05520cpcaa2200865 a 4500 mm 79036574 DLC 20260227111656.0 cr ||||||||||| 790807|||||||||||| eng mm 79036574 ms 63000387 DLC dacs DLC DLC W lcmd Porter, David D. (David Dixon), 1813-1891. David D. Porter family papers, 1799-1899. 7,000 items. 33 containers plus 1 oversize. 10 linear feet. Open to research. Correspondence, journals, logbooks, orders, reports, memoranda, family papers, drafts of articles, memoirs, poems, short stories, and other literary writings, sketches, photographs, and printed matter documenting David D. Porter's naval career. Includes material on his years as a midshipman, his service in the Mexican War, his trips to the Mediterranean to secure camels for the use of the U.S. Army, his Civil War service, his superintendency of the United States Naval Academy, his mission to Santo Domingo concerning the lease of Samaná Bay in the Dominican Republic, and his career as an advisor to the Navy Dept. (1870-1891) and chairman of the U.S. Navy Board of Inspection and Survey (1877-1891). Includes material on Union naval strategy during the Civil War and the need for naval reform. Correspondents include his mother, Evelina Anderson Porter, and Charles A. Boutelle, David Glasgow Farragut, Gustavus Vasa Fox, Gwinn Harris Heap, George M. Robeson, William T. Sherman, and Gideon Welles. Papers of Porter's father, David Porter (1780-1843), also a naval officer, relate to his command of the schooner Enterprize (1805-1806) and the frigate Essex (1811-1814), his command of the West Indies squadron for the suppression of piracy in the Caribbean, the naval expedition to Fajardo, P. R., his role as commander-in-chief of the Mexican navy (armada), and his American diplomatic service in Algeria and Turkey. Correspondents include his wife, Evelina Anderson Porter, and Paul Hamilton, Joel Roberts Poinsett, John Rodgers, Thomas Shields, Samuel L. Southard, and Oliver Wolcott. Some maps transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. 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.ms000015 Mexico. Armada. United States. Army History 19th century. United States. Navy Foreign service Puerto Rico. United States. Navy Foreign service West Indies. United States. Navy History 19th century. United States. Navy. Board of Inspection and Survey. United States. Navy Department. Enterprize (Schooner : 1799-1811) Essex (Frigate) United States Naval Academy. Camels. Mexican War, 1846-1848 Naval operations, American. Pirates Caribbean Area. Algeria Foreign relations United States. Dominican Republic Foreign relations United States. Fajardo (P.R.) History. Mediterranean Region Description and travel. Samaná Bay (Dominican Republic) Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) History. Turkey Foreign relations United States. Diplomatic and consular service, American Algeria. Diplomatic and consular service, American Turkey. United States Foreign relations Algeria. United States Foreign relations Dominican Republic. United States Foreign relations Turkey. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations. Boutelle, Charles A. (Charles Addison), 1839-1901 Correspondence. Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870 Correspondence. Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883 Correspondence. Hamilton, Paul, 1762-1816 Correspondence. Heap, Gwinn Harris Correspondence. Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851 Correspondence. Porter, Evelina Anderson, 1790-1871 Correspondence. Porter family. Robeson, George M. (George Maxwell), 1829-1897 Correspondence. Rodgers, John, 1812-1882 Correspondence. Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 Correspondence. Shields, Thomas, -1827 Correspondence. Southard, Samuel L. (Samuel Lewis), 1787-1842 Correspondence. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Correspondence. Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833 Correspondence. Naval officers. itoamc Porter, David, 1780-1843. David Porter papers. Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000015 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000015.3 42291 42291