Cornelius Marius Schoonmaker papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1400
Subjects: Correspondence; Vandalia (Screw sloop); Description and travel; Polaris (Ship); Campaigns; Mobile Bay, Battle of, Ala., 1864; History
Description: Correspondence, letterbook, order book, printed material, scrapbooks, and an unpublished biography detailing Schoonmaker's naval career.  Includes Schoonmaker's letters regarding China and the Far East (East Asia), a letter concerning the survivors of the ship Polaris, accounts of the battle of Mobile Bay, Ala., and details of Schoonmaker's drowning in a hurricane which also wrecked his ship, the screw sloop Vandalia.  Correspondents include William E. Chandler, John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren, Thomas A. Dornin, David Glasgow Farragut, Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough, John C. Howell, George M. Robeson, Richard W. Thompson, Isaac Toucey, Gideon Welles, and William C. Whitney.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1950.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Naval officer.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008043

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.