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THE RECORDS

LIVING OFFICERS

U. S. NAYT AID MARIIE CORPS ;

COMPILED PROM OFFICIAL SOURCE!
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Lewis R. Hamersly,
(Late Lieutenant United States Marine Corpg.)

BBVISBD EBITIOIT,

PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & OO.
1870.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by
L. R. Hamekslt and P. R. Harbaugh,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO
THE OFFICERS OF
THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND
MARINE CORPS IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED THIS
RECORD OF THEIR SERVICES, AND HISTORY OF THE WARFARE,
WHICH THEIR VALOR AND PATRIOTISM SO MUCH
AIDED, WITH DIVINE HELP, TO
MAKE GLORIOUSLY
SUCCESSFUL.

Navy Department,
11th January, 1870.
Dear Sir :
I have examined the proof sheets of your work on the Records of the
Living Officers of the Navy, and am of opinion that it will supply a want, and
be a useful book to the service and to the eountry.
Very respectfully, Your obedient servant,
GEORGE M. ROBESON,
Secretary of Navy.
Lewis R. Hamersly, Esq.,
Editor of the Records of Living Officers.

Navy Department,
Washington, January Wth, 1870.
This seems to be a concise statement of the services of the Living Officers
of the Navy, as shown by the records of this Department.
D. D. PORTER,
Vice Admiral.

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

The services of army officers have been recorded by several authors, but those
of the Navy and the Marine Corps have been wholly neglected — the Official
Registers merely giving the name, place of birth, date of last commission, and
present station. Much more is required, not alone in justice to these gallant
patriots, but as part of our national history; as an incitement to others to pursue
the career in which, while performing duty, they won renown. The present
volume endeavors to supply this want. For the conductors of the public press,
who may have occasion to write about these brave men, living or dead, (for,
though glory is immortal, those who obtain it must submit to the common
destiny of their race,) this work will be a treasury of facts, accurate in its full
details. Henceforth, when an Officer of the Navy or Marine Corps passes to the
better land, the recording journalist can draw upon these pages for the substan
tial facts of his public service, and not, as hitherto, make mere mention of
his name.
Here are the records of Living Officers of the United States Navy and
Marine Corps, (from the grade of Admiral down to that of Lieutenant-Com
mander, inclusive, not omitting full Surgeons, Paymasters, Engineers, and
Marine Officers,) as they appear in the Navy Register for 1870. These
records have been generally verified by information obtained from the officers
themselves. In the cases of such retired Officers as had entered the Navy early in the
present century, it has often been difficult, sometimes impossible, to obtain
a correct record of their first services. The first Navy Register was pub
lished in 1816, and, for some years later, all Paymasters' Accounts with the
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Muster and Pay-rolls, were filed in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury,
and perished when that edifice was destroyed by fire in 1833. To explain why,
in the cases of some of the Retired Naval Officers, the commission of Captain
follows that of Lieutenant, the intermediate grades of Lieutenant-Commander
and Commander being omitted, it should be known that the law of 1867 pro
vided that Officers on the Retired List should be promoted with Officers of the
same date on the Active List. Thus, Officers who had for many years been
Lieutenants on the Retired List were promoted at once, in pursuance of this
law, to the rank of Captain, and even Commodore.
When a star is affixed to a name it denotes that the dates of service have
been examined and pronounced correct.
Philadelphia, August, 1870.

Records of Living Officers of the U. S. Navy.

ADMIRAL DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT,
Born at Campbell's Station, East Tennessee, 1801. Appointed Midshipman
"at large," December 17, 1810; commissioned as Lieutenant, January 13,
1825; attached to receiving-ship at Norfolk, Va., 1827; serving on board
sloop-of-war Vandalia, Brazil Squadron, 1829-30 ; attached to sloop-of-war
Natchez, Brazil Squadron, 1834 ; commissioned as Commander, September
8, 1841; commanding sloop-of-war Decatur, Brazil Squadron,. 1843; attached
to Norfolk Navy Yard, 1846 ; commanding sloop-of-war Saratoga, Home Squad
ron, 1847-9; serving at Norfolk Navy Yard, 1850; commissioned as Captain,
March, 1851 ; on ordnance duty, 1851-4 ; commanding Mare Island Navy
Yard, California, 1856-8 ; commanding sloop-of-war Brooklyn, Home Squad
ron, 1859-60 ; waiting orders, 1861 ; commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 16,
1862; as Vice Admiral, December 21, 1864; as Admiral, July 25, 1866.
He has had twenty-five years' sea service ; eighteen years' shore duty, and has
been fourteen years unemployed.
The name of David Glascoe Farragut is one of the most famous in the
annals of the United States Navy. When a boy of nine years, his father pro
cured him an appointment as Midshipman, and his first cruise was in the
frigate Essex, Commodore Porter. While serving in the Essex he participated
in the engagement which resulted in the capture of H. M. ship Alert. On
March 28, 1814, after a desperate and bloody fight of three hours, the
frigate Essex was captured in the Bay of Valparaiso by H. M. ships Phoebe, of
thirty -six guns, and Cherub, of twenty-eight guns.
Midshipman Farragut, twelve years of age, was wounded — the only wound he
ever received — being knocked down the hatch by a falling man, and severely
bruised. In his official report to the Secretary of the Navy, Commodore
Porter made special and honorable mention of the lad, saying, with appropriate
regret, that "the boy was too young for promotion."
Under Commodore Porter, in the West Indies, Midshipman Farragut took
part in the attack on the rendezvous of pirates, at Cape Cruz, on the south side
of the Island of Cuba, July 23, 1823. The United States naval force con
sisted of the schooner Greyhound, Lieut. Commander L. Kearney, and
schooner Beagle, Lieut. Commander L. S. Newton. The attack lasted twelve
hours. The boats ofthe pirates were captured and their village burned.
. From this time, for nearly forty years, he was sailing about the world, or
quietly serving at different naval stations; and at long intervals rising, by
seniority, from grade to grade.
When the Rebellion began, Captain Farragut was sixty years of age, and had
been in the service forty-eight years. He was living at Norfolk, Virginia,
where he had married, and being a native of the South, it was hoped by the
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rebels that he would cast his fortunes with the seceding States. _ His firm
determination to remain true to the flag, called forth no unmeaning threats.
He was plainly informed that it would not be safe for him to remain in the
South with the sentiments he held. He left Norfolk on the 18th of April,
1861, the night before the burning of the Navy Yard and government vessels.
Captain Farragut's first appointment during the Rebellion was to the com
mand of the naval expedition organized for the capture of the city of New
Orleans. His orders reached him January 20, 1862, and on the 3d of Febru
ary following he sailed from Hampton Roads, in his famous flag-ship Hartford,
for Ship Island, which place the fleet reached in safety, and there made final
preparations for the attack on the defenses of New Orleans. These defences
consisted of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, mounting one hundred and twenty
guns of long range and heavy calibre, a fleet of twenty armed steamers, and
four powerful steam iron-clad rams, one of them of four thousand tons, with a
battery of sixteen heavy guns, and, in addition, chains, rafts and fire ships.
On the 24th of April, Farragut attacked and passed the forts, encountered and
destroyed the rebel fleet, under J. K. Mitchell, and ascended the Mississippi
River. On the 25th attacked the Chalmette batteries, on each side of the
river, three miles below New Orleans, drove the enemy from their guns, took
possession of the forts, and on the same day captured the city. June 24,
1863, the Admiral, with his fleet, passed Grand Gulf; on the 28th commencde
the attack upon, and passed Vicksburg and its surrounding batteries. On the
16th of July, to the mortification of the Admiral,- the rebel iron-clad ram
Arkansas made its appearance, having escaped out of the Yazoo River, passed
through the fleet, exchanging shots, and reached the cover of the Vicksburg
batteries. At 7 P. M. the fleet passed down the river, engaging the batteries
and ram at Vicksburg. The army having' failed to co-operate with the fleet,
and Farragut not having sufficient force to make a land attack on Vicksburg,
he was compelled to proceed to New Orleans, as it had become necessary to
repair most of the vessels of his squadron. In March, 1863, Farragut was
ordered to open communication with Rear Admiral Porter, of the Mississippi
Squadron, and General Grant, both of whom were operating against Vicksburg.
He therefore moved up in strong force from Baton Rouge, and on March 14th
the fleet attempted to pass the batteries at Port Hudson, but only the flag-ship
Hartford and the Albatross were successful. With these he succeeded in
approaching Vicksburg, and in communicating with Rear Admiral Porter across
the Peninsula.
This gallant act of Rear Admiral Farragut being effected, the navy had com
mand of the river between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, and was enabled to
establish a blockade of Red River, and thus intercept the supplies from Texas
destined for the rebel armies. This accomplished, the Admiral left his flag
ship, the Hartford, and returning below, by way of the Atchafalaya, he
resumed operations for a final assault on Port Hudson.
May 24th he engaged the batteries at Port Hudson, and from that time until
July 9th, when the garrison surrendered, he gallantly and efficiently co-operated
with the army in its investment of the place. The river bein°- now open Far
ragut turned over to Rear Admiral Porter the entire control of the western
waters above New Orleans. Deeming that his long service and useful labors of
eighteen months entitled this gallant officer to special consideration, the depart
ment tendered him a leave of absence, which he accepted.
August 5, 1864, the fleet under Rear Admiral Farragut passed the forts at
the entrance of Mobile Bay, and engaged the rebel iron-clad Tennessee and her
consorts. After a desperate fight of several hours' duration the rebel fleet sur-

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rendered to the United States naval forces, and the fall of Mobile became a
mere question of time ; Fort Powell was blown up August 6th, Fort Gaines sur
rendered August 8th, and Fort Mongan August 23d.
In September, 1864, Vice Admiral Farragut was offered the command ofthe
naval expedition, then fitting out for the attack upon the defences of Wilming
ton, North Carolina; but impaired health obliged him to decline. In the
summer of 1867, Admiral Farragut was ordered to the command of the
European Squadron. He sailed from Brooklyn, New York, in the frigate
Frapklin, in 1867, and returned to the United States in the fall of 1868.
During this cruise Admiral Farragut was everywhere received with respect
and courtesy. The crowned heads and titled nobility of Europe seemed to
vie with their humblest subjects in doing honor to this noble specimen of the
American naval officer.

VICE ADMIRAL DAVID D. PORTER.
David D. Porter is a native of the State of Pennsylvania. Appointed Mid
shipman from that State, February 2, 1829; attached to frigate Constellation,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1830; frigate United States, same squadron, 1833-4;
attached to ship-of-the-line Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1836; on Coast Survey duty,
1837-40. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 27, 1841 ; frigate Congress,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-5 ; Naval Observatory ,Washington, D. C., 1846.
Lieutenant Porter was attached to Home Squadron, 1847, and actively
engaged in the war with Mexico; was present at the two attacks on Vera Cruz
and one on Tuspan, and one at Tobasco; participated also in a land fight at
Tamultee, and a similar engagement at Chiflon ; on Coast Survey duty, 1848-9;
on leave of absence 1850; commanding Pacific Mail Steamer Georgia, 1851-3;
on leave of absence, 1854; commanding store-ship Supply, 1855-7; attached
to Portsmouth Navy Yard, N. H., 1858-60.
Promoted to Commander, April 22, 1861. Commissioned as Rear Admiral,
July 4, 1863 ; as Vice Admiral, July 25, 1866.
Vice Admiral Porter was actively employed from the beginning to the close
of the Rebellion. As early as April, 1861, he sailed from New York in the
Powhatan for Fort Pickens, and remained on the coast of Florida until ordered
North to assume command of the mortar fleet fitting out to co-operate with
Admiral Farragut in his attack on the defences of New Orleans. He dis
played great energy in hastening the sailing of these vessels, and when Farra
gut arrived at the Southwest Pass, Porter's vessels were at their stations and
ready to commence the attack.
On the 11th of April, 1862, he began the bombardment of Forts Jackson
and St. Philip. The mortar flotilla kept up a steady fire, with but slight ces
sation, for six days and nights, at the end of which time both of the forts,
powerful as they were, and desperate as was their resistance, had become so
weakened and the garrison so demoralized, as, in the judgment of .the flag-officer,
to render the passage of the fleet possible.
On April 28th, Brigadier General Duncan, commanding the coast defences,
and Lieutenant Colonel Higgins, commanding Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
surrendered to Commander Porter. From this time until July, 1862, he re
mained in command of the mortar flotilla, actively, zealously and efficiently co
operating with Admiral Farragut in his operations on the Mississippi, from New

10 VICE ADMIRAL.
Orleans to Vicksburg. Commander Porter was soon after appointed Acting
Rear Admiral, and ordered to the command of the Mississippi Squadron. The
true character of his natural endowments and professional attainments may be
seen in his creating a fleet of one hundred and twenty-five vessels — a number
far exceeding that commanded by any other officer in the history of naval war
fare — out of the material afforded by ordinary river steamboats, which he plated,
armed and equipped, making them formidable and efficient war vessels. In the
squadron there were more than thirteen hundred officers; of these not more than
twenty-five were of the regular navy, the rest consisting mainly of Western
steamboat men, utterly without naval training, but who, under tbe rigid dis-
sipline and inspiring example of their commander, soon became valuable and
trustworthy officers. In January, 1863, Admiral Porter's fleet captured Ar
kansas Posfr, on the Arkansas River, and in the month of May following he de
stroyed the formidable rebel batteries at Grand Gulf. Invaluable aid was ren
dered to the army under General Grant by Admiral Porter in the reduction of
Vicksburg, which surrendered July 4, 1S63.
During the siege of Vicksburg his mortar fleet were forty days without inter
mission, throwing shells into the city and even into the works beyond it. Thir
teen heavy guns were landed from the vessels, and men and officers sent to
man them. Before the city capitulated, sixteen thousand shells were thrown
from the mortars, gunboats and naval batteries.
In addition to these successes, Admiral Porter obtained control of the Yazoo
River, sweeping from its channel the net-work of torpedoes and contrivances for
submarine warfare near its confluence with the Mississippi. These efforts were
followed by the novel and singular Yazoo Pass expedition, and the expeditions
of Steele's Bayou and Deer Creek. The Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers were
actively patrolled by his vigilant officers, and the exciting chase of Morgan by
the steamers on the Ohio River, over a distance of five hundred miles, intercept
ing him and his band when attempting to escape, naturally attracted the atten
tion of the country.
In March, 1864, a portion of the Mississippi Squadron, under Admiral
Porter, ascended the Red River to form a junction with the army under General
Banks at Alexandria, La. From this point, with some of his most formidable
iron-clads, Admiral Porter penetrated some fifty miles further up the river, to
Springfield Landing. While at Springfield Landing he learned that the army
under General Banks had met with a reverse, and was falling back to Pleasant
Hill, some distance below. Rear Admiral Porter was therefore compelled to
turn back his retracing steps harassed at every available point by the enemy,
flushed with their recent success against the army.
On the 14th of April, Admiral Porter reached Grand-Ecore where he found
the vessels he had left at that point still detained above the bar. The river
instead of rising as customary at this season, had fallen during his absence, and
the destruction of the best portion of the Squadron seemed inevitable. But, in
the words of the Admiral, "Providence provided a man for the occasion."
Lieut. Col. Bailey, Actiog Engineer of the 19th army corps constructed a
series of dams across the river at the falls, and the water rising to a sufficient
height, the imperiled boats passed safely over the bar.
Rear Admiral Porter, who had displayed ability of the highest order, and as
commander of the Mississippi Squadron, had met with marked success in his
operations against the enemy, and who, moreover, enjoyed the entire confidence
of the Department and the nation, was detached from the Mississippi and
ordered to the command of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron which
embraced within its limits Cape Fear River and the port of Wilmington.

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A fleet comprising all the available vessels at the disposal of the Department
and commanded by officers who had distinguished themselves in the earlier
operations of the war, was assembled at Hampton Roads. In the early part of
December the fleet sailed for Beaufort, N. C, where they were to rendevous. Final
preparations for the attack were then made. On the 24th of December, 1864,
Rear Admiral Porter, with a force of thirty five vessels, five of which were iron
clads, and a reserve force of nineteen vessels, commenced the bombardment of the
forts at the mouth of Cape Fear River, and silenced them in an hour and a
quarter. On the following day the fleet renewed the attack, and seriously
damaged the enemy's works.
General Butler, who commanded the military forces, after a recorinoissance, de
cided that the place could not be carried by assault. He, therefore, after inform
ing Rear Admiral Porter of his intention, Returned with his command to Hamp
ton Roads. Admiral Porter, aware of the necessity of reducing the works, and
the great importance of closing the port of Wilmington, and confident that with
adequate military support the fort could be carried, earnestly requested that the
enterprise should not be abandoned. On the suggestion of the President,
Lieutenant General Grant was advised of the confidence felt by Rear Admiral
Porter, that he could obtain complete success, provided he should be sufficiently
sustained. Such military aid was therefore invited as would secure the fall of
Fort Fisher. A second military force was promptly detailed, composed of about,
8,500 men, under command of Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry, and sent forward.
This force arrived off Fort Fisher on the 13th of January. Offensive opera
tions were at once resumed by the naval force, and the troops were landed and
entrenched themselves, while a portion of the fleet bombarded the works. These
operations were continued throughout the 14th with an increased number of
vessels. The 15th was the day decided upon for the assault.
During the morning of that day, forty-four vessels poured an incessant fire
into the fort. There was besides a force of fourteen vessels in reserve. At
3 P. M., the signal for the assault was made. Desperate fighting ensued; tra
verse after traverse was taken, and by 10 P. M. the works were all carried.
Fourteen hundred sailors and marines were landed, and participated in the
direct assault. Seventy-five guns, many of them superb rifle pieces, and nine
teen hundred prisoners were the immediate fruits of the victory.
In 1866, Vice Admiral Porter was appointed Superintendent of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, which institution, under his excellent management, has
acquired the highest standing. He is now on duty at the Navy Department.

REAR ADMIRAL LOUIS MALESHERBES GOLDSBOROUGH,
Was born in Washington, D. C, February 18, 1805, and in December, 1812,
when less than eight years of age, an antedated Midshipman's warrant was
given to him, accompanied by the condition "you are not to receive any pay or
emolument until you report yourself to this Department ready for actual service."
In July, 1816, he was given his first orders into service, which were to join the
Independence, 74, under Commodore Bainbridge, at Boston.
In 1817, he was ordered to join the Franklin, 74, destined for the Mediterra
nean, as the flag-ship of Commodore Stewart; and at the end of this ship's
cruise, and while she was at Gibraltar on her way home, he was transferred to

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the frigate Guerriere, in which ship he returned to the United States late in the
year of 1820.
In 1821, he was again ordered to join the Franklin, once more the flag-ship
of Commodore Stewart, but now bound to the Pacific; and he remained on
board of her throughout the cruise. She returned home in the fall of 1824,
after an absence of upward of three years. _
In 1825, he obtained permission from the Department to avail himself of the
schools ,of Paris, at his own expense, with the view of prosecuting his studies in
the French languages and in the scientific branches of his profession — mathe
matics, astronomy, etc.
In 1827, having received orders from the Department, he joined the Medi
terranean Squadron, then commanded by Commodore Rodgers; and after remain
ing for awhile on board the North Carolina, 74, he was ordered to join the
schooner Porpoise, under command of Lieutenant Commandant Benjamin
Cooper. At this period, piratical depredations, in and about the Grecian Archi
pelago, were of frequent occurrence, so that no merchant vessel, unprotected by
a vessel of war, could with safety venture eastward of the Island of Malta. In
this state of things, the Porpoise was kept actively employed in affording convoy
from and to Malta and Smyrna. Vessels of war of other nations were also
engaged in performing the same service, and a general understanding existed
that each would give protection to any merchantmen that might ask it, regard
less of nationality, as the whole civilized world pronounced pirates enemies of
the human race.
In September, 1827, the Porpoise left Smyrna for Malta, with a convoy
under her charge, consisting of eleven merchant vessels, five of which were
American ; and while becalmed in the Doro passage at night, one of the convoy,
an English vessel called the Comet, was attacked and carried by some two or
three hundred Greek pirates, who had put out from the Islands of Andros and
Negropont for the purpose, in five very large mysticoes, or boats, each arranged
to pull some forty or fifty oars. The Comet, owing to the calm, was at some
distance from the Porpoise and the rest of the vessels of the convoy perhaps a
couple of miles, but in the midst of the noise and confusion on her deck, her
mate and another of the crew succeeded in effecting their escape in the stern
boat, reaching the Porpoise, and imparting all they knew. Although the firing
of arms by the pirates as they approached the Comet had attracted anxious
attention on board the Porpoise, and put all on the qui viae, yet up to the
moment ofthe arrival alongside ofthe mate, nothing had been distinctly ascer
tained, although efforts with the sweeps were being made to approach the Comet.
It was soon found, however, that the mysticoes were towing the Comet faster
away from the Porpoise than the latter vessel could be moved by the agency of
sweeps, and as the only remaining alternative to recover the Comet the boats of
the Porpoise were now resorted to. They were promptly prepared to assail the
pirates, and all of them were placed under Goldsborough's command. All told,
they were manned by some forty officers aud men, nor could they possibly
accommodate more. The pirates numbered at least two hundred. Despite,
however, of this disparity, the Comet was boarded without hesitation, the pirates
driven from her deck, and the vessel was thus fully recovered. In the struo-ole
from eighty to ninety of the pirates were either killed or wounded.
The ward-room steward ofthe Porpoise, a mulatto of herculean strength, was
one ofthe expedition, and killed with his own hand no less than eleven of the
pirates; while the chief of the horde, with several of his men, was dis
patched by the pistol of Lieut. John A. Carr, of Virginia, a gallant officer, lon"
since dead. These pirates were at this time so numerous that no merchant

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vessel, unprotected by convoy, could venture to thread its course among the
islands of the Greek archipelago with impunity; and so powerful were they,
that at one time they succeeded in capturing an Austrian ten gun man-of-war
brig. Our merchant marine suffered heavily by their depredations, for they
attacked indiscriminately vessels of every nation except their own. In such a
state of affairs, a sound thrashing, like that administered by Lieut. Goldsborough
and his little company, could hardly fail of good effect.
In L830, Goldsborough returned to the United States in the Delaware, 74,
Commodore Crane, as one of her lieutenants, and shortly afterward he brought
to the notice of the Department the defectiveness of the implements of naviga
tion — charts, chronometers, sextants, quadrants, etc. — -generally furnished to our
ships by the process of requisitions upon navy agents, and urged as a remedy
the establishment of a depot of charts and instruments, in order that every
article might be thoroughly examined and tested before it was issued for use.
The suggestion was strongly supported by the Navy Commissioners, and in a
little while the depot was under way, with Goldsborough in charge of it. This,
as the whole Navy knows, was the nucleus of the present Observatory; and it
also knows that, from the time the depot of charts and instruments went into
effect to the present day, our vessels-of-war have been supplied with verv much
better implements of navigation, and at a much less cost than they \nero pre
viously. In 1839, Goldsborough was detailed by the Navy Department, Commodore
Chauncey then temporarily acting as Secretary, as the executive officer of the
frigate United States, intended for the coasts of Brazil and La Plata; hut this
vessel, after proceeding from Boston to New York, and thence to Norfolk, was
found to be singularly decayed, and entirely too defective for the purpose, and
the frigate Potomac was substituted in her place, to which vessel all the officers
and crew ofthe States were at once transferred.
Shortly after the arrival of the Potomac on the coast of Brazil, a vacancy
happened in the command of the schooner Enterprise, and he, being the senior
lieutenant of the squadron, was appointed to fill it, and he remained in command of
this vessel for some eighteen months or more, or until after he had been promoted
to a commander. About this time, Commodore Morris arrived to take command
of the Brazil Squadron, and a vacancy occurring in the command of the sloop-
of-war Marion, he appointed Goldsborough to fill it, or transferred him from the
command of the Enterprise, to the command of her. While commanding the
Enterprise he captured the brig Malek Adhel, for committing piratical depreda
tions, and the vessel was sent to the United States and condemned by our courts.
In 1842, he returned to the United States with the Marion.
In January, 1843, he was ordered to the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, as its executive officer.
In 1846, war existing with Mexico, he applied to be employed, and was
appointed executive officer of the Ohio, 74, commanded by Captain Stringham,
and was present on board that ship at the fall of Vera Cruz, and subsequently
commanded a large detachment of her officers and crew at the attack and capture
of Tuspan. He was detached from the Ohio on her return to New York, in
1847, the ship being then intended for the Pacific Station, and not to have a
higher grade of officer than a lieutenant to discharge the executive duties.
In 1848, he was appointed to command the Naval Rendezvous at Baltimore,
and after remaining there a few months, was ordered in 1849, by the Depart
ment, as the senior naval officer of a joint commission, composed of three army
and three navy officers, to explore California and Oregon, with the view of ascer
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naval purposes, the proper situations for fortifications, dock-yards, light-houses,
etc., etc. In 1851, he returned from this service to Washington, and in 1852,
he was ordered to command the frigate Cumberland, and the flag-ship of Commo
dore Stringham, destined for the Mediterranean. After serving on board
of her, in command, for some time, the commander of the Levant, one of the
vessels of the squadron, died, and he (Goldsborough) was ordered to command
that vessel ; and while on board of her at Constantinople, he received orders to
return to the United States to take command of the Naval Academy, and accord
ingly did so return in October, 1853, and in the following month, November,
took command of that establishment, and continued as its Superintendent until
September, 1857, or nearly four years. In the fall of 1857, he was detailed as
one of the Board of Revision in cases which had arisen under the first law of
Congress touching officers to be placed on a retired or a reserved list, and
subsequently, as the head of a Board to revise and rewrite the Book of Ordnance
Instructions. In 1859 he was ordered to command the frigate Congress, fitting at Philadel
phia as the flag-ship of Flag-Officer Joshua R. Sands, appointed commander-in-
chief of the Brazil Squadron; and he returned to Boston as the captain of that
ship in August, 1861, shortly after the first battle of the rebellion at Bull Run,
when Flag-Officer Sands, having performed his cruise to the entire satisfaction of
the Government, was, as a matter incident to the non-return of the ship to Brazil,
relieved from his position. She, however, was still continued in commission,
and in September, or shortly after reaching home, Goldsborough was ordered
to proceed with her, under his command to Hampton Roads, and there report
to Flag-Officer Stringham.
On arriving at Hampton Roads, and greatly to his surprise, orders from the
Department were placed in his hands, by Flag-Officer Stringham, directing him
to take command of the North Atlantic Squadron, and thus to relieve Flag-
Officer Stringham, who, it was understood, did not desire to be continued in
command of it, and had so expressed himself to the Department.
Very soon after being placed in this command, his attention was directed to
the sounds of North Carolina, where vessels of the enemy, to prey upon our
commerce, were leaving and returning, and blockade runners were frequently
received, and where it was known that the enemy was busily engaged in forti
fying the key, Roanoke Island, in order not to be dispossessed of the great
advantage those waters afforded. At an early period, therefore, he suggested
to the Department the expediency of our obtaining the mastery of those sounds,
and that an attack should be made for that purpose as early as practicable.
The Department, after weighing the proposition, assented to it, and hence the
joint expedition under Burnside and himself, the results of which are too well
known to need further mention.
After Roanoke Island was taken, and Elizabeth City, Edenton, etc., were
virtually in our possession, and after Burnside and Goldsborough had arranged
to get possession of Newbern first, and then Beaufort, and while, with their
joint forces, they were actually moving them to attack Newbern, and had pro
ceeded from Roanoke Island as far on the way as to get nearly up with, or
rather abreast of, Hatteras Inlet, a dispatch was brought to Goldsborough
directing him to repair immediately to Hampton Roads, as the Merrimac was
committing havoc in that quarter, and his services were needed there. It also
directed him to place the vessels of his squadron in the sounds of North Carolina
under the charge ofthe officer next in rank to himself, or Commander Rowan.
These instructions were immediately obeyed, and on arriving at Hampton Roads
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the dispatch, he met and conferred fully with Mr. Fox, and at once commenced
to carry out every arrangement that could be made to guard against another
visit of disaster by the Merrimac, and especially against her getting outside of
the roads. Fortunately, her first efforts were her last in the way of harm to us
of any consequence; and the Secretary of the Navy, in a communication to
Goldsborough, expressed his approval as to the purposes of the latter, and his
full confidence that every duty intrusted to him would he efficiently discharged.
While General McClellan, with his army, was approaching Richmond, Golds
borough kept several vessels of his squadron in the James River to afford sup
port, should it be required ; and when the General was compelled to move his
army to Harrison's Landing, those vessels were instantly on hand to render
service and protection, and were very important to his position in many respects.
While the battles were going on which led to this flank movement, General
McClellan informed Goldsborough, by telegraph, as to the state of things with
his army, and thereupon the latter immediately proceeded to increase the num
ber of his squadron in the James River by every other vessel at his disposal he
could get there, and went up that river himself to see the General, and make
with him whatever arrangements were necessary. As soon as possible, some
twenty vessels in all were up the river, some distributed to cover the flanks and
centre of the army, and others to patrol the narrow passes, and keep them open
for transports with provisions and other supplies ; for now the army had to get
its demands furnished from Hampton Roads, or Fortress Monroe, by means of
transports; and they, in ascending the river and in returning were constantly
fired upon by the enemy with flying artillery, unless protected by the guns of
our vessels.
General McClellan expressed to Goldsborough, on board the flag-vessel of the
latter, at Harrison's Landing, in the warmest terms, his perfect satisfaction in
regard to every arrangement that had been made of the vessels of war, and it is
believed he repeated this, through General Dix, at Fortress Monroe, to the
Government at Washington. Nevertheless, in this state of things, and after
everything had been done that was necessary in the way of arrangements
toward affording assistance to the army, and, in fact, when no other arrange
ments ofthe slightest consequence could be made, or were ever made, to afford
it, Commodore Wilkes, an officer junior to Goldsborough, was sent from Wash
ington, not to report to the latter and act under his orders as the commander of
the naval force in the James River, (to which there could have been no objec
tion,) but to take command of that force and control it independently ; and this,
although the James River was, and had been for many months, embraced within
the limits assigned to Goldsborough's command, and its mouth was in full view
of the station of his permanent flag-ship. Wilkes met Goldsborough in the
James River, and there presented to him his orders. As a matter of course, the
transfer they bespoke was made without hesitation or delay. This event was
felt by Goldsborough as an indication that what he had done toward the army
on James River was not fully approved by the authorities in Washington, and, as
it took place without asking of him any explanation, he conceived it proper to
express to the Department his situation in a respectful manner, and request that
another officer might be detailed to his relief; and in the course of a few weeks
afterward Acting Rear Admiral S. P. Lee was appointed as his successor.
This is the simple story of his relinquishment of the command of the North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and at the time of its occurrence he had already
been upward of three years (counting his command of the Congress) constantly
on board ship.
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and reliably, that the Department was entirely satisfied with his conduct of
affairs on the James River, and was immediately assigned to the very important
duty of preparing a code of regulations for the naval service, of which all con
nected with the Navy stood greatly in want. On completing this work to the
full extent he was authorized to proceed, he was then assigned to revise the book
of naval allowances in regard to equipment and outfits.
In April, 1865, without solicitation on his part, he was appointed to com
mand the European Squadron, and after serving out his full time in this com
mand, he was relieved from it by the appointment of Admiral Farragut to take
the position, and therefore returned to the United States in his flag-ship Colo
rado in August, 1867. On reaching home, he received from the Secretary of the
Navy a communication congratulating him upon his safe return, and informing
him that the Department took pleasure in acknowledging the satisfactory man
ner in which his duties as commander of the European Squadron had been dis
charged. It will be perceived that in the course of his naval career he has been fre
quently called upon to perform duties ofthe highest responsibility ; and, it may
be stated with truth, that he has ever devoted much of his time, earnestly, to
acquire information in regard to professional subjects.

REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. DAVIS.
Charles H. Davis was born in Massachusetts, January 16, 1807. He was
appointed Midshipman from the same State, August 12, 1823. Midshipman
Davis was attached to the frigate United States, Pacific Squadron, 1827-8.
Promoted to Pasted Midshipman, March 23, 1829, and attached to the sloop-
of-war Ontario, Mediterranean Squadron, 1830-3 ; commissioned as Lieutenant
March 3, 1834, and ordered to the sloop-of-war Vincennes, Pacific Squadron ;
during the years 1837-8, on special duty; attached to razee Independence,
* Brazil Squadron, 1840-1 ; on ordnance duty from 1842-8, and special duty
from 1849-56.
Commissioned as Commander, June 12,1854; in 1857, Commander Davis
was ordered to the command of the sloop-of-war St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron,
and was attached to that vessel until January, 1859, when he returned, and was
appointed Superintendent of the Nautical Almanac.
Commissioned as Captain, 1861. Captain Davis was a member of the Board
of Officers convened for the purpose of making a thorough investigation of the
Southern coast and harbors, their access and defences ; and one of the immediate
results of their investigations was the organization of Dupont's expedition to
Port Royal, S. C, in which Captain Davis bore an important part.
On the 9th of May, 1862, Captain Davis was appointed Flag-Officer of the
Mississippi Flotilla, relieving Flag-Officer Foote. On the 11th of the same
month, an attack, for which the rebel fleet lying below Fort Pillow had been
long preparing, was made on Flag-Officer Davis' Flotilla. The rebel fleet of
eight iron-clad steamers, four of them fitted as rams, steamed up fully prepared
for an engagement, and the flotilla was quickly in motion to receive them. An
action of an hour's duration, at the closest quarters, followed, at the end of
which the enemy retreated under the guns of Fort Pillow, three of their gun
boats having been disabled. On 5th of June, Fort Pillow was abandoned
by the rebels.
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engaged the rebel fleet of eight gunboats and rams, opposite the city of Mem
phis. A running fight followed, carrying the vessels several miles below
Memphis, and resulting in the capture or destruction of the entire rebel fleet,
except the Van Horn, which succeeded in escaping. At the close of the en
gagement Flag-Officer Davis returned to Memphis, and demanded the surrender
of the city, which was complied with.
On the 29th of June, Flag-Officer Davis left Memphis with a part of his
flotilla and six mortar boats, and on the 2d of July following joined Rear Ad
miral Farragut above Vicksburg, the latter officer, with a portion of his squadron,
having arrived there a few days previous. Demonstrations were continued by
the combined squadrons, at intervals, on the defences of Vicksburg, for some
days the mortar vessels of each squadron bombarding from both above and
below. There not being a sufficient military force to co-operate in the reduction of
Vicksburg, the scheme was, for the time, abandoned, and late in July, Flag-
Officer Davis withdrew his command to the mouth of the Yazoo River.
In August following, a joint expedition was planned, by Flag-Officer Davis
and General Curtis, for operations up the Yazoo, which was entirely successful,
resulting in the capture of a battery of heavy guns, field pieces, munitions, etc.
Flag-Officer Davis was commissioned as Commodore, U. S. Navy, July 16,
1862, and, in the fall of the same year, was ordered to duty in the Navy De
partment as Chief of Bureau of Navigation. While filling this position, he
was commissioned as Rear Admiral, taking rank from February 7, 1863. In
the year 1865, Rear Admiral Davis was appointed Superintendent of the Naval
Observatory, Washington, and continued there until 1867, in which year he was
ordered to command the South Atlantic Squadron, coast of Brazil, where he
remained until the summer of 1869, and on his return to the U. S., was ordered
to special duty at Washington, D. C.

REAR ADMIRAL JOHN A. DAHLGREN ,*
Was born in Philadelphia. Appointed Midshipman from Pennsylvania Feb- t
ruary 1, 1826, and made his first cruise in the frigate Macedonian, Brazil Squad
ron, in 1827, '28 and '29 ; attached to sloop Ontario, Mediterranean Squadron,
in 1830, '31 and '32.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 20, 1832 ; served on the Coast
Survey from 1836-42. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 8, 1837 ; cruise
in frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1844-5; on ordnance duty
from 1847-57, during which time he perfected the invention of the famous
Dahlgren heavy guns, introduced howitzers for use afloat and ashore, and wrote
several works relating to ordnance. Commissioned as Commander, September
14, 1855 ; commanded ordnance practice-ship Plymouth, 1858-9 ; on ordnance
duty at Navy Yard, Washington, 1860-1.
On the 22d of April, 1861, a few days after the attack of the Baltimore mob
on the Massachusetts Regiment, all the officers of the Washington Navy Yard
resigned and left, except Commander Dahlgren, Lieut. Wainwright (who was
absent sick) and the Boatswain. The officers who left were the Commodore
Commandant, a Commander, two Lieutenants, the Surgeon and Paymaster;
their resignations not being accepted, they were dismissed. The command
therefore, devolved on Commander Dahlgren, and vigorous measures were taken
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it was suggested that an old law (27 March, 1804) required a Captain to com
mand the yard. He was only a Commander, and applications were made for his
place ; but the President refused to listen to them, and on August 2, 1861,
Congress passed an Act enabling him to retain the command.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862, and shortly afterward appointed
Chief of Bureau of Ordnance.
Promoted to Rear Admiral, February 7, 1863, and in the summer following
ordered to the command of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, relieving
Rear Admiral Du Pont, July 6, 1863. A combined operation of naval and army
forces, the latter under General Gillmore, was instituted for the occupation and
possession of Morris Island, on the south side of the entrance into Charleston
harbor. After a long and severe struggle, the army operating upon land, with
the efficient co-operation of the monitors, the new Ironsides and other vessels of
the squadron on Morris Island with all its batteries, was captured, and Fort
Sumpter was soon made a pile of ruins by the fierce artillery fire of the com
bined forces.
The fleet of Admiral Dahlgren remained inside the bar, and after the capture
of Morris Island, blockade-running, as far as Charleston was concerned, was at
an end.
In February, 1864, a successful expedition, commanded by Admiral Dahlgren
in person, ascended the St. John's River to aid a military force intended to be
thrown into Florida.
Early in July, 1864, a concerted move was made up the Stone River by
General Foster and Admiral Dahlgren. The military force was, however, too
small. On this occasion Fort Johnson, the principal work defending Charles
ton on the south side of the harbor, was surprised by an adroit attack detached
from the right, and the leading companies of a column headed by Colonel Hoyt,
actually got into the work, but not being supported were made prisoners. Gene
ral Foster in promulgating by General Order the finding of a Court of
Inquiry, stated that " tbe expedition was well planned and would have suc
ceeded, had it not been for the absence of the commanding officer and the
want of spirit and energy on the part of many of his subordinates."
The impression produced upon the enemy and the important results so nearly
attained by this move, indicated clearly the direction which should have been
given to the operations against Charleston.
On the 12th of December, 1864, General Sherman having successfully
accomplished his march to the sea, reached the vicinity of Savannah, and com
munication between him and Admiral Dahlgren was immediately established.
The latter made the best possible disposition ofthe vessels then under his com
mand to assist the army in attaining possession of Savannah, which was occu
pied by General Sherman on the 21st of December.
On the 18th of February, 1865, the city of Charleston was evacuated, and
Admiral Dahlgren at once moved his vessels up to the city.
The evacuation of Charleston was followed by that of Georgetown, and on the
26th of February, the place itself was occupied by the Admiral. On the 1st of
March, immediately after the surrender, his flag-steamer was blown up and
sunk by a torpedo. (Section Navy Report, 1865, p. 339.)
In 1866, Rear Admiral Dahlgren was ordered to the command of the South
Pacific Squadron ; and returning from that service in 1868, was for the second
time appointed Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. In the fall of 1869, was relieved
from the Bureau at his own request, and ordered to the command of the Wash
ington Navy Yard. Total sea service (1870), 12 years, 1 month ; shore or
other duty, 22 years, 8 months. Residence, Washington.

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REAR ADMIRAL SYLVANUS W. GODON.
Sylvanus W. Godon was born in Pennsylvania. He was appointed Mid
shipman from the same State, March 1, 1819.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, and ordered to frigate Macedonia,
Brazil Squadron, 1827 ; on duty at Naval School, Norfolk, Va., 1829 ;
serving in sloop-of-war Natchez, Mediterranean Squadron, 1830 ; attached
to frigate Potomac, Pacific Squadron, 1833-4 ; serving in schooner Shark,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1835. Commissioned as Lieutenant, December
17, 1836 ; attached to sloop-of-war Peacock, East India Squadron, 1836-7 ;
and to sloop-of-war Cyane, Mediterranean Squadron, 1840; attached to bomb
brig Vesuvius, 1847, at the siege of Vera Cruz ; on special duty, 1850 ;
Executive-Officer of steamer Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1851-3.
Promoted to Commander, September 14, 1855; commanding sloop-of-war
Mohican, Pacific Squadron, 1860.
Commissioned as Captain in 1861, and ordered to command of sloop-of-war
Powhatan, one of the vessels of Du Pont's Expedition to Port Royal. Promoted
to Commodore, January 2, 1863; on special duty, 1864; commanding steamer
Susquehanna, and fourth division of Porter's Squadron, at the two battles of
Fort Fisher, in December, 1864, and January, 1865.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 25, 1866 ; commanding South Atlantic
Squadron, Coast of Brazil, 1866-7. Commandant Navy Yard, New York,
1868-70. Rear Admiral Gordon's record shows that he has served in all parts of the
world. Of forty years' service, twenty-four have been at sea — a greater propor
tion of sea service than shown by the record of any other officer of his grade.

REAR ADMIRAL STEPHEN C. ROWAN,
Born in Ireland, December 28, 1805; appointed Midshipman from Ohio,
February 15, 1826, and ordered to the sloop-of-war Vincennes, Pacific Squad
ron ; serving in schooner Experiment, Chesapeake Bay, 1831.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832, and attached to sloop-
of-war Vandalia, West India Squadron, 1834-6, and'to store-ship Relief, 1837.
Commissioned as Lieutenant in 1837 ; on cost survey duty, 1840 ; attached
to frigate Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1843 ; serving in Pacific Squadron,
1846-8, and took an active part in the war with Mexico.
Commanded naval battalion under Commodore Stockton at the battle of the
Niesa, Upper California ; commanded a landing party that made a successful
night attack on a Mexican outpost, near Mazatlan ; Executive-Officer of the
Cyane when she bombarded Guaymas; on ordnance duty, 1850-3.
Promoted to Commander, September 14, 1855, and ordered to command of
store-ship Relief; on ordnance duty, 1858-61; commanded sloop-of-war Pawnee,
1861-2. .In May, 1861, when in command ofthe Pawnee, engaged the rebel battery
at Acquia Creek. This was the first action of the war. While in command of
the Pawnee, he participated in the attack and capture of the forts and garrison
at Hatteras Inlet.
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lina, and took part in the successful combined attack of the navy and army upon
Roanoke Island, on February 8th. On the morning after the capture of
Roanoke Island, Commander Rowan, with a portion of his flotilla, pursued the
enemy into Albemarle Sound, and at 8 A. M., February 10th, the rebel steam
ers, under the command of W. F. Lynch, formerly of the U. S. Navy, were dis
covered drawn up behind a battery of four guns, supported by a schooner on
the opposite side of the river, armed with two heavy thirty-two pounders. Fire
was opened by the insurgents from the fort and steamers at long range. Com
mander Rowan pushed on steadily until within three-fourths of a mile, when he
opened fire and dashed ahead at full speed. This bold and wholly unantici
pated onset dismayed the rebels, who hastily abandoned their works, which, with
their entire fleet, were captured or destroyed.
Passing up the river, the flotilla took possession of Elizabeth City. Lieuten
ant Murray was dispatched with a small force to Edenton, of which he quietly
took possession, and on returning from this duty he was sent to obstruct the
Chesapeake and Albemarle Canal. In this expedition there were five armed
steamers ahd one schooner destroyed, and one steamer, the Ellis, captured.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862, and as a reward for distinguished
gallantry, promoted to Commodore, to take rank from the same date.
Commodore Rowan commanded the naval forces at the fall of Newbern, N. C.;
commanded the New Ironsides off Charleston, and participated in the different
engagements with Forts Wagner, Gregg and Moultrie.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral July 25, 1866 ; Commandant Norfolk Navy
Yard, 1866-7; commanding Asiatic Squadron, 1868-70.

REAR ADMIRAL JOSEPH LANMAN.
Joseph Lanman was born in Connecticut, July 11, 1811. Appointed Mid
shipman from the same State, January 1, 1825; attached to frigate Macedo
nian, Brazil Squadron, 1827 ; sloop Peacock, West India Squadron, 1830.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; attached to schooner Dolphin,
Pacific Squadron, 1834-5, and to sloop Vincennes, same Squadron, 1836.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1835; serving in sloop Warren, West
India Squadron, 1840; on ordnance duty, 1845-6; Pacific Squadron, 1847-8.
In the latter year, Lieutenant Lanman was complimented by being made bearer
of dispatches from the commanding officer of the Pacific Squadron, to the
authorities at Washington ; special duty, 1849-51 ; sloop-of-war San Jacinto,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1852-3.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; Washington Navy Yard,
1855-6; commanding steamer Michigan, on the Lakes, 1859-61.
Commissioned as Captain, 1861 ; commanding steam-sloop Saranac, Pacific
Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Commodore, August 29, 1862; commanding steam sloop
Lancaster, Pacific Squadron; 1863; commanding frigate Minnesota North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5.
Commodore Lanman commanded the 2d Division of Porter's Squadron at the
two attacks upon Fort Fisher, and performed his duty efficiently.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, December 8, 1867 ; Commandant Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1867-8; commanding South Atlantic Sauadron
coast of Brazil, 1869-70. quaaron,

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REAR ADMIRAL JOHN RODGERS,
Born in Maryland, and appointed Midshipman from District of Columbia,
April 18, 1828. Attached to frigate Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron,
1829-32 ; Naval School, Norfolk, 1833-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834 ; on leave, 1835 ; brig
Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1836-8; special service, 1839.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 22, 1840; brig Boxer, Home Squadron,
1841-3; special service, 1844-5; sloop Marion, Mediterranean Squadron,
1846-7 ; Coast Survey, 1848-52 ; commanding steamer John Hancock, and Sur
veying and Exploring Expeditions to North Pacific and China Seas, 1853-6.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; special duty, Washing
ton, D. C, 1857-9; waiting orders, 1860.
In 1861, Commander Rodgers was ordered to special duty in the West, super
intending the construction of the Benton class of iron-clads. In 1862, he was
assigned to the command of the iron-clad steamer Galena, and ordered to the
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. On the 10th of May, 1862, Commander
Rodgers left Hampton Roads in command of an expedition of gun-boats, with
orders to enter the James River, and, if possible, to ascend the river to Rich
mond. After two engagements with rebel batteries, which were in each
instance silenced, the fleet reached Fort Darling, a casemated battery, erected
on the crest of a hill, which, together with sunken vessels, effectually obstructed
the channel.
On the morning of the 15th of May, Commander Rodgers anchored the
Galena in front of and at a distance of five hundred yards from the rebel fort.
The Aroostook and Port Royal, wooden gun-boats, were stationed eight hun
dred yards below the flag-ship. At 8 A. M., the vessels opened fire on Fort
Darling, and from that time until 12 M. kept up a vigorous bombardment. At
12.10 P. M., Commander Rodgers having expended every shot and shell in the
magazine and shell-room ofthe Galena, made signal to withdraw from action,
the vessels retiring in good order, and giving the rebels a parting-shot as they
steamed down the river. The monitor being unable to give sufficient elevation
to her guns, and the Naugatuck, better known as the Stevens' battery, having
burst her rifle gun at the first fire, were rendered useless, so far as the fort was
concerned ; although both vessels did good service during the action by station
ing their crews as sharpshooters and picking off the rebel riflemen, who greatly
annoyed the crews of the wooden vessels.
The armor ofthe Galena did not prove of any service to her. She was hit
one hundred and twenty-nine times, losing in killed and wounded two-thirds of
her crew. The Aroostook and Port-Royal suffered to a less extent.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862.
In 1863, Captain Rodgers was ordered to the command of the monitor Wee
hawken, and sailed from New York in that vessel for the South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron. On his way South, and while off the Delaware Breakwater
he encountered a heavy gale. He was urged to run in, and remain until the
storm abated. This he declined to do, saying he wished to test the sea-going
qualities of the monitors. The Weehawken rode out the gale, and reached
Port Royal in safety.
On the 17th of June, 1863, in Warsaw Sound, Georgia, Captain Rodgers, in
the Weehawken, encountered the powerful rebel iron-clad Atlanta, a vessel of
much greater tonnage than the Weehawken. So confident were the rebels of a
speedy victory, that the Atlanta was accompanied from Savannah to the scene
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their vessel. Five shots were fired by the Weehawken. The fight lasted but
fifteen minutes, at the end of which time the Atlanta surrendered. An impor
tant feature of this conflict was the final settlement of the dispute as to the
value of the new fifteen-inch gun, which fully proved its merit.
Commissioned as Commodore the 17th of June, 1863; commanding iron-clad
Dictator, special service, 1864-5; commanded monitor Monadnock, 1866-7,
and in that vessel made the passage around the Horn to San Francisco. Com
modore Rodgers touched at Valparaiso, and witnessed the bombardment of that
place by the Spanish fleet.
Commanding Navy Yard, Boston, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, December 31, 1869, and ordered to the
command of the Asiatic Fleet.

REAR ADMIRAL JOHN A. WINSLOW *
Born in North Carolina, November 19, 1811. Appointed Midshipman from
that State, Februarv 1, 1827. Attached to the sloop Falmouth, West India
Squadron, 1829, '30 and '31.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1834;
Brazil Squadron, 1835, '36 and '37.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1839 ; in the Enterprise, Brazil,
1840-1 ; in steam-frigate Missouri until she burned at Gibraltar, in 1843, when
he brought home Cushing's dispatches ; frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron,
1845-6 ; took part in the attack on Tobasoo, and engaged in various skirmishes
from Rio Grande River down the coast. For gallantry at Tobasco, Lieutenant
Winsltfw was given choice of all the vessels captured by Commodore Perry.
He selected a double-topsail Baltimore-built schooner, afterward entered in
our service as the "Morris," named after a son of Commodore Morris, who was
killed in action. During a portion of 1848-9, First Lieutenant of sloop Sara
toga, coast of Mexico, etc. ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1849-50 ; frigate St. Law
rence, Pacific, 1851-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding rendezvous.
Boston, 1856-8 ; Light-house Inspector, 1860-1 ; Mississippi Flotilla, 1861-2
— present at Fort Pillow, 1862, and engaged in various attacks and skirmishes
with guerillas while in command of an expedition up White River, for the
relief of General Curtis' army, in June, 1862.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-sloop Kearsage,
special service, 1863-4.
On Sunday, June 10, 1864, the Kearsage had her famous fight with the
piratical steamer Alabama, off Cherbourg, France. The officers of the Alabama
were so confident of victory, that grand preparations were ordered, and invita
tions extended to French officers for a reception on shore on the night after ,the
return to Cherbourg ; and before leaving port a main-topsail was spread in the
hold with 200 pairs of irons for prisoners. It was said that the special trains
brought from Paris 40,000 persons to witness the battle from the Cherbourg
breakwater. At 10.20 A. M., on the day mentioned, the Kearsage, being in the offing,
discovered the Alabama standing out, accompanied by the English yacht Deer-
hound. Captain Winslow at once cleared his ship for action, and when the
Alabama had reached the distance of seven miles from the shore, and was about
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Captain Winslow, fearing that his opponent would, in case of injury, steam
in within the line of jurisdiction for protection, determined to run under her
stern and rake. To avoid this, Semmes, the commander ofthe Alabama, sheared,
and keeping broadside on to the Kearsage, was forced into a circular track : at.
the seventh rotation, the Alabama was disabled, and headed for the shoret
Another shot brought down the rebel flag, and a white one was run up. A-
12.10, an officer from the Alabama came alongside the Kearsage and surren,
dered his vessel, which was reported in a sinking condition. At 12.30 P. M .
the Alabama went down — Captain Semmes and many of his officers and men,
escaping to the shore in the English yacht Deerhound. The remainder were
picked up by the boats of the Kearsage, and taken on board that vessel. Five
of the crew of the Kearsage were wounded, two slightly — two of them died.
Seventeen of the wounded men of the Alabama were picked up by the boats of
the victorious vessel. The total number of killed and wounded on board the
Alabama was never known ; and the number of men composing her crew, is
also unknown.
The battery of the Kearsage consisted of seven guns : two 11-inch Dahlgren,
one 30-pounder rifle and four light 32-pounders. That of the Alabama con
sisted of eight guns : one 68-pounder, of 9,000 pounds weight, one 100-pounder
rifle and six heavy 32-pounders.
For this gallant action, the only sea-fight of importance during the war, Cap
tain Winslow was promoted to the grade of Commodore, his commission dating
June 19, 1864. In 1866, Commodore was ordered to the command of the
Gulf Squadron, which he retained until 1867. ¦
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, in the Spring of 1870, and ordered to the
command of the Pacific Fleet. At present, Commandant of the Navy Yard
at Portsmouth, N. H. Total sea service, 19 years, 5 months ; shore or other
duty, 10 years, 9 months.

REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL PHILLIPS LEE,
Born in Virginia, February 13, 1812. Appointed Midshipman from his
native State, November 22, 1825; attached to frigate Java, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1828-32.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833 ; frigate Brandywine,
Pacific Squadron, 1834-5, and to sloop Vincennes, same squadron, 1836-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837; attached to West India
Squadron, 1839-42 ; Coast Survey, 1841^ ; Pensacola Navy Yard, 1845-6 ;
Coast Survey, 1847-51 ; commanding brig Dolphin, special service, 1852 ;
Hydrographical duty, 1852-4; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1855.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; special service, 1856-60.
In 1861, Commander Lee was ordered to command the sloop-of-war Oneida,
and in that vessel took part in the attack and passage of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, and the various battles on the Mississippi from New Orleans to Vicks
burg, winning a high reputation for gallantry and devotion to duty.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862, and ordered to the command of
the N. A. B. Squadron, with the rank of Acting Rear Admiral. While in
command of the N. A. B. Squadron, he greatly harassed the. enemy by numer
ous expeditions up the navigable streams within the limits of his squadron.
He was at all times ready to co-operate with the army, and on more than one
occasion the presence of his vessels saved the military forces from serious disas
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but Acting Rear Admiral Lee, by a wise distribution of the vessels of his squad
ron, made the blockade as effective as it was possible to make it. In the sum
mer of 1864, Acting Rear Admiral Lee was transferred to the command of the
Mississippi Squadron. In December of the same year he rendered good service
to the country, by keeping open the Cumberland River at the time Hood's army ¦
was advancing on Nashville, and when the safety of the army under General
Thomas depended in a great measure upon reinforcements and supplies reaching
them promptly ; the railroad communication between Louisville and Nashville
having been interrupted, the Cumberland River was the only channel of com
munication. During this campaign, Admiral Lee was several times under fire, and for his
services received a vote of thanks from Congress.
In 1865, the Mississippi Squadron was disbanded and most of the vessels
sold, Captain Lee being ordered East.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866; in 1866-7, Commodore Lee
was President of the Board to examine volunteer officers for admission into the
regular Navy ; at present, on special duty at Washington, D. C, 1868-70.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, June, 1870, and to the command of the
North Atlantic Fleet.

REAR ADMIRAL 0. S. GLISSON,*
Born in Ohio. Appointed Midshipman from Indiana, November 1, 1826.
First cruise in the sloop John Adams, West Indies, 1827-8 ; sloop Falmouth,
same squadron, 1829-30; schooner Grampus, same squadron, 1831-2.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1832; in the Delaware, 74, Medi
terranean, 1832, '33, '34 and '35 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1836.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837; in sloop Fairfield, Brazil
Squadron, 1837, '38, '39 and '40 ; sloop Marion, West India Squadron, 1841-2 ;
sloop Saratoga, Brazil Squadron, 1843-4 ; commanding schooner Reefer, during
the Mexican war, 1847; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1848, '49 and. 50 ; special duty,
1851-2 ; attached to steam-frigate Powhatan, East India Squadron, and on the
Japan Expedition, 1852, '53, '54 and 55 — was in Japan when the first treaty
was made by Commodore M. C. Perry.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding store-ship
John P. Kennedy, East India Squadron, 1856 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia,
1857, '58 '59 and '60; commanding steamer Mount Vernon, N. A. B. Squad
ron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; while in the Mount Vernon, saved
the transport Mississippi, bound to New Orleans, with General Butler and
fifteen hundred men on board. It was supposed that she was designedly run
on Fryingpan Shoal, North Carolina ; and had it not been for the timely assist
ance of the Mount Vernon, it is very probable that many lives would have been
lost, By this valuable service being rendered, General Butler was enabled to
reach New Orleans in time to participate in that great battle. While on the
Blockade of Wilmington, he burned a light-boat under the guns of Fort Cas
well, so close that they could hear the sentinels calling " all's well." This
light-boat was all ready to receive her battery of eight guns, and would have
been put in commission in a few days, to cruise against our commerce.
Commanding steam-sloop Mohican, 1862-3, in chase of the Alabama; com
manding steamer Santiago de Cuba, 1864-5; present at the two attacks on
Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865; commanded the Third

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Division in both engagements ; was recommended by Admiral Porter for pro
motion, for covering the landing ofthe troops, and carrying his division into action.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866.
Commanding Naval Station, League Island, Pa., 1867 to May 1, 1870.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, June, 1870, and ordered to the command
of the European Fleet.
Sea service, 21 years, 9 months; shore and other duty, 15 years, 5 months
Official residence, Philadelphia, Pa.

REAR ADMIRAL MELANCTHON SMITH,*
Born in New York, May 24, 1810. Appointed from New York, March 1,
1826; from July 22, 1826 to June 15, 1830, attached to frigate Brandywine
and sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron; unemployed from June 15th to December
31, 1830; Naval School from December 31, 1830 to May 3, 1831; frigate
Potomac, May 3d to June 28, 1831 ; Navy Yard, New York, from June 28,
1831 to January 19, 1832 ; unemployed from January 19th' to March 1, 1832 ;
orders to examination, March 1, 1832 to August 8, 1832.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 1, 1832; sloop St. Louis, West
India Squadron, August 8, 1832 to December 14, 1832; Navy Yard, Pensa-
cola, December 14, 1832 to July 21, 1833 ; brig Porpoise and sloop Vandalia,
West India Squadron, from July 21, 1833 to August 15, 1834 ; unemployed
August 15, 1834 to July 20, 1835 ; Navy Yard, New York, July 20, 1835 to
November 4, 1835 ; unemployed November 4, 1835 to July 16, 1836.
Promoted to Master, 1836 ; sloops Natchez and Vandalia, West India Squad
ron, from July 16, 1836 to August 1, 1838 — the former as Sailing Master and
in the latter as Lieutenant.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 8, 1837; unemployed August 1 1838,
to June 12, 1839 ; steamer Poinsett, operating against the Indians in Florida,
from June 12, 1839 to March 17, 1840 ; commanded a fort and a twenty-oared
barge for one month in 1839, during the Florida War ; unemployed from March
17, 1840 to June 10, 1840 ; Navy Yard, New York, from latter date to April
23, 1841 ; sloops Fairfield and Preble, Mediterranean Squadron, from April
23, 1841 to September 5, 1843 ; unemployed from September 5, 1843 to
November 1, 1843; receiving-ship at New York, from November 1, 1843 to
October 1, 1844 ; store-ship Erie, from October 1, 1844 to December 23,
1844; sloop Vandalia and steamer Col. Harney, Home Squadron, from Decem
ber 23, 1844 to January 8, 1846 ; Executive-Officer of Pensacola Navy Yard,
January 3, 1846 to April 1, 1848; unemployed from April 1, 1848 to Sep
tember 15, 1848 ; frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, from Septem
ber 15, 1848 to January 14, 1851 ; waiting orders from January 14, 1851 to
January 25, 1855.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; Executive-Officer of
frigate Potomac,,while she was flag-ship to Flag-Officer Paulding, June 25, 1855
to October 16, 1855; unemployed from October 16, 1855 to October 12,
1857 ; Light-house Inspector, October 27, 1857 to December 20, 1860 ;
'unemployed from December 20, 1860 to May 1, 1861 ; commanding at different
times the steamers Mississippi, Massachusetts and Monongahela, Gulf Blocka
ding Squadron, from May 1, 1861 to June 22, 1863. While commanding the
Massachusetts, engaged a fort at Ship Island, July 9, 1861, and three confede
rate steamers and a revenue-cutter off Ship Island in 1861 ; engagement with

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rebel steamer Florida, Mississippi Sounds, October 26, 1861 ; cut the telegraph
wire between Shieldsboro and Pass Christian, September 20, 1861 ; capture of
a battery of two guns at Beloxi. December 31, 1861, while commanding the
steamer Mississippi, was in the attack and passage of Forts Jackson and Philip,
and the capture and destruction of the rebel ram Manassas, April 24, 1862.
Flag-Officer Farragut in his official report, says : " Just as the scene appeared
to be closing, the ram Manassas was seen coming up under a full head of steam
to attack us. I directed Captain Smith in the Mississippi to turn and run
her down. This order was instantly obeyed by the Mississippi, turning and
going at her at full speed. Just as we expected to see the ram annihilated,
when within fifty yards of each other, she put her helm hard-a-port, dodged the
Mississippi and ran ashore. The Mississippi poured two broadsides into her
and sent her drifting down the river a total wreck. Thus closed our morning's
fight." Chalmette batteries, below New Orleans, April 25, 1862.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862.
Captain Smith remained in the Mississippi, taking part in all engagements
ofthe squadron until March 14, 1863, when in attempting the passage of the
batteries at Port Hudson, the Mississippi grounded in twenty-three feet of water,
and keeled over to port. Every effort was made to get the vessel off, but
without avail, and the enemy having obtained the exact range of the ship, were
hulling her at almost every shot, when Captain Smith gave orders to fire her,
which was done in four different places between decks. When the flames had
gained sufficient headway to render the destruction of the vessel certain, Cap
tain Smith gave orders to abandon her, which was done quietly and without
confusion, he being the last man to leave. By his cool and courageous bearing
in the trying situation in which he was placed, Captain Smith won the admira
tion of all, and his course was approved by both Rear Admiral Farragut and the
Department. While commanding the Monongahela, participated in the attacks
on Port Hudson, from June 1st to 20, 1863 ; from June 22, 1863 to July,
1863, under orders North to report for a command — reporting July 7, 1863;
from July, 1863 to February 15, 1865, at sea, commanding iron-clad Onondaga;
temporarily transferred April 23, 1864, by telegraph, to command of squadron
in North Carolina Sounds, to capture rebel ram Albemarle ; engaged that vessel
and her consort the steamer Bombshell in Albemarle Sound, capturing the
latter vessel May, 1864; returned to Onondaga as Divisional Officer on James
River, and was permanently transferred to frigate Wabash, for operations
against Fort Fisher; participated in both attacks on Fort Fisher — the first
December 24th and 25, 1864, the second on January 15th and 16, 1865; from
February 16th to March 14, 1865, from March 14, 1865 to April 9, 1865, on
court martial duty; from April 9, 1865 to May 1, 1865, unemployed; from
May 1, 1865, to May 22, 1865, court martial duty; from May 22d to June
7, 1865, unemployed; from June 7, 1865 to September 9, 1866, Navy Yard,
Washington, D. C.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866 ; appointed Chief of Bureau of
Equipment and Recruiting, Navy Department, September 9, 1866.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July, 1870.

REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES STUART BOGGS,*
Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 28, 1811. Appointed Mid
shipman from same State, November 1, 1826. Attached to Mediterranean

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Squadron — sloop-of-war Warren and ship-of-the-line Delaware — 1827-30; West
India Squadron, schooner Porpoise, from 1830-2.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832; receiving-ship, New York,
1832; West Indies, sloop Falmouth, 1833-4; rendezvous, New York, 1835-6.
Promoted Lieutenant, September 6, 1837 ; Pacific Squadron, ship-of-the-
line North Carolina and schooner Enterprise, 1837-8 ; receiving-ship, New
York, in charge of apprentices, 1840-1 ; Coast of Africa, sloop Saratoga,
1842-3 ; participated in tbe destruction of the Bereby Village on that coast;
Home Squadron, 1846-7, steamer Princeton; present at Siege of Vera Cruz ;
commanded boat expedition from the Princeton, which destroyed the United
States brig Truxton after her surrender to the Mexicans ; receiving-ship New
York, 1848 ; Executive-Officer of the frigate St. Lawrence to the World's
Fair, London, 1848 ; First Lieutenant Navy Yard, New York, and inspecting for
bureau of provisions and clothing, 1851-4.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding United
States mail-steamer Illinois, 1856-8 ; Light-house Inspector, California,
1860-1 ; commanding United States steamer Varuna at the passage of Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, April 24, 1862. The Varuna was the only vessel of
Farragut's Squadron lost at the passage of the forts. From her great speed
she was able to get ahead of all the fleet, and engage the rebel squadron above
the forts. She was attacked by two rams, and sunk after being run into the
bank of the river ; causing, however, the destruction of the attacking vessels.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanded steam-sloop Sacra
mento on the blockade of Cape Fear River ; left his command on account of
serious sickness; special duty under Admiral Gregory, at New York, 1864-5 ;
superintended the construction of small steam-picket boats, and specially de
signed and fitted out the torpedo boat, which, under the dashing Cushing, de
stroyed the rebel iron-clad Albemarle ; 1866, commanded the United States
steamer Connecticut; special cruise in the West Indies; fell in with the rebel
iron-clad Stonewall in the harbor of Havana, and previous to her being given
up to the Spanish government, demanded her surrender to the United States.
Promoted Commodore, July 25, 1866; commanded steamer De Soto, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1866-8. The De Soto suffered serious damage in the
earthquake at St. Thomas, but was safely brought to the United States for re
pairs, bringing the crew of the United States steamer Monongahela, which had
been thrown ashore by the earthquake at St. Croix. Special duty, to report on
the condition of steam-engines afloat, 1869-70 ; commanding Light-house
Depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, and Light-house Inspector, third district ;
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July, 1870.

REAR ADMIRALS ON THE RETIRED LIST.

REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM BRANFORD SHUBRICK,*
Born in South Carolina, October 31, 1790. Appointed Midshipman from that
State, June 20, 1806.
Commissioned Lieutenant, January 5, 1813. Commanded one of the gun
boats in an attack on a British frigate in Hampton Roads in 1813, in which
she was disabled, but other ships of the enemy came to her relief. Commanded

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one of the guns on Craney Island, near Norfolk, when the British made a land
and water attack on the defences and were repulsed with loss, in June, 1813.
Was Third Lieutenant of the frigate Constitution in the-action which resulted
in the capture of the sloops Cyane and Levant ; and was senior Lieutenant and
Executive-Officer of the same frigate in her celebrated skillful escape from a
British squadron of two line-of-battle-ships and a frigate, off the Cape de Verde
Islands. South Carolina voted him the thanks of the State and a splendid sword for
his services during the war of 1812.
Commissioned as Master Commandant, March 28, 1820. Commanded sloop
Lexington, 1827, on a cruise to the coast of Labrador for the protection of our
fisheries; completing the cruise in the West Indies, and bringing home the
remains of Commodore 0. H. Perry from the Island of Trinidad. Navy Yard,
Washington, 1830.
Commissioned as Captam, February 21, 1831. Ordnance duty, 1833-7.
Appointed to command of West India Squadron, 1838 ; and as Commandant of
Norfolk Navy Yard, 1840.
Chief of Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1845-6. Commanded the
Pacific Squadron during the Mexican War. Landed and captured the fortified
town of Mazatlan from a superior force, and held it and other important places
on the coast until the end of the war. Ordnance duty, 1852. Commanded the
Princeton and a small squadron on the eastern coast, in 1853, settling the fishery
troubles between our countrymen and the British. Chief of Bureau of Con
struction in 1853. Chairman of Light-house Board, 1854-8.
Commanding Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition in 1859, consisting
of flag-ship Sabine and a number of smaller vessels, mostly purchased and
specially fitted for the service. The result was commended by the President
in his message to Congress. A fine sword was presented to him by General
Urquiza, President of the Argentine Confederation, as a mark of his "satisfac
tion at the manner in which the expedition had been conducted through the
waters of the Confederation;" the sword being accepted by permission of
Congress. At the outbreak of the Rebellion, in 1861, unsuccessful efforts were made to
induce him to return to his native State and espouse the cause of the South.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 16, 1862. Chairman of Light-house
Board 1860-70. Total sea service, 18 years, 5 months; shore and other duty,
38 years, 5 months.
Rear Admiral Shubrick is one of six brothers who served the country during
the war of 1812; two in the army, and four in the navy ; the sons of an officer
of the Revolutionary Army. One of his brothers, Lieut. John Templer
Shubrick, after having participated in the capture of the Guerriere and Java by
the Constitution, of the Peacock by the Hornet, and serving in the President
when she was captured by a British Squadron off New York, and then again
as First Lieutenant of Decatur's flag-ship, the Guerriere, when she captured an
Algerine frigate, was lost on his return home in the Epervier, sloop-of-war, in
1815, having in his possession the treaty of peace with ATgiers.

REAR ADMIRAL JOSEPH SMITH.*
Joseph Smith was born in Massachusetts, March 30, 1790. Appointed
Midshipman from the same State, January 16, 1809.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 24, 1813. Lieutenant Smith served with
distinguished gallantry at the battle of Lake Champlain, September 11, 1814, and
at the capture of Algerine vessels, 1815. He was wounded in the former action,
and was favorably mentioned by his commanding officer in his official report.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1827 ; attached to Boston Navy
Yard, 1828 ; to frigate Guerriere, Pacific Squadron, 1829-30 ; school-ship Bos
ton, 1834.
Commissioned as Captain, February 9, 1837 ; commanding ship of-the-line
Ohio, Mediterranean Squadron, 1838-40 ; commanding receiving-ship, at Bos
ton, 1843 ; commanding Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-5. In 1846, Captain
Smith was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, which position
he filled with great advantage to the government and credit to himself, until
the spring of 1869, when he was ordered as President of Examining Board for
promotion of officers.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 16, 1862.

REAR ADMIRAL SILAS H. STRINGHAM.
Silas H. Stringham was born in Middletown, Orange county, New York.
Appointed Midshipman, June 19, 1810. Midshipman Stringham's first service
was in the frigate President, 1811-12. While attached to the President, he
participated in the engagement with His Majesty's sloop Little Belt, and in the
engagement with His Majesty's sloop Belvidere.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1814. Lieutenant Stringham
took part in the capture of the Algerine vessels, 1815.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1831 ; special duty, 1831-2 ;
commanding sloop-of-war John Adams, 1836-7 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1840.
Commissioned as Captain, 1841 ; commanding frigate Independence, Home
Squadron, 1843 ; commanding New York Navy Yard, 1845-6 ; commanding
ship-of-the-line Ohio, Pacific Squadron, during the war with Mexico; Com
mandant Norfolk Navy Yard, 1852; commanding Mediterranean Squadron,
1852-5; Commandant Navy Yard, Boston, 1856-60 ; commanding North At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1861. Flag-Officer Strigham's squadron em
braced within its limits the whole coast extending from the easternmost line of
Virginia to Cape Florida, and with the small force the Department was able to
place at his disposal, he did all that could be done in effecting a blockade of the
Southern ports. After some delay, an expedition to Hatteras Inlet, on the
coast of North Carolina, where piratical depredations had become extremely an
noying, was undertaken. Flag-Officer Stringham commanded in person the
naval forces, and Major General Butler commanded the military forces, con
sisting of about eight hundred men, which co-operated with the squadron. The
expedition was entirely successful in the attack upon and capture of Forts Hat
teras and Clark. The entire garrison, under command of Commodore Barron,
who had been for nearly fifty years an officer in the United States Navy, sur
rendered, after sustaining great loss ; while not a man was killed or wounded in
the attacking force. It is to be regretted that the military force was not strong
enough to follow up this victory.
In September, 1861, Flag-Officer Stringham, at his own request, was relieved
of the command of the squadron.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 16, 1862; special duty, 1862-3; Com
mandant Navy Yard, 1864-6; at present, Port Admiral at New York.

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REAR ADMIRAL SAMUEL L. BREEZE.
Samuel L. Breeze was born in New York. Appointed at large, Septem
ber 1 0, 1810. Midshipman BreefcS was present at the battle of Lake Champlain.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 27, 1816, and as Commander, Decem
ber 22, 1835 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1836 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1840.
Commissioned as Captain, September 8, 1841; commanding frigate Cumber
land, Mediterranean Squadron, 1845.
Captain Breeze was in the Pacific during the Mexican war, and was present
at the attack on, and capture of, the towns Tuspan and Tobasco, Mexico, and
at the capture of Vera Cruz, 1847 ; special duty on the lakes, 1848 ; Com
mandant Norfolk Navy Yard, 1853-5; commanding Mediterranean Squadron;
1856-8 ; Commandant Navy Yard, New York, 1859-61..
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 16, 1862 ; Light-house Inspector,
1862 ; special duty, New York, 1865. At present. Port Admiral at Phila
delphia.

REAR ADMIRAL HIRAM PAULDING*
Born in New York, 1797. Appointed Midshipman same State, September 1,
1811; served on Lake Ontario with Commodore Chauncey at the commencement
of the war with England ; transferred to Lake Champlain, and served on board
President and Ticonderoga, and commanded second division of guns in the
action with the British Fleet near Plattsburg.
In 1815, served in frigate Constellation, squadron of Commodore Decatur,
in the war with Algiers, and participated in the capture of Algerine cruisers.
Promoted Lieutenant, April 27, 1816; served on board Independence, 74;
served on board brig Prometheus, 1817.
In 1818, ordered to frigate Macedonian and made a cruise of three years in
Pacific ocean, returning in 1821. (On leave in 1822, which year was passed at
the military academy of Captain Partridge, at Norwich, Vermont.)
In 1823, ordered to steamer "Sea Gull" (the first steamer employed as a
man-of-war) in the squadron of Commodore Porter for the suppression of piracy
in the West Indies.
In 1824, ordered to frigate United States, and made a cruise of nearly four
years in the Pacific Ocean, and while there in 1826, volunteered for duty on
schooner Dolphin, ordered in pursuit of mutineers of whale ship Globe — absent
one year on this service — rejoined the United States and returned in her to New
York. In 1830, joined frigate Constellation as First Lieutenant, and served in her
two years in the Mediterranean. In 1834, was appointed to command schooner
Shark, and made a cruise in the Mediterranean of about two and one-half years.
Promoted Commander, February 9, 1837.
In 1838, appointed to command sloop-of-war Levant and made a cruise in the
West Indies.
In 1841, Executive-Officer, Navy Yard, New York.
In 1843, promoted Post Captain.
In 1844, appointed to command sloop-of-war Vincennes, and made a cruise
in East Indies of three years — was left in command of station by the return of
Commodore Biddle to United States. «
In 1848, appointed to command frigate St. Lawrence and cruised in the
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In 1852, ordered to command Vermont, 74, to join the East India Squadron,
but her sailing was countermanded, and same year ordered to command Navy
Yard, Washington.
In 1855, appointed to command Home Squadron.
In 1858, relieved from Home Squadron soon after having sent the filibuster
Walker and his men home from Nicaragua.
In 1861, appointed by President Lincoln to assist in the Navy Department
in putting the Navy afloat and rendering other services consequent upon the
breaking out of the Rebellion. In the performance of these duties was the
destruction of the Navy Yard at Norfolk, in obedience to orders — same year ap
pointed to command Navy Yard, New York.
Commissioned Rear Admired, July 16, 1862. During the Draft Riots in
New York City in 1863, the marines and seamen on the station protected public
and private property on the North and East Rivers. The Arsenal, Custom
House, Sub-Treasury and many other buildings in New York. Admiral Paulding
at this time was in command of the Navy Yard at New York, and always, in
his many stations of honor and trust, acted with discretion and a zealous devotion
to the public good. Ordered as Governor of Naval Asylum at Philadelphia, 1866.
Ordered as Post Admiral at Boston, 1869.
Born in 1797; will be 73 on December 11, 1870.

REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS CRABBE, *
Born in Maryland. Appointed Midshipman from Pennsylvania, November
15, 1809. Engaged-in an attack by squad of gunboats on three British frigates
in Hampton Roads, June 20, 1813 ; also in repelling an attack made on Craney
Island by the British forces, under command of Sir Sidney Beckwith and
Admiral Cockburn, June 22, 1813.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 4, 1815.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1835. Commanding sloop-of-war
Vandalia, West India Squadron, 1836-7. While in command of the Van
dalia, Fort Brook, Tampa Bay was given in charge of the navy for defence,
in the absence of the army operating in th'e interior against the Seminole
Indians. Commander Crabbe, where he remained from January28 to May 17,
1837. Commander Crabbe received the following commendatory letter from
General Jessup on this occasion : —
" In dissolving the official relations in which we have stood to each other, so
much to my satisfaction, for several months past, I cannot avoid the expression
ofthe great obligations I am under to you and your command, for the uniform,
steady, and efficient support which you have at all times given to me — a sup
port mostauspicious in its effects upon the results of the campaign, and which
I shall always remember with the liveliest gratitude."
Commissioned as Captain, September 8, 1841. Ordered to command frigate
Brandywine, Brazil Squadron. Commander of steam-sloop San Jacinto, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1852-3. Commander Crabbe served in the frigates Presi
dent, Constellation, United States and Java, line-of-battle-ship Delaware,
sloop-of-war Peacock. Commanded squadron on coast of Africa, on flag-ship
Jamestown, 1855-7.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862. Prize Commissioner, Eastern
District Pennsylvania, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 25, 1866.

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REAR ADMIRAL J. B. MONTGOMERY,*
Born in New Jersey. Entered the Navy as Midshipman, June 4, 1812.
Early in September reported at Sackett's Harbor for duty in the Squadron on
Lake Ontario ; served successively on board of the Hamilton and flag-ships
Madison and General Pike ; participated in the naval attack on Kingston,
Upper Canada, on November 10, 1812; also in the capture of Little 5Tork,
(now Toronto,) April 27, and of Fort George and Newark on May 27, 1813;
August 4, 1813, volunteered with seven other officers and one hundred
sailors for service on Lake Erie, where we joined the United States brig
Niagara, Captain Elliot, and took part in the general naval action of Sep
tember 10th, which resulted in the capture of the British Fleet. For this
service, Midshipman Montgomery received a sword and thanks of Congress,
awarded to the officers of his grade.
Was present during the blockade and subsequent attack on Mackinaw,
(Lake Huron,) August, 1814, also in the same month the destruction of a
Blockhouse and. gun-brig on the northern shore of that Lake.
During the last siege of Fort Erie, the Niagara was employed in protecting
communication between the Fort and the United States Hospitals at Buffalo,
and the transportation of troops between the two shores of the Lake during
the months of September and October. Continued in the Niagara to the
close of the war, and returned to New York late in February, 1815, in time
to witness the general illumination in celebration of Peace. Early in the
following month of March, the United States being at war with Algiers,
was ordered to the Ontario, Captain Elliott, at Baltimore, and sailed with
the first squadron under Commodore Decatur, on the 15th of May, 1815, for
the Mediterranean. Participated in the capture of Algerine frigate and
man-of-war brig in June, and in the blockade of Algiers to the close of war
in July, 1815. Continued to serve on board of the Ontario and frigate
United States, in the Mediterranean, until 1817, when he returned in the
store-ship Alert, Captain Kennedy, to the United States, in August of that
year, at which time he was ordered to the sloop-of-war Hornet, preparing for
sea at New York.
In February, 1818, transferred to the Cyane, and soon after promoted to
Lieutenant. Cruised in the Cyane, Captain Trenchard, on the coast of
Africa, returning to the United States in 1820, and almost immediately
ordered to the sloop Erie, at New York. Served under Captain Deacon in
the sloop Erie, until her return from a three-year cruise in the Mediterra
nean in November, 1826.
On recruiting service 1828-9. In 1830, ordered to the West Indies as
Executive-Officer of the Peacock, Captain McCall. Subsequently transferred
to the flag-ship Erie, and at a later period commanded that ship on a cruise
along the coast of Mexico. In July, 1831, was relieved from the command of
the Erie by Captain Clark, and ordered to the flag-ship Natchez, and returned
in her to Norfolk, Va., the latter part of August, 1831, and detached on leave.
From January, 1833 to February ,1835, on recruiting service at Philadelphia
and New York, when he was ordered as Executive-Officer to the Constitu
tion, at Boston, Captain Ellliot, commanding. In March 2, 1835, sailed for
New York, and thence on the 15th of March for Havre, France, to convey
Mr. Livingston, United States Minister, and family to the United States.
Returned to New York in July, and detached on leave. In March, 1837,
ordered to command of the receiving-ship Columbus, at Boston. Detached
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On December 9, 1839, promoted to Commander. In May, 1841, ordered
to Recruiting Rendezvous at Boston, and detached on leave February, 1844.
In October of this year ordered to command of the sloop Portsmouth, at
Portsmouth, N. H. Sailed in her for Norfolk, Va., December 9th, and
thence for the Pacific Ocean in January, 1845, where he continued until near
the close of the war with Mexico ; returning with the ship to Boston early
in May, 1848, and detached on leave,
During this cruise of the Portsmouth of three years and seven months
duration, the officers and crew under command of Commander Montgomery
took possession of, and permanently established the authority of the United
States at San Francisco, Sonoma, New Helvetia, and Santa Clara, Upper Cali
fornia. Maintained a blockade of Mazatlan, Mexico, for some months, and in
March and April, 1847, took possession of, and hoisted the first United States
flags at San Jose, Cape St. Lucas, and La Paz, Lower California, which ports
were held until relinquished at the close of the war.
In October, 1847, in company with the frigate Congress, Captain Lovellette;
bombarded and captured the fortified town and port of Guaymas, on the Gulf
¦ of California. In April, 1849, ordered as Executive-Officer to the Navy Yard,
Washington, from which he was relieved and placed on leave November 1, 1851.
Commissioned as Captain January 6, 1853.- Ordered to command the new
steam-frigate Roanoke,, at Norfolk, Va., April, 1857, and sailed thence to
Aspinwall, and returned in August to New York with two hundred and fifty of
General Walker's filibusters.
In September, 1857, ordered to Washington as amember of one ofthe Court
of Inquiry on retired officers. In January, 1858, Court dissolved, and placed on
leave. In April, 1859, ordered to command of the British Squadron, and to
hoist his flag on the steam-corvette Lancaster, at Philadelphia.
Relieved from Pacific Squadron by Commodore Charles H. Bell, January
1862, and arrived in New York January 11, 1862. Placed on waiting
orders, (retired list). In May following, (1862,) ordered to command the Navy
Yard, Boston, and transferred to Navy Yard, Washington, December 31, 1863;
relieved by Commodore Radford, October 13, 1865, and placed on waiting
orders. July 10, 1866, ordered to Naval Station, Sackett's Harbor, from
which relieved September 1, 1869, (waiting orders).

REAR ADMIRAL CORNELIUS K. STRIBLING *
Born in South Carolina. Appointed Midshipman from same State, June 18,
1812 ; served on board the Macedonian from January 1, 1813 to April, 1814,
and Mohawk, on Lake Ontario, until April, 1815, and in Macedonian in the
squadron under the command of Commodore Decatur, when the Algerine frigate
and brig were captured, in 1815; from Macedonian to Constellation in Octo
ber, 1815, and returned to the United States in Constellation, end of 1817.
Commissioned Lieutenant, April 1, 1818. On board the Constellation, on
coast of South America, 1819-20 ; in the West Indies, on board the Hornet,
Peacock, John Adams and Constellation, 1822-5 ; in April, 1823, commanded
two barges on the coast of Cuba, and after a running fight, captured the pirati
cal schooner Pilot ; on board the Brandy wine, Pacific Squadron, 1826-7, and
sloop Vincennes, 1827-31 ; receiving-ship Norfolk, 1831-3 ; Assistant In
spector of Ordnance, 1833-5 ; sloop-of-war Peacock, East India and Pacific
Squadrons, 1835-7 ; rendezvous, Norfolk, 1840.
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Commissioned Commander in 1840; commanding rendezvous, Norfolk, 1840
Navy Yard, Washington, 1840-1; commanding sloop-of-war Cyane, 1841-4
Pacific Squadron, frigate United States, 1844 ; receiving-ship Norfolk, 1845-7
Fleet-Captain, Pacific Squadron, 1847-8 ; commanding ship-of-the-line Ohio,
1848-50 ; Superintendent of the Naval Academy, 1850-3.
Commissioned Captain, August 1,- 1853. Commanding sloop-qf-war San
Jacinto, special service, 1854-5 ; Commandant Pensacola Navy Yard, 1857-9;
commanding East India Squadron, 1859-61 ; Commandant Navy Yard, Phila
delphia, 1862-4; commanding East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; mem
ber of Retiring Board of 1855; in 1861, member of a Board of Commissions
(three Senators, three members of the House of Representatives, one army and
one navy officer), provided for by act of Congress of July 31, 1861, to examine
and report as to compensation of all officers of the government, and for other
purposes; member of Light-house Board, 1862.
Commissioned Commodore, July 16, 1862.
Commissioned Recur Admiral, July 25, 1866. Member of the Light-house
Board, 1867-70. Total sea service, twenty-six years, two months ; shore and
other duty, nineteen years, one month.

REAR ADMIRAL JOSHUA R. SANDS*
Entered the Navy as Acting Midshipman, September, 1812, and was at once
employed under Commodore Chauncey on Lake Ontario. On the 5th of Novem
ber was put under fire of the enemy in an attack of the Royal George, which
ship was compelled to retire from the fire of the American Squadron to King
ston, where, protected from the batteries on shore no further efforts were made
to capture her. April, 1813, he joined sloop-of-war Madison, and was present
at the capture of Little York (now Toronto) ; carried orders during the
greater part of the attack from the Commodore to the different vessels of the
squadron, while engaged with the forts and batteries until the enemy surren
dered. May, same year, was engaged with the enemy at the capture of Fort
George, Upper Canada ; then served on board the sloop-of-war Pike ; engaged
several times the British Squadron under Sir James Yeo; twenty-six men killed
on board the Pike in one of them ; served on shore in a battery on opening
campaign, 1814; was ordered to join frigate Superior, and served on board
until peace was proclaimed in 1815 ; then ordered to United States ship
Washington, 74 guns, bound to Mediterranean ; served in her until 1818, when
promoted to a Lieutenant ; in 1819 was ordered to sloop-of-war Hornet, Coast of
Africa and West Indies; in 1821, ordered to the Franklin, 74 guns, Commo
dore Stuart, employed on the Pacific until 1824 ; 1828, ordered to sloop-of-
war Vandalia, serving on the coast of Brazil ; 1830, returned to the United
States, and was variously employed on shore duty, recruiting, etc.
1840, promoted to the rank of Commander; 1841, attached to the New
York Navy Yard until 1843, then ordered to command the United States ship
Falmouth, and served in her in the years 1843-4-5, in the Gulf of Mexico and
West Indies; 1846 was ordered to command the steamer Vixen ; served in her
in the capture of Alverado, Tobasco and Lagona, of which, was made Governor,
and remained until withdrawn to take part in the attack of Vera Croix • en
gaged with the castles from Point Horwas until ammunition was expended;
having been supplied by the Commodore, put out in front of enemies batteries
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and remained under fire of the castle until ordered to retire by Commodore
Perry ; commanded the steamer Vixen at the capture of Tampico and Touspan ;
1847, was intrusted with the flags, trophies, and brass cannon taken from the
castles, and sent home with dispatches with complimentary letter to the De
partment; returned to the United States in the sloop-of-war St. Mary's in 1848;
1848, was ordered to command the United States ship North Carolina, and re
mained in her two years ; 1851, ordered to command the United States frigate
St. Lawrence, sailed in her to World's Fair in England, subsequently visited
Portugal, and returned to the United States same year; in 1853 was ordered
to command the United States S. Allegheny, for Japan — she proved to
be a failure, and was never after employed ; 1856, ordered to command United
States frigate Susquehanna, visited Central America, Mediterranean and Eng
land ; was engaged in her laying the. cable in 1857 ; rejoined the Mediterranean
Squadron, and was again ordered to Central America, where having layed for
some months in the Nicaraguan River, captured part of the filibusters and their
steamer, which was left by Commodore Paulding, to whom they were sent, and
then forwarded to New Orleans ; while in the river, was visited with the yellow
fever and was compelled, for the want of medicines, to sail 'for Port Royal,
Jamaica, where, after our arrival, landed eighty-three patients, and after taking
in coal, some thirty more were landed and left in the hospital; the ship now
being entirely demoralized as a man-of-war, it was determined to return to the
United States, and landed at New York in 1858 ; 1859, ordered to command
the United States Squadron (flag-ship Congress) on the coast of Brazil, and re
mained until the breaking out of the rebellion in the United States in 1861.
1862, was commissioned a Commodore, and was engaged until 1866 on light
house duty on the Lakes Erie and Ontario, and St. Lawrence River, in which
year was commissioned a Rear Admiral; 1869, was appointed Port Admiral,
commanding Norfork, Va., where he is now stationed.

REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. BELL*
Charles H. Bell, born in New York, August 15, 1798. Appointed Mid
shipman from same State, June 18, 1812; ordered to the frigate Macedonian,
belonging to the squadron of Commodore Decatur, January, 1813 ; joined Com
modore Chauncey's Squadron on Lake Ontario, in the Spring of 1814 — remained
until the war ended. Again, ordered in 1815, to the Macedonian, which vessel
formed a part of Commodore Decatur's' Squadron in the Mediterranean, in the
war with Algiers ; employed on Coast Survey, in 1817; served in the frigate
Guerriere in her trip to the Baltic and Mediterranean, under Commodore
McDonough, and returned to the United States in 1819.
Promoted to Ldeutenant in March, 1820 ; served three years on board the U.
S. ship Ontario in the Mediterranean ; in the year 1824, served in the West
Indies, in command of the schooner^Ferret ; was capsized at sea, and remained
on the wreck twenty-one hours ; was relieved after the loss of a number of men,
by the exertion of Commodore McKeever, in command of the Sea Gull ; attached
to the Erie in the West Indies in 1829 ; assisted in cutting out the piratical
schooner Federal, from under the guns of the forts at Guadaloupe, West Indies,
in command of one of the Erie's boats ; commanded a revenue-cutter for two
years, on the New York Station ; attached to the New York Navy Yard and
receiving-ship in 1832-3 ; First Lieutenant of United States sloop Vincennes,
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the command of schooner Dolphin, on that station ; in 1839, took command
of the brig Dolphin — made two cruises in that vessel to the coast of
Africa ; in the last, went up the river Nirney eighty odd miles, and compelled
King Sara to pay for goods taken out of an American vessel ; suffered much with
African fever, and was obliged to return home after the loss of many of the crew.
Promoted to Commander, September 20, 1840 ; ordered in 1844, to command
sloop Yorktown, and sent the third time to the coast of Africa, Where he
remained nearly two years ; captured three slavers, one of which, the Pons, had
on hand (903) nine hundred and three slaves; in 1848, was ordered to New
York Yard — second in command ; remained there two years.
Commissioned as Captain in 1854 ; was ordered, in i855, to the command of
the frigate Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron ; returned home after a cruise
of nearly three years, and on his arrival in New York, was dispatched with his
ship to the West Indies, on account of anticipated trouble with the British
cruisers ; was ordered, in 1859, to the command of the Norfolk Station, where
he remained until July, 1860, when he was appointed to the command of the
Mediterranean Squadron, with his flag on board the United States steamer Rich
mond ; remained in the Mediterranean until the commencement of the war of
rebellion, when he was ordered, with his squadron, home. On the capture
of the British Packet Trent, when it was supposed there would be diffi
culties with the British, Commodore Bell was ordered to proceed imme
diately to Panama, to assume command of the Pacific Squadron, where he
remained for nearly three years with the title of Acting Rear Admiral,
with his flag on board the steam-frigate Lancaster. On his return home he was
sent on special duty up the James River, where he remained until a few weeks
before the close of the war ; in May, 1865, was ordered to command the Navy
Yard, New York, and continued in command until May, 1868; in 1859,
Admiral Bell was President of the Board to examine the graduating class of
Midshipmen at Anapolis; and in 1868, President of the Board of visitors, to
examine into the Naval School at that place.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 25, 1866, and placed on the retired list
on account of long service and advanced age. Total sea service, 24 years,
3 months ; shore and other duty, 12 years, 10 months.

REAR ADMIRAL LEVIN M. POWELL*
Born in Virginia. Appointed Midshipman, March 1, 1817; served as Mid
shipman in the Mediterranean, China Seas, and in the Gulf of Mexico and
West Indies for the suppression of piracy.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 28, 1826 ; served in the Mediterranean,
West Indies and Gulf of Mexico ; before Charleston in the sloop Natchez during
the nullification troubles; on coast of France pending the demand for pay
ment of the French indemnity, 1834-5 ; in the West Indies and on coast of
Florida on the outbreak of the Seminole war — commanding several expeditions
against the hostile Indians — in the last of these was wounded in a fight with
them on the head-waters of Jupiter River, in January, 1837; received the
thanks of the Navy Department for these services in Florida ; commanded two
surveying expeditions for the rectification of positions and soundings of the
Eeastern coast and harbors of the Gulf of Mexico; and was commissioned
Commander, while on this duty, June 24, 1843 ; appointed Assistant Inspector
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command of sloop John Adams, which sailed for Brazil, July, 1849; served. in
her on the "coast of South America and on the coast of Africa until return,
in December, 1850; from 1851 to 1854, Executive-Officer of the Navy Yard,
Washington ; was in command of the fllag-ship Potomac cruising in North
Atlantic and West Indies, to August 1856.
Promoted to Captain, September 14, 1855 ; Inspector of contract steamers
in 1858, and appointed Captain of the frigate Potomac early in 1861, and sailed
for Gulf Squadron September of the same year; was retired by the Act of
December 1861,and from command ofthe Potomac, June 30, 1862 ; Inspector
of Third Light-house District from November 7, 1862 to October, 1866.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, as per Register, and on special service to this
date, June 8, 1870.

REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES WILKES,
Born in New York, and appointed from the same State January 1, 1818.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 28, 1826 ; Exploring Expedition, 1829 ;
special duty, 1830 ; Exploring Expedition, 1833 ; special duty, 1834-37 ; com
manding Exploring Expedition, 1840; Coast Survey, 1843-4.
Commissioned as Commander, July 13, 1843 ; special duty, 1845-60.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855, commanding sloop-of-war
San Jacinto; special service, 1861-2. While on this cruise Captain Wilkes
took the rebel ministers, Mason and Slidell, from the English mail steamer
Trent. Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; commanding special squadron
to West Indies, 1863. While commanding this squadron Commodore Wilkes
did the country good service by capturing many blockade runners laden with
arms and munitions for the insurgents.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 25, 1866.

REAR ADMIRAL ANDREW ALLEN HARWOOD*
Born in Pennsylvania, and appointed Midshipman from same State, January 1,
1818 ; served in the gun-brig Saranac, on the Amelia Island Station, 1818 ;
sloop-of-war Hornet, 1819-21, during which time said ship was chiefly engaged
in cruising for the suppression of the African slave trade, and of piracy in the
West Indies ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and United S. S. North Carolina,
in 1822 ; Steamer Sea Gull and barges belonging to the expedition under Com
modore Porter, against the West India pirates, 1823 ; on July 3d, of that year,
assisted in the capture of the piratical schooner Catalina, of three guns, and her
barge, by the barges Gallinipper and Musquito in Signapa Bay ; frigate Consti
tution in the Mediterranean, 1824-7 — in the latter part of this service as Acting
Master. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827; receiving-ship, Philadelphia,
1828-30; Navy Yard, New York, 1831-2; frigate United States, Mediterra
nean Squadron, 1832-3; detached as special messenger to .bring home the
ratified treaty with Naples; frigate Potomac, schooner Shark and frigate Con
stitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-7; New York Station on special
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of a commission to visit dock-yards and foundries in England and France, and
report on ordnance improvements.
Commissioned as Commander, October 2, 1848 ; in 1851-2, member of a
Board appointed to prepare the Ordnance Instructions for the Navy and to make
the necessary investigations and experiments ; commanded frigate Cumberland,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855; Inspector of Ordnance,
1858-61 ; member of a Board to revise the Ordnance Instructions, and prepare
a new edition.
Commissioned as Chief of ihe Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography,
August 6, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862;. Commandant Navy Yard,
Washington, and of the Potomac Flotilla, 1862-3 ; Secretary Light-house
Board, and member of Examining Board, 1864-9.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, February 16, 1869; at present, member of
Retiring Board and on special duty at Washington.

REAR ADMIRAL THEODORUS BAILEY,
Born in New York, and appointed Midshipman from that State, January 1, 1818.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; receiving-ship, at New York,
1829; sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1834-6; special duty, 1837; Navy
Yard, New York, 1840; frigate Constellation, East India Squadron, 1843;
rendezvous, New York, 1846; commanding store-ship Lexington, 1847-8.
While in command of the store-ship Lexington, during the Mexican war, ren
dered efficient and valuable aid to the command of the Pacific Squadron, by his
energy, enterprise and gallantry in fitting out and leading numerous expeditions
against the enemy.
Commissioned as Commander, March 6, 1849 ; commanding sloop-of-war St.
Mary's, 1856-7.
Commissioned as Captain, December 15, 1855 ; commanded frigate Colorado,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Captain Bailey was Farragut's second in command in the battle at New
Orleans, and led the attack and passage of the forts. He was officially com
mended by Admiral Farragut for his bravery and ability, and further compli
mented by being sent to Washington as the bearer of dispatches, announcing the
victory. Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.
Commodore Bailey, although his health was seriously impaired, asked for
active duty, and in the Fall of 1862, was ordered to command the Eastern Gulf
Blockading Squadron, where he displayed great energy and perseverance in his
successful attempt to break up blockade-running on the Florida coast. Com
mandant Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1865-7.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July 25, 1866. At present, on special duty
at Washington, D. C.

REAR ADMIRAL JAMES L. LARDNER*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Midshipman from that State, May 10, 1820;
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dore Stewart, Pacific Ocean, in 1821, '22, '23 and '24. August, 1825, joined
frigate Brandywine and sailed to France, carrying to his home General Lafay
ette, " the Nation's Guest." Sailed afterward to the Mediterranean, and returned
to New York in 1826. October, 1826, sailed in frigate Brandywine, flag-ship
of Commodore Jacob Jones, to the Pacific Ocean, and served in that ship,
schooner Dolphin and ship Vincennes, until June, 1830 — nearly three years of
which as navigating officer of the latter ship, in which he circumnavigated
the globe in 1829-30.
Commissioned Lieutenant, May 17, 1828. Summer of 1832, served as senior
Lieutenant in schooner Experiment ; 1833^1, served in the Delaware, 86 guns,
flag-ship of Mediterranean Squadron, Commodore Patterson. April, 1837,
ordered to Independence, 60 guns, flag-ship of Brazil Squadron, Commodore
Nicholson, and served in Russia, England and Brazil, in 1837-8. In the years
1841, '42, '43 and '44, served as senior Lieutenant in sloop Cyane and frigate
United States, flag-ship of the Pacific Squadron, nearly three years in the latter
ship. Commanded receiving-ship, at Philadelphia, in the years 1845, '46, '47
and '48. May, 1850, sailed in command of brig Porpoise to the coast of Africa,
and made a cruise of three years in command of that vessel and the sloop-of-
war Dale, returning to Boston in April, 1853.
Commissioned as Commander, May 17, 1851. Served as Fleet Captain of
the West India Squadron, in the summer of 1855. 1860, ordered to the Phila
delphia Navy Yard.
Commission as Captain dated May 19, 1861. September, 1861, ordered to
command the steam frigate Susquehanna, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron ;
was with Du Pont at the capture of Port Royal and blockading South Carolina
and Georgia, for which service his name was sent to Congress, by President
Lincoln, for a vote of thanks, which passed the House, but was thrown out in
the Senate. After the battle of Port Royal, Captain Lardner received a com
plimentary letter from Flag-Officer Du Pont, of which the following is a copy :

Wabash, off Hilton Head, )
Port Royal, S. C, Nov, 9, 1861. j
I enclose a general order, to be read to the officers and crew of the Sus
quehanna, and I take the occasion to say that your noble ship, throughout the
whole of the battle, was precisely where I wanted her to be, and doing precisely
what I wanted her to do, and that your close support of this ship was a very
gallant thing. Truly your friend,
(Signed) S. F. DU PONT.
Capt. J. L. Lardner, Command'g Susquehanna.
May, 1862, assumed command of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, with
the flag of Rear Admiral. Returned home in December, invalided by a severe
attack of yellow-fever at Key West. Admiral Lardner lost, by yellow fever, 40
gallant officers and men, from his flag-ship, in the summer of 1862. May, 1863,
took command of the West India Squadron, with flag of Rear Admiral; squadron
withdrawn, October, 1864.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.
Commissioned as Rear Admired, July 25, 1866. On special duty from
1864 to 1869, At present, Governor of Naval Asylum, Philadelphia.

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REAR ADMIRAL HENRY K. THATCHER*
Born in Maine, at the seat of his grandfather, Major General Henry Knox, of
revolutionary memory. Appointed Midshipman from there March 4, 1823 ;
Washington Navy Yard during that year (which was very active in equipping
the so-called mosquito fleet of Commodore David Porter, to attack the pirates
of the West Indies), from thence to frigate United States, under Commander
Isaac Hull, until May, 1827.
Promoted Passed Midshipman, March 23, 1829, while serving on board
Independence, 74, at Boston Station ; Acting Master of schooner Porpoise and
sloop-of-war Erie, Commander J. D. Elliot's Squadron, West India Station,
1829-30-1. Promoted Lieutenant, February 28, 1833. Boston Navy Yard and sloop-of-
war Falmouth (West Indies), 1833-4 ; sloop-of-war Erie, 1835 ; receiving-ship
Boston, 1836-7 ; frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Station, 1840-1 ; receiv
ing-ship Ohio, Boston harbor, 1842-3; sloop-of-war Jamestown, Commander
Bolton, African Squadron and Mediterranean, 1847-50, and Navy Yard, Bos
ton; commanding store-ship Relief] Brazil Squadron, 1852-3 ; Naval Asylum,
1854-5. Promoted to Commander while there in February, 1855. Commanding sloop-
of-war Decatur, Pacific Squadron, from 1855-7 ; Executive-Officer, Boston Navy
Yard, 1860-1; commanding sloop-of-war Constellation, coast of Europe and
Mediterranean, 1862-3, as a commander.
Promoted to Commodore during this command. Relieved July, 1863, and
ordered home to command steam-frigate Colorado and division of Southern
blockade ; commanded first division of Porter's Squadron in the attacks and
capture of Fort Fisher and dependencies, in December, 1864, and January,
1865 ; after which, he was ordered to command of the West Gulf Squadron as
Acting Rear Admiral, and at once commenced active operations for the capture
of Mobile and coast of Texas, in co-operation with the land-forces under General
Canby. After a vigorous bombardment, Forts Alexis and Spanish Fort were
carried by assault by the army on the night of April 9, 1865, leaving the minor
works a comparative easy prey — the Forts Tracy and Huger, near Tracy and
Huger, made a spirited resistance until the night of the 11th, when their gar
risons made their escape through the marshes and in boats. On the following
day, a large army force embarked in transports, under convoy of the squadron,
crossed the bay, eight miles, in a dense fog, for the purpose of making a com
bined attack by land and water upon the city and its immediate defences, but
on reaching the eastern shore the fog suddenly lifted, when flags of truce were
discovered at the landing, and the announcement made that the rebel General
Maury had evacuated the city with all his army, a formal demand was at once
made by General Granger and Acting Real Admiral Thatcher for the surrender
of the city, which was unconditionally complied with, and the fortifications and
city taken possession of without delay, the stars and stripes taking the place of
the rebel flag in every direction. The rebel naval forces, under Flag-Officer
Ebenezer Farrand, consisting of the iron-clad frigate Nashville, sloop-of-war
Morgan (partially iron-clad), the iron-clad ram Baltic, the steamer Black War
rior, and the rams Tuscaloosa and Huntsville, fled to the river Tombigbee,
and sinking the two last named in the channel. Our forces afloat being about to
pursue them, Farrand proposed terms of surrender, which having been accepted
by Acting Rear Admiral Thatcher, a suitable force under Commander Edward
Simpson (fleet-captain), was dispatched by him to take possession and bring
them with their officers and men te> the city. Preparations were then at once

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made for the attack on Texas, but before the forces could move, propositions
were made for the surrender of all their posts through Captain Sands, Command
ing the Texas division. of the blockade, and commissioners sent by the rebels to
New Orleans to complete the arrangements. Acting Rear Admiral .Thatcher
at once proceeded to Galveston in his flag-ship and was well received by the
authorities of that city. The forts were garrisoned by blue jackets until the
boys in blue could be sent from New Orleans to relieve them. In May, 1866,
Commodore Thatcher was relieved from the Gulf and ordered to the command
of the North Pacific Squadron, in which command he remained until relieved
in August, 1868.
Having been commissioned a Rear Admiral, July 25, 1866, he was soon
after ordered as Port Admiral, at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is at
present on duty.

REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS T. CRAVEN.
Thomas T. Uraven was born in the District of Columbia. Appointed Mid
shipman from the State of New Hampshire, May 1, 1822 ; serving in the sloop-
of-war Peacock, Pacific Squadron, 1827.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 24, 1828 ; serving in sloop-of-war
Erie, West India Squadron, 1829.
Commissioned as Ineutenant, May 27, 1830 ; serving in brig Boxer, Brazil
Squadron, 1833, and attached to receiving-ship at New York, 1836 ; exploring
expedition, 1840 ; attached to razee Independence, Mediterranean Squadron,
1850; on duty at Naval Academy, 1851-5.
Commissioned as Commander, December 16, 1852 ; commanding frigate
Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1856-8; Naval Academy, 1859; command
ing sloop Mohawk, Home Squadron, 1860.
Commissioned as Captain, June 7,1861; commanding sloop-of-war Brooklyn,
Home Squadron, 1861-2 ; while in command of the Brooklyn, participated in
the attack upon and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. In this action,
Captain Craven's vessel became entangled in the hulks and rafts which sustained
the chain barricade of the river, and, while in this situation, received a severe
fire from Fort St. Philip, and was attacked by one of the enemy's rams and a
large rebel steamer ; the latter received a broadside from the Brooklyn, at sixty
yards, so well delivered as to end the conflict, so far as the steamer was con
cerned. *
The ram struck the Brooklyn at the starboard gangway, but the chain-armor
proved a perfect protection. By this time the Brooklyn had swung clear of the
obstructions, and passed on up the river. Captain Craven continued in com
mand of the Brooklyn, taking part in all the engagements along the Mississippi
River, up to and including that of Vicksburg, until late in the summer of 1862,
when he was detached and ordered North.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 10, 1862; commanding steam-frigate
Niagara, special service, European waters, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, October 10, 1866 ; Commandant of Navy
Yard, Mare Island, California, 1867-8 ; commanding North Pacific Squadron,
1869 ; Port Admiral, San Francisco, California, 1870.

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REAR ADMIRAL HENRY K. HOFF,
»
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Midshipman from South Carolina, October
28, 1823; frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron," 1827.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 23, 1829.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1831 ; frigate Potomac, Pacific Squad
ron, 1833-4; special duty, 1837; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1840; com
manding store-ship Relief, 1845 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1847 ; sloop-of-war
St. Louis, Mediterranean Squadron, 1850; rendezvous, New York, 1853.
Commissioned as Commander, November 29, 1853 ; commanding frigate Inde
pendence, Pacific Squadron, 1857; commanding sloop-of-war John Adams,
Pacific Squadron, 1858 ; commanding receiving-ship at Philadelphia, 1859-60.
Commissioned as Captain, 1861 ; commanding steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific
Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; special duty, 1863; ordnance
duty, Philadelphia, 1864-7.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, April 13, 1867 ; commanding North Atlantic
Squadron, 1868-9. Rear Admiral Hoff gained much credit by his energetic
and prompt measures to protect American citizens residing in Cuba, who had,
in many instances, suffered injustice from the Spanish officials. At present, on
special duty at Washington, D. C.

REAR ADMIRAL WILLIAM RADFORD.
William Radford was born in Virginia. He was appointed from the State
of Missouri, March 1, 1825 ; attached to Mediterranean Squadron, 1827-8 ; and
to sloop-of-war Erie, West India Squadron, 1830-1.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; attached to sloop-of-war
John Adams, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835.
Promoted to Ldeutenant, February 9, 1837; attached to sloop-of-war Warren,
Pacific Squadron, 1845-7.
Lieutenant Radford commanded the party that cut out the Malokadel, a Mex
ican vessel of war, at Mazatlan, West Coast of Mexico ; attached to store-ship
Lexington, 1852-3.
Promoted to Commodore, September 14, 1855 ; commanding sloop-of-war
Dacotah, East India Squadron, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Captain, in 1862 ; commanding sloop-of-war Cumberland in
1861, and was on court-martial duty at Old Point, when that ship was attacked
by the ram Merrimac, which had steamed down from Norfolk. Commander
Radford made strenuous exertions to reach his ship before the fight was over,
but arrived at Newport News just as the Cumberland was sinking.
Promoted to Commodore, April 24, 1863; commanded frigate New Iron
sides, and iron-clad division of Porter's Squadron, at the two attacks upon Fort
Fisher, in December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; Commandant of Washington
Navy Yard, 1866-8; commanding European Squadron in 1869-70.

REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS TURNER.
Thomas Turner is a native of Virginia. Appointed Midshipman from
Virginia, April 21, 1825; attached to frigate Constellation, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1827; sloop-of-war Warren, Mediterranean Squadron, 1830.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; frigate Constellation,
Mediterranean Squadron,' 1834, and frigate Delaware, same squadron, 1835.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 22, 1835 ; frigate Columbus, East
India Squadron, 1840 ; receiving-ship at Philadelphia, 1843; sloop Albany,
Home Squadron, 1847.
Lieutenant Turner was actively engaged in the war with Mexico, and was
present at Tuspan, April 7, 1847; receiving-ship at Philadelphia, 1850; frigate
Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1851-3 ; on ordnance duty, 1854-7.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; commanding sloop-of-war
Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1859-60; Commander Turner was in command of
Saratoga in the engagement between that vessel and two Spanish steamers, the
Marquis of Havannah, and General Miramon, in the harbor of Anton Leyardo,
Mexico, when they were captured, March 6, 1860, at midnight.
Commissioned as Captain, July, 16, 1862.
Commissioned as Commodore, December 13, 1863 ; commanded frigate New
Ironsides, special service, 1863 ; commanded frigate New Ironsides in the attack
upon Forts Sumpter, Moultrie and Beauregard, in Charleston harbor, April 7,
1863. Admiral Du Pont was on board the New Ironsides and commended Com
modore Turner for the judgment and ability with which he handled his vessel;
special duty, New York, 1864-5; special duty, Philadelphia, 1866-7; on
ordnance duty, Philadelphia, 1868.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, May 27, 1868; commanding Pacific Fleet
1869-70.

REAR ADMIRAL CHARLES H. POOR.
Charles H. Poor was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June, 1809.
Appointed Midshipman from Massachusetts, March 1, 1823 ; attached to sloop-
of-war John Adams, West India Squadron, 1827; frigate Java, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1829.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 29, 1829, and ordered to frigate
Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron, 1830; sloop-of-war Lexington, Brazil
Squadron, 1833, and brig Boxer, same squadron, 1834.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 31, 1833; rendezvous, Norfolk, Vir
ginia, 1836; razee Independence, Brazil Squadron, 1840 ; Navy Yard, Wash
ington, 1846-8; Inspector, etc., 1850-1; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squad
ron, 1852-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; Navy Yard, Norfolk,
Virginia, 1856-8; commanding sloop-of-war St. Louis, Home Squadron, 1860-1 ;
commanded expedition of sailors and marines to reinforce Fort Pickens,
1861 ; frigate Roanoke, N. A. B. Squadron, 1861-2. Commander Poor took
command of steamer Illinois, to act as a ram against the Merrimac, but did not
have an opportunity to test the power of his vessel. Passed rebel batteries under
fire at Sewell's Point, while proceeding from Hampton Roads toward Newport
News in frigate Roanoke, to assist the Congress and Cumberland.
Commissioned as Commodore, January 2, 1863; commanding sloop-of-war
Saranac, Pacific Squadron, 1863-5; compelled the authorities at Aspinwall to
release United States Mail steamer detained to collect illegal dues, (approved by
Secretary of the Navy); compelled authorities at Rio La Hache to hoist and

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salute the American flag which had been insulted j (approved by Secretary of
the Navy); commanding Naval Station at Mound City, Illinois, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, September, 20, 1868 ; Commandant Navy
Yard, Washington, 1869 ; detached August 10, 1869, and took command of
North Atlantic Squadron, August 19, 1869.

REAR ADMIRAL JAMES F. SCHENCK,
Born in Ohio, June 11, 1807. Appointed from Ohio, March 1, 1825; sloop
Hornet, West India Squadron, 1829; frigate Brandywine, 1830.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; sloop John Adams, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1833-4.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, December 22, 1835; sloop St. Louis, West India
Squadron, 1837; brig Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1840; razee Independence,
Home Squadron, 1843 ; frigate Congress, Pacific Squadron, 1846-7. During
the war with Mexico, Lieutenant Schenck, as chief Military Aid to Commodore
Stockton, landed and took possession of Santa Barbara and San Pedro, in Cali
fornia ; serving in same capacity, marched on and was at the first capture of Los
Angeles. As Second Lieutenant of the frigate Congress, was at the bombard*-
ment and capture of Guaymas, and the taking of Mazatlan. Frigate Congress,
East India Squadron, 1848 ; commanding mail steam-ship Ohio, 1848-52.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding receiving-
ship, New York, 1848 ; commanding steamer Saginaw, East India Squadron,
1860-1. On June 30, 1861, the Saginaw was fired upon by a fort at " Quin
Hone," Cochin-China ; the fire was returned and the fort silenced.
Commissioned as Captain, 1861 ; commanding frigate St. Lawrence, Block
ading Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 2, 1863 ; commanding steam-sloop Pow
hatan, North Atlantic Squadron, 1864-5; commanded Powhatan and third
division of Porter's Squadron, on the two attacks upon Fort Fisher ; command
ing Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1866.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July, 1870.

REAR ADMIRAL THOMAS O. SELFRIDGE,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, January 1, 1818. •
Commissioned as IAeutenant, March 3, 1827; Exploring Expedition, 1829 ;
sloop Natchez, West India Squadron, 1830 ; frigate Delaware, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1834; frigate North Carolina, 1837; rendezvous, Boston, 1840.
Commissioned as Commander, April 11, 1844; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1845; frigate Columbus, East India Squadron, 1846; commanding
sloop- Dale, Pacific Squadron, 1848 ; commanding rendezvous Boston, 1851-2 ;
Boston Navy Yard, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; commanding steamer Missis
sippi, 1861 ; Commandant Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 1862-4.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; Commandant Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, 1867-8 ; President Examining Board, 1869.
Commissioned as Rear Admiral, July, 1870.

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COMMODORE HENRY WALKE*
Born in Princess Anne County, Virginia, December 24, 1809 ; entered the
Navy as Midshipman, from Ohio, February 1, 1827 ; first orders were to the
receiving-ship Alert, Lieutenant Commanding D. G. Farragut ; attached to sloop
Natchez, 1828-9; sloop Ontario, and frigate Constellation, in the Mediterra
nean, 1830-1 ; at Norfolk Naval School, 1832-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833 ; Philadelphia rendezvous
and receiving-ship, 1834, '35 and '36; in ship-of-the-line North Carolina,
Pacific Squadron, 1836, '37, '38 and '39.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1839 ; receiving-ship North Caro
lina, at New York, 1840; sloop Boston, East Indies, 1841, '42 and '43; brig
Bainbridge, Brazil Squadron, 1844 ; receiving-ship North Carolina, New York,
1845-6; in bomb-brig Vesuvius, Mexican war, in 1847; present at the
surrender of Vera Cruz, Tuxpan and Tobasco ; frigate Cumberland, Mediterra
nean, in 1848-9 ; receiving-ship North Carolina, New York, during 1851,
'52 and '53.
Promoted to Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding store-ship
Supply, 1859, '60 and '61, on the coast of Africa and in the West Indies ;
escaped from the capture of Pensacola Navy Yard by the rebels, and transported
our garrison at Barrancas, under Lieutenant Slemmer, to Fort Pickens, supply
ing him with provisions and indispensable assistance, and intercepting supplies
to secure that important fortress from capture by the rebels, thus retaining one
point in the Southern territory over which the Union flag waved triumphantly
through the rebellion ; in co-operation with our garrison, dismantled and spiked
the guns of Forts Barrancas and Mac Rea ; rescued all our captured officers,
sailors, marines and mechanics, including the sick with their families, upon his
own responsibility, for which he was tried by a court-martial, but justified in
his conduct and complimented by the press.
September 5, 1861, Commander Walke was ordered to the Mississippi Flo
tilla (Admiral Foote), and commanded gun-boats Tyler and Lexington, at the
battle of Belmont, November 7, 1861; commanded the Carondelet, atthe battle
of Fort Henry, February 6, 1862, and battle of Fort Donelson, February 13th
and 14th, and at the surrender on the 16th, 1862 ; bombardment above Island No.
10, March 17, 1862, He was the first officer to set the example of running the
gauntlet of the enemy's batteries, April 4, 1862, at Island No. 10 ; captured one
ofthe batteries opposite Point Pleasant, and spiked the guns (long 24-pounders),
April 6, 1862 ; with the Carondelet and Pittsburg, captured three batteries
below New Madrid, Missouri, and covered General Pope's army in landing to
capture the rebel army at Island No. 10, without loss, April 7, 1862, receiving
therefor, a letter of thanks from the Navy Department; led in the battle of Fort
Pillow, May 11, 1862; in the line of battle when our fleet destroyed that ofthe
enemy at the battle of Memphis, June 6, 1862; engaged the ram Arkansas, in
the Yazoo River, July 15, 1862.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanding the lower division of
Mississippi Flotilla, at Helena and Vicksburg, 1862 ; commanded the iron-clad
ram Lafayette, in 1863 — the Lafayette passed the enemy's batteries with Admi
ral Porter, at Vicksburg, April 16, 1863; and also at the battle of Grand Gulf,
of five hours and a half duration, and immediately after, silenced the principal
battery alone with the ram ; accompanied Porter's first expedition up the Red
River to Alexandria, La., May, 1863 ; dispersed rebel forces under General
Taylor, from Simmsport, Atchafalaya River, June 4, 1863.
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fifteen engagements on the Mississippi, above mentioned, from the Hon. Gideon
Welles, General Grant, Admiral Foote, General Pope, Admiral Davis and
Admiral Porter, and for which he was promoted. ,
Commanded the Sacramento in pursuit of the Alabama, 1864; relieved the
Kearsage on the coast of Europe, and blockaded the rebel steamer Rappahan
nock in the port of Calais, France, 1865.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866 ; in command of Naval Station
at Mound City, Illinois, 1868, '69 and '70.
Total sea service (1870), 18 years and 9 months ; shore or other duty, 9 years
and 1 month.

COMMODORE THORNTON A. JENKINS,*
Born in Virginia, and appointed Midshipman from that State, November 1,
1828; attached to sloop Natchez, West Indies, 1828-31; in Boat Squadron, in
1829, cruising for pirates on coast of Cuba ; in sloop Vandalia, West Indies, in
1831, '32 and '33.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834 ; on the Coast Survey, 1836,
'37, '38, '39, '40 and 41.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1839 ; served in the frigate Con
gress, Brazil Squadron, 1842, '43, '44 and 45, being present at the capture of
the Buenos Ayrean Squadron, off Montevideo, September 29, 1844 ; on special
service in Europe in 1846; was Executive-Officer of sloop Germantown, in
Gulf of Mexico, during the Mexican war ; and latter part, commanding store-
ship Relief, same squadron, 1847 ; commanded part of the forces employed in
the capture of Tuspan and Tobasco ; on the Coast Survey, in 1848, '49, ^50, '51
and 52; acted as Secretary of Light-house Board, from 1853-8.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; commanding sloop
Preble, Brazil Squadron, and Paraguay Expedition, 1858, '59 and '60 ; Secre
tary of Light-house Board, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-sloop Wachu
sett, on James and Potomac Rivers, 1862; being senior-officer, present at
repulse of the enemy at Coggin's Point, James River, and at the attack on our
flotilla, off City Point, James River, August, 1862 ; commanded steam-sloop
Oneida, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, off Mobile, in the Fall of 1862 ; was
appointed Fleet-Captain and Chief-of-Staff of Farragut's Squadron, and was
present at the passage of Port Hudson, March 14, 1863 (see Farragut's record);
Grand Gulf Batteries, March 19, 1863 ; Warrenton, March 21, 23, 25 and
28, 1863; Grand Gulf, March 30, 1863; on the blockade of, during the
siege prior to the surrender and attack oil Port Hudson, May 24, 27 and
28, 1863 ; commanding steam-sloop Richmond, and senior naval-officer in com
mand of naval forces below, at the time of the surrender of Port Hudson, July
9, 1863; commanding division, blockading Mobile entrance, etc., from Decem
ber, 1863, to battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, in which he took part, as
well as the surrender of Fort Morgan, August 29th ; left in command of the
Mobile Bay Division, until February, 1865; was in James River at the time
Lee surrendered.
Admiral Farragut, in his detailed report of the Mobile affair, says : " Before
closing this report, there is one other officer of my squadron of whom I feel
bound to speak, Captain T. A. Jenkins, of the Richmond, who was formerly my
chief-of-staff, not because of his having held that position, but because he never
forgets to do his duty to the government, and takes now the same interest in the

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fleet as when he stood in that relation to me. He is also commanding officer of
the second division of my squadron, and as such, has shown ability and the most
untiring zeal. He carries out the spirit of one of Lord Collingwood's best say
ings — 'not to be afraid of doing too much; those who are, seldom do as much
as they ought.' When in Pensacola, he spent days on the bar, placing buoys in
the best position, was always looking after the interests of the service, and keep
ing the vessels from being detained in port one moment more than necessary.
The gallant Craven told me only the night before the action in which he lost his
life, ' I regret, Admiral, that I have detained you ; but had it not been for
Captain Jenkins, God knows when I should have been here. When your order
came I had not received an ounce of coal.' I feel that I should not be doing
my duty if I did not call the attention of the Department to an officer who has
performed all his various duties with so much zeal and fidelity."
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866 ; in August 1865, appointed
Chief of Bureau of Navigation and Detail, and held that position until April,
1869,'when he resigned, and was ordered to duty as Secretary of the Light
house Board.
Official residence, Washington.

