Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes,  1805-1877. <br/><br/>
Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough papers, 1797-1874. 

 - 8,000  items. 27  1  containers plus  oversize. 7.2  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 5 series.  Series 1: Correspondence and Other Papers, 1797-1874; Series 2: Letterbooks, 1853-1867; Series 3: Military Papers, 1852-1870; Series 4: Miscellany, 1836-1871; and Series 5: Oversize, 1861-1869 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> Correspondence, military records, financial papers, printed matter, illustrations, and other papers concerning Goldsborough's career in the U.S. Navy.  Documents the capture of the castle of San Juan de Ulúa, Mexico (1847) and Goldsborough's work as superintendent of the United States Naval Academy (1853-1857).  Civil War material relates to the blockade of Charleston Harbor; Ambrose Everett Burnside's Roanoke Island expedition; naval operations on the James River; Goldsborough's command of the frigate Minnesota at Hampton Roads, Va., while awaiting attack by the Merrimack; the scuttling of the Merrimack; visits to the front lines by Abraham Lincoln and his cabinet; and the capture of John H. Surratt.  Includes the draft of Stephen Decatur's letter to James Barron that led to their duel.  Correspondents include Jeremiah S. Black, J.L. Cabell, Salmon P. Chase, John J. Crittenden, Samuel Francis Du Pont, Edward Everett, Gustavus Vasa Fox, John Lothrop Motley, Joseph Smith, Josiah Tatnall, A.P. Upshur, Gideon Welles, and Charles Wilkes. 
<br/><br/><br/>Naval officer. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009046. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 81023044  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Barron, James, 1769-1851 --Correspondence.<br/>Black, Jeremiah S. 1810-1883 --Correspondence.<br/>Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881. <br/>Cabell, J. L. 1813-1889 --Correspondence.<br/>Chase, Salmon P. 1808-1873 --Correspondence.<br/>Crittenden, John J. 1787-1863 --Correspondence.<br/>Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820 --Correspondence.<br/>Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865 --Correspondence.<br/>Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 --Correspondence.<br/>Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883 --Correspondence.<br/>Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. <br/>Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877 --Correspondence.<br/>Smith, Joseph, 1790-1877 --Correspondence.<br/>Surratt, John H. 1844-1916. <br/>Tatnall, Josiah, 1795-1871 --Correspondence.<br/>Upshur, A. P. 1790-1844 --Correspondence.<br/>Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 --Correspondence.<br/>Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 --Correspondence.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Castillo de San Juan de Ulúa (Mexico)<br/>Merrimack (Frigate)<br/>Minnesota (Frigate)<br/>United States Naval Academy.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cabinet officers.<br/>Dueling.<br/>Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862.<br/>Mexican War, 1846-1848.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Charleston Harbor (S.C.)<br/>Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>James River (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>Roanoke Island (N.C.)--History--Capture, 1862.<br/>South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.<br/>United States--History--Blockades.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>United States--History--Naval operations.--Civil War, 1861-1865<br/>Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Naval officers.