Notes Foreword 1. For permission to use the Anderson Papers, both those on loan to the University of North Carolina Library and in the Schwalb Collection (photocopies in The University of Alabama Library), and for her gracious assistance, the writer is indebted to Mrs. J. Fred (nee Florence Crane) Schwalb, Anderson's great-granddaughter, 121 E. Gwinnett St., Savannah. Among the many items in these collections is a seven-volume diary, or journal, kept by Anderson, covering the years Feb. 8, 1842June 26, 1846, 1861-1864, and 1869-1882. The 1861-1862 diary, edited by the writer as Confederate Foreign Agent: The European Diary ofMajor Edward C. Anderson, was issued in 1976 by the Confederate Publishing Co., University, Ala. 2. Throughout his diaries Anderson frequently reminisces about home and family, often expressing opinions about people and past events. For example, the comments quoted here about his father, mother, and boyhood were written Sept. 12, 1843, several years after he had joined the United States Navy. 3. George Anderson and Debrah (Grant) Anderson of New York City (Edward's grandparents) were married in 1763 and moved to Savannah shortly thereafter. He was owner of Georgia Pacquet which plied between Savannah and England. The father of three children (George, Jr., John, and Mary), he was lost at sea in Sept., 1775 (Anderson Genealogy, Schwalb Collection; Robert M. Myers, ed., The Children of Pride . .. [New Haven, 1973], 1452). 4. Dictionary ofAmerican Biography (New York, 1928+), I, 56470 (Bancroft); IV, 27 3-74 (Cogswell), hereinafter DAB. 5. Northampton Gazette, Oct. 8, 1823; May 27, 1830 and passim. Notes 77 6. Anderson's name leads the list of eighteen Round Hill scholars from Georgia in Names of Pupils of Round Hill School, Northampton , Mass.,from Its Commencement UntilJune, 1831 (Newport, R. I., 1862). The careers of Forbes and Motley are in DAB, VI, 507-08 and XII, 282-86. 7. Eliza Williamson of Savannah, sister of Sarah, Anderson's wife-to-be, attended Ghuerardi's school, 1826-1827 (letters, Nancy Read of Savannah to Eliza at Northampton, Aug. 23, Oct. I, 1826~and May 29, 1827, Schwalb Collection). 8. M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Life and Letters of George Bancroft (New York, 1908) II, 168ff. Bancroft (1800-1891) was def.?ated as the Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 1844, but was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President James K. Polk. In 1846-1849 he was am bassador to Great Britain and in 1867 minister to Germany. The last volume of his history was completed in 1876 (DAB, I, 564--70). 9. Upon leaving Round Hill, Cogswell (1766-1871) became headmaster of a school in Raleigh, N. C. In 1840 he joined the staff of the New York Public Library and from then until 1861 he devoted his time to building the John Jacob Astor Collection (ibid., IV, 273; Anna Eliot Ticknor, ed., The Life of Jos. G. Cogswell as Sketched in His Letters [Boston, 1874]). 10. Prospectus of a School To Be Established at Round Hill, Northampton ... (Cambridge, 1823); Some Account of the School for Liberal Education ofBoys Established at Round Hill ... (Northampton , 1826); and Outline of the System of Education at Round Hill School . .. (Boston, 1831). The institution is described in "The School at Northampton," United States Literary Gazette, I, 33132 (Feb. 15, 1825) and George E. Ellis, "Recollections of Round Hill School," Educational Review, I, 337-44 (Apr., 1891). II. On his twenty-ninth birthday Anderson again referred to his unhappy boyhood and the "thorns" of his youth (see above, n. 2 and Diary, Nov. 8, 1844). 12. Woodbury (1789-1851) was Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of the Navy under President Andrew Jackson (DAB, XX, 488-89). It is not unreasonable to suppose that Anderson [3.236.98.81] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 14:32 GMT) 78 Florida Territory in 1844 received Bancroft's support in obtaining this appointment. 13. "A Statement of the Services of Passed Mids Edward C. Anderson from the Time of His Entrance (or First Appointment ) to the 31st December, 1841" in "Returns of Services of Officers, 1825-1842" (Office of Naval Records and Library, National Archives, Washington, D. C. [hereinafter ONRL]). This manuscript volume, the only one of its kind prior to the Confederate War, gives in detail Anderson's record from Oct. 20, 1833 to Dec. 8, 1841. Additional information is in Thomas H. S. Hamersly, comp., Complete General Navy Register of the United States from 1776 to 1887 (Washington, 1888), 28...