COMMODORE JOHN B. MARCHAND,
BoRN»in Pennsylvania, August 27, 1808. Appointed Midshipman from same
State, May 1, 1828 ; attached to sloop-of-war Ontario, Mediterranean Squadron,
1830-2; Naval School, Norfolk, 1833.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1834; frigate Potomac, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1835-7; sloop John Adams, Mediterranean Squadron, 1837-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 29, 1840; from August, 1841 to Au
gust, 1842, Lieutenant Marchand was in command of the United States steamer
Van Buren, and was operating with his crew, in canoes, in the everglades of
Florida against the hostile Seminole Indians ; brig Bainbridge, Home Squadron,
1843 ; frigate Brandywine, East India Squadron, 1844-5 ; Navy Yard, Phila
delphia, 1846 ; Home Squadron, 1847 ; engaged in bombardment of Vera
Cruz, and participated in the attack upon and capture of Tuspan, 1847 ; attached
to sloop St. Mary's, East India Squadron, 1848-50 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1851-2; frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; Bureau of Construction,
Navy Department, 1856-8 ; commanding steamer Memphis, Paraguay Expedi-
dition, 1859-60; Light-house Inspector, 1861; commanding steamer James
Adger, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; participated in the cap
ture of Fernandina, March, 1862 ; slightly wounded, on the 16th of March,
1862, by a rifle ball from the enemy while reconnoitering in the Stono River.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-sloop Lacka
wanna, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; commanded the Lacka
wanna, battle of Mobile Bay, and assisted to capture the rebel ram Tennessee,
August 5, 1864; special duty, 1865; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1866.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866 ; special duty, Hartford, Con
necticut, 1867 ; special duty, 1868 ; at present Commandant Navy Yard, Phila
delphia.

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COMMODORE WILLIAM ROGERS TAYLOR,
Born in Rhode Island, November 7, 1811. Appointed Midshipman froin same
State, April 1, 1828; attached to- sloop St. Louis, Pacific Squadron, 1829-32;
Naval School, New York, 1833-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1834; receiving-ship, New York, 1835;
sloop Peacock, East India Squadron, 1836-8.
When the sloop Peacock ran ashore on the Island of Madeira, in 1836,
Passed Midshipman Taylor was sent to Muscat, in command of a cutter, to
convey the diplomatic agent, Edmund Roberts, Esq., to that place, with some
ratified treaties which he was charged to exchange. It was a sea voyage of
five days' duration, attended with considerable peril from bad weather and the
Arab pirates, some of whom chased them for several hours. The Arabian sloop-
of-war Sultana was sent to render assistance to the Peacock.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 10, 1840; brig Oregon, survey of
Tampa Bay, 1842-3 ; sloop St. Marys, Home Squadron, during Mexican War;
engaged at Tampico Bar, June 8th and June 15, 1846 ; present at siege of Vera
Cruz, and commanded an eight-inch gun in the Naval Battery ; Naval Asylum,
Philadelphia, 1848-50; sloop Albany, Home Squadron, 1851-2; ordnance
duty, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; ordnance duty, 1857-9;
ordnance duty, Washington, D. C, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862; commanding steam sloop-of-war
Housatonic, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
Senior officer off Charleston, at time of unsuccessful attack upon the block
ading vessels by rebel rams Chocura and Palmetto ; present as Fleet Captain
with Admiral Dahlgren, during all the operations against Morris Island, from
July 10 to 19, 1863, and was in battle with Forts Wagner and Sumpter'; on
board the monitor Catskill on the 10th, and again on board the monitor Mon-
tauk, on the 18tb July, 1863; commanded steam-sloop Juniata, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5, and was present upon both attacks upon Fort
Fisher. Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866; ordance duty 1866-7.
At present, commanding Northern Squadron, Pacific Fleet.

COMMODORE BENJAMIN F. SANDS,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed Midshipman from Kentucky, April 1, 1828. -
Attached to sloop Vandalia, Brazil Squadron, 1830, '31 and 1832. In sloop St.
Louis, West India Squadron, 1833-4.
Warranted as Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834. On the Coast Survey,
1836, '37, '38, '39, '40 and 1841.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March, 16, 1840. In the frigate Columbus,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1842, '43 and '44. On special duty in 1845. At Naval
Observatory, 1846. Home Squadron, 1847; passage up Tobasco River, and at
Tobasco, June 15, 1847. In sloop Yorktown, and commanding brig Porpoise,
coast of Africa, 1848, '49 and '50. On Coast Survey, 1851, '52, '53, '54 and '55.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855. Continued on Coast
Survey, 1855, '56, '57 and '58. In Bureau of Construction 1859-60. Commanding
Coast Survey steamer Active, 1861-2.

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Commissipned as Captain, July 16, 1862. Commanding steam-sloop Dacotah,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, in 1863 ; in engagement at Fort Caswell,
February 23, 1863. Commanding steamer Fort Jackson, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; present at both attacks upon Fort Fisher. On
blockade of Wilmington, most of the time, senior officer commanding that
division, from November, 1862 to February, 1865. Commanding division on
blockade of coast of Texas, from February to June, 1865. The surrender of the
rebel Trans-Mississippi forces to General Canby, U. S. A., was signed by General
E. Kirby Smith, and Major General J. Bankhead Magruder, June 2, 1865, and
formal possession taken of Galveston by Captain Sands, commanding division off
coast of Texas, by hoisting our flag over the last foothold of rebellion.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866. At Navy Yard, Boston, 1865-6.
Superintendent Naval Observatory, Washington, 1867, '68, '69 and 70.
Total sea service (1870) 20 years, 3 months; shore or other duty, 18 years,
3 months. Residence, ' Washington.

COMMODORE CHARLES STEEDMAN,*
Native of Charleston, South Carolina. Appointed Midshipman in the Navy,
April 1, 1828 ; first duty at the New York Navy Yard ; served in the West In
dies as Midshipman in the sloops-of-war Natchez and Fairfield, and schooner
Grampus. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, January 14, 1834. Served as Passed Mid
shipman in the Mediterranean on board of the frigate Constitution, United
States and schooner Shark, in the years 1836, '37 and '38, and in the West Indies
on board the Macedonian up to 1840 — the last six months as Acting Lieutenant.
Promoted as IAeutenant, February 25, 1841 ; served in the brig Dolphin on
the Home Station and West Indies; invalided and sent home 1842; served on
Coast Survey, 1843-4, under Commander Gedney; served in the West Indies
and Gulf of Mexico on board of the St. Mary's, 1845-7; commanded the eight-
inch gun on naval battery at the bombardment of Vera Cruz, and commanded
the St. Mary's launch in an attempt to surprise and capture Mexican gunboats
inside of Tampico bar; attached to Naval Observatory from latter part of 1847
to first of 1849 ; served on board frigate Cumberland in the Mediterranean,
1850-1 ; attached to Naval Observatory, 1853, '54 and '55.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; special duty in Wash
ington, 1857-8 ; revising signal code and framing station bills for ships of the
navy; commanded brig Dolphin, Paraguay Expedition, 1859-60, and was left
in command of Brazil Squadron when Flag-Officers Shubrick and Forrest re
turned home ; remained in command for nine months, until the arrival of Flag-
Officer Sands ; returned home December, 1860 ; when rebellion broke out was
on leave ; volunteered to Admiral Du Pont for any service ; was, by him, sent to
take command of the Baltimore Railroad Company's steamboat Maryland ; kept
communication open between Havre-de-Grace and Annapolis until the railroad
bridges were repaired and communication opened between Baltimore and Phila
delphia ; was first to telegraph from Havre-de-Grace to General Patterson that
General Butler had landed at Annapolis with Massachusetts regiment and Seventh
New York regiment, and had opened communication with Washington ; in 1861,
ordered to join Commodore Foote on the Mississippi ; soon detached and ordered
to take command of Bienville; attached to Port Royal Expedition, under Flag-
Officer Du Pont ; led the second column in the attack and capture of Port Royal ;
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in the Bienville brought north Flag-Officer Du Pont's dispatches reporting tlie
eapture ; after this blockaded the coast of Georgia in the Bienville, and participated
in the capture of all the ports on that coast south of Savannah ; after this,
returned North, was detached from Bienville and ordered to Paul Jones ; joined
Admiral Du Pont's Squadron with Paul Jones and other gunboats ; engaged Port
McAllister on the Ogeechee River, in August, 1862 ; on the 17th September
following, engaged and silenced the batteries at St. John's Bluff, on the St. John's
River, Florida ; considered it necessary to have troops to co-operate in captur
ing the forts and getting possession of the river ; applied to Admiral Du Pont for
the same on the 30th of same month ; with the co-operation of General Brannon
captured the forts on St. John's Bluff, and with the gunboats opened and held
the St. John's River to Lake Beaufort.
Commissioned as Captain, September 13, 1862. Transferred to the steam-
frigate Powhatan, and employed in her blockading off Charleston for several
months ; with the Powhatan, towed the captured ram Atlanta to Philadelphia ;
soon after was detached and took command of Ticonderoga; in her was employed
on various detached service; returned in her in November, 1864, with engines
disabled from an unsuccessful search of the rebel vessel Florida, on the coast of
Brazil; volunteered to join Admiral Porter's command; vessel temporarily repair
ed ; joined the Admiral and participated in the two attacks and capture of the
forts at the mouth ofthe Wilmington River, December, 1864 and January, 1865 ;
after the fall of those forts, joined Admiral Dahlgren's Squadron off Charleston';
the Ticonderoga being unfit for service was ordered to Philadelphia for repairs;
so soon as she was repaired, proceeded, November, 1865, to the Mediterranean and
joined Admiral Goldsborough's European Squadron.
Promoted Commodore, July 25, 1866. Soon after, exchanged commands with
Captain Wyman, of the Colorado ; returned home in the Colorado, September,
1867 ; on special duty, 1868-9 ; detached from special duty, September, 1869,
and ordered to take command of Boston Navy Yard December 15th, following.

COMMODORE JAMES ALDEN,*
Born in Maine. Appointed Midshipman from same State, April 1, 1828; at
tached to Naval Station, Boston, 1828-30; sloop-of-war Concord, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1830-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834; Navy Yard, Boston, 1835;,
exploring expedition around the world, 1838-42; while in charge of a surveying
party at the Fejee Islands, was ambushed by the natives, when Lieutenant
Underwood and Midshipman Henry were killed ; succeeded in driving the
natives off and rescuing their bodies.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1841 ; Naval Station, Boston, 1843;
frigate Constitution around the world, second time, 1844-6 ; while attached to
this vessel, commanded a boat expedition and cut out several war Junks from
under the guns of the Fort at Zuron Bay, Cochin-China; Home Squadron
during Mexican War; present at the capture of Vera Cruz, Tuspan and Tobasco;
Naval Station, Boston, 1847; coast survey, 1848-60; made a reconnoissance of
all the West coast. In the winter of 1855-<6, during the Indian war in Puget
Sound, volunteered with the surveying steamer Active to co-operate with the
army and rendered important aid in bringing the war to a close; by his timely
arrival in the Spring of the same year at San Juan Island, prevented a collision

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between the British Naval forces and the United States troops; assisted in land
ing troops enough to hold the Island in dispute against the threatened attack of
the British.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding the steamer
South Carolina at the commencement of the rebellion, May, 1861 ; reinforced
Fort Pickens, while blockading Galveston, Texas ; had a fight with the batteries
in the rear of the city ; while there, captured thirteen schooners laden with
merchandise ; commanded sloop Richmond at the passage of Forts Jackson and
St. Philip and the engagement with Chalmette batteries and defences of New
Orleans ; passage of Vicksburg batteries twice ; Port Hudson, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Captam, January 2, 1863 ; commanded steam-sloop Brook
lyn in the action with Forts Morgan and Gaines and the rebel gunboats in
Mobile Bay ; commanded two attacks on Fort Fisher, Captain Alden took a
prominent part in all the great naval battles of the war and was handsomely
mentioned in the official reports ; he has probably seen more hard fighting than
any officer of his grade.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866; commanding steam-sloop Sus
quehanna, special service, 1867 ; commanding steam frigate Minnesota, special
service, 1867-8; commandant Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1868-9; in
April, 1869, Commodore Alden was appointed Chief of Bureau of Navigation
and Detail, Navy Department.

COMMODORE ALFRED TAYLOR,
Born in Virginia, May 23, 1812. Appointed Midshipman, from same State,
January 1, 1825; ship-of-the-line North Carolina, Mediterranean Squadron,
1826-9; sloop-of-war Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1830-2.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1833; Navy Yard, Boston, 1834; sloop Erie, Brazil Squadron,
1835-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837 ; sloop Cyane, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1840-2; Navy Yard, Washington, 1843; sloop Boston, Brazil Squad
ron, 1845-6 ; attached to frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron, during Mexican
War ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1848-51 ; steam-sloop Mississippi, East India
Squadron, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; commanding rendezvous,
New York, 1856-8 ; commanding sloop Saratoga, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 16, 1862; Navy Yard, Boston, 1862-5 ; command
ing flag-ship Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron, 1866.
Commissioned as Commodore, September 27, 1866; Light-house Inspector,
1868-70.

COMMODORE THEODORE P. GREENE, *
Born in Montreal, Canada. Appointed Midshipman from Vermont, November,
1, 1826. In sloops Warren, Ontario, and frigate Constellation, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1827, '28, '29, '30, '31 and '32.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1832 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron,
and cruise around the world 1834, '35 and '36.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 20, 1837 ; razee Independence,
Brazil Squadron, Master and Lieutenant,- 1837, '38 and '39 ; receiving-ship at
Boston, 1841-2 ; schooner Porpoise, 1843 ; store-ship Lexington, 1844; frigate
Congress, Pacific Squadron, during Mexican War, 1846, '47 and 48; (six months
in command of land forces at Mazatlan) ; sloop Cyane, Home Squadron,
1852-3; Navy Yard, Boston, 1854, '55 and '56.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855. Light-house Inspector,
1858, '59 and '60 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862. Commanding St. lago de Cuba,
and San Jacinto, 1863-4; while commanding latter vessel, left in command of
East Gulf Squadron, on return of Rear Admiral T. Bailey to United States ;
commanding Richmond, West Gulf Squadron, 1865; (protected troops landing
for attack upon Mobile) ; ordnance duty, Portsmouth, N. H., 1866 ; command
ing Powhatan, Pacific Squadron, 1867.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 24, 1867 ; commanding Pensacola Navy
Yard, 1868, '69 and 70 ; total sea service (1870) 21 years, 1 month; shore or other
duty, 12 years, 2 months.

COMMODORE JOSEPH F. GREEN,
Born in Maine, November 24, 1811. Appointed Midshipman, from same
State, November 1, 1827; attached to sloop-of-war Vandalia, Brazil Squadron,
1830 ; Naval School, Norfolk, 1833.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833; frigate Potomac, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1835, '36 and '37.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 28, 1838 ; sloop Erie, West India
Squadron, 1840; frigate Columbus, Brazil Squadron, 1843-5; rendezvous,
Boston, 1846 ; ship-of-the-line Ohio, Pacific Squadron, during all of the Mexican
War. Lieutenant Green took part in all of the important actions on the Pacific
Coast. He remained in the Ohio until 1850 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1851-2;
ordnance- duty, 1853-4; Naval Academy, 1855-8.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; waiting orders, 1859-60;
ordnance duty, 1861.
Commissioned as Cap>tain, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-sloop Canan
daigua, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862^; participated in the bom
bardment of Fort Wagner; ordnance duty, Boston Navy Yard, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 24, 1867 ; special duty, 1869 ; command
ing Southern Squadron with Atlantic Fleet, 1870.

COMMODORE AUGUSTUS LUDLOW CASE,*
Born in Newburgh, New York, February 3, 1813. Appointed Midshipman,
April 1, 1828. First order, July, 1828, to receiving-ship Robert Fulton, New
York; first cruise in frigate Hudson, Brazil Squadron, 1828, '29, '30 and '31;
Navy Yard, New York, in 1832 ; cruise in sloop-of-war St. Louis, West Indies,
1832-3; New York Navy Yard and School, 1833^.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834 ; Navy Yard, New York,
1835 ; schooner Experiment, Coast Survey, 1836 ; bark Pioneer, U. S. South
Sea Surveying and Exploring Expedition, ] 837.
Commissioned as " Lieutenant, while on duty in the Exploring Expedition,"
June, 1838 ; store-ship Relief, Exploring Expedition, 1838 ; sloop-of-war Vin
cennes, Exploring Expedition, 1839, '40, '41 and '42.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1841 ; cruise in frigate Brandy
wine, East Indies, 1843, '44 and '45. During Mexican War : In schooner Mahonese,
brig Porpoise, frigate Raritan, sloops-of-war John Adams and Germantown,
Gulf of Mexico, 1 846, '47 and '48. He was present at, and participated in the capture
of Vera Cruz, Alvorado and Tobasco. After the landing of the troops on the
first day, was in charge of the beach and superintended the landing of troops,
ordnance and stores, for the investment of Vera Cruz. After possession of
Laguna was taken by the Porpoise, he was dispatched, in a " bungo " having one
of the Porpoise's 42-pounder carronades mounted on the bow, with Passed Mid
shipman F. K. Murray and 25 men, up the Palisada River to the town of the
same name, which was captured and held for a fortnight against a large body of
cavalry whieh almost daily threatened an attack. The object of holding the
town was to intercept and capture General Santa Anna, who, it was supposed,
would endeavor to escape to Honduras, via the Palisada passes. Cruise in sloop-
of-war Vincennes, Pacific Ocean, 1849, '50 and '51 ; commanding sloop-of-war
Warren, Pacific Squadron, 1852-3; Light-house Inspector, 3d District, New
York, 1853, '54, '55, '56 and '57.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; waiting orders in 1858 ;
commanding steamer Caledonia, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, in
1859; waiting orders in 1860. During the rebellion: In March, 1861, just at
the commencement of the rebellion, Commander Case was ordered to Washing
ton as assistant to (then) Commodore Stringham, in the Office of Detail ; but on
the assignment of the latter to the command of the North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, he was appointed Fleet-Captain of it, and with him joined the steam
frigate Minnesota, at Boston, April 13th. Subsequently, served in the same
position with Flag-Officer L. M. Goldsborough and Acting Rear Admiral S. P.
Lee, who were successively appointed to command the Fleet, 1861-2. He took
part in the capture of Forts Clarke and Hatteras, August 28 and 29, 1861 ;
Roanoke Island, February 7 and 8, 1862 ; Sewell's Point (where, in passing the
heavy fortifications on Craney Island, he landed from his "tug" and hauled
down the large rebel flag there flying) and Norfolk, May 10, 18'62 ; and all of
the general active operations of the North Atlantic Fleet, until January, 1862,
when, it being understood that active operations were over, and that the duty of
the fleet would be mostly confined to blockading, he was assigned to the com
mand of the steam sloop Iroquois, which was fitted to look after the Alabama,
but was afterward attached to the North Atlantic Squadron. In charge of the
blockade of New Inlet, N. C, 1863; cut out the steamer Kate from under Fort
Fisher and the other batteries at New Inlet, aided by the steamers James Adger
and Mt. Vernon, in August, 1863.
Commissioned as Captain, January 2,1863; special duty, Washington, in
1864; Navy Yard, New York, 1864-5; Fleet-Captain, European Squadron,
1865-6. Commissioned as Commodore, December 8, 1867. Light-house Inspector, 3d
District, New York, 1807, '68 and '69.
Commissioned as Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, August 10, 1869.
Total sea service (to 1870), 21 years, 10 months. Shore or other duty, 10
years, 3 months,

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COMMODORE ALEXANDER M. PENNOCK,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Tennessee, April 1, 1828 ; frigate Guerriere,
Pacific Squadron, 1829-30; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1833; sloop Natchez,
Brazil Squadron, 1834.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834, and ordered to frigate
Potomac, Mediterranean Squadron; frigate Columbia, East India Squadron,
Promoted to IAeutenant, March 25, 1839 ; sloop Decatur, Brazil Squadron,
1843; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1846 ; store-ship Supply, 1848; sloop Marion, East
India Squadron, 1850-2; Light-house Inspector, 1853-6.
Commissioned as Commander, December 15,1855; special duty, connected
with steam-frigate Niagara, 1857 ; commanding steamer Southern Star, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1859-60 ; Light-house Inspector, 1861.
In 1862, Commander Pennock was ordered to duty as Fleet-Captain of the
Mississippi Squadron, where he remained until the Fall of 1864, gaining a repu
tation for executive ability of the highest order.
Commissioned as Captain, January 2, 1863; Navy Yard, New York, 1866-7;
commanding frigate Franklin, flag-ship, European Squadron, 1868.
Commissioned as Commodore, May 6, 1868 ; in charge European Squadron,
1869 ; member of Board of Examiners, 1869-70.

COMMODORE JOHN L. WORDEN,
Born in New York, March 12, 1818. Appointed from New York, January 12,
1835 ; sloop Erie, Brazil Squadron, 1836-7 ; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1840.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840; store-ship Relief, Pacific
Squadron, 1843; special duty, 1845; Naval Observatory, 1846; store-ship
Southampton, Pacific Squadron, 1846-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 30, 1846; frigate Ohio, Pacific
Squadron, 1848-50 ; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1851-2 ; frigate Cum
berland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-5; Naval Observatory, Washington,
1856; Navy Yard, New York, 1857-8; sloop Savannah, Home Squadron,
1859 ; Home Squadron, 1860 ; commanded iron-clad Monitor in her engage
ment with rebel iron-clad Merrimac, in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. On
8th of March, 1862, the Merrimac came down from Norfolk, and engaged the
Congress and Cumberland, then lying off Newport News, and after a brief action
destroyed those vessels. The Merrimac then steamed up the Elizabeth River,
and it was feared that on the following day the steam-frigates Minnesota and
Roanoke, then lying in Hampton Roads, would share the fate of the Cumber
land. At this juncture of affairs the Monitor arrived, and when the Merrimac
steamed into the Roads on the 9th, it was to find an adversary of different metal
from that of the ships so easily destroyed the day before. At 8.45 A. M., the
Monitor opened fire on the Merrimac, and continued the action until 12.15 P.
M., when the Merrimac retreated to Sewell's Point. During the action Captain
Worden was injured in the eyes, by the explosion of a shell from the Merrimac
upon the outside of the eye-hole of the pilot-house exactly opposite his eye.
Commissioned as Commander, July 12, 1862 ; commanding iron-clad steamer
Montauk, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; commanded the iron-clad Mon-
tauk in the blockading fleet in Ossabaw Sound, and engaged Fort McAllister on
the Ogeechee River, January 27, 1863, and again, February 1, 1863; attacked.

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and destroyed the rebel privateer Nashville under the guns of Fort McAllister,
on the 28th of February, 1863 ; commanded the Montauk in the attack made
by Admiral Du Pont, with the iron-clad fleet, on the defences of Charleston on
the 7th of April, 1863.
Commissioned as Captain, February 3, 1863.
Captain Worden was promoted out of the line as a reward for distinguished
gallantry in the engagement with the Merrimac, and in other battles in which
he had taken part. Special duty, New York, 1864-6 ; commanded the steam-
sloop Pensacola, North Pacific Squadron, 1867 ; special duty, 1868.
Commissioned as Commodore, May 27, 1868. At present, Superintendent
Naval Academy, at Annapolis. ,

COMMODORE GEORGE F. EMMONS,*
Native of Vermont, from which State he was appointed Midshipman, April
1, 1828; at Naval School, Brooklyn, New York, 1828; thence to steam-frigate
Fulton, in which he remained until she blew up, June 4, 1829 ; then in frigate
Brandywine, on special service to West Indies, 1830; and in Mediterranean
1830, '31, '32, '33.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 14, 1834 ; brig Consort, on our coast,
1836; bark Pioneer, West Indies, 1837, carrying out General Santa Anna,
after his defeat in Texas ; in frigate Macedonian (as Master) dn our coast,
1837; joined the sloop-of-war Peacock, and was commissioned as " Lieutenant
during the exploring expedition " of Captain Wilkes, serving in her from 1838
to July 1841, when she was lost on the bar at the mouth of Columbia River,
Oregon. Regularly commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1841 ; was occasionally
in command of schooner Flying Fish, and while engaged in surveying and boat
expeditions among the Pacific Islands, was frequently engaged with the na
tives. (See narrative of Ex. Ex.)
After the loss of the Peacock, had charge of a party consisting of the Scien
tific corps, officers, sailors, marines, and some hunters and trappers, to explore
the country south of the Columbia to the head-waters of the Sacramento, and
thence through California to San Francisco, where the party arrived, after sev
eral skirmishes with hostile natives, but without loss; in November, 1841, joined
the Vincennes, flag -ship of the Ex. Ex., and came home in- her via the East
Indies, in 1842 ; receiving-ship and recruiting duty in Baltimore in 1843 ; in
sloop-of-war Boston and frigate Raritan, Brazil Squadron, in 1843, '44, '45 and
'46 ; during the Mexican war, in the Ohio ; 1847-8, in Gulf of Mexico,
Brazil, and Pacific ; was frequently employed on shore in Upper and Lower
California, and once sent to the Sierra Nevada as bearer of dispatches to General
Mason ; in sloop Warren and Southampton, Pacific, in 1849 ; on Bureau duty,
Navy Department Washington, 1851-2 ; in frigate Savannah, Brazil Squadron,
1854, '55 and '56; during the last year was in command of her as the flag-ship
of Commodore Mercer.
Commissioned as Commander, January 28, 1856; Bureau duty and member
of Light-house Board in 1861 ; during the rebellion, was generally employed
on blockade duty in the Gulf of Mexico and on the Mississippi River in com
mand of the United States steamers Hatteras, R. R. Cuyler, Monongahela, and
Brooklyn; while in command of the first-named captured Cedar Keys and Pass
Christian, and some twenty prigeg, nearly all of which were under English colors.

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Commissioned as Captain, February 7, 1863; was Fleet-Captain under
Admiral Dahlgren, off Charleston, in 1863, while Fort Sumpter was being re
duced ; afterward commanded the United States steam-sloop Lackawanna and a
division of blockading vessels (from five to fifteen) in the Gulf of Mexico,
to the close of the war ; while commanding afloat at New Orleans, assisted ih
destroying the rebel ram Webb and capturing her officers and crew ; upon two
occasions successfully repelled and thwarted the attempts of the enemy to burn
the shipping and city by fire rafts and boats laden with hay and combustibles,
whereby millions of property were saved ; commanded the United States steam-
sloop Ossipee to the Pacific and Alaska, in 1866. '67 and '68, carrying thither
our Commissioners and hoisting the American flag over our new possessions.
During the return trip to San Francisco, the ship came near being lost in a hur
ricane which she encountered off Sitka.
Commissioned as Conjmodore, September 20, 1868.
Appointed senior member of Ordnance Board in Washington, 1869, and sub
sequently given charge of the Hydrographic Office.
Total sea service (to 1870), twenty-two years and eleven months; shore or
other duties, seven years and seven months.

COMMODORE EDWARD MIDDLETON*
Born in South Carolina. Appointed from South Carolina, July 1, 1828.
Frigate Java, Mediterranean Squadron, October, 1828 to May 1831 ; sloop
Vandalia, West India Squadron, 1831-3 ; receiving-ship, Brooklyn, 1833-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834; frigate Constitution,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-8; sloop Marion, Brazil Squadron, 1839-42.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1841 ; store-ship Lexington,
1843—4; sloop Plymouth, Mediterranean Squadron, 1844-5; frigate Cumber
land, Home Squadron, 1846; steamer Princeton, 1847-9; store-ship Erie,
1849; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1849-51; razee Independence, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1852; receiving-ship, New York, 1853; Executive-Officer of sloop
Decatur, Pacific Squadron, 1854-6 ; operating against a combination of hostile
Indians of the various tribes of AVashington and Oregon territories during the
war of the winter of 1854-5; attacks upon Seattle, Washington Territory,
January 26, 1856.
Commissioned as Commander, January 26, 1856 ; commanding sloop Decatur,
1856-7 ; commanding steam-sloops St. Mary's and Saranac at different times,
Pacific Squadron, 1861-5.
Commissioned as Captain, April 24, 1863; special duty, New York, 1866;
Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1867-8 ; commanding steam-sloop Pensacola,
Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as " Commodore, November 26, 1868 ; commanding steam-sloop
Lackawanna, Pacific Fleet, 1869 ; commandant Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida,
June 1, 1870.

COMMODORE GUSTAVUS H. SCOTT*
Born in Virginia, June 13, 1812. Appointed from Virginia, August 1, 1828 ;
frigate Guerriere, Pacific Squadron, 1829-31; schooner Experiment, Chesapeake
Bay, 1833.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834 ; sloop Vandalia, West
India Squadron, 1835-6; waiting orders, 1837; West India Squadron, 1839-40.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, February 25, 1841 ; frigate Columbus, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1843-4; special duty, 1845; frigate United States, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1846-7 ; ordnance duty, 1848-9 ; waiting orders, 1850.
ordnance duty, 1851; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1852-3; steamer
Michigan on the Lakes, 1855-7.
Commissioned as Commander, December 27, 1856 ; Light-house Inspector,
1858-60; commanding steamer ^Keystone State, special service, 1861; com
manding steam gunboat Maratanza, N. A. B. Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Captain, November 4, 1863 ; commanding steamer De Soto,
Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding steam-sloop Canandaigua, Blockading
Squadron, 1865 ; commanding steam-sloop Saranac, Pacific Squadron, 1866-7 ;
member of Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1868; .Light-house Inspector,
1869. Commissioned as Commodore, 1869.

Commodore david d. mcdougal,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, April 1,1828; sloop Natchez, West
India Squadron, 1829-31; frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron,
1832-5. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834. Navy Yard, New York,
1835-6; sloop Natchez, West India Squadron, 1837-9; brig Consort, Coast
Survey, 1840-3.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, February 25, 1841. Navy Yard, New York,
1843-4; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1845-6; sloop St. Mary's, 1846;
attached to United States steamer Mississippi, at the capture of Vera Cruz ;
brig Bainbridge, 1848-50, Coast of Africa ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes,
1852-4; commanding store-ship Warren, 1855-7.
Commissioned as Commander, January 24, 1857. Navy Yard, Mare Island,
California, 1859-60 ; commanding steam-sloop Wyoming, Asiatic Squadron,
1861-4 ; while in command of the Wyoming, engaged six batteries and three
vessels of war, at Simonsaki, Japan, July 16, 1863, sinking a brig and ex
ploding the boilers of a steamer, with a loss of eleven killed and wounded on
the Wyoming.
Commissioned as Captain, March 2, 1864. Commanding Navy Yard, Mare
Island, California, 1865-6; commanding steam-sloop Powhatan, South Pacific
Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Commodore, 1869. Commanding South Squadron, Pacific
Fleet, 1870.

COMMODORE JOHN J. ALMY *

Born in Rhode Island in 1815. Appointed as Midshipman from that State,
February 2, 1829, and made his first cruise in the Concord, Mediterranean,
1830, '31 and '32; next in the Ontario, Coast of Brazil, 1833, '34 and 35.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 3, 1835, and as such was on board the
receiving-ship at New York, 1836-7> fnd sloop Cyane, Mediterranean,
1838, '39 '40 and '41,

58 COMMODORES.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 8, 1841, and served in the brig Bainbridge,
Home Squadron, 1842; frigate Macedonian, Coast of Africa, 1843, '44 and '45;
line-of-battle-ship Ohio, Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific, during the Mexican
war, 1846, '47, '48, '49 and '50; participating in the siege and capture of Vera
Cruz, and the capture of Tuspan; Coast Survey, in 1851, '52, '53, '54, '55 and
'56 ; commanding steamer Fulton, at Nicaragua, in 1857, when General Walker
and his filibusters surrendered on board of that vessel ; commanded the Fulton
in the Expedition to Paraguay, in 1858-9; at Navy Yard, New York, 1860-1 ;
during the rebellion at Navy Yard, New York, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Commander, April 24, 1861. Commanded steam gunboat
South Carolina, seven guns, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Admiral Du
Pont, 1862-3 ; steamer Connecticut, eleven guns (after her conversion), North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Admiral Lee, 1864; steam-sloop Juniata, four
teen guns, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Admiral Dahlgren, 1865.
While in command of the Connecticut, captured and sent in four noted blockade-
running steamers with valuable cargoes, and ran on shore and dostroyed four
others. Commissioned as Captain, March 3, 1865, and commanded steam-sloop Juniata
in cruise in South Atlantic Squadron (Coast of Brazil and South Coast of Africa),
1865, 66 and '67 ; on ordnance duty at Navy Yard, New York, in 1868-9.
Commissioned as Commodore, December 30, 1869 ; ordnance duty, New York,
1869-70. Total sea service (to 1870), twenty-five years; shore or other duty,
eleven and a half years. Official Residence, Brooklyn, New York.

COMMODORE JAMES MADISON FRAILEY,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed Midshipman from that State, May 1,1828;
was attached to sloop St. Louis, 1828-9, and schooner Dolphin, 1829, '30, '31
and '32 ; in Pacific Squadron ; in Delaware, 74, in 1834, and frigate United
States, 1835, on Mediterranean station; in frigate Constellation, West Indies,
1835-6. '
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1836; in sloop-of-war Lexington,
1837-8, and schooner Enterprise, 1839, in the Pacific, as Acting Master; at
Naval rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1839-40.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841 ; served in the sloop Preble,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1841, '42 and '43 ; at Naval Asylum, Philadelphia,
1844-5; during Mexican War, in frigate Potomac, Gulf of Mexico, 1846-7,
serving in Naval Battery before Vera Cruz; at Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1848; sloop Yorktown, Coast of Africa, 1849, and until she was wrecked on
Island of Mayo, September 6, 1850 ; returning in the John Adams to Norfolk,
November 27,1850; in receiving-ship Union, at Philadelphia 1851, '52 and
53; in sloop St. Mary's, Pacific, 1854, '55 and '56; at Naval Asylum, Philadel
phia, 1857, '58 and '59 ; commanding store-ship Release, in Mediterranean,
1860—1. Commissioned as Commander, in 1861, during the rebellion; commanding
steamer Quaker City, in 1862, '63 and '64, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron;
on January 31, 1863, a raid being made by the enemy's rams on the fleet off
Charleston, the Quaker City's machinery was partially disabled by a 9-inch shell;
she returned the fire with her starboard battery; commanded the steam-sloop
Tuscarora, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1864-5, taking part in both
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Commissioned as Captain, February, 6, 1866; Inspector at Navy Yard, Phila
delphia in 1866 ; commanded steam-sloop Saranac, North Pacific Squadron, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Commodore, March 2, 1870 ; ordered to the command of
League Island Naval Station, April 30, 1870.
Sea service, twenty-four years; shore or other duty, eleven years; unemployed',
six years and seven months ; residence, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

COMMODORE ENOCH G. PARROTT,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, December 10,
1831; attached to schooner Boxer, Brazil Squadron, 1832-4; attached to sloop
Natchez, Brazil Squadron, 1835 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1837.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1837 ; brig Consort, on surveying
duty, 1840.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841. Was engaged in the oper
ations under Commodore Perry against Beraly, and the neighboring towns on
West Coast of Africa, December, 1843, and was with all the landing parties.
Sloop Saratoga, Coast of Africa, 1843 ; frigate Congress, Pacific Squadron, 1846-8.
During the war with Mexico, while serving in the Congress, was with Free-
mont's Expedition from Monterey to Los Angeles, at which place there was a
slight engagement ; was at the capture of Guaymas and Mazatlan, and in two
skirmishes at the last-named place. The Congress received the thanks of the
President and the Department.
Receiving-ship, Boston, 1850; sloop St. Louis, Mediterranean Squadron,
1852-3; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1854-5; Naval Observatory, Wash
ington, 1857-8 ; special duty, 1859.
Commissioned as Commander, April, 1861 ; was with, the expedition which
destroyed Norfolk Navy Yard, April, 1861; in the brig Perry at the time of
the capture of the rebel privateer Savannah, which resisted ; received for
this the commendation of the Department; commanding steamer Augusta,
1861-3; in the Augusta, participated in the battle of Port Royal, under Rear
Admiral Du Pont, and subsequently engaged the rebel rams at the time of their
sortie from Charleston, January 13, 1863, and was on this occasion under the
fire of the rebel batteries in Charleston harbor; commanding iron-clad Canonicus,
N. A. B. Squadron, 1864-5 ; in the Canonicus participated in the engagement
with Howlett's Battery and the iron-clads on James River, June 21, 1864 ; and
in the subsequent engagement with Howlett's Battery ; commanding iron-clad
Monadnock, in the attacks under Rear Admiral Porter on Fort Fisher, in
December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; and subsequently, under Rear Admiral
Dahlgren, was present at the surrender of Charleston; commanding receiving-
ship, Boston, 1865-8.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1869.
Commissioned as Commodore, 1870,

COMMODORE WILLIAM REYNOLDS,
Born in Pennsylvania, December 10, 1815. Appointed from Pennsylvania,
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brig Boxer, Brazil Squadron, 1834; frigate Potomac, Mediterranean Squadron,
1835-6 ; Naval School, Norfolk, 1837.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1837 ; Exploring Expedition,
1838-42. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841; frigate Cumberland, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1844-5; steamer Allegheny, Brazil Squadron, 1846-8;
unemployed from 1848-57 ; Naval Storekeeper, Honolulu, 1857-61.
Commissioned as Commander, June 7, 1862 ; commanding store-ship Ver
mont, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; commanding store-ship
New Hampshire, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop Lacka
wanna, North Pacific Squadron, 1867-9; senior member of Ordnance Board,
1869-70. Commissioned as Commodore, 1870.

COMMODORE FABIUS STANLY*
Fabius Stanly — son of the Hon. John Stanly — was born in Newbern,
North Carolina, December 15,1815. Appointed Midshipman, December 20,
1831 ; served in the frigate Constellation, Mediterranean, 1832—4 ; receiving-
ship Hudson, New York, 1835 ; sloops Concord and Warren, West Indies,
1835-6; bark Consort, surveying, 1837; sloop Falmouth, North Carolina, 74,
Pacific Ocean, 1837, '38 and '39 ; Delaware, 74, Brazil, 1841, '42 and '43.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1841 ; St. Union, special' service, 1843-4; St.
Princeton, special service, 1844 ; sloops Dale, St. Mary's and Warren, and
frigate Congress, Pacific Ocean, 1846, '47 and '48 ; commanded mail steamer,
1850 ; commanded sloop. Warren, California, 1853-4 ; was Executive-Officer of
Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1855 ; commanded transport Supply, Paraguay Expe
dition, 1858-9 ; commanded St. Wyandotte, South side of Cuba, 1859-60; com
manded receiving-ship Independence, California, 1861 ; light-house duty, Cali
fornia, 1862; commanded sloop Narragansett in Pacific, 1863-4; Ordnance-
Officer, Misissippi Squadron, 1864 ; investigating bounty frauds, 1864 ; com
manded State of Georgia, South Carolina, 1864-5 ; commanded sloop Tuscarora,
Pacific Ocean, 1865, '66 and '67 ; rendezvous in Baltimore, 1869.
During the Mexican war, was in the Pacific ; took part in the capture of Cali
fornia and defence of San Francisco; had a part in the capture of Guaymas;
led the advance in storming Fort Cachori ; commanded the expedition against
Fort Bacoch Vampa — took it by storm, leading the charge ; was in command
of the night expedition to spike a battery of guns on its way to Guaymas ; passed
through the enemy's lines of fifteen hundred men, with thirty men, spiked the
guns and fought his way back to the boats (twelve miles), bringing off the
wounded and prisoners ; was commended in the public dispatches from each of
his commanding officers (Captains Craven, Yard and Commodore Rudd), for his
conduct in each of these actions. There were several other less important
affairs, not mentioned by name, for which he was also commended in the public
dispatches from Guaymas, by the above named officers. Was at the capture of
Mazatlan — Admiral Shubrick, commanding — and was assigned the command of
the outpost nearest the enemy, who held the approaches to the city, whose
nightly attacks were so troublesome that two men of straw had to be placed with
each sentinel. Was in the battle of Trois, commanding the centre division,
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one man killed and twenty-three badly wounded, out of twenty-five men ; was in
tire action the next day, commanding the artillery at the capture of the village
Trois; received favorable mention in official reports; had frequent skirmishes
with the enemy about Mazatlan, in one of which, a hand-to-hand contest ensued,
in which he received a lance wound in the breast.
In 1860, when in command of the Wyandotte at Key West, after consulting
with General Meigs, U. S. A., he placed his ship so as to protect Fort Taylor
from the threatened attack of the rebels then mustering in force there; was
deprived of his command on reporting his cause to the Department. General
Meigs was also censured, being ordered from Key West.
Was on the coast of Mexico (Pacific Ocean), during the early years of the
rebellion — received the thanks of the State Department for his diplomatic ser
vices there ; had received the thanks of the Navy Department, twice during the
Mexican War, from two different Secretaries of the Navy.
In 1805, was ordered to report to Admiral Dahlgren, off Charleston — by
whom he was ordered to command Fort Johnson — then to arrange and command
an expedition up the Santee with General Schimmelfeng ; then to command the
expedition of Bull's Bay with General Potter, against Charleston — the success
of which caused the fall of Charleston. In this expedition commanded sixty-
eight guns and thirteen field-pieces.
Commissioned as Commodore, June, 1870.

COMMODORE WILLIAM H. MACOMB,
Born in Michigan. Appointed from New York, April 10, 1834 ; attached to frigate
Potomac, Mediterranean Squadron, 1834-7; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1840.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840 ; Brazil Squadron, 1841-4 ;
rendezvous, New York, 1844-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 27, 1847 ; store-ship Lexington, Paci
fic Squadron, 1847-8 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1849-50 ; brig Bainbridge,
Brazil Squadron, 1850-3; receiving-ship, New York, 1854-6; sloop Ports
mouth, East India Squadron, 1856-8 ; engaged in the attack and capture ofthe
Barrier Forts on the Canton River, China, by the Portsmouth and Levant, No
vember 16th, 20th, 21st, 22, 1856; commanding steamer Metacomet, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1859 ; commanding steamer Pulaska, Brazil
Squadron, 1860-1 ; commanding steamer Genessee, Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862. While attached to Genessee,
attempted the passage of rebel batteries at Port Hudson, March 14, 1863, and
took part in almost daily engagements with rebel batteries along the Mississippi
during April, May and June, 1863. Commanding steamer Shamrock, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; commanded naval force in capture and
bombardment of Plymouth, North Carolina, October 29th and 30, 1864; com
manded naval forces in the action with the rebel batteries and infantry on the
Roanoke River, near Poplar Point, North Carolina, during the expedition up
that river. For his gallantry and energy as displayed in his operations against
the rebels while serving in the North Atlantic Squadron, Commander Macomb
was advanced several numbers in his grade. Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; commanded steam sloop Plymouth,
European Squadron, 1869; detached from the command of the Plymouth,
July, 1870.
Commissioned as Commodore, July, 1870.

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'COMMODORE WILLIAM E. LE ROY.
Born in New York, March 24, 1818. Appointed from New York, January
11, 1832; attached to frigate Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron, 1833-6; brig
Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1837-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838; frigate Constitution, Pacific
Squadron, 1839-40 ; store-ship Erie, 1842-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 13, 1843 ; steamer Mississippi, Home
Squadron, 1846 ; steamer Princeton, Home Squadron, 1847 ; engagement with
Mexican soldiers at Rio Aribiqua, while assisting to water the Princeton ; sloop
Savannah, Pacific Squadron, 1849-51 ; waiting orders, 1852 ; frigate Savannah,
Brazil Squadron, 1853-5 ; Naval Station, Sackett's Harbor, New York, 1857-8;
frigate Sabine, Brazil Squadron, 1859 ; commanding steamer Mystic, Coast of
Africa, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July, 1, 1861 ; commanding steamer Keystone
State, South Atlantic Blockading Sqaudron, 1862-3; capture of Fernandina,
1862; engagement with iron-clads, off Charleston, South Carolina, January,
1863; commanding steam-sloop Oneida, Western Gulf Squadron, 1864; com
manding steam-sloop Ossipee, Western Gulf Squadron, 1864-5.
Commanded the Ossipee at the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; his
vessel was struck many times, but fortunately not disabled. When about run
ning down the Tennessee, that vessel displayed a white flag, and Captain Le Koy
received her surrender from Captain Johnston, her commander, the rebel
Admiral Buchanan, being wounded ; Naval rendezvous, New York, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Fleet Captain, European Squadron,
under Admiral Farragut, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Commodore, July, 1870.

COMMODORES ON RETIRED LIST.
Retired under the first section of the Act of December 21, 1861,
and its amendment dated June 25, 1864.

COMMODORE JOHN H. AULICK,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Maryland, November 15, 1809; attached
to United States ship Enterprise, in the engagement with His Majesty's ship
Boxer, 1813.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1814; frigate Brandywine, Pacific
Squadron, 1827-8.
Commissioned as Master Commandant, March 3, 1831; Navy Yard, Wash
ington, 1834 ; commanding sloop Vincennes, 1837 ; Navy Yard, Washington,
1840. Commissioned as Captain, September 8, 1841 ; Navy Yard, Washington,
1846; ordnance duty, 1851; commanding East India Squadron, 1852; East
India Squadron, 1853.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

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COMMODORE WILLIAM INMAN,*
Born in New York. Appointed Midshipman from New York, January 1,
1812 ; served on the lakes during the war of 1812, afterward on the Atlantic.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, April 1, 1818 ; served in the Mediterranean and
on the Atlantic in 1823 ; commanded one of two boats capturing a pirate vessel
mounting three guns, on the coast of Cuba; from 1834-7 served as Execu
tive Lieutenant of a flag-ship frigate in the Pacific.
Commissoned as Commander, May, 1838; commanded steamer Michigan, oh
the lakes, 1844-6.
Commissioned as Captain, June 2, 1850 ; commanded steam-frigate Susque
hanna, 1851 ; from 1859-61, commanded the African Squadron which re
captured and landed in Liberia three thousand and six hundred slaves.
Commissioned as Commodore, March 12, 1867.

COMMODORE WILLIAM C. NICHOLSON,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, June 18, 1812.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1821 ; frigate United States, Pacific
Squadron, 1827; rendezvous Baltimore, 1834; commanding schooner Boxer,
Pacific Squadron, 1840.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841 ; commanding sloop Preble,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1843; rendezvous, Boston, 1845-6; receiving-ship,
New York, 1847-8 ; Commandant of Navy Yard, Memphis, Tennessee, 1852-3 ;
commanding rendezvous, New York, 1854.
Commissioned as Captain, August 22, 1855 ; Fleet-Captain, Pacific Squad
ron, 1855; commanding steam-frigate Mississippi, East India Squadron,
1858-60; commanding steam-frigate Roanoke, 1861; special service, 1862-6.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE JOSEPH B. HULL,*
Born in West Chester, New York. Appointed Midshipman from Connecticut,
November 9, 1813, and ordered to Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H; joined the
frigate Congress, and went to Holland and the Mediterranean, 1815, returning
in Commodore Bainbridge's Squadron; in the Washington, 74, in the Medi
terranean, 1816-7; transferred to the frigate United States in 1818, and returned
in her to Norfolk inthe Summer of 1819 ; in 1820, attached to the Boston
Navy Yard; inthe Franklin, 74, Pacific Squadron, 1823, as Passed Midship
man; in 1824, ordered to schooner Dolphin as Acting Lieutenant; rejoined
the Franklin and returned home in her in 1825.
Commissipned as Lieutenant, January 13, 1825; in frigate Constellation,
West Indies, in 1827; ordered to sloop John Adams, 1828, and returned home;
in frigate Guerriere, Pacific Squadron, 1829, '30 and '31 ; attached to Washington
Navy Yard, 1831, '32 and '33 ; in frigate Potomac, Mediterranean Squadron,
1834, '35, '36 and '37 ; attached to receiving-ship at Boston, from Fall of 1839
to September 8, 1841.

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Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841; in command of sloop Warren
Pacific, 1843, '44, '45, '46 to October, 1847, returning via Panama. While in
command of the Warren off Mazatlan, sent in a boat expedition under Lieut.
Radford, (now Rear Admiral), to cut out the Mexican gun-brig Malekadhel,
which was successfully done; was in command of the Northern District of
California, for a short period, before the close of the Mexican war ; command
ing Naval rendezvous, Philadelphia, from November, 1849 to December, 1851.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; in command of frigate St,
Lawrence, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1856, '57, '58 and '59,
returning in May ; in command of the Savannah, coast blockade, from June
to September, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; superintending the building
of gunboats at St. Louis, from June, 1862 until 1864, when he was transferred to
Pittsburgh; in command of Navy Yard, Philadelphia, from November 10, 1864
to January 1, 1866 ; president of Examining Board at Philadelphia, from Decem
ber 3, 1866 to July 8, 1867; October 15, 1869, ordered as Light-house Inspec
tor for the First District, with headquarters at Portland.
Total sea service (1870), 22 years, 3 months; shore and other duty, 14 years,
6 months. Residence, Connecticut.

COMMODORE JOHN S. CHAUNCEY*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, January 1, 1812 ; ordered to
U. S. S. Washington, flag-ship, Mediterranean Squadron, 1816-8; U. S. S.
Columbus, flag-ship, Mediterranean Squadron, 1819-21.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1821 ; sloop Peacock, West India Squadron,
1822 ; in August, 1822, engaged in the capture of seven piratical schooners
off Bahia Honda, Cuba, and a heavily armed pirate-schooner by the boats of
the Peacock ; was ordered to command one of the prizes ; the vessel was nearly
decimated by yellow fever — thirty to forty deaths among the crew, and three of
four Lieutenants, himself the only Midshipman remaining on duty; ordered to
schooner Grampus, West India Squadron, as Acting Lieutenant, by Commodore
Porter, 1823 ; ordered to sloop Ontario, as Acting Lieutenant, 1824 ; Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1824-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 13, 1825 ; special duty Navy Yard,
New York, 1827; ordered to frigate Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron, 1828;
sloop Lexington, 1829; Executive-Officer of Navy Yard, New York, 1831;
frigate United States, flag-ship, Mediterranean Squadron, 1832 ; frigate Dela
ware, 1834-6 ; Assistant Inspector of ordnance, 1838-43.
Commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, September' 8, 1841 ; commanding
sloop Vandalia, West Indies, Home Squadron, 1843-5 ; Inspector of ordnance,
Washington, 1847-50.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855; commanding steam-sloop
Susquehanna, 1861; engaged at Forts Hatteras and Clark, as second in com
mand, August 29 and 30, 1861; in command of the blockade of sounds of Vir
ginia and North Carolina, September, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Inspector of ordnance, Reading,
Pennsylvania, 1863 ; special service, court-martial duty, 1864-5 : special service,
Navy Yard, New York, 1866-7.

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COMMODORE WILLIAM H. GARDNER,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, September 6, 1814.
Commissioned as . Lieutenant, January 13, 1825 ; rendezvous, Baltimore,
1827 ; sloop Vandalia, Brazil Squadron, 1829-30; rendezvous, Norfolk, 1834.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841 ; commanding receiving-
ship, Norfolk, 1843-5 ; commanding sloop Vandalia, Pacific Squadron, 1850-2.
, Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; commanding steam-frigate
Colorado, Home Squadron, 1859-60 ; Commandant Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 1861 ; special service, 1862.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Light-house Inspector, 1863-9.

COMMODORE THOMAS ALOYSIUS DORNIN*
Born in Ireland; appointed Midshipman from Maryland, May 2, 1815; sailed
in the frigate Java, Com. Oliver Perry, to the Mediterranean. The same year
after her cruise expired, served in the brig-of-war Prometheus, together with
thirty odd other Midshipmen, to learn practical seamanship; was thus employed
eight months ; then joined the Franklin, 74, Commodore Stewart, and served
with him in the Mediterranean the whole cruise, when he was transferred on
the station to the sloop-of-war Peacock ; remained in her till her return to the
United States, when she was soon after fitted out for the West Indies ; he went
out and remained in her till she finished her cruise on that station. Having
been appointed by Commodore David Porter in 1823, an acting Lieutenant, he
sailed in his squadron on board the United States schooner Ferret, to the West
Indies, and after cruising there nearly a year in pursuit of pirates, was by the
same authority ordered on board the United States sloop-of-war Peacock, as acting
Lieutenant; on the conclusion of the Peacock's cruise, he was immediately or
dered to sea in the United States sloop-of-war Hornet, and went in her to the
West India Station, and in which vessel he served the entire cruise.
On his return to the United States in 1825, he was commissioned as a Lieu
tenant, and ordered forthwith to the frigate Brandywine, Commodore Jacob Jones,
and sailed in her to the Pacific Ocean ; when her cruise had ended in the Pa
cific, Lieutenant Dornin volunteered to go in the sloop-of-war Vincennes, bound
round the world, and returned in her in 1830, after nearly a four years' cruise.
After a leave of a few months, he joined the sloop-of-war Falmouth, Captain
Gregory, as First Lieutenant, and sailed again for the Pacific, remaining in her
the whole cruise until she returned to New York ; shortly after he was ap
pointed to command the receiving vessel at Philadelphia ; long before his term
there expired, on the fitting out of the South Sea Exploring Expedition, he was
appointed to command the store-ship Relief; on the reorganization of that ex
pedition, Lieutenant Dornin was granted a leave of absence for a few months,
when he was ordered to the Pacific Ocean, there to assume command of the
United States schooner Shark.
Some months after which, and while still in the Pacific, he was commissioned
Commander, and took command of the United States sloop-of-war Dale, which
vessel, on the completion of her cruise, he brought home in 1843. After some
few months unemployed, he was ordered to the Washington Navy Yard as Com
mander; on the completion of his term of service there, he was ordered to ord
nance duty, and afterward to the command of the ships in ordinary at Norfolk,
which he retained but a short time, as he was ordered to take command of the
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U. S. sloop-of-war Portsmouth in 1851, and shortly after sailed in her to the
Pacific Ocean, during which cruise he was directed by the Secretary of the
Navy to charter one of the Panama steamers, and try to stop the expedition
under General Walker from violating our laws in invading Mexican territory.
With this steamer and the Portsmouth, he reached Ensinada Bay, and by his
presence frustrated the designs of said General Walker. Commander Dornin,
acting, as he did, with the advice and counsel of both Major General Hitch
cock and Major General Wool, after discharging his steamer, sailed along the
Mexican coast and reached Mazatlan, where, finding about forty American citi
zens who had been peaceably doing business in Guaymas, closely packed in the
hold of a schooner, doubly ironed and chained to the bottom of the vessel,
Captain Dornin demanded of the Governor their immediate release; the Gov
ernor, on the receipt of this, moved all these Americans on shore at night, when
the Portsmouth was hauled in as near as safety would allow, and Captain Dornin
renewed his demand. After great delay, the Governor finally gave them all up
to Captain Dornin, who put some on board a United States revenue cutter just
arrived, and took many of them to Panama, and the balance went to California.
After this he sailed to Acapulco, and learning that a Mexican sloop-of-war had
declared a blockade there and driven off our mail steamers, Captain Dornin
went in immediate pursuit of this Mexican war vessel and boarded her, sending
a letter to her commander forbidding him to stop any American vessel going or
coming out of Acapulco, as such proceedings were in violation of an existing
special treaty between the United States and Mexico ; with a written remon
strance, the Mexican abandoned the blockade. After this, Commander
Dornin went to the Sandwich Islands, and while there, having present the
steam frigates Susquehanna and Mississippi, sloops-of-war St. Mary's and Ports
mouth, and armed ship Southampton, Commander Dornin being the senior offi
cer in charge, with the display of this large force, fully supported the United
States Commissioner in his efforts at,carrying out the said Commissioner's in
structions from our Government to effect a transfer of said Islands to the
United States, which was defeated by the management and interference of the
Consul Generals of England and France. It becoming necessary for the as
sembled United States vessels-of-war to return home, they all soon after sepa
rated, and Commander Dornin returned to the United States, after a cruise of
forty-seven months.
Soon after receiving his commission as Captain he was ordered to command the
Norfolk Navy Yard and Station, which he held the whole term allowed; after
which, he was ordered to the Mediterranean to assume the duties of Captain of
the fleet, on board the flag-ship Wabash, and served thus till the recall of that
squadron from the Mediterranean.
After a leave of four months Captain Dornin was ordered to go out and
take command of United States steam-frigate San-Jacinto, which he did, at
Cadiz (Spain), and soon after stood down for the coast of Africa, where he had
been but a comparatively short time when he captured two slave vesssels, having
fourteen hundred odd slaves on board, and landed them all safely in Liberia,
and sent the two clipper-brigs home for condemnation. After over a year's
service on the coast of Africa, he took command of the frigate Constellation, and
the vessels on that coast being ordered home he brought the Constellation to
the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. »
Shortly after his arrival there he was ordered as one of the Board to examine
into the fitness and suitability of the iron vessel, building by the Messrs. Stevens,
at Hoboken, for naval purposes. On the completion of this service he was
ordered to assume command of the Baltimore Naval Station, whieh he held
nearly the entire war.

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During this term of service he was promoted to the rank of Commodore and
was instructed by the Secretary of the Navy to hoist the Commodore's broad
pennant. A large portion of our blockading vessels on our Southern coast were
refitted and rendered complete for service during his command of this station
which command terminated soon after the war had ceased. A year or so after
he was placed in charge of the fifth Light-house District, extending on the
Atlantic from Metamkin Inlet, Va., to New River Inlet, North Carolina
embracing the whole Chesapeake Bay and its extensive tributaries, and the
North Carolina sounds and rivers adjacent. Commodore Dornin is still on this
duty.

COMMODORE JAMES GLYNN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Virginia, March 4, 1815.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, January 13, 1825 ; Exploring Expedition, 1829;
Mediterranean Squadron, 1830 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1834 ; commanding
bark Consort, Exploring Expedition, 1837 ; Coast Survey, 1840.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841 ; Pacific Squadron, 1848 ;
commanding sloop Preble, Pacific Squadron, 1850; Navy Yard, Boston, 1852;
Light-house Inspector, 1853.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855; commanding steam-sloop
Pensacola, 1860.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; commanding sloop Macedo
nian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1861; special duty, 1864-5.

COMMODORE CHARLES LOWNES,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, March 28, 1815.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 13, 1825; sloop Falmouth, West India
Squadron, 1829-30; sloop Ontario, Brazil Squadron, 1834.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841; commanding sloop German-
town, Home Squadron, 1850; commanding rendezvous, Baltimore, 1852.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855; commanding steam-sloop
Hartford, East India Squadron, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; Prize Commissioner at Balti
more, 1864-5'.

COMMODORE JOHN MARSTON,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, April 15, 1815.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 15, 1825 ; frigate Brandywine, Pacific
Squadron, 1827-9; sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1833-4; frigate United
States, 1840.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841 ; commanding sloop York-
town, coast of Africa, 1850 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; commanding sloop Cumber
land, Brazil Squadron, 1861 ; special service, 1862.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Light-house Inspector, 1863-6 ;
special service, Key West, 1867.

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COMMODORE JOHN POPE,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Maine, May 30, 1816.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 28, 1826; frigate Constitution, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1827-8; sloop St. Louis, West India Squadron, 1833-4;
Navy Yard, Boston, 1837; razee Independence, Brazil Squadron, 1840; Navy
Yard, Boston, 1843.
Commissioned as Commander, February 15, 1843; commanding brig Dolphin,
coast of Africa, 1846-7 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1850 ; commanding sloop Van
dalia, East India Squadron, 1853-6.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; Commandant Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1858-60 ; commanding steam-sloop Richmond,
Gulf Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Prize Commissioner, Boston,
1864-5 ; Light-house Inspector, 1866-9.

COMMODORE HENRY EAGLE,*
Born in New York. Appointed Midshipman from that State, January 1, 1818.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; in sloop Natchez, West Indies,
1827 ; frigate Hudson, Brazil, 1829, '30 and '31 ; receiving-ship at New York,
1833-4 ; sloop Erie, Brazil, 1835, '36 and '37 ; rendezvous, New York, 1840;
sloop Yorktown, Pacific, 1841-2 ; commanding schooner Shark, Pacific, 1843^4.
Commissioned as Commander, June 4, 1844 ; superintended the construction
of Stevens' iron ship Hoboken, New Jersey, for three years, to 1846 ; Inspector,
etc., at New York, 1846; commanding bomb-vessel JEtna, and a division ofthe
squadron of five vessels, during the Mexican war ; stationed at Tobasco, also
civil and military Governor ofthe Province, and Collector ofthe Port, 1847-8;
special service, 1851; commanding steamer Princeton, Home Squadron, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; volunteered for the com
mand of gunboat Monticello in April, 1861, and was in command of her during
the attack on Sewell's Point Battery, Virginia, May 19, 1861 ; commanding
frigate Santee, Gulf Squadron, 1861-2. The boats of the Santee captured the
privateer Royal Yacht, Galveston Harbor.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; Prize Commissioner, New York,
1864-5 ; Light-house Inspector, 1865-6.
Total sea service, 1 8 years, 7 months ; shore or other duty, 1 1 years, 7 months.
Residence, New York city.

