Diary
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Calumet and Hecla Mining Company.
label: Collection Creator
content: Leavitt, Erasmus D., 1836-1916
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content: Erasmus D. Leavitt Papers
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content: Erasmus D. Leavitt Papers / Series 1: Engineering Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1861-1866
container: label: Container
content: Box 1, Folder 1
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The diary covers the period 1861 to 1865 when leavitt entered the Navy and was stationed on the gunboat Sagamore. In 1865, Leavitt was assigned to the Naval Academy as an instructor of steam engineering. The diary is a daily log of his engineering duties on the ship  along with personal information. The log includes information on the maintenance of the gunboats, ports the gunboat visited, including Cuba, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.