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| Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 350 items) |
| Abstract | James Hamilton Tomb was the chief engineer in the Confederate and Brazilian navies and an officer of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. The collection contains the papers of two generations of naval officers. Papers of James Hamilton Tomb (died after 1900) of Florida include his memoirs of the Civil War when he was a chief engineering officer in the Confederate navy; correspondence (partly in Portuguese) while a Brazilian navy officer, 1866-1867, and recollections and manuscript drawings of a torpedo which sank a Brazilian warship; and postwar correspondence about Civil War naval actions with former Confederate and Union navy officers and other interested persons. The Civil War papers especially concern Confederate torpedoes and the submarines used in the attempt to break the Charleston blockade. Other papers include various records of the naval service of his sons, captains William Victor Tomb (died 1941) and James Harvey Tomb (died 1946), including a diary, 1917-1918, of W. T. Tomb while on convoy duty in the Atlantic during World War I. |
| Creator | Tomb, James Hamilton, 1839-1929. |
| Language | English |
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James Hamilton Tomb was the chief engineer in the Confederate and Brazilian navies and an officer of the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains the papers of two generations of naval officers. The papers of James Hamilton Tomb (died after 1900) of Florida include his memoirs of the Civil War when he was a chief engineering officer in the Confederate navy; correspondence (partly in Portuguese) while a Brazilian navy officer, 1866-1867, and recollections and manuscript drawings of a torpedo which sank a Brazilian warship; and postwar correspondence about Civil War naval actions with former Confederate and Union navy officers and other interested persons. The Civil War papers especially concern Confederate torpedoes and the submarines used in the attempt to break the Charleston blockade. Other papers include various records of the naval service of his sons, captains William Victor Tomb (died 1941) and James Harvey Tomb (died 1946), including a diary, 1917-1918, of W. T. Tomb while on convoy duty in the Atlantic during World War I.
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James Hamilton Tomb Papers, 1855-1936.
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Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011
This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.
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