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Collection Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Papers

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Selected Archival Resources

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  • Salmon P. Chase Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Samuel Francis du Pont Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Del. Finding aid available online External.
  • Forbes Family Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass. Finding aid available online External. Copy of microfilm edition is available in the Manuscript Reading Room, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Gustavus Vasa Fox Collection, 1823-1919, Naval History Society Collection, NHSC-Fox, New-York Historical Society, New York, N.Y. Catalog record External and finding aid External available online.
  • Edward Carey Gardiner Collection, Collection 227A, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. Finding aid available online External.
  • J. R. Goldsborough Correspondence, 1862, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Louis M. Goldsborough Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. Catalog record and finding aid External available online.
  • Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Correspondence, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Catalog record available online External.
  • Henry William Harrington Papers, #314, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Finding aid available online External.
  • Samuel Phillips Lee Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • John Marston Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C. Records relating to Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough include:
    • Approved Pension Application File for Dependents of Louis M. Goldsborough (Certificate No. 2944), Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Navy Veterans, ca. 1861-ca. 1910, Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773-2007. Available online.
    • For logbooks of ships on which Goldsborough served, see Record Group 24: Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel.
    • Letters Received by the Secretary of the Navy from Commanding Officers of Squadrons, 1841-1886, National Archives Microfilm Publication M89, Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691-1945. See reels 154-158 for communications from Louis M. Goldsborough during his time in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Series catalog record available online.
    • Letters Received from Commissioned Officers Below the Rank of Commander and from Warrant Officers, 1802-1886, Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691-1945. See National Archives online catalog for hyperlinks to individual letters available online.
    • See guides to Record Group 45: Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691-1945, for other entries that cover subjects and time periods relating to Goldborough’s long career in the U.S. Navy.
    • See Record Group 405: Records of the United States Naval Academy for Goldsborough’s tenure as superintendent of the United States Naval Academy (1853-1857).
  • Stephen C. Rowan Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Cornelius Marius Schoonmaker Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • United States Naval Academy, Special Collections & Archives, Nimitz Library, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. The Office of the Superintendent series contains several entries pertaining to Goldsborough’s time as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (1853-1857). See online list of series entries for hyperlinks to finding aids for individual entries.
  • Gideon Welles Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.
  • Wirt Family Papers, 1802-1925, #1704, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Finding aid available online External.
  • William Wirt Papers, 1784-1864, MS 1011, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Center for History and Culture (formerly Maryland Historical Society), Baltimore, Md. Finding aid available online External.
  • William Wirt Papers, 1802-1858, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. LC catalog record.

