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MEN WE ARE PROUD OF 
 
 A COLLECTION OF STEEL-PLATE 
 PORTRAITS OF THE CHIEF ACTORS 
 IN OUR CONFLICT WITH SPAIN 
 
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 PUBLISHED BY 
 
 A. E. FRANCIS and R. P. STRINE 
 
 PHILADELPHIA 
 1899 
 
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 JS ■% ^Lumbered among the immortal lights of history will be 
 
 )Sfs f SH/ the names of America's sons, who played important 
 
 ^s£j?$' parts in the war drama recently enacted between Spain 
 
 ^^*" and the United States, the climax of which resulted in 
 
 the downfall of despotism, the freedom of millions, relief of the 
 
 oppressed, the shouldering of new and mighty responsibilities by 
 
 our strong young nation and the unfurling of the American flag 
 
 in distant lands, where it will carry a message of free thought, 
 
 free speech, free life. 
 
 To-day the sun never sets on the starry banner of freedom. 
 Through righteous conquest the United States of America has 
 added to her galaxy of sister states lands that will prove of 
 immense advantage to American commerce. New administrations 
 will soon develop latent energies, and American pluck and enter- 
 prise will wrest the richest benefits they can be made to yield 
 from the drowsy embrace of tropical lands. 
 
 No nation can, or need be, prouder of her sons. The portraits 
 contained herein depict faithfully and accurately the features of 
 these, our countrymen, who have earned immortal place in the 
 archives of American history. Each subject is the best possible 
 result of the engraver's art, and is of sufficient merit from an 
 artistic view to occupy an honored place. 
 
 It is the desire of the publishers to enable the American public 
 to obtain a collection of steel-plate portraits of such evident merit 
 that they will be preserved for their value as art productions as 
 well as for the fame of the personalities they reflect. Nothing 
 has been spared to make these portraits what they should be. 
 They are each the work of an artist, and are entitled to a con- 
 spicuous position in every American home. 
 
 
WILLIAM M'KINLEY 
 
 William Mi Kimfv, the President of the United States, was born in Niles, 
 Ohio, on tin 29th of fanuary, 1843. '' l - began his education in the public 
 ;chools and afterward attended Poland Academy and Allegheny College. 
 Following tlir completion of his course of studies, and until his enlistment 
 in the army, he taught school. He enlisted as a private in the Twenty- 
 third Ohio Infantry in [861, and ruse through the successive grades until, 
 mi March 13, 1865, he was breveted Majoi of United States Volunteers by 
 President Lincoln for gallantry in battle. In the interval he served on 
 the stalls of Generals R. B. Hayes, G. VV. Crook and W. S. Hancock. 
 
 II. was detailed as Acting Assistant Adjutant General of the First 
 Division of the First Army Corps until he was mustered out on the 26th 
 of Jul_\', [865. lie at once took up the study of law in Mahoning County, 
 Ohio ; afterward took a course in the Albany, New York, Law Si hool. In 
 [867 Major McKinley was admitted to the < )hio bar. and in 1869 became 
 tlu Prosecuting Attorney of Stark County. He served as a member of 
 
 ress from [876 to [891, and, when Chairman of the Ways and Means 
 Committee in 1890, reported the pr tariff measure popularly known 
 
 as the "McKinley Bill." He was illy known in Congress as an 
 
 advocate of a high protective tariff. In [891 he was elected Governor of 
 < >hio, and re-elected in [893. Major McKinley was sent as a delegate-at- 
 large to the Republican Convention of 1884, at which he supported Blaine, 
 and in [888 served in a similar capacity and supported John Sherman for 
 the Presidency. Again, in 1892, he was delegate-at-large, and was made 
 Chairman of the Convention. He refused to allow his own name to be 
 considered, and threw his strength to the renomination of Harrison. At 
 the Republican Convention of [896 he was nominated for the presidency, 
 and in November of the same year was elected by a popular plurality of 
 600,000 Votes. 
 
 His wise administration and conservative policy before and during the 
 Spanish- American War demonstrated clearly his ability to manage his own 
 administration. He made no false moves, and never took a step without 
 careful deliberation. He held Congress in check as long as possible, and 
 when war was declared he acted decisively. President McKinley has 
 proved one of the must popular of Presidents, and has the affection and 
 esteem of the whole American people. No man could have filled his office 
 better or made fewer mistakes. Under his administration the country has 
 enjoyed an era of great prosperity. 
 
