This journal covers roughly the last year and a half of Jacobs' three-year enlistment in the United States Navy during the Civil War, from August 23, 1863 to December 8, 1864.
During the time that Jacobs kept this journal, he served aboard two…
The collection is comprised of two blueprint copies of presentation plans and a notebook, entitled “Specification of an Iron Clad Shot Proof Steam Floating Battery to be constructed with Steam Machinery and Turret complete and ready for Service by…