04582cpcaa2200757 a 4500 mm 81023044 DLC 20260227111708.0 cr ||||||||||| 810324|||||||||||| eng mm 81023044 DLC DLC DLC dacs W lcmd Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877. Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough papers, 1797-1874. 8,000 items. 27 containers plus 1 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 Open to research. 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. 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.ms009046. Barron, James, 1769-1851 Correspondence. Black, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Sullivan), 1810-1883 Correspondence. Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881. Cabell, J. L. (James Lawrence), 1813-1889 Correspondence. Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 Correspondence. Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863 Correspondence. Decatur, Stephen, 1779-1820 Correspondence. Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865 Correspondence. Everett, Edward, 1794-1865 Correspondence. Fox, Gustavus Vasa, 1821-1883 Correspondence. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Motley, John Lothrop, 1814-1877 Correspondence. Smith, Joseph, 1790-1877 Correspondence. Surratt, John H. (John Harrison), 1844-1916. Tatnall, Josiah, 1795-1871 Correspondence. Upshur, A. P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844 Correspondence. Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878 Correspondence. Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877 Correspondence. Castillo de San Juan de Ulúa (Mexico) Merrimack (Frigate) Minnesota (Frigate) United States Naval Academy. Cabinet officers. Dueling. Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862. Mexican War, 1846-1848. Charleston Harbor (S.C.) Charleston (S.C.) History Civil War, 1861-1865. James River (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865. North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865. Roanoke Island (N.C.) History Capture, 1862. South Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Blockades. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Naval operations. Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865. Naval officers. itoamc Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009046 Finding aid (PDF) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009046.3 43119 43119