COB1MODORE WILLIAM MARSHALL GLENDY,*
Born in Virginia. Appointed Midshipman from Maryland, January 1, 1818;
commanding schooner Enterprise, Pacific, eighteen months.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; in sloop Boston, Brazils,
1827, '28 and '29 ; schooner Dolphin, Pacific, 1831, '32 and '33 ; frigate North
Carolina, Pacific, 1837 ; receiving-ship Ontario, Baltimore, 1847-50.
Commissioned as Commander, February 25, 1847; store-ship Lexington,
Mediterranean, for eighteen months ; commanding sloop Marion, East Indies,
1850, '51 and '52 — two years and six months.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855 ; commanding sloop Saratoga,
and senior officer on coast of Africa, 1861-2 — eighteen months.

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Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Prize Commissioner, Wash
ington, 1863-4 ; member of Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 1865 — one year ;
Light-house Inspector for six months.
Sea service, 19 years, 5 months ; shore and other duty, 8 years, 6 months.
Residence, Baltimore, Maryland.

COMMODORE GEORGE S. BLAKE,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, January 1, 1818;
Independence, ship-of-the-line, 1818-19; Columbus, ship-of-the-line, Mediter
ranean, 1819-20 ; schooner Alligator, coast of Africa, 1821. The Alligator
was attacked on the 5th of November, 1821, near the Cape de Verde Islands,
by the Portuguese armed ship Marianna Flora, ten guns, which was captured
after an engagement of thirty minutes and sent to the United States for adju
dication- — Midshipman Blake coming in her as Executive-Officer; at Navy Yard,
Boston, 1824.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; schooner Grampus, West
Indies, 1828; frigate Java, Mediterranean, 1830-1; survey of Narragansett
Bay, 1832 ; Navy Yard at Philadelphia, 1833 ; on the Coast Survey, 1835 to
1846. The Navy Department, on detaching him, received a letter from the
Hon. R. J. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, in which he said : " While regret
ting the existence of any cause rendering a detachment necessary, I feel that
it would be doing injustice to that meritorious officer, to withhold on this occa
sion a due expression of the lively sense entertained by this Department, of the
intelligence, industry, zeal and strict fidelity, with which he has discharged the
duties devolved upon him in the command of a Hydrographical party, during
the time he has been attached to the Coast Survey, running through a period of
over eleven years ; and to add the expression of a hope that any future services
rendered by Lieutenant Blake, may prove as creditable to himself, and as bene
ficial to the country, as those he has already rendered in the important work
adverted to."
Command of brig Perry, Gulf of Mexico, 1846. The Perry, while cruising
in the- gulf at the commencement of the Blexican War, was wrecked in a severe
hurricane on the 9th of October, 1846. The Secretary of the Navy, in answer
to a request for a Court of Inquiry, informed him, that having by his skill,
brought his vessel into port, and being satisfied with the reports of his Com
modore and of himself, he " did not deem it necessary to institute any such
inquiry ;" and closes by saying, " the evidence in the records of the Depart
ment justifies me in adding, that your claims to the character of a skillful, com
petent and zealous officer, are elevated rather than depressed, by your conduct
in the trying and perilous circumstances in which you were placed." Sloop
Germantown, 1846.
Commissioned as Commander, February 27, 1847; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1847; Bureau of Construction, 1848; Captain of fleet, and a portion of the
cruise, in command of razee Independence, Mediterranean, 1849, '50, '51 and
'52 ; Bureau of Construction, special duty at Key West, and as member of
Board for revision of Allowance Book of the Navy, 1853, '54 and '55.
Commissioned as Captain, September 14, 1855; special duty, in connection
with construction of iron steam battery at Hoboken, New Jersey, 1856-7;
Superintendent of Naval Academy, 1858-65.
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4, 1861 : " The Naval School and public property at Annapolis, attracted the
attention of the disloyal and disaffected about the period when the conspiracy
culminated. Demonstrations were made toward seizing the property, and also
the frigate Constitution, which had been placed there in connection with the
school. Prompt measures rescued the frigate and government property from
desecration and plunder, and the young men under the superintendence and
guidance of Captain Blake, contributed in no small degree to the result."
The Secretary of the Navy to Captain Blake, 9th October, 1861, says : "Your
letter of the 3d inst., informing the Department of your readiness for any service,
is received. " Appreciating your motives, but valuing your services in the present condi
tion of the institution over which you preside, the Department specially desires
your continuance, at least, for the present."
.Extract from the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, Decem
ber, 1861 :
(The Naval Academy). " The institution is of too great national importance
to be neglected. It is there that the youth are to be educated, who, in the
future, must maintain and elevate the character of the Navy. I have deemed
it important that the accomplished Superintendent, whose fidelity to his trust
was exhibited under trying circumstances, should be continued in the position
he has filled so acceptably, until the school shall be again permanently estab
lished." Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, to Captain Blake :
"Navy Department, 30th August, 1865.
"Sir: — In relieving you from the important position of Superintendent of
the Naval Academy, which you have conducted with zeal and ability for the
last eight years, the Department takes occasion to express to you its acknowl
edgement of your valuable services during an excited and interesting period.
" The removal of the Academy from Annapolis to Newport, which was effected
under your superintendence, and the final termination of the school at the latter
place, have been events of importance in the history of the institution, and with
them your name and services are honorably identified. In retiring from the
position which you have so long occupied with distinction, I tender to you the
respectful regard of the Department. "Very respectfully,
(Signed), "GIDEON WELLES,
"Secretary of the Navy.
"Commodore George S. Blake."
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; Inspector of Second Light
house District, 1866. Residence, Boston, Massachusetts.

COMMODORE HUGH Y. PURVIANCE *
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, November 3, 1818; frigate
Congress, 1819, '20 and '21, and Franklin, 74, 1821, '22, '23 and '24, Pacific
Squadron ; North Carolina, 74, Mediterranean Squadron, 1824, '25, '26 and '27.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; sloop Falmouth, West India
Squadron, 1828, '29 and '30; sloop Peacock, East In^ia Squadron, 1833-4. j

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rendezvous, Baltimore, 1836-7; Brazil Squadron, 1837-8, commanding brig
Dolphin and sloop Fairfield ; relieved an American schooner from the French
blockade at Salado, River Platte; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1839-40; Brandywine,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1841-2 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1843; commanding
brig Pioneer, Coast of Africa, 1843 ; frigate Constitution, Mexican blockade, 1846 .
Commissioned as Commander, March, 7, 1849; receiving-ship Consort, Balti
more, 1850-1; commanding sloop Marion, Coast of Africa, 1852, '53, '54 and '55.
Commissioned as Captain, January, 28, 1856 ; commanded frigate St. Law
rence on the blockade off Charleston and Southern Coast, 1861; sunk the Con
federate privateer Petrel off Charleston when just twelve hours out; captured
several prizes; participated in the fight of the Merrimac, gunboats and batteries
off Sewell's Point, Hampton Roads.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Light-house Inspector, 1863, '64
and '65. Received a vote of thanks of Maryland Legislature.

COMMODORE WILLIAM SMITH, *
Born in Kentucky. Appointed Midshipman from that State, March 4, 1823 ;
in the Summer of 1823, ordered to Key West, and joined the steam-galiot
Sea Gull (3 guns), an East River steamer, fitted out by Commodore Porter as
one of his anti-piratical squadron, being the first man-of-war steamer that ever
sailed from this country; she was supplied with a scalding apparatus forward,
and the pirates had great respect for its supposed wonderful powers, as they
avoided all contact with her; she was rather a dull sailer, being once 18 days
from Key West to St. Mary's Ga., when she was reported captured by the
pirates, and the crew stewed down in the boilers. The Sea Gull was repaired
at Washington, and after being seven years in the squadron, became the
receiving-ship at Philadelphia; in the Summer of 1824, Midshipman Smith
was transferred from her to the sloop John Adams ; joined Commodore Porter
in an armed expedition to the town of Foxardo, Island of Porto Rico, when
some of our officers, sent to investigate certain piratical affairs, had been seized
and confined for a day ; captured several guns at the landing and on the way
to the place, some two miles inland ; the expedition was successful, ample
apology and satisfaction being rendered; in the Summer of 1827, transferred to
the frigate Constitution, and come home in her.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 23, 1829 ; from the Fall of 1829
to Spring, 1830, in sloop Florida, surveying the Tortugas Islands ; in June, 1830,
sailed for the Mediterranean as Acting Master of the sloop Boston ; while on
this cruise received commission as Lieutenant, dated March 3, 1831; visited
Gibraltar, Malaga, Marseilles, Mahon, Leghorn, Naples, Napoli de Romania,
Athens, Smyrna, several Greek islands, Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers, Tangier,
Cadiz, Lisbon and Madeira. Left the ship in the Fall of 1832 ; in later part of
1834, ordered to schooner Boxer, bound to the Pacific ; but in consequence of
sickness, had the orders revoked.
From the Fall of 1835 to the end of 1837, attached to sloop Vandalia, co
operating with the army in carrying on the Seminole War ; on several boat
expeditions ip search of Indians on the Florida Coast; from first of 1839 to last
of 1841, in the frigate Constitution, flag-ship of Commodore Claxton ; carrying
Minister Ellis to Vera Cruz, and then proceeding to the Pacific via Havana and
Rio; visited Talcahuana, Valpariiso, Callao, Lima, Pay ta and Guayaquil; in
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until the new system of inspection of provisions and clothing commenced, when
he was appointed Inspector at Boston. Exchanged with the Inspector at
Baltimore, where he remained until the Fall of 1843 ; in the Summer of 1845,
joined the steamer Mississippi, and cruised in the Gulf until the war broke out,
when the ship was continued in service on the Mexican Coast ; took command
of a small schooner captured and fitted up for service ; after a few months, being
found unsuitable, took her to New Orleans as a prize, with orders to rejoin the
Mississippi, repairing at Norfolk. His place being filled, he joined the sloop
Germantown (Captain Buchanan), as Executive; fitted out with dispatch to
assist in capture of Vera Cruz, but the place fell two days before her arrival ;
assisted in the capture of Tuspan; transferred to the command of steamer
Vixen, and participated in second capture of Tobasco ; left her in the Fall of
1847, on leave; at Naval rendevouz, New York, from Summer of 1849 to
August, 1850, when he took command of the Vixen at Washington to carry
Commodore Charles Morris to Havana, as commissioner to settle filibuster
affairs; after the Commodore's return, cruized on the coast of Florida and
Louisiana until 1852.
Commissioned as Commander, September 12, 1854 ; from October, 1855
until April, 1858, commanding sloop Levant, East India and China Squadron,
visiting Rio, Table Bay; Hong-Kong, Canton, Amoy, Fow Chow, Ningpo,
Shanghai, Manilla and Anjer; in the Fall of 1856, during the difficulties
between the English and Chinese, at Canton, took a portion ofthe officers and crew
and joined Commander Foote for the protection of the American residents of that
city. One day, Captain Foote, leaving Captain Smith in command, proceeded
to Whampoa to see the Commodore (in the San Jacinto), and while returning, his
boat was fired into by one of the four Barrier Forts, and one man killed. The
matter being reported to the Commodore, the Portsmouth and Levant were
ordered to avenge the insult to our flag by bombarding the fort ; the Levant
grounded, but the Portsmouth kept up a fire for several hours, though without
much effect. Our forces were withdrawn from Canton to Whampoa, and return
ing to their respective ships, made preparations for more active measures. The
forts, two on each side of the main channel, were substantially built of hard
stone, mounting 160 guns, all but forty of which bore on the ships ; the latter
(Portsmouth and Levant, with parties from the flag-ship) took suitable positions
and opened fire on the principal forts ; after two hours' cannonading, the three
commanders landed in force and seized the left-bank lower fort ; next day the
firing continued, and a landing party successively took possession of the two right-
bank forts, bivouacing at night ; at daylight on the third day, the party pro
ceeded, under a heavy fire, and seized the other left-bank fort. The Chinese
would generally keep up a vigorous resistance to the last, but skedaddled just
as our people entered the works ; Captain Foote commanded. The Levant was
struck twenty-two times, and had one man killed and two wounded. Commander
' Bell proceeded to utterly destroy the forts, springing one hundred and seventy
mines and bursting many of the guns. The Levant covered the working parties
on shore from the Chinese army encamped within sight. In the correspondence
that ensued, the Canton governor averred that our flag had been mistaken by
officers from the interior for that of the English. To render them still more
familiar with the " starry flag" than they had recently become, the Levant was
sent up to Canton for a season — being the first United States man-of-war to ap
pear off that place. The hongs were soon deserted and burned, together with
some twelve hundred houses, and Captain Smith withdrew. The proceedings at
the Barrier Forts did not exactly find favor with the Administration. The Com
modore was not censured, neither was he. thanked; but the Secretary approved

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ofthe professional conduct of the officers and men ; August, 1859 to September,
1861, commanding receiving-ship at Boston; commanding frigate Congress,
blockading James River, from September, 1861 to March, 1862, when he was
detached and ordered to take passage in a steamer for the Texas blockade,
remaining on board the Congress at the invitation of Lieutenant Joseph Smith,
the Executive ; while thus situated, the ram Merrimac attacked and sank the
Cumberland and Congress, killing Smith and more than a fourth of the crew of
the latter ; in April, 1862, took command of the Wachusett and the gunboats
co-operating with McClellan before Yorktown ; when that place was evacuated,
in May, the gunboats accompanied General Franklin's transports in the move
ment up the York River to cut off the retreating rebel army ; covered the
landing and repelled a rebel attack ; rendering essential service in protecting
our army. The soldiers were enthusiastic in their commendations — one of them
exclaiming, " By G — ! every family ought to have a gunboat." ¦ Continued to
co-operate in the York and James with the army under McClellan; transferred
to the Seminole, and took her to New York for repairs ; being near the head
of the list of commanders when the higher grades were created, he was commis
sioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862, and thus was never commissioned as
Captain; commanding Pensacola Naval Station from October, 1862 to January,
1865, when he was detached on account of ill-health, and under the act of De
cember 21, 1861, placed on the retired list; since then, acted as president of
three courts martial at Mound City; in April, 1870, assumed command of the
Naval Station at Mound City. Residence, when off duty, St. Louis, Missouri.
Total sea service, twenty-one years ; shore and other duty, six years and three
months.

COMMODORE JOHN W. LIVINGSTON,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, March 4, 1823 ; sloop
Warren, Mediterranean Squadron, 1827.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 21, 1832; frigate Congress, Pacific Squad
ron, 1846-7; frigate Congress, East India Squadron, 1848; Navy Yard, New
York, 1850-1.
Commissioned as Commander, May 24, 1855; commanding sloop St. Louis,
coast of Africa, 1856, '57 and '58; commanding steamer Penguin, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; commanding Naval Station,
Norfolk, 1862-4; commanding Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1865-6;
special service, 1867.

• COMMODORE ROBERT B. HITCHCOCK,
Born In Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, January 1, 1825; schooner
Shark, West India Squadron, 1827 ; frigate Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron,
1829, '30 and '31.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; special duty, 1833-4.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1835; special duty, 1837; frigate Ohio,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1840; rendezvous, Boston, 1843; frigate Savannah,
Pacific Squadron, 1845-6; ordnance duty, 1850, '51 and '52; commanding
store-ship Relief, 1853 ; Inspector, etc, Boston, 1854-5,

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Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; ordnance duty, 1856-7;
commanding steam frigate Merrimac, Pacific Squadron, 1858, '59 and 60 ; In
spector of Ordnance, 1861. ,
Commissioned as Captain, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-sloop Sus
quehanna, Western Gulf Squadron, 1862-3.
During the greater portion of the time Commodore Hitchcock was attached to
the Western Gulf Squadron he was the senior officer of the blockading fleet off
Mobile; ordnance duty, 1864-5; Commandant Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1866.

COMMODORE TIMOTHY A. HUNT,
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, February 1, 1825 ; sloop
Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1827 ; sloop Warren, Mediterranean Squadron;
1829 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1830.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; frigate Delaware, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1833-4.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 17, 1 836 ; receiving-ship, Boston,
1840 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1843; frigate Brandywine, East India Squad
ron, 1845; commanding ordnance-transport Electra, 1847-8; Navy Yard, Bos
ton, 1850; frigate Columbia, Home Squadron, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; ordnance duty, 1856, '57,
'58 and '59 ; commanding steam-sloop Narragansett, Pacific Squadron, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862.
Commissioned as Commodore, January 2, 1863; ordnance duty, Boston, 1862-7;
special duty, New London, Connecticut, 1869.

COMMODORE JOHN M. BERRIEN,
Born in Georgia. Appointed from same State, March 1, 1825 ; frigate Con
stellation, West India Squadron, 1827; frigate Guerriere, Pacific Squadron,
1829 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1830. '
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831; schooner Shark, West India
Squadron, 1833-4.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1837;
recruiting service, Norfolk, 1840 ; sloop Dale, Pacific Squadron, 1843 ; frigate
Potomac, Home Squadron, 1845 ; steamer Scorpion, Home Squadron, 1847-8;
receiving-ship, Boston, 1850 ; frigate Savannah, Brazil Squadron, 1854-6.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; Navy Yard, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1858-60 ; commanding sloop John Adams, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; ordnance duty, Pittsburg, 1862-4;
commanding Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1865; Light-house Inspector, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Commodore, September 26, 1866.

COMMODORE JAMES P. McKINSTRY,
Born in New York, February 9, 1803. Appointed from Miohigan, February
1, 1826; Navy Yard, Boston, 1827 ; sloop Warren, Mediterranean Squadron,
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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832 ; Navy Yard, New York,
1833-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837 ; sloop Concord, West India
Squadron, 1837; schooner Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1840; sloop Falmouth,
Home Squadron, 1843; steamer Michigan, on the Lakes, 1845-6; sloop St.
Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1847; rendezvous, Boston, 1850; commanding mail
steamer Georgia, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; Light-house Inspector,
1858-9; commanding steam-sloop Dakotah, Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-sloop Monon
gahela, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron ; present at Port Hudson and
Vicksburg, 1863.
While in command of the Monongahela, operating on the Mississippi, Cap
tain McKinstry was wounded, and during the remainder of the war was com
pelled to remain inactive; commanding receiving-ship, New York, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 25, 1866 ; at present, Commandant
Naval Station, Sackett's Harbor, New York.

COMMODORE A. H. KILTY *
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, July 4, 1821 ; first cruise,
Franklin, 74, Commodore Stewart, Pacific, 1821, '22, '23 and '24 ; store-ship,
Decoy, West Indies, sloop John Adams, Pensacola Station, frigate Constellation,
1825, '26 and '27 ; Brazil Station, frigate Hudson, sloop Boston, 1828-9 ; sur
veying coast of Louisiana, 1830-1.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832 ; schooner Grampus, West
Indies, 1832, '33 and '34 ; receiving-ship, Sea Gull, Philadelphia, 1835-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 6, 1837 ; sloop John Adams, East
India Squadron, 1838, '39 and '40 ; present at the attack on Qualla Battoo and
Muckie, by Commodore Reid; Columbus, 74, Mediterranean and Brazil, 1843-4;
frigate United States, coast of Africa and Mediterranean, 1846, '47, '48 and '49;
rendezvous, Baltimore, 1851-2 ; receiving-ship, North Carolina, New York,
1854-5. Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding rendezvous,
Baltimore, 1860; ordered to St. Louis, 1861, to aid in organizing Naval flotilla
under Foote — took command of gunboat Mound City, and was engaged at Island
No. 10 and Fort Pillow. The Mound City, being sunk in the latter engage
ment, she was raised, repaired at Mound city, and rejoined the flotilla.
In June, 1862, was placed in command of an expedition to White River,
Arkansas ; on the 17th, attacked Fort St. Charles, about one hundred miles
from the mouth of the" river, and with the aid of a military force under Colonel
Fitch, took it; but near the close ofthe action a shot entered the steam drum
of the Mound City, and the escape of steam caused the death of more than a
hundred officers and men — the commanding-officer receiving a severe scald,
which caused the loss of his left arm.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; ordnance duty, Baltimore, 1863 ;
command of iron-clad, frigate Roanoke, North Atlantic Squadron, .and receiving-
ship, Vermont, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Commodore, Jijjy 25, 1866; cgmm^nd of Norfolk Navy
Yard, 1867, '68, '69 and '7Q, ' '

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COMMODORE CICERO PRICE *
Born in Kentucky. Appointed Midshipman from that State, February 1,
1826; frigate Macedonian, Brazil, 1826, '27 and 2,8; sloop Erie and Shark,
West Indies, parts of 1829, '30 and '31.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832 ; brig Boxer, 1834, '35,
'36 and '37, and North Carolina, 1837-8, Pacific 'Squadron.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 6, 1837 ; steamer Fulton, Atlantic
Coast, 1840 ; in Delaware, 74, Brazil and Mediterranean, 1841, '42, '43 and part
of '44; receiving-ship, at New York, 1845; sloop Marion, coast of Africa,
1846; sloop Marion, Mediterranean, 1847-8; Navy Yard, Memphis, 1850;
Pacific Squadron, 1851 ; ordnance duty, 1853 ; receiving-ship at Norfolk, 1854.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; First Lieutenant of
sloop Constellation, Mediterranean, parts of 1855-6 ; commanding steamer
Huntsville, Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862 ; commanding slooop Jamestown,
East Indies, 1862, '63, '64 and 65.
Commissioned as Commodore, September 28, 1866. Total sea service, twenty-
one years and one month ; shore or other duty, six years and one month. Eesi-
dence, Troy, New York.

COMMODORE SIMON B. BISSELL,
Born in Vermont, October 28. Appointed Midshipman from New Hampshire,
November 6, 1824; sloop-of-war Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1826-9; Pensa
cola Navy Yard, 1830.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; frigate United States, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1833-4; frigate Delaware, same squadron, 1835-6; re
ceiving-ship at Boston, 1837.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1837 ; steamship Fulton, Atlantic
Coast, 1840 ; steamer Missouri, Home Squadron, 1843 ; sloop Albany, Home
Squadron, during the war with Mexico; present at the siege of Vera Cruz;
stationed at the Naval Battery; unemployed from 1848-58.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; commanding receiving-
ship, Mare Island, California, 1860 ; commanding sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron,
1861-2. Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Califor
nia, 1863-4.
Commissioned as Commodore, October 10, 1866; commanding sloop-of-war
Monongahela, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; special service, 1869.

COMMODORE JOHN R. GOLDSBOROUGH*
Born July 2, 1809, in Washington, District of Columbia. Appointed Midship
man from District of Columbia, November 6, 1824; previous to which was a
Cadet Midshipman on board the flag-ship John Adams, bearing the broad pen
nant of Commodore David D. Porter, West India Squadron ; attached to the
ship-of-the-line North Carolina, and sloop Warren, Mediterranean Squadron,
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in several important operations against the Greek pirates ; bombarded the town
of Miconi, and at one time, when in command of the launch of the Warren with
eighteen men, engaged, and after a short and spirited engagement, captured the
Greek armed piratical schooner Helene, of four guns, and fifty-eight men ; re
ceived the thanks of Captain Kearney, for the handsome manner, in which this
service was performed.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832 ; sloops Ontario, Natchez,
Erie and schooner Boxer, on the Brazil Station, 1834-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 6, 1837 ; frigate Columbia, Home
Squadron, 1840'; ship-of-the-line Columbus, Mediterranean, 1841; frigate Col
umbia, Brazil Squadron, 1842-3 ; Coast Survey, 1844-50 ; sloop Saratoga, East
India and Japan Squadron, from June, 1850 until September, 1854.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding Naval Ren
dezvous, Philadelphia, 1855-9 ; waiting orders, 1860 ; commanding steamer
Union, blockading off Charleston, Savannah and Cape Hatteras, and in Potomac
Flotilla, 1861 ; captured and sunk the rebel piratical schooner York, and bom
barded a rebel Fort off Mathias Point, Potomac River.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer Florida, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; at the capture ofthe city and forts around
Fernandina ; commanding steam frigate Colorado, Western Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1863; ordnance duty, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1864-5; com
manding steam-sloop Shenandoah and Hartford, East India, China and Japan
Squadron, 1865-8, and part of that time in command of the Asiatic Squadron.
Commissioned as Commodore, April 13, 1867 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, 1868-9 ; at present in command of the Navy Yard, Mare Island,
California.

Retired under fourth section of the Act of April 21, 1864.

COMMODORE JOHN P. GILLIS,*
Born in Wilmington, Delaware — a resident of, and appointed Midshipman,
from Illinois, December 12, 1825 ; was at Navy Yard, New York, for eight
months; first cruise to the Pacific, in frigate Brandywine, 1826-9, inclusive;
visiting Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Guayaquil, Panama, Payta, Pisco, Callao, and
home viaRio, to New York; at Navy Yard, New York, eight months, in 1830-1.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 1831, Norfolk, then served ten
months at Pensacola Navy Yard, and commanding schooner Albion ; joined the
Delaware, 74, Norfolk, February, 1833 ; touched at New York for Minister
Livingston — landed him at Cherbourg, France ; thence to Gibraltar and Mahon,
where Commodore Patterson made the Delaware his flag-ship ; went to Toulon,
France, and became Acting Master (or Navigator) of the frigate Constellation
— in her visited Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Messina, Malta, Tripoli, Tunis, Mahon
and Gibraltar ; thence to Norfolk, November, 1834 ; Executive-Officer of
receiving-ship, Sea Gull, Philadelphia, 1835-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837; sailed in United States S.
Falmouth, from Norfolk, Virginia, for Pacific Station, June, 1837 ; touched at
Rio, entered the Straits of Magellan, and after passing through first narrows,
lost both bower anchors on the ripples, put back and doubled Cape Horn ;
visited several times Valparaiso, Islay and Callao, where he was transferred to

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North Carolina, 74, and when she left for home, was ordered to the Lexington ;
in her as Executive-Officer, visited several times Lambeyegue, Juan-Ohaco,
Payta, Puna, Guayaquil, Conception, Coquimbo and Valparaiso; thence via
Rio, June, 1840, to Norfolk, Virginia.
In the Spring of 1842, he joined frigate Congress, Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, for the Mediterranean Squadron; visited Madeira, Gibraltar, Morocco,
Mahon, Spezzia, Genoa, and back to Mahon, where he was ordered as First
Lieutenant (or Executive-Officer) of the sloop-of-war Preble ; in her, visited
Tunis, Tripoli, Mahon, Barcelona, Alicant, Malaga, Gibraltar and Tangier, and
returned to Boston, September, 1843; in 1843, served a few months in frigate
Raritan ; in 1844, took passage in frigate Constitution and rejoined frigate Con
gress,. Brazil Station; visited Rio, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres, and returned
in her to United States in 1845 ; in 1845, sent as bearer of dispatches to Pacific
Squadron — to Chagres in the Flirt, and from Panama to Mazatlan, via Aca
pulco in sloop Warren ; thence returned in 1846, to United States, via Valpa
raiso and Rio de Janeiro, in frigate Constitution, and bearer of dispatches from
our Minister in Brazil, during the Mexican War; in February, 1847, he went out
as First Lieutenant of United States S. Decatur, which joined the Gulf Squad
ron under Commodore Perry — he had charge of the Decatur's boats in the
capture of the forts and town of Tuspan ; ordered to the command of the
schooner Tampico, and the flotilla on the Alvarado River, and acted as Governor
and Collector of Alvarado and Tlacotalpam ; in the Fall, he returned home
under medical survey, after a severe attack of yellow fever. Commendatory
letters were sent him from Commodore Perry and the Secretary of the Navy.
During 1848-49, he was Executive-Officer of the Naval Asylum at Philadelphia.
In April, 1851, ordered to the United States S. Plymouth, as First Lieu
tenant ; in' her visited Madeira, Rio, Batavia, Singapore, Hong-Kong, Macao,
Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, Manilla, Formosa, Shanghse and Fu-chau-fu, where, in
behalf of the missionaries, he went up the Min River, and had an interview with
the Governor of the Province, containing a population of twelve millions; in
Commodore Perry's Japan Expedition, 1853-4; visited the Loochoo Islands,
Yeddo Bay, Uraga, etc. '
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding rendezvous,
Philadelphia, 1859-60 ; in 1861, ordered to assume command of steam-sloop
Pocahontas, and in April following, arrived (owing to stress of weather) at
Charleston bar only an hour before the surrender of Fort Sumpter ; visited the
fort and tendered Major Anderson and his gallant band transportation, and with
other vessels, returned to New York ; thence proceeded at once to the Potomac
River, where he was employed guarding the river, and convoyed about three
thousand troops to Washington, while the usual railroad route was obstructed;
in June, 1861, he assumed command ofthe steamer Monticello, and after being
on picket duty for a time, above Newport News, on James River, took part in
the Hatteras Inlet fight, where he landed the troops, and voluntarily endeavored
to cross the bar to get in rear of the enemy's forts, vessel touching ground at
times ; and, when near them, and about turning on account of shoal water,
received their concentrated fire for some time, which was replied to briskly and
effectively by Monticello — the other vessels lying off in deep water joining in.
Monticello was worked out by backing and filling with the engine, injured only
by the shot of the enemy, who did not reply to our last three guns; was
signaled by flag-officer Stringham to come within hail, and complimented by
him from the deck of flag-ship ; returned to James River and resumed picket
guard ; sent to Philadelphia to repair damages — while there, ordered to com
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down the river to join the Port Royal Expedition, was opened upon with heavy
fire from three forts at Shipping Point — returned it briskly and personally, as
also at Hatteras Inlet, planted some shot in the enemy's works ; mizzen-mast
shot away, and received several shot in hull.
At Port Royal, after circling round with the fleet, between Hilton Head and
Bay-Point Forts,, near the close of the action, the Seminole ran in and took an
enfilading position, with two gunboats, raking Fort Walker, receiving its fire, and
with our pivot-gun knocked over two of their guns (referred to in General Dray
ton's Report). The enemy soon left his works, and hurriedly fled. The Semi
nole, off Tybes, got under way to receive Commodore Tatnall and three armed
steamers, with heavy guns mounted on rafts alongside ; but they did not come
within range, and returned up the river. She was with the Fernandina Expe
dition, and for some time blockaded, and kept in port, the Fingal, in Wilming
ton River, Georgia, and destroyed the Skiddaway batteries which protected her;
captured a blockade-runner off the coast — returning to Hampton Roads, was
constantly on picket duty, while the Merrimac was hourly expected to attack.
In the attack on SeWell's Point, May, 1862, the Seminole took a leading part,
and opened fire some time before the arrival of the other vessels, closing in as
near as depth of water would permit — was the only vessel struck ; shot away
Confederate flag and staff twice, and fired his works ; next day Norfolk was
reoccupied by the Union forces. Commodore Gillis was ordered to the steam-
sloop Wachusett, and to the command of the flotilla on the upper James River
until June 29, 1862.
Commissioned as Captain, 16th July, 1862 ; in October, 1862, took com
mand of the United States S. Ossipee, intended to be sent in search of the Ala
bama, but defects in engine prevented, underwent repairs at Washington ; went
to Newport News, and after a trip to blockade off Wilmington, North Carolina,
was sent to the West Gulf Squadron, Admiral Farragut. Captain Gillis was
given command of division off Mobile; during his stay, captures amounting to
over six hundred thousand dollars were made ; he was transferred to the com
mand of Second Division, off the coast of Texas — many prizes were taken during
this time, and the Harriet Lane kept in port. He came North in 1864, under
medical survey, sickness contracted in the time of duty, which prevented the
Captain taking an active part at sea in the last year of the war ; he was ordered
for physical examination only, before a Medical Board, and was placed on
retired list, under the Fourth Section of Act of Congress, 21st April, 1864.
He was senior-officer of a Board of Investigation, and in command of receiving-
ship, North Carolina, in 1864; Captain and Executive-Officer, Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, November, 1864, to August 1865, and member of General Court-
Martial at Philadelphia, from September, 1865, to June 28, 1866.
Commissioned as Commodore, September, 1867 ; was President of Court of
Inquiry, Philadelphia, April and May, 1867, and member of Examining Board
for promotion of officers, in March, 1868 ; Light-house Inspector of the fourth
Light-house District, 1870.
Total sea service to 1870, 17 years, 10 months and 21 days ; shore duty, 9
years, 5 months. Present residence, Wilmington, Delaware.

COMMODORE JOHN DE CAMP,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Florida, October 1, 1827; sloop
Vandalia, Brazil Squadron, 1829-30.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833; frigate Constellation, West
India Squadron, 1837.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 28, 1838; sloop Peacock, Brazil
Squadron, 1840 ; sloop Boston, Brazil Squadron, 1845-6; sloop Falmouth, Pacific
Squadron, 1850 ; frigate Constitution, coast of Africa, 1854.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; Navy Yard, New York,
1855; Light-house Inspector, 1858-60; commanding store-ship Relief, 1861;
commanding steam-sloop Iroquis, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Commanded the Iroquis at the attack upon and passage of Forts Jackson and
St. Philip, capture of New Orleans, and at the various battles on the Mississippi,
to and including Vicksburg.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862; commanding frigate Wabash,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4.
Commissioned as Commodore, September 28, 1866 ; commanding store-ship
Potomac, Pensacola, Florida, 1866-7; commanding receiving-ship Potomac,
Philadelphia, 1868-9.

Retired under the Act of February 28, 1855.

COMMODORE WILLIAM K. LATIMER,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, November 15, 1809.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, Eebruary 4, 1815 ; commanding schooner
Grampus, West India Squadron, 1827-30 ; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1833.
Commissioned as Master Commandant, March 2, 1833; Navy Yard, Pensacola,
1837 ; commanding steamer Poinsett, 1840.
Commissioned as Captain, July 17, 1843 ; Commandant Navy Yard, Pensacola,
1846-8; commanding frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1850-1;
special duty, 1853.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE CHARLES BOARMAN*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from District of Columbia, June 9, 1811 ; or
dered to attend the Naval School at the Navy Yard, Washington, then ordered
to the sloop Erie, at Baltimore; attaohed to brig Jefferson, Lake Ontario, dur
ing the war of 1812; sloop Erie, Mediterranean Squadron, 1814-17.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 15, 1817; Navy Yard Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia, 1817; sloop Peacock, West India Squadron; commanding
schooner Weazel, West India Squadron, 1827-8 ; frigate Java, flag-ship Medi
terranean Squadron, 1828; frigate Delaware, flag-ship Mediterranean Squadron,
1829; Executive-Officer of flag-ship Hudson, Brazil Squadron; commanding
sloop Vandalia, Brazil Squadron; schooner Grampus, West India Squadron.
Commissioned as Commander, February 9, 1837; commanding sloop Fair
field, Brazil Squadron, 1840.
Commissioned as Captain, March 29, 1844; commanding frigate Brandywine,
flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1844-50 ; commanding Navy Yard and Station, New
York, from October 1, 1852 to October 1, 1855; special service, 1861-5.
Commissioned as Commodore, March 12, 1867.

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COMMODORE WILLIAM JAMESSON,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from District of Columbia, September 1, 1811.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 5, 1817 ; rendezvous, Norfolk, 1829-30 ;
sloop Boston, 1833-4 ; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1837.
Commissioned as Commander, February 9, 1837.
Commissioned as Captain, June 4, 1844; commanding frigate Cumberland
Home Squadron, 1847-8; commanding razee Independence, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1851-2.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE JOHN H. GRAHAM,
Born in Vermont. Appointed from New York, June 18, 1812.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, March 5, 1817.
Commissioned as Commander, February 28, 1828.
Commissioned as Captain, March 7, 1849.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE JOHN J. YOUNG,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, January 1, 1812.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 28, 1820; sloop Hornet, West India
Squadron, 1829 ; Superintendent Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1833-40.
Commissioned as Commander, April, 5, 1840.
Commissioned as Captain, August 12, 1854.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE FRANK ELLERY *
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, January 1, 1812; served
on board of the frigate President during all her cruises ; was wounded in the
action with the Belvidere ; his services on Lake Champlain received favorable
notice from the Government, accompanied by a sword, and again on board the
frigate Constellation, in the Mediterranean, 1815, in action with, and capture of,
an Algerine frigate ; served on the Constellation two years ; participated in the
capture of a Turkish flag-ship ; frigate Java, Commodore 0. H. Perry, Mediter
ranean Squadron; frigate Independence, Commodore Bainbridge; Enterprise,
Captain Kearney; surveying coast and clearing out the patriots from Amelia
Island; Florida; ordered from Amelia Island to co-operate with General Jackson;
captured a Patriot privateer, and her prize, a slaver; was left alone in charge and
brought both vessels into port; were afterward sent to Savannah and condemned;
in the Enterprise reached Pensacola the day General Jackson took possession of
that city; at this time was promoted to an Acting IAeutenant, by Commander
Patterson; confirmed by Secretary ofthe Navy; passed examination, 1819.
Commissioned as' IAeutenant, March 28, 1820 ; Newport Station, 1820-2 ;
schooner Nonsuch and frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1822-5 >

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sloop Cyane, Brazil Squadron, 1825-7 ; rendezvous, Boston, 1828-32;  Erie,
schooner Shark, West India Squadron, 1833-5 ; frigate Constitution, on the
occasion of the bringing the American minister, Mr. Livingston, home from
France, by order of President Jackson; rendezvous, New York, 1836-9; com
manding steamer Enterprise, 1840 ; retired in 1840.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE EDWARD W. CARPENDER*
Born in New York. Appointed from same State, July 10, 1813.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 13, 1825 ; Mediterranean Squadron,
1827 ; sloop Falmouth, West India Squadron, 1829-30 ; rendezvous, Boston,
1833-4 ; frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1840.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk,
1845 ; Inspector, etc., New York Navy Yard, 1852.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; Prize Commissioner, Key
West, Florida, 1864-5. Total sea service 17 years, 2 months; shore or other*
duty, 13 years, 4 months. Residence, Shrewsbury, New Jersey.

COMMODORE HENRY BRUCE,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, November 9, 1813.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, January 13, 1825 ; receiving-ship Boston, 1827;
frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1837 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1840.
Commissioned as Commander, September 8, 1841 ; commanding brig Trux-
ton, coast of Africa, 1845; commanding rendezvous, Boston, 1848-50.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

, COMMODORE OSCAR BULLUS*
Born in the District of Columbia. Appointed from New York, January 1,
1817 ; ordered to sloop Ontario, May 1, 1817 ; was one of the party of officers
and men appointed to escort President Monroe to sea in the steamer Fulton, the
first built for the navy by Commodore David Porter; October, 1817, proceeded
to sea in Ontario, Captain Biddle ; went to the northwest coast of this conti
nent and took possession of the country lying at the mouth ofthe Columbia River;
subsequently engaged in endeavoring to mitigate the ferocity of the civil war
then raging between Spain and her South American Provinces, and very nearly
came in hostile contact with Lord Cochran who commanded the Chilian navy;
in August, 1819, returned to the United States ; December, 1819 to June, 1821,
in the Columbus, 74, and sloop Ontario, in the Mediterranean ; in the latter
vessel, in June, 1821, he received an injury by a fall while aloft, in a heavy gale
of wind, in consequence of which he was invalided and sent home. This hurt
produced a disability from which he still suffers, and which caused his retire
ment from the active list in September, 1855 ; from 1822 to 1826, on duty in
the Washington, 74, and Navy Yard, New York.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827 ; in 1828, Navy Yard, New York
and Natchez.
In 1830, commissioned pro tem. as Captain of revenue schooner Rush, in
which he remained until 1832; receiving-ship Franklin, New York, 1832-3;
sloop-of-war St. Louis, 1834; in11834-5, Navy Yard, Boston; frigate Constitu
tion, 1835-8; visited all the ports of the Mediterranean, including the coast of
Syria, Constantinople and Alexandria; from 1840 to 1841, on special duty,
Sandy Hook and steamer Fulton; commanding brig Boxer, Home Squadron,
1842, '43 and '44; Naval rendezvous, New York, 1844-6; Commander and
Purser of store-ship Relief, June, 1846 to October, 1847, Mexican War.
Commissioned as Commander, May 16, 1848 ; commanding steamer Michigan,
on the lakes, 1849-51. The only incident of interest being the arrest of Strang,
the Mormon chief, and his chief officials, at Beaver Island, for depredations on
the public property and stopping the mails ; in September, 1855, he was retired
on the leave pay of his grade for disability received in the line of duty. Presi
dent Lincoln kindly took his case into consideration, and, with the concurrence
of the Secretary of the Navy, he was commissioned as Captain, July 11, 1861 ;
July, 1861 to October, 1865, commanding rendezvous, New York, and on special
duty in the West, connected with the recruiting service.
On March 3, 1867, commissioned as Commodore, taking rank from July 16,
1862 ; in charge of Nitre Depot, at Maiden, Massachusetts.

COMMODORE CHARLES H. JACKSON,
Born in Georgia. Appointed from Georgia, March 4, 1818.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 3, 1827; Coast Survey, 1827; receiving-
ship, Philadelphia, 1830-2; schooner Shark, West India Squadron, 1833-4;
brig Boxer, Pacific Squadron, 1837 ; rendezvous, Boston, 1845 ; special duty,
Boston, 1847.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1848.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE JONATHAN W. SWIFT,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from North Carolina, August 25, 1823;
went to Mediterranean in 1824, and returned in 1826 ; went to the Pacific in
frigate Brandywine, in 1826; returned in 1829; examined in 1820, and pro
moted in 1831.
Commissioned a Lieutenant, March 3, 1861 ; went to the Mediterranean in
1831, and returned in 1832; steamship Fulton, Atlantic Coast, 1840; special
service, 1850-5.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862. Residence, Geneva, N. Y.*

COMMODORE JAMES M. WATSON,
Born in Virginia. 'Appointed from Virginia, February 1, 1823; sloop Peacock,,
Pacific Squadron, 1827.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 23, 1829; Mediterranean Squadron,
1830. Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 30, 1831 ; Brazil Squadron, 1834-6;
frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1837 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1840; frigate Columbus, Mediterranean Squadron, 1843; Pacific Squadron,
1846; store-ship Erie, Pacific Squadron, 1847-8; Navy Yard, Pensacola,
1851-2; steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Commander, February 1, 1861; Light-house ' Inspector,
1863-6. Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE JUNIUS J. BOYLE,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from District of Columbia, August 27, 1823;
sloop Peacock, Pacific Squadron, 1827.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 23, 1829; Mediterranean Squadron,
1830. Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 21, 1832; frigate Delaware, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1834-6; frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1843$ Naval
Storekeeper, Port Mahon, 1845-6; schooner Bonito, Home Squadron, 1848;
store-ship Southampton, 1851, '53, '54 and 55.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862.

COMMODORE PETER TURNER,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, March 4, 1823; sloop
Cyane, Brazil Squadron, 1827.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, March 23, 1829.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 21, 1832; receiving-ship Boston, 1833-4;
schooner Boxqr, Pacific Squadron, 1837; frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron,
1840; frigate Raritan, Brazil Squadron, 1845-6; special duty, Navy Yard, Ports
mouth, 1847-50; commanding store-ship Southampton, 1852.
Commissioned as Commander, July 1, 1861.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia,
1863-5.

CAPTAIN STEPHEN DECATUR,*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed Midshipman from New Hampshire, March
17, 1829 ; frigate Constellation, Mediterranean, from June, 1829 to December,
1832; at school, 1832 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific Ocean, from April, 1833 to
February, 1835 ; Naval School, New York, from February to May, 1835.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 3, 1835 ; receiving-ship Columbus,
Boston, from February to March, 1836; Navy Yard, Boston, from March, 1836
to March 1838; sloop Levant and frigate Constellation, West India Squadron,
from March to May, 1838; Acting Master in the Constellation, at sea, from
May to September, 1838; Acting' Lieutenant, sloop Vandalia, West India
Squadron, from September to December, 1838 ; Master and Acting Lieutenant

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on the sloop Natchez:, West India Squadron, from December, 1838 to September
1839. *
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1840 ; sloop Levant and sloop
Warren, West India Squadron, from February, 1840 to September, 1841, when
he was transferred to the Naval Hospital at Chelsea. While attached to the
sloop Warren, and] engaged in an open boat, relieving a stranded English ship
near Pensacola, Lieutenant Decatur had a stroke of the sun, which produced a
long illness, resulting in blindness ; retired in 1857.
Commissioned as Commander, July 20, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

Retired under twenty-third section of Act of August 3, 1816.

COMMODORE THOMPSON DARRAH SHAW,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 20, 1820 ; served
in United States sloop John Adams, on the coast of Africa and West Indies,
July, 1820 to January 1821 ; in frigate Constitution, in the Mediterranean
Squadron, from March, 1821 to June, 1824 ; Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1825 ;
frigate Macedonian in the Brazilg Squadron, from April 26th to December, 1828.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 17, 1828 ; United States schooner Shark,
West Indies, 1831-2; sloop Lexington, on Brazil Squadron, 1833^L; frigate
Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1839, '40 and '41; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1843;
commanded brig Pioneer, Brazil Squadron, 1843^; rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1846; commanded armed schooner, Petrel, 1846-7, Mexican War.
Commissioned as Commander, August 7, 1850 ; commanding rendezvous,
Philadelphia, 1852-4 ; commanded sloop Falmouth, Home Squadron, 1854-5 ;
commanded steamer Montgomery, in Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; on
special duty at Philadelphia, New York and Boston, 1863, '64, '65, '66 and '67.
Commissioned Commodore, March 7, 1867.

COMMODORE EDWARD R. THOMSON*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Midshipman from New Jersey, December
1, 1826; sloop Natchez, West Indies, 1827-8; sloop Ontario, Mediterranean,
1829, '30 and '31.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 8, 1837; razee Independence, Brazil
Squadron, 1837-8; sloop John Adams, East India Squadron, 1839^0 ; special
service, 1843; steamer Princeton, 1844-5; brig Porpoise and frigate Potomac,
Gulf of Mexico (during the war), 1846-7; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1848-9;
sloop Germantown and brig Porpoise, coast of Africa, 1851-2; rendezvous,
Philadelphia, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; brig Dolphin, coast of
Africa, 1856-7 ; ordnance duty, Philadelphia, 1858, '59 and '60 ; commanding
steamer Seminole, 1860-1 ; rendezvous, New York, 1862, '63 and '64; rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1865.

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Commissioned as Commodore, 1867; special duty, New York, 1866-7; Light
house duty, New Orleans, 1868 ; resident of New Jersey.

COMMODORE ROBERT HANDY,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, February 1, 1826 ;
sloop Adams, West India Squadron, 1827 ; frigate Hudson, Brazil Squadron,
1829-30. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific
Squadron, 1832-5. .
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 8, 1837 ; frigate Brandywine, Pacific
Squadron, 1837 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1840 ; sloop Levant, Pacific Squadron,'
1845-6; receiving-ship, Boston, 1847-8; Navy Yard, Boston, 1850.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, i855; Light-house Inspector,
1858-9; commanding rendezvous, Boston, 1860; commanding sloop Dale, Pacific
Squadron, 1862-5.
Commissioned as Commodore, September 28, 1866.

COMMODORE CHARLES GREEN,*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, May 1, 1826; receiving-
ship Independence, Boston, 1826 ; sloop Erie, West India Squadron, 1827-8 ;
sloop Peacock, West Indies, 1829-31.
, Promoted to Passed Midshipman, April 28, 1832 ; New York Station, 1831^;
frigate Brandywine, Pacific Squadron, 1834-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 8, 1837 ; sloop Levant, West Indies,
1838; receiving-ship at New York, 1839-40; sloop Falmouth, Home Squad
ron, 1841-3 ; steamer Union, Norfolk, 1847 ; steamer Michigan, lakes, 1848-50;
steamer Fulton, 1852 ; receiving-ship Ohio, Boston, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; New York Navy Yard,
1857-8; Light-house Inspector, Buffalo, 1858-61.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862; commanding Jamestown, 1861-2;
on blockade off Savannah, Fernandina, Wilmington, North Carolina; captured
and sent into port or destroyed six prizes; sent the boats and destroyed the bark
Alvarado, under guns of fort at Fernandina ; commanding receiving-ship Ohio,
Boston, 1863-5; Light-house Inspector, Ninth District, New Orleans, 1865-7.
Commissioned as Commodore, March 12, 1867.

Retired under first section of Act of April 21, 1864.

COMMODORE FRANCIS B. ELLISON,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, May 28, 1819.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 17, 1828; schooner Porpoise, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1827-9; receiving-ship New York, 1833,-4; Navy Yard,

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1837 ; frigate Brandywine, 1840 ; store-ship Lexington, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1845; Navy Yard, New York, 1847-8.
Commissioned as Commander, May 29, 1850; Inspector, etc., New York,
1853-4 ; commanding sloop Jamestown, coast of Africa, 1855.
Commissioned as Captain, March 2, 1857.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862 ; Light-house Inspector, 1866-8.

COMMODORE SAMUEL LOCKWOOD*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed Midshipman from New York, July 12,
1820 ; served in the West Indies, four years and nine months; on board of the
sloop Hornet, from March, 1821, two years, two months ; frigate Congress, six
months, 1823 ; in 1825, seven months in frigate Constellation, where he had
the yellow fever; sailed from Boston, 1826, in sloop Warren for the Mediter
ranean, where she was actively engaged in ferreting out Greek pirates, for one
year and three months ; ordered to the frigate Constitution, to return to the
United States for examination — three months attached to her.
Promoted as Lieutenant, in 1828 ; served on the J3razil Station, on board the
frigate Hudson and sloop Vandalia, 1831-2, one year, six months ; sloop Fair
field, Pacific Station, two years, ten months, 1834, '35 and '36; receiving-ship,
Hudson, New York, ten months, 1836-7 ; frigate Macedonian, ten months,
1837-8 ; Commodore Jones' Exploring Expedition, sloop Cyane (First Lieu
tenant), Mediterranean, 1838-9, one year, six months; Ohio, Commodore Hull,
1839, '40 and '41, one year, eight months ; rendezvous, Boston, 1843-4 ; Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1845-6 ; frigate Potomac (First Lieuten
ant), Home Squadron, 1846-7 ; blockading Vera Cruz, in command of steamers
Petrel and Scourge, 1847-8; assisted in the capture of Vera Cruz, Tuspan,
Tobasco, and blockaded Tobasco River for six months.
Commissioned as Commander, 1850; rendezvous, Boston, 1853/54 and '55;
commanding sloop Cyane, Paciflc Station, 1858, '59 and' '60, two years, three
months ; commanding steamer Daylight, one year, four months, North Atlantic
Squadron, 1861-2, during the rebellion ; blockaded during that time, Wilming
ton, and Beaufort, North Carolina, York River and Newport News, and off Cape
Henry, Virginia ; while at the latter station, had an engagement with a shore
battery, at Lynnhaven Bay — succeeded in silencing the rebel battery, and
rescued a Baltimore ship ; while blockading Beaufort, North Carolina, Com
mander Lockwood commanding the flotilla stationed there, assisted with a
portion of the army, in the capture of Fort Macon, and the terms of surrender
were signed, on the part ofthe United States, by General Parks and Comman
der Lockwood; and on the part of the rebels, by Colonel White, their Com
mander. Commissioned as Commodore, in 1867, to rank with those of his original
date ; on special duty, Philadelphia, 1864-5.

COMMODORE JOHN COLHOUN*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Midshipman from that State, January 25,
1821; in .sloop Cyane, West Indies and coast of Africa, June 22 to October,
1823; frigate United States, Pacific Squadron, December, 1823 to May, 1827.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 27, 1828 ; frigate Hudson, Brazil, as
Passed Midshipman, Acting Master and Acting Lieutenant, June, 1828 to
July, 1830.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 27, 1830 ; receiving- vessel, Seagull, Phil
adelphia, and receiving-ship, Franklin, New York, April, 1831 to November
1831; schooner Grampus and sloop Vandalia, West Indies, November, 1831 to
September, 1833 ; frigate Constitution, Mediterranean, July, 1835 to October
1837; schooner Shark, same station, October, 1837 to March, 1838; receiving-
ship, North Carolina, New York, October, 1839 to January, 1840 ; sloop Fal
mouth, coast of the United States, November, 1841 to July, 1843 ; Navy Yard
New York, 1845-6 ; store-ship Supply, at Vera Cruz, during Mexican War
1846-7. '
Commissioned as Commander, November 4, 1852; commanding receiving-
ship at New York, 1855; commanding sloop Portsmouth, coast of Africa,
1859, '60 and '61, two years and seven months ; commanding frigate St. Law
rence, 1863, for four months, bringing her home from Key West ; commanding
receiving-ship at Philadelphia, 1864-5 ; Light-house Inspector, Eighth District
1866-7. _
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862. Total sea service (1870), 16
years and 9 months ; shore and other duty, 7 years and 7 months. Residence,
Philadelphia.

COMMODORE BENJAMIN J. TOTTEN,
Born in West Indies. Appointed from New York, March 4, 1823; Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1827.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, February 25, 1830; schooner Dolphin,
Pacific Squadron, 1830—4.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 29, 1834; schooner Shark, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1837; sloop Decatur, 1845; rendezvous, Boston, 1847 ; store-
ship Relief, Mediterranean Squadron, 1850-1 ; rendezvous, Boston, 1852, '53
and '54.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding sloop Vin
cennes, coast of Africa, 1858, '59 and '60; commanding store-ship Brandywine,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned- as Commodore, July 16, 1862; commanding naval rendezvous,
New Bedford, 1864-5; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1866-8.

COMMODORE J. C. CARTER*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Kentucky, January 1, 1825 ; joined United •
States brig Spark, March, 1825; sloop Lexington, 1827; line-of-battle-ship Dela
ware, Mediterranean Squadron, 1829-30.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831 ; joined frigate Potomac,
1832 ; joined sloop John Adams, 1833 ; joined schooner Shark, Mediterranean,
1834, as Acting Lieutenant; joined Delaware, 74, and returned to the United
States, 1836.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837 ; served in sloop-of-war Levant
and frigate Macedonian, West India Squadron, 1838, '39 and '40 ; steamer
Fulton, 1841-2; receiving-ship, New York, 1845; steamer Mississippi, Home

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Squadron, 1846, during Mexican War; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1847-8; served
in Savannah, Raritan, Cyane and Massachusetts, Pacific Squadron, 1852; ren
dezvous, New York, 1855.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855; commanding Michigan,
on the lakes, 1861-4.
Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; commanding receiving-ship
Vermont, New York, i865 ; Light-house Inspector, San Francisco, California,
1866-9; commanding rendezvous, San Francisco, California, 1869-70.

COMMODORE JOHN J. GLASSON,*
Born in New York City. Appointed Midshipman from New York, February
1, 1823 ; served in the store-ship Decoy and schooner Fox, in the West India
Squadron, fitted out by special Act of Congress for the suppression of piracy,
which was successfully accomplished under the command of Commodore David
Porter, 1823; schooner Grampus, coast of Africa and West Indies, 1824; in the
North Carolina, 74, and sloop Warren, Mediterranean, 1825, '26, '27, '28 and
'29; sloop Natchez, West Indies, 1830.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1831; revenue-cutter Rush, as
First Lieutenant, U. S. R. S. New York, 1831-2 ; schooner Shark (as Master),
Mediterranean, 1833-4 ; rendezvous, New York, 1835, '36 and '37.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 9, 1837 ; sloops Lexington and Fal
mouth, in the Pacific, 1838, '39 and '40; steamer Fulton, on special service, New
York harbor, 1841-2 ; sloop Decatur, coast of Africa, 1843-4 ; store-ship Lex
ington, with troops to the coast of Texas, 1845 ; steamer Spitfire (executive)
and schooner Falcon, Home Squadron, 1846/47 and '48 ; commanded the latter
vessel in the attack on Vera Cruz, and the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, (which
were captured by the joint action of the army and navy) ; also in the rescue of
one hundred and twenty-one inhabitants of the town of Valladolid, Yucatan
(burned and sacked by the Indians in a state of insurrection), landing them
safely at the city of Campeachy. Vide Report of the Secretary of the Navy (Ex.
Doc. xxx., Congress, second session), which says in connection with the state of
affairs in Yucatan, that the squadron " extended protection, food and shelter to
fleeing white inhabitants in their destitution and despair, and those thus dided
were a portion of the people of a country with whom we were at war ;" relieved
a French bark named L'Asie de Dunkirk from a perilous position off the harbor
of Aguador, Yucatan; received commendations from Commodores David Connor
and M. C. Perry, for services while in the Gulf; Navy Yard, New York, 1850 ;
commanding store-ship Lexington, with presents for the Japanese, Commodore
Perry's Expedition, 1853-4 ; Commodore Perry duly acknowledged " the prompt
and efficient aid rendered by Lieutenant-commanding Glasson," in a letter to the
•Secretary of the Navy, dated Yeddo Bay, April 1, 1854; a favorable report of
inspection of the ship was made on returning to New York, and Secretary Dob
bin in a letter to Lieutenant Glasson, dated Navy Department, February 19,
1855, says : " the good order of the ship, the promptness and efficiency of the
crew in the performance of their various duties, and the satisfactory condition of
her armanent, magazines, etc., furnish undoubted evidence ofthe attention paid
to discipline, and other requisites of a man-of-war, reflecting great credit upon her
commander and the officers associated with him.
Commissioned as Commander, September 14, 1855 ; commanding rendezvous,
New Bedford, Massassachusetts, 1861, '62 and '63 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Vir-

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ginia, in charge of stores for the supply of the Coast Squadron in the Atlantic,
and the flotilla forces in the Chesapeake, 1864, '65 and '66.
Commissioned as Commodore, September 28, 1866.; sea service, seventeen
years, eleven months; shore or other duty, eight years, ten months; residence,
New York City.

CAPTAIN ROGER N. STEMBEL,

Born in Middletown, Maryland. Appointed from Ohio, March 27, 1832;
attached to schooner Porpoise, West India Squadron, 1832-3 ; Naval School,
New York, 183,4-8.
Promoted, to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838 ; attached to frigate Bran
dywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1840-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, October 26, 1843 ; Coast Survey, 1844-7; sloop
Levant, Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; sloop Jamestown, Brazil, Squadron, 1851—3 ;
special duty, Washington, 1855-7; steam-frigate Mississippi, East India Squad- .
ron, 1857-9; special duty, Cincinnati, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 1, 1861; Mississippi Flotilla, 1862;
engagement at Lucas Bend, September 9, 1861 ; Belmont, November 7, 1861;
Fort Henry, February 6, 1862 ; bombardment and capture of Island No. 10,
Mississippi River, from March 16th to April 7, 1862; near Fort Pillow, with
rebel rams, May 10, 1862, besides several minor affairs, while attached to Miss
issippi Flotilla, from August, 1861 to May, 1862; wounded near Fort Pillow,
May 10, 1862, in engagement with rebel rams; waiting orders, 1863, rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1864 ; special duty, Pittsburgh, 1865.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; commanding steam-sloop Canan
daigua, European Squadron, 1866-7; commanding Naval rendezvous, Boston,
1869-70.

CAPTAIN J. R. MADISON MULLANY,
Born in New York, October 26, 1818. Appointed from New Jersey, January
7, 1832; attached to the frigate Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron,
1833-5 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1836.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838 ; frigate United States,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1837-9; brig Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1840;
receiving-ship, New York, 1843.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 29, 1844; Coast Survey, 1844-6;
Home Squadron, 1847 ; engaged in the attack and capture of the city of
Tobasco, during the Mexican War ; Coast Survey, 1848 ; frigate Brandywine,
Brazil Squadron, 1849-51 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1852 ; frigate Columbia,
Home Squadron, 1853-5 ; ordnance duty, New York, 1856-8 ; frigate Sabine,
Home Squadron, 1859-60; commanded steamer Wyandotte, at Pensacola, during
April and May, 1861.
Occupied a position inside of the harbor, in rear of Fort Pickens, to aid in
protecting it from a threatened attack from the rebels, and assisted in towing
in the boats and landing force, composed of sailors and marines, to reinforce
Fort Pickens.
Commanded steamer Bienville in the N. A. and W. G. Squadrons, from April,
1862 to August, 1864; occasionally engaged with, and coming under the fire
of the forts on the Qoast j commanded steam-sloop Oneida, during attack on

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Forts Morgan and Gaines, rebel iron-clad Tennessee and gunboats, Mobile Bay,
August 5, 1864; lost left arm and received flesh-wound in left leg by a shell
from rebel ram Tennessee, in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; ordnance duty, New York, 1866-8;
commanding steam-sloop Richmond, European Squadron, 1869.

