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Size | 30 items |
Abstract | MICROFILM AND PAPER: Papers of French Forrest (1796-1866), of Maryland, U.S. naval officer during the Mexican War and later an officer in the Confederate Navy; and of his son, Douglas F. Forrest (1837-1902), Confederate naval officer, lawyer in Baltimore, and Episcopal minister. There are a few loose papers in the collection. The bulk of the material is composed of account books from Clermont, the home of French Forrest at Alexandria, Va., and his order and letter books at Richmond and at the Confederate navy yard at Norfolk, Va. Also included are Douglas F. Forrest's diaries while serving in the Confederate Navy and in the West Indies, England, and France, 1863-1865, as an agent for the Confederate governsent, and a short diary and memoir, June 1865, of his start as an emigrant, via Texas, to Mexico. There are also four volumes of a diary he kept on a trip to Europe and the Holy Land, 1871, shortly after leaving the Virginia Theological Seminary, where he received his training for the Episcopal ministry. |
Creator | Forrest (Family : Forrest, French, 1796-1866) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008
Updated by: Dawne Howard Lucas, April 2021
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
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Douglas Forrest was born in Baltimore on 17 August 1837, was graduated from Yale in 1857, and attended law school, 1858-1860, at the University of Virginia. He practiced law at Alexandria, Va., 1860-1861, before joining the Army of Northern Virginia in 1861. During the war, he took three months sick furlough at Norfolk in 1862, and was paymaster of the Naval Station at Wilmington(?) in 1862 and at Richmond, 1862-1863. He spent the later years of the war abroad. After the war, he practiced law in Baltimore and became a minister of the Gospel in 1870. He was rector in Wytheville, Va., from 1873-1875 and in Ellicott City, Md., from 1875-1879.
Back to TopPapers of French Forrest (1796-1866), of Maryland, U.S. naval officer during the Mexican War and later an officer in the Confederate Navy; and of his son, Douglas F. Forrest (1837-1902), Confederate naval officer, lawyer in Baltimore, and Episcopal minister. There are a few loose papers in the collection. The bulk of the material is composed of account books from Clermont, the home of French Forrest at Alexandria, Va., and his order and letter books at Richmond and at the Confederate navy yard at Norfolk, Va. Also included are Douglas F. Forrest's diaries while serving in the Confederate Navy and in the West Indies, England, and France, 1863-1865, as an agent for the Confederate governsent, and a short diary and memoir, June 1865, of his start as an emigrant, via Texas, to Mexico. There are also four volumes of a diary he kept on a trip to Europe and the Holy Land, 1871, shortly after leaving the Virginia Theological Seminary, where he received his training for the Episcopal ministry.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Typed copies of certain sections of the Forrest diaries which are illegible on the microfilm.
The reels, originally in six pieces, have been spliced into two large reels, the divisions marking the original 6 reels. The material is not in perfect chronological order, so researchers may wish to use the following detailed list. Reel 1 pertains mainly to French Forrest, while the second reel contains papers of Douglas Forrest.