Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Lamb, W.
2. Millard, D. T.

Description

1. .13 linear foot (1 volume)

Summary

1. Journal of Joseph C. Canning covers his period of service as Acting Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, aboard the U.S.S. Cambridge on blockade duty off the Virginia and Carolina coasts and on duty off the New England coast, 1861-1864; aboard the U.S.S. Mohican on active duty off the Virginia and Carolina coasts during campaigns of Forts Fisher and McAllister, and the final campaigns of the American Civil War, 1864-1865; and aboard the U.S. Ironclad Shawnee off the New England coast, 1865. Includes original poems, several manuscript orders of Confederate officers W. Lamb and D.T. Millard, many clippings on the Civil War and death of President Garfield. Index to principal events is included.

Subject

1. Fort Fisher (N.C. : Fort) > History > 19th century
2. Shawnee (Ironclad)
3. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Naval operations
4. Fort McAllister (Ga. : Fort) > History > 19th century
5. Garfield, James A (James Abram), 1831-1881
6. Navy agents > Diaries
7. Poems
8. Mohican (Steamship)
9. Cambridge (Steamship)
10. American poetry > 19th century
11. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Campaigns
12. Journals (accounts)
13. United States > Navy > Officials and employees
14. United States > Navy > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
15. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Personal narratives

Genre/Form

1. Journals (accounts)
2. Poems.

Call number

1. MssCol 467

Access (note)

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

Author

1. Canning, Joseph C.

Title

1. Joseph C. Canning journal, 1861-1865, 1881.

Restricted access

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

Added author

1. Lamb, W.
2. Millard, D. T.

Research call number

1. MssCol 467