Confederate States of America. Navy
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Harvey Smith Jr. papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS576
Scope and Contents
This collection contains personal, business, and research papers collected by Harvey M. Smith Jr. Research papers include the history of textiles, potpourri, family history, the trade of enslaved persons, and Thomas Sheraton (1751-1806). Documents include notes, correspondence, periodical clippings, design plates, and appraisements. Civil War papers primarily focus on Confederate Naval financial records. Of particular note are account books and correspondence from Richard Taylor (1826-1879),...
Dates:
1692-1993, undated; Majority of material found in 1800-1980
Robert J. Freeman CSS Atlanta pay receipt
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS727f
Scope and Content
This collection consists of a pay receipt issued to Robert J. Freeman while he was serving as assistant surgeon on the CSS Atlanta.
Dates:
19 December 1862
Series II: Civil War papers, 1863-1865, undated
Series
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection contains administrative documents from the Confederate States Navy (CSN). Documents include vouchers, allotment tickets, pay receipts, appointments, letters and receipts for repair from the CSS Alabama, CSS Chameleon, CSS Florida, CSS Rappahannock, CSS Scylla, CSS Shenandoah, and CSS Stonewall. Additionally there are financial accounts, Confederate bonds, and receipts. Of particular note are accounting and receipt books, a checkbook, correspondence containing...
Dates:
1863-1865, undated
War Act broadside
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS474f
Scope and Content
This collection contains a broadside of an act "Recognizing the existence of a state of war between the United States and the Confederate States of America and concerning letters of marque, prizes, and prize goods." It is signed by Howell Cobb, president of the Congress, Jefferson Davis, and Robert Toombs, Secretary of State.
Dates:
1861 May 6