Articles and Publications

Sailors on picket duty on the Mobile Blockade. Harper's Weekly, 13 FEB 1864

Transcribed publications and news articles of interest relating to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron.

Publications

  • "Articles for the Government of the United States Navy", 1800
  • "Manual of Internal Rules and Regulations For Men-of-War", 1861
  • "Regulations for the government of the United States Navy", 1865

    • Articles

    1861

  • "How the Pensacola Navy-Yard was Surrendered.", New York Times, 16 January 1861
  • "A Letter from Onboard the Brooklyn", New York Times, 27 February 1861
  • "From on board the Brooklyn, Affairs at Pensacola", New York Times, 27 March 1861
  • "General Naval Order", National Republican, Washington DC, 4 May 1861
  • "The Cruise of the St. Louis; Sickness and Suffering, A Cry from the Deep.", New York Times, 3 September 1861
  • "A Night Reconnaissance at Pensacola.", New York Times, 18 September 1861
  • "The Destruction of the Judah.; Official Report of the Recent Naval Exploit at Pensacola", New York Times 20 October 1861

    • 1862

  • "Killed in the Late Battle", The Daily Delta New Orleans, 11 June 1862
  • "Army Correspondence - Letter from C. J. Pettit", Reading Times, Reading PA, 19 June 1862
  • "Below New Orleans : The Hospital at Pilot Town", New York Times, 23 June 1862

    • 1863

  • "Funeral of Lieutenant-Commander A. Boyd Cummings, United States Navy", Philadelphia Inquirer, 1 April 1863
  • "Jersey City Iron-Clads", New York Daily Herald, 4 June 1863
  • "Our Iron-Clad Navy: Launch of the Ericsson Battery Tecumseh", New York Herald, 14 September 1863
  • Launch of the Iron-Clad Tecumseh", The United States Army and Navy Journal, 19 September 1863
  • "The Second Batch of MonitorsThe Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, 1 March 1863
  • "Department of the Gulf: The Cypress Grove Cemeteries"New York Times, 1 May 1863

    • 1864

  • "Tecumseh Final Trial Trip", The Pittsburgh Daily Commercial, 31 March 1864
  • "Trial Trip of the Tecumseh", New York Daily Tribune, 4 March 1864
  • "Changes at the Yard", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 20 April 1864
  • "An Authentic Account of the Victory at Mobile: The Tecumseh", The Era, New Orleans, LA, 9 August 1864
  • "More Glorious News from Mobile: The Survivors of the Tecumseh", The Era, New Orleans, LA, 10 August 1864
  • "The Loss of the Tecumseh: Letter from the Survivors", The Times-Democrat, New Orleans, LA, 16 August 1864
  • "Sketch of Commander T. A. M. Craven, U.S.N., late Commander of the Tecumseh", The Evening Telegraph, 16 August 1864
  • "Sketch of Lieutenant John W. Kelley, late Executive Officer of the Monitor Tecumseh", New York Daily Herald, 16 August 1864
  • "The Late Captain Craven", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 August 1864
  • "Capt. T. A. M. Craven", New York Daily Tribune, 18 August 1864
  • "The Tecumseh Disaster", New York Daily Herald, 19 August 1864
  • "The Act of Captain Craven", The Pittsburgh Daily Post, 1 September 1864
  • "Obituary: Chief Engineer John Faron, U.S.N.", Army-Navy Journal, 3 September 1864
  • "Obituary: Dr. Henry A. Danker, U.S.N.", Army-Navy Journal 22 October 1864

    • 1865

  • "Usage and Routine in the Navy", Army-Navy Journal 1865
  • "Camp Ford", Harper's Weekly 4 March 1865
  • "Death of a Patriot", Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, Bangor ME, 4 December 1865

    • 1866

  • "Account of the Epidemic of Yellow Fever which visited Pensacola Navy Yard in the Summer and Autumn of 1863", The American Journal of Medical Sciences April 1866

