Sources on U.S. Naval History homepage Repository List for North Carolina Naval Historical Center, 805 Kidder Breese St SE, Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5060 University of North Carolina Libraries CB#3926, Wilson Library Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890 Anderson, Edward C. Papers, 1813-1882 63 items Anderson, Edwin A. Papers, 1878-1939 U.S. Navy Admiral from Wilmington, North Carolina, who retired in 1924. Personal correspondence, chiefly 1883-1903, and official naval papers, 1878-1939, of Anderson. Letters to his mother and to his wife, Mertie Lorain Anderson, discuss Navy life and describe foreign ports in four continents. Official papers concern promotions, orders, recommendations, travel permits, and assignments, and include military writing and travelogues. Also included are Anderson's social record and log as Commander Asiatic Fleet, 1922-1923. 800 items Bagley Family Papers, 1848-1939 1,300 items Balch, George B. Papers, 1830-1924 Official orders, reports, correspondence, and other records of the naval service of George Balch of Alabama, who became a U.S. Navy officer in 1837 and retired as a rear admiral in 1883. The collection includes a log of USS Cyane in the Mediterranean, 1838-1840; a few papers pertaining to service in Latin American waters and the Perry expedition to Japan in the 1850s; order and letter books of USS | |
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