GEORGE DEWEY 
 
 Georgi Dewey, of a prominent Montpelier, Vermont, family, was born 
 there in [837. At the age of 17 he was appointed to the Naval Academy 
 through his persistency and against his father's poor opinion of sailors. 
 After graduation in 1858 he was assigned to the steam frigate Waba 
 the Mediterranean squadron, and cruised until 1 859. 
 
 Ensign Dewey was home when Sumter was fired upon. One- 
 later, April 19, [861, he received his commission as Lieutenant, and was 
 assigned to the steam sloop Mississippi, which was to take part in the fiei 
 
 htingofthe West Gulf squadron, under the command of Admiral Farragut. 
 The Mississippi was a side-wheeler of seventeen guns; its hardest fight 
 was in trying to run by Tort Hudson, with its powerful batteries. She was 
 struck two hundred and fifty times, and in half an hour was as full of li- 
 as a colander. The crew manned the boats on the opposite side from - 
 tort, set the ship on fire and made for the- opposite shore. 
 
 In July, [863, Dewey saw more fighting. In [864 he was attached 
 to tin- North Atlantic blockading squadron on the steam gunboat Agawan. 
 In 1 868 he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy. In [870 Admiral 
 Dewey received his fust command, the Narragansett. He was on special 
 service until [875, during which time the Pacific survey was entrusted 
 to him. 
 
 A service of two years as Lighthouse Inspector, live years as Secretary 
 of the Lighthouse Hoard, was succeeded by the command of the funiata 
 on tin Asiatic squadron in [882. in 1884 he was promoted to Captain 
 in command of the Dolphin. The years 1885 to [888 found him com- 
 manding thi flagship of the European squadron. In [888 
 he became Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting with rank oi 
 1 ommodore. Admiral Dewey again became a member of the Lighthouse 
 Hoard in May, [893, and in 1896 was put at the head of a very important 
 Board, that of Inspection and Survey. 
 
 < )n the first of January, 1898, he was transferred to the command of 
 the Asiatic squadron, flagship I >lympia, and five months afterward, Ma\ 
 electrified the nation with the greatest naval victory ever known, wiping out 
 the entire Spanish fleet without the loss of a man and only eight men 
 wounded. 
 
 At five o'clock on the morning of Sunday, May 1, 1898, the Amerii 
 fleet, under Commodore Dewey, entered the Hay of Manila. On reachiiv 
 anchorage, Cavite fort opened fire at Ion- range. The Spanish fleet, am 
 chored off Cavite, followed. This action prompted the American ships to 
 draw close in and open a terrible cannonade. ,At the end of twenty minutes 
 the American fleet again drew into close quarters, the cannonade being rapid 
 and incessant. This terrible onslaught totally destroyed the Spanish fleet. 
 Three of their vessels were burning, one sunk and the others silenced. 
 The land forts were also silenced, making the victory complete. This 
 remarkable battle lasted but three hours and a half, during which time the 
 Spaniards fought bravely against a superior force. 
 
 While the above was enacted Dewey, with some of his officers, stood 
 on the forward bridge. His famous remark, " You may fire when ready, 
 (iridic)," opened the mouths of the starboard eight-inch gun in the forward 
 turret at 5.41 \. m. at a 5500 yard range. 
 
 Congress executed the wish of the American nation by reviving the 
 rank of Admiral and conferring it upon Dewey in recognition of his "great 
 victory. 
 
WILLIAM T. SAMPSON 
 
 Admiral William T. Sampson was born on what is now known as Mor- 
 man Hill Farm, in Palmyra, New York, in [840. He entered the Naval 
 \ adem) at Annapolis in [857, graduating shortly before the opening of 
 the Civil War. He served with distinction through the nation's struggle 
 for existence, coming out with the rank 1 if Lieutenant. When the Pata 
 of the blockading fleet befon Charleston, was blown up in [865, young 
 Sampson was her Executive Officer. In [866, while on the Colorado, he 
 n ived his commision as Lieutenant Commander. He served at the Naval 
 Academ) from 1868 to 1S71. from [872 to 1873 he cruised in European 
 waters on the Congress. I lis first command was the Alert, in [874, just 
 after attaining the gradi oi l ommander. From 1876 to [878, he again 
 served at the Naval Academy, and ten years later became Superintendent, in 
 which capacity he served four years. 
 
