (1861-1865) Columbus (Ship of the line) Haytien Republic (Steamer) Monitor (Ironclad) Naval Historical Society (U.S.) Naval War College (U.S.) Exposición Histórico-Americana (1892 : Madrid, Spain) Dry docks. Exhibitions Spain Madrid. Fisheries Canada. Nautical training-schools. Naval education. Naval gunnery. Naval strategy. Naval tactics. Navy-yards and naval stations. Ordnance, Naval. Sea poetry. Sea songs. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Blockades. Naval officers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084.3 39187 39187