Included is a logbook/scrapbook kept by Henry A. Phelon (1831-1902) who served as an acting Master in the Union Navy (1862-1865) during the Civil War. Orders, holograph letters, dispatches, handwritten copies of documents, and newspaper clippings glued into this scrapbook chronicle his wartime service under Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee with the Blockading Squadron off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina on the U.S. Steamers Shawsheen, Monticello, and Daylight, and U.S. Ironclad Steamers Canonicus and Atlanta. Later clippings (through 1900) and documents pertain to his post-war years, most of which was spent in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
Henry A. Phelon was born in Nantucket, MA on October 12, 1831. He was a crew member of the Plough Boy with his father before the ship was destroyed by a whale in 1848. Henry dedicated his life to the sea and served on whaling ships and in the merchant service until the Civil War. Henry volunteered for the Union navy in 1862 and became acting master. After the war he returned to New England and married Josephine Brand. He became a postmaster and proprietor of the village store in West Springfield.
This collection contains a single logbook/scrapbook. It was created b Henry A. Phelon and documents his time in the Civil War. Included are orders, holograph letters, dispatches, handwritten copies of documents, and newspaper clippings.
March 11, 2019 (unprocessed), 0.25 cubic feet; Included is a logbook/scrapbook kept by Henry A. Phelon (1831-1902) who served as an acting Master in the Union Navy (1862-1865) during the Civil War. Orders, holograph letters, dispatches, handwritten copies of documents, and newspaper clippings glued into this scrapbook chronicle his wartime service under Rear Admiral Samuel P. Lee with the Blockading Squadron off the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina on the U.S. Steamers Shawsheen, Monticello, and Daylight, and U.S. Ironclad Steamers Canonicus and Atlanta. Later clippings (through 1900) and documents pertain to his post-war years, most of which was spent in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Purchased with state money from Ten Pound Island Book Company.
Purchased from Ten Pound Island Book Company
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