TY  - GEN
AU  - Porter,David D.
AU  - Porter,David
TI  - David D. Porter family papers,
KW  - Boutelle, Charles A.
KW  - Farragut, David Glasgow,
KW  - Fox, Gustavus Vasa,
KW  - Hamilton, Paul,
KW  - Heap, Gwinn Harris
KW  - Poinsett, Joel Roberts,
KW  - Porter, Evelina Anderson,
KW  - Porter family.
KW  - Robeson, George M.
KW  - Rodgers, John,
KW  - Sherman, William T.
KW  - Shields, Thomas,
KW  - Southard, Samuel L.
KW  - Welles, Gideon,
KW  - Wolcott, Oliver,
KW  - Mexico
KW  - Armada
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Navy
KW  - Foreign service
KW  - Puerto Rico
KW  - West Indies
KW  - Board of Inspection and Survey
KW  - Navy Department
KW  - Enterprize (Schooner : 1799-1811)
KW  - Essex (Frigate)
KW  - United States Naval Academy
KW  - Camels
KW  - Mexican War, 1846-1848
KW  - Naval operations, American
KW  - Pirates
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - Diplomatic and consular service, American
KW  - Algeria
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - Fajardo (P.R.)
KW  - Mediterranean Region
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Samaná Bay (Dominican Republic)
KW  - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Naval officers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000015
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms000015.3
ER  -