Francis Asbury Roe papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 500
Subjects: Sassacus (Side-wheel steamer); United States; Naval operations; United States. Navy; Albemarle (Ironclad ram); History
Description: Correspondence, journals, notebooks, and other papers pertaining to Roe's naval career.  Documents an engagement between the USS Sassacus (Side-wheel steamer) and the CSS Albemarle (Ironclad ram) in 1864.  Includes proof sheets of Roe's book, Naval Duties and Discipline: With Policy and Principles of Naval Organization (1865 ).
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1949-1969.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.

Register published by the Library of Congress, 1970.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.