 Since the formation of the New Navy, Admiral Sampson has com- 
 manded two .if the modern war vessels, the cruiser San Francisco and the 
 battleship [owa, the latter of which he was the first skipper. 
 
 ( Irdnance matters and torpedo work have rei 1 ived a great amount of 
 special study from him. When the Maine disaster occurred Sampson was 
 appointed President of the Board of Inquiry. I [is appointment as Com- 
 mander-in-Chief of the North Atlantic squadron at the beginning of the 
 Spanish American War, when but a junior officer, was a practical recogni- 
 tion of the quiet, effective seaman, of whom it is said, like Kitchener, "Other 
 Generals have been better loved : non< 1 ver better trusted He was 
 
 the right man in the right place, as subsequent events proved. Upon him 
 rested the terrible strain and responsibility which the commanding officer 
 of a blockading squadron must bear. 
 
 The whole nation was watching him and waiting to pass judgment. 
 This was the message he cabled the Navy Department, describing, in curt, 
 official language, the great victory on the eve of the nation's liberty day: 
 "Secretary of Navy — 5.15 a. m., Siboney, 3. 
 
 " The fleet under my command offers the nation as ,1 Fourth of July 
 pr< nt the destruction of Cervera's fleet. X" one escaped. It attempted 
 t«i escape 9.30 a. m., and at 2.00 p. m. the last — the Christobal Colon — had 
 run ashore sixty miles west of Santiago, and had let down her colors. The 
 Infanta Maria Teresa, Oquendo and Viscaya, were forced ashore, burned 
 and blown up, within twenty miles of Santiago. Furor and Pluton were 
 destroyed within four miles of the port. Loss, one killed, two wounded. 
 Enemy's loss, probably several hundred from gun fire, explosions and 
 drowning. About 1300 prisoners, including Admiral Cervera." 
 
 Admiral Sampson was not present to direct the fight, having started 
 to inspect the Spanish coast defenses when Cervera came out. His plans 
 and orders, however, were followed to the letter, the battle being fought 
 practically without signals, so thoroughly did the Commanders of the 
 different ships understand the part they had to play. 
 
 Since the war he has remained in command of the North Atlantic 
 squadron. 
 

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WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY 
 
 Winfield Si mi Schley was horn on < >ctober g, [839, in Frederick County, 
 Maryland, He comes of an excellent family. At the age of fifteen he 
 entered the Academy at Annapolis, and four years later, after his gradua- 
 tion, lie began his seafaring career by making a voyage to Japan as a mem- 
 ber of the escort to the Japanese Embassy in [860. He remained abroad 
 until the breaking out of the Civil War. His gallantry soon won him rec- 
 ognition, and he was placed in command of the first prize ship of the war, 
 the General Parkhill. He served with the Western Gulf squadron in the 
 blockade of .\I«>l>ile Bay until he was transferred to the gunboat Winona, 
 which patrolled the Mississippi for over a year. At the close of the Civil 
 War Schley was ordered to the Pacific Coast. He was present at the bom- 
 bardment of Valparaiso and Callao by the Spanish fleet, and was instru- 
 mental in suppressing insurrections at .Middle Chinca Island and La Union, 
 Honduras. He served abroad in the East India and China squadrons for 
 il years. In 1871 he participated in the attack on the Corean fortifi- 
 cations on the Salee River, leading the assaulting column. In 1884 
 Admiral Schley headed the Greely relief expedition. On the 15th of 
 April, 1897, he was appointed Chairman of the Lighthouse Board. His 
 reputation for calm, cool-headed judgment and prompt, intrepid action at 
 the right moment was responsible for his assignment as Commander-in- 
 Chief of the famous flying squadron when our trouble with Spain took 
 definite shape. On board the flagship Brooklyn he directed and gave gal- 
 lant battle on the morning of July 3, when Cervera made his bold and 
 astonishing dash out of Santiago harbor. The responsibility of defeat or 
 success rested with Schley, as second in command, during the absence of 
 his chief. Admiral Sampson. For his gallantry and clearheadedness in 
 this great fight he received his commission as Rear Admiral. 
 

RICHMOND PEARSON HOBSON 
 
 Richmond Pearson Hobson was horn on August 17. 1S70, in Greensboro, 
 Hale County, Alabama. He was graduated from the Southern Univi > it] 
 of Greensboro at the head of his class, and appointed to the Naval Academy 
 .it Annapolis on competitive examination in .May of '85. He was a bright, 
 earnest student who applied himself to such purpose that he finished in 
 1889 with first honors, notwithstanding his being the youngest man in the 
 class. 
 