    • 1867

  • "Yellow Fever on the Atlantic Coast and at the South During the War", Sanitary Memoirs of the War of the Rebellion, v. 1 1867

    • 1870s

  • Decoration Day: The National Cemetery" Mobile Daily Tribune 31 May 1876
  • "The Threat of a Sharp Speculator to Blow the Lost Iron-Clad Tecumseh to Pieces", Richmond Dispatch, Richmond, VA, 14 July 1876
  • "The "Tecumseh" Again: Litigation Over its Salvage", The Philadelphia Inquirer, 20 August 1877
  • "Current Events", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, NY, 20 August 1877
  • "Secor Robeson's Sacrilege", New York Sun, 31 October 1877

    • 1880s

  • "A Brave Sailor's Act", The Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA, 1 January 1881
  • "Memorial Day: Evening Service", Watertown Daily Times, Watertown, NY, 28 May 1883
  • Veterans of the Navy: A Decoration Day Discourse on the Deeds of Sailors", The Marion Enterprise, Marion, NY, 29 May 1887
  • "Letter to the Editor: The Mobile Bay Combat, Peter C. Parker The New York Times, 2 June 1887
  • "Letter to the Editor, Carpenter's Mate E.F.H., USN Canaseraga Times, Canaseraga, NY, 18 Mary 1888

    • 1890s

  • "Death of Captain Martin Freeman", Chronicle-Star, Pascagoula MS, 14 September 1894
  • "Torpedo Boats Named", The Boston Globe, 6 March 1897
  • "Escaped by Port Hole, Experiences of Survivor of US Monitor Tecumseh", The Boston Globe, 21 May 1897
  • "Craven's Fame Endures, Torpedo Boat 10 to Receive His Name", New York Sun, 1 August 1897
  • "An Old Tar's Honor Medal", New York Times 16 January 1898
  • "Fought with Farragut and then Got a Medal", Philadelphia Inquirer 22 May 1898
  • "Medals Awaiting Owners; About 250 Naval Awards at the Department That Have Never Been Called For", New York Times 7 February 1898
  • Reminiscent Of Service in the Home Squadron, 1859–61, RADM George E. Belknap, 9 February 1898

    • 1900s

  • "Fought Under Farragut", The Sentinel, Carlisle, PA. 15 April 1903
  • "Was Naval Hero's Widow", The New York Times, 28 April 1905
  • "The Loyal Legion", The Bangor Daily News, Bangor ME, 4 December 1905
  • "Would Not Haul Down the Flag", Boston Globe, 19 August 1906
  • "This is Camden's Great Day", The Bangor Daily News, Bangor ME, 30 August 1906
  • William Conway, A Forgotten Camden Hero, Acting Master John O. Johnson, December 1908
  • "A Veteran Tar", The National Tribune, Washington, DC, 21 February 1907
  • "To Commemorate Heroism of Officers and Men", New York Post, 14 December 1907
  • "Tecumseh's Sole Survivor Dies", The New York Times, 16 June 1908
  • "Saved by Throwing a Sop to Fate: The Miracle of Mobile Bay, RADM Caspar F. Goodrich, USN New York Herald, 16 June 1908
  • "Monument to Memory of an Irish Pensacolian", Bonnie Burnham, Pensacola News Journal, 12 July 1908

    • 1910s

  • "Tunis MacDonough Craven, The Sidney of the American Navy", The Evening Star, Washington, DC, 11 September 1910
  • "Brooklyn Gunner Recalls War Days" The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 5 May 1912
  • "Obituary: Cornelius Cronin, U.S.N." The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 19 August 1912

    • 1920s

  • "C. A. Packard Dead; Tecumseh Veteran" - Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 13 March 1923
  • "Son Seeks First Medal of Congress, Lost by Father" - The Bridgeport Telegram, Bridgeport CT, 25 July 1924

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