Military organizations; Clothing & dress; Military officers
Resolution of thanks from Company A, 1st Regiment Delaware Volunteers to Captain Febeker, Company A, 1st Regiment Home Guards, for a donation of gloves. A letter from E. Y. Watson, Captain of Company A, 1st Delaware Volunteers, is included. Both...
Military organizations; Forts & fortifications; Military officers
Special order issued by Brigadier General Albin Schoepf, commander of Fort Delaware, directing Captain Lammot du Pont and Captain Hugh Stirling to detach men from their companies (Companies B and D, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry) to work in the...
Military organizations; Forts & fortifications; Military officers
Special order issued by Brigadier General Albin Schoepf, commander of Fort Delaware, directing Captain Lammot du Pont and Captain Hugh Stirling to take their companies (Companies B and D, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry) to the DuPont powder yards.
Artillery (Troops); Forts & fortifications; Military officers
Reichard, a Captain in Battery M, 3rd Pennsylvania Artillery, asks Lammot du Pont's help in getting his unit transferred out of Fort Delaware, which he calls a "horrid Post!" Reichard also mentions a visit with Henry du Pont.
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....
Text from back of image: "The Mackay Air Trophy which was won for 1933 by Captain Westside T. Larson, Army Air Corps, in recognition of his pioneering flights in connection with the development of methods and procedure of aerial frontier defense....
The Honorable Cordell Hull, Secretary of State in President Roosevelt's cabinet, was awarded the first annual Captain Robert Dollar gold plaque and citation as the American making the most outstanding contribution to world trade during the past...
Military organizations; Soldiers; Military officers
Orders for Company B from Captain Lammot du Pont. They include the formal dismissal of an underage company member along with times and places for drilling.
Captain Hugh Stirling, commander of Company D, 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, asks if one of du Pont's noncommissioned officers would help him figure out how to use some of the military equipment issued to his company.
Forts & fortifications; Military officers; Prisoners of war
Description of conditions at Fort Delaware by Lammot du Pont. The fort was used to house Confederate prisoners of war. Lammot du Pont served as Captain of Company B of the 5th Delaware Volunteer Infantry, which was assigned to the fort in June...
Military officers; Military organizations; Military rations
Copy of telegram from James M. Peoples to Major Henry B. Judd. Peoples, Captain of Company A, 7th Regiment Delaware Volunteer Infantry, requests information on rations. Henry B. Judd was the U.S. Army liaison officer in Wilmington, Delaware.
Correspondence from wife to husband regarding every day life while he is away at war. Sophie mentions Captain Davis, Henry Winter Davis, Mrs. Welsh, General Anderson, and Clementina and Harriet Smith. Parts of the letter are written in French....
Correspondence written from wife to husband regarding his recent letters and her every day life. Sophie comments on the trials of General Sherman and sympathizes with the hardships of her husband in the war. Letter continues onto December 17th with...
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...
Bill of lading for five boxes of hard ware from Brugiere and Tessiere in Philadelphia to Aubin LaForest in Richmond, via Schooner Helena, Captain Pearson.
Correspondence regarding the arrival of passengers on the ships "Minerva" (Captain Miller) and "John Kerr" (Captain Taitt) from Londonderry to Wilmington, Delaware, including James Moore (William Moore, sponsor); Richard Moore (John Moore,...