 His first cruise was on board the flagship Chicago of the Squadron of 
 Evolution commanded by Admiral Walter. It was on this cruise that they 
 visited Brazil and gave recognition to the flag of the Brazilian Republic. 
 
 Hobson was soon after ordered abroad' to take a special course in the 
 National School of Mines in Paris, loll,, wed by a two years course in the 
 Parisian School of Maritime Science He spent his summer vacation in 
 French shipyards in order to add to his expert knowledge. The French 
 schools awarded him diplomas for distinction in naval construction and 
 design. Before returning to this country Mr. Hobson spent sonic time in 
 English shipyards. 
 
 In [ 894 he was assigned to duty in the office of Naval [ntelligence 
 and Bureau of Construction and Repairs at Washington. Dunn- his term 
 of service in the department he prepared a report of his observations abroad 
 
 winch was discussed with much interest in naval circles. In [895 Hobs 
 
 entered the New York Navy Yard as assistant to the Naval Constructor, 
 afterward going with Admiral Bunce on the New York. 
 
 It was Hobson who inaugurated a new system of giving sea duty to 
 naval constructors which is of much practical benefit. He also organized 
 and conducted a three years post graduate course at the United States Naval 
 Academy. 
 
 I »n the 17th of April, [898, Lieutenant Hobson was assigned as Con 
 structor for the fleet stationed at Key \\ 1 st. 
 
 During the blockade of the Cuban ports and the manoeuvres off 
 Santiago the Naval Board conceived the idea of sinking an obstruction in 
 the channel to prevent the escape of Cervera's fleet, which they believed 
 was penned in. The collier Merrimac was selected as the best available 
 ship for the purpose. Volunteers were called for for the hazardous under- 
 taking, and over four hundred men proffered their services. Hobson 
 begged to be allowed to command the expedition, and accordingly at fou. 
 o'clock on the morning of June 3, [898, after he had perfected a well-laid 
 plan, the Merrimac, with a crew of six men and her commander, steamed 
 boldly toward the entrance to the harbor. She was riddled with projectiles, 
 but succeeded in anchoring at the right spot and swung around. When 
 all was ready Hobson set off an internal torpedo by means of an electric 
 attachment. The Merrimac sank instantly, leaving Hobson and his 
 crew to clamber aboard a catamaran which floated clear of the wreck, in 
 which the)- drifted helplessly to shore. They were made prisoners and 
 conducted to Morro Castle. Cervera sent word to Admiral Sampson, 
 praising the gallantry and bravery of Hobson and his crew and suggesting 
 an exchange, which did not take place until after the war closed. 
 
 This one act of bravery has earned for the young Lieutenant a promi- 
 nent place among America's heroes, and eclipses the blowing up of the 
 Albemarle. 
 
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CHARLES DWIGHT SIGSBEE 
 
 Charles Dwight Sigsbee was bom on a farm in Albany County, New 
 York, in the year 1845. At the age of fourteen he received the appoint- 
 ment to the Naval Academy at Annapolis, from which he was graduated in 
 [863, with the rank of Ensign. On October 1 of the same year he was 
 assigned to the Monongahela, and on that ship and the Brooklyn he served 
 three years in the West Gulf and North Atlantic blockading squadrons, 
 lie participated in the Battle of Mobile Bay on the 5th oi August, [864, 
 and in the attacks and final assault on Fort Fisher, losing no opportunity to 
 display great gallantry. Until 1867 he was attached ' to the Wyoming, 
 doing duty in the Asiatic squadron. On November 10, 1866, Sigsbee re- 
 ceived his commission as Master, and on February 21, 1867, became a 
 Lieutenant , ,11 the Ashulter. While attached to the Ashulter he received 
 Ins commission as Lieutenant Commander. In [869 he was stationed at 
 the Naval Academy, leaving there in 1871 to go on the Worcester, then 
 the flagship of" the North Atlantic station. At the close of [873 Lieutenant 
 Sigsbee assisted in the ,0.1st survey, this important work occupying him 
 until [878, during two years of which he commanded the coast survey 
 steamer Blake. After a four years service as Chief of the Hydrographic 
 'Mil, eat Washington he was assigned to the Monadnock ; but before the 
 order was put into effect he was transferred to the Maine. 
 
