Box 1
Container
Contains 162 Results:
Contemporary copy of letter of Major General John C. Fremont, Western Department, to James B. Eads. In response to Eads’ request, he states the steps Eads took in preparing to convert Submarine No. 7 into a gunboat., [1862]
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
[1862]
Letter signed Frank P. Blair, Jr., Washington City, to James B. Eads, St. Louis. He has seen Capt. Fox and Secretary Welles and they have agreed that Eads should build four ironclads for $530,000., 1861[1862] Jan 6
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1861[1862] Jan 6
Draft of telegram signed Frank P. Blair, Jr., Washington City, to James B. Eads, St. Louis. "Your proposition to build four iron clad ships . . . is accepted on the terms proposed. . . ." [accession number: 57-0045], 1861[1862] Jan 6
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1861[1862] Jan 6
Draft of telegram of Frank P. Blair, Jr., Washington City, to James B. Eads, St. Louis. "You must come here. Let arrangements you make be conditional. It is positive that you get four vessels." [accession number: 57-0045], 1861[1862] Jan 10
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1861[1862] Jan 10
Note signed H.W. Halleck [Henry W. Halleck], St. Louis, to Brigadier General W.T. Sherman [William T. Sherman], Benton Barracks. "If Eades' Reserve Corps has not been mustered out, postpone it a few days till pay Dept get funds." [purchased from Forest H. Sweet, Battle Creek, Michigan, December 6, 1955], 1862 Jan 11
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1862 Jan 11
Contemporary copy of document signed A.W. Pennick, R.N. Stembel, and Jas. R. McGee [James R. McGee], certifying "that the work on the seven gunboats built by Mr. James B. Eads, the contractor, has been completed according to the terms of the contract with the government, excepting the time at which they ought to have been finished and delivered at Cairo." Includes note of Flag Officer A.H. Foote: "Upon the above certificate I have accepted the gunboats from Mr. Eads the contractor.", 1862 Jan 15
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1862 Jan 15
Letter signed Brigadier General D.S. Stanley, St. Louis, to Lieutenant J.T. How. Offers Lieut. How the post of aide-de-camp on his staff., 1862 Jan 20
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1862 Jan 20
Printed letter of James B. Eads, Washington, to Brigadier General M.C. Meigs, quartermaster general. Protests the forfeiture in the matter of the contract for building gunboats on the Mississippi River. The government refuses final payment as they were not delivered in the time stipulated, and he gives the reasons for the delay., 1862 Jan 27
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1862 Jan 27
Contemporary copy of letter of Edward Bates, Washington City, to Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. Pleads Eads’ case in regard to nonpayment by the U.S. government for gunboats built by Eads., 1862 Mar 5
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1862 Mar 5
Letter signed Caroline Foote, Cleveland, to James B. Eads, St. Louis. States that she would highly prize the portrait of her husband, Admiral A.H. Foote, which Eads offered to send., 1862 June 12
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains professional and personal correspondence of James B. Eads with Edward Bates, Gideon Welles, Gustavus Fox, Henry Taylor Blow, Frank P. Blair, Jr., Baron Gerolt, and others. Includes papers relating to Eads' construction of gunboats during the Civil War and the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge (also known as the Eads Bridge). The collection also includes 20th-century newspaper clippings regarding James B. Eads and relations; cancelled stock certificates...
Dates:
1862 June 12