AcknowledgmentsMrs. Ruth C. North and Rodman W. Chamberlain, two of Captain Chamberlain’s ten children, were especially helpful in gathering material for this book. Most of the volumes listed in the bibliography were found in the New York Public Library, and I owe a vote of thanks to Mr. Gilbert A. Cam for putting the facilities of the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at my disposal so that I would have a place to study and work from these volumes.Thanks to my brother Duncan Burchard for information about small arms of the Civil War period, and to my friend Victor Darnell for checking my descriptions of Naval vessels.For their cordial help, thanks to Kate Swift and James Pickering of the American Museum—Hayden Planetarium.A special vote of thanks goes to my friends in South Carolina: Jack Snow of St. Helena Island and Howard Danner of the Beaufort Historical Society, Robert Ochs, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, Lester Inabinett of the South Caroliniana Library and Virginia Rugheimer of the Charleston Library Society.
AcknowledgmentsMrs. Ruth C. North and Rodman W. Chamberlain, two of Captain Chamberlain’s ten children, were especially helpful in gathering material for this book. Most of the volumes listed in the bibliography were found in the New York Public Library, and I owe a vote of thanks to Mr. Gilbert A. Cam for putting the facilities of the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at my disposal so that I would have a place to study and work from these volumes.Thanks to my brother Duncan Burchard for information about small arms of the Civil War period, and to my friend Victor Darnell for checking my descriptions of Naval vessels.For their cordial help, thanks to Kate Swift and James Pickering of the American Museum—Hayden Planetarium.A special vote of thanks goes to my friends in South Carolina: Jack Snow of St. Helena Island and Howard Danner of the Beaufort Historical Society, Robert Ochs, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, Lester Inabinett of the South Caroliniana Library and Virginia Rugheimer of the Charleston Library Society.
Acknowledgments
Mrs. Ruth C. North and Rodman W. Chamberlain, two of Captain Chamberlain’s ten children, were especially helpful in gathering material for this book. Most of the volumes listed in the bibliography were found in the New York Public Library, and I owe a vote of thanks to Mr. Gilbert A. Cam for putting the facilities of the Frederick Lewis Allen Room at my disposal so that I would have a place to study and work from these volumes.
Thanks to my brother Duncan Burchard for information about small arms of the Civil War period, and to my friend Victor Darnell for checking my descriptions of Naval vessels.
For their cordial help, thanks to Kate Swift and James Pickering of the American Museum—Hayden Planetarium.
A special vote of thanks goes to my friends in South Carolina: Jack Snow of St. Helena Island and Howard Danner of the Beaufort Historical Society, Robert Ochs, Chairman of the Department of History at the University of South Carolina, Lester Inabinett of the South Caroliniana Library and Virginia Rugheimer of the Charleston Library Society.