Last fall, we in the Archives received a request, as we often do, from theHistory Department of Christopher Newport University, to provide an internship opportunity for a young man who was to graduate the following spring. Usually this is not difficult for us. This year, however, we could think of nothing to do for young Thomas Fosdick (the CNU student in question) and nearly gave up. The pandemic made it impossible for him to come on site and work on archival material. However, both Bill Barker (fellow archivist) and I knew that log book transcriptions could work. So I found a small logbook dating from the Civil War kept by the captain of the steamer安德鲁更努力。但我选择的日志192涉及我们希望托马斯能够为我们解决的内在谜团。谁是这个途中？
运输安德鲁更努力
在真正解决速度的身份问题之前，我们必须了解关于这次蒸笼的服务的基本事实。这安德鲁更努力was a practically new vessel, a screw steamboat built in 1863 for service on the Hudson River between Stuyvesant, NY and New York City.
