Naval History and Heritage Command
The Navy Department Library
South Caroliniana Library
Columbia
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
Bacot, Ada W.
Papers, 1860-1863
Nurse in the Confederate naval service and brother to Richard H. Bacot.
9 items and 8 volumes
Bacot, Richard H.
Papers, 1863-1866
Papers of Second Lieutenant Richard H. Bacot, CSN, are found in the Peter Samuel Bacot Papers.
8 items
Blue Family
Papers, 1873-1955
The Blue Family Papers include material on Lieutenant Commander John S. Blue and Rear Admiral Victor Blue.
50 items and 1 volume
Calhoun, James E.
Papers, 1806-1889
598 items
Confederate States Navy
Papers, 1861-1916
5 items
Cornell, Richard M.
Papers, 1862-1922
Additional material can be found in the Confederate States Navy Collection.
12 items
Dahlgren, John A. B.
Papers, 1864-1865
3 items
Davis, Warren R.
Papers
Letter written during Davis' term in Congress regarding attempts to contact "a proper person to intrust our experiement to" connected with the Department of the Navy.
1 item
Dent, John H.
Papers, 1813-1814
Letterbook of John Herbert Dent, United States Navy officer in Charleston, South Carolina, during the War of 1812.
1 volume
Drayton, Glenn
Papers, 1814-1864
Bound volume consisting of accounts of Navy life.
1 volume
DuPont, Samuel F.
Papers, 1862-1863
3 items
E. B. Hale
Records, 1863-1865
38 items
Edgeworth Family
Papers, 1781-1984
Richard Edgeworth off the African coast, 1781-1783 and commentary on the War of 1812.
514 items and 6 volumes
Edwards, Edward H.
Papers, 1859-1863
Chiefly family correspondence from Edward Harleston Edwards, written from Camp Johnson, Mobile, Alabama, and Savannah and Brunswick, Georgia, regarding Civil War, community morale in Charleston, South Carolina, and Mobile, Alabama, and various social and military activities of a Confederate Naval officer.
67 items
Gaillard, Samuel
Papers, 1820-1824
17 items
Grimball, John B.
Papers, 1859-1888
12 items
Hamilton, Paul
Papers, 1802-1812
Paul Hamilton was Secretary of the Navy from 1809-1812.
27 items
Hardy, Joseph L. C.
Papers, 1815-1823
Papers of Midshipman Joseph L. C. Hardy are found in the William Moultrie Reid Collection.
6 items
Hayne, Robert
Papers
Senator Robert Hayne was Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee from 1826-1831.
Hopkinson, James
Papers, 1847-1917
Miscellaneous items, mostly relating to the Civil War.
402 items and 20 volumes
Izard, Allen C.
Papers, 1834-1943
Chiefly orders and correspondence regarding Izard's enrollment at the United States Naval Academy and service as a naval officer and regarding his effort to transfer from the Confederate States Army to the Navy.
93 items
Izard, Ralph
Papers, 1709-1955
300 items
Jordan, Nathan Haynes
Papers, 1944
Chiefly correspondence from brothers Nathan Haynes Jordan, Jr., Corporal, later Sergeant, U.S. Army; William H. Jordan, Radioman Second Class, U.S. Navy; and Richard H. Jordan, Seaman First Class, U.S. Navy, to their mother, Mary Frances Bailey Jordan, and sister, Audrey M. Jordan in the Second World War.
290 items
Lodebar
Records, 1850-1866
Records of the marine school ship Lodebar.
2 volumes
Lovell, Roberts P.
Papers, 1842-1878
Including ship rosters and duty lists for USS Wave, Flirt, and Boston; manuscript poetry, and diary entries, alluding to military activities as British ships blockaded Brazilian ports in an attempt to enforce a ban on the slave trade.
1 volume
McGowan, Samuel
Papers, 1893-1903
1 volume
McLeod, Daniel R.
Papers, 1957-1983
The collection includes a volume, c. 1985, original manuscript and photocopy of unfinished World War II memoir detailing McLeod's enlistment in the U.S. Navy, his completion of an officer training course at Northwestern University, and the beginning of his tour of duty on board USS Mayo.
2,417 items and 1 volume
McNeely, Robert W.
Papers, 1886-1966
8,156 items
Middleton, Edward
Papers, 1861
1 item
Morgan, James M.
Papers, 1769-1927
67 items
Morrow, James
Papers, 1838-1938
355 items
Petit, George H.
Papers, 1864
Letters written by George H. Petit, a Union seaman stationed on board USS Carnation at Port Royal, South Carolina, giving details of Union Navy activities in the area, commenting on excitement over the defeat of Union forces in Florida, and giving details regarding the sinking of the Union vessel Housatonic in Charleston harbor by a Confederate torpedo.
2 items
Porcher, Philip
Papers, 1845-1925
401 items
Reedy and Beacham Families
Papers, 1874-1975
The collection includes papers of naval officer Worth Beacham.
2,874 items and 34 volumes
Rootes, Thomas R.
Papers, 1864
Papers of Commander Thomas R. Rootes, a Union and Confederate naval officer.
1 item
Sessions, Samuel C.
Papers, 1901-1904
Army veteran of Spanish-American War; enlisted in U.S. Navy, 1901; stationed on board USS Topeka, Indiana, Columbia, and Vixen.
2 volumes
Smith, William H.
Papers, 1883
1 volume
South Carolina
Collection, 1781-1945
War ship in the South Carolina Navy during American Revolution; first of six American ships to bear the name South Carolina; originally named L'Indien.
25 items and 1 volume
Stevens, Henry K.
Papers, 1858-1862
Lieutenant Henry K. Stevens was a Union and Confederate naval officer.
8 items
Stevens, Thomas H.
Papers, 1861-1864
4 items
Tillman, Benjamin R.
Papers, 1888-1917
Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman was Chairman of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs from 1913-1918.
15 items
Weber, George
Papers, 1861-1862
Seaman on board Confederate steamship Patrick Henry.
13 items
Yeadon, Richard
Papers, 1841-1870
Letter, 18 August 1862, Richmond, Virginia, from Steven R. Mallory, Confederate Secretary of the Navy, reporting naming of new steam sloop The Palmetto State and funds collected to build ships.
16 items and 1 volume
