Naval History and Heritage Command

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.