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George Dudley papers : Correspondence 1802-1899.
Life at Sea : Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-1900 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Dudley, George, author.
- Series:
- Life at Sea: Seafaring in the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1600-2820
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Navies.
- Sailors.
- Liverpool (England).
- Letter writing.
- Letters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2022.
- Summary:
- Papers of George Dudley of Winterport, Maine, sea captain and officer of the 26th Maine Infantry Regiment in the Civil War. Included are numerous letters to his wife Caroline Holmes Dudley and other relatives describing voyages to New Orleans, Liverpool, and ports in the Far East on the ships RIO GRANDE and HESPERUS; two letters from Baton Rouge, La., and Camp Indiana during the Civil War; one letter from Shanghai (1861); and one letter describing his experience as a prospector in California in 1849. Also included are letters of Dudley's father, Elias Dudley, a merchant in Hampden, Maine; his mother, Sally Crosby Dudley; and his son George Arthur Dudley. George A. Dudley's letters concern homesteading in Colorado in the 1880s and 1890s.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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