William D. Salter papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Correspondence; Discipline; Description and travel; Officers; United States; Voyages and travels; Flagellation; Cruise, 1831; United States. Navy; Harbors
Description: Chiefly naval and personal correspondence, together with journal (1831) kept during a voyage from New York, N.Y., to Mobile Bay (Ala.), naval orders, rations, and regulations, and other papers.  Includes Salter's correspondence (1828-1864) with his wife, Margaret; correspondence (1850-1853) with secretaries of the navy James C. Dobbin, William A. Graham, and John Pendleton Kennedy, some of which relates to Salter's opposition to abolition of flogging in the navy; and description of Veracruz, Mexico, and the navigation of its harbor.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1992.

Converted to gift, 1998.

U.S. naval officer.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009192

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.