Selected Related Resources

  • Ashton, J. Hubley. In the Matter of Rear Admiral Goldsborough before the Honorable Naval Committee of the House of Representatives: Reply to the Paper read by Commodore Jenkins, Adverse to Claim of Rear Admiral Goldsborough. Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, [1868?]. LC catalog record.
  • Baird, Henry C. “Narrative of Rear Admiral Goldsborough, U. S. Navy.” Reprinted in Proceedings of the United States Naval Institute 59, no. 7 (July 1933): 1023-1031. LC catalog record.
  • Bradley, Chester D. “President Lincoln’s Campaign against the Merrimac.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 51, no 1 (Spring 1958): 59-85. LC catalog record.
  • Browning, Robert M. From Cape Charles to Cape Fear: The North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1993. LC catalog record.
  • Buhl, Lance C. “Mariners and Machines: Resistance to Technological Change in the American Navy, 1865-1869.” Journal of American History 61, no. 3 (December 1974): 703-727. LC catalog record.
  • Canney, Donald L. Lincoln’s Navy: The Ships, Men, and Organization, 1861-65. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Chase, Salmon P. The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Edited by John Niven. Microfilm edition. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1987. LC catalog record.
  • Chase, Salmon P. The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Edited by John Niven. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1993-1998. LC catalog record.
  • Chase, Salmon P. “Spur up your Pegasus”: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873. Edited by James P. McClure, Peg A. Lamphier, and Erika M. Kreger. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. LC catalog record.
  • Chronicling America, digitized historic American newspapers, available online through the Library of Congress. A search for “L.M. Goldsborough” yields the best results.
  • Dick, Steven J. “Centralizing Navigational Technology in America: The U.S. Navy’s Depot of Charts and Instruments, 1830-1842.” Technology and Culture 33, no. 3 (July 1992): 467-509. LC catalog record.
  • Dick, Steven J. “How the U.S. Naval Observatory Began, 1830-65.” In Sky with Ocean Joined: Proceedings of the Sesquicentennial Symposia of the U.S. Naval Observatory, December 5 and 8, 1980, edited by Steven J. Dick and LeRoy E. Doggett, pages 166-181. Washington, D.C.: The Observatory, 1983. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Dick, Steven J. “Louis M. Goldsborough’s Proposal to Establish a Depot of Charts and Instruments in the U.S. Navy: Text and Commentary,” Rittenhouse: Journal of the American Scientific Instrument Enterprise 4, no. 15 (May 1990): 79-86. LC catalog record.
  • Fox, Gustavus Vasa. Confidential Correspondence of Gustavus Vasa Fox, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1861-1865. 2 vols. Edited by Robert Means Thompson and Richard Wainwright. New York: Printed for the Naval History Society by the De Vinne Press, 1920. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1972. LC catalog record.
  • Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes. A Reply by L. M. Goldsborough to an Attack Made upon the Navy of the United States by Samuel E. Coures, President of the Peace Society. Portsmouth, N.H.: C. W. Brewster, 1845. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Grabowski, Mark W., Douglas W. Owsley, and Karin S. Bruwelheide. “Cemetery Vandalism: The Strange Case of William Wirt.” Washington History 22 (2010): 57-68. LC catalog record .
  • Hunter, Mark C. “The U.S. Naval Academy and Its Summer Cruises: Professionalization in the Antebellum U.S. Navy, 1845-1861.” Journal of Military History 70, no. 4 (2006): 963-94. LC catalog record.
  • Jabour, Anya. “’Grown Girls, Highly Cultivated’: Female Education in an Antebellum Southern Family.” Journal of Southern History 64, no. 1 (February 1998): 23- 64. LC catalog record
  • Jabour, Anya. Marriage in the Early Republic: Elizabeth and William Wirt and the Companionate Ideal. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. LC catalog record.
  • Jenkins, Thornton A. Rear Admiral Goldsborough and the Retiring Laws of the Navy. Washington, D.C.: Mohun & Bestor, 1868. LC catalog record.
  • Kennedy, John Pendleton. Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt, Attorney General of the United States. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1849. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External and Internet Archive.
  • Lincoln, Abraham. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Edited by Roy P. Basler. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953-1955. LC catalog record. Available online External courtesy of the Abraham Lincoln Association.
  • Maryland Historical Society. The William Wirt Papers: A Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the William Wirt Papers. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1971. LC catalog record.
  • McPherson, James M. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. LC catalog record.
  • Musicant, Ivan. Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995. LC catalog record.
  • Niven, John. Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973. LC catalog record. Reprint, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. LC catalog record.
  • Norder, Steven. Lincoln Takes Command: The Campaign to Seize Norfolk and the Destruction of the CSS Virginia. El Dorado, Calif.: Savas Beatie, 2019. LC catalog record.
  • Notes upon the Naval Services of L. M. Goldsborough. Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, [18--]. LC catalog record.
  • Paullin, Charles O. “A Half Century of Naval Administration in America, 1861-1911. Part I: The Navy Department During the Civil War, 1861-1865.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 38, no. 144 (Dec. 1912): 1309-1336. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Paullin, Charles O. “A Half Century of Naval Administration in America, 1861-1911. Part II: The Navy During the Civil War, 1861-1865.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 39, no. 1 (Mar. 1913): 165-195. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Paullin, Charles O. “A Half Century of Naval Administration in America, 1861-1911. Part III: The Second Administration of Gideon Welles, 1865-1869.” U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 39, no. 2 (June 1913): 735-760. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Paullin, Charles O. “President Lincoln and the Navy.” American Historical Review 14, no. 2 (Jan. 1909): 284-303. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Polser, Aubrey H., Jr. “The Administration of the United States Navy, 1861-1865.” Ph.D. dissertation. University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1975.
  • Ponton, Jean Alice. “Rear Admiral Louis M. Goldsborough: The Formation of a Nineteenth Century Naval Officer.” Ph.D. dissertation. Catholic University of America, 1996. WorldCat catalog record External.
  • Porter, David D. Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1885. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Prints & Photographs Online Catalog, Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Available online.
  • Schene, Michael G. “Robert and John Grattan Gamble: Middle Florida Entrepreneurs.” Florida Historical Quarterly 54, no. 1 (1975): 61-73. LC catalog record.
  • Smith, Melancton. Naval Retiring Laws and Rear Admiral Goldsborough. [Washington, D.C.?: n.p.], 1868. LC catalog record.
  • Sullivan, William Joseph. “Gustavus Vasa Fox and Naval Administration, 1861-1866.” Ph.D. dissertation. The Catholic University of America, 1977.
  • Symonds, Craig L. Lincoln and His Admirals. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. LC catalog record.
  • Taaffe, Stephen R. Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership during the Civil War. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2009. LC catalog record.
  • United States Naval History Division. Civil War Naval Chronology, 1861-1865. 6 vols. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1961-1965. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External. Reprinted as single volume, Washington, D.C.: Department of the Navy, 1971. LC catalog record.
  • United States Naval War Records Office. Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1894-1922. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Weber, Gustavus A. The Hydrographic Office: Its History, Activities and Organization. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1926. LC catalog record. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1974. LC catalog record.
  • Weddle, Kevin J. “’The Magic Touch of Reform’: Samuel Francis Du Pont and the Efficiency Board of 1855.” Journal of Military History 68, no. 2 (2004): 471-504. LC catalog record.
  • Welles, Gideon. The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy. Edited by William E. Gienapp and Erica L. Gienapp. Urbana, Ill.: Knox College Lincoln Studies Center and University of Illinois Press, 2014. LC catalog record.
  • Welles, Gideon. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Edited by Edgar T. Welles. 3 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
  • Welles, Gideon. Diary of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy under Lincoln and Johnson. Edited by Howard K. Beale. 3 vols. New York: W. W. Norton, 1960. LC catalog record.
  • West, Richard S. Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Navy Department. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1943. LC catalog record.
  • West, Richard S. Mr. Lincoln’s Navy. New York: Longmans, Green, 1957. LC catalog record.

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