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{"value"=>"1169", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1169", "type"=>"local_call"}
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{"type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1821/1873", "value"=>"1821-1873"}
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1821
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1873
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1821
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1821
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1873
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Louis M. Goldsborough papers"}
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- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\">Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (1805-1877), U.S. naval officer, was Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy. Collection consists of general incoming correspondence, 1821-1873, and official reports and letters received while Goldsborough commanded the USS Congress during the Civil War, and while commanding the European Squadron, 1866-1867. Also, correspondence concerning the American ships Congress, Frolic, Kearsarge, Canandaigua, Augusta, Colorado, Shamrock, Swatara, and Ticonderoga; and personal and family correspondence of his wife, Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, 1830-1873."}
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>Louis M. Goldsborough papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul class=\"chronlist\"> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">February 15, 1805</span> <span class=\"event\">Born, Washington, D. C.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">June 18, 1812</span> <span class=\"event\">Midshipman.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">January 13, 1825</span> <span class=\"event\">Lieutenant.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1827-1829</span> <span class=\"event\">Porpoise, Mediterranean Squadron.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1840</span> <span class=\"event\">United States Pacific Squadron.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">September 8, 1841</span> <span class=\"event\">Commander.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1847</span> <span class=\"event\">Ohio, at Vera Cruz.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1852-1853</span> <span class=\"event\">Levant. Mediterranean Squadron.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">September 14, 1855</span> <span class=\"event\">Captain.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1854-1857</span> <span class=\"event\">Superintendent Naval Academy, Annapolis.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1859-1860</span> <span class=\"event\">Congress, Brazil Squadron.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1862</span> <span class=\"event\">Command of expedition for operations in waters of North Carolina.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">July 16, 1862</span> <span class=\"event\">Rear Admiral.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1865-1868</span> <span class=\"event\">Command European Squadron.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">1868-1877</span> <span class=\"event\">Special duty, Washington, D. C.</span></li> <li class=\"chronitem\"> <span class=\"date\">February 20, 1877</span> <span class=\"event\">Died, Washington, D. C.</span></li></ul></p> <p>From \"Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1861-1865\". Edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright. 1918. New York. Printed for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press. Vol. 1, P. 200</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection of the papers of Rear Admiral Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, U. S. N., dates from 1821 to 1573 and consists of two volumes and about 550 pieces of unbound manuscripts. It includes about sixty-five letters written to Mrs. Goldsborough, a daughter of William Wirt of Virginia, by members of her family for the most part.</p> <p>Only about eighteen of the letters to Admiral Goldsborough were written prior to 1360. The remainder form a record of his service as commander of the frigate \"Congress\", flagship of the U. S. Brazil Squadron during a cruise in South American waters, 1859-1861; his Civil War service; and his service as commander of the European Squadron, 1865-1868. The papers contain very little, if any material, in regard to the joint army and navy expedition to the sounds of North Carolina, which Admiral Goldsborough planned and executed during the latter, part of 1861.</p> <p>Admiral Goldsborough's correspondents included naval officers and officials as well as many other persons who were prominent during the Civil War period. Among the writers were Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy; Gustavus V. Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury; Admirals David D. Porter, Percy Drayton, Thornton A. Jenkins, J. R. Sands, Theodorus Bailey, A. Ludlow Case, Daniel Lawrence Braine, Thomas Oliver Selfridge, and Frederick Engle; and R. B. Forbes, leader of the Massachusetts Whig party.</p> <p>The papers have been arranged in chronological order except those referring to the operations of ships which have been grouped around the names of the ships as follows; the \"Congress\", \"Frolic\", \"Kearsarge\", \"Canandaigua\", \"Augusta\", \"Colorado\", \"Shamrock\", and \"Swatara\".</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library</p>"}
- extent_statement
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1 linear foot (4 boxes); 2 microfilm reels