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Additional authors

1. Bell, H. H.
2. Dahlgren, Charles Gustavus, 1808-1888.
3. Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870.
4. Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901.

Description

1. .21 linear foot (1 box)

Summary

1. Aaron Ward Weaver was a Commander in the United States Navy. These papers date from 1851 to 1887 and include orders and letters to him from Farragut, Dahlgren, Porter, and others; an order to command the captured slave ship Ardennes; an order (October 23, 1862) from Commodore H. H. Bell for blockade of Mobile Bay; a letter (March 6, 1883) from the U. S. Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro giving brief statistics of death and disease in 1883; Weaver's record at the United States Naval Academy; and other materials.

Subject

1. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
2. United States > Navy > Officers
3. Mortality > Brazil > Statistics > 19th century
4. United States Naval Academy Students
5. Mobile Bay (Ala.) > History > 19th century
6. Orders (military records)
7. Slave trade > Atlantic Ocean Region
8. United States > Consulate (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) > 19th century
9. Ardennes (Ship)
10. Diseases > Reporting > Brazil > 19th century

Genre/Form

1. Orders (military records)

Call number

1. MssCol 3247

Access (note)

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Author

1. Weaver, Aaron Ward, 1832-1919.

Title

1. Aaron Ward Weaver papers, 1851-1887.

Restricted access

1. Apply to Manuscripts and Archives Division for access at http://www.nypl.org/mssref.

Added author

1. Bell, H. H.
2. Dahlgren, Charles Gustavus, 1808-1888.
3. Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870.
4. Porter, Fitz-John, 1822-1901.

Research call number

1. MssCol 3247