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                WILLIAM ROBERT INGE DALTON PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Miscellaneous typed items, undated, including the
           Civil War reminiscences of William Robert Inge Dalton,
           Confederate naval courier to England and France; an
           account by Hamilton H. Dalton of his service with the
           U.S. Navy off the African coast, including the capture
           of a slave ship; and a Henderson family genealogy.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Confederate States of America. Navy--Biography.
   Dalton, Hamilton H.
   Dalton, William Robert Inge, 1841-1931.
   Henderson family--Genealogy.
   Slave-trade.
   United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal
       narratives.
   United States. Navy--Biography.

Size:  8 items (1 folder).

Provenance:    Received from Louise A. Weynant of Seattle, Wash.,
               in January 1977.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust. 

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.

Table of Contents:
       Biographical Note
       Description

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   William Robert Inge Dalton, the son of Robert Hunter and Jane
Martin Henderson Dalton, was born 6 December 1841 in Livingston,
Ala.  He entered the U.S. Naval Academy in 1859, but resigned in
1861 to join the Confederate Navy.  His service was chiefly in
bearing dispatches to the Confederate ministers in London and
Paris.

   After the war, he studied medicine and, in 1884, received a
medical degree from St. Louis College.  From 1884 to 1903, Dalton
practiced in New York City, where he became an expert in
dermatology.  He moved to Seattle, Wash., in 1903 and continued
his medical practice until 1918.  He died in Seattle on 25 May
1931.

                           DESCRIPTION

   These papers include a biographical sketch of Dalton, taken
from Volume LI of the Encyclopedia of American Biography and
sketches by Dalton of his Confederate naval service, including
his meeting with Napoleon III; running the blockade at
Charleston, S.C.; the sinking of the Margaret and Jessie by the
Rhode Island off the Bahamas; his voyage to England after the
shipwreck and his work there and in France; his continuing
friendship with naval colleagues in the federal forces; and
friends with whom he served in the Confederate Navy.

   There is also a letter, 5 March 1894, from Dalton to Charles
R. Flint and Company, reporting on the cruise of the America to
Brazil and evaluating her officers; an account by Hamilton H.
Dalton of his service with the U.S. Navy off the African coast
and the capture of a slave ship; and a genealogy of the Henderson
family written by Thomas Henderson Pritchard in 1894.