List of blockade runners with ALS and photograph [decimalized .01-.02]

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GLC#
GLC01008
Type
Header Record
Date
1863-1864
Title
List of blockade runners with ALS and photograph [decimalized .01-.02]
Place Written
Various Places
Pagination
2 items
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War
Blockade
Navy
Maritime
Civil War
Military History
Confederate States of America
Union Forces

Showing 4 of 4 records

Collection Item
Manuscript document

Vessels captured within the limits of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron

1863-1865

Drowne, Byron P., 1848-1933

Ledger book lists 42 ships captured from South Carolina to Florida with inclusive dates of October 3, 1863 to May 5, 1865. Six columns listed as: Prize (name of the vessel), Class, Whom captured, Where captured, Where sent, and Remarks. Occasionally...

GLC01008.01
Collection Item
Header Record

Letter to his mother and photograph of Byron P. Drowne [Decimalized .01- .02]

21 October 1864

Drowne, Byron P., 1848-1933

Letter from 16-year-old Drowne to his mother, written on the USS "Catalpa" off Charleston. Accompanying photograph.

GLC01008.02
Collection Item
Autograph letter signed

to his mother

October 21, 1864

Drowne, Byron P., 1848-1933

Letter from 16-year-old Drowne to his mother, written on the USS "Catalpa" off Charleston. He says he did not have time to have his picture taken in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Reports no late war news, only that there will be no more fighting in...

GLC01008.02.01
Collection Item
Photograph

[Byron P. Drowne]

October 21, 1864

Photograph of Byron P. Drowne sitting. He was aboard the U.S.S. Midnight

GLC01008.02.02