(Title: A reply to an attack made upon the navy of the Uni...)
Title: A reply to an attack made upon the navy of the United States by Samuel E. Coues, president of the Peace Society. Author: Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP04731300 CollectionID: CTRG04-B268 PublicationDate: 18450101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: "In which a brief notice is taken of the recent Fourth of July oration, delivered at Boston by Charles Sumner." Collation: 23 p. ; 23 cm
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Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough was born on February 18, 1805, at Washington, D. C. He was the son of Charles Washington and Catharine (Roberts) Goldsborough. His father, of the well-known Maryland family, was chief clerk of the Navy Department and author of The United States’ Naval Chronicle (1824).
Goldsborough received a midshipman’s warrant in 1812 but saw no service until 1816. In 1823-24, he was acting lieutenant and in 1825, received a lieutenant’s commission. Shortly thereafter he was given leave of absence to study in Paris and also visited Switzerland and Italy.
While serving in the Mediterranean (1827 - 29), Goldsborough commanded four boats that recaptured an English brig from pirates. In 1830, he was given charge of the newly created Depot of Charts and Instruments at Washington, established in pursuance of a plan which he himself had suggested to the Secretary of the Navy; in this capacity, he served a little more than two years.
In 1833, Goldsborough led a band of German emigrants to Wirt’s estates near Monticello, Florida; he commanded a steamboat expedition and later a company of mounted volunteers in the Seminole War.
He then returned to the navy. Made commander in 1841, he was stationed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1843-46. In 1845, he published A Reply by L. M. Goldsborough to Attack made upon the Navy of the United States and sometime later, a Letter to the Secretary of the Navy Concerning Asshnilated Rank.
During the Mexican War, he commanded the Ohio, and led an attack on Tuxpan. He was senior naval member of a commission which explored California and Oregon, 1849-50, was superintendent of the Naval Academy, 1853-57, being made captain in 1855, was at the Washington Navy Yard for a time, and commanded the Brazil Squadron, 1859-61.
On September 23, 1861, he took command of the Atlantic Blockading Squadron. When it was divided, October 29, he retained command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
He commanded the fleet which early in 1862, with 12, 000 troops under Gen. Burnside, attacked the coast of North Carolina, capturing Roanoke Island and destroying a Confederate fleet.
These achievements won him the “thanks of Congress” and the consequent right to fifty-five years’ service before retirement. He soon returned to the James, where the Monitor and the Merrimac had fought in his absence. When the latter reappeared, with the approval of the Navy Department he avoided a fight.
Ordered to assist in the Peninsular campaign, he told McClellan that he could neither control the James nor take Yorktown because his first duty was to watch the Merrimac.
After the capture of Yorktown, the James River flotilla was strengthened, and the President ordered the military and naval forces to cooperate in an advance toward Richmond.
After the destruction of the Merrimac on May 11, the flotilla attacked Drewry’s Bluff, eight miles from Richmond, but was repulsed on May 15. Assistant Secretary Fox still hoped the Navy would take Richmond, but Goldsborough was convinced that the navy could do nothing further until the army by a land attack had reduced the defenses at the Bluff.
McClellan, who was not ready then, was later ordered to abandon the campaign, and on July 6, the James River flotilla was made an independent command, under Commodore Charles Wilkes.
This action on the part of the Navy Department and attacks upon him in the press made Goldsborough think his usefulness was ended, and at his own request, he was relieved on September 4, 1862.
He had been made a rear-admiral, July 16, 1862, and he performed important administrative duties at Washington until 1865, when he took charge of the European Squadron, with orders to look for Confederate cruisers.
His retirement was due in 1867, but in response to his wife’s personal pleas and in the face of opposition from naval officials, was postponed by order of the President. He was again stationed in Washington during 1868-73 and then retired.
(Title: A reply to an attack made upon the navy of the Uni...)
On November 1, 1831, Goldsborough was married to Elizabeth Gamble Wirt, daughter of William Wirt. Three children were born to them.
