A Civil War Gunboat in Pacific Waters: Life Aboard the USS Saginaw

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Notes Chapter 1. A New Ship for a New Ocean 1. Hayward, “A Gazetteer of the United States of America.” 2. Delgado, To California by Sea, 48. 3. Canney (quoting Schufeldt report, April 1870), Old Steam Navy, 282. 4. Barnes (quoting Hegel), A History of Historical Writing, 196. 5. Franke (quoting von Ranke), China and the West, 142. 6. Canney, Old Steam Navy, 71. 7. Report of the Secretary of the Navy, 1858. 8. Norris and Griffiths to Toucey, June 18, 1858, U.S. Navy Subject File, Record Group 45, NAB (National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.). 9. Cunningham to Bureau of Construction, July 17, 1858, U.S. Navy Subject File, Record Group 45, NAB. 10. McCleary, “Nineteenth-Century Building Instructions,” 142. 11. In 1863, following refit, Saginaw’s armament expanded to include one Dahlgren 50-pounder rifle, one 32-pounder, and two 24-pounder rifled cannon (see Saginaw ZB file, Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C.). At the time of the ship’s loss in 1870, Saginaw carried two Parrott 30-pounder rifled cannon and four 24-pounder broadside cannon (see Baldwin, “Narrative of William Halford,” 1287). 12. Saginaw ZB file, Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. 13. Donahue, January 10, 1859, Records of the U.S. General Accounting Office, Navy Contracts 1795–1893, Record Group 217, NAB. 14. Canney, Old Steam Navy, 88. 15. McCleary, “Nineteenth-Century Building Instructions,” 149. 16. Hubbard, Vallejo, 348. 17. Zadwick, “The Early Days of Mare Island’s Naval History,” 2. 18. “A Visit to Mare Island,” December 13, 1857, History Subject File, Naval District 12, Record Group 181, NARA—Pacific Region (San Francisco). 19. Ibid. The writer for the Daily Alta California was taken on a tour of the shipyard by naval constructor Isaiah Hanscom, the builder of Saginaw. 20. Milwaukee Daily Sentinel, August 4, 1869. 21. New York Herald, January 15, 1860. 22. Ibid. 23. Ibid. 24. San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, January 30, 1860. 25. Cunningham to Toucey, January 31, 1860, excerpt in Boston Daily Advertiser, March 9, 1860. 26. Pacific Commercial Advertiser, March 22, 1860. 27. Teng, Americans and the Taiping Rebellion. 28. Ward to Cass, February 13, 1860, Despatches from United States Ministers to China (National Archives Microfilm M92, roll 20), Record Group 59, NAB. Chapter 2. Seasoning on the China Station 1. Toucey to Stribling, June 10, 1859, Confidential and Other Letters, Telegrams, and Cablegrams, 1843–1886, Record Group 45, NAB. 2. Franklin, Memories of a Rear Admiral, 14. 3. Spence, The Search for Modern China, 180. 4. December 15, 1869, Confidential and Other Letters, Telegrams, and Cablegrams 1843–1886, Record Group 45, NAB. 5. Johnson, Far China Station, 107. 6. Ward to Cass, February 18, 1860, Despatches from United States Ministers to China (National Archives Microfilm M92, roll 20), Record Group 59, NAB. 7. Pacific Commercial Advertiser, March 22, 1860. 8. August 19, 1860, Medical Journals of Ships, 1813–1910 (Saginaw), Record Group 52, NAB. 9. Ibid., March 21, 1860. 10. Stribling to Walloch, May 9, 1860, Squadron Letters 1841–1886 (National Archives Microfilm M89), Record Group 45, NAB. 11. Smith to Cass, April 26, 1860, Despatches from United States Ministers to China (National Archives Microfilm M112, roll 5), Record Group 59, NAB. 12. Ibid., November 3, 1860. 13. Ward to Cass, September 3, 1860, Despatches from United States Ministers to China (National Archives Microfilm M92, roll 20), Record Group 59, NAB. 14. Teng, Americans and the Taiping Rebellion, 223. 15. Spence, God’s Chinese Son, 279. 16. October 15, 1860, Medical Journals of Ships, 1813–1910 (Saginaw), Record Group 52, NAB. 17. Ibid. 18. Stribling to Toucey, September 1, 1860, Squadron Letters 1841–1886 (National Archives Microfilm M89), Record Group 45, NAB. 19. September 25, 1860, Medical Journals of Ships, 1813–1910 (Saginaw), Record Group 52, NAB. 20. Stribling to Toucey, October 3, 1860, Squadron Letters 1841–1886 (National Archives Microfilm M89), Record Group 45, NAB. 21. Harris to Cass, December 27, 1860, Despatches from United States Ministers to Japan (National Archives Microfilm M133), Record Group 59, NAB. 22. Stribling to Toucey, September 18, 1860, Squadron Letters 1841–1886 (National Archives Microfilm M89), Record Group 45, NAB. 326 u Notes to Pages 31–49 23. Ibid. 24. Harris to Cass, February 14, 1860, Despatches from United States Ministers to Japan (National Archives Microfilm M133), Record Group 59, NAB. 25. Ibid., August 1, 1860. 26. Mayers, Dennys, and King, The Treaty Ports of China...