[CIVIL WAR - NAVY]. A group of War-era pamphlets concerning the Navy, naval battles, and courts-martial, with Admiral Porter's Naval History, comprising:

The Chase of the Rebel Steamer of War Oreto, Commander J.N. Maffitt, C.S.N. into the Bay of Mobile, by the United States Steam Sloop Oneida, Commander Geo. Henry Preble, U.S.N. September 4, 1862. Cambridge: Printed for Private Circulation, 1862. INSCRIBED BY COMMANDER GEORGE HENRY PREBLE. Documented here, Preble commanded the U.S.S. Oneida as a part of Farragut's fleet in the successful capture of Mobile Bay. Sabin 12217. -- Defence [sic] of Com. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., Late Acting Rear Admiral, in Command of the West India Squadron Read Before a General Court Martial, on Charges Preferred by the Secretary of the Navy. Washington DC: McGill & Witherow, 1864. Provenance: Burlington, Iowa Public Library (library stamps). -- Appendix. The Iron-Clads. Voyages of the Monadnock to San Francisco, and the Miantonomah to Europe. [Washington?]: N.p., [1865]. Provenance: Burlington, Iowa Public Library (library stamps). -- The Navy in Congress: Being Speeches of the Hon. Messrs. Grimes, Doolittle, and Nye: of the senate. And the Hon. Messrs. Rice, Pike, Griswold, and Blow; of the House of Representatives. Washington DC: Franck Taylor, 1865. Provenance: State Historical Society of Wisconsin (library stamps, discarded stamps). Sabin 52127. -- JENKINS, Thornton (1811-1893). Paper read by Commodore Thornton A. Jenkins, U.S. Navy, before the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives January 212, 1868, in reply to Rear Admiral Goldsborough's claim to be continued on the active list of the Navy. N.p.: N.p., [1868]. Provenance: State Historical Society of Wisconsin (library stamps, discarded stamps). Sabin 36018. -- And 3 others. Together, 8 works in 8 volumes, all FIRST EDTION, 8vo, wrappers, condition generally very good.

[With:] PORTER, David Dixon (1813-1891). The Naval History of the Civil War. New York: The Sherman Publishing Company, 1886. 4to. Frontispiece with in-text illustrations. (Minor even toning.) Original publisher's illustrated yellow-brown cloth gilt (some soiling, very minor wear to edges). FIRST EDITION.

Property from the Estate of Henry G. Lamont, Racine, Wisconsin

[CIVIL WAR - NAVY]. A group of War-era pamphlets concerning the Navy, naval battles, and courts-martial, with Admiral Porter's Naval History, comprising: