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THE COAST SURVEY
1807-1867
Title Page
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I - The Hassler Legacy:
Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler and the United States Coast Survey 1
The Early Years 2
America 4
Beginnings of the Survey of the Coast 5
The Professor 7
Off to England 9
First Survey Work 11
A Bad Surprise14
End Notes 16
Years of Struggle 19
Magnum Opus 20
Colonel Roberdeau's Response to the "Papers" 27
Hassler's Reply 28
Purgatory 30
End Notes 34
The Rebirth of the Survey 37
Transfer to the Navy 42
The Great Fire Island Base Line 43
First Soundings 46
Amos Kendall, The Fourth Auditor 50
Back to Treasury 55
The Matter of Compensation 58
End Notes
Sketches of Hassler 67
Appearance and Demeanor 67
Manners of Speech 69
Quarrelsome Nature 70
As a Manager 72
A Man Possessed 73
In the Field 74
A Kind Man 76
End Notes 77
The Work 80
Field Work 80
Tramping with the Survey 81
The Office 83
End Notes 86
The Last Battle 87
The House Resolution 87
The Congressional Investigation of 1842 92
House Debate on the Coast Survey Appropriation 97
End Notes 108
The End of an Era 111
Part II - The Bache Years 118
Changing the Guard 118
Who Was Alexander Dallas Bache? 118
Consolidating Power 122
Building the Structure 128
End Notes 137
Bache's Early Years
1844 - The First Year 140
1845-1849 144
Bache's Golden Years: 1850-1860 186
Running the Survey 186
Progress 186
Personnel Policies 189
Politics 198
The End of the Ante-Bellum Era 220
End Notes 225
The Field Work 230
Reconnaissance 231
Triangulation 235
New England Coast 235
The Southeast Coast - Virginia to Georgia 238
Florida 242
Louisiana Coast 244
Texas Coast 246
Topography 247
An Inventory of the Coast - A First Critical Look 248
The Northeast Coast 248
The Southeast Coast - Virginia to Georgia 249
Florida 251
The Northern Gulf 253
Texas 254
Resurveys - Looking Again 255
Missionaries for Commerce and Science 258
Hydrography 260
The Surveys 261
The Discoveries 264
A Dynamic Coast 267
The Human Influence 270
Helping Light the Coast 279
End Notes 283
Life in the Field 292
A Year in the Life of Sub-Assistant J. Morris Wampler 292
Bache in the Field 301
Ships in the Field - A Dirty Dangerous Job 307
The PHOENIX on the Gulf Coast 307
A Hard Luck Ship - The HETZEL 312
The Fire Ship 315
Stormy Weather 316
The Eclipse Expedition 320
Collision at Sea 322
Helping Others 327
Coast Surveyors in the Field - A Final View 329
End Notes 331
The Frontier Coast 335
The First Year 335
Around Cape Horn on the "EWING" 338
McArthur on the West Coast 340
Davidson Heads West 345
Finishing the First Look - 1851-1858 354
The Wreck of the JEFFERSON 355
Outlining the Coast 358
The Davidson-Alden Problem 364
Filling in the Details 370
The End of the Pacific Frontier 397
End Notes 410
The Information Factory 417
A New Assistant-in-Charge 418
A Major Problem 421
James McNeill Whistler and the Coast Survey Office 424
Innovations 428
Electrotyping 428
Photography 431
Getting out the Data 434
End Notes 445
Science and the Survey 449
The Great Gift - Numerical Analysis 449
Coast Survey Methods 452
Benjamin Peirce and the Ultimate Limits of Accuracy 453
"Most Probable Values" 456
Predicting the Future 458
Building an American Science Community 464
The Joseph Henry Letter of 1838 464
The American Association for the Advancement of Science 466
The National Academy of Sciences 471
The Aftermath 476
End Notes 478
Part III - The Coast Survey in the Civil War 1861-1865 481
Section I
Introduction 482
The Coming of War 483
The Strategic Contribution 488
The Coast Survey and Naval Operations During the Civil War 494
The Battle of Port Royal Sound 494
On to New Orleans 498
The Mississippi River Squadron 505
The Forgotten War - South of Hatteras 517
End Notes 535
Section II
The Coast Survey and Army Operations During the Civil War 542
Mapping Methods 542
Into the Field 543
With McClellan to the Gates of Richmond 547
The Department of the Gulf 553
Tennessee 557
Chattanooga 557
Knoxville and Nashville 563
Service in the East 564
Marching with Sherman 570
The Volunteers 571
The Volunteer Naval Officers 571
An Ugly Customer 573
The Insulter of Unprotected Females 573
Wounding Oneself in the Foot 579
The Charleston Blockade and the MEMPHIS 581
The Test 585
In the Gulf 587
A North Carolina Yankee Sailor 590
The Pilot 593
The Volunteer Army Officers - The Generals 594
"Iron Sam" 594
The Army's Navy 599
The Unknown General 606
The Office and the Superintendent 608
End Notes 614
Epilogue 620
End Notes 623
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