Recruiting & enlistment; Military organizations; Artillery (Troops)
Recruiting poster for Battery B, 5th U.S. Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Henry Algernon du Pont. The poster was made while Battery B was encamped near Hagerstown, Maryland.
Typed caption: "Hist. #8 Du Pont Company Hagley Powder Yard at foot of hill below Christ Church, Wilmington, Delaware. At left is the old machine shop. The building opposite with the dark-colored steps was used as the powder foreman's office. ...
Tintype of Robert Smalls, who along with sixteen other slaves sailed the Confederate steamer "Planter" out of Charleston Harbor and into the hands of the U.S. Navy's South Atlantic Blockading Squadron on 13 May 1862. Smalls and his accomplices...
Military officers; Navies; Blockades; Armored vessels
Career Navy officer Percival Drayton served as a junior commander in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and later as Fleet Captain of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Rear-Admiral David G....
Caption on reverse: "Statue of Rear Admiral S. F. Du Pont when it stood in Du Pont Circle, Washington, D.C. - looking north, up Connecticut Avenue." The statue was designed by sculptor Launt Thompson and dedicated on 20 December 1884. Members of...
Caption on reverse: "This photograph of Admiral Du Pont's house on the Louviers estate was given to Dorsey Gardner by Mrs. Du Pont (Aunt Sophie) and by him to me Bessie Gardner du Pont. In the photograph Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and Mrs. Du...
Military officers; Sailors; Navies; Ships; Ship equipment & rigging
Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont and staff standing on the quarterdeck of the U.S.S. Wabash. Many of the ship's sailors can be seen in the background.
Caption on reverse: "Picture taken on board the U.S.S. Wabash, in the harbor of Port Royal, South Carolina in 1862, and presented by J. C. Vail of Morristown, N.J. to Senator H. A. du Pont of Delaware in memory of Rear-Admiral S. F. Du Pont, April...