CAPTAIN C. R. P. RODGERS,
Born November 14, 1819, in New York. Appointed from Connecticut,
October 5, 1833; attached to frigate Brandywine, Pacific Squadron, 1834-5 ;
sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1836 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1837.
« Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 8, 1837; schooner Flirt, coast of
Florida, 1839—40 ; sloop Saratoga, coast of Africa, 1842-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 4, 1844 ; frigate Cumberland, Brazil
Squadron, 1844-5; Coast Survey, 1846; Home Squadron, 1847 ; present at
reduction of Vera Cruz and capture of Tobasco; Coast Survey, 1850; frigate
Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1850-1 ; frigate Constitution, coast of Africa,
1852-5; (Flag-Lieutenant of squadron;) Coast Survey, 1856-8; steam-frigate
Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9; Commandant of Midshipmen, Naval
Academy, 1859-61.
Commissioned as Commander, October 18,1861; commanding steam-frigate
Wabash, flag-ship, South Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2 ; commanded Wabash at
battle of Port Royal, November, 1861 ; at Fort Pulaski, in command of naval
battery, January 27, 1862. In March, 1862, Captain Rodgers commanded a
division of ah expedition of gunboats to St. Augustine, Fernandina, and up the
St. Mary's River; Fleet-Captain, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863;
commanding steam-sloop Iroquis, special service, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1866-8;
commanding frigate Franklin, flag-ship, European Squadron, 1869.

CAPTAIN NAPOLEON COLLINS*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Iowa, January 2, 1834; West India
Squadron, 1834-5 ; attached to sloop Natchez, West India Squadron, 1836-9 ;
Navy Yard, New York, 1839, Naval School ; Philadelphia, 1839-40.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840; sloop Boston, 1840-2 ;
frigate Constellation, East India Squadron, 1842-4.
Promoted to Master, August 15, 1846.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, November 6, 1846; sloop Decatur, Home
Squadron, 1846-9; at Tuspan and Tobasco, Mexican War; steamer Michigan,
on the lakes, 1850-3 ; commanding store-ship John P. Kennedy, North Pacific
Expedition, 1853-4; steam frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1854-5 ;
Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1856-7; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1857-8 ; steamer Michigan on the lakes, 1858-60 ; commanding
steamer Anacosta, Potomac Flotilla, 1861 ; engagement at Acquia Creek, May
31st and June 1, 1861; commanding gunboat Unadilla, South Atlantic Blockad
ing Squadron, 1861-2; battle of Port Royal, November 7, 1862; various
expeditions on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1863; commanding steamer Octorara,

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West India Squadron, 1862-3; commanding steam-sloop Wachusett, special
service, 1863-4 ; on the 7th of October, 1864, Commander Collins, then in the
Wachusett, seized the rebel steamer Florida, lying within the harbor of Bahia,
Brazil ; the capture was effected without loss of life.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop Sacra
mento, special service, 1867; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1869-70.

CAPTAIN REED WERDEN,*
Born in Pennsylvania, 1818. Appointed from Ohio, January 9, 1834; at
tached to schooner Enterprise, Brazil Squadron, 1834-5 ; sloop-of-war Ontario,
Brazil Squadron, 1836; sloop-of-war Erie, Brazil Squadron, 1837 ; sloop-of-war
Cyane, Mediterranean Squadron, 1838-9; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1840.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840; sailed for China in the
sloop-of-war Boston, October, 1840; frigate Constellation, East India Squadron,
1841-2; sloop-of-war Boston, East India Squadron, as Master, 1842-3; re
ceiving-ship, New York, 1844.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 27, 1847; sloop-of-war Germantown,
Home Squadron, 1847; commanded a party of seamen at the capture of Tuspan,
Mexico ; receiving-ship Vermont, Boston, 1848 ; sloop-of-war Vandalia, Pacific
Squadron, 1849, '50, '51 and '52; Naval rendezvous, Baltimore, 1853; sloop-
of-war Albany, Home and West India Squadrons, 1853-4; special duty,
West Indies, 1855; Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C., 1856; frigate
Cumberland, on the coast of Africa, 1857, '58 and '59 ; frigate Minnesota,
Home Squadron, 1861; commanding steamer Yankee, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1861; commanding U. S. S. Stars and Stripes, North Atlan
tic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; at the capture of Roanoke Island and New
bern ; commanding steamer Connemaugh, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1862-3. Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1854; Fleet-Captain East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; commanding
U. S. S. Powhatan, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865; blockaded the
rebel ram Stonewall, in the port of Havana, W. I., until her surrender to the
Spanish government; special duty at Navy Yard, New York, 1865; command
ing U. S. S. Bienville, West Indies, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California,
1868, '69 and '70.

CAPTAIN STEPHEN D. TRENCHARD,
Born in New York, July 10, 1818. Appointed from New York, October 23,
1834; receiving-ship, New York, 1835-7; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1839-40.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840; sloop Preble, West India
Squadron, 1841^; sloop Fairfield, Home Squadron, 1844-5; Coast Survey,
1845-9. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 27, 1847; sloop Albany, Home
Squadron, 1850-2; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1853 ; Coast Survey, 1854-7 ;
steam-frigate Powhatan, East India Squadron, 1857-9; commanding steamer-
Rhode Island, supply vessel to Blockading Squadron, 1861-5.

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Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; two attacks on Fort Fisher,
December, 1864 and January, 1865 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; commanding steam-sloop Lancas
ter, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

CAPTAIN MELANCTON B. WOOLSEY,
Born in New York, 1818. Appointed from New York, December, 24, 1832 ;
serving in Brazil Squadron, 1832-4; frigate United States, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1836-9; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1839-40.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840; frigate Delaware, Brazil
¦ Squadron, 1842-4.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1847 ; store-ship Southampton, Pacific
Squadron, 1849-50; brig Perry, coast of Africa, 1851-4; unemployed from
1854-60 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1861 ; commanding steamer Ellen, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1862 ; engagement at the Wapper Creek, May 30, 1862,
with a battery afterward known as Fort Pemberton, and at the same time an
attacking party of about three hundred rebel infantry at a distance of about four
hundred and fifty yards. The insurgents were driven out of the forts and their
infantry repulsed; engagement at Secessionville Creek, June 1, 1862, in which
from two to three hundred rebel cavalry were dislodged and repulsed; engage
ment of two hours' duration with batteries on James Island, June 3, 1862 ; co
operating with the army in their attempt to carry James Island batteries by
assault. Commissioned as Commander, July. 16, 1862; commanding steamer Prin
cess Royal," Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; June 28, 1863,
engagement of three hours' duration at short musket-range in defence of Don-
aldsonville and Fort Butler, against the attack of three thousand rebel troops
under Generals Green and Dick Taylor, in which the enemy was repulsed with
an acknowledged loss of fifteen hundred killed, wounded and missing, including
one hundred and twenty-five prisoners; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop Pawnee,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; commanding flag-ship Guerriere, South At
lantic Squadron, 1869.

CAPTAIN ALEXANDER MURRAY *
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, August, 22, 1835 ;
attached to West India Squadron, 1836-8 ; while in the West Indies, sailed
in Warren, Grampus, Constellation, St. Louis and Vandalia ; coast of Florida,
Seminole War, 1839^41; sailed in steamer Poinsett, cutter Van Buren, and
served on the land in command of open boats.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman in 1841 ; coast of Florida, Seminole War,
1841-2; Pacific Squadron, 1843, '44 and '45, in schooner Shark, frigate United
States and sloop-of-war Levant ; Gulf of Mexico, 1846, steamer Vixen, capture
of Alvarado, Tobasco; Tuspan, Vera Cruz and Tampico^-slightly wounded at
Alvarado. Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 12, 1847 ; ralzee Independence, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1849-51; commanding United States steamer Fulton, West
Indies; Vice-President King on board, 1852; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1853;

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commanding steamer Bibb, .Coast Survey, 1857-9 ; United States sloop Cumber
land, Home Squadron, 1859; commanding United States S. Pocahontas,
1860-61 ; detached at Norfolk, Va, and at the firing on Fort Sumpter, rejoined
tha United States sloop Cumberland, without orders; burning of Navy Yard;
commanding steamer Louisiana, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ;
repulse of rebel steamer Yorktown, off Newport News, September, 1861; battle
of Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862 ; battle of Elizabeth River, with the fort
and Lynch's fleet, February 10, 1862; battle of Newbern, North Carolina, Feb
ruary 14, 1862; engagement with Wise's division; battle of Winton, North
Carolina, 1862 ; commanded naval forces at the battle of Kingston, North
Carolina, 1862 ; commanded naval forces at the repulse of rebels, under Hill,
from Newbern, North Carolina, February 14, 1862 ; commanded a naval and
military expedition up the York and Pamunky Rivers, which was entirely suc
cessful, destroying twenty-seven vessels, two large steamers among the number,
approaching to within eleven miles of Richmond, in the month of May, 1862.
This expedition was afloat and the enemy in sight nearly all the time.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; special duty, sounds of North
Carolina, 1863; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1864-5; command
ing special squadron to Russia, 1866-7.
, Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1869.

CAPTAIN EDWARD DONALDSON,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed Cadet Midshipman, October, 1834, and went
to West Indies in St. Louis, and returned following year in the Falmouth;
went out in the Fall of 1835, to the West Indies, in the Warren; transferred
to the Vandalia, and continued until 1838 ; in frigate Columbia, East Indies,
1839-40 ; while attached to her, took part in the attacks on forts on the coast of
Sumatra, 1839.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 22, 1841 ; in McLaughlin's Mosquito
Fleet, in Florida, 1841-2; in brig Truxton, 1843-4; sloop Erie, coast of
Africa, 1845 ; on the Coast Survey in 1846 ; cruise in sloop Plymouth, East
Indies, 1847-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, October 23, 1847; in brig Dolphin, East
Indies, 1849-50 ; at rendezvous, Baltimore, 1852 ; in steamer Water Witch,
river La Plata, 1853-4 ; steam frigate Merrimac, special service, 1856-7 ; re
ceiving-ship at Baltimore, 1858-9 ; in steamer San Jacinto, coast of Africa,
1860-1 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1861 ; commanding steam-gunboat Sciota,
West Gulf Squadron, 1861-2; bombardment, etc., of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, and capture of New Orleans, April, 1862, and other operations in the river.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding receiving-ship
at Philadelphia, in 1862-3; was Executive-Officer of steamer Keystone State in
trip to the West Indies in search of the Sumpter ; commanding steamer Key
stone State, North Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanded the steam-sloop
Seminole at the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1 864 ; ordnance duty, Balti
more, 1865.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding receiving-ship at
Baltimore, 1866, '67 and '68; at New York Navy Yard, March, 1869, to Feb
ruary, 1870.
Total sea service (1870), 18 years, 1 month; shore or other duty, 11 years,
6 months.

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CAPTAIN THOMAS H. STEVENS *
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, December 14, 1836;
attached to razee Independence, Brazil Squadron, 1838-41.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 1, 1842; surveying duty, Gulf of
Mexico, 1842-3 ; steamer Michigan on the lakes, 1843-4 ; Naval Storekeeper,
Honolulu, 1845-8 ; naval station, Sackett's Harbor, New York, 1849.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 10, 1849 ; attached to steamer Michigan on
the lakes, 1849-51 ; Coast Survey, 1852-5 ; steam-frigate Colorado, Home Squad
ron, 1858-60 ; commanding steam-gunboat, Ottowa, 1861-2 ; participated in
the engagement with the rebel fleet at Port Royal, November 4, 1861, and en
gagement with forts Beauregard and Walker, November 5, 1861 ; battle of Port
Royal and capture of forts Beauregard and Walker, November 7, 1861 ; battle
of Port Royal Ferry, January 1, 1862 ; engagement with Tatnall's rebel fleet,
February, 1862; capture of Fort Clinch and the towns of Fernandina and St.
Mary's, and steamer Darlington, March 30, 1862 ; engagement with enemy's
riflemen on the St. Mary's River, March 6, 1862 ; during the months of March
and April, 1862, Lieutenant Stevens was in command ofthe first expedition up
the St. John's River, and at the capture of forts Steele and Finnegan with their
guns, etc., and the towns of Mayport, Jacksonville, Magnolia and Pulaski, and
yacht America.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer Mara-
tanza, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; present at the battle of West
Point, and command of the first naval expedition to Cumberland and White
House to open the river for. and support the advance of General McClellan,
May, 1862 ; present at demonstration against Petersburg and battle of
Malvern Hill, June, 1862; on the fourth of July, 1862, the Maratanza, under
the command of Commander Stevens, captured the rebel gunboat Teazer ; com
manding iron-clad Monitor, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; while
in command of Monitor covering the flank of McClellan's army on the James'
River, and the rear in his withdrawal from the Peninsular; commanding steamer
Sonoma, West India Squadron, 1862-3 ; capture of schooner Clyde, steamer
Victoria, brigantine Atlantic, bark Springbok, steamer Virginia, and chase of
rebel privateer Florida, for thirty-four hours; commanding iron-clad Patapsco,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1863; while in command of Patapsco, participated
in engagement with Fort Morgan, August 22d, attack on Fort Sumpter, August
23d, and engagement with Fort Moultrie, battery Bee, and adjacent batteries in
command of four monitors, August 31st; on September 1st, demonstration against
Fort Sumpter and obstructions ; September 6th, engagement with forts Wagner
and Gregg and capture of the same ; September 7th, demonstration against Fort
Sumpter and obstructions, and engagement with all of Sullivan's Island batter
ies; September 8th, engagement with Sullivan Island batteries; in command of
boat assault on Fort Sumpter on the night of September 8th, bombardment of
Fort Sumpter, from October 25th to November 4th, inclusive ; commanding steam-
sloop Oneida, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; operations before
Mobile, from July 1st to August 3, 1864 ; Commanded monitor Winnebago in
engagement with Fort Powell, driving off reinforcements and supplies, August
4th, and in battle of Mobile Bay, and capture of rebel ram Tennessee and fleet,
and at capture of forts Powell and Gaines ; bombardment and capture of Fort
Morgan ; while in command of Oneida, May 13, 1865, off Bocha Chico, Texas,
covering left flank of the army from apprehended attack ; present at the ratifica
tion of the agreement for the surrender of the trans-Mississippi army, by Gen
erals Curtis, Smith and Magruder; in command of Texas division of Gulf

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Squadron, July, 1865; in August returned to New York in command of the
Oneida. The zeal and conduct with which these arduous duties were performed during
the war of the rebellion are best sllown in the numerous letters and testimo
nials in relation to Captain Stevens, from his commanding and brother officers-
men whose own experience and valor make them best qualified to judge of such
services. 'Upon the occasion of his leaving the squadron, the following letter
was addressed him by the late Admiral Du Pont :
" I cannot permit you to leave without expressing my regret at your with
drawal from my squadron, having ever found you prompt, energetic, skillful and
brave, in all the duties pertaining to your command. Your operations on the St.
John's River as senior officer of the naval forces which took possession of those
waters, were attended by circumstances requiring judgment' and discretion, both
of which you exhibited in a manner highly satisfactory to me.
I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. F. DU PONT,
Flag-Officer Commanding South Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
Upon his being relieved of the command of the U. S. S. Monitor, then in
Hampton Roads, the present Rear Admiral, John Rodgers, wrote as follows :
" In all the time of our companionship on duty you have evinced courage and
coolness. In our reconnoissance of the forts at Hilton Head previous to the
grand attack, in the grand attack in which they were taken, in the Cooper River,
in the Appomattox, with your vessel aground under very trying circumstances,
you have exhibited the characteristics of a valuable officer. I have not cited
occasions of which I have only heard, but of which I have been mindful, where
your conduct has received the warmest praise. Everywhere you have shown
yourself a dashing, zealous officer."
Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes, in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, in
reference to Captain Stevens, writes :
" His duties engrossed his whole attention ; ever ready and prompt in their
execution, winning my entire satisfaction and confidence in his willingness,
activity and ability in the execution of orders. His command was always held
ready for service, and through his example, energy and good management, he
fulfilled many orders, overcoming great difficulties he had to encounter."
And again he says :
" In arduous cruising in the West Indies, he upheld the honor of our flag, '
with spirit upon several occasions — his long and arduous chase of the Florida
on the Bahama Banks should alone have advanced him to a higher grade."
Rear Admiral Dahlgren, in his farewell order upon relinquishing command of
the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, says, in reference to the night attack
on Sumpter :
" When I began to perceive that the enemy was not likely to be driven out of
Sumpter, except by assault, and saw that the force which I had could not of
itself go further, unless he was driven out, I ordered the assault. It failed, but
never was more gallantly displayed than in the attempt."
Admiral Dahlgren also addressed the Department in relation to the meritori
ous services of Captain Stevens in presence of the enemy, referring to the action
of August 31, 1863, upon which occasion four monitors, under the command
of Captain Stevens, engaged Fort Moultrie and the adjacent batteries, at short
range, the Charleston papers the following morning remarked :
" The engagement was a very spirited one, and it must be confessed, the Yan
kee captains fought their ships with great gallantry." Commander Edward

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Simpson, who commanded the monitor Passaic upon this occasion, refers to it in
his official report as the most severe action that had taken place between armored
vessels and earthworks up to that time.
Rear Admiral Rowan, in his letter to the Department, writes :
" I have great pleasure in stating that no officer (in my opinion) could have
performed his duties better than did Commander Stevens, during his arduous
services off Charleston. I had many opportunities of judging of his conduct
while under the fire of the enemy, and was most favorably impressed by his cool
ness, decision of character, professional knowledge, intelligence and energy, upon
the occasion of every conflict with the enemy off Charleston."
Admiral Rowan also says :
" I witnessed, upon one occasion, the gallant and intelligent conduct of this
officer while engaged with Fort Moultrie and its other defences. I also wit
nessed his gallant bearing on the occasion of the Ironsides' attack on Fort Moul
trie, when he passed from his monitor to the Ironsides and back to his vessel in
a boat, while the fire of Moultrie and its surrounding batteries was concentrated
on that ship."
Captain Stevens was also specially mentioned in Admiral Farragut's report of
the Battle of Mobile Bay, and Captain LeRoy took occasion to say in reference
to this action :
" Commander Stevens commanded one of the river iron-clads, and I had an
excellent opportunity toward the close of the action with the fleet of observing
the cool and gallant conduct of Commander Stevens. In my opinion, no officer
could have exhibited more coolness. Commander Stevens was outside the
turrets, perfectly exposed, and as the vessel I commanded was close alongside
his vessel, both running for the ram Tennessee, and as my vessel was the faster
and more manageable, he cheered me with words of encouragement as I was

The gallant and accomplished Captain Percival Drayton and C. R. P. Rodgers,
in their official reports of various operations against the enemy, make the most
honorable mention of this officer.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Light-house Inspector, 1867-70.

CAPTAIN THOMAS H. PATTERSON,*
Born in Louisiana, May, 1820. Appointed from Louisiana, April 5, 1836, as
Acting Midshipman ; attached totbrig Porpoise, survey of Southern Harbors,
July 20, 1836 to February 14, 1837.
Promoted to Midshipman, March 3, 1847; Navy Yard, Washington, March
9 to April 20, 1837 ; ordered to frigate Macedonian, Exploring Expedition,
April 20, 1837; ordered to sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, June 27, 1837
— served until June 16, 1840 ; leave of absence, until October 3, 1840 ; ordered
to brig Consort, survey of Apalachicola Bay, October 3d to 8, 1840 ; ordered
to Navy Yard, Washington, to August 31, 1841 ; Naval School, Philadelphia,
to August 9, 1842.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 1, 1842 ; Naval Observatory, August
9,1842 to August 31, 1843; attached to brig Lawrence, as Acting Master,
West India Squadron, from August 31st to November 1, 1843, and as Acting
Lieutenant, to April 17, 1844; attached to brig Washington, as Passed Mid
shipman, Coast Survey, from April 17, 1844 to June 5, 1846, and as Acting-
Master, to October 31, 1848.
Promoted to Master, October 31, 1848.
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Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 23, 1849 ; attached to sloop Vandalia,
Pacific Squadron, from July 11, 1849 to October 12, 1852 ; leave of absence,
'October 12th to October 30, 1852; special duty, Washington, D. C, to Decem
ber 23, 1854 ; sloop Jamestown, flag-ship, coast of Africa, to June 8, 1857 ;
leave of absence, to July 13, 1857 ; Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, to October
13, 1859 ; steam-sloop Mohican, coast of Africa, to October 15, 1861 ; com
manding steam-gunboat, Chocura, Hampton Roads, York River ; present at the
siege of Yorktown, May 4, 1862 ; made the reconnoissance to West Point— the
leading gunboat up the Pamunky River to the White House, to open the way,
and in support of General McClellan's army ; co-operated with the advance of
General Stoneman's command at the White House, in checking the approach of
the enemy at that point ; from early in June, until October, 1862, senior-officer
of tbe naval forces in the York and Pamunky Rivers, and in constant co-opera
tion with the army of the Potomac.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanded the steamer
James Adger, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, from November 18, 1862
to June 27, 1865 ; towed the iron-clad Montauk, to Beaufort, North Carolina;
thence to Port Royal, January 2, 1863 ; convoyed to Hampton Roads and
Philadelphia the officers and crew of the Confederate iron-clad Atlanta, June
19, 1862; off Nantucket, in search ofthe Confederate cruiser Tacony, June 25,
1863 ; blockade duty off Wilmington, North Carolina, July 7, 1863, in company
with the Iroquois and Mount Vernon ; cut out the steamer Kate, from under
the batteries at New Inlet, North Carolina, July 31, 1863; participated in the
attack and capture of a flying battery, a few miles above Fort Fisher, North
Carolina, August 23, 1863 ; chased ashore and captured the blockade-runner
Cornubia between New Inlet and Masonboro' Inlet, North Carolina, November
8, 1863 ; chased and captured the blockade-runner, Robert E. Lee, off Cape Look
out, November 9, 1863 — both vessels loaded with arms and supplies for the
Confederate army ; captured schooner Ella, off Masonboro' Inlet, North Carolina,
November 26, 1863; blockade duty, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
June 14, 1864 ; senior-officer of the outside blockade, off Charleston, South
Carolina, September 15, 1864 ; convoy duty, Maraquana passage, April 25,
1865 ; detached, waiting orders, June 27, 1865 ; commanding the steam-sloop
Brooklyn, flag-ship, Brazil Squadron, September 19, 1865 to September 16,
1867. ' '
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Washington, D. ft,
from December 26, 18,67 *to the present time, June, 1870.

CAPTAIN JOHN C. HOWELL,
Born in Pennsylvania, November 24, 1819. Appointed from Pennsylvania,
June 9, 1836 ; sloop Levant, West India Squadron, 1837-41.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 1, 1842; frigate Congress, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1842-4 ; brig Perry, East India Squadron, 1844-5 ; Naval
Storekeeper, Macao, 1846-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 2, 1849 ; frigate Raritan, Home Squad
ron, 1845-50 ; sloop Saratoga, East India Squadron, 1851-3 ; receiving-ship,
Philadelphia, 185.4-6; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Mediterranean Squadron,
1856-8; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1859-60; steam-frigate Minnesota,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; battle of Hatteras Inlet.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer Tahamo,

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Eastern Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commanding steamer Nereus,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; two actions at Fort Fisher,
December, 1864 and January, 1865.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding rendezvous, Phila
delphia, 1866-8 ; Fleet Captain, European Squadron, 1869-70.

. CAPTAIN DANIEL AMMEN,*
Born in Ohio, May 15, 1820. Appointed Midshipman, July 7, 1836 ; at
tached to the Exploring Expedition, 1837-8 ; sloop Levant and Vandalia, in
the West Indies, 1838-9 ; sloop Preble, on the coast of Labrador and in the
Mediterranean, 1840-1 ; returned to the United States on board ship-of-the-
line Ohio, 1841, and to Naval School ; passed examination, June 1842, and re
ceived warrant of Passed Midshipman ; store ship- Lexington, as Navigator,
1843-4, to the Mediterranean; sloop Vincennes, as Navigator, East India
Squadron, 1845-7 ; Coast Survey, 1848-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 4, 1849; frigate St. Lawrence, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1850 ; Coast Survey, 1851 ; attached to a Commission for
selecting a Naval Station in the Bay of San Francisco, California, 1852 ; scien
tific expedition of steamer Water Witch, Paraguay River, 1853-4; brig Bain-
bridge, Brazil Squadron, 1854-5; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1856-7;
steam-sloop Saranac, Pacific Squadron, 1858 ; steam-frigate Merrimac, Pacific
Squadron, 1859-60 ; steam-frigate Roanoke, as Executive-Officer North Atlan
tic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; commanding Seneca, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1861-2, at battle of Port Royal, November 7, 1861 ; the day
following hoisted our flag over Fort Beauregard, and made formal delivery to
the army, by order of Rear Admiral Du Pont ; Tybee Island, December, 1861 ;
commanded forces entering by way of Whale Branch in attack on Port Royal
Ferry, January 1, 1862 ; engaged in the operations against Fernandina through
St. Andrew's Sound and in St. John's River.
Promoted to Commander, February 21, 1863 ; commanding Monitor Patapsco,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, against Fort Macallister, March, 1863,
and in the attack on Fort Sumner, April 7, 1863 ; had charge of a draft of
two hundred and twenty seamen on board of the California passenger steamer
Ocean Queen, May, 1864, bound to Aspinwall ; two days after leaving New
York suppressed an open and organized mutiny, with the assistance of Boat
swain Thomas G. Bell, who was the only aid assigned, receiving in doing so the
excellent co-operation of Captain Tinklepaugh, who commanded the Ocean
Queen, his officers, and several of the passengers ; commanding steam-sloop
Mohican, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; in the bombardment
of Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and again when it was carried by assault by the
army, January, 1865 ; commanding iron-clad Miantonomoh, special service, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; special duty Hartford, Connecticut,
1866-7; commanding flag-ship Piscataqua, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8; appointed
Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1869.
After the fall of Fort Fisher, the Mohican under the command of Com
mander Ammen, was ordered to Warsaw Sound, Georgia; the difficulty of
landing troops without surf boats being brought forcibly to view, he selected
suitable trees on the adjacent islands, had them sawed into planks, and con
structed on his design a cask " Balsa," or life-boat, which is now at the Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., at which place are built life-boats on this design for
all of our vessels of war.

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CAPTAIN EDWARD T. NICHOLS,
Born in Georgia, .March 1,1823. Appointed from Georgia, December 14
1836; attached to sloop Levant, West India Squadron, 1837-40; Naval School
Philadelphia, 1841-2.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 1, 1842 ; frigate Columbus, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1842—4; steamer Col. Harney, Atlantic Coast, 1845; frigate
Columbia, Brazil Squadron, 1845-7 ; bomb-vessel Stromboli, Home Squadron
1847-8 ; frigate Savannah, Pacific Squadron, 1849-51.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 13, 1850; Navy Yard, Pensacola,
1852-3; steam-frigate Saranac, Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-6; Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1857-8 ; sloop Jamestown, Home Squadron,
1858-60; commanding steamer Winona, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1861-2; bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip; present at and
received the surrender of Fort St. Philip, April 28, 1862; attack upon and
passage of Vicksburg batteries, June 28, 1862 ; engagement with rebel ram
Arkansas; bombardment and passage of Vicksburg batteries, July 15, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer Alabama,
West India Squadron, 1863 ; commanding steamer Mendota, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; engaged with rebel battery at Four Mile Creek,
James River, June 16, 1864; specialduty, New York, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Chief-of-Staff, Asiatic Squadron,
1870.

CAPTAIN ROBERT H. WYMAN*
Born- in New Hampshire. Appointed Midshipman from New Hampshire,
March 11, 1837 ; attached to razee Independence and sloop Fairfield, Brazils,
1337-8 ; sloop John Adams, East Indies, 1838, '39 and '40 ; sloop Concord,
line-of-battle-ship Delaware, and frigate Potomac, Brazil Squadron, 1840, '41
and '42 ; at Naval School, Philadelphia, 1842-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; schooner Onkahage, and
brig Perry and frigate Brandywine, East Indies, 1843, '44, '45 and '46; served
in the Gulf on board the Princeton, Porpoise and Albany, during the Mexican
War; present at the siege of Vera Cruz; Observatory Washington, 1848;
receiving-ship at Boston, 1849-50.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, July 16, 1850; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific and
East India Squadrons, 1850, '51 and '52; Observatory, Washington, 1853—4;
practice-ship Preble, 1855-6; razee Independence and sloop St. Mary's, Pacific,
1856, '57, '58 and '59; practice-ships Preble and Plymouth, 1859-60; sloop
Richmond, 1860-61 ; commanding steamer Yankee and Pocahontas, 1861 ;
Pawnee, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; battle of Port Royal,
November, 1861 ; commanding Potomac Flotilla, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer Sonoma,
in James River, and Wachusett and Santiago de Cuba, West India Squadron,
1862-3; special duty, Washington, 1863; special duty, Navy Department,
1864-5 ; commanding steam-frigate Colorada flag-ship European Squadron,
1865, '66 and '67.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; commanding steam-sloop Ticon
deroga, European Squadron, 1867, '68 and '69. Hydrographic Office, Washing
ton, 1869-70. Total sea service (1870), 20 years, 5 months ; shore or special
duty, 10 years. Residence, Washington.

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CAPTAIN GEORGE B. BALCH,
Born in Tennessee, January 3, 1821. Appointed from Alabama, December
30, 1837; attached to sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1840; Naval School,
Philadelphia, 1843.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; special duty, 1845 ; in
war with Mexico, November 1, 1846, engaged in first attack on Alvarado, by
squadron under Commodore Connor ; engaged in active operations from May,
1846, to surrender of Vera Cruz, March, 1847 ; in Mosquito Fleet, under Com.
Tatnall, covered the landing of the army under General Scott, March 9, 1847;
at the time, Acting Master of the Falcon ; March, 1847, engaged in the joint
bombardment of Vera Cruz, with the army, and was present at the surrender
of that city and the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa to the military and naval forces ;
steamer Princeton, Mediterranean Squadron, 1847-8 ; Naval Observatory,
Washington, 1849-50.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 16, 1850 ; -sloop Plymouth, Pacific
Squadron, 1851-4; while on the Plymouth, Lieutenant Balch, in command of
the advance post at Shanghai, China, was wounded in the hip, in a fight between
the rebels and Imperialists ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1855-7 ; sloop James
town, Home Squadron, 1857-8; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1858-9;
frigate Sabine, 1860 ; while on the Sabine, fell in with the transport Governor,
and rescued nearly four hundred marines, under Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds,
the transport sinking under the Sabine's stern, November 24, 1861 ; in com
mand of steamer Pocahontas, South Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2 ; volunteered
for command of boats in taking possession. of Ty bee Island, December 26, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; engaged rebel battery at
Stono, South Carolina ; in August, 1862, ascended Black River the distance of
seventy-five miles, and drove rebel battery from earthworks, and engaged rebel
infantry on the Bluffs ; commanding steamer Pawnee, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1863-5; July 16, 1863, was attacked by two batteries, the
rebels making a simultaneous attack on General Terry's forces. They were re
pulsed, and Commander Balch was informed by General Terry that he had
saved his command. The Pawnee was struck forty-six times. On December
25, 1863, the Marblehead was opened on by rebel batteries ; the Pawnee took
an enfilading position in the Keowah river, and demoralized the enemy and
caused him to retreat; afterward captured two rebel guns. While in com
mand of the Pawnee, Commander Balch engaged in the combined operations of
the naval forces under Rear Admiral Dahlgren, and the army under General
Foster, in Stono river, South Carolina, from July 3d to 11, 1864, and particu
larly in the bombardment of Battery Pringle, on James Island, South Carolina.
On the 9th of February, 1865, having with him the Sonoma and Daffodil, he
ascended the Togoda Creek, North Edisto, South Carolina, and engaged three
rebel batteries of eleven or twelve.guns, driving the rebels from their earthworks.
The Pawnee was hit ten times, the Sonoma twice, and the Daffodil twice ;
Navy Yard, Washington, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding flag-ship Albany,
North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

CAPTAIN FOXHALL A. PARKER *
Born in New York. Appointed from Virginia, March 11, 1839 ; attached to
sloop Levant, West India Squadron, 1840 : ggrved in Florida against the Indians ;
JfayaJ gcJmoL Philadelphia, J843- ' ''•

102 CAPTAINS.
*
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 1844-5; Coast Survey, 1848; frigate St. Lawrence, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1849-50.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 28, 1850; steam-frigate Susque
hanna, East India Squadron, 1851-3; Coast Survey, 1854-5; unemployed
1856-9; Pacific Squadron, 1859-61; Navy Yard, Washington, as Executive^
Officer, 1861-2 ; doing duty with the navy on the Potomac, and with the army
at Alexandria; while attached to the Navy Yard at' Washington, was ordered,
two days after the battle of Bull Run, to Fort Ellsworth, with two hundred and
fifty seamen and marines, to protect it from the attack of General Beauregard
who was expected to storm it, and by his prompt and vigorous action, contrib
uted greatly to the safety of Alexandria, and to rallying the men from their
demoralization after the defeat at Bull Run.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam -gunboat,
Mahaska, 1863; in command of the naval battery on Morris Island, at the
bombardment of Fort Sumpter, from the 17th to the 23d of August, 1863;
engaged with skirmishes with batteries on Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers,
and off Wilmington, North Carolina, and with rebel troops on shore, while com
manding the Mahaska, in 1863, and the Potomac Flotilla, in 1864-5 ; on one
occasion, at the head of a small detachment of soldiers and marines, with two
howitzers manned by seamen, Commander Parker marched some distance into
Virginia and drove the noted guerilla Fitzhugh, with a force of over one hun
dred cavalry, out of Matthew's Court House, which he took possession of;
Bureau of Navigation, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; special duty, Hartford, Connec
ticut, 1867-8; Navy Yard, Boston, 1869-70.

CAPTAIN JOHN GUEST,
Born in Missouri. Appointed from Arkansas, December 16, 1837; attached to
sloop Warren, West India Squadron, 1838— 42; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1843.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; steamer Poinsett, survey
of Tampa Bay, 1844-5; frigate Congress, Pacific Squadron, 1845-8; war with
Mexico, San Gabriel, California, January 8, 1848, Niesa, January 9, 1848.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 24, 1850; sloop Plymouth, East
India Squadron, 1851-5 ; boarded with the cutter of the Plymouth, at Shanghai,
1854, the Chinese man-of-war, Sir H. Compton, and liberated a pilot-boat's crew
who were under the protection of the American flag ; in April, 1854, was
second in command of the Plymouth, under Captain John Kelley, in a severe and
victorious action with the Chinese, at Shanghai, to prevent aggression on foreign
residents ; special duty, Washington, 1855-6 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1859 ;
steam-frigate Niagara, W. G. B. Squadron, 1861 ; in command of the boats of
Niagara, cut out the schooner Aid, then under the protection of Fort Morgan,
Mobile Bay, August, 1861 ; commanding steamer Owasco, W. G. B. Squadron,
1862 ; at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and capture of New Orleans, 1862;
battles on the Mississippi up to, and including Vicksburg, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding iron-clad Lehigh,
S. A. B. Squadron, 1863; commanding steamer Iosco, N. A. B. Squadron,
1864-5 ; present at the two attacks on Fort Fisher.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1867-9; Naval rendezvous, Philadelphia, J87Q,

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CAPTAIN D. M. FAIRFAX*
Born in Virginia. Appointed Midshipman from North Carolina, August 12,
1837 ; sloop John Adams, East Indies, 1837, '38, '39 and '40 ; at the destroy
ing of towns on the west coast of Sumatra, in 1839 ; ten months in sloop Fair
field and frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean, in 1841-2 ; Naval School, at
Philadelphia, 1842-3.
' Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; attached to steam-frigate
Missouri until she was destroyed by fire at Gibraltar, in 1843 ; Coast Survey, in
1844; brig Porpoise, 1845 ; transferred, after four months, to frigate Columbus,
East India and Pacific Squadron, 1845, '46 and '47 ; in store-ship Erie, Pacific
Squadron, for four months, and transferred to sloop Cyane, 1847, '48 and '49;
at the attack and capture of several towns on the west coast of Mexico, under
Commander Du Pont ; frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1850, '51, '52 and '53.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 26, 1851 ; frigate Potomac, Home
Squadron, 1855-6 ; transferred to frigate Wabash, and continued in her during
1856, '57 and '58 ; at capture of Walker's expedition, at San Juan, Nicaragua ;
steamer Mystic, in 1859 ; Constellation, 1859-60 ; San Jacinto, 1860-1, coast
of Africa; while in the last named, directed in person the taking from the Trent
of Messrs. Mason and Slidell ; commanding steamer Cayuga, Mississippi Squad
ron, in 1 862, under Admiral Farragut ; skirmishing along its banks and keeping
river open as far as Red River.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding monitor Nan
tucket, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron; attack on Charleston forts, April
7, 1863 ; commanding Montauk, in night and day work at Charleston, until
August 25, 1863; Commandant of Midshipmen, at the Naval Academy, 1863,
'64 and '65 ; commanding Practice Squadron, two seasons.
Commissioned as Captain, July 26, 1866; commanding steamer Rhode Island,
flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1866 ; commanding flag-ship Susquehanna,
same squadron, 1867-8 ; on ordnance duty at different periods, at Philadelphia,
New York and Boston; Executive-Officer of Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1870. Sea service, twenty years and four months ; shore duty, eight
years and two months. CAPTAIN JOHN M. B. CLITZ,
Born in New York, March 10, 1823. Appointed from Michigan, August 12,
1837; attached to sloop Ontario, West India Squadron, 1838^12; Naval School,
Philadelphia, 1843.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843; sloop St. Mary's, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1844-5 ; sloop Falmouth, Home Squadron, 1845-6 ; bomb-
brig Hecla, Home Squadron, 1847; capitulation of castle of San Juan d'UUoa
and capture of Tuspan ; steamer Petrita, Home Squadron, 1847-8 ; frigate Cum
berland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 6, 1851 ; Coast Survey, 1851-2 ; steam-
frigate Mississippi, East India Squadron, 1852-5; special duty, Washington,
1856; sloop Decatur, Pacific Squadron, 1858-9; steam-sloop Iroquois, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer Penob
scot, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 j commanding steam-sloop
Juniata, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863; commanding steamer, Osceola,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; at both attacks on Fort Fisher;
Navy-Yard^ Boston, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop Pawnee,
South Atlantic Scpjijlron, 1868-9; ordnance diutj,JJ^vy Yard, New York, 1870.

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CAPTAIN ANDREW BRYSON,
Born in New York, 1822. Appointed from New York, December 21, 1837-
attached to sloop Ontario, West India Squadron, 1838-42 ; Naval School, Phila- '
delphia, 1842-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; sloop Decatur, coast of
Africa, 1843-5; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1845-9; store-ship Erie,
1850-1. Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 30, 1851 ; brig Bainbridge, coast of
Africa, 1851-5; receiving-ship, Boston, 1853-5; sloop Saratoga, Home Squad
ron, 1856-8 ; sloop Preble, Brazil Squadron, 1858-9 ; Navy Yard, New York,
1861. Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer Chip
pewa, special service, 1862-3 ; commanding iron-clad Lehigh, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; at the reduction of Fort Macon, and in all the
principal actions in wliich the iron-clads were engaged off Charleston, from Sep
tember 22, 1863 to April 5, 1864 ; wounded slightly by fragment of shell off J
Charleston ; commanding the iron-clad Essex, Mississippi Squadron, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; commanding steamer Michigan, on
the lakes, 1866-9; commanding receiving-ship Boston, 1869-70.

CAPTAIN JAMES H. SPOTTS,
Born in North Carolina. Appointed from Kentucky, August 2, 1837; attached
to sloop John Adams, East India Squadron, 1838-42; Naval School, Philadel
phia, 1842-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843; store-ship Lexington,
Pacific Squadron, 1846-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 21, 1851 ; sloop Portsmouth, Pacific
Squadron, 1851-5 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1855-7 ; steamer Michigan on-the
lakes, 1857-8; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1858-9; frigate Santee, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer Mag
nolia, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; commanding steamer South
Carolina, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; commanding steamer
Powhatan, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; in both engagements
with Fort Fisher, November, 1864 and January 1865 ; in the engagement with
Fort Anderson, and engagements along the banks of the Cape Fear River,
February, 1865; also at the bombardment of the batteries above Dutch Gap,
James River, April, 1865.
Commissioned as Captain July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California,
1866—7 ; commanding steam-sloop Guerriere, 1870.

CAPTAIN J. W- 4 NICHOLSON ,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from ^jTew York, February 10, 1838;
attached to sloops Natchez and Warren, West Jftdia Squadrpn, 1838, '39, '40
and '41; to Brandywine, frigate. Mediterranean Squadron, 1 841-2 j special
service, 1843-3.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman June 20, 1844; steamship Princeton,
1844, '45 and '46; Pacific Squadron, 1846-7; store-ship Fredonia, 1848;
frigate Raritan, 1849-50; Southampton store-ship, Pacific, 1851-2.
Promoted Lieutenant, April 24, 1852 ; sloop Vandalia, Japanese Expedition,
under Commodore Perry, 1853, '54 and '55 ; participated in all of the official
meetings with the Japanese on that expedition ; stationed on shore with a guard
from the Vandalia at Shanghae, China, for several months, to protect the foreign
settlement, while the contending Chinese were encamped near by; Navy Yard,
New York, 1856-7; sloop Vincennes, African Coast, 1857, '58, '59 and '60;
1861, attached to steamer Pocahontas, which vessel started for the relief of Fort
Sumpter, but arrived too late, as the fort capitulated a short time after the
arrival ofthe Pocahontas, on April 13, 1861; stationed in Potomac River until
October, 1861 ; engagement with rebel batteries at Acquia Creek ; in command
of steamer Isaac Smith, 1861, and participated in actions with rebel fleet,
November 5th and 6th, and battle of Port Royal, November 7, 1861 ; also
participated in the capture of Jacksonville, Fernandina and St. Augustine, Fla. ;
held the towns of Jacksonville and St. Augustine for several months; while in
command of St. John's River, was attacked by rebel infantry, and defeated them
with considerable loss; .engagement with rebel flotilla in Savannah River,
February, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; ordnance duty, New York,
1863 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; command of monitor
Manhattan, Western Gulf Squadron, 1864 ; battle of Mobile Bay Forts, and
capture of rebel ram Tennessee, August 5, 1864; bombarding Fort Mor
gan from the 9th of August until the surrender on the 21st ; commanding
the steamer Mohongo, Pacific Squadron, 1865-6; commanding steamship
Wampanoag, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, New York, 1868, '69
and '70; total sea service (1870), 20 years, 5 months; shore or other duty,
6 years, 1 month.

CAPTAIN THOMAS G. CORBIN,
Born in Virginia, August 13, 1820. Appointed from Alabama, May 15-,
1838 ; attached to frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1838-42.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844; Coast Survey, 1844-5;
frigate Columbia, Brazil Squadron, 1845-6 ; Coast Survey, 1847-50 ; sloop St.
Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1850-52.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 10, 1852 ; steamer Princeton, 1852-3 ;
survey of the river La Plata, 1853-5 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California,
1855-6; receiving-ship New York, 1857-8; steam-frigate Wabash, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1858-9 ; on leave, 1860 ; steam-frigate Wabash, South At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; capture of Forts Beauregard and Walker
and Port. Royal, South Carolina, April, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; Commandant of Midshipmen,
Naval Academy, 1863; commanding steamer Augusta, 1864-5; Fleet-Captain
West India Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop Guer
riere, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1868; member of Examining JSpard.
1869 j at present, on prdnance 4]itv, $>vy Yard, Philadelphia^

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CAPTAIN LOUIS C. SARTORI*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, February 2, 1829;
attached to ship Warren and schooner Enterprise, Brazil Station, 1831-3;
frigate Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron, 1834; frigate Constellation,
West Indies, 1835 ; ship Natchez, West Indies, 1836-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1837 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1838 ; frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1839-r41.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841 ; receiving-ship, North Caro
lina, New York, 1842; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1843; ship Plymouth, Medi
terranean and Brazil Squadron, 1845-6; bomb-schooner Stromboli, Mexican
War, 1847-8; at the capture of Tobasco, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-52; on
board steamer Allegheny, frigates Constitution and Independence; receiving-
ship, Pennsylvania, Norfolk, 1853; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1853-4; ship
John Adams, Pacific Squadron, 1855-6 ; commanded expedition and engage
ment against the Fejees, 1855; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1857-8; commanding
steamer Water- Witch, West Indies, 1859-60.
Commissioned as Commander, April 7, 1861 ; commanding steamer Flag,
Blockading Squadron, 1861; commanding receiving-ship, Ohio, Boston, .1862;
commanding steamer Florida, North Atlantic Squadron, 1862; commanding ship
Portsmouth, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5; commanding steamer Agawan,
North Atlantic Squadron, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, September 26, 1866; commanding steamer Ossipee,
Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; commanding'steamer Saranac and Lackawanna, 1870.

CAPTAIN JAMES F. ARMSTRONG,
Born in New Jersey, November 20, 1817. Appointed from New Jersey, March
7, 1832; attached to frigate Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron, 1833-6; sloop
Boston, West India Squadron, 1837.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838; schooner Enterprise, Home
Squadron, 1839—10; receiving-ship, Boston, 1842-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 8, 1842 ; sloop Vincennes, East India
Squadron, 1845-6; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1847-9; frigate Ohio, Pacific
Squadron, 1849-50; sloop Albany, Home Squadron, 1851-2; Navy Yard, Pensa
cola, 1853-5 ; sloop Jamestown, coast of Africa, 1855-7 ; rendezvous, Philadel
phia, 1858 ; commanding steamer Sumpter, Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, April 27, 1861 ; commanding State of Georgia,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-6 ; bombardment and surrender of
Fort Macon, and combined attack of military and naval forces, April 25, 1862.
Commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-sloop, San
Jacinto, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; Commandant Navy Yard,
Pensacola, Florida, 1865-8; at present in charge of iron-clads, New Orleans.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM RONCKENDORFF,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 17, 1832;
attached to the schooner Experiment, on the coast, ahd transferred to the
schooner Porpoise, West India Squadron, 1832-3 ; frigate Constitution and
sloop John Adams, Mediterranean -Squadron, 1835-7.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838; brig Consort, Coast Sur
vey, 1839-41; sloop Preble, Mediterranean Squadron, 1842-3.
' Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 28, 1843 ; frigate Congress, Brazil
Squadron, 1843-5 ; 1845, bearer of dispatches, by the way of the Isthmus
of Panama, to the Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Squadron, and served in
that squadron during the Mexican War, returning to New York from that
station, in the frigate Savannah, September, 1847 ; sloop Portsmouth, coast of
Africa, 1849-51 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1852 ; frigate Cumberland, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1852-5; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1855-8; commanding
steamer M. W. Chapin, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1859 ;
attached to Coast Survey* 1860.
Commissioned as Commander, June 29, 1861. On the 28th of February,
1861, Commander Ronckendorff was ordered to take command of the steamer
Water Witch, and proceed to the Gulf Squadron, on special service, until Octo
ber tff 1861, at which date he was detached, and ordered to proceed North as
bearer of important dispatches to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, from Flag-
Officer McKean ; reported to the Hon. Secretary, October 22d, and was directed
to settle his account with the Fourth Auditor, while acting as Paymaster of the
Water Witch; December 27, 1861, ordered to tne steam-sloop San Jacinto, and
on March 4, 1862, ordered to proceed with that vessel in search of the ship-of-
the-line Vermont, supposed to be on George's Shoals ; March 8th, returned to
Boston Navy Yard, and on the following day, ordered to proceed to Hampton
Roads with the San Jacinto, with greatest dispatch, and report to the senior-
officer present, to watch and attack if necessary, the Confederate steamer Mer
rimac ; May 15, 1862, participated in the attack oh the fortifications on Sewell's
Point; May 18, 1862, proceeded to Norfolk with the San Jacinto; May 23,
1862, sailed from Hampton Roads to Key West with Flag-Officer Lardner on
board; August 1, 1862, returned North with the San Jacinto, by order of Flag-
Officer — having yellow fever on board; September 29, 1862, ordered to join the
North Atlantic Squadron with the San Jacinto, and to proceed off Wilmington,
North Carolina — blockading, October 9, 1862 ; ordered to return from Wilming
ton with the San Jacinto to Hampton Roads ; October 26, 1862, ordered to
proceed in the San Jacinto to Bermuda, and cruize among the West India
Islands in search of the rebel steamer Alabama; May 26, 1863, detached from
the San Jacinto and reported for the command of the steam-sloop Ticonderoga,
May 28, 1863; ordered to the West Indies, in the Ticonderoga, as flag-ship of
that squadron, under Rear Admiral Lardner, to look after the rebel cruisers ;
September 28, 1863, ordered to Philadelphia in the Ticonderoga, for repairs ;
October 16, 1863, detached from the Ticonderoga and ordered to the command
ofthe frigate Powhatan, and to proceed to the West Indies as flag-ship of that
squadron ; October 14, 1864, detached from the command of the Powhatan —
she having returned home ; October 18, 1864, ordered to report to Rear Admi
ral Gregory, at New York, for special duty ; was ordered West on a Court of
Inquiry, held at Erie, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville, Kentucky, and then
returned to Philadelphia; February 15, 1865, ordered to command the iron-clad
Monadnock, up the James River — was there until the evacuation of Richmond
— came down the river and anchored off Fortress Monroe to look out for the
Stonewall ; in May, sailed in the Monadnock, in a squadron commanded by
Admiral Godon to Havana, in search of the Stonewall ; Jujy 9, 1865, trans
ferred from the1 iron-clad Monadnock to the iron-clad Tonawanda, and after a
short cruise in her, was detached, she being laid up, and ordered to command
the receiving-ship at Philadelphia, January 1, 1866. Commander Ronpkendorff
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Commissioned as Captain, September 27, 1866; commanding Naval Rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1869. Captain Ronckendorff has seen twenty-one years and
six months' sea service, and has had nine years shore duty since he entered
the navy.

CAPTAIN JAMES C. WILLIAMSON*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New York, January 7, 1832 ; attached
to frigate United States, 1832; frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron,
1833; frigate Constellation, Mediterranean "Squadron, 1834; sloop Peacock,
1835; sloop Ontario, Brazil Squadron, 1836; Naval School, 1836; sloop St.
Louis, 1836-7 ; Naval School, New York, 1837-9.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 8, 1839 ; Navy Yard, New York,
1839 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1840 ; schooner Grampus, coast of Africa,
March, 1840 ; Prize-Master of schooner Mary Ann, from coast of Africa,
March, 1840 ; Naval Rendezvous, 1840-1; frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1841; Sailing-Master of sloop Fairfield, Mediterranean Squadron,
1841 ; Sailing-Master of sloop Vandalia, West India Squadron, 1843 ; receiving-
ship, New York, 1843-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 25, 1844; sloop Vincennes, East
India Squadron, 1845-7; Home Squadron, 1848; sloop St. Louis, Brazil
Squadron, 1849-51; sloop Albany, Home Squadron, 1852-3; steam-sloop San
Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1855-8. In 1856, engaged in sounding out the
channel, in a ship's boat, under the fire from the fort on Canton River, at which
time one man was killed in the boat. Executive-Officer steam-sloop Brooklyn,
special service, 1861; in charge of the landing of troops at Fort Pickens,
Florida, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, April 15, 1861 ; commanding steamer Pen
guin, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commanding steamer Flag,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; conveyed a fleet of some 20 sail
of vessels, called the " cotton fleet," from Port Royal to New York ; in Decem
ber, 1864, captured some rebels in a boat on Vernon River, Georgia, from
whom he learned nearly the location of General Sherman approaching the At
lantic Coast ; sent out picket-boats on the Ogeechee and Vernon Rivers and
picked up the scouts of General Sherman's Army, coming down the Ogeechee
in a dug-out. Special duty, New Orleans, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, October 10, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1868-9.

CAPTAIN ALBERT G. CLARY,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, May 8, 1832 ; attached
to sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1834-6 ; Naval School, New York, 1837.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 8, 1839 ; sloop Marion, Brazil Squad
ron, 1839—42; receiving-ship, Boston, 1843-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 11, 1845 1 sloop Preble, Home Squadron,
during the war with Mexico, at Tuspan and Tobasco; sloop Preble, Pacific
Squadron, 1847-5*0 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1852 ; sloop Marion, coast of Africa,
1853 ; frigate Constitution, coast of Africa, 1854-5 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1856-7; steam-frigate Minnesota, East India Squadron,
1858-9; steam-frigate Colorado, 1861 j commanding steamer Apacpsstia, Potomac.

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Flotilla, 1861; engagement at Acquia Creek, May 31 and June 1, 1861 ; battle
of Port Royal, November 7, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer Mount
Vernon, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; commanding steamer
'Tioga, West India Squadron 1863 ; commanding steam-sloop Dacotah, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding steam-sloop Seminole, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; commanding receiving-ship Norfolk, 1866.
Commissioned as Captain, November 21, 1866.

CAPTAIN GEORGE HENRY PREBLE*
Born in Portland, Maine, and appointed a Midshipman from that State, October
10, 1835; frigate United States, Mediterranean, May, 1836 to November, 1838;
sloop Warren, frigate Macedonian, sloop Levant, and sloop Erie, West Indies,
January 1839 until September, 1840 ; attended Naval Sehool, at Philadelphia,
from January to June 19, 1841, when he wasjwarranted Passed Midshipman,
No. 7, in a class of 24 ; was Acting Lieutenant of schooner Madison and brigan
tine Jefferson, on the Florida Expedition, from August, 1841 to August 1842;
went on several canoe expeditions into the everglades, and returned with the
expedition sick ; in receiving-ship Ohio, at Boston, from October, 1842 to May,
1843; Acting Master and Acting Lieutenant in sloop St. Louis, East Indies,
and circumnavigating the world, May, 1843 to September, 1845; had charge of
first American armed force ever landed in China, for the protection of American
Consulate and residents of Canton, June and July, 1844 ; Acting Master and
Executive of schooner Petrel, in the Gulf of Mexico, May, 1846 to May, 1847 ;
participated in surrender of Alvarado, . Laguna, Tampico and Panuco, and
assisted at seige, etc., of Vera Cruz ; returned to United States in ship-of-the-line
Ohio, sick, May 31.
Warranted as Master, in the line of promotion, July 15, 1847.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 5, 1848 ; returned to the Gulf in sloop
Saratoga, February, 1848, and came home sick, March, 1849 ; Executive-Officer of
steamer Legree, Coast Survey, April, 1849 to January, 1851 ; from January to
August, 1851, in frigate St. Lawrence, which conveyed American contributors to
World's Fair, at London, and then conveyed our Minister to Lisbon ; commanding
schooner Gallatin, etc., Coast Survey, August 1851 to December, 1852 ; Decem
ber, 1852 to March, 1853, attached to the Vermont, 74; on Japan expedition
and in China waters, from April, 1853 to August, 1856, in Macedonian, and
commanding chartered steamer Queen; assisted in the surveys of Jeddo and
Hakodadi Bays; and also surveyed the harbor of Kealung, Island of Formosa,
his charter of which is published in the official report of the expedition ; was
on several successful expeditions against pirates in China, and received the thanks
of Commodore Abbot and of the English Admiral, Sir James Sterling, for the
part taken by him in the one to Kulan ; commanded an expedition to Foo-chow-
foo, in the American steamer Confucius, destroying several pirate junks; pre
pared sailing directions for Shanghai, which were published by the English and
United States governments, and in several private editions ; was Light-house
Inspector of First District (coast of Maine and New Hampshire), from Septem
ber, 1856 to October, 1857 ; at Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, Octo
ber^ 1857 to September, 1859; Executive-Officer of steam-sloop Narragansett,
Pacific Squadron, September, 1859 until November, 1861, and ordered home at
his own request to serve on the Atlantic Coast; in January, 1862, took command

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of the steam-gunboat Katahdin, equipping at Boston, and March 29, reported
to Admiral Farragut, West Gulf Squadron ; passed the forts with the fleet, April
24, f862, engaged the enemy's fleet, and was at the attack upon the lower
defences and at the surrender of New Orleans ; participated in all of Farragut's
operations on the river that year, as far as Vicksburg — assisting in destroying!
Grand Gulf; August 4, 1862, was transferred to the command of the steam-sloop
Oneida; while steaming up the river above New Orleans, at night, August 8th,
the Oneida was purposely run into by the steamboat Lewis T. Whitman, and /
although every effort was made to save her crew and passengers (seventy of whom
were saved), many lives were lost. Her rebel captain was sent to New Orleans
in irons, and after his release, served upon the steam-tug Boston and conveyed
her to the rebels at Mobile.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; on the blockade off Mobile,
August 25 to October, 1862 ; on August 29 he was left senior officer present,
four vessels out of seven of our usual blockading force having left for coal and
repairs ; on September 4th, about 6 P. M., a steamer flying English colors, and
having every appearance of one of Her Britannic Majesty's gunboats, approached
the bar, and was met by our vessels underway; the Oneida fired three shots
across the stranger's bow, the last at her fore-foot, without bringing her to ; and
then, within three minutes of the first gun, fired a broadside into her, and con
tinued the chase, with the other vessels, until she, from her superior speed, was
enabled to run in over the southeast shoals under cover of Fort Morgan's guns.
This steamer proved to be the rebel cruiser Oreto, afterward called the Florida.
Her commander subsequently wrote as follows :
" I can vouch for his (Preble's) promptness and destructive energy on the
occasion of my entering Mobile Bay. The superior speed of the Florida alone
saved her from destruction, though not from a frightful mauling. We were
torn to pieces — one man's head taken off, and eleven wounded; boats stand
ing and running-rigging shot away, also foregaff. Four shells struck our hull,
and had the one (11-inch) that grazed our boiler, and entered the berth-
deck (killing one and wounding two), exploded, every man belonging to the
steamer would have been killed, as I had only the officers on deck, until about
to cross the bar, when I made some sail, and one man was wounded in the rig
ging; we had about 1,400 shrapnel shot (balls) in our hull, and our masts
were pitted like a case of small-pox. The damage done her was so great that
we did not, get to sea again for over three months."
For not preventing the Qreto's running the blockade, Commander Preble was
summarily dismissed from the naval service, by order of September 20, 1862,
but was nominated to the Senate by the President, and on recommendation of
the Naval Committee, was, on February 21, 1863, confirmed and restored to his
proper rank and position as a Commander ; the injustice of his summary
"dismissal being generally admitted. April 9, 1863, agreeably to orders from the
Navy Department, proceeded via England to Lisbon, and June 3d, took command
of the sailing sloop St. Louis at the latter port, and ordered to cruise for rebel
corsairs between Lisbon, the Azores, Canary Islands and Gibraltar. Though
requesting more active duty, and command of a steamer on the coast, he was •
in cdmmand of the St. Louis cruising within those limits until ordered to Port
Royal, South Carolina, September 3, 1864; once falling in with his old foe, the
Florida, at Madeira, and preventing her from getting a full supply of coal, but
not able to prevent her from running out in a calm. He gave chase as soon as
he got wind, but of course did not catch her.
Reported to the Admiral' November 2, 1864; took charge of the coal depot,
and blockaded in the North Edisto until November 24, when he was ordered to

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command the Fleet Brigade then organized by Admiral Dahlgren at Port Royal,
to co-operate with an army force designed to assist General Sherman's approach
to the coast; this brigade, consisting of naval artillery, sailor infantry, and a
marine battalion, 493 all told, joined an army force under General J. P. Hatch
at, Boyd's Neck, and on the 30th of November, 1864, engaged in the severe
battle of Honey Hill ; it also took part in the actions of the 6th, 7th and 9th
of December on De Vaux's Neck, and was daily under fire until withdrawn on
the 28th of December; the general orders and written commendations of Rear-
Admiral Dahlgren and Generals Foster, Hatch and Potter, were gratifying
to all connected with the brigade; (see Secretary of Navy's Report, 1865;)
April 4th, transferred to the command of the steamer State of Georgia,
and proceeded to Aspinwall to look after American interests ; his vessel and
the Huntsville rescued six or seven hundred passengers from the wrecked
steamship Golden Rule, near Aspinwall ; in acknowledgement of this service he
received the thanks of the rescued people, transmitted through the Navy
Department; the State of Georgia returned to New York, and went out of
commission September 11, 1865 ; at Boston Navy Yard as General Inspector of
supplies, from October 14, 1865 to July 5, 1867, and continued as Equipment-
Officer until July, 1868 ; Chicf-of-Staff, North Pacific Squadron, from August
1868 until December 19th following, when ordered to command the flag-ship
Pensacola, his present duty.
Commissioned as Captain, March 16, 1867, to take rank from January 29,
1867; total sea service, to January, 1870, 21 years, 8 months; shore or other
duty, 7 years, 11 months. Official residence, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

CAPTAIN EGBERT THOMPSON,*
Born in New York, 1822. Appointed from New York, March 13,1837;
attached to razee Independence, special service, 1837-8 ; Exploring Expe
dition, 1838-42; brig Somers, special service, 1842-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; frigate Cumberland, flag-ship,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-5 ; Executive-Officer, steamer Bonita, Home
Squadron, June, 1846 to June, 1847 ; during the Mexican War, participated in
all the active operations of the fleet ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, December,
1847 to May, 1850; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1850.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 27, 1850 ; sloop Decatur, Home
Squadron, February, 1851 to June 1832 ; receiving-ship, North Carolina, July,
1852 to July, 1855; sloop St. Louis,, coast of Africa, 1855-8; ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Washington, September, 1858 to August, 1859 ; steamer Fulton,
1859, wrecked in a hurricane, and taken to Pensacola forTepairs ; steam-sloop
Pensacola, 1859-60; steam-sloop Powhatan, Gulf Squadron, 1860-1; com
manding iron-clad Pittsburgh, Mississippi Flotilla, 1861-2 ; participated in the
battle of Fort Donaldson, when the Pittsburgh was run ashore to save her from
' sinking; noted for running the batteries of Island No. 10, April 7, 1862, which
elicited the thanks ofthe Department; took part in the attack on the batteries
opposite New Madrid, and in the engagement with the rebel rams above Fort
Pillow. Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; Naval Rendezvous, Philadel
phia, 1863-4 ; commanding steamer Commodore McDonough, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; commanding steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific
Squadron, 1866-7.

