Xll PREFACE 



to me. Of his living descendants, Mrs. James Parmelee, 

 a granddaughter, of Washington, D. C, and Mrs. Mat- 

 thew Fontaine Maury, Jr., a daughter-in-law, of Cin- 

 cinnati, Ohio gave me much assistance. Mrs. Werth of 

 Richmond, Virginia, and her two daughters, Mrs. N. 

 Montgomery Osborne of Norfolk, Virginia, and Mrs. 

 Littleton Fitzgerald of Richmond, very patiently an- 

 swered my numerous questions and furnished me inter- 

 esting and very desirable information. The list of all the 

 other persons who have helped me, in one way or another, 

 in the writing of this book would be too long to set down 

 in a preface ; but among the many I wish to single out by 

 name the following: Mr. J. C. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Chief, 

 Division of Manuscripts, Library of Congress; Captain 

 Edwin T. Pollock, U. S. Navy, Superintendent, and 

 Mr. William D. Horigan, Librarian, of the United States 

 Naval Observatory; Captain Dudley W. Knox, U. S. 

 Navy (Retired), Superintendent, and Miss Nannie 

 Dornin Barney, Archivist, of the Naval Records and 

 Library of the Navy Department; Mr. Andrew Keogh, 

 Librarian, Yale University Library; Mr. H. M. Lyden- 

 berg. Reference Librarian, New York Public Library; 

 Mr. Charles F. D. Belden, Director of the Public Library 

 of the City of Boston; Miss Helen C. Bates, Reference 

 Librarian, Detroit Public Library; Dr. William G. 

 Stanard, Corresponding Secretary and Librarian, Vir- 

 ginia Historial Society; Mr. Edward V. Valentine, 

 Acting President of the Virginia Historical Society; Dr. 

 H. R. Mcllwaine, Librarian of the Virginia State Li- 

 brary; R. H. Crockett, Esq., Miss Susie Gentry, and Mr. 

 Park Marshall, Vice President of the Tennessee Histori- 

 cal Society, — all of Franklin, Tennessee; Mr. John 



