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The Museum of the Confederacy
Eleanor S. Brockenbrough Library
1201 East Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Confederate States of America Military
Collection, 1861-1865
The collection includes private journals kept on CSS Shenandoah and Florida; logs of Shenandoah and Georgia; crew lists of Tennessee and commissions and papers of naval personnel.
50-75 items
Fox, Gustavus V.
Papers, 1874-1876
Correspondence of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus V. Fox with Commander Catesby Ap Roger Jones, CSN, regarding the Battle of Hampton Roads, consisting primarily of Fox's letters to Jones with a few notes by Jones.
23 items
Harris, Mrs. James W.
Papers, 1862-1863
Correspondence of Mrs. James W. Harris of the Ladies Defense Association of Columbus, Mississippi.
9 items
Ladies Defense Association
Records, 1862-1863
Minute book and correspondence.
24 items
Littlepage, Hardin B.
Papers, 1891-1900
Letters and assignments to Hardin B. Littlepage (formerly of the Confederate Navy), Office of Naval War Records from U.S. Navy Department officials regarding his work in gathering documents for the Navy War Records Project.
Maury, Matthew F.
Papers, 1864-1865
50 items
Porter, John L.
Papers
Plan of ironclad CSS Jackson (Muscogee).
2 items
Porter, John L.
Papers
Account of the construction of CSS Virginia.
1 item
Rains, Gabriel
Papers
"Torpedo Book," describing naval and land mines.
1 item
Shenandoah, CSS
Records, 1864-1865
Includes journals of Assistant Surgeon Lining and Midshipman Mason.
3 items
Shenandoah, CSS
Records
Shipping articles.
2 items
Stonewall, CSS
Records, 1865
Log of the chief engineer.
1 item
Webb
Records, 1865
List of officers and men.
7 January 2003