Samuel Phillips Lee papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19000
Subjects: Correspondence; United States. Navy Dept; United States. Navy. North Atlantic Blockading Squadron (1861-1865); Campaigns; Blockades; Mississippi (Paddle frigate); United States. Navy. Mississippi Squadron; Naval operations; United States; History
Description: Correspondence, memoranda, logbook abstracts, reports, lists, requisition orders, printed matter, and other papers relating to the naval activities of the Union forces in the Civil War.  Pertains chiefly to Lee's service commanding the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron (1862-1864) and the Mississippi Squadron (1864-1865).  Subjects include the Union blockade, Confederate and Northern blockade runners, the command of Benjamin F. Butler in and around the Newport News, Virginia, area; and the Mississippi River campaign.  Includes a logbook for the USS Mississippi (Paddle frigate) in the summer of 1861.  Correspondents include James B. Devoe, John G. Foster, Gideon Welles, and the U.S. Navy Dept.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1949.

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, 1967.

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.