 In April, [897, shortly after going on the Maine, Lieutenant Sigsbee 
 received his commission as Captain. 
 
 Lieutenant Sigsbee married during his term of service at the Naval 
 Academy. In [882, by a joint resolution in Congress, Lieutenant Com- 
 mander Sigsbee was authorized to accept the decoration of the Red Eagle, 
 tendered by the Emperor of Germain- for meritorious services renderecf to 
 the German Navy in superintending the construction of a deep-sea machine 
 which he invented. 
 
 Captain Sigsbee came into the public eye when his ship, the Maine- 
 was blown up in Havana Harbor on the 1 5th of February, 1898, and over 
 three hundred of her officers and men perished. The Maine was a second- 
 class battleship, built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She was 318 feet long, 
 5/ feet beam, 21.6 mean draught, and 66S2 tons displacement. She was 
 equipped with two 10-inch vertical turrets, two military masts, a main bat- 
 tel)- of four 10-inch and six 6-inch rifles, and secondary battery of seven 
 6-pounders, eight I -pound rapid-fire guns, four Catling guns, and four 
 \\ hitehead torpedoes. The Maine had a speed of 17.45 knots. 
 
 After being without a commission for some time, owing to the disaster 
 of the Maine, Captain Sigsbee was assigned to the command of the con- 
 verted cruiser St. Paul during the war, and is now in command of the 
 battleship Texas. 
 

NELSON A. MILES 
 
 ON A. Milks was horn on August 8, 1839, at Westminster, Mass. 
 He began his military career as a Captain of Volunteers in the beginning of 
 
 ivil War. He served with distinction in the Army of the Potomac 
 throughout all its campaigns, and through his bravery and gallantry rose 
 to he a Major General of Volunteers. After the close of the Civil War 
 
 ral Miles became a regular army officer in the United States Infantry. 
 He was transferred to the Western frontier, and became one of the greatest 
 of modern Indian fighters, conducting many campaigns, notably against the 
 Apaches under Geronimo and Natchez. 1 lis commission as Major General 
 in the regular army dates from April 5, [890. General Miles enjoys the 
 distinction of being the only soldier in the last fifty years to reach the 
 position of supreme command, which he has occupied since the retirement 
 of General Schofield, without having been graduated from West Point. 
 He is without doubt the best example of the American soldier of the day, 
 and has behind him a record for bravery and ability that justifies his eleva- 
 tion to the prominent office lie occupies. 
 
 During the railroad strike troubles in Chicago, in [884, he commanded 
 the Tinted States troops. He represented the United States Army at the 
 seat of the Turco-Grecian War, and also at Queen Victoria's Diamond 
 Jubilee in 1897. 
 
 When the war with Spain broke out General Miles, as Commander-in- 
 Chief of the United States Army, assumed command, directing operations 
 from Washington. He afterward shared in the hardships of the Cuban cam- 
 paign, and on fuly 21, (898, sailed from Santiago to invade Puerto Rico, 
 which was numbered among our new possessions before the close of the 
 month. General Miles had prepared for a bloody battle at Arbonita, when 
 the news of the signing of the peace protocol reached him and checked the 
 American artillerymen almost in the act of firing. 
 
 General Miles is now under consideration for supreme command in the 
 Phillipines, in the hope of putting a speedy end to the insurgent opposition of 
 Aguinaldo and his followers. 
 

 
 

THEODORE ROOSEVELT 
 
 On] of the best examples of the all-around American is the doughty 
 Colonel of the Rough Riders, Theodore Roosevelt. His career has been 
 
 f many phases, and shows him to be honorable, upright, courageous, 
 intelligent, a champion of right, an enemy of corruption, a literary genius 
 and a born leader. 
 
 Governor Roosevelt was born in New York on October 27th, [858. 
 His early education was obtained at Harvard, graduating in 1880. Though 
 but a youngster he plunged into politics and served as a member of the 
 New Voii .line from [882to [884. His next experience was that of 
 
 an unsuccessful candidate on the Republican ticket for the mayoralty of 
 New York in [886. lie became a member of the National Civil Service 
 Commission in [889, on which he served until 1895, at which time he was 
 
 inted President of the New York Police Board. His efficient term of 
 service there, during which he purged the police machine, was followed by 
 his appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in [897. 
 
