Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy 1775-1907
New York: Macmillan, 1909. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 12 inches by 14 inches. 2 Volumes. Top edges gilt. Volume I: vii, 153, [3] pages. Bibliography. Key to Abbreviations for Authorities Cited. Author Index, Subject Index. Printed on Recto side only. Bibliography in three column format. Indexes in five column format. Cover worn. Spine frayed. Front and Back hinges weak, and restrengthened with glue. Volume II has 487, [1] pages, most printed on each side of the sheet. It contains information primarily in statistical tabular form presented across two facing pages. The index at the back is in five column form. Cover worn, with tears, and spine frayed. Rear hinge weak and restrengthened with glue. The author believed that the best way to cover the subject was to divide the work into five parts, each to be complete in itself, and the whole to constitute a comprehensive reference work for our naval history. Part I--Administration of the Navy Department and events and dates of reference in United States Naval History; Part II--Engagements, expeditions, and captures of vessels of war; Part III--Captures of Merchantmen; Part IV--A complete record of every vessels service and fate; and Part V--American Privateers, 1775-1862; The States Navies, 1775-1783, The Confederate States Navy, 1861-1865. Under each event, in addition to the tabular date, the author has endeavored to give a complete list of references to the exact volume and page of every work dealing with the subject, and have enumerated in footnotes such statements, with their authorities, which in his opinion were at variance with the facts. Only Parts I,II & III presented. The author states in the Preface presented on page vii of Volume I: "As the first three parts, here offered, are complete in themselves, and contain data concerning every engagement, capture, expedition, or other achievement of the Navy prior to the 1st of January 1907, the remainder of the work may be considered, in a measure, supplementary. At present, however, no definite statement can be made as to when the other two parts will be finished; the researches necessary for their completion will cover a number of years and it would not, therefore, be wise to make any promises." Robert Wilden Neeser was born July 16, 1884, Seabright, NJ; missing since September 30, 1940, Lyons, France (later presumed dead). He studied government archives on naval history Washington, DC, 1906-7; with Charles Scribner's Sons, New York City, 1907-8, M A. Yale 1909, studied American and foreign naval history and accompanied United States naval forces on cruises 1909- 14, American representative "Oeuvre Mon Soldat 1915" (society to aid correspondence with French soldiers at the front 1915-18; awarded Medaille de la Reconnaissance Franchise 1918) and editor. Lettres de Mon Soldat (1916), volunteer assistant American naval attache, Pans, 1917-18; commissioned First Lieutenant, U.S Infantry, June 15, 1918; attached to Intelligence Section, Services of Supply, American Expeditionary Forces, and served as assistant to Chief of Operations, Second Section, General Staff, France, until discharge May 12, 1919; liaison officer historical section American naval attache, Pans, 1919-21; manager Western Union Telegraph Company, Paris, 1921-23; with National City Bank of New York, Paris, 1923-40, awarded French Academic palms 1919 and chevalier of Legion of Honor 1927; did research work at Bibhotheque Nationale, Pans; author: Statistical and Chronological History of the United States Navy; A Landsman's Log; Our Navy and the Next War; Our Many- Sided Navy, Ship Names of the United States Navy, translator: Rostand's Chantecler, Claudel Paul's Ute D'or, and The City; editor: American Naval Songs and Ballads, member Squadron A, New York National Guard, secretary-treasurer Naval History Society 1909-16, secretary Yale Alumni Association in France 1932-36; associate member Academie de Marine, member U S. Naval Institute (Annapolis), American Historical Association, and Navy committee of National Security League. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: United States Navy, Reference Works, Navy Department, Expeditions, Naval Operations, Naval Engagements, Merchantmen, Warships, Vessels of War, Naval Administration
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