Luce, Stephen Bleecker 1827-1917 creator mixed material monographic eng 8,000 23 19 9 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. Open to research. 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 mm 70052787 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012084.3 Open to research. DLC 730514 20260227111613.0 mm 70052787