 When the Spanish-American War broke out Governor Roos 
 promptly resigned to organize, with Dr. (now General) Leonard E. \\ 
 the First United States Cavalry Volunteers, which soon became known as 
 " Roosevelt's Rough Riders," owing to its being made up largely of Western 
 boys who knew Roosevelt during his hunting days in the far West for 
 big game. Many members of prominent families and college athletes also 
 became members of the famous organization, which distinguished itself in 
 action during the Cuban campaign. Roosevelt was promoted to a colonelcy 
 
 .llantry at the battle of La Quasina, After his return to this country 
 he was nominated and elected by a large majority to the Governorship of 
 New York in November, [898. His bravery, patriotism and fine record in 
 every walk of life made him the logical candidate for Governor, and may yet 
 land him in the White House. 
 
WESLEY MERRITT 
 
 Weslei Merritt, Major General, U, S. A., was born June [6, [836, in 
 New York city. He was graduated from West Point in [860, and assigned 
 to the dragoons. On May [3, [861, his rise began by his promotion to a 
 First Lieutenancy. This was followed by a Captaincy in April, 1862, a 
 promotion for bravery to Brevet Major General, on March [3, 1865, and 
 the rank of Lieutenant Colonel on July 26, [866. Since the Civil War he 
 has been regularly promoted through the successive steps to the rank oi 
 Major General. During the War of the Rebellion he was commissioned a 
 Major General of the volunteer service. 
 
 General Merritt served in the Army of the Potomac, and was pro- 
 moted a number of times for gallantry, lie participated in the Gettysburg 
 fight, at Yellow Tavern, Hawe's Shop, Five Forks, etc.; accompanied Gen- 
 eral Sheridan on his cavalry raid toward Charleston, and was engaged in 
 the Battle ofTrevilian Station. In the Shenandoah campaign Merritt com- 
 manded the cavalry division from August, [864, to March, 1K65. He 
 figured in the battles of Winchester and Fisher's Hill ; he also commanded 
 
 ps of cavalry in the Appomatox campaign. General Merritt was one 
 of the three commanders from the Union Army elected to confer with the 
 derate commanders for the surrender of the Army of Northern Vir- 
 ginia. After the war he served in various departments, participated in 
 several Indian campaigns, was Superintendent of the United States Military 
 Academy from 1882 to 1SS7. Following that he was appointed to the 
 command of the Department of the Atlantic, and served in that capacity 
 until the breaking out of the Spanish-American War, when he was assigned, 
 in May, [898, to the command of the United States forces in the Phillipine 
 Islands, arriving thereon July 25th, followed by a force of 50,000 soldiers. 
 
 On August 13, a day after the peace protocol had been signed in 
 Paris, the American soldiers assaulted the city at Malate, while Admiral 
 Dewey opened up a fierce bombardment of the capital of Luzon. The 
 foe was quickly driven into the inner walls, from which soon floated the 
 white flag of surrender. After establishing a form of military government 
 in Manila, General Merritt went to Paris to inform the Peace Commission 
 of the status in the Phillipines. Upon his return to this country he again 
 took command of the Department of the Atlantic. 
 
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ROBLEY DUNGLISON EVANS 
 
 Robley D. Evans, Captain, United States Navy, better known as "Fighting 
 Bob" Evans, was born in Floyd Count)-, Va. His early education was 
 obtained in the Washington public schools, when, in September, i860, he 
 was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from Utah Territory. 
 He was graduated from therein [863, receiving his commision as Ensign in 
 October of the same year. This was followed by his promotion to a lieu- 
 tenancy in Jul\-, 1866; Lieutenant Commander, March, 1868; Commander, 
 July, 1878, and Captain, June 27, [893. 
 
 During the Civil War Captain Evans participated in both attacks on 
 Fort Fisher, in January, 1865, and in the land attack received four severe 
 rifle wounds. 
 
 When in command of the Vorktown at Valpariaso, Chili, during the 
 period of the strained relations between that country and the United States, 
 in [891, his actions in connection with the various incidents earned him 
 the popular sobriquet of " Fghting Bob." He was also in the public eye as 
 the bosom friend of former President Cleveland. During our war with Spain 
 Captain Evans commanded the battleship Iowa in Admiral Sampson's fleet 
 off Santiago, and took an active part in the battle with Cervera's fleet on 
 Jul}- 3, 1898. He is now in command of the Iowa, one of the ships of the 
 North Atlantic squadron. 
 




 

 




 
 

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