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Commissioned as Captain, July 26, 1867; Naval Station, Mound City, Illi-
nois, 1869-70.

CAPTAIN GEORGE H. COOPER,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, August 14, 1837; attached
to fleet operating on coast of Florida, 1837, and was constantly employed co-ope
rating with the army in boat expeditions against the Seminole Indians ; frigate
Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1838-42 ; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1843.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1843; schooner Flirt, Home
Squadron, 1846-7. ,
The Flirt reported for duty to General Zachary Taylor in March, 1846. Passed
Midshipman Cooper commanded a detachment of men at Point Isabel, Texas,
under Major Monroe ofthe U. S. Army, previous to and after the battles of 8th
and 9th of May. After the capture of Monterey, was transferred to Commo
dore Connor's squadron, and was in both attacks on Tobasco, and attacks on
Alvarado and Tuspan. Served in the squadron until the reduction of the
Capital. Receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1847-8; Naval Station, Norfolk, 1849-50; steam-
frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1850-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 8, 1 851 ; rendezvous, Norfolk, 1856 ;
ordnance duty, Norfolk, 1857; steam-frigate Roanoke, Home Squadron, 1859-
60; Navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer Massa
chusetts, supply vessel, Atlantic Squadron, 1862; commanding steamer Merce-
dita, S. A. B. Squadron, 1863.
Was seven weeks in command of monitor Sangamon, inside of Charleston
Roads, employed on picket duty, and acting in concert with the army, constantly
shelling Fort Sumpter and the batteries on Sullivan's Island ; stationed in Stono
Inlet, South Carolina, as senior-officer, co-operating with the army in expedi
tions against the enemy, and frequently engaged at short range.
Commanding steamer Sonoma, S. A. B. Squadron, 1863-4; commanding
steamer Glaucus, E. G. B. Squadron, 1864-5; commanding steamer Winooskie,
special service, 1866^-7; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Captain, December 2, 1867. At present, under orders to
command steam-frigate Colorado, Asiatic Squadron.

CAPTAIN CHARLES H. B. CALDWELL,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Connecticut, February 27, 1838;
serving in Mediterranean Squadron, 1838—40.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844; sloop Portsmouth, Pacific
Squadron, 1845; frigate United States, Mediterranean Squadron, 1847; brig
Boxer, coast of Africa, 1848-9 ; sloop Yorktown, coast of Africa, 1849-50;
Navy Yard, Boston, 1852.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 4, 1852 ; sloop Vandalia, East India
Squadron, 1853-4; Light-house Inspector, 1855-7; sloop Vandalia, Pacific
Squadron, 1858-9 ; defeated a tribe of Cannibals, at Wega, one of the Fejee
Islands, and burned their town, October 11, 1858; with a detachment of seamen
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1861; commanding steamer Itasca, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862;
bombardment and passage of forts Jackson and St. Philip and Chalmette batter
ies and capture of New Orleans; Grand Gulf, Mississippi River, June 10, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding iron-clad Essex,
Mississippi Squadron, 1862-3; Port Hudson, from March to July, 1863, in
command of Essex and mortar flotilla; commanding steamer Glaucus, North At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1863—4; commanding steamer R. R. Cuyler, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; present at surrender of Wilmington;
naval rendezvous, Boston, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Captain, December 12, 1867; Cbief-of-Staff, North Atlantic
Fleet, 1870.

CAPTAIN HENRY K. DAVENPORT,*
Born in Georgia. Appointed Midshipman, February 19, 1838 ; served in the
West India Squadron, in Constellation, Vandalia and Macedonian, from April,
1838 to September, 1841; Experiment and steamer Union, 1842-3.
Passed examination and warranted Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844 ; Coast
Survey, 1844-5 ; frigate Columbia, coast of Brazil, 1845, '46 and '47 ; Observa
tory, 1847, '48 and '49; mail steam-ship service, 1849-53; in command a part
ofthe time ofthe Cherokee, El Dorado, Crescent City and Ohio.
Promoted to Lieutenant, December 19, 1852; steamer Princeton, 1854-5; Ob
servatory, 1855-6 ; sloop-of-war Portsmouth, East Indies, 1856, '57 and 58 ; was
present at the bombardment, storming and capture of the Barrier Forts, Canton
River, 1856; ordnance duty and Observatory, 1858, '59 and '60; Susquehanna,
1860-61; Cumberland, 1861; was present (First Lieutenant) at bombardment
and capture of forts Hatteras and Clarke, at Hatteras Inlet ; in command of
steamer Hetzel, 1861, '62, '63 and '64; in fight with rebel gunboats in James
River above Newport News, 1861 ; in command of a column of five gunboats in
the battles of Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City, where they captured and de
stroyed the entire rebel flotilla under Commodore Lyndh, in the Sounds of
North Carolina; (the Commander of Lynch's flag-ship taken prisoner by the
Hetzel ;) and at Newbern ; was senior officer in command in sounds of North
Carolina, 1862, '63 and '64, and in several battles, skirmishes and expeditions,
in the waters of North Carolina, covering the flanks of the army. Received
the thanks of General commanding Fort Anderson for saving his command
from capture by a greatly superior force.
Promoted to Commander, July 16, 1862 ; in command of Lancaster, and
Powhatan, 1864, '65 and '66, in the Pacific Ocean ; received the thanks of the
Navy Department for the capture of seven pirates on board the steamer Salva
dor, Pacific.
Promoted to Captain, March, 1868; on Navigation Duty, Navy Yard, Wash
ington, 1867-70.
Total sea service (1870), 20 years, 3 months; shore or other duty, 8 years,
5 months. Residence, Washington.

CAPTAIN NAPOLEON B. HARRISON,
Born in Virginia, February 19, 1823. Appointed from Virginia, February 26,
1838; attached to schooner Enterprise, Atlantic Coast, 1839-40 ; receiving-ship
Norfolk, 1843; store-ship Erie, coast of Africa, 1845-6.
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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844; sloop Portsmouth, Pacific
Squadron, 1847-8 ; served in California during the war with Mexico, as a vol
unteer in the expedition that rescued General Kearney's command ; volunteered
to carry information from San Francisco to Monterey in the Portsmouth's
launch, and was out five days in a gale of wind ; Observatory, Washington,
1850; Coast Survey, 1851-2.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, January 6, 1853 ; Naval Storekeeper, East India
Squadron, 1853—4'; store-ship Supply, East India Squadron, 1855 ; receiving-
ship Boston, 1856-7 ; sloop Cumberland, coast of Africa, 1858-9; sloop James
town, 1861 ; commanding steamer Cayuga, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1862. The Cayuga was the flag-ship of Captain Bailey, Farragut's second in
command, and led the line of vessels at the passage of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, and up to the city of New Orleans. Lieutenant Commanding Harrison
was specially commended in the official reports for his gallantry, and the skillful
manner in which he fought his vessel.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer Mahaska,
James River Fotilla, during the operations of McClellan before Richmond, and
his retreat to Harrison's Landing ; commanding steam-frigate Minnesota, flag
ship North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; attached to South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; took part in the operations of the South Caro
lina Coast, from the early part of 1863 to the fall of Charleston, in 1865; Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Captain, April 28, 1868 ; Commandant of Midshipmen at
Naval Academy, Annapolis, 1868-9 ; commanding steam-sloop Congress, North
Atlantic Fleet, 1870.

CAPTAIN JOHN C. FEBIGER*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Ohio, September 14, 1838 ; attached
to frigate Macedonian, West India Squadron, 1838-40 ; sloop Concord, Brazil
Squadron, 1841-3 ; wrecked in Concord on east coast of Africa, 1843 ; attached
to brig Chippola, purchased by government at Rio de Janeiro, and'used to re
cover and dispose of equipment of Concord,- 1843-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844; frigate Potomac, Home
Squadron, 1844-5; sloop Dale, Pacific Squadron, 1846-7; frigate Columbus,
Pacific Squadron, 1848 ; sloop Dale, African Squadron, 1850 ; Coast Survey,
1852-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 30, 1853; sloop Germantown, East India
Squadron, 1858-60 ; sloop Savannah, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, August 11, 1862; commanding the steamer
Kanawha, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; engagement off Mobile
Bay, April 3, 1862 ; commanding steamers Osage, Nersho and Lafayette, Mis
sissippi Squadron, 1863 ; commanding steamer Mattabeset, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; engagement with rebel ram Albemarle, in Al
bemarle Sound, May, 1864; commanding steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron,
1866-8. Commissioned as Captain, May 6, 1868; commanding steam-sloop Shenan
doah, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9. While commanding the Shenandoah, entered
and surveyed Ping- Yang Inlet, west coast of Corea. Special duty as Inspector
of Naval Reserved Lands, 1869-70.

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CAPTAIN PEIRCE CROSBY,*
Born in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Appointed Midshipman from Penn
sylvania, June 5, 1838 ; attached to line-of-battle-ship Ohio, from 1838 until the
Summer of 1841, while flag-ship in the Mediterranean; attached to receiving-
vessel Experiment, at Philadelphia ; afterward attached to steamer Mississippi,
on her trial trip with the Missouri, from New York to Washington. In 1842,
was attached to the frigate Congress, and sailed with her from Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, to the Mediterranean ; served in her six months ; was then trans
ferred to the sloop Preble, and returned to the United States in the Fall of
1843, and was then attached to the Naval School at Philadelphia.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May, 1844; Coast Survey from Summer of
1844 to Summer of 1846, when he was ordered to the sloop Decatur, and served
in her six months in the Gulf of Mexico, during the Mexican War ; participated
in the attack and capture of Tuxpan and Tobasco. Was then transferred to the
gunboat Petrel, and served in her one year, until peace was declared in the*
Summer of 1848; afterward was attached to the store-ship Relief, in 1849,
carrying supplies to the Mediterranean and Coast of Africa Squadron, until the
Summer of 1850 ; attached to Philadelphia Navy Yard from Fall of 1850 to
1852, inclusive, and then transferred to receiving-ship stationed at Philadelphia,
until Spring of 1853 ; became attached to the frigate Sacramento, then fitting
for sea at Norfolk ; was soon detached from her and placed on waiting orders.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 3, 1853 ; in the Winter of 1853,
was ordered to sloop Germantown, and sailed in her in the Spring of 1854, from
Boston to the coast of Brazil, and returned to the United States in February,
1857; attached to receiving-ship at Philadelphia, until the latter part of 1858 ;
sailed in the sloop Saratoga, in the Fall of 1858, for the Gulf of Mexico, and
with the exception of forty days on board the Brooklyn, under Captain (now
Admiral) Farragut, served two years; and returned to the United States in the
Saratoga, in 1860 ; attached to the receiving-ship at Philadelphia, from 1860 to
Spring of 1861; inthe Spring and Summer of 1861, served in Chesapeake
Bay, keeping open communication between Annapolis and Havre de Grace,
capturing and destroying rebel vessels in the Bay, and cutting off rebel supplies
and communications. In the Summer of 1861, received orders, and was attached
to the frigate Cumberland ; was detailed for duty on shore at Fortress Monroe ;
transported the troops across Hampton Creek, on the night prior to the battle of
Big Bethel, also transported them on their return after their unsuccessful attempt
to take that place. Volunteered and took the steamer Fannie (a canal boat),
secured her boilers temporarily down to the deck with chains, and proceeded
with her, in company with the squadron, to the attack on Forts Hatteras and
Clarke, in order to have a light-draft vessel to operate in landing troops at that
place ; superintended the landing of troops, until the heavy surf swamped and
broke up the boats and dashed them on the beach, when Lieutenant Crosby took
a ship's heavy launch and landed two more boat-loads of troops, until the sea
became so heavy that it threw the launch upon the beach, dashing all the crew
out of her on to the shore. After thus having landed three hundred men and
officers, the squadron and transports, on account of the bad weather, stood off
seaward, leaving the troops landed on the shore, until the following day, when
the squadron returned, opened fire, and captured the forts, which were garrisoned
by over seven hundred men, who had been led to believe, by the display made by
the troops landed, that their force was over two thousand strong. In this way
the rebels were deceived, and our troops were saved from attack and probable
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in a disorganized state, could not, in all probability, have successfully opposed
double their number. Lieutenant Crosby succeeded in getting a strong picket
thrown across the point in front of the enemy's batteries, thus preventing their
making a reconnoissance or ascertaining the actual force of the Union troops,
when the squadron returned on the following day, and relieved them from their
critical position. Was especially mentioned in General Butler's official report
of the expedition. Captured several schooners running the blockade, they not
knowing the forts had surrendered.
In the Fall, and shortly after the capture of these forts, was ordered to the
command of the gunboat Pembino, fitting out at New York ; but was taken dan
gerously ill with typhoid fever, brought on by constant exposure, privations and
fatigue in the performance of his duties. In the Winter of 1861, took com
mand of the gunboat Pinola, at Baltimore ; took her to Washington, received
her battery, and sailed for the Gulf Squadron, joining Admiral Farragut's com
mand in the Spring of 1862. While on his way to join the squadron, captured
the schooner Cora, loaded with cotton, and sent her North as a prize. Com
manded the Pinola on the memorable night when she co-operated with the Itasca
in breaking through the chain barrier across the Mississippi, at Forts Jackson
and St. Philip. The Itasca successfully slipped the end of the cable on the op
posite shore to Fort Jackson, and in so doing ran hard and fast aground, but
through the skillful exertions of Commander Crosby, was rescued from her
critical position, at about two o'clock in the morning. The Pinola's duty on
this occasion was to blow up with torpedoes the vessels holding the chain bar
rier, and anchored directly under Fort Jackson's guns — which was twice tried.
The vessels were boarded, which immediately drew the fire of Fort Jackson;
torpedoes were placed in the hold, also outside of the vessels, and everything
carefully arranged ; but owing to the mass of floating timber around the vessels,
the strong current and dark night, the wires attached to the galvanic battery
and torpedoes were broken just as the attempt was made to explode them. When
the third attempt was about being made, a boat arrived alongside, announcing
the Itasca ashore, and in want of the Pinola's assistance to get her afloat; the
attempt to blow up the vessels was reluctantly given up for the time, to assist the
Itasca, and in going to her assistance again drew the fire of Fort Jackson. In
the first attempt to pull the Itasca afloat, two hawsers broke, but succeeded with
an eleven-inch hawser the second time in pulling her off; and in doing this, the
Pinola passed well up through the barrier under Fort St. Philip, far enough to
prove that the road was clear, but owing to the heavy bombardment of the mor
tar fleet, was not heard or seen.
Participated in the bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans; also in the bombardment,
passage and re-passage of batteries at Vicksburg, and engagement with the rebel
iron-clad Arkansas. Blockaded off Mobile in the Fall of 1862 ; was ordered
North to command the iron-clad Sangamon.
Was promoted to Commander, September 3, 1862 ; detached from Sangamon,
and appointed Fleet-Captain, North Atlantic Squadron, under Rear Admiral S.
P. Lee ; commanded an expedition up the York River, co-operating with Gen.
Dix, in command of the Army Corps at the White House. In the Winter ot
1863, took command of the Florida, destroyed two blockade-runners at Mason
boro' Inlet, while attempting to run the blockade, just at the break of day, and
in so doing drew the sharp lire of flying batteries on shore ; was transferred to
the command of the Keystone State in 1864 ; captured five blockade-runners
while in command of her, and caused many others to throw overboard their car
goes in order to escape. Detached from Keystone State, and ordered to the

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Muscoota ; detached from the Muscoota, and ordered to the Meticomel, 1864-5 ;
blockaded off Galveston, Texas, and commanded her in the attack on Mobile.
Planned and directed the construction of torpedo-nets, and spread them from
shore to shore of the Blakely River, which caught all the floating torpedoes sent
down to destroy the vessel ; also planned torpedo drag-nets, superintended the
removal of one hundred and forty torpedoes, and successfully cleared the track
so as to allow the Squadron to pass up safely to the city of Mobile. Occupied
Forts Huger and Tracy on the night of the evacuation by the rebel forces ; was
especially commended by Admiral Thatcher in his official report of the naval
operations at that port ; was detached from the Metacomet, pn her return to
Philadelphia, in August, 1865, at the close of the war. In September, 1865,
received orders to command the Shamokin ; sailed in her for the coast of Brazil,
where he remained until 1868.
Promoted to Captain, May 27, 1868, and detached, returning to the United
States by the mail steamer. While in command of the Shamokin conveyed
Minister Washburn to Paraguay. At present stationed at Norfolk Navy Yard
as Inspector of Ordnance.

CAPTAIN RICHARD T. RENSHAW,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 26, 1838;
attached to frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1838-^0; steamer Missouri,
Home Squadron, 1842-4.
'Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844 ; steamer Colonel Harney,
1845-6; schooner Onkahie, Brazil Squadron, 1847-8 ; receiving-ship, New York,
1851; steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 1852; resigned, June 29, 1852, and re
entered the service as Acting Lieutenant, in 1861 ; commanded steamer Louisi
ana, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-4; capture of Roanoke Island,
February 8, 1862; Washington, North Carolina, September 6, 1862; defence of
Washington, North Carolina, April, 1863, and several actions of minor importance.
Commissioned as Commander, September 22, 1862 ; commanding steamer Mas-
sasoit, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; several engagements on
James River in 1864-5; commanding steamer Agawan, Atlantic Squadron,
1865-6; navigation duty, Norfolk, Navy Yard, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Captain, 1869.

CAPTAIN JOHNSTON B. CREIGHTON,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, February 10, 1838;
attached to frigate Macedonian, West India Squadron, 1840 ; frigate Columbia,
Brazil Squadron, 1843.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844; brig Truxton, coast of Africa,
1844-6; sloop Dale, Pacific Squadron, 1846-7; store-ship Lexington, Pacific
Squadron, 1848-50 ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1850-2 ; frigate Cumber
land, Mediterranean Squadron, 1852-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, October 9, 1853 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1856-8 ;
steam-frigate, Roanoke, Home Squadron, 1859-60; commanding steamer Ottowa,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, September 20, 1862 ; special duty, 1863 ; com
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From August 8th to August 31, 1863, bombarding forts Wagner and Gregg,
Morris Island, South Carolina, while in command of the Mahaska.
Commanding the steamer Mingo, South Atlantic Blockaking Squadron,
1864-5; ordnance duty, New York, 1866-7; commanding steam-sloop Oneida,
Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Captain, November 26, 1868; special duty, New York,
1869-70.

CAPTAIN AARON K. HUGHES*
Born in New York State. Appointed Acting Midshipman from New York,
October 20, 1838; made first cruise in the Pacific Ocean, on board the frigate
Constitution, flag-ship of Commodore Alexander Clayton, Captain Daniel Turner
commanding, from January, 1839 until November, 1841 ; in February, 1842,
was ordered to the brig Boxer — served in her in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the
West Indies, until the Autumn of the same year ; served in the receiving-ship
Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Virginia, from January, 1843 until June of the same
year ; was then ordered to the frigate Macedonian, African Squadron, and served
in her until the Winter of 1844.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 28, 1844; served in the frigate
Columbia, coast of Brazil, from the Fall of 1845 until the Spring of 1846;
served during the Summer of 1846, in the office of the United States Coast
Survey; in the Fall of same year, was ordered as Passed Midshipman, to the
steamer Michigan on the Western lakes, and served in her until the Summerof
1848 ; served in the receiving-ship North Carolina, as Passed Midshipman, from
Fall of 1849 until Summer of 1850 ; was then ordered as Acting Master, to
the sloop St. Mary's, which order was revoked before that vessel went to sea ;
in about a month after, was ordered to the sloop Albany, and served in her as
Acting Master in the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, for two years and one
month and was granted leave from her in the latter part of the Fall of 1852;
in the Winter of 1853, was ordered as Acting Master to the receiving-ship
Ontario, where he received a warrant as Blaster, in the line of promotion, and
served in her until the Summer of 1853, when he was detached and granted
leave of absence.
Promoted to Lieutenant, August, 1853, and in December of same year, was
ordered as Lieutenant in sloop-of-war Decatur, Pacific Squadron, until August
of 1856; made the passage through the Straits of Magellan, from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, occupying eighty three days, or one hundred and eighteen days
from Rio Janerio, Brazil, to Valparaiso, Chili ; while attached to this vessel
in Puget Sound, Washington Territory, where he passed the Winder of 1855-6,
had an engagement on shore at the town of Seattle, with five hundred hostile
Indians, who had attempted to murder the inhabitants, pillage and destroy the
place ; but through the unremitting watchfulness of the late Commodore Guert
Gansevoort, their objects were frustrated by the landing ofthe officers and crew
of the Decatur ; engagement commenced at 8 A. M., and ended at 4 P. M., on
the 26th day of January, 1856. It was estimated that the Indians lost thirty-
five killed aud thirty wounded — this ended hostilities in the territory. In the
Winter of 1856-7, ordered as Lieutenant, and served on board the receiving-
ship Alleghany, Baltimore, as Executive-Officer until the Fall of 1857, when he
was ordered as Lieutenant and Executive-Officer to the store-ship Supply, ofthe
African and Brazil Squadrons, serving until the Fall of 1858; after a month's
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Lieutenant until June, 1859; was then ordered as a Lieutenant to the San
Jacinto, and served in her as Second Lieutenant, Executive-Officer, and about
six weeks in command of that vessel, until January, 1860 ; was then ordered by
the flag-officer commanding the African Squadron, to the sloop Portsmouth as
Executive-Officer, and served in her until June of same year; was then
reordered to the San Jacinto, at the Island of Madeira, and on her way to St.
Paul de Loanda, west coast of Africa, was sent as prize-master of the captured
slaver, Storm King, and after taking charge of that vessel two hundred miles
to the westward of the Congo River, and conveying six hundred and nineteen
recaptured Africans to Monrovia, Liberia, a distance of fifteen hundred miles,
delivered them to the charge of the Reverend John Seys, Government Agent
there ; brought the prize to Norfolk, Virginia, in September, 1860 ; in Decem
ber, 1860, ordered as Lieutenant to receiving-ship Princeton, at Philadelphia —
served in her until April 23, 1861, on which day he was ordered to the Phila
delphia City ice-boat, which had been improvised into a man-of-war in less than
twenty-four hours, as Executive, under Commander, now Rear Admiral, Oliver
S. Glisson ; served in her in the Chesapeake, convoying government transports
with troops and munitions of war, until the middle of May of same year ; was
then ordered to the frigate Mississippi — served in her as Second Lieutenant
and Executive in the Gulf Squadron, until October 31, 1861, when he was
ordered in command of the steamer Water Witch ; serving in same squadron until
April, 1862, when she was ordered North for repairs ; while in command of the
Water Witch in November, 1861, was ordered by Captain, now Rear Admiral L.
M. Powell, while lying off Fort Morgan near the entrance to Mobile Bay, to
steam in "toward the fort and endeavor to cut out a schooner, which in attempt
ing to run in, had grounded under the guns of the fort ; when within range he
opened fire upon the schooner, whieh was vigorously returned by the guns of
Fort Morgan, and from the guns of a masked battery to the eastward of the fort.
This engagement lasted for more than an hour, when a signal to haul out of
action, was made by the officer above mentioned. In May, 1862, was ordered
to command the gunboat Mohawk — served in her under flag-officer and Admiral
Du Pont, South Atlantic Squadron, until June, 1863 ; while at Fernandina,
Florida, as senior Naval-Officer, was requested by the military authorities sta
tioned there to accompany them on an expedition to St. Mary's, Georgia, for
the purpose of supplying lumber for the troops. Accordingly on November 9,
1862, the army transport having preceded him, steamed over to that place. On
approaching the town, they met the army transport with two companies of vol
unteers, returning, they having been fired into by rebel troops stationed in the
town — one of their men being dangerously, and two supposed mortally wounded,
was sent on board the Mohawk for medical treatment. He continued on his
course to the town and made fast to the wharf, sending one officer on shore who
communicated with two women, apparently the only inhabitants of the town,
they assured us that the man alluded to had been wounded by some foolish boys
— the account did not satisfy him. He then offered to give these women a safe
conduct to Fernandina, which they declined. He then determined to fire into
the town, but upon the earnest solicitation of Colonel Rich, commanding 9th
Regiment, Maine Volunteers, decided to leave without molesting the place,
upon the express understanding, however, that if a single shot was fired at the
vessel, he would return and bombard the town. He had no sooner left the
wharf, than volleys of musketry were opened upon him from different parts of
the town. The channel of the river being so narrow that he was obliged to
drop anchor in order to get the vessel's head up stream, and as soon as this
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of it, completely driving the rebels out of it, which he subsequently learned had
one hundred and fifty men concealed.
In June, 1863, was ordered to command the gunboat Cimmaron — served in
her in South Atlantic Squadron, under Rear Admiral Dahlgren, until May
1864; while in her participated in the attack on the enemy's works before
Charleston, August 17, 1863, and served in other engagements at the same place.
In October, 1864, ordered to report to Acting Rear Admiral Lee, as Ordnance-
Officer, Mississippi Squadron ; in February, 1865, was transferred as Executive-
Officer to the Mound City Naval Station, in which capacity he served until
February, 1866 ; in April, 1866, was ordered as a member of the Naval General
Court Martial assembled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served on it until
it was dissolved in June, 1866 ; in August, 1866, was ordered as Light-house
Inspector of the Sixth Light-house District, at Charleston, South Carolina
where he served until August 7, 1868, from which time up to 18th of May last
he has been on leave of absence and waiting orders.
Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862.
Promoted to Commander, November 16, 1862.
Promoted to Captain, February 10, 1869.

CAPTAIN EDMUND R. COLHOUN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Missouri, April 1, 1829 ; attached
to sloop Marion, Brazil Squadron, 1839-40 ; frigate Congress, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1841-3 ; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845; frigate Cumberland, Home
Squadron, 1846 ; Mexican War, in the first attack on Alvarado, under Commo
dore Connor, and under Commodore Perry at the first attack on Tobasco, and
afterward at its capture; served as Passed Midshipman on board the armed
prize-schooner Nonata; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1848-9; sloop Albany,
Pacific Squadron, 1849-50 ; receiving-ship Philadelphia, 1850-1 ; frigate St. Law
rence, Pacific Squadron, 1852-3; resigned, June 27, 1853; re-entered the
service as Acting Lieutenant in 1861 ; commanded steamer Hunchback, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; battle of Roanoke Island, February 7th
and 8, 1862; capture of Newbern, March 14, 1862; engagements on the Black-
water River, below Franklin, Virginia, October, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, November, 17, 1862; commanding steamer
Ladona, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; commanding, monitor
Weehawken, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; in the different actions
with Forts Sumpter, Wagner, Beauregard, etc., from July 10 to September 15,
1863 ; commanding monitor Saugas, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1864-5; engaged Howlett's Battery on James River, June 21, and again De
cember 5, 1864, took part in bombardment of Fort Fisher, December 25, 1864,
and the different engagements until its capture, January 15, 1865 ; special duty,
New York, 1866; Fleet-Captain, South Pacific Squadron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Captain, 1869; at present, commanding iron-clad Dictator,
North Atlantic Squadron.
CAPTAIN CHARLES H. BALDWIN*
Born in New York, September 3, 1822. Appointed from New York, April 24,
1839, attached to frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1839-40 ; sloop

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Fairfield, Mediterraneon Squadron, 1840-3; sloop Vandalia, 1843-4; Naval
School, Philadelphia, 1844-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845 ; frigate Congress, Pacific
Squadron, 1845-9 ; War with Mexico, operations in the neighborhood of Mazat
lan, during the time that place was in possession of the United States naval
forces, from November, 1847 to June 1848 — two engagements with the enemy.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, November, 1853; resigned, February 28, 1854;
re-entered the service as Lieutenant, 1861; commanded steamer Clifton, at the
passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and capture of New Orleans, also at
first attack on Vicksburg, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, November 18, 1862; commanding steamer
Vanderbilt; special sevvice, 1863-4; ordnance duty, Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, 1864-7; Fleet-Captain, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Captain, 1869 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Mare Island, Cali
fornia, 1869-70.

CAPTAIN ROBERT W. SHUFELDT,*
Born in New York. Appointed Midshipman from New York, May 11, 1839.
First cruise in the frigate United States, Pacific Squadron, 1839, '40 and '41 ;
in brig Bainbridge, Home Squadron, 1842, '43 and '44 ; at Naval School, Phil
adelphia, 1844-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845; on the Coast Survey in
1845-6; in frigate United States, Mediterranean Squadron, 1846-7, and sloop
Marion, same Squadron, 1847-8; in mail steamer Atlantic, 1849-50.
Promoted to Master, February 21, 1853.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1854 ; resigned June 20, 1854. (While out of
the Navy he was active in the organization of the steam commercial marine of
New York. Served two years in the Collins' line of Liverpool steamers, as Chief
Officer; superintended the building of and commanded the steamers Black War
rior and Cahawba, between New York and New Orleans ; was engaged for a
year in the effort to open a transit across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. At the
commencement of the war, was commanding the steamer Quaker City, between
New York and Havana, when he was appointed Consul General to Cuba by
President Lincoln ; served in that office for two years, under difficult and trying
circumstances, with the entire approbation of the government. He resigned in
April, 1863, and accepted a commission of Commander in the Navy, previously
tendered.) Reinstated and received commission as Comm,ander, dated November 19,
1862. In May, 1863, commanded steamer Conemaugh, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron ; was present and participated in the capture of Morris Island,
and in several of the attacks upon Fort Wagner. Commanding steamer Boteus,
East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863, '64 and '65 ; commanding steam-sloop
Hartford, flag-ship East India Squadron, 1865-6 ; commanding steam-sloop
Wachusett, Asiatic Squadron, 1866, '67 and '68 ; commanding Naval Rendez
vous, New York, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Captain, December 31, 1869 ; commanding monitor Mian-
tonomah, 1870.
Sea service (1870) 12 years, 11 months, shore and other duty, 2 years and
9 months.

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CAPTAIN ALEXANDER COLDEN RHIND,*
Born in New York. Appointed from Alabama, September 3, 1838. Attached
to line-of-battle ship Ohio, and sloop Cyane, Mediterranean, 1839, '40 and '41-
sloop Warren, West Indies, 1842-3; frigate Macedonian, coast of Africa
1843-4 ; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1844-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845. Brig Washington, Coast
Survey, 1845-6 ; Home Squadron, coast of Mexico, until end of the war; pres
ent at Alvardo and Tobasco; steamer Water Witch, Home Squadron, 1848 ;
Coast Survey, schooner Ewing, to California, 1849-50 ; sloop St. Mary's, East
Indies, 1850-1 ; Coast Survey, 1851-4.
Promoted to Master, April 30, 1853.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 17, 1854; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1855; sloop Constellation, coast of Africa, 1859, '60 'and '61; com
manding steam-gunboat Crusader, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ;
participated in various small affairs at North Edisto ; shore fight at Seabrook's
Plantation, South Carolina, the crew of the Crusader defeating a rebel' mounted
force ; capture and destruction of rebel works commanding South Edisto,
Dawho and Pon-Pon Rivers, for which he received the thanks of the Depart
ment. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Seneca, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; commanding iron
clad steamer Keokuk, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; command
ing her in the attack on defences of Charleston, April 17, 1863. Inthis en
gagement the Keokuk was struck ninety times in thirty minutes ; nineteen shots
pierced her through, at and j,ust below the water-line. Finding it impossible to
keep his vessel afloat under such an extraordinary fire, Commander Rhind with
drew from action. Being in smooth water he managed to keep her afloat during
the night, although the water was pouring into her in many places, but at 7:30
A. M. on the following morning, she went down ; the officers and crew were
saved, but lost all their effects.
Commissioned as Commander, January 2, 1863 ; commanded steamer Paul
Jones, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863, and took part in various en
gagements with Fort Wagner and other defences of Charleston ; commanded
steam-frigate Wabash, flag-ship South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863;
commanding steam-gunboat Agawam, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1864-5, and on duty in James River from May to October, 1864. Engagement
with rebel batteries at Deep Bottom, August 13, 1864. Rear Admiral Lee, in
his report of this affair, thus speaks of Commander Rhind : " I take great
pleasure in calling the attention of the Department to the gallantry and endur
ance displayed by Commander Rhind of the Agawam, and the officers and men
under his command, in the engagement with three rebel batteries, August 13,
1864, reported to the Department by Captain Smith, divisional commander on
the James River." Commander Rhind received thanks of the Department in
letter dated September 7, 1864. In December, 1864, Commander Rhind was
detailed by Admiral Porter to command the powder-boat Louisiana, and on the
night of the 23d, that vessel was exploded within two hundred and fifty yards
of Fort Fisher, the officers and men being taken off by the steamer Wilderness.
Rear Admiral Porter in his official report to the Navy Department, says: "In
conclusion, allow me to draw your attention to Commander Rhind and Lieutenant
Preston. They engaged in the most perilous adventure that was, perhaps, ever
undertaken. As an incentive to others I beg leave to recommend them for pro
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and Commander Rhind and Lieutenant Preston had made an arrangement to
sacrifice themselves in case the vessel was boarded, a thing likely to happen."
Commanding receiving-ship Vermont, New York, 1866-7 ; commanding Naval
Rendezvous, New York, 1868 ; Navy lTard, New York, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Captain, 1870.

CAPTAIN GEORGE M. RANSOM,
Born in New York. Appointed from Ohio, July 25, 1839 ; attached to sloop
Marion, Brazil Squadron, 1839-42; store-ship Erie, Pacific Squadron, 1843-4;
Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845 ; served seven months in
squadron commanded by Commodo-re David Conner, and subsequently by Com
modore M. C. Perry, on the coast of Mexico, in 1847 ; Naval Observatory,
Washington, 1847-8; sloop Portsmouth, coast of Africa, 1848-51; store-ship
Relief, Brazil Squadron, 1852; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1853.
Promoted to Master, June 28, 1853.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1854 ; brig Dolphin, Brazil Squad
ron, 1855-6; sloop Jamestown, coast of Africa, 1856-7; ordnance duty, Bos
ton, 1858-9; steam-sloop Narragansett, Pacific Squadron, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat 'Kineo, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; several engage
ments with gunboats, Mississippi River, in March and April 1862 ; passage of
forts Jackson and St. Philip, April, 1862 ; engagement with rebel ram Manas
sas, April, 1862; in May, 1862, engagement with a field battery, Grand Gulf,
Mississippi, which battery had just fired into the transport steamers, killing and
wounding several of General Williams' brigade ; Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862 ;
it was stated officially that the shells from the Kineo and Katahdin in the fore
noon caused General Breckenridge's army to fall back suddenly and in a demoral
ized condition ; engagement with rebel battery and guerillas, below Donaldson-
ville, October 4, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, January 2, 1863 ; commanding steamer Grand
Gulf, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding steamer Mus
coota, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; on duty at League Island,
Pennsvlvania, 1867-9; commanding iron-clad Terror, North Atlantic Fleet,
1869-70. Commissioned as Captain, June, 1870.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM F. SPICER,
Born in New York. Appointed from same State, June 21, 1839 ; attached to
brig Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1839-40; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1841-3;
Naval School, Philadelphia, 1843-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845 ; brig Dolphin, coast of Africa,
1846-7; receiving-ship, New York, 1848; frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1853.
Promoted to Master, June 28, 1853; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1854.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1854; sloop Levant, Mediterranean

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Squadron, 1855; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron, 1857-8; Navy
Yard, Boston, 1859; steam-frigate Niagara, special service, 1861; Navy Yard
Boston, 1862-3. '
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, January 2, 1863; commanding steamer Cam
bridge, North Atlantic Squadron, 1S64-5 ; in engagement at Fort Fisher De
cember, 1864; special duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-
commanding steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron, 1867-9; Navy Yard
Boston, 1869-70. '
Commissioned as Captain, June, 1870.

CAPTAIN SOMERVILLE NICHOLSON,
Born in New York, January 1, 1822. Appointed from New York, June 21,
1839; attached to frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1839^0; brig
Truxton, 1841-3; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845; Coast Survey, 1846-7;
steamer Alleghany, Brazil Squadron, 1848-9; Coast Survey, 1849-52; steam-
frigate Powhatan, East India Squadron, 1852—4.
Promoted to Master, September 9, 1853.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 5, 1855; steam-frigate Mississippi, East
India Squadron, 1855; ordnance duty, Washington, 1856-7; sloop Cumberland,
coast of Africa, 1858-9; sloop Macedonian, Home Squadron, 1860-1; com
manding steam-gunboat Marblehead, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862.
Commissioned as Commander, January 2, 1863; commanding steamer State
of Georgia, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding steamer
Galatea, West India Squadron, 1865; special duty, Navy Yard, Washington,
1866-8; member of Ordnance Board, 1869; commanding steam-sloop, Behicia,
Asiatic Fleet, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Captain, June, 1870.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM E. HOPKINS,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, November 13, 1839 ; attached to
sloop Vandalia, Home Squadron, 1841-3; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845; frigate Cumberland, 1847;
schooner Falcon, Home Squadron, 1848-9 ; Coast Survey, 1850-1 ; sloop Mar
ion, coast of Africa, 1851-5.
Promoted to Master, December 2, 1853.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 10, 1854; receiving-ship Philadelphia,
1856-8 ; sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1859-60 ; sloop Preble,
1861. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; rendezvous, Phila
delphia, 1862 ; commanding steamer Saginaw, Pacific Squadron, 1863-5.
Commissioned as Commander, November 4, 1863; commanding steamer
Shamrock, European Squadron, 1866-7 ; League Island, Pennsylvania, 1868.
Commissioned as Captain, June, 1870.

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CAPTAIN PAUL SHIRLEY,*
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Tennessee, July 25, 1839 ; attached to
sloop Warren, West India Squadron, 1839-41; frigate United States, schooner
Shark, and sloop Yorktown, Pacific Squadron, i842— 4; frigate Raritan, Colum
bus line-of-battle ship, coast of Brazil, 1844 ; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845. Frigate Columbia, coast of
Brazil, 1845-6 ; steamer Alleghany, 1847 ; Coast Survey, 1848-9 ; receiving-
ship at Philadelphia, 1850-1 ; survey of Gulf stream, 1851-2 ; frigate Colum
bia, Home Squadron, 1853-4.
Commissioned as Master, 1854.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 21, 1854. Frigate Susquehanna, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1856, '57 and '58 ; receiving-ship at Philadelphia, 1858 ;
sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1859-60 ; Executive-Officer of sloop
St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862. Commanding sloop
Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1863-4. While in command of the Cyane, captured
the privateer J. M. Chapman. The following is an extract from a letter of Rear
Admiral Charles H. Bell : U. S. Flag-Ship Lancaster, )
Callao, Peru, April 24, 1863. j
Sir : — I have received a copy of your report made to Captain Selfridge, of
the capture of the piratical cruiser J. M. Chapman. Your vigilance on that
occasion deserves high commendation. No one can estimate the incalculable
damage she might have done, had you failed to capture her.
Signed, CHARLES H. BELL,
Rear Admiral Commanding Pacific Squadron.
Lt.-Commander Paul Shirley, commanding United States sloop Cyane.
Commissioned as Commander, November 5, 1863. Commanding steamer
Paul Jones, off Charleston, South Carolina, 1864 ; commanding steamer Suwanee,
Pacific Squadron, 1865-6. While in command of the the Suwanee, captured
the piratical steamer Colon, at Cape St. Lucas, Lower California, commanded by
Captain Gaston D'Artois, thereby saving two of our mail steamers that would
inevitably have been captured by the Colon. Fleet-Captain North Pacific Squad
ron, and commanding flag-ship Pensacola, 1867-8 ; commanding receiving-ship
Independence, Mare Island, California, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Captain, June, 1870.

CAPTAIN THOMAS PATTISON,*
Born in New York, February 8, 1822. Appointed from New York, March
2, 1839 ; attached to steam-sloop St. Louis, Pacific Squadron, 1839-42 ; receiv
ing-ship Boston, 1843; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845 ; steamer Princeton, 1846 ;
during the Mexican War, served in the following ships as Passed Midshipman,
and Sailing-Master : Raritan, Cumberland, Electra, Scorpion, and gunboat
Reefer; Coast Survey, 1850-1; sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1852-5.
Promoted to Master, 1854.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 12, 1854 ; receiving-ship Boston,
1855-6; Navy Yard, Boston, 1857; steam-frigate Mississippi, East India
Squadron, 1857-60 ; Naval Station, Sackett's Harbor, 1860-1 ; sloop Perry,

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Atlantic Squadron, 1861; Executive-Officer of the Perry, at the time ofthe
capture of privateer Savannah off Charleston, June 4, 1861; commanding
steamer Philadelphia, Potomac Flotilla, 1861 ; engagement with Acquia Creek
batteries, October 1, 1861, and engagement with Potomac River batteries the
latter part of October, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1861; commanding
steamer Sumpter, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; commanding the
Clara Dolson, Mississippi Squadron, 1863 ; Commandant Naval Station, Mem
phis, Tennessee, 1863-5.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865 ; commanding steamer Mus
coota, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Captain, June, 1870.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM N. JEFFERS,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, September 25, 1840;
attached to frigate United States, Pacific Squadron, 1840-3; frigate Congress,
Brazil Squadron, 1844-5 ; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; steamer Vixen, Home
Squadron, 1840-7.; Mexican War — attacks on Alvarado, San Juan d'Ulloa and
Vera Cruz; capture of Tuspan and of Tampico; Coast Survey, 1848-50; mail
steamer Falcon, 1851-2.
Promoted to Master, June 12, 1854; sloop Germantown, Brazil Squadron,
1853-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 30, 1855 ; steamer Water Witch, river
La Plata, 1856; special duty, Washington, 1857-8; steam-sloop Brooklyn,
Home Squadron, 1858-60 ; steam-frigate Roanoke, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1861; commanding steamer Underwriter, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1861 ; capture of Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City and enemy's squad
ron, and numerous skirmishes in Albemarle Sound, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding iron
clad Monitor, on James River, 1862; attack on batteries at Sewell's Point, Vir
ginia, May, 1862, and battle of Fort Darling, May 15, 1862 ; ordnance duty,
Philadelphia, 1862-3 ; ordnance duty, Washington, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865 ; commanding steamer Swatara,
special service, 1865-6; commanding steamer Swatara, European Squadron,
1867-8 ; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Captain, July, 1870.

CAPTAINS ON RETIRED LIST.
Retired under the Act of February 28, 1855.

CAPTAIN BARNARD J. MOELLER,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, April 1, 1827; attached
to sloop Natchez, West India Squadron, 1828-30; sIood Ontario, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1830-1 ; Naval School, Norfolk, 1831-3.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833; Navy Yard, New York,
1834; Rendezvous, New York, 1835-6; Coast Survey, 1837-40.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 9, 1839 ; frigate Cumberland, Home
Squadron, 1846-50; retired, September 13, 1855; special duty, New York,
1860-5. Commissioned as Commander, July 10, 1861 ; special duty, Ellis' Island, New
York, 1867.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN GEORGE M. WHITE,*
Born in Georgia. Appointed from Georgia, November 1, 1828; attached to
sloop Natchez, West Indies, 1829, '30 and '31; attached to schooner Experi
ment, 1832; at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, from April to July, 1833.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834; attached to sloop Concord,
West Indies, 1836, '37 and '38; attached to St. Louis, Pacific, from May, 1839
to November, 1840; attached to schooner Shark, from November, 1840 to May,
1842; returned to the United States in the St. Louis, in September, 1842.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1841 ; at the Portsmouth Navy
Yard, from December, 1842 to September, 1843; attached to the store-ship
Lexington, from September, 1843 to May, 1844; attached to brig Somers, from
September 9, 1844 to 1846; at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, from May, 1847
to March, 1849; attached to the sloop Falmouth, from March, 1849 to Feb
ruary, 1852; attached to the receiving-ship Ohio, from October, 1852 to May,
1853; at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, from May, 1853 to September 7, 1854,
when detached and placed on the reserve list, on account of sickness.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867-

CAPTAIN EDWARD CARINGTON BOWERS,*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, February 2, 1829 ; sloop
St. Louis, Pacific Squadron, 1829, '30, '31 and '32; receiving-ship, Boston,
1833-4. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 3, 1835; frigate Constellation, West
Indies, 1836, '37 and 38; flag-ship Ohio, Mediterranean, 1839; receiving-ship,
Boston, 1840.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 26, 1841; schooner Grampus and brig
Consort, coast of Africa, 1841 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1842, '43, '44 and '45 ;
steamer Princeton, Mexico, 1846 ; ordnance transport Electra, 1847 ; sloop-of-
war Decatur, coast of Africa, 1847, '48, '49 and '50; sloop Plymouth, East
Indies, 1851-2 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1852, '53 and '54; retired in 1855;
rendezvous, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1861, '62 and '63.
Commissioned as Commander, July 21, 1861; commanding receiving-ship
Vandalia, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867. Residence, Watertown, Connecticut.

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CAPTAIN DOMINICK LYNCH,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, February 2, 1829 ; attached
to Mediterranean Squadron, on the ships Ontario, Concord, Java, Delaware and
United States, 1829-34.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 3, 1835 ; receiving-ship Hudson,
1835 ; frigates United States and Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1836-8;
sloops St. Louis and Dale, and schooner Shark, Pacific Squadron, 1839-43.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September, 1841 ; sloop Plymouth, Brazil
Squadron, and steam-frigate San Jacinto, Mediterranean Squadron, 1844-6;
steamer Mississippi, Home Squadron, and receiving-ship Pennsylvania, 1846-8;
sloops Vincennes and Vandalia, Pacific Squadron, 1849-52 ; Navy Yard, New
York, 1853-5 ; retired, 1855; chart duty, New York, 1859-60; steamer Day
light, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; capture of Fort Macon
and engagement with field batteries, Lynnhaven Bay.
Commissioned as Commander, July 21, 1861 ; at Forts Hatteras and Clark;
commanding brig Bainbridge, Aspinwall, 1862-3; commanding ordnance-ship
St. Lawrence, and in charge of naval station, Beaufort, North Carolina, 1863-5;
naval storekeeper, Philadelphia, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Captain, March, 1867 ; Executive-Officer Naval Asylum,
Philadelphia, 1867-70.

CAPTAIN CHARLES THOMAS,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, February 2, 1829 ; attached
to sloop Erie, West India Squadron, 1829-32 ; sloop Peacock, Brazil Squadron,
1832-4 ; Naval School, Norfolk, 1834-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 3, 1835 ; frigate United States, Med
iterranean Squadron, 1836-9; receiving-ship, New York, 1839-40.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, September 8, 1841 ; frigate Constitution, Home
Squadron, 1841-4; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1846-7; sloop Germantown,
Home Squadron, during Mexican war ; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1850-1 ; un
employed from 1S51 to 1863; special duty, Philadelphia, 1863-4.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM B. WHITING*
Born in New York, November 13, 1813. Appointed from New York, Febru
ary 2, 1829; attached to receiving-ship at New York, 1831 ; sloop Falmouth,
Pacific Squadron, 1831-3 ; survey of San Lorenzo, including Bocadel Diablo,
1832 ; surveys of Bays bf Ferrol and Samana, 1833 ; schooner Dolphin, Pacific
Squadron, 1833; frigate Potomac, Pacific Squadron, 1833^1; receiving-ship at
New York, 1835 ; frigate Constellation, West India Squadron, 1835-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1836; receiving-ship at New York,
1836-7; Coast Survey, 1837-42; survey of Potomac, 1842-3; frigate Mace
donian, coast of Africa, 1843-5 ; surveys of Las Palmas, and Bay of Gando,
1844 ; Observatory, Washington, 1845-50 ; Coast Survey, 1851-2; sloop Van
dalia, East India Squadron, 1852-6 ; surveys of Mew Bay, and Cumsingmoon,
1852; surveys of west coast of Loo Choo, and Deep Bay, 1853; surveys of

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Toobootch, Shah-Bay, Yeddo Bay and Hakodadi, 1854; retired, 1855 ; Naval
Observatory, Washington, 1861-70. Unable to perform duty afloat during the
war (as decided by a medical board), took charge of the Observatory in 1861,
without any assistant, in hydrographical duty, thus leaving a more able-bodied
officer available for active duty at sea.
Commissioned as Commander, July 21, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN CHARLES HUNTER,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, April 25, 1831 ;
attached to frigate Potomac, Pacific Squadron, 1831-4 ; frigate Constitution,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-6; Navy Yard, New York, 1837.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1837; receiving-ship, Philadel
phia, 1838-40.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841; sloop Concord, Brazil
Squadron, 1840-3 ; sloop Saratoga, Brazil Squadron, 1845-6 ; brig Bainbridge,
Brazil Squadron, 1846-7; sloop Albany, Home Squadron, 1850-1; retired,
1855 ; commanding steamer Montgomery, W. G. B. Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Commander, April 21, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 25, 1866.

CAPTAIN SAMUEL R. KNOX,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, April 1, 1828 ; served
on the Boston Station, from August to November, 1828; attached to the Pacific
Squadron, viz. : frigate Guerriere, from November 1828 to June, 1829 ;
schooner Dolphin to June, 1830 ; frigate Guerriere, until August, 1831 ; again
to the Dolphin; acted as Master of the Dolphin, from December, 1831 to
March, 1833 ; Boston Station, from August, 1833 to November ; furlough from
November, 1833 to March, 1837, during which time was on the northwest coast
of North America.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 15, 1837 ; ordered to Boston Station,
and appointed to the command of a chartered schooner employed on survey of
George's Bank, under command of Lieutenant^Wilkes, in the Porpoise during
the month of August and September, 1837; from November, 1837 to March,
1838, on board the brig Porpoise, survey of Savannah River, May River and
Calibogue Sound, South Carolina and Georgia ; July, 1838, to the Exploring
Expedition; served on board the Vincennes, and in command of schooner
Flying Fish — in the latter, two years and five months ; returned home in the
Vincennes in June, 1842.
Promoted to Lieutenant, September 1, 1841; Boston Station, from -July,
1842 to October, 1843 ; ordered to sloop Yorktown in October, and transferred
to sloop Plymouth, December, 1843 ; in the Mediterranean in sloop Plymouth
and frigate Cumberland, until November, 1845; receiving-ship, Boston, from
March to October, 1846; sloop Albany, November, 1846; Gulf Squadron,
coast of Mexico ; served in Naval Battery before Vera Cruz ; present at sur
render of same place in March, 1847; at the capture of Tuspan, commanded a
shore party of ninety men ; commanded schooners Flirt and Wasp, the latter
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taken into the service as a dispatch-vessel, and returned in her to Philadelphia
in August, 1848, at the termination of the Mexican War ; commanded steamer
Massachusetts, from January, 1849 to March, 1852 ; employed on special ser
vice with a Board composed of Military and Naval Officers, making a reconnois-
sance ofthe coasts of California and Oregon, for Naval and Military purposes-
receiving-ship, Boston, and Inspector of Light-houses, etc., 1853-4; sloop Fal
mouth, Home Squadron, 1854-5; retired 1855; Boston Station, April, 1861 •
May, 1861, to steamer South Carolina; employed in operating on the Southern
coast of the United States, blockading off Galveston, Texas, at Barataria and the
mouths of the Mississippi, Louisiana, to January, 1862, during which service had
a skirmish with the batteries at Galveston, and chased two armed steamers up
the Mississippi River to the protection of the forts ; commanded Naval Rendez
vous at Boston, 1862-5.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN FRANCIS LOWRY,*
Born in Vermont. Appointed from Vermont, August 3, 1831 ; attached to
flag-ship Fairfield, West India Squadron, 1831-2, visiting St. Domingo, Wind
ward and Leeward Islands and Gulf of Mexico ; in July, 1832, took passage in
schooner Shark, and in September joined schooner Grampus, at Pensacola,
visited Key West and the Gulf of Mexico ; detached, February, 1834; receiving-
ship, New York, 1834 ; frigate Brandywine, Pacific Squadron, 1834, '35, '36 to
April, 1837; part of years 1837 and '38 at Naval School, New York.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838 ; Coast Survey, 1838, '39
and '40; in 1841-2, steamer Fulton, part of the time as Acting Master; receiv
ing-ship, Boston, 1842-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 4, 1843 ; latter part of 1843, at Naval
Rendezvous, New York ; sloop John Adams, Gulf of Mexico, 1845, '46 and
'47; retired in 1855; Naval Rendezvous, Portland, Maine, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN THOMAS BROWNELL,
Born in Rhode Island. Entered the service as Sailing Master, October 30, 1840.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 26, 1843; Sackett's Harbor, 1845-6;
special service, 1847-9 ; unemployed from 1849-55 ; retired, 1855 ; unemployed
from 1855-69.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN SAMUEL PEARCE,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, March 30, 1833; attached
to frigate Brandywine, Pacific Squadron, 1834-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 8, 1839 ; schooner Enterprise, Atlantic
Coast, 1839-41 ; unemployed from 1841-69; retired, 1855.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

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Retired under twenty-third section of Act of August 3, 1861.

CAPTAIN CHARLES W. PICKERING*
Born in New Hampshire, from which State he was appointed Midshipman,
May 22, 1822. In 1822-3 made his first cruise with his uncle, Captain R. T.
Spencer, on board the sloop-of-war Cyane, a prize to the Constitution, under
Commodore Stewart. During this cruise the Cyane was stationed on the coast
of Africa, and lost by fever fifty of her officers and crew. , On leave, 1824-6;
Naval School, New York, 1827 ; in 1828, attached to sloop-of-war Erie, Captain
Daniel Turner, West India Station ; on the return of the Erie to New York, was
ordered to the Naval School, but by permission of the Department, was placed
at a boarding school in New York City, where he remained until the Summer of
1831; from the Summer of 1831 to February, 1834, was attached to the sloop-
of-war Falmouth, Captain F. H. Gregory, Pacific Squadron.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June, 1833 ; serving at Navy Yard, Boston,
during the years 1835-6 ; from 1837-9, attached to United States frigate Ful
ton, stationed on the United States Coast.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 8, 1838; from 1840-2, attached to
sloop Yorktown, Pacific Squadron ; from 1844-5, Executive-Officer of the sloop
Preble, West India and African Squadrons ; attached to Navy Yard, Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, 1846-7; in 1848-9, attached to sloop-of-war St.
Mary's, Pacific Squadron ; commanding the sloop-bf-war Warren, Pacific Squad
ron, during the years 1850-1 ; in 1854, served as Executive-Officer of the sloop
Cyane, which vessel took out the Darien Expedition, under Lieutenant Strain,
who lost seven of his men by starvation. Lieutenant Pickering in his search for
that party, was within four hours' march of the headwaters ofthe Chaquenaque,
,the course of which it was his intention to follow, when he was apprised by In
dian runners of the arrival of Lieutenant Strain and party at Chapagana, Pacific
side. Lieutenant Pickering's observations during two successive expeditions
from the ship, in search of Strain, convinced him of the utter folly of any at
tempt to cut a canal at Darien. After landing Lieutenant Strain with the re
mainder of his party, at New York, the Cyane was ordered to Greytown, Nica
ragua, which town, in pursuance of redress, was reduced to ashes, after a bom
bardment of four hours. Only one house was left standing. In 1855, '56 and
'57, attached to United States Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Promoted to Commander, September 14, 1855 ; in 1859, '60 and '61, In
spector of the Seventh Light-house District, headquarters at Key West.
Commissioned as Captain, July 15, 1862 ; in 1862-3, commanding United
States steam-sloop Kearsage, Mediterranean and Western Islands ; in 1863—4,
commanding United States steam-sloop Housatonic, which was blown up, off
Charleston, on the night of February 17, 1864, by- a submarine torpedo. As
soon as recovered from wounds received on board the Housatonic, took command
of the United States steamer Vanderbilt, which vessel participated in the cap
ture of Fort Fisher. Detached from Vanderbilt in August, 1865, and ordered
to Portsmouth Navy Yard ; detached from Portsmouth Navy Yard, February,
1867, when Captain Pickering went upon the retired list at his own request.

132 CAPTAINS.
CAPTAIN OVERTON CARR,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Indiana, March 1, 1827-
attached to frigate Java, Mediterranean Squadron, 1828-9; frigate Delaware
Mediterranean Squadron, 1829-30 ; Naval School, Norfolk, 1832-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833; sloop John Adams, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1834-6 ; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1838-40.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 8, 1837; special service, 1842—5 •
sloop Germantown, Home Squadron, 1846-8; steam-frigate Saranae, Home
Squadron, 1849-52 ; ordnance duty, 1852-4; steam-frigate San Jacinto, survey
of the river La Plata, 1854-5 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1858-60 ; command
ing steamer Quaker City, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; retired
1861; commanding receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1861-2; Navy Yard, Washing
ton, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN FRANCIS S. HAGGERTY*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 17, 1832;
attached to schooner Experiment, Chesapeake Bay, 1832-3, and also in Charles
ton harbor during the time of nullification, 1833; sloop-of-war, Ontario, coast of
Brazil, 1833-4 ; frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 23, 1838; frigate Constitution,
Pacific Squadron, 1838-41 ; rendezvous, New York, 1841-2 ; Coast Survey,
1842-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 19, 1843 ; steamers Mississippi and
Princeton, Home Squadron, 1844-6; brigBainbridge, coast of Africa, 1849-51;
receiving-ship, New York, 1851-2 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, Japan Expedition,
Commodore Perry, 1852-5 ; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1855-7; steam-
frigate Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1857-9 ; brig Perry, East Gulf Squadron,
1860; at the commencement ofthe rebellion, was employed on the river Poto
mac, in command of the brig Perry ; was transferred to the sloop-of-war Van
dalia, belonging to the squadron under command of Commodore Du Pont, Port
Royal Expedition; convoyed the powder and store-ships to the place of desti
nation ; commanded the sloop-of-war Vandalia, in the attack on the rebel bat
teries at Port Royal, November 7, 1861 ; taking an active part in the reduction
of the batteries, and subsequently in blockading duty in the mouth of Savannah
River ; was placed on the retired list in consequence of injuries received in line
of duty ; received the thanks of Copgress for meritorious service and conduct
in conjunction with the other officers engaged in the above mentioned conflict;
ordnance duty, Boston, 1861-6.
Commissioned as Commander, October 11, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867; in charge of iron-clads, New Orleans,
1867-9 ; Light-house Inspector, Seventh District, Key West, Florida, 1870.

CAPTAIN MATTHEW C. PERRY,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 1, 1835 ; attached to
frigate Potomac, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-8 ; frigate United States, Pa
cific Squadron, 1839-41.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 22, 1841 ; brig Somers, special ser
vice, 1842-3; frigate Macedonian, coast of Africa, 1844-5; sloop Cumberland,
Home Squadron, 1845-7 ; with the army in Mexico, 1848.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 3, 1848 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron,
1849-52; Coast Survey, 1852-5; retired, 1855; restored to active list, 1858;
sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1859-60; steam-sloop Powhatan, special ser
vice, 1861 ; retired, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN CHARLES S. McDONOUGH,
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from New York, April 8, 1835 ; attached to
frigate United States, Mediterranean Squadron, 1836-9 ; sloop Cyane, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1839—40.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 22, 1841; brig Dolphin, Home
Squadron, 1841-3; brig Truxton, coast of Africa, 1844-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 16, 1848; sloop Warren, Pacific Squadron,
1849-51; sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-2; frigate Constitution,
coast of Africa, 1853-5 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1856 ; steam-frigate Merrimac,
Pacific Squadron, 1857-8 ; frigate Sabine, Brazil Squadron; 1858-9 ; sloop Con
stellation, coast of Africa, 1860 ; retired, 1861 ; receiving-ship, New York,
1864; receiving-ship Vandalia, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1865.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

Retired under first section of Act of April 21, 1864.
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER GIBSON*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, July 4, 1822 ; attached to
schooner Shark, 1823—4 ; attached to frigate Constellation and schooner Gram
pus, 1827-29.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1833 ; sloop Ontario, Brazil
Squadron, 1833-6 ; attached to schooner Grampus, Survey of George's Banks
and Calibogue Sound, Georgia, 1837-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 28, 1838 ; schooner Shark and frigate
Constitution, 1838-40; receiving-ship, New York, 1841-3; frigate Raritan,
Brazil Squadron, 1843-5 ; sloop Albany, Home Squadron, 1846-8 ; receiving-
ship, New York, 1850-2; sloop St. Louis, Mediterranean Squadron, 1852-5;
commanding store-ship Supply and sloop St. Louis, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1860-2; commanding frigate Potomac, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1862-6; retired, 1865.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN ROGER PERRY,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, July 1, 1828; schooner
Grampus, West India Squadron, 1834.

