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Ives was born in 1828 in New York City, New York, United States.
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Steamboat up the Colorado;: From the journal of Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, United States Topographical Engineers, 1857-1858
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Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida, South of Tampa Bay (Classic Reprint)
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Joseph Christmas Ives
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Joseph Christmas was graduated from the United States Military Academy in July 1852.
Career
Ives was appointed brevet second lieutenant of ordnance in the United States Army in 1852. The following year he was transferred to the Topographical Engineers and served as assistant to Lieut. A. W. Whipple in the Pacific Railroad survey along the 35th parallel (1853 - 54).
After three years in the Pacific Railroad office in Washington, Ives was promoted to first lieutenant and placed in command of the expedition sent to explore the Colorado River (1857 - 58). The navigability of the river having been ascertained by Lieut. George H. Derby and George A. Johnson, Ives made a minute hydrographic survey, using an iron steamer built in Philadelphia and shipped in sections via Panama and San Francisco. Leaving the unwieldy steamer at the mouth of the Black Canyon, he continued his explorations by skiff and later made a land journey over the route traversed in 1776 by the missionary priest Francisco Garces on his march to Oraibi.
In 1859-60 he served as engineer and architect of the Washington national monument, after which he became astronomer and surveyor to the commission sent to survey the boundary between California and the intervening United States territories (1860 - 61).
Appointed captain in May 1861, he declined the appointment and was commissioned captain of engineers in the Confederate army. In November 8, 1861, he was appointed by General Lee chief engineer of the department composed of the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and East Florida. During 1861-62 he was engaged in perfecting the defenses of Savannah and Charleston, and was promoted colonel. He then undertook the obstruction of the rivers of North Carolina (1863) and was appointed aide-de-camp to President Davis (1863 - 65), in which capacity he made tours of inspection and investigations of the several military departments. In December 1864 he was sent by Davis to aid General Beauregard in the defense of the city of Charleston.
After the war he lived in New York City, where he died in November 1868.
Achievements
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The comprehensive observations of Joseph Christmas Ives's expedition to the Colorado River were a distinct contribution to the knowledge of a little-known and superficially explored region. The vivid descriptions in Ives's interesting and valuable "Report upon the Colorado River of the West" were highly appreciated. Ives also prepared such famous works as a Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida, South of Tampa Bay (1856) and Military Maps of the Seat of War in Italy (1859).
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Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida, South of Tampa Bay (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Pe...)
- Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, Explored in 1857-1858
- Steamboat up the Colorado;: From the journal of Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives, United States Topographical Engineers, 1857-1858
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Memoir to Accompany a Military Map of the Peninsula of Florida, South of Tampa Bay (Classic Reprint)
Connections
In 1855 Ives married Cora Semmes Ives.
References
- **REPRINT** Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935. The romance of the Colorado river; the story of its discovery in 1540, with an account of the later explorations, and with special reference to the voyages of Powell through the line of the great canyons, by F**REPRINT**
- SURVEYING THE GRAND CANYON OF THE COLORADO An Account of the 1923 Boating Expedition of the United State Geological Survey
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Nationality
American