Tag: USS Carondelet
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USS Carondelet Spotlight: Nativity & Ethnicity on a Union Gunboat
In our first two posts on Civil War Bluejackets we focused on individuals, exploring what they can reveal about immigrant and African American service in the Union Navy. Another of our aims with the muster roll transcription project is to see what the wider data set can tell us, and what questions it might raise. One way…
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USS Carondelet Spotlight: Reconstructing Individual Lives-Irish Immigrant James Carey
Our first post on Civil War Bluejackets sought to demonstrate how the muster rolls allow for a detailed look at the often hard to reach experiences of formerly enslaved African Americans. They also provide a similar opportunity with working class European immigrants. Given that March marks Irish American Heritage Month in the United States, we decided to take a…
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