134 CAPTAINS.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 14, 1834 ; frigate Constellation, West
India Squadron, 1835-8; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1839—41.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 25, 1841 ; steamer Union, special ser
vice, 1844-5; on coast of Africa, 1846-7 ; frigate United States, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1848-9 ; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1850-1 ; steam-frigate San Jacinto
Mediterranean Squadron, 1852-3 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1854-5.
Commissioned ,as Commander, September 14, 1855; retired, 1861; com
manding store-ship Fredonia, Pacific Squadron, 1863-4.
Commissioned as 'Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM A. PARKER,*
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire on the 3d of July,
1832 ; attached to sloop Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, from 1833 to 1836, in
clusive; frigate Independence, on the coasts of England, Denmark and Brazil,
during the year 1838.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838 ; serving in ship-of-the-line
Ohio, Mediterranean Squadron, from 1838 to 1841; frigate United States,
Pacific Squadron, 1842-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 16, 1843 ; attached to sloop Cyane, Pacific
Squadron, 1844-5 ; served in Home Squadron, during Mexican War ; was pres
ent at the capture of Vera Cruz, Mexico, Tobasco, and, several other places on
the Mexican Coast ; frigate Raritan, West India and North Atlantic Stations,
1849-50 ; attached to sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5 ; command
ing store-ship Release, on the Mediterranean, coast of Africa and Paraguay Sta- ,
tions, 1857-9.
Commissioned as Commander, June 28, 1861 ; during the rebellion com
manded steamers Cambridge and Tuscarora ; iron-clads Mahopac and Onondaga,'
and the Fifth Division of North Atlantic Squadron. This Division included
nearly thirty vessels in the James, Appomattox, Rappahannock and Elizabeth
Rivers; retired, 1865; commanding receiving-ship Independence, at Mare
Island, from 1865 to 1869.
Commissioned as Captain, July, 1866; Light-house Inspector, New Orleans,
1870. Captain Parker has been at various times attached to the Naval Observatory,
and the Boston Navy Yard and Rendezvous. He has had twenty-eight years
sea service, -

CAPTAIN GEORGE M. COLVOCORESSES*
Born in Greece. Appointed from Vermont, February 21, 1832 ; attached to
frigate United States, Mediterranean Squadron, 1836-7 ; Exploring Expedition,
1838-42. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1843; schooner Shark, Pacific
Squadron, 1844-6; steamer Alleghany, Mediterranean Squadron, 1847-9;
sloop Germantown, coast of Africa, 1851-2 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1853-5;
sloop Levant, East India Squadron, 1855-8 ; as First Lieutenant, participated
in the attack and capture of the Barrier Forts off Canton, China ; Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1858-60 ; commanding store-ship Supply, 1861-3,
during which captured the Stephen Hart, Ipadec} with arms and aunmwitioB f°F
the Confederates,

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Cpmmissioned as Commander, July 1, 1861 ; commanding , frigate Saratoga,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron-, 1864, and received the thanks of the Ad
miral of the Squadron and of the Navy Department, for meritorious services ;
commanding sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1865-6; retired voluntarily,
1867. Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN A. DAVIS HARRELL,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Tennessee, January 4, 1834; attached to
schooner Boxer, Pacific Squadron, 1834-6; frigate North Carolina, Pacific
Squadron, 1836-9; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1840.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 16, 1840 ; steamer Union, special
service, 1843-5 ; sloop Cumberland, Home Squadron, 1846-?.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 17, 1847; brig Porpoise, coast of Africa,
1847-9 ; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1850-2 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Home
Squadron, 1852-3; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1853-4; Coast Survey, 1855;
sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-60; commanding steamer
Thomas Freeborn, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-gunboat
Chick opee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; commanding steam -
Bloop Kearsage, European Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

Retired under fourth section of Act of April 21, 1864.

CAPTAIN AUGUSTUS S. BALDWIN,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, February 2, 1829 ; attached
to sloop Warren, Brazil Squadron, 1830-3 ; Brazil Squadron, 1834 ; Navy Yard,
New York, 1835 ; frigate Constellation, West India Squadron, 1835-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 4, 1836.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841 ; Exploring Expedition,
1838-42; rendezvous, New York, 1846-8; Coast Survey, 1848-52; retired,
1855 ; reinstated on active list, 1859 ; steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific Squadron,
1859-60. Commissioned as Commander, April 24, 1861; commanding steamer Wyan
dotte, Potomac Flotilla, 1861 ; commanding store-ship, Vermont, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1862 ; Inspector Navy Yard, New York, 1862-6.
Commissioned as Captain, 1865 ; Light-house Inspector, 1867.

CAPTAIN THOMAS M. BRASHER,- ,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, June 6, 1831 ; attached to
sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1831-4; frigate Potomac, Mediterranean}
^uadron, 18§4~6; Naval School, New York, J837.

136 CAPTAINS.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1837; sloop St. Louis, Pacific
Squadron, 1839-42.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841 ; sloop Dale, Pacific Squad
ron, 1842-3; brig Lawrence, Home Squadron, 1.844-5; frigate Cumberland,
Home Squadron, during the Mexican War ; sloop Germantown, Brazil Squad
ron, 1850-1 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5 ; Navy Yard,
New York, 1855-6; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1856-7; rendezvous,
New York, 1859-60.
Commissioned as Commander, April 24, 1861 ; commanding brig Bainbridge,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; retired, 1862 ; Navy Yard, Pen
sacola, 1863-4; special duty, 1865; commanding store-ship, South Pacific
Squadron, 1865-8.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867; Light-house Inspector, 1868-9.

CAPTAIN EDMUND LANIER,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Tennessee, July 9, 1831 ; attached to
schooner Experiment, special service, 1832-3; sloop Vandalia, West India
Squadron, 1833-5 ; sloop St. Louis, West India Squadron, 1836 ; Naval School,
Norfolk, 1837.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1837; Navy Yard, Norfolk,
1838-40 ; sloop Fairfield and sloop Preble, Mediterranean, 1840-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841; sloop Falmouth, Home
Squadron, 1845 ; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1846 ; sloop Saratoga, Home Squad
ron, 1846-7 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1851-2 ; steamJrigate Mississippi, East
India Squadron, Japan Expedition, 1852—4 ; sloop John Adams, Pacific Squad
ron, 1854-5 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1855-8 ; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1858—60;
commanding steamer Alabama, Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, April 29, 1861 ; commanding receiving-ship,
Boston, 1862—4; retired in 1864; commanding receiving-ship, Baltimore,
1864-5 ; commanding Ordnance Station, Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867.

CAPTAIN MATHIAS C. MARIN,*
Born in Florida. Appointed from Florida, January 3, 1832 ; attached to
schooner Porpoise, West India Squadron, 1832-3; sloop John Adams, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1834-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838; rendezvous, New York,
1839 ; schooner Flirt, Florida War, 1839-40 ; sloop Vandalia, Home Squadron,
1841-3. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 29, 1844; sloop Yorktown, coast of
Africa, 1844-5; steamer Scourge, Gulf, in Mexican War, 1846-7; present at
capture of Tuspan, Tobasco, Alvarado and Tlacotalpam ; Coast Survey, 1847-9;
sloop Levant, Mediterranean Squadron, 1852-3; Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida,
1855 ; retired, 1855 ; restored to active list, 1857 ; sloop Macedonian, 1861.
Commissioned as Commander, October 18, 1861 ; commanding sloop St.
Louis, special service, 1862-3 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Boston, 1864-5 ;
ordnance duty, Norfolk Navy Yard, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Captain, 1867 ; special duty, Maiden, Massachusetts,
1869-70.

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COMMANDER H. N. T. ARNOLD,
Born in New York. Appointed from New Jersey, March 13, 1839 ; attached
to frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1839-41 ; brig Boxer, Home Squad
ron, 1842-4; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1844-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 2, 1845 ; steamer Colonel Harney,
1846; Home Squadron, 1846-7; mail-steamer Pacific, 1850-1; sloop Plymouth,
East India Squadron, 1851-5.
Promoted to Master, 1854.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 12, 1854; Naval Station, Sackett's
Harbor, New York, 1856-7 ; steam-frigate Merrimac, Pacific Squadron, 1858;
steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1859-60 ; steamer Mohawk, Blockading
Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer
Mystic, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; commanding steamer
Mercedita, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanding steamer
Chickopee, Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865.

COMMANDER EDWARD SIMPSON*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, February 11, 1840 ; attached
to sloop Decatur and frigate Potomac, Brazil Squadron, 1840-1 ; returned to
the United States in frigate Constitution, 1841; attached to frigate Independ
ence, Home Squadron, 1841-2; attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean and
Brazil Squadrons, 1842-5; attached to receiving-ship North Carolina, 1845 ;
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1845-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846. War with Mexico: At
tached to steamer Vixen, 1846-7; present at attack on forts of Alvarado, under
Commodore Conner; at two attacks on Tobasco, under Commodore , Perry ; at
capture of Tampico, under Commodore Perry; at capture of Tuspan; at cap
ture of Coatzacoalcos ; at capture of Laguna de Terminos. At siege of 'Vera
Cruz, covered the landing of the United States Army, and took part with the
rest of the mosquito fleet, in the bombardment of the city of Vera Cruz, and of
the castle of San Juan de Ulloa. Attached to Coast Survey, 1848, '49 and '50;
attached to frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1850-3 ; attached to Naval Aca
demy, as, Assistant Instructor in Naval Gunnery and Infantry Tactics, 1853-4.
Promoted to Master, July 10, 1854; Coast Survey, 1855-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 18, 1855 ; attached to sloop Portsmouth,
East India Squadron, 1856-8 ; engaged with Commander A. H. Foote in the
bombardment and capture of the Barrier Forts in the Canton River ; attached
to Naval Academy, in charge of Instruction in Theory and Practice of Naval
Gunnery, 1858-62; Commandant of Midshipmen, at Naval Academy, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding iron
clad Passaic, South Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4; engaged with Fort Wagner,
July 29, 1863; Fort Sumpter, August 17, 1863; Fort Wagner, August 18,
1863; Fort Sumpter, August 23, 1863; Fort Moultrie, August 31, 1863; Fort
Sumpter, September 1, 1863; Battery Bee, September 8, 1863; Fort Moultrie,
November 16, 1863 ; commanding steamer Isonomia, off Wilmington, in East
Gulf Squadron, and on Bahama Banks, 1864 ; Fleet-Captain, Blockading
Squadron, 1865-6 ; engaged in operations before Mobile, from March 27, 1865
to April 12, 1865, when the city capitulated.

138 commanders.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865 ; commanding steam-sloop Mo
hican and steamer Mohongo, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-8; id charge Hydro-
graphic Office, Washington, 1868-9 ; Assistant to Chief of Bureau of Ord
nance, Navy Department, Washington, 1869-70.

COMMANDER WILLIAM GRENVILLE TEMPLE *
Born in Vermont, April 18, 1840. Appointed Acting Midshipman, from Ver
mont, May 21, 1840 ; ordered to receiving-ship, Columbus, Boston, September
24, 1840 ; detached from Columbus and ordered to frigate Constellation, Boston
— sailed on a cruise around the world, and at Rio de Janerio, the Constellation
became flag-ship of the East India Squadron ; May 8, 1844, detached from
Constellation at Norfolk, and granted leave of absence; August 21, 1844,
ordered to frigate Potomac, flag-ship of the Home Squadron, Philadelphia;
March 14, 1845, detached from Potomac at Pensacola, and ordered to brig Law
rence at same place ; October 21, 1845, detached from Lawrence at Pensacola,
and ordered back to Potomac at same place ; December 5, 1845, detached from
Potomac at Norfolk, and ordered to Naval School, Annapolis.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; July 13, 1846, detached
from Naval School and waiting orders ; October 5, 1846, ordered to sloop-of-war
Boston, New York, and started for Gulf of Mexico ; November 15, 1846,
wrecked on west end of Elenthera, one of the Bahamas, opposite hole-in-the-
wall ; November 29, 1846, ordered to Norfolk in schooner Volant, in charge of
sick men from wreck of the Boston; January 7, 1847, ordered to receiving-
ship, Pennsylvania, Norfolk ; February 4, 1847, detached from Pennsylvania,
and from duty connected with the Boston Court Martial at Norfolk, and ordered
to steamer Scourge, New York — sailed for the Gulf of Mexico ; March 29,
1847, present at the surrender of Vera Cruz; March 31, 1847, present at the
capture of Alvarado by the Scourge, and ordered to take command on shore ;
April 1, 1847, relieved on shore and ordered back to the Scourge; April 18,
1847, present at the capture of Tuspan ; June 15th and 16, 1847, present at the
capture of Tobasco; November 27, 1847, detached from the Scourge at Frontera,
by medical survey, and took passage in steamer Scorpion ; December 25, 1847,
ordered as Acting Master to the steamer Mississippi, Vera Cruz ; April 21,
1848, detached from the Mississippi, Boston, and granted leave of absence;
June 14, 1848, ordered to Naval Observatory, Washington ; May 2, 1849,
detached from the Observatory, and ordered as Acting Master to the Coast
Survey, schooner Petrel, New York. The party was transferred at New Orleans,
into the Coast Survey, steamer Hetzel, and was chiefly occupied in surveying
the Florida Reef and Gulf Stream. August 2, 1850, detached from the Hetzel,
Baltimore, and ordered to the Coast Survey Office, Washington ; October 11,
1850, detached from the Coast Survey, and ordered to the Observatory, Wash
ington ; November 28, 1850, detached from the Observatory, and granted leave
of absence for the purpose of taking charge of the hydrographic works on the
survey of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, for a railroad and canal ; April 5, 1852,
ordered as Acting Master to the sloop-of-war Levant, Norfolk, and sailed for the
Mediterranean. Promoted to Master, July 21, 1854.
Promoted to Lieutenant, April 18, 1855.
May 7, 1855, detached from the Levant, New York, and granted leave of
absence } jvm \ 185&f orc^ed to the steamer Corwin, Coast Slavey, New York,

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surveying that bay and harbor; December 3, 1855, detached from the Corwin, New
York, and ordered to the Coast Survey Office,Washington ; May 19, 1856, detached
from Coast Survey Office, and ordered to the steamer Corwin, Coast Survey,
New York — engaged during the Winter on the Florida Reef and Gulf Stream,
and during Summer at New York, New Haven, Boston, Salem and Casco Bay;
June 1, 1857, succeeded to the command of the Corwin ; October 11, 1858,
detached from command ofthe Corwin, and ordered to the Coast Survey Office,
Washington ; April 7, 1859, detached from Coast Survey Office, and ordered to
the steam-frigate Lancaster, flag-ship of the Pacific Squadron, Philadelphia —
•performed the duties of Flag-Lieutenant, in addition to those of watch and
division-officer, during the whole cruise ; October 11, 1861, detached from the
Lancaster at Panama, and ordered to return to New York ; October 24, 1861,
granted leave of absence at New York ; November 11, 1861, ordered to com
mand the steamer Flambeau, New York, and sailed on an independent cruise to
the Bahamas ; January 22, 1862, detached from command of the Flambeau,
Port Royal, South Carolina, by medical survey, and sent to New York in the
frigate Savannah; February 11, 1862, placed on waiting orders at New York;
February 26, 1862, ordered to ordnance duty, New York; April 19, 1862, suc
ceeded to Inspectorship of Ordnance, New York.
Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; September 22, 1862,
detached from ordnance duty, and ordered to command the steam-gunboat Pem
bina, New York, and to join the West Gulf Blockading Squadron ; November
22, 1862, detached from command of the Pembina, off Mobile, and ordered to
Key West as Fleet-Captain of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron ; April 10,
1864, ordered temporarily to command the flag-ship San Jacinto, Key West, for
special service; April 13, 1864, detached from command of the San Jacinto,
and ordered to resume duty as Fleet-Captain ; July 12, 1864, present on duty
in the trenches about Washington, on the occasion of General Early's attack ;
September 19, 1864, detached from Fleet-Captaincy, and ordered to ordnance
duty at Cold Spring Foundry ; November 8, 1864, detached from ordnance
duty, and ordered to command the steamer Pontoo'suc, New York, and to join
the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron; December 24th and 25, 1864,
present at the bombardment of Fort Fisher; January 13th to 15, 1865, present
at the capture of Fort Fisher; February 18th to 22, 1865, present at the passage
up the Cape Fear River, and the capture of Wilmington, North Carolina.
Promoted to Commander, March 3, 1865 ; April 1, 1865, present at the
bombardment of rebel fortifications on the James River above Dutch Gap;
April .3, 1865, present at the capture of Richmond, Petersburg, etc. ; May 25,
1865, detached from command of the Pontoosuc, Hampton Roads, and granted
leave of absence ; August 17, 1865, ordered to command the steamer Tacony,
Boston, and to join the Atlantic Squadron, where she became the flag-ship during
the following year; October 31, 1866, detached from command of the Tacony,
Norfolk, and ordered as Inspector of Ordnance to Portsmouth, New Hampshire ;
October 18, 1869, detached from ordnance duty at Portsmouth, and ordered as
member of Permanent Ordnance Board, at the Navy Department, Wash
ington, D. C.

COMMANDER SAMUEL P. CARTER,*
Born in Carter county, Tennessee. Appointed from Tennessee, February 14,
1840 ; attached to Delaware, 1840 ; to sloop Dale, Pacific Squadron, 1840-3 ;
North Carolina, 1844 ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1844-5 ; frigate Poto
mac, Home Squadron, 1845 ; Naval School, Annapolis, 1845-6.,

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846; Ohio, 74, Home Squadron,
1846-7; present at capture of Vera Cruz; Navai Observatory, Washington,
1847-8 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Mediterranean Squadron, 1848-50 ; Naval
Academy, 1850-3 ; store-ship Relief, 1853-5.
Promoted to Master, September 12, 1854.
Commissioned Lieutenant, April 18,1855; steam-frigate San Jacinto, East
India Squadron, 1855-7 ; at attack on Barrier Forts, Canton River, China,
1856 ; Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; steam-sloop Seminole, Brazil Squadron,
1860-1 ; returned to the United States, July 6, 1861 ; July 11, 1861, Lieu
tenant Carter was ordered to report to the Secretary of War for special duty ;
was instructed to proceed to East Tennessee, and raise troops ; organized the
Tennessee Brigade, and was assigned to command in September, 1861, with
acting appointment of Brigadier General ; present at Wild Cat, Kentucky, at
Zollicoffer's repulse, October, 1861 ; at battle of Mill Springs, January, 1862 ;
commanded in Southeastern Kentucky from February, 1862 to April, 1862 ;
and in operations against Cumberland Gap, March and May, 1862 ; commis
sioned Brigadier General May 1, 1862; at capture of Cumberland Gap, June
17, 1862 ; in Kanawha Valley, in October and November, 1862, at which time
the rebel troops were driven out, and the Valley reoccupied by Union forces.
Commanded cavalry expedition into East Tennessee, tore up track and destroyed
bridges on East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, and in several engagements, at
Holston, Carter's Station, and Jonesville, defeated rebel troops, in December,
1862 and January, 1863. This cavalry raid, which was the first of any im
portance made by Union troops into rebel territory, was attended with valuable
results, not only from amount of damage done rebel cause from destruction of
property, loss of troops, and the breaking of their principal line of railway, but
from the relief it afforded General Rosecrans when pressed at Murfreesboro,
and the new life it infused throughout all our cavalry commands. Forthis suc
cessful raid, received thanks of the General-in-Chief of the Army, in general
orders ; also of the Commander of the Department of the Ohio, in general
orders, and the Commander of the District of Kentucky ; was recommended by
latter two for promotion to Major General ; was assigned to command of Divi
sion of Central Kentucky in March, 1863; at battle of Dutton's Hill, March 31,
1863 ; commanded in Southeastern Kentucky, headquarters at Somerset, from
May to July, 1863 ; defeated Pegram's forces at Monticello and Beaver Dam,
in May and June, 1863 ; and Morgan's, at West's ; was thanked in general
orders, by the commander of the Department of the Ohio. In July, 1863, was
assigned to command of cavalry division, 23d Army Corps, and had the advance
when Burnside occupied East Tennessee, in August and September, ' 1863 ;
defeated Morgan's forces near Emory, August 28, 1863, and Smith's at Loudon,
August 29th ; present at siege and battle of Knoxville, November and December,
1863 ; Provost Marshal General of East Tennessee, September, 1863 to Jan
uary, 1865, when he was relieved at his own request, ordered to North Carolina,
and assigned to command of Division of the District of Newbern ; commanded
the left wing at battle of Kinston (Wise's Fork), North Carolina, on March
10, 1865, where Bragg was defeated; occupied Goldsboro', North Carolina,
March 20, 1865, driving out the rebels with his command; was in command of
the place during its occupancy by the armies of General Sherman; assigned to
command of 3d Division 23d Army Corps, April 7, 1865 ; breveted Major
General, March, 13, 1865; was in command of Western North Carolina from
May, 1865, and of 23d Army Corps from July, until relieved from duty in that
State in August, 1865; honorably mustered out of the army, January, 1866.
Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862.

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Commissioned Commander, June 23, 1865 ; commanding steamer Monocacy,
Asiatic Squadron, 1866-9 ; at present on duty at Naval Academy, as Com
mandant of Midshipmen.

COMMANDER THOMAS S. PHELPS *
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, January 17, 1840 ; attached to sloop
Preble, coast of Labrador and Bay of Fundy, March to December, 1840 ; Medi
terranean Squadron, January, 1841 to September, 1843 ; sloop Boston, Brazil
Squadron, October, 1843 to February, 1846 ; Naval School, February to July,
1846. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; sloop Boston, Gulf Squad
ron, October 5, 1846; wrecked on the Island of Elentheria, W. I., November
16, 1846 ; detached and ordered to steamer Polk, for war and special service ;
in Mexico, February 20, 1847; after section filled with water off Cape Hatteras,
April 1, 1847; returned detached, and ordered to Coast Survey, May 7, 1847;
attached to schooners Nautilus, J. T. Mason, and steamer Legare, until June,
1849 ; razee Independence, Mediterranean Squadron, June, 1849 to December,
1850 ; frigate Constitution, same squadron, December, 1850 to February, 1851 ;
schooner Graham, steamers Legare and Hetzel, Coast Survey, May 1, 1851 to
November, 1852; receiving-ship, Pennsylvania, November, 1852 to January 1,
1853 ; steamer Fulton, one month — rejoined Pennsylvania, and attached until
December, 1853 ; surveyed Elizabeth River and Norfolk Navy Yard ; sloop
Decatur, Pacific Squadron, December, 1853 to April 15, 1857; served through
out the Indian War in Washington Territory, 1855-6.
Promoted to Master, March 1, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855; battle of Seattle, W. T.,
January 26, 1856; ordnance duty, Norfolk, Virginia, May, 1857 to September,
1858; Paraguay Expedition and Brazil Squadron, September, 1858 to June,
1859; steamer Crusader, Home Squadron, June 16th to August 24, 1859;
commanded steamer Vixen, Coast Survey, and on special service, August, 1859
to September, 1861 ; attached to expedition for the relief of Fort Sumpter,
March, 1861.
" In organizing the government for war, it was decided by the Chiefs of
Departments, that one naval-officer skilled in surveying, should be detached
for special service to co-operate with army and navy, and Lieutenant Phelps
was selected by ballot, for that duty."
In consequence of the destruction of signs, boats, buoys and ranges, and the
erection of heavy batteries by the rebels, the Potomac River was rendered
almost impassable, and at this critical moment when the safety of Washington
was hazarded, a survey and chart of the river became imperative. For this pur
pose, six steamers were placed at the disposal of Lieutenant Phelps. Selecting
two, he, in June, successfully executed the work which fully answered the
requirements of the country.
Transferred to steamer Corwin for secret service, September 24, 1861 ; exam
ined five of the inlets of North Carolina, and surveyed and buoyed Hatteras
Inlet, for the introduction of expeditions into the interior waters of that State ;
skirmished with rebel gunboats, Pamlico Sound, November 9, 1861 ; engage
ment with rebel gunboat Curlew, Hatteras Inlet, November 14, 1861 ; received
compliments of Secretary of Navy; secret service in Virginia waters, December,
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assigned to command of Division for operations in rear of Gloucester Point,
Virginia, April 1, 1862; York River, April 21st, three engagements with York-
town and Gloucester Point batteries ; skirmish with rebels, Queen's Point, Vir
ginia, captured five, and caused the destruction of two of the enemy's vessels-
prevented destruction of White House bridge, May 4, 1862 ; frequent skir
mishes with main body of rebel army retreating from Yorktown, May 5th and
6th ; battle of West Point, Virginia, ascended the Matipony River, and pre
vented the junction of a large force of rebels with main army, May 7th; made
reconnoissance charts of Matipony and Pamunky Rivers.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862. In obedience to
the demands of Congress and an order of the Navy Department, executed a close
and complete survey of the Potomac River ; opposed in the work by enemy's
infantry and artillery, July 29, 1862 to March 1, 1863 ; commanded steamer
Corwin, on special service from March, 1863 to December, 1864 — principally
employed in making surveys in anticipation of naval and military movements,
and in examining dangers in the way of blockaders and transports. Iron-clad
Saugus, December, 1864; steam-sloop Juniata, January 3, 1865; commanded
the Juniata at the capture of Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865 ; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, January 21, 1865; commanded steamer Lenapee, Atlantic
Coast Squadron, March 2, 1865 to April 3, 1867.
Commissioned as Commander, August 5, 1865; Mare Island Navy Yard,
California, October 21, 1867-70.

COMMANDER JOHN MADIGAN,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, February 19, 1840 ; attached to
sloop Preble, Mediterranean Squadron, 1840-4 ; sloop Boston, Brazil Squadron,
1844-6; bomb-brig Vesuvius, Home Squadron, 1846-7; during the war with
Mexico, was present at Tuspan, Tobasco, and at capture of Vera Cruz.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 15, 1846 ; Coast Survey, 1848-50 ;
sloop Saratoga, East India Squadron, 1851-4.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1855; steam-sloop Mississippi, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding sloop
Vincennes, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; ordnance duty, Bos
ton Navy Yard, 1864 ; commanding iron-clad Patapsco, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5.
Commissioned, as Commander, September 22, 1865; commanding steamer
Paul Jones, Gulf Squadron, 1865-6 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1867-9.

COMMANDER EDWARD BARRETT,
Born in Louisiana. Appointed from Louisiana, November 3, 1840; attached
to sloop ' Preble, Mediterranean Squadron, 1840-3; frigate Columbia, Brazil
Squadron, 1843-5; sloop Falmouth, Mediterranean Squadron, 1845-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; during Mexican War, pres
ent at Alvarado, Vera Cruz, Tuspan, Tobasco, and in expedition toLaguna;
sloop Jamestown, Mediterranean Squadron, 1850-1 ; frigate Cumberland, Med
iterranean Squadron, 1853-5.

COMMANDERS. 1,43.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; steam-frigate Saranae,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1856; frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron,
1857; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858; receiving-ship,
New York, 1859; steamer San Jacinto, coast of Africa, 1860; steam-sloop
Mississippi, 1861 ; commanding sloop Vincennes, Western Gulf Blockading
Squadron, i862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Massasoit, 1863—1 ; commanding iron-clad Catskill, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Commander, December 24, 1865; temporary ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1866 ; commanding steamer Agawam, North Atlantic
Squadron, 1866-7 ; commanding steamer Quinnebaug, South Atlantic Squadron,
1868-70.

COMMANDER HOMER C. BLAKE,
Born in New York, 1822. Appointed from Ohio, March 2, 1840; frigate
Constellation, East India Squadron, 1841-3 ; sloop Preble, coast of Africa,
1843-5; Naval School, 1846 ; sloop Preble, Pacific Squadron, 1846-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; receiving-ship New York,
1849-50 ; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1850-2 ; receiving-ship, Boston,
1853-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855; frigate St. Lawrence,
Brazil Squadron, 1857-9 ; frigate Sabine, Home Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding
Bteamer Hatteras, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3. On 11th of
January, 1863, the Hatteras, while at anchor off Galveston, Texas, was ordered
by signal from the Brooklyn, flag-ship of the division blockading Galveston, to
chase a sail to the southward and eastward. Commander Blake at once obeyed
the signal, and steamed at all speed in the direction indicated, and rapidly
gained upon the suspicious vessel, which was discovered to be a steamer.
When within about four miles of the vessel, it was observed that ihe had ceased
to steam, and was lying " broadside on," awaiting the approach of the Hatteras.
When at about the distance of seventy-five yards, Commander Blake hailed,
and asked, "What steamer is that?" The reply was, " Her Britanic Majesty's
ship Vixen." Captain Blake ordered a boat to be sent aboard ; but before the
order could be obeyed, the commander of the strange craft hailed and said,
"We are the Confederate -steamer Alabama," which was accompanied by a
broadside. The Hatteras returned the fire almost instantly, and steamed directly
for the Alabama in the hope to carry her by boarding ; but the attempt was
defeated by the commander of the piratical craft. • At length a shell entered
the hold of the Hatteras, and at the same instant another shell passed through
the " sick-bay," exploding in an adjoining compartment, and setting fire to the
vessel. Still another shell entered the cylinder, filling the engine-room and
deck with steam, and depriving Commander Blake of all power to manoeuvre
his vessel or work the pumps, upon which the reduction of the fire depended.
With the vessel on fire in two places, and her engine disabled, Commander
Blake felt that it was useless to sacrifice the lives of his command, and so or
dered a lee gun to be fired. The Alabama then asked if assistance was desired,
to which an affirmative answer was given. After considerable delay, the Ala
bama sent assistance, and the crew and officers of the Hatteras were transferred
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down, bow first. The battery upon the Alabama brought into action against
the Hatteras, numbered seven guns, consisting of four long 32-pounders, one
100-pounder rifled gun, one 68-pounder, and one 24-pounder rifled gun. The
guns used in the action by the Hatteras, were two short 32-pounders, one
30-pounder rifled Parrot, and one 20-pounder rifle gun. The action was fought
at a distance of about seventy-five yards. The crew of the Hatteras were
landed at Port Royal, Jamaica, and were with all dispatch conveyed from Port
Royal to Kingston, under the guidance of the American Vice-Consul, John N.
Camp. Commanding steamer Utah, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ;
shelled with three divisions of rebel army at Malvern Hill, 1864; assisted/ to
repulse an attack of the rebels on the right of the army of the James, October, '
1864; engagement with rebel batteries at Trent Reach, James River, 1865;
Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop
Swatara, European Squadron, 1868-9 ; commanding steam-sloop Alaska, Asiatic
fleet, 1870.

COMMANDER CLARK H. WELLS ,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed a Midshipman from Pennsylvania, Septem
ber 25, 1840; attached to the North Carolina, 1840; frigate Brandywine and
sloop Fairfield, 1840-1 ; razee Independence, Home Squadron, 1842-3 ; sloop
Levant, Pacific Squadron, 1844-5 ; Naval School, Annapolis, 1846.
Graduated and became Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846. During Mexi
can War : In brig Somers, blockading Vera Cruz, in 1846 ; in gunboat Petrel,
1846-7, during which time she joined Tatnall's Flotilla, in the attack upon the
castle of San Juan D'Ulloa and the city of Vera Cruz; took part also in the
capture of Tuspan and Tampico. To the East Indies and " around the world,"
in the sloop Plymouth and brig Dolphin, 1848, '49, '50 and '51 ; receiving-ship,
Philadelphia, 1852 ; store-ship Fredonia, at Valparaiso, 1852, '53, '54 and '55.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855; Naval Observatory, Wash
ington, 1856 ; in 1856, attached to bark Resolute (originally an English man-
of-war, abandoned in the Arctic Seas, and subsequently recovered and brought
to the United States by the American whale-ship George Henry — Congress, by
joint resolution, dated August 28, 1856, having purchased her from the salvors
and ordered her restoration to the British Government, she sailed for England,
November 13, 1856) ; in steam-frigate Susquehanna and Water Witch, Home
Squadron, 1858 ; steamer Metacomet, Paraguay Expedition, 1859. During
the rebellion : Commanded sloop Vandalia, South Atlantic Blockading "Squad
ron, 1861-2 ; was Executive-Officer of the steamer Susquehanna, in the battle
of Port Royal ; his vessel, the Susquehanna, struck thirty-six times and badly
cut up, was specially mentioned in Admiral Du Pont's official report ; was sent
several times with sailors and marines, to reinforce the Unadilla, when much
exposed to night attacks in Wright's River, South Carolina ; commanded sloop
Dale, 1862, and brought her to Philadelphia.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; Navy Yard, Phila
delphia, 1863 ; commanded Galena, when rebuilt as wooden gunboat, in West
Gulf Squadron, 1864 ; frequently drew the fire of Fort Morgan, while running
in and shelling blockade-runners under the fort's guns ; took part in the Mo
bile fight ; during the passage of the forts, the Galena and Oneida, lashed to
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Tennessee — a shell from the latter exploding the Oneida's boiler, so that she
was towed in by her consort ; after Captain Mullany, of the Oneida, had his
arm shot away, opposite the forts, the command of both vessels devolved upon
Lieutenant-Commander Wells ; the Galena's services were specially mentioned
in Admiral Farragut's official report; Commander Wells also received a com
mendatory letter from the Admiral himself, in which he says :
" That in jjour case I depart from my usual custom, not to give letters for
good conduct in time of war, where there is an immediate Commander first to
forward it ; but inasmuch as Captain Mullany was wounded, and the command
of the two vessels (Oneida and Galena) devolved upon you, and were carried
through the battle with great gallantry, I take great pleasure in giving my offi
cial testimony to your very meritorious conduct in that engagement, and trust
that in the future it may be of service to you."
East Gulf Squadron, 1864; refitted in Philadelphia and joined Admiral
Porter's Squadron on the James River ; remained there until the close of the
war. Commanded the steamer Kansas, and visited nearly all the ports pf the
South Atlantic Station, during 1864, '65 and '66 ; received a letter of thanks
from the English Government and English Admiral, for going to the assistance
of H. B. M.'s gunboat Gleaner, reported to be dangerously ashore in Moledona
Bay; he and his officers and crew also received thanks, on this cruise, for res
cuing an English bark from English Bank, river La Plata. '
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1868, '69 and '70 ; detailed for the command of the Shenandoah,
in Spring of 1870.
Total sea service, 19 years; shore or other duty, 5 years, one month (to 1870) ;
official residence, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

COMMANDER S. P. QUACKENBUSH*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, February 15, 1840 ; attached
to sloop Boston, East India Squadron, 1841-2 ; frigate Raritan, Brazil Squad
ron, 1843-5 ; Naval School, 1846 ; sloop Albany, Home Squadron, 1846-7;
was actively engaged in operating against Vera Cruz, and on blockading duty
during the Mexican War.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846; store-ship, Supply, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1847-8; Coast Survey, 1849-50; mail steamer Pacific,
1850-1; mail steamer, Illinois, 1862; brig Perry, Coast of Africa, 1853—4.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 4, 1855 ; Home Squadron, 1856 ;
steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squadron, 1857-8 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1859; frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1859-61.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Delaware, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; covered the
retreat of General Burnside's army at Roanoke Island, and scattered a large
body of the enemy who were preparing to resist them ; commanding the Dela
ware, flying the divisional flag of Commander S. C. Rowan, at the battles of
Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City and Newbern, 1862 ; at Winton, North Carolina,
in same vessel, engaged a rebel battery and a regiment of infantry at short
range ; engagements with Sewell's Point battery and a flying battery at Wilcox
Landing, and a battery on Malvern Hill, James River; engagement with a
battery at Point of Rocks, Appomatox River, 1862 ; covered the rear guard of
the army at the retreat to Harrison's Landing, 1862 ; commanded the steam-
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gunboat Unadilla, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; commanding
steam-gunboat Pequot, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863—4 ; com
manded the iron-clad Patapsco, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864,
and while engaged in ascertaining the nature and position of the obstructions
in Charleston harbor and dragging for torpedoes, was struck by one, and sunk
in twenty seconds — this occurred within three hundred and fifty yards of Fort
Sumpter ; commanded the steamer Nungo, South Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, Georgetown, South Carolina, for the protection of that place, and with a
force of light draught vessels under his command, prevented the re-erection of
the fort by the enemy, which had been previously destroyed by our fleet.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steamer Cone-
maugh, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-8 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1868-70.

COMMANDER EARL ENGLISH,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, February 25, 1840;
attached to frigate Constellation, East India Squadron, 1840-4; steam-ship
Princeton, special service, 1844-5; Naval School, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846; razee Independence, flag
ship, Pacific Squadron, 1846-8 ; present at capture of Mazatlan, 1847; steamer
Vixen, Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; store-ship Southampton, Pacific Squadron,
1851-3 ; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1853 ; Coast Survey, 1854-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; sloop Levant, East India
Squadron, 1855-8 ; took part in engagements with Barrier Forts, Canton River,
China, November, 1856 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1859 ; steam-sloop Wyom
ing, Pacific Squadron, 1860-1 ; commanding steamer Somerset, Eastern Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862; capture of fort at mouth of St. Mark's River,
Florida, June 15, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Sagamore, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, .1863 ; captured and
destroyed town of New Smyrna, Florida, July 28, 1863; commanding steam-
gunboat Pontiac, 1864 ; commanding steamer Wyalusing, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5 ; capture of Plymouth, North Carolina, October, 1864;
in action with rebel batterries and infantry, on Roanoke River, near Poplar
Point, North Carolina, during the expedition up that river, the advance being
prevented by torpedoes, December, 1864; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New
York, 1866.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop Iro
quois, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9; commanding flag-ship Delaware, Asiatic
Fleet, 1870.

COMMANDER JOSEPH M. BRADFORD,
Born in Tennessee. Appointed from Alabama, January 10, 1840 ; attached to
frigate Columbus, Mediterranean Squadron, 1840-3 ; sloop Vandalia, Home
Squadron, 1843-5 ; Naval School, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846; attached to steamer Spit
fire, Home Squadron, 1846-7; was in the several attacks on Vera Cruz; on
board the Spitfire, when that vessel, assisted by two other gunboats, captured a

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ten-gun fort a few miles below Tobasco ; in several skirmishes in and about
Tobasco; at capture of Tuspan and Tampico; frigate Brandywine, Brazil
Squadron, 1847-8 ; razee Independence, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-52 ;
Coast Survey, 1853 ; sloop Dale, coast of Africa, 1854-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; sloop Jamestown, coast
of Africa, 1856 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1857-9 ; store-ship Release, Brazil
Squadron, 1860-1 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 15, 1862 ; commanding
steamer Nipsic, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; November,' 1863,
was appointed Fleet-Captain of the South Atlantic Squadron, and served in that
capacity until June 25, 1865 ; was a number of times under fire at Charleston
and Stono Inlet ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steam-sloop
Resaca, North Pacific Squadron, 1867-8; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Boston,
1869-70.

COMMANDER REIGART B. LOWRY,
Born in South America, July 14, 1826. Appointed from Pennsylvania, Jan
uary 21, 1840; attached to sloop Boston, East India Squadron, 1840-3 ; steamer
Princeton, special service, 1844-5 ; Naval School, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; Home Squadron during
Mexican War ; present at Tampico, Tuspan, Vera Cruz, Tobasco, Seven Palms
and Alvarado; wounded slightly at Tuspan; razee Independence, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1850-2 ; sloop Plymouth, East India Squadron, 1852—4.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; steam-frigate Powhatan,
East India Squadron, 1855-6; receiving-ship, New York, 1857-8 ; sloop Preble,
Brazil Squadron, 1858-9; special duty, 1860-1; steam-sloop Pawnee, Atlantic
Coast, 1861 ; was present in Pawnee in first firing on Sumpter ; engagement at
Acquia Creek, Potomac River, 1861 ; commanded steamer Freeborn, in engage
ment at Matthias Point and other affairs on Potomac River ; suggested Hatteras
Expedition, and gave information which led to it; received thanks of the Sec
retary of the Navy for the same, August, 1861 ; commanded steamer Under
writer, in Albermarle Sound, 1861 ; was Executive-Officer of steam-sloop
Brooklyn in the battles with the forts below New Orleans, and at the capture
of the city ; first attack on Vicksburg, June 30, 1862 ; commanded steamer
Sciota, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; engagement at Donald-
sonville, Louisiana, between Sciota and rebel force of nine hundred men and
seven pieces of artillery, October 5, 1862 ; engagement with batteries at Gal
veston, January, 1863.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; special duty,
Washington, 1863—4 ; commanding apprentice-ship Sabine, 1864-8.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding flag-ship, North
Atlantic Fleet, 1869-70.

COMMANDER WILLIAM W. LOW,
Born in Massachusetts, April 15, 1823. Appointed from same State, 1841 ;
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Africa, 1843-5; frigate Columbus, East India Squadron, 1845-6; Naval
School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; frigate St. Lawrence,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1848-50; sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-2 ;
steamer Princeton, special service, 1854-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; store-ship Relief, 1858-9 ;
sloop St. Louis, Home Squadron, 1860-1 ; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ;. commanding
steam-gunboat Octorara, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; partici
pated in bombardment of Fort Powell, Grant's Pass, Mississippi Sound,Febru-
ary, [1864; in the bombardment of Fort Morgan, August 22, 1864; in the
operations against the rebel works, in Blakely River, April, 1865, and at the
capture of Mobile; special duty, Boston, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding receiving-ship,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868-9 ; commanding steam-sloop Severn, North
Atlantic Fleet, 1870.

COMMANDER JOHN H. UPSHER,
Born in Virginia, December 5, 1823. Appointed from Virginia, November
4, 1841; attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1841-3; sloop
St. Mary's, Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-6 ; Home Squadron, during Mexi
can War ; in the Naval Battery, during the bombardment of Vera Cruz; Naval
School, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; frigate Cumberland,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-50 ; ordnance duty, 1852 ; store-ship Supply,
East India Squadron, 1853-6.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; ordnance duty, Wash
ington Navy Yard, 1856-7; sloop Cumberland, coast of Africa, 1858-9; In
structor at Naval Academy, 1859-60 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1861 ; at capture of forts at Hatteras, North Carolina; steam-frigate Wabash,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; present at battle of Port Royal;
commanding steamer Flambeau, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3;
several expeditions up the rivers of South Carolina.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
frigate Minnesota, flag-ship, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4;
commanding steamer A. D. Vance, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1864-5 ; at capture of Fort Fisher, January, 1865 ; commanding steamer
Frolic, European Squadron, 1865-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; commanding apprentice-ship
Saratoga, 1868-9.

COMMANDER FRANCIS A. ROE,
Born in New York, October 4, 1823. Appointed from New York, October
19, 1841; attached to sloop John Adams, Brazil Squadron, 1841-3; sloop
Yorktown, coast of Africa, 1844-6 ; steamer Alleghany, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1846-7 ; Naval School, 1847-8.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; mail-steamer Georgia,
1851-2 ; brig Porpoise, North Pacific Expedition, 1853-4 ; engagement with
squadron of fourteen Chinese junks, in 1854 ; defeated the squadron and broke
up their rendezvous near Macao, sinking a number of junks ; sloop Vincennes,
North Pacific Expedition, 1855.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; Coast Survey, 1857-8 ;
sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1859-60 ; Executive-Officer steam-
sloop Pensacola, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; engagement
with batteries on the passage down the Potomac ; attack on and passage of
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Or
leans; engagement at Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-
gunboat Katahdin, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; second en
gagement at Baton Rouge and destruction of rebel iron-clad Arkansas, August
7,1862; two fights near Donaldsonville with masked batteries ; engagement at
Plaquemine, Louisiana; skirmishing constantly for over four months in the
Katahdin between Baton Rouge and College Point, Louisiana, 1862; command
ing steamer Sassacus, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; battle of
rebel iron-clad Albemarle and gunboat Bombshell, May 5, 1864 ; commanding
steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1864-6 ; attached to steam-sloop Madawasca,
New York, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; commanding steamer Tacony,
Atlantic Squadron, 1867; Fleet-Captain, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-70.

COMMANDER JAMES S. THORNTON,
Born in New Hampshire, 1827. Appointed from New Hampshire, January
15, 1841; attached to frigate Columbia, Brazil Squadron, 1841-5; sioop John
Adams, Home Squadron, 1846-7; on blockade and special duty in Gulf during
Mexican War.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1846; steamer Mississippi,
Home Squadron, 1847-9 ; Coast Survey, 1849-50 ; resigned, May 9, 1850 ; re
instated, 1854; store-ship Relief, Brazil Squadron, 1855.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855; store-ship Relief, Home
Squadron, 1859-60 ; brig Bainbridge, Atlantic Coast, 1861 ; Executive-Officer
of flag-ship Hartford at the passage of the forts and Chalmette batteries below
New Orleans ; also, two engagements with the Vicksburg batteries, and action
with the ram Arkansas.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Winona, off Mobile, 1863; made a reconnoissance of Fort Gaines, and
sounded the approaches thereto under fire of the fort; destroyed rebel steamer
in Navy Cove, Mobile Bay, under fire of Fort Morgan ; Executive-Officer of
the Kearsarge in the action with the Alabama off Cherbourg, France ; Lieu
tenant-Commander Thornton was advanced several numbers in his grade for his
gallantry and efficiency in the action with the Alabama; Navy Yard, Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; commanding steam-sloop
Kearsarge, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-70.

150 COMMANDERS.
COMMANDER WILLIAM D. WHITING,*
Born in Massachusetts, May 27, 1823. Appointed "at large," March 1,
1841; attached to sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1841-4; line-of-battle ship
Columbia, East India Squadron, 1845-6; sloop Levant, 1846-7; Naval
School, 1847-8
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; sloop Marion, East
India Squadron, 1849-52 ; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1853 ; Coast Sur
vey, 1854-7.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855; frigate Niagara, laying of
Atlantic Cable, 1857; sloop Marion, coast of Africa, 1858-60; Executive-Offi
cer sloop Vandalia, at capture of Port Royal, 1861 ; commanding steamer
Wyandotte, South Atlantic Squadron and Potomac Flotilla, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Ottawa, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863; attack and cap
ture of lower end of Morris Island ; attacks on Fort Wagner and battery Gregg,
and bombardment up to the time of their evacuation ; commanding school-ship
Savannah, 1864-5 ; commanding steamer Tioga, coast of Maine and Gulf
Squadron, 1866.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, New York,
1867-9; commanding sloop Saratoga, North Atlantic Squadron, 1869; com
manding double-turret iron-clad Miantonomoh, 1870.

COMMANDER J. C. P. DeKRAFFT,
Born in District of Columbia, January 12, 1826. Appointed from Illinois,
October 19, 1841 ; attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron,
1841-3; frigate Raritan, Brazil Squadron, 1844-6; Home Squadron, 1846;
first attack on Alvarado, 1846; frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, 1847; Naval
School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1S47; frigate Raritan, Home
Squadron, 1849-50; Coast Survey, 1851; steamer Vixen, Home Squadron,
1851-2; Coast Survey, 1853; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1855.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; sloop John Adams,
Pacific Squadron, 1856-8; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1859; frigate
Niagara, special Service, 1861 ; attack on Fort McCrean, defences of Pensacola,
1861; Navy Yard, Washington, 1862-3; commanding steamer Conemaugh,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-6; attack on Fort Powell and
defences of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; special duty, Philadelphia,
1867; Fleet-Captain, North Atlantic Squadron, 186S-9 ; special duty, Phila
delphia, 1870.

COMMANDER OSCAR C. BADGER,*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 9, 1841;
attached to razee Independence, Home Squadron, 1841-2; sloop Saratoga, coast
of Africa, 1843-4; was in landing party from the Saratoga, and took part in

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the destruction of the Bereby villages, 1843 ; steamer Mississippi, Gulf Squad
ron, during Mexican War; at attack on Alvarado, 1846; frigate Brandywine
and brig Perry, Brazil Squadron, 1847-9.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; store-ship Supply,
Pacific Squadron, 1850; frigate Savannah, Pacific Squadron, 1850; sloop Vin
cennes, Pacific Squadron, as navigator, 1851-2; Naval Observatory, Washing
ton, 1853-4.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; sloop John Adams,
Pacific Squadron, 1855-6, as navigator — while attached to this vessel, com
manded a party which attacked and destroyed the village of Vutia, Fejee
Islands; engaged in skirmishes with the Fejeeans, on other occasions ; ordnance-
ship Plymouth, 1858 ; sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-60 ;
steam-frigate Minnesota and Navy Yard, Washington, 1861 ; commanding
steamer Anacostia, Potomac Flotilla, 1861-2 ; attack on Cock-pit Point battery,
January 2, 1862— was favorably mentioned in dispatches from the commander
ofthe flotilla, on this occasion ; attack on Acquia Creek batteries, March, 1862,
and engaged in a number of other attacks on Potomac River batteries the same
year; while in command of the Anacostia, was engaged in the siege of York-
town,Virginia and defences at Gloucester Point.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; ordnance-officer in
charge of arming gunboats building on western rivers, 1862-3; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; engaged in the attack on Morris Island batteries,
July 11, 1863 ; commanded the iron-clad Patapsco in the attack on Fort
Wagner, July 18, 1863, and on forts Wagner, Gregg and Sumpter, August 17,
1863; commanded the iron-clad Montauk, in a night attack on Fort Sumpter,
August 22, 1863 ; appointed Fleet-Captain, ad interim, of South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, and was in the flag-ship Weehawken (iron-clad), in an attack
on Fort Sumpter on the night of September 1, 1863, and was severely wounded,
his right leg being shattered by a metallic splinter ; favorably mentioned in the
dispatches by the Rear Admiral commanding the squadron for services during
these operations; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and Inspector of
cannon, Pittsburg, 1864-6.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steamer Peoria,
North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; received vote of thanks from the legislative
assemblies of the islands of Antigua and Saint Kitts, for services rendered by
his command to the authorities, and to the sufferers by the great fire which
destroyed the city of Basse Terre, July 4, 1867; equipment duty, Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868-70.

COMMANDER THOMAS C, HARRIS,
Born in Pennsylvania, 1823. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 9,
1841; attached to frigate Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1841-3; sloop Ports
mouth, Home Squadron, 1843-5 ; steamer Princeton, Pacific Squadron, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; Naval Observatory,
Washington, 1849-50 ; frigate Savannah, Pacific Squadron, 1851 ; frigate
Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1852-3 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron,
1854-6. Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; receiving-ship, Philadel-

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phia, 1857; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1857-8; steam-sloop Pow
hatan, 1861 ; steamer Kearsarge, special- service, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, J uly 16, 1862; commanding steam-
gunboat Chippewa, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; several at
tacks on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, July, 1863 ; commanding steam-gunboat
Yantic, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; in the two attacks on
Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1866-9; commanding sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Fleet, 1870.

COMMANDER STEPHEN B. LUCE,
Born in New York, March 25, 1827. Appointed from New York, October 19,
1841 ; attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1842-5 ; serving
on board frigate Columbus on coast of California during Mexican War.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; sloop Vandalia, Pacific
Squadron, 1850-2 ; special duty, 1853 ; steamer Vixen, Home Squadron, 1854 ;
Coast Survey, 1855-7.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; sloop Jamestown, Home
Squadron, 1858-60; steam-frigate Wabash, Atlantic Coast, 1861; at battles of
Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal; commanded a howitzer launch at Wabash during
a reconnoissance in force and engagement with rebels at Port Royal ferry, by
combined military and naval forces.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 15, 1862; Naval Academy,
1863; commanding iron-clad Nantucket, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-5; while in command of the Nantucket, engaged the rebel forts Sumpter
and Moultrie a number of times; commanding steamer Pontiac, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; engaged battery Marshall several times; on Jan
uary 5, 1865, reported to General W. T. Sherman at Savannah, Georgia, for
duty, in connection with the army, with considerable difficulty got the Pontiac
up the Savannah River about forty miles above the city, and protected the pon
toon bridge from the rebel gunboats while General Slocum's wing passed into
South Carolina, which service was acknowledged by General Sherman.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Commandant of Midshipmen
at Naval Academy, 1866-8; commanding steamer Mohongo, North Pacific
Squadron, 1868-9; commanding steam-sloop Juniata, European Squadron,
1869-70.

COMMANDER JOHN LEE DAVIS*
Born in Indiana. Appointed Acting Midshipman, January 9, 1841, and or
dered to receiving-ship, North Carolina ; Mediterranean Squadron, sloop Fair
field, 1841, '42, '43 and '44 ; January 25, 1842, warranted Midshipman; Home
Squadron, 1845-6, in store-ship Lexington, frigate Potomac, brig Porpoise, and
schooner Flirt; engaged in the blockade of Vera Cruz and other Mexican ports;
Naval School -1846-7.

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Warranted Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; Home Squadron, 1847-8,
in frigate Cumberland and steamer Iris ; East India Squadron, 1848, '49, '50
and '51, in sloops Plymouth, and Preble, and brig Dolphin ; January, 1849, ap
pointed Acting Lieutenant ; November, 1849, captured a piratical junk near
Macoa, with Midshipman Benham, Captain's-clerk Hudson, and fifteen men;
the enemy lost three killed and had many wounded, Midshipman Benham and
two men slightly wounded ; returned in the Plymouth, as Flag-Lieutenant ;
Coast Survey, 1851, in brig Washington; coast of Africa, 1852, '53 and '54,
in brig Perry ; during the cruise appointed Acting Master, and returned as
Executive-Officer; Coast Survey, 1855, '56 and '57, Acting Master, steamer
Corwin. Warranted Master, September 15, 1855.
Commissioned Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; Pacific Squadron, 1857, '58
and '59, in sloop Vandalia, and steam-frigate Merrimac ; leave of absence,
1860 ; Gulf Squadron, 1861, steamer Water Witch, Executive-Officer ; Octo
ber 12, 1861, engagement at 4 A. M., head of the Passes, Mississippi River,
with the rebel ram Manassas, and the same day with rebel fleet near Pilot Town ;
oommand of Water Witch was tendered, but declined in favor of senior ; ordered
as Executive-Officer of tbe frigate Potomac ; November, ordered as Executive-
Officer of steam-frigate Colorado ; April 9, 1862, on Captain T. Bailey's
leaving the ship at South-West Pass, took command and forwarded supplies to
fleet up the river.
Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1862, '63 and '64, in command of steamer Vixen, gunboat
Wissahickon, and iron-clad Montauk ; November 7, 1862 (Wissahickon), burned
a rebel schooner in the Little Ogeechee River, loaded with naval stores, as
sisted by the Dawn, Lieutenant-commanding, J. S. Barnes ; November 19th,
engagement with Fort McAllister, Ogeechee River, was struck by an 8-inch
solid shot about four feet below water, with great difficulty stopped the leak
temporarily, after the action laid the vessel ashore, and at the falling of the
tide put in a patch 12 by 23 inches ; January 27, 1863, engaged Fort McAllis
ter, February 1st, ditto, and February 28th, ditto, when the privateer Nashville
was destroyed ; March 19th, sunk the blockade-runner steamer Georgiana, in
attempting to get into Charleston ; June 5th, pursued the steamer Isaac Smith,
loaded with cotton, running out of Charleston harbor, and by shot disabled her,
when she was beached under Fort Moultrie and lost, and her cargo damaged ;
July 11th, engaged Cummings' Point battery ; from July 12th to 18th, in
clusive, Fort Wagner ; August 17th, Fort Sumpter ; August 18th, Fort Wagner ;
in command of Montauk, September 1st, engaged Fort Sumpter, etc.; Septem
ber 6th, Fort Gregg, etc.; September 7th, Fort Sumpter, etc.; September 8th,
battle with Fort Moultrie, battery Bee, etc., in company with the other monitors
andNew Ironsides ; November 5th, 9th and 10th, Fort Sumpter ; November 16th,
Fort Moultrie; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5, in command
of steamer Sassacus ; November 5th and 6, 1864, chased the privateer Tallahas
see ; December, towed the Louisiana, powder-boat, from Norfolk to Fort Fisher,
via Beaufort; December 24th and 25th, engaged Fort Fisher ; January 13th and
14, 1865, Fort Fisher; January 15th, battle with Fort Fisher, etc.; Febru
ary 18th, Fort Anderson, in Cape Fear River; February 20th and 21st, Fort
Strong, on the last day was struck several times, a 30-pounder Parrott shell was
received about three feet below water, the leak was kept under until night,
when it was effeotually stopped ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1865-6.
Commissioned Commander, July 25, 1866 ; special duty, 1866, '67 and '68 ;
Navy Yard, Washington, 1868-9.

154 COMMANDERS.
COMMANDER JONATHAN YOUNG,*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Illinois, October, 1841 ; attached to the
steamer Mississippi and sloop-of-war Vincennes, Home Squadron, 1841-4; boat
expedition after pirates about the Isle of Pines, on south side of the Island of
Cuba, 1842 ; captured a slave vessel with five hundred slaves on board ; attached
to the line-of-battle ship Columbus, seventy-four guns, flag-ship of Commodore
James Biddle, East Indies, and around the world, 1845-8 ; made a forcible
entry into the harbor of Yeddo, Japan, 1846, to deliver a letter from the Presi
dent ofthe United States, to the Emperor of Japan, and receive a reply; par
ticipated in the Mexican War on the coast of California.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; attached to the frigate
Raritan, flag-ship of Commodore Parker, Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; sloop-of-
war St. Mary's Pacific Squadron, and around the world, 1850-2 ; Naval Obser
vatory, 1853 ; steamer Massachusetts, Pacific Squadron, 1854-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September, 1855 ; engaged in a war with In
dians in Puget Sound, Washington Territory, in command of the landing forces;
Naval Observatory, 1858 ; steamer Westernport, Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ;
Naval Observatory, 1859-60; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Gulf, Mediterranean
and Atlantic Coast, 1860-1 ; participated in the capture of Hatteras Inlet and
Port Royal ; Executive-Officer of the sloop-of-war Jamestown, blockading off
Wilmington, North Carolina, November, 1861 to June, 1862; Executive-Officer
ofthe steam-frigate Powhatan off Charleston, South Carolina, June to November,
1862. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanded steam-
gunboat Pembina, off Mobile, 1863 ; engagement with shore batteries planted
for the purpose of driving her further off shore, silenced the battery and forced
it to retire ; under fire from troops on shore while destroying a rebel blockade-
runner stranded on the beach ; temporary ordnance duty, 1863, while recruiting
from an attack of fever contracted while on duty in Pensacola harbor ; com
manded the steamer Cimarron, blockading off the coast of South Carolina and
Georgia, from March to July, 1864 ; commanded the iron-clad Monitor San
gamon off Charleston, from July, 1864, until the fall of Savannah and Charles
ton ; in all the engagements with the defences of Charleston harbor, from July,.
1864 to February, 1865 ; after the surrender of these cities, his vessel was
ordered up the coast to reinforce Admiral Porter's fleet off Wilmington and up
the James River; detached from command ofthe Sangamon, March 28, 1865;
commanding the receiving-ship Vandalia, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1865-7;
was recommended for promotion by the Board of Admirals, for gallant and mer
itorious service during the war.
Promoted to Commander; commanding the steamer Mohaska, North Atlantic
Squadron, 1867-8 ; Naval Observatory, 1869-70.
The gallant and zealous services of Commander Young during the rebellion,
elicited letters of high commendation from Vice Admiral Porter, Rear Admi
rals Lardner, Bailey, Dahlgren, Godon and many others, under whose com
mand he had served.

COMMANDER ALEXANDER A. SEMMES,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Maryland, October 22, 1841;
attached to frigate Columbus, Mediterranean Squadron, 1841-3; skirmish with

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the natives at Grand Bevely, Africa; sloop Vincennes, East India Squadron,
1845-6; Naval School, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; Naval Observatory,
Washington 1849-50 ; frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1851-2 ; Coast
Survey, 1853; Naval Observatory, Washington, 1854.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; steamer Massachusetts,
Pacific Squadron, 1855-7; November, 1856, commanded a force of twenty-three
sailors and marines in a successful attack upon an encampment of one hundred
Russian- American Indians in Puget Sound; steam-sloop Powhatan, East India
Squadron, 1859-60 ; steamer Rhode Island, Atlantic Coast, 1861 ; commanding
steamer Wamsutta, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; engaged in
skirmish with rebels at an island in Newport River, Georgia, April, 1862 ; com
manding steam-gunboat Tahoma, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863—4;
attacked the batteries of Tampa, Florida, April, 1863, and in October, 1863,
attacked same batteries as a ruse while dispatching a party of sailors to capture
some blockade-runners ; September, 1863, while in command of a light draught
steamer, with detachment from various vessels of the East Gulf Squadron, made
a demonstration on Bay Port, Florida, which resulted in the destruction of an
English blockade-running steamer and the warehouse containing her cargo;
commanding iron-clad Lehigh, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ;
bombardment of Fort Pringle, July 7th, 8th, 9th and 10,-1864 ; picket duty in
the harbor of Charleston during the Fall and Winter of 1864-5 ; February,
1865, commanding the Lehigh, and senior-officer of six vessels operating against
the rebel defences on James Island; fall of Charleston, 1865; commanded the
Lehigh in a midnight bombardment of the Howlett House batteries on James
River; fall of Richmond; ordnance duty, Philadelphia, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding sloop Portsmouth,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70.

COMMANDER WILLIAM T. TRUXTON,
Born in Pennsylvania, March 11, 1824. Appointed from Pennsylvania, Feb
ruary 9, 1841; attached to frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron, 1842-4; brig
Truxton, coast of Africa, 1844-5; Naval School, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, i847; store-ship Supply, Pacific
Squadron, 1850-2; brig Dolphin, special service, 1853; special duty, 1854.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; Coast Survey, 1855-7;
brig Perry, Brazil Squadron, 1858-60; sloop Dale, 1861; commanding sloop
Dale, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-
gunboat Chocura, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; commanding
steam-gunboat Tacony, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; capture
of Plymouth, North Carolina, October, 1864; two attacks on Fort Fisher,
North Carolina, December, 1864, and January, 1865; various engagements with
batteries along the coast of North Carolina ; special duty, Navy Yard, Philadel
phia, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding sloop Jamestown,
North Pacific Squadron, 1868-70.

156 COMMANDERS.
COMMANDER WILLIAM KENNON MAYO*
Born at Drummondtown, Virginia. Appointed Midshipman from Virginia,
October 18, 1841 ; began Naval service on the Pennsylvania, 120, at Norfolk,
Va., in November, 1841 ; joined the flag-ship United States (frigate) Pacific
Squadron, November 19, 1841, and transferred to the Cyane, February, 1843;
at the capitulation of Monterey, in charge of the boats of the landing party ;
November, 1844, ordered to the sloop St. Mary's, of the Texas Annexation
Squadron; served in her during the entire war with Mexico; blockade of
Tampico and Vera Cruz ; bombardment of forts at the mouth of Tampico River;
attempt to cut out three gunboats in Tampico River ; planting of and service at
the Naval battery, Vera Cruz; fall of Vera Cruz and Tampico; September,
1847, ordered to be a pupil of the Naval School ; nassed examination July 14,
1848. Warranted Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; during July, 1848, or
dered to the frigate St. Lawrence, European seas; March, 1851, ordnance duty
at Norfolk, Virginia; July, 1851, ordered to the brig Dolphin, on special ser
vice to make scientific observations in the North Atlantic, surveys, etc.; com
mended as an accurate and critical navigator, (Senate Doc, " Cruise of the
Dolphin") ; July, 1852, ordered to the steam-frigate Saranae, on special service,
to Brazil ; commended by the Department, May, 1853 ; during July, 1853, or
dered to the Coast Survey, and in November of the same year, to the sloop
Cyane, detailed from the Home Squadron for the use of Lieutenant J. G.
Strain's party for the exploration of a canal route from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific Ocean, over the Isthmus of Darien ; member of the United States party
that made the first topographic reconnoissance about, and the first complete
hydrographic survey of the Bay of Sassardic or Caledonia Bay, and member of
the party that sought Strain in the wilderness ; June, 1854, ordered to the
Coast Survey ; October, 1854, ordered to the Naval Academy in Executive De
partment, and as Instructor in Seamanship, Naval Tactics and Gunnery, with
promotion to Acting Master ; cruise of the Practice-ship, 1855 ; special com
mendation, (Report of Secretary of the Navy, 1855, page 76) ; author of the
MS. System of Naval Tactics and Fleet Sailing, taught at the Academy, the
only one used.
Promoted Master, September 14, 1855.
Commissioned Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; May, 1857, joined the steam-
frigate Minnesota, which saileoj on a special diplomatic mission to Asia; Sep
tember, 1859, ordered to the Naval Academy as Instructor in Ethics, etc.; Feb
ruary, 1860, ordered to Norfolk, Pennsylvania, 120, December, 1860, to the
sloop St. Mary's, of the Pacific Fleet; ordered East, January, 1862, and as
signed the Executive-Officer of the new steam-sloop Housatonic, blockade of
Charleston, South Carolina.
Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862; in command ofthe
gunboat Kanawha, Western Gulf Squadron, November, 1862; engagement
with riflemen and field batteries, Mobile Point ; fight with Fort Morgan, on
October 12, 1863 ; commended for gallantry, etc., (Report of Secretary of the
Navy, 1864, page 478); capture of six schooners; directed capture of three
steamers ; detached from the Kanawha, November, 1863 ; in February, 1864,
special (iron-clad) duty in New York City; May, 1864, took a draft of contra
bands to the Pacific Fleet, at Panama, N. G.; July, 1864, under direct orders
from the Department, took command of the monitor Nahant, in front of Char
leston, S. Cj July, 1864, discovered that the port of Charleston was not closed
to commerce; this led to a more vigorous system of picket duty by- which

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nine trading steamers were run ashore in seven months ; affairs with Fort
Moultrie as episodes of picket duty ; fall of Charleston, February, 1865 ; gen
eral commendation as an iron-clad Commander, (see Secretary of Navy's Re
port, 1864, page 11) ; March, 1865, Ordnance-Officer "of the South Atlantic
Blockading Fleet, and command of Bay Point Depot until May, 1866.
Commissioned Commander, July 25, .1866, under the operation of the pro
viso of the 1st section of the statute; from November, 1866 to May, 1869, on
Navigation Duty at Boston, Mass.; inventor of the Naval Standard Binnacles,
type of January, 1869; commanding steam-sloop Tuscarora, North Atlantic
Fleet, 1870.

COMMANDER JAMES E. JOUETT,
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentucky, September 10, 1841; attached
to razee Independence, 1841-3 ; sloop Decatur, coast of Africa, 1841-5 ;
steamer Princeton, Home Squadron, 1846-7; held Point Isabel with sailors
from the Squadron ; Naval School, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; frigate St. Lawrence,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-50; store-ship Lexington, Pacific Squadron,
1851-2; mail-steamer Illinois, 1853 ; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1857.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 1858 ; steamer N. W. Chapin, Brazil Squadron, and Paraguay Expedi
tion, 1858-9; steamer Crusader, Home "Squadron, I860 ; steamer Michigan, on
the lakes, 1861 ; frigate Santee, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ;
on November 7, 1861, Lieutenant Jouett commanded a detachment of sailors
and marines from the Santee, who boarded and destroyed the rebel armed
shooner Royal Yacht, in Galveston Bay ; Lieutenant Jouett had a desperate
hand-to-hand conflict with the commander of the rebel vessel, and received two
severe wounds in the right arm, and right side and lung, from a pike in the
hands of one of the crew of the schooner who came to the assistance of his com
mander; Lieutenant Jouett received the commendation of his commanding
officer, and the thanks of the Department, for this achievement.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862; steamer Michigan,
on the lakes, 1862 ; commanding steamer R. R. Cuyler, Western Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1863 ; commanding steamer Metacomet, Western Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1863-4; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864; soon after
the fleet had passed the forts at the entrance of Mobile Bay, Lieutenant-Com
mander Jouett was ordered to pursue the three rebel gunboats who were annoying
the fleet by a raking fire. They steamed up the Bay, closely pursued by the Met
acomet, and engaged that vessel with their stern guns, of which they had three
each. The Gaines retreated under cover of the fort in a crippled condition, the
Morgan hauled off to starboard, and the Selma struck her flag to the Metacomet,
and was taken possession of by an officer detailed for that purpose by Lieuten
ant-Commander Jouett; rear-Admiral Farragut, in his official report of the
battle of Mobile Bay, says : " Lieutenant^Commander Jouett's conduct during
the whole affair commands my warmest commendation;" Naval Rendezvous,
Philadelphia, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, New York,
1867-8; commanding steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1868-70.

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COMMANDER T. SCOTT FILLEBROWN,*
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Maine, October 19, 1841 ;
attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1842-5; steaih-frigate
Mississippi, Home Squadron, 1846-7; was present in all the operations on the
Gulf coast during the Mexican War ; Naval School, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; frigate St. Lawrence,
North Europe and Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51 ; Naval Observatory,
Washington, 1851 ; store-ship Lexington, Pacific Squadron, 1851-2 ; sloop
Vincennes, North Pacific Expedition, 1852-6.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; Naval Observatory,
Washington, 1857-8; steamer Release, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedi
tion, 1858-9; commanding steamer Anacostia, special service, 1859-60; steam-
frigate Roanoke, Atlantic Coast, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862; Navy Yard, New
York, 1862-3 ; commanding steam-gunboat Chenango, 1863 ; while going
down New York harbor in the Chenango, lost four officers and thirty men by
the explosion of her boiler; commanding iron-clad Passaic, operating against
Fort Sumpter, during May, 1864 ; commanding iron-clad Montauk, operating
against battery Pringle, in Stono River, South Carolina, during July, 1864;
commanding steamer Sonoma, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5;
engagement with rebel batteries in Tagoda River, February, 1865 ; Naval Ob
servatory, Washington, 1866.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; hydrographic office, Washing
ton, 1867-8 ; commanding steam-sloop Narragansett, North Atlantic Squadron,
1869; at present on special duty, Washington, D. C.

COMMANDER EDWARD E. STONE,
Born in Georgia, January 26, 1826. Appointed from Georgia, October 19,
1841 ; attached to frigate Bainbridge, Home Squadron, 1842-4 ; brig Perry,
East India Squadron, 1854-5 ; frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron, during
Mexican War ; attack on Vera Cruz ; Naval School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; brig Perry, coast of
Africa, 1848-50 ; sloop Portsmouth, coast of Africa, 1851 ; Coast Survey,
1852; store-ship Fredonia, Pacific Squadron, 1853; Coast Survey, 1854-6.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; bark Resolute, special
service, 1857 ; sloop Marion, coast of Africa, 1858 ; sloop John Adams, East
India Squadron, 1860-1 ; commanding school-ship Macedonian, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding
steamer Iron- Age, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; engagement
with and capture of Fort Anderson ; slightly wounded at Fort Anderson.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; special duty, New Orleans,
1866-7; commanding steamer Shawmut, Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; Light
house Inspector, 1869-70.

COMMANDER WALTER W. QUEEN,
Born in District of Columbia, October 6, 1824. Appointed from New York.
October 7, 1841 ; attached to sloop Marion, West India Squadron, 1841-3; brig

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Perry, East India Squadron, 1843-5; frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron,
during Mexican War ; stationed at Point Isabella during battles of Palo Alto
and Resaca de la Palma, May 8th and 9, 1846 ; attacks on Alvarado, Tampico,
Tuspan and Vera Cruz ; frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, 1847; Naval School, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; resigned, 1847, and re
entered the service in 1854.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; store-ship Relief, Brazil
Squadron, 1855; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1856; East India Squadron,
1857-8; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1859-60; steam-sloop Powhatan, special
service, 1861 ; attached to Powhatan during the reinforcement of Fort Pickens,
Florida, 1861, and served nineteen days on shore at the fort, in charge of the
boats ofthe fleet; commanded second division (seven schooners) ofthe Mortar
Flotilla, under Commander Porter, during the bombardment of Forts Jackson
and St. Philip, and during the attack on Vicksburg, when Flag-Officer Farragut
passed the batteries with his fleet.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Washington, 1862-3 ; commanding steam-gunboat Wyalusing,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863—4 ; commanded the Wyalusing in
the engagement with rebel ram Albemarle and her consorts, the Bombshell and
Cotton-Plant, May 5, 1864, when the ram, to prevent capture, sought refuge in
the Roanoke River; ordnance duty, Reading; Pa., 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, i866 ; special duty, Hartford, Con
necticut, 1867; commanding steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Pacific Squadron,
1867-70.
COMMANDER RALPH CHANDLER,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 27, 1845; Naval
School, 1846 ; attached to razee Independence, flag-ship, Pacific Squadron,
1846-8; engaged in two skirmishes near Mazatlan, during Mexican War; sloop
Vincennes, Pacific Squadron, 1849-50.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, October 6, 1851; Naval Academy, 1852;
sloop St. Louis, Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; Coast Survey, 1856-7;
Survey ofthe Parana, etc., 1858-9 ; sloop Vandalia, 1861 ; battle of Port Royal,
1861; steam-sloop San Jacinto, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862;
engagement with Sewell's Point battery, and capture of Norfolk, 1862 ; steam-
sloop. San Jacinto, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Huntsville, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; commanding
steam-gunboat Maumee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; bom
bardment and capture of Fort Fisher, and* capture of Wilmington, North Caro
lina; commanding steamer Don, special service, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; ordnance duty, New York
Navy Yard, 1868 ; commanding steamer Talapoosa, special service, 1869-70.

COMMANDER KIDDER RANDOLPH BREESE,*
Born in Philadelphia, April 14, 1831. Appointed Midshipman, November 6,
1846, from Rhode Island, and on the 25th of November, passed the required

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mental and physical examination at Annapolis; February, 1847, was ordered to
the Saratoga, Commander Farragut, and served in her on the Mexican Coast,
during the war. In the Spring of 1848, the Saratoga going out of commission
was ordered to the St. Mary's, and on her arrival at Rio de Janerio, was
detached, and ordered to the frigate Brandywine ; served in the Brandywine
until the expiration of her cruise, December, 1850 ; February, 1851, joined the
frigate St. Lawrence, then loading at New York with articles for the World's
Fair at London, and made that cruise in her, returning in September, 1851;
from October, 1851 to June, 1852, at the Naval Academy studying for examin
ation. ,
Passed and received warrant as Passed Midshipman, June 1852, and was
ordered to the Mississippi, flag-ship of Commodore M. C. Perry; commanding
Japan Expedition during this cruise, was temporarily attached to the Macedo
nian, in search of coal on the north end of the Island of Formosa, and in inquiry
of the captivity of Americans by the savages of that island ; on the return of
the Mississippi to the United States, in June, 1855, was detached and granted
leave; in July, was ordered on Coast Survey duty, and was engaged on that
work until August, 1858 ; was then ordered to the Preble, on the Paraguay
Expedition, serving in that expedition and afterward on the Mosquito Coast, off
Greytown, until September, 1859, when invalided home with Isthmus fever;
December, 1860, was ordered to the Portsmouth, on the coast of Africa, and
took passage in the Mohican, to join that ship ; served on board the Portsmouth
until August, 1860, when joined the San Jacinto; remained on board the San
Jacinto- until the expiration of her cruise, December, 1861, during which,
upward of fifteen hundred slaves were captured on the coast of Africa, and
Messrs. Slidell and Mason were taken from the Trent; December, 1861, was
ordered to the command of the third division of Porter's Mortar Flotilla, and
participated in the attack on New Orleans and Vicksburg, in 1862 ; was recom
mended for promotion by Captain Porter, for services at this time.
July, 1862, was made Lieutenant- Commander, by the establishment of that
grade; October, 1862, joined Admiral Porter in the Mississippi Squadron, and
took command of his flag-ship the Black Hawk ; served in that capacity during
Admiral Porter's command, and was present, or connected with all the most
important operations on the Mississippi River and its tributaries during that
officer's command ; at the close of the Red River Expedition was recommended,
with certain other Commanding Officers, for promotion to Commander.
On Admiral Porter being ordered in September, 1864, to command the
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, was selected by him as his Fleet-Captain,
and served in that capacity until May, 1865, when hostilities ceased; as Fleet-
Captain, was in both engagements at Fort Fisher, and in the subsequent opera
tions in Cape Fear River ; commanded the sailors and marines in the naval
assault on Fort Fisher, and was recommended by Admiral Porter for immediate
promotion for services on that occasion ; August, 1865, was ordered to the
Naval Academy, and served there until September, 1866, as assistant to the
Superintendent, Admiral Porter; November, 1856, was ordered as a member of
a Board, to examine volunteer officers for entry into the navy; June, 1867, to
the Washington Navy Yard, as Inspector of Ordnance ; July, 1869, was de
tached from the Navy Yard, and ordered as a member of a permanent Ordnance
Board, holding its meetings in the Navy Department ; was member of a Board
for the examination of breech-loading arms for the navy, and detailed to witness
the experiments of the Army Board at St. Louis,, engaged upon similar duty;
June 29, 1870, ordered to the command ofthe Plymouth, European Squadron.

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COMMANDER LEWIS A. KIMBERLY,
Born in New York. Appointed from Illinois, December 8, 1846 ; sloop James
town, coast of Africa, 1847-50; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1851-2.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852 ; sloop Dale, coast of Africa,
1852-6. Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; receiving-ship, Boston,
1857; sloop Germantown, East India Squadron, 1858-60; frigate Potomac,
store-ship. Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-sloop Hart
ford, flag-ship, Farragut's Squadron, 1862-4; engagement and passage of Port
Hudson batteries ; engagement with batteries at Grand Gulf and Warrington,
Mississippi River; battle of Mobile Bay; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship
European Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding receiving-ship,
New York, 1867-70.

COMMANDER GEORGE U. MORRIS,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from New York, August 14, 1846;
attached to sloop Albany, Home Squadron, during Mexican War ; stationed in
Naval battery at Vera Cruz ; present at Tuspan and Tobasco ; razee Independ
ence, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852; brig Dolphin, special
service, 1853; sloop Decatur, Pacific Squadron, 1854-7; Indian battle, at
Seattle, Washington Territory, 1856; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1859-60;
sloop Cumberland, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
On the 8th of March, 1862, the rebel iron-clad ram Merrimac , came down
the Elizabeth River, accompanied by several smaller steamers, two of them par
tially armored, to attack the vessels of the blockading squadron that were in
and about Hampton Roads. When the Merrimac and her attendants made
their appearance,, the Congress and the Cumberland, two sailing vessels, were
anchored off Newport News, and the remaining vessels were in the vicinity of
Fortress Monroe, some six miles distant. Captain Radford, the commanding
officer of the Cumberland, being absent on duty, Lieutenant Morris, the Execu
tive-Officer, was temporarily in command of the vessel.
The Congress being nearest to the Merrimac, was the first to receive her fire,
Which was promptly returned by a full broadside, the shots falling apparently
harmlessly off from the armored side of the assailant. Passing by the Congress,
the Merrimac dashed upon the Cumberland, and was received by her with a
heavy, well-directed and vigorous fire, which, like that of the Congress, pro
duced, unfortunately, but little effect. A contest so, unequal could not be of
long continuance, and it was closed when the Merrimac, availing herself of her
power as a steam-ram, ran furiously against the Cumberland, laying open her
wooden hull, and causing her almost immediately to sink. As her guns
approached the water's edge, her young Commander, Lieutenant Morris, and
the gallant crew, stood firm at their posts, delivered a parting fire, and the good
ship went down heroically with her colors flyirig. Many of the officers and
crew were enabled to reach the shore, which was close at hand, but a large num
ber perished with the ship.

162 COMMANDERS.
Commanding steam-gunboat Port Royal, North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1862 ; engagement with nine-gun battery on James River, May 8, 1862 ¦
Fort Darling, May 15, 1862 ; wounded in the leg by minnie ball, at Fort Darling-
Malvern Hill, August 8, 1862. * .
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-
gunboat Port Royal, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; engagement
with Fort Powell, at Grant's Pass, February, 1864 ; commanding steam-gunboat
Shawmut, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steam-sloop Brooklyn,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1866.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1870.

COMMANDER BANCROFT GHERARDI,
Born in Louisiana, November 10, 1832. Appointed from Massachusetts, June
29, 1846; attached to frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, 1846-50; steam-sloop
Saranae, Home Squadron, 1850-1 ; Naval Academy, 1852.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852; sloop St. Louis, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1853-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; sloop Saratoga, Home
Squadron, 1856-8; rendezvous, Boston, 1859; steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific
Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862; engagement with Fort Macon, 1862; steam-sloop
Mohican, special service, 1863; commanding steam-gunboat Chocura, Western
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanding steamer Port Royal, Western
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864;
commanding steamer Pequot, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25; 1866 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1866-7; navigation duty,' Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1868-70.

COMMANDER DANIEL L. BRAINE*
Born in New York. Appointed Midshipman from Texas, May 30, 1846;
Home Squadron during Mexican War ; at Alvarado, Tobasco, Tuspan, Laguna,
Tampico and Vera Cruz ; sloop John Adams, Home Squadron, 1848 ; sloop St.
Mary's, East India Squadron, 1849-50 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Home Squadron,
1850-1 ; Naval Academy, 1852.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852 ; sloop St. Louis, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1853-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1858 ; Coast Survey, 1856-7 j
sloop Vincennes, coast of Africa, 1858-60; commanding steamer Monticello,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; engagement with rebel battery
of five guns at Sewell's Point, Virginia, May 19, 1861, lasting one hour and
fifteen minutes, being the first naval engagement of the war; attack and capture
of forts Hatteras and Clarke, October 5, 1861 ; engaged the enemy at Kim-
mekerk Woods, above Cape Hatteras, exchanged shots with their gunboats, and

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dispersed with effect two regiments of infantry, sinking two barges and rescuing
the Twentieth Indiana Regiment, who were surrounded by rebels; in Novem
ber, 1861, engaged and silenced a two-gun battery at Federal Point, North Car
olina, and dismounted one of the guns.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 15, 1862; in 1862-4, numer
ous engagements, with forts Caswell and Fisher ; while on blockading duty in
command of Monticello, Vicksburg and Pequot ; commanded the Pequot in the
attacks upon Fort Fisher, and also in the attacks upon Fort Anderson, and three
forts on Cape Fear River, as the Fleet advanced up that river to Wilmington,
North Carolina ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1866-7.
Commissioned as- Commander, July 25, 1866; commanding steam-sloop
Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1867; commanding steamer Shamokin,
Brazil Squadron, during 1868 ; equipment duty, Navy Yard, New York, since
June, 1869.
Total sea service, 15 years, 8 months ; shore and other duty, 5 years and 11
months.

COMMANDER GEORGE EUGENE BELKNAP*
Born in New Hampshire, January 22, 1832. Appointed Midshipman from
same State, October 7, 1847; attached to brig Porpoise, coast of Africa,
1847-50; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1850-3; Naval Academy, 1853.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1853 ; Coast Survey, steamer
Corwin, 1854; Acting Master sloop Falmouth, 1854-5; sloop Saratoga, 1855.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; receiving-ship Ohio, Bos
ton, 1856; sloop Portsmouth East India Squadron, 1856-8; commanded a
Launch at the capture of the Barrier Forts, Canton River, China, November,
1856, and assisted in undermining and blowing up the same, the forts four in
number, and mounting 176 guns; sloop St. Louis, Home Squadron,- 1859-61;
commanded the boats of the St. Louis at the first and second reinforcements of
Fort Pickens, April, 1861 ; gunboat Huron, South Atlantic Blockading Squad-
Ton, 1861-2; expedition against Fernandina, St. John's, St. Mary's, St. Au
gustine, etc.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 15, 1862; iron-clad steamer
New Ironsides, special service, 1862, and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-4; many (27) engagements with defences of Charleston harbor, com
prising actions against Forts Wagner, Sumpter and Moultrie, Batteries Bee,
Beauregard, etc.; commanded gunboat Seneca, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, i864; commanded iron-clad Canonicus in two actions with Howlett
House battery, December, 1864, and at Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and Jan
uary, 1865, taking the advanced position ; after capture of Fort Fisher, pro
ceeded to Charleston, and was present at the evacuation of the city ; commanded
same vessel in Admiral Godon's special Squadron to Havana in quest of the
rebel iron-clad Stonewall ; steam-sloop Shenandoah, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding flag-ship Hart-
ford, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8 ; commanded expedition against Indians on
Island of Formosa, 1867 ; Naval Rendezvous, New York, 1868; Navigation
duty, Navy Yard, Boston, 1869.

164 COMMANDERS.
COMMANDER DAVID B. HARMONY,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from same State, April 7, 1847; attached
to frigate Brandywine, Brazil Squadron, 1847 ; frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron,
1847-8; sloop Warren, Pacific Squadron, 1849-50; sloop Falmouth, Pacific
Squadron, 1851-2; Naval Academy, 1853.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1853 ; store-ship Relief, 1854.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; receiving-ship, Balti
more, 1856-7 ; sloop Decatur, Pacific Squadron, 1858-60 ; steam-sloop Iroquois,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; bombardment and passage of
forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans ;
capture of Grand Gulf; both engagements with batteries at Vicksburg; en
gagement with rebel ram Arkansas.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; iron-clad Nahant,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; attack on defences of Charles
ton, April 7, 1863; capture of rebel ram Atlanta, June 17, 1863; bombard
ment of Morris Island batteries, from July 10th to August 1, 1863; command
ing steam-gunboat Tahoma, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; command
ing steam-gunboat Sebego, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; capture
of Mobile; Navy Yard, New York, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steamer Frolic,
European Squadron, 1867-9 ; Inspector of Supplies, Navy Yard, New York,
1869-70.

COMMANDER JOHN IRWIN,
Born in Pennsylvania, April 15, 1832. Appointed from Pennsylvania, Sep
tember 9, 1847 ; attached to frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron, 1847-8 ;
frigate St. Lawrence, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-50 ; sloop John Adams,
coast of Africa, 1851-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1853 ; steamer Fulton, Home
Squadron, 1854-6.
Promoted to Master, 1 855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16,1855; Coast Survey, 1857-8;
sloop Savannah, Home Squadron, 1859-60 ; steam-frigate Wabash, flag-ship
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3; capture of forts at Hatteras In
let; capture of forts Walker and Beauregard; in charge of boat howitzers
ashore at battle of Port Royal Ferry, January 1, 1862; bombardment anfl cap
ture of Fort Pulaski.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862; ordnance duty,
Philadelphia, 1864 ; Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; special
duty, Philadelphia, 1866-Y.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steamer New
bern, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868 ; commanding steamer Gettysburg, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1868-70.

COMMANDER JAMES A. GREER,*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, January 10, 1848 ; sloop Saratoga,
Home Squadron, 1848-9; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1850-2; frigate
Columbia, Home Squadron, 1852-3 ; Naval Academy, 1854.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854; razee Independence,
Pacific Squadron, 1855-7.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk,
1858 ; steamer Southern Star, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition,
1858-9; steamer Sumpter, coast of Africa, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; sloop St. Louis,
special service, 1862-3 ; Mississippi Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanded iron-clad
Benton, and a division of Admiral Porter's Squadron; passage of Vicksburg,
April, 1863; engagement at Grand Gulf, April 29, 1863; bombardment of
Vicksburg batteries during the siege of forty-five days ; frequently engaged
with guerillas ; accompanied tire Red River Expedition ; Naval Academy,
1865-6. Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding steamer Mohongo,
North Pacific Squadron, 1866-7; commanding steam-sloop Tuscarora, North
Pacific Squadron, 1868 ; ordnance duty, Philadelphia, 1869 ; at present, on
duty at Naval Academy. Sea service, 15 years, 9 months ; shore and other
duty, 4 years, 6 months.

COMMANDER ELIAS K. OWEN,
Born in Illinois, November 21, 1864. Appointed from Illinois, December 7,
1848; Naval Academy, 1849; razee Independence, Mediterranean Squadron,
1849-52 ; sloop Marion, coast of Africa, 1852^1.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; Coast Survey, 1855-7;
sloop Jamestown, Home Squadron, 1858-60; sloop Saratoga, 1861; steamer
James Adger, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; battle of Port
Royal, November 7, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; Mississippi Squad
ron, 1862—4; commanded iron-clad Louisville, and a division of Admiral
Porter's Squadron; engagements at Haines' Bluff, December, 1862, and Arkan
sas Post, January, 1863 ; Deer Creek Expedition, March, 1863 ; passage of
Vicksburg batteries, April 11th and 14, 1863 ; Grand Gulf, April 29, 1863 ;
Yazoo River Expedition, Liverpool Hights, February, 1864 ; Red River Expe
dition, March and April, 1864; action off Columbia, Louisiana, June, 1864;
receiving-ship, New York, 1865.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; special duty, Mound City,
Illinois, 1866-8 ; commanding steam-sloop Seminole, North Atlantic Squadron,
1868-9.

COMMANDER AARON WARD WEAVER*
Born in District of Columbia, July 1, 1832. Appointed from Ohio, May 10,
1848 ; attached to sloop St. Louis, Brazil Squadron, 1849-51 ; frigate Congress,
Brazil Squadron, 1851-3; Naval Academy, 1854.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854; steamer Fulton, Home
Squadron, 1854-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.

166 COMMANDERS.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; Coast Survey, steamer
Walker, 1856-7; steamer Artie, latter part of 1857; surveying Trinity Bay,
Newfoundland, for Atlantic telegraph cable, also deep-sea soundings down axis
of Gulf Stream ; sloop Marion, coast of Africa, 1857-9 ; July, 1859; came to
New York from Congo River, in command of prize-bark Ardennes, which vessel
had been seized as a slaver ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Blockading Squadron -
1861-2 ; bombardment and capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark, North Carolina;
bombardment and capture of Forts Beauregard and Walker, Port Royal, South
Carolina ; in charge of Susquehanna's armed launches, before the fall of Fort
Pulaski, convoying guns up to the army battery at Vernes Point, and taking up
torpedoes, surveying, etc. ; engagement at Sewell's Point, Virginia, May, 1862,
and present at occupation of Norfolk, by United States forces.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Winona, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; severe engage
ment with rebel batteries near Port Hudson, Louisiana, December 14, 1862 ;
engagement with rebel forces at Placquenine, Louisiana; engagement with the
rebels under Generals Green and Mouton, some three thousand in force, when
they attacked fort Butler, Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and were repulsed with a
loss of about one hundred killed and wounded, and one hundred and twenty
prisoners, favorably mentioned in Admiral Farragut's dispatch, dated June 9,
1863 ; engagement with rebel batteries below Donaldsonville, after fall of Port
Hudson; commanding steam-gunboat Chippewa, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864 ; in command of Chippewa at first attack on Fort Fisher ; was
transferred to command iron-clad Mahopac, and was in command of that vessel
at last attack and capture at Fort Fisher; favorably mentioned in Admiral Por
ter's dispatch, dated January 28, 1865, and recommended for promotion ; also
favorably mentioned in report dated January 15, 1865, of Commodore William
Radford, commanding iron-clad division ; was ordered to Charleston, and on the
advanced picket when that place and fortification were captured ; was then
ordered to James River and participated in the night bombardment of rebel
works near Richmond, just previous to their evacuation ; Navy Yard, Boston,
1866. Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; commanding U. S. Tallapoosa,
1866-7; commanding rendezvous, Washington, 1868; Inspector of supplies.
Washington, 1869.

COMMANDER JAMES H. GILLIS,*
Born in Pennsylvania, May 14, 1831. Appointed from same State, October
12, 1848 ; attached to frigate Raritan, Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; sloop Dale,
coast of Africa, 1851-3 ; Naval Academy, 1854.
t Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1854-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 17,1855; Coast Survey, 1856-7;
store-ship Supply, Pacific Squadron, 1857-9 ; sloop Germantown, coast of
Africa, 1859 j while attached to the store-ship Supply, then lying in the harbor
of Montevido, during the prevalence of a terrific pampero, rescued the captain
and three of the crew of a vessel that had foundered outside of the harbor, for
which he was made an honorary member of several societies in Montevido, and
received the thanks of the Argentine Minister j steamer Water Witch, Home
Squadron, I860; frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Squadron, 1861; sinking of

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rebel privateer Petrel, July, 1861 ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1861 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; was ambushed
at Slaum's Bluff by a battery and two regiments of infantry, after the capture
of a rebel battery at the junction of the Dawho and South Edisto Rivers, but
drove them off, for which he received a commendatory letter from the Secretary
of the Navy.
Commissionedas Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanded steamer
Com. Morris, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; battle of James
town Island, South Carolina, June, 1862 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1863—4 ; engagement with rebel battery at Taylor's Landing, Pamunky
River, April 16, 1863 ; commanded the Elk, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1864; went to the assistance of Admiral Porter's fleet, when he was up Red River
with the Banks' Expedition ; commanding iron-clad Milwaukee, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; engagement with Spanish Fort, Mobile Bay,
March 28, 1865, at which time the Milwaukee was sunk by a rebel torpedo ;
commanded naval battery on shore at the siege of Spanish Fort, after the sink
ing of the Milwaukee, until the fall of that work ; commanded the Mononga
hela and Sciota, West Gulf Blockading Squadron.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanded steamer Wateree,
South Pacific Squadron, 1867-8 ; the Wateree was carried half-a-mile inland
by a tidal wave at Arica; Commander Gillis received the thanks ofthe English
government for assistance rendered British subjects during the time of the
earthquake at Arica in 1868; equipment duty, Washington, 1869.

COMMANDER WILLIAM E. FITZHUGH,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, November 20, 1848 ; attached to frigate
Cumberland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51; sloop Cyane, Home Squadron,
1852-3 ; 'Naval Academy, 1854.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 3 une 15, 1854; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1854-5.
Promoted to Master, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 17, 1855; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific
Squadron, 1856-7 ; sloop Vincennes, coast of Africa, 1858-60 ; steam-sloop
Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; Steam-sloop
Iroquois, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; Western Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1864; was present at engagement with Fort Morgan, August,
1864; commanding steamer Ouachita, Mississippi Squadron, 1864-5; received
the surrender of rebel naval forces on Red River ; commanding steamer Paul
Jones, Gulf Squadron, 1866-7; commanding receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1868-70.

COMMANDER' CHARLES H. CUSHMAN,
Born in Maine, December 6, 1831. Appointed from Maine, March 24, 1849 ;
attached to sloop Vandalia, Pacific Squadron, 1849-52; frigate Constitution,
coast of Africa, 1853-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1853.
Promoted to Master, September 16, 1855 ; Coast Survey, 1856.

168 COMMANDERS.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 8, 1856; Naval Academy, 1857-8;
steamer Westernport, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9;
steamer Water Witch, Home Squadron, 1860 ; steamer Massachusetts, Western
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; engagements with rebel steamers and forts
at Ship Island, Louisiana, July and August, 1861 ; steam-gunboat Pembina,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; battle of Port Royal, November
7, 1861; iron-clad Montauk, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3;
attack on defences of Charleston, April 7, 1863 ; bombardment of forts and
batteries in Charleston harbor, from July 10th to July 28, 1863; iron-clad On
ondaga, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; on picket duty, James
River, May 5th to October 28, 1864 ; attacks on Fort Fisher, December, 1864,
and January, 1865 ; Lieutenant-Commander Cushman was in the land assault
on Fort Fisher, and was wounded ; commanding steamer Mahaska, Gulf Squad
ron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, New York,
1868-9; Bureau of Equipment, Navy Department, 1869-70.

COMMANDER HENRY A. ADAMS, Jr.,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 16, 1849;
Naval Academy, 1849 ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron,
1851-2 ; sloop Jamestown, Brazil Squadron, 1852-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1854.
Promoted to Master, September, 16, 1855 ; sloop Levant, East India Squad
ron, 1856-8 ; engagement with the Barrier Forts, Canton River, China, 1856.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 11, 1856; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Home
Squadron, 1859-60; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Western Gulf Blockading Squad
ron. 1861-2 ; passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ; Chalmette batteries and
capture of New Orleans and Vicksburg, July 15, 1862 ; steam-gunboat Sciota,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; ordnance duty,
Philadelphia, 1863 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; two attacks
on Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865; Fort Anderson and the
defences of Cape Fear River, January and February, 1865; Navy Yard, Phila
delphia, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding store-ship Guard,
European Squadron, 1868-9 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1870.

COMMANDER GEORGE BROWN,*
Born in Indiana, June 19, 1835. Appointed from Indiana, February 5, 1849;
attached to frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51 ; frigate St.
Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1851-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1856.
Promoted to Master, 1856.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 2, 1856; sloop Falmouth, Brazil Squad
ron, 1856-9 j store-ship Supply and sloop Portsmouth, coast of Africa, 1859-60;
sloop Pawnee, 1860; steam-sloop Powhatan, special service, 1860-1; gunboat
Octarora, Mortar Flotilla, and Wilmington, North Carolina Blockade, 1861-2 ;
engagement at Vicksburg, June 28, 1862.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding iron
clad Indianola, Mississippi Squadron, 1862-3; passage of Vicksburg and
Warrentown, February 14, 1863 ; action between Indianola and rebel rams
Wm. H. Webb and Queen of the West, and cotton-clad steamers Dr. Batey and
Grand Era, at Upper Palmyra Island, Mississippi River, February 24, 1863.
The engagement lasted one hour and twenty-seven minutes, and resulted in the
surrender of the Indianola to a force of four vessels manned by over one thou
sand men. The loss of the Indianola, was one killed and one wounded (Lieu
tenant-Commander Brown) severely, and seven missing, while the enemy lost
two officers killed and many wounded. Lieutenant-Commander Brown and his
officers and crew, were taken prisoners, but were exchanged at Richmond a few
months later in the war ; commanding steam-gunboat Itasca,' Western Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1864; gunboat Arizona, 1864-5— lost by fire, February,
1865; iron-clad Cincinnati, 1865 ; gunboat Pocahontas, 1865; gunboat Hornet,
1865; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; naval operations in Mobile Bay,
against Spanish Fort and defences of city of Mobile, from March 23d to April
14,1865. '
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Washington,
1866-7; as Agent of Japanese Government in command of Japanese iron-clad
Stonewall, 1867-9.

COMMANDER JAMES W. SHIRK,*
Born in Pennsylvania, July 16, 1832. Appointed from same State, March
26, 1849 ; made his first cruise on board the United States sloop John Adams,
coast of Brazil, thence to coast of Africa, where he joined the flag-ship Ports
mouth, and afterward the brig- Perry, returning home in December, 1851 ; in
March, 1852, ordered to the Mississippi, flag-ship of Commodore' Perry in the
Japan expedition ; on arrival in China, after the first visit of the Squadron to
Japan, he was ordered as Watch-Officer to the Vandalia, and at the conclusion
of the expedition, was ordered to the Plymouth also, as Watch-Officer, in which
vessel he returned home in January, 1855 ; from March until October, 1855,
attached to the steamer Hetzel, on Coast Survey duty ; from October, 1855, un
til June, 1856, at the Naval Academy studying for examination.
In June, 1856, passed, and received warrants giving him rank as Passed
Midshipman frpm June, 1855, and as Master from September 16, 1855.
Promoted to Lieutenant, November 6, 1856 ; in December, 1856, ordered to
the Saratoga, on the Home Station, and returned in her in January, 1858,
when she brought home Walker's fillibusters, who were captured at San Juan
de Nicaragua, by Flag-Officer (now Rear Admiral) Paulding ; from March,
1858 to March, 1859, attached to the Michigan, on the lakes ; from March,
1859, to August, 1861, in the Pacific, attached to the St. Mary's and Saranae,
from which latter vessel he volunteered his services for sea on the Atlantic side,
during the rebellion; returned home in the latter part of August, and on the
6th of September, 1861, reported at St. Louis to Captain (afterward Rear Ad
miral) Foote; on the 1st of January, 1861, appointed to command the gunboat
Lexington, and on the 22d of January, accompanied Gen. C. F. Smith on a re-
connoissance up the Tennessee River, and on that occasion threw the first shot
and shell into Fort Henry; while he commanded the Lexington he participated
in the_ engagements at Fort Henry (after which the Lexington penetrated the
rebel lines as far as Florence, Alabarha), the destruction of rebel works at Pitts'-'

170 commanders.
burg Landing on March 1, 1862, the evacuation of Columbus, Kentucky
March 4, 1862, the battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7, 1862, the battle of St!
Charles on White River, Arkansas, June 17, 1862, clearing the Yazoo River of
torpedoes for ten days previous to the landing of Gen. Sherman's army, Haines'
Bluff, Deoember 27, 1862, Chickasaw Bayou, December 28, 1862 to January 1,
1863, inclusive, and two engagements at Arkansas Post on the 10th and 11th
of January, 1863 ; in February, 1863, he was transferred to the command of
the Tuscumbia, a new iron-clad gunboat ; in the Tuscumbia he passed the
Vicksburg batteries, 16th of April, 1863; fought the batteries at Grand Gulf
for five hours, on the 29th of April; was engaged in the combined attack on
Vicksburg, on the 22d of May, 1863, and was, in the words of Rear Admiral
Porter's report to the Navy Department, " almost constantly under fire of the
batteries at Vicksburg since the forty-five days' siege commenced ;" in Decem
ber, 1863, at the request of Gen. Sherman, he was detailed by Rear Admiral
Porter to command the Tennessee District of the Mississippi Squadron, in
which command he remained until December, 1864, when the war being over
in the Western rivers, he applied to be detached from that Squadron ; he was
ordered in January, 1865, as Navigation-Officer atthe Philadelphia Navy Yard;
in June, 1867, was ordered on the staff of Admiral Farragut, and accompanied
that officer in his cruise to Europe ; in September, 1868, was appointed by the
Admiral as his chief-of-staff, and returned home in that capacity in the Frank
lin, in November, 1868 ; April, 1869, ordered to duty in the Navy Department.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862, and as Commander,
July 25, 1866 ; was favorably mentioned by Gen. Grant in his reports of the
battle of Shiloh, and of the operation which resulted in the capture of Vicks
burg ; received, through Rear Admiral Foote, the thanks of the Navy Depart
ment for his services at the battle of Shiloh, and was several times favorably
noticed by Rear Admirals Foote, Davis and Porter, and also by name in the
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy, dated December 1, 1862.

COMMANDER JOHN G. WALKER,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from Iowa, October 5, 1850 ; Naval
Academy, 1851 ; attached to sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5;
Naval Academy, 1856.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856; sloop Falmouth, Brazil
Squadron, 1856-7; frigate St. Lawrence, Brazil Squadron, 1858-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 23, 1858-9 ; steamer Connecticut, At
lantic Coast, 1861 ; steam-gunboat Winona, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1862; passage of forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture
of New Orleans ; operations against Vicksburg, in Summer of 1862, including
the passage of the batteries both ways.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding iron
clad steamer Baron De Kalb, Mississippi Squadron, 1862-3; operations against
Vicksburg, Winter of 1862-3 ; two attacks on Haines' Bluff; engagement at
Arkansas Post ; Yazoo Pass expedition ; with the attack on Fort Pemberton ;
capture of Yazoo City, and expedition up Yazoo River to destroy steamers,
having three sharp fights ; commanded naval battery in 15th army corps at
siege of Vicksburg; commanding steam-gunboat Saco, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5 ; capture of Wilmington, North Carolina, and forts,

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with the exception of Fort Fisher; commanding steamer Shawmut, Brazil
Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1866-9 ;
commanding frigate Sabine, special service, 1869-70.

COMMANDER FRANCIS M. RAMSAY,*
Born in the District of Columbia. Appointed Midshipman from Pennsylvania,
October 5, 1850; Naval Academy, 1850-1; practice-ship Preble, 1851 ; frigate St.
Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1851, '52,'53,'54 and '55 ; Naval Academy, 1855-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June, 1856; sloop Falmouth, Brazil
Squadron, 1857.
Appointed Acting Master, June 24, 1857 ; steam-frigate Merrimac, Pacific
Squadron, 1857, '58, '59 and '60.
Promoted to Master, January 22, 1858.
Promoted to Lieutenant, January 23, 1858; ordnance duty, Navy Yard,
Washington, D. C, 1860 ; sloop Saratoga, African Squadron, 1860, '61 and '62.
Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding iron-clad
Choctaw, Mississippi Squadron, 1863-4 ; engagements at Haines' Bluff, Yazoo
River, April 30th and May 1, 1863 ; expedition up Yazoo River to Yazoo City,
destroying rebel Navy Yard and vessels, May, 1863 ; engagement at Liverpool
Landing, Yazoo River, May, 1863 ; engagement at Milliken's Bend, Mississippi
River, June 7,1863; siege of Vicksburg, May, June and July, 1863; com
manded a battery of three heavy guns mounted on scows, in front of Vicksburg,
from June 19th to July 4, 1863 ; commanding third division, Mississippi Squad
ron, July, 1863 to September, 1864 ; several engagements with field batteries
and guerillas, 1863-4 ; commanded expedition up Black and Ouachita Rivers,
March, 1864 ; engagement at Trinity, Louisiana, March, 1864 ; engagement at
Harrisonburg, Louisiana, Ouachita River, March, 1864; Red River Expedition,
March, April, May, 1864 ; expedition up Black and Ouachita Rivers, April,
1864; several engagements with guerillas at Fort De Russy, Louisiana, May,
1864; commanding third and fourth Districts, Mississippi Squadron, May to
September, 1864 ; commanded expedition into Atchafalaya River, June, 1864 ;
engagement at Simmsport, Louisiana, Atchafalaya River, June 8, 1864; com
manding gunboat Unadilla, North Atlantic Squadron, 1864-5; engagements
with Fort Fisher, North Carolina, December 24th and 25, 1864; engagement
with Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January, 1865 ; several engagements with
Fort Anderson, and with other forts on the Cape Fear River, January, Febru
ary, 1864; capture of Richmond, Virginia; Naval Academy, in charge of De
partment of Gunnery, 1865-6.
Promoted to Commander, July 25, 1866 ; navigation duty, Navy Yard,
Washington, D. C, 1866-7; Fleet-Captain and Chief-of-Staff, South Atlantic
Squadron, flag-ship Guerriere, 1867, '68 and '69 ; commanding steam-frigate
Guerriere, June, July, 1869; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C,
1869-70.

COMMANDER RICHARD L. LAW,
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, February 17, 1841 ; attached to
frigate Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1841-3 ; brig Lawrence, Home Squadron,
1843-5.

172 COMMANDERS.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; brig Perry, Brazil
Squadron, 1847-8; frigate Brandvwine, Brazil Squadron, 1849-50; Coast
Survey, 1851-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; sloop Constellation, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1856-7; Naval Academy, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop Hartford
flag-ship East India Squadron, 1859-61.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Clifton, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; three engace-
ments at Galveston, Texas, one at Laracca, Texas ; commanding store-ship New
Hampshire, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Commander, September 26, 1866 ; commanding receiving-
ship New Hampshire, Norfolk, 1866-7; commanding steam-gunboat Tacony,
North Atlantic Squadron, 1867; commanding steamer Suwanee, North Pacific
Squadron, 1868; commanding steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9 ;
Commanding steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic Squadron, 1869-70.

COMMANDER SAMUEL R. FRANKLIN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 18, 1841 ;
attached to frigate United States, Pacific Squadron, 1841-3 ; store-ship Relief
Pacific Squadron, 1845-7; present at the demonstration upon Monterey, the
enemy offering no resistance, and the place being occupied without a battle ;
Naval School, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; razee Independence,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-52; Coast Survey, 1853-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; Naval Academy, 1855-6 ;
sloop Falmouth, Brazil Squadron, 1857-9 ; sloop Macedonian, Home Squadron,
1859-60 ; steam-sloop Dacotah, Atlantic Coast, 1861-2 ; was a volunteer on
board of the Roanoke in the action with the Merrimac, March, 1862, in which
the Congress and Cumberland were destroyed. The Roanoke was engaged
with the forts at Sewell's Point, but grounded, and did not get fairly into the
action. Executive-Officer of tbe Dacotah in the attack upon the batteries at
Sewell's Point in the Spring of 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding the
steam-gunboat Aroostook, James River flotilla, 1862 ; commanding Aroostook,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863; special duty, New Orleans, 1864;
on the staff of Acting Rear Admiral Thatcher during the operations in Mobile
Bay, in the Spring of 1865, and was the naval representative in the demand for
the surrender of the city of Mobile ; commanding steamer Saginaw, North
Pacific Squadron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, September 26, 1866 ; ordnance duty, Mare
Island, California, 1868-9 ; commanding steam-sloop Mohican, North Pacific
Squadron, 1869.

COMMANDER EDWARD Y. McCAULEY*
Born in Pennsylvania, November 2, 1827. Appointed from Pennsylvania,
September 9, 1841; attached to Mediterranean Squadron, 1841-5; frigate
United States, coast of Africa, 1846-8.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; frigate Constitution,
Mediterranean, Squadron, 1849-52 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, East India Squad
ron, 1852-6; present at the attack on pirates, China Seas, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; receiving-ship Philadel
phia, 1856-7; steamer Niagara, Cable Expedition, 1857-8; Naval Observatory,
1858-9; resigned, August 19; 1859 — re-entered the service as Acting Lieuten
ant, 1861; steamer Flag, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Fort Henry, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; boat attack on
Bayport, Florida, and two skirmishes, commanding steam-gunboat Tioga, East
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; gunboat Benton, Mississippi Squadron,
1864-5;. special duty, Philadelphia, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, September 27, 1866; Fleet-Captain, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868-9.

COMMANDER EDWARD C. GRAFTON,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from same State, October 5, 1841 ;
attached to frigate Columbus, Mediterranean Squadron, i841-4 ; sloop Ports
mouth, Pacific Squadron, 1855-8 ; bombardment of Guaymas and battle of San
Gabriel, in Mexican War.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; rendezvous, Boston,
1851 ; unemployed, 1851-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 18, 1855 ; brig Perry, Brazil Squad
ron, 1858-60; steam-frigate Minnesota, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1861-3 ; bombardment of Forts Hatteras and Clarke ; engagement with rebel
ram Merrimac, in Hampton Roads..
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Genessee, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; bombardment
of Fort Morgan, during the passage of the fleet into Mobile Bay, August
5, 1864; commanding steam-gunboat Gettysburg, North Atlantic Squadron
1866-7. Commissioned as Commander, December 29, 1856; commanding receiving-
ship, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868.

COMMANDER MILTON HAXTON,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 19, 1841; attached
to brig Dolphin, Home Squadron, 1841-3 ; frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron,
1843-5; brig Bainbridge, Brazil Squadron, 1846; Home Squadron, 1846-7;
attack on Alvarado, 1846; Naval School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; mail-steamer Ohio, 1850;
mail-steamer Baltic, 1851; sloop Plymouth, East India Squadron, 1852-4.
Attack on and capture and destruction of Imperial Chinese fortified camp,
(defended by several thousand troops,) by a party of about three hundred
American and British "blue-jackets" and Marines, at Shanghai, April, 1854.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1856-8; receiving-ship, New York, 1858; steamer Mystic, coast of
Africa, 1860-1 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; attack and cap
ture of Fort Macon, April 26, 1862.

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COMMANDERS.

Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Kineo, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; commanding
steamer Maratanza, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding
steamer Mercedita, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; naval ren
dezvous, New York, 1866; receiving-ship, New York, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Commander, December 29, 1866 ; Navy Yard, New York
1868 ; commanding the store-ship Onward, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.

COMMANDER JOHN H. RUSSELL,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from same State, September 14, 1841 ; attached
to sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1841-3; sloop St. Mary's, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1844-6 ; steamer Alleghany, Mediterranean Squadron, 1847.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; mail-steamer Georgia,
1850-2; North Pacific Exploring Expedition, 1852-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; ordnance duty, Washing
ton, 1857-60; steam-frigate Colorado, 1861 ; led the boarding-party in the at
tack on rebel privateer Judith, at Pensacola, Florida, 1861 ; wounded in the
arm by buckshot ; commanding steam-gunboat Kennebec, Western Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1862-3; bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
Vicksburg and Grand Gulf.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862; ordnance duty,
Washington, 1864; commanding sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1864-5; ord
nance duty, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1866; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California,
1866-9. Commissioned as Commander, January 28, 1867 ; commanding steam-sloop
Ossipee, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.

COMMANDER ROBERT F. R. LEWIS,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Missouri, October 19, 1841;
attached to sloop Vandalia, Home Squadron, 1841-5 ; sloop Cyane, Pacific
Squadron, 1846-8; several skirmishes with the enemy during the Mexican War.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; steamer Vixen, Home
Squadron, 1849-50; mail-steamer Pacific, 1851 ; steamer Fulton, Home Squad
ron, 1852 ; Observatory, Washington, 1853 ; practice-ship Preble, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; store-ship Supply, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1856-7 ; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1858 ; frigate Sabine,
Brazil Squadron, 1859; frigate Sabine, Home Squadron, 1860; steamer De
Soto, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; commanding steam-gunboat
Itasca, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; Naval Academy, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, January 29, 1867 ; commanding steam-sloop
Resaca, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.

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COMMANDER ANDREW W. JOHNSON,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, Octo
ber 19, 1841 ; attached to sloop Marion, West India Squadron, 1841-3; sloop
Warren, Pacific Squadron, 1844-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; store-ship Erie, Pacific
Squadron, 1848 ; store-ship Relief, Mediterranean Squadron, 1850-1 ; Naval
Observatory, Washington, 1850-2 ; sloop Levant, Mediterranean Squadron,
1853-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; Naval Observatory,
1856-7; steam-frigate Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1858-9; sloop Savannah,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; engagement with rebel steamer
Teazer, in James River, Virginia ; two engagements with rebel steamer York-
town, in James River, Virginia, 1861 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron,
1862-3. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, J "uly 16,1862; steam-sloop Lan
caster, Pacific Squadron, 1864; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ;
engagements in iron-clads Lehigh and Montauk, with rebel batteries in Stono
River, South Carolina, from 3d to 9th of July, 1864; Naval Observatory,
Washington, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, February 2, 1867; Chief-of-Staff of South
Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70.

COMMANDER PHILIP C. JOHNSON, Jr.,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, August 31, 1846; during the Mex
ican War, present at the bombardment of Vera Cruz and at Tuspan ; attached
to frigate Ohio, Pacifie Squadron, 1847-8; Naval School, 1850; frigate Con
gress, Brazil Squadron, 1850-1; Naval Academy, 1852.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852 ; store-ship Fredonia, Pacific
Squadron, 1853 ; Coast Survey, 1854-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; steam-sloop San Jacinto,
coast of Africa, 1859-61 ; commanding steamer Tennessee, Western Gulf
Squadron, 1861-3 ; present at the bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson
and St. Philip.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 16, 1862 ; steamer Katahdin,
Western Gulf Squadron, 1864; Naval Academy, 1865-6; steamer Sacramento,
special service to North Pacific Squadron, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, February 2, 1867 ; Fleet-Captain, South Pa
cific Squadron, 1868-70.

COMMANDER JOHN WATTERS,
Born in Michigan, January 5, 1831. Appointed from Michigan, February
12, 1846 ; sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1846-8 ; frigate Congress, Brazil
Squadron, 1850-1 ; Naval Academy, 1852.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852; sloop Macedonian, East
India Squadron, 1853-6.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; Naval Academy, 1857-9;
sloop Preble, Home Squadron, 1859-60; steam-frigate Minnesota, North At
lantic Blookading Squadron, 1860-2 ; on board the Minnesota in the battles of
the 28th and 29th of August, 1861 ; on the coast of North Carolina, in a boat
expedition, in the same year; up Black River, nine miles from Fortress Mon
roe, captured a schooner and destroyed a number of blockade-runners ; engaged
Sewell's Point batteries and rebel ram Merrimac and her consorts, March 8,
1862. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-sloop Mon
ongahela, Western Gulf Squadron, 1863-5; commanded the steam-gunboat
Kineo, at the passage of Port Hudson, on the Mississippi River, March 14,
1863; in June, patrolling the Mississippi River, looking out for General
Green's Texas rebels, who were advancing on the city of Donaldsonville in
great force; from July 4th to July 10, 1863, convoyed army transports by the
rebel batteries posted on the Burnside and Winchester Plantations, five miles
below Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and fought these batteries going and returning;
special duty, Baltimore, 1866; Naval Academy, 1867.
Commissioned as Commander, April 14, 1867; commanding store-ship
Cyane, South Atlantic Squadrpn, 1868-9 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1870.

COMMANDER S. LIVINGSTON BREESE,*
Born in Illinois. Appointed from Illinois, May 14, 1846 ; attached to sloop
Germantown, Home Squadron, 1846-8; participated in the capture of Tuspan
and Tobasco ; sloop St. Mary's, East India Squadron, 1849-50 ; brig Bain-
bridge, Brazil Squadron, 1851; Naval Academy, 1852.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852 ; brig Dolphin, special ser
vice; 1853; sloop Cyane, Home Squadron, 1853-4; while on the Cyane, as
sisted- in the destruction of Greytown; Coast Survey, 1855-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; steam-frigate Merrimac,
Pacific Squadron, 1858-60 ; steam-sloop Richmond, Mediterranean Squadron,
1860 ; steamer Crusader, 1861 ; commanded yacht Wanderer, as dispatch-vessel,
in the Gulf, 1861 ; steamer Quaker City, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1862-3 ; engaged with rebel iron-clads off Charleston, in January, 1863.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-
gunboat Ottawa, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; Inspector, etc,
Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Commander, April 14, 1867 ; commanded the steam-gun
boat Galena, 1869.

COMMANDER HENRY WILSON,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 22, 1847 ; attached
to steamer Alleghany, Brazil Squadron, 1847-8 ; sloop Marion, East India
Squadron, 1849-50; sloop Plymouth, 1851; Home Squadron, 1852; Naval
Academy, 1853.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1853 ; steamer Fulton, Home
Squadron, 1853-6.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; Coast Survey, 1857-8 ;
steamer Caledonia, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ; store-
ship Relief, Home Squadron, 1859-60; sloop Vandalia, 1861; steamer Hat
teras, Western Gulf Squadron, 1862; commanding steam-gunboat Owasco,
Western. Gulf Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam-
gunboat Cayuga, Western Gulf Squadron, 1864-5 ; special duty, Navy Yard,
New York, 1866-7; commanding steamer Saco, North Atlantic Squadron,
1867-9. Commissioned as Commander, April 30, 1867; commanding steam-sloop
Frolic, special service, 1870.

COMMANDER A. E. K. BENHAM,
Born in New York, 1832 . Appointed from New York, Nov. 24, 1847 ; attached
to sloop Plymouth, East India Squadron, 1847-8; brig Dolphin, East India
Squadron, 1849-50; sloop Plymouth, 1850-1; steam-frigate Saranae, Home
Squadron, 1851-2 ; Naval Academy, 1853.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 10, 1853; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific
Squadron, 1853-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; Coast Survey, 1857-8;
steamer Westernport, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9;
steamer Crusader, Home Squadron, 1860-1 ; steamer Bienville, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; battle of Port Royal, 1861 ; steam-sloop Sacra
mento, 1863.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steam-gunboat Penobscot, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; tem
porary duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1866; steamer Susquehanna, special ser
vice, 1867.
Commissioned as Commander, June 9, 1867; Navy Yard, New York,
1868-9.

COMMANDER JOSEPH S. SKERRETT,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, October 12, 1848; attached to razee
Independence, Mediterranean Squadron, 1848-52; sloop Marion, coast of
Africa, 1852-4 ; Naval Academy, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; frigate Potomac, Home
Squadron, 1856; sloop Falmouth, Brazil Squadron, 1856-9 ; sloop Saratoga,
coast of Africa, 1860-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding gun
boat Katahdin, Western Gulf Squadron ; Engagement with rebel fortifications
atthe mouth of the Brazos River, Texas, June 27, 1864; commanding steamer
Aroostook, Western Gulf Squadron, 1863-5; Naval Rendezvous, Washington,
1866-7 ; commanding apprentice-ship Portsmouth, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Commander, June 9, 1867 ; Naval Academy, 1869-70,
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COMMANDER FRANCIS H. BAKER,*
Born in South Carolina. Appointed from New Hampshire, October 12, 1848;
attached to frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1848-50; sloop
Jamestown, and frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1851-3 ; Naval Academy,
1853-4. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 13, 1854; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1854-8.
Promoted to Master, September 14, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; while attached to John
Adams, in 1855, on a number of boat expeditions, when several Fejee towns
were attacked, captured and burned ; receiving-ship Pennsylvania', 1858 ;
steamer Water Witch*, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ;
sloop Preble, Gulf Squadron, 1859 ; steam-sloops Narragansett and Saranae,
Pacific Squadron, 1860-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 16, 1862; receiving-ship
Princeton, 1863 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863 ; commanding steam-gunboat Huron, South and North Atlantic Block
ading Squadrons, 1863—4; during the rebel raid of the Summer 'of 1864, com
manded at Havre de Grace, a force of marines and workmen, with howitzers,
sent from the Philadelphia Navy Yard ; commanding steamer Vicksburg, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; while in command of the Vicksburg,
stationed with other vessels to guard the Fort Caswell entrance to Cape Fear
River, during the attack on Fort Fisher, in January, 1865 ; also assisted to em
bark Gen. Butler's army, after the first attack on Fort Fisher, December, .1864 ;
temporary duty, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1865-6 ; commanding steamer Unadilla,
Asiatic Squadron, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, July 24, 1,867 ; navigation duty, Norfolk,
Virginia, 1869-70. Home, when off duty, Norfolk, Va.

COMMANDER AUSTIN PENDERGRAST,
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentucky, October 14, 1848 ; attached
to razee Independence, Blediterranean Squadron, 1848-52; frigate Columbia,
Home Squadron, 1853 ; Naval Academy, 1854.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854; Coast Survey, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; brig Dolphin, Coast of
Africa, 1855-6; ordnance duty, Washington, 1858; steamer Memphis, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 185S-9 ; frigate Congress, flag-ship Brazil
Squadron, 1860-1 ; frigate Congress, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1861 ; Lieutenant Pendergrast was attached to the frigate Congress at the time
that vessel was sunk by the rebel ram Merrimac, and during a portion of the
engagement was in command, Lieutenant Joseph Smith, