Armistead
Mariners' Museum, Uncurated Search Results
Type: Schooner Barge
Year: 1919
Builder: Maryland Shipbuilding Co.
Location:
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| Fetch? | Row ID | Media | Date | Vessel | Place | Related Places | Inscription/Marks | Subject | Notes | Archive Number |
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| 1 | No image URL. | Slide-rule.; Navigation. | Slide rules for navigators. | LB58090 | ||||||
| 2 |  | 3/9/1985 | Monitor (Ironclad : 1862)–Genealogy.; Merrimack (Frigate : 1856-1860).; Virginia (Ironclad : 1862)–Genealogy. | Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862–Anniversaries, etc.; Reunions. | This one page letter from Irwin Berent to Armistead Wheeler Dey discusses in more detail what the Monitor-Merrimack descendants reunion would involve. Berent encloses information and plans for the reunion and asks for Dey's opinion. | MS0164.001/06-006.22#09 | ||||
| 3 |  | 11/10/1984 | Monitor (Ironclad : 1862)–Genealogy.; Merrimack (Frigate : 1856-1860).; Virginia (Ironclad : 1862)–Genealogy. | Norfolk (Va.)–Anniversaries, etc. | Hampton Roads, Battle of, Va., 1862–Anniversaries, etc.; Reunions. | This one page letter from Irwin Berent to Armistead Wheeler Dey discusses military reunions in Norfolk and the possibility of having one for the descendants of the Monitor-Merrimack battle. | MS0164.001/06-006.22#08 | |||
| 4 | No image URL. | United States. Navy–Sanitary affairs | The crew or the cruiser? __ __by W. Armistead Gills | LB36589 | ||||||
| 5 | No image URL. | Nautical astronomy. | Tri-rectangular coordinated for the solution of spherical triangles. | LB74129 | ||||||
| 6 | No image URL. | Range-finding. | Range or direction finder. | LB79459 | ||||||
| 7 | No image URL. | Hydrographic surveying.; Signals and signaling. | Pl., diagrams. | LB57835 | ||||||
| 8 | No image URL. | Navigation–Tables.; Navigation (Aeronautics)–Tables. | Practical tables for navigators and aviators : __containing new and rapid methods for finding the longitude, aximuth and latitude and for great circle sailing, the identification of stars and for plotting line of position by the Sumner and Marcq Saint-Hilaire methods __by Captain Armistead Rust | LB102354 | ||||||
| 9 | No image URL. | Navigation.; Navigation (Aeronautics). | Cover title. | LB36994 | ||||||
| 10 | No image URL. | Great-circle sailing.; Nautical astronomy. | Notes on the use of the Great circle sailing chart for the solution of problems in nautical astronomy. | LB74127 | ||||||
| 11 | No image URL. | Nautical astronomy.; Stars. | The identification of stars in cloudy weather. | LB58706 | ||||||
| 12 | No image URL. | Slide-rule. | Cylindrical slide rules for aviators and navigators. | LB58088 | ||||||
| 13 | No image URL. | Nautical astronomy. | Star-finding diagram. | LB74128 | ||||||
| 14 | No image URL. | Rare not cataloged | LB82164 | |||||||
| 15 | No image URL. | Nautical astronomy. | Diagram. | LB74126 | ||||||
| 16 | No image URL. | Navigation–Tables.; Nautical astronomy. | Ex-meridian altitude, azimuth and star-finding tables : __with diagrams for finding the latitude and facilitating plotting lines of position, and giving new and practical methods for identifying stars in cloudy weather, latitudes 0p0s-65p0 s : declinations 0p0s-71p0 snorth and south __by Lieutenant-Commander Armistead Rust | LB24026 | ||||||
| 17 | No image URL. | Virginia–History–Revolution, 1775-1783; Virginia–History, Naval.; Virginia–History–Registers–Revolution, 1775-1783; United States–History–Naval operations. Revolution, 1775-1783 | "Roster of the Virginia Navy of the Revolution": p. 137-271. | LB14986 | ||||||
| 18 | No image URL. | Navigation. | General solutions of the problems of the reduction to the prime vertical and to the meridian, with a new graphic method for the solution of various problems in navigation. | LB75302 | ||||||
| 19 | No image URL. | Protractors. | Navigator's protractor for plotting a ship's position by the three- point problem. | LB79066 | ||||||
| 20 | No image URL. | Pilot guides. | Safety at sea: proposed coastwise pilot charts showing safety zonesand danger spaces for the prevention of collisions at sea. | LB78106 | ||||||
| 21 | No image URL. | NOTES: In talking with Bill Fox about the drawing, he felt that the piece might be of the DOROTHY and EL TORO after it had returned in 1912. The flag shows 48 stars, and he is going to see if he can identify the artist. It is possibly a draftsman from Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. KKS 2/4/98 12/1/99 I recieved an e-mail message from Bill Fox about the artist of this drawing. He checked the old Newport News/Hampton Directories and found the following: 1896-1897 Brown, Harry, draftsman, home Newport News Avenue near Armistead Avenue (Hampton), employee shipyard. He was in the directories until 1901 as a draftsman, living at 626 28th Street, and at 233 47th Street, Newport News. Bill also feels that this drawing is most certainly by this gentleman since it is basically a (good) technical drawing. KKS 12/2/99. NOTES: Letter accompanying picture by R.B. Barker, Retired Carpenter and Carpenter Foreman, C & O RR Co. "This picture, the story of the first still hull ships built for the Old Dominion Steamship Lines, the Jamestown and Yorktown was located behind another picture in a frame found in the 1937 retirement of what was known as the C &C RR Co. Carpenter Foremen office, situated on C & O Pier #2 Hill on River Road now known as Harbor Drive. This building was constructed in the 1880 and used as an engineer office during the construction of C & O Coat Pier #2&3 and later occupied as a carpenter Foreman's office by a Mr. Watson, C.C. Leake, and R.C. Barker, all Foremen for the C & O RR Co." | CL6772 | |||||||
| 22 | No image URL. | Virginia–Boundaries–Maryland; Maryland–Boundaries–Virginia; Potomac River–Charts, diagrams, etc | Report on the location of the boundary line along the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland : __in accordance with the Award of 1877 __by Edward B. Mathews, Wilbur A. Nelson | LB32999 | ||||||
| 23 | No image URL. | Senate document (United States. Congress. Senate) ; 658. | Collisions at sea–Prevention.; Pilot guides.; Navigation–Safety measures. | Presented by Mr. La Follette. Referred to the Committee on printing, July 25, 1916. Pamphlet. | LB27905 | |||||
| 24 | No image URL. | East China Sea–Navigation.; Marseille (France)–Maps.; Brest (France)–Pictorial works.; Sasebo-shi (Japan). | Merchant mariners–History–20th century. United States; Merchant marine–History–20th century. United States | This collection features six (6) items connected to certain aspects - with particular emphasis on conduct - of a Merchant Seaman's career in the first half of the twentieth century. It includes shore passes, a memorandum relating to the U.S. Maritime Service Officers' School, a chart, a map, and a postcard. The collection relates particularly to the Merchant Marine service of Powell Catlett, whose shore passes are included here. Catlett was born on February 22, 1895. His service record indicates that he served from May 1917 to November 1919 and again from November 1922 to May 1923 in the US Navy. He saw service aboard the Leviathan, and "returned to the seas as a merchant seaman" during Word War II, according to his nephew, Alexander Burruss. With the exception of the postcard, all of the material in the original accession relates to Powell's World War II service in the Merchant Marine. -- A 2022 accrual to the collection consists of 20 photographic negatives taken by Catlett in 1919 while assigned to Leviathan. They include images of ships and servicemen in European cities and in Newport News, Virginia. | MS0248 | |||||
| 25 |  | Written on verso: Sumner, Edwin Vose, Major-Genl., U.S.A., 1797-1863. Written on recto: Maj Gen E.V.Sumner, 2nd Army Corps. | Vignette, Head and shoulder portrait, in uniform. Edwin Vose Sumner From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search Edwin Vose Sumner Edwin Vose Sumner (January 30, 1797 – March 21, 1863) was a career United States Army officer who became a Union Army general and the oldest field commander of any Army Corps on either side during the American Civil War.[1] His nicknames "Bull" or "Bull Head" came both from his great booming voice and a legend that a musket ball once bounced off his head. Sumner fought in the Black Hawk War, with distinction in the Mexican-American War, on the Western frontier, and in the Eastern Theater for the first half of the Civil War. He led the II Corps of the Army of the Potomac through the Peninsula Campaign, the Seven Days Battles, the Maryland Campaign, and the Battle of Fredericksburg. Early life and careerSumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Elisha Sumner and Nancy Vose Sumner. His early schooling was in Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts.[2] In 1819, after losing interest in a mercantile career in Troy, New York, he entered the United States Army as a second lieutenant in the 2nd US Infantry Regiment on March 3, 1819. He was promoted to first lieutenant on January 25, 1825. Sumner's military appointment was facilitated by Samuel Appleton Storrow, Judge Advocate Major on the staff of General Jacob Jennings Brown of the Northern department. (Storrow had previously served as a mentor to Sumner in Boston.) In recognition of their long-standing friendship, Sumner would later name one of his sons Samuel Storrow Sumner.[3] He married Hannah Wickersham Foster (1804–1880) on March 31, 1822. They had six children together: Nancy, Margaret Foster, Sarah Montgomery, Mary Heron, Edwin Vose Jr., and Samuel Storrow Sumner. His son Samuel was a general during the Spanish-American War, Boxer Rebellion, and the Philippine-American War. Sumner's daughter, Mary Heron, married General Armistead L. Long in 1860. Sumner later served in the Black Hawk War and in various Indian campaigns. On March 4, 1833, he was promoted to the rank of captain and assigned to command B Company, the U.S. Dragoon Regiment (later First US Dragoons), immediately upon its creation by Congress. In 1838, he commanded the cavalry instructional establishment at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania. He was assigned to Ft. Atkinson, Iowa Territory, from 1842 until 1845. He was the fort's commander during most of that period. He was promoted to major of the 2nd Dragoons on June 30, 1846. During the Mexican-American War, Sumner was brevetted for bravery at the Battle of Cerro Gordo (to lieutenant colonel). It was here that he gained the nickname "Bull Head" because of a story about a musket ball that bounced off his head during the battle. At the Molino del Rey he received the brevet rank of colonel. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 1st US Dragoons on July 23, 1848. He served as the military governor of the New Mexico Territory from 1851–53, and was promoted to colonel of the 1st U.S. Cavalry on March 3, 1855. In 1856 Sumner commanded Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and became involved in the crisis known as Bleeding Kansas. In 1857, as commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment (1855), he led a punitive expedition against the Cheyenne.[4] and in 1858 he commanded the Department of the West. Lt. Gen. Winfield Scott assigned Sumner as the senior officer to accompany President-elect Abraham Lincoln from Springfield, Illinois, to Washington, D.C., in March 1861.[5] Civil War serviceIn February 1861, Brig. Gen. David E. Twiggs was dismissed from the Army for treason by outgoing U.S. President James Buchanan, and on March 12, 1861, Sumner was nominated by the newly inaugurated Lincoln to replace Twiggs as one of only three brigadier generals in the regular army, with date of rank March 16.[6] Sumner was thus the first new Union general created by the secession crisis. He was then sent to replace Brig. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, then in command of the Department of the Pacific in California, and thus took no part in the 1861 campaigns of the war. When Sumner left for California, his son-in-law Armistead Lindsay Long resigned his commission and enlisted with the Confederate Army eventually becoming Robert E. Lee's military secretary and an artillery brigadier general. In November 1861, Sumner was brought back east to command a division, and on May 5, 1862 he was promoted to major general in the Union Army.[7] When Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan began organizing the Army of the Potomac in March, Sumner was given command of one of its new corps. McClellan had not originally formed corps within the Army; Sumner was selected as one of four corps commanders by President Lincoln, based on his seniority. The II Corps, commanded during the war by Sumner, Darius N. Couch, Winfield Scott Hancock, and Andrew A. Humphreys, had the deserved reputation of being the one of best in the Eastern Theater. Sumner, who was the oldest of the generals in the Army of the Potomac, led his corps throughout the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles. McClellan originally formed a poor opinion of Sumner during the Battle of Williamsburg on May 5, 1862. During McClellan's absence, Sumner directed the inconclusive battle, which failed to impede the Confederate withdrawal up the Peninsula, and McClellan wrote to his wife, "Sumner had proved that he was even a greater fool than I had supposed & had come within an ace of having us defeated."[8] At the Battle of Seven Pines, however, Sumner's initiative in sending reinforcing troops across the dangerously rain-swollen Chickahominy River prevented a Union disaster. He received the brevet of major general in the regular army for his gallantry at Seven Pines. Despite this honor, during the Union retreat of the Seven Days, McClellan expressed reluctance to name a second in command during his absences, knowing that Sumner was the most senior corps commander. Sumner was wounded in the arm and hand at the Battle of Glendale. Despite his old-fashioned ideas on discipline and respect for commanding officers, the II Corps troops generally had a positive opinion of him. In the fall of 1862, at the Battle of Antietam, Sumner was the center of controversy. A morning attack he ordered Brig. Gen. John Sedgwick's division to launch into the West Woods was devastated by a Confederates counterattack; Sedgwick's men were forced to retreat in great disorder to their starting point with over 2,200 casualties. Sumner has been condemned by most historians for his "reckless" attack, his lack of coordination with the other corps commanders, accompanying Sedgwick's division personally and losing control of his other attacking division, failing to perform adequate reconnaissance prior to launching his attack, and selecting an unusual line of battle formation that was so effectively flanked by the Confederate counterattack. Historian M.V. Armstrong's recent scholarship, however, has determined that Sumner did perform appropriate reconnaissance and his decision to attack where he did was justified by the information available to him.[9] When Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside succeeded to the command of the Army of the Potomac, he grouped the corps in "grand divisions" and appointed Sumner to command the right grand division. In this capacity, the old cavalry soldier took part in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg, in which the II Corps suffered heavy casualties in frontal assaults against fortified Marye's Heights. Soon afterward, on Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's appointment to command the army, Sumner was relieved at his own request, apparently disillusioned with the quarreling in the army and also thoroughly exhausted. He was reassigned to a new command in Missouri effective in the spring. Before that, Sumner went to his daughter's home in Syracuse, New York to rest. While there, he suffered a heart attack and died on March 21. GraveSumner is buried in Section 8, Lot 1 of Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse. Part of the Teall family plot, the gravesite has some structural problems and issues of disrepair. The Onondaga County Civil War Round Table is currently raising funds to repair the grave and the general area. See also Biography portal United States Army portal American Civil War portal List of American Civil War generals Notes1.^ Warner, p. 489. 2.^ "Sumner, Edwin Vose". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 3.^ The Sumner–Storrow relationship is discussed in unpublished 19th century correspondence of the Storrow family (copies of which are held by descendants). The Storrow–Brown relationship is described in Morris. 4.^ Bertbrong, pp. 133-40; Grinnell, pp. 111-21. 5.^ Dupuy, p. 719. 6.^ Eicher, pp. 716-17. The two other line-officer brigadier generals in the regular army as of March 1861 were John Wool and William S. Harney; Joseph E. Johnston, Quartermaster General of the Army, resigned on April 22 to join the Confederate States Army. 7.^ Eicher, p. 519. 8.^ Armstrong, p. xvi. 9.^ Armstrong, pp. 39-55. [edit] ReferencesArmstrong, Marion V. Disaster in the West Woods: General Edwin V. Sumner and the II Corps at Antietam. Sharpsburg, MD: Western Maryland Interpretive Association, 2002. Bertbrong, Donald J. The Southern Cheyenne. The civilization of the American Indian series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979. OCLC 254915143. Dupuy, Trevor N., Curt Johnson, and David L. Bongard. The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. ISBN 978-0-06-270015-5. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. Civil War High Commands. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. Grinnell, George Bird. The Fighting Cheyenne. The civilization of the American Indian series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. ISBN 978-0-8061-0347-1. First published 1915 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Morris, John D. Sword of the Border: Major General Jacob Jennings Brown, 1775-1828. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-87338-659-0. Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sumner, Edwin Vose". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Library biographies Territorial Kansas Online biographical sketch | P0001.016/02-APP01#036 | ||||||
| 26 |  | 10/14/1944 | United States. Army–Inspection.; Port of Embarkation, Hampton Roads, Va. (U.S.).; United States. Army–Officers.; United States. Army. Camp Patrick Henry (Va.). Troop Movement Building T-6-89. | E-10386 - The following are shown in Troop Movement building t-6-89, CPH,: Janice D. Hayes, 118 Armistead St., Phoebus, Va., Typist CAF2 in Troop Movement Br., Pfc. Francis J. Pettee, 32081707, Hq. Co., Ste. Comp., home address - 17 Brookside, Brockton, Mass., Pvt. E. H. Davis, 34967338, Hq. Co. Sta. Comp., home address, Spartanburg, S.C., Col, Fountain, C.O., CPH, back towards camera, Maj. Anderson, Officer Ch. of Troop Movement Br., Lt. Col. Keel, Dir. Of Oper., Lt. Joseph J. Hanculak, T.C., 01946278, home address - 419 West 20th St., Hazelton, Pa., Capt. Nelson, Area 6 Commander, CPH, OP/D. 0270623, T.C., home address, Volga, South Dakota. Photo taken during Col. Fountain's inspection of Operations Division, CPH. 10-14-44 Official Photograph, U. S. Army Signal Corps, HRPE, Newport News, Va. | Offices–Virginia–Newport News.; Desks–Virginia–Newport News.; Office equipment and supplies–Virginia–Newport News. | Several officers in uniform and a woman in a civilian suit stand in a building with exposed rafters. Beside them are desks with blotters, and naked bulbs with pull cords hang overhead. | P0003/01-#E-10386 |
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