1861-1872 ARCHIVE OF SHIP'S OFFICER & CIVIL WAR VETERAN, ROBERT McCLEERY, INCLUDING HIS LOGBOOK KEPT WHILE ABOARD THE USS "OSSIPEE" IN THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, AND HIS VOYAGES ON OTHER VESSELS, ALONG WITH SOME INTERESTING PERSONAL ITEMS.; As a career Navy man, born in Maryland, Robert W. McCleery was appointed Chief Engineer aboard the Steam Frigate "Wabash" and detailed to Port Royal Harbor as part of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War.
1861-1872. Original archive. Hardcover. This archive includes a bound volume and several leaves of a handwritten, personal diary in the form of a ship’s logbook kept by US Navy officer Robert W. McCleery, starting at New York on September 30, 1871 and ending in November, 1872. Also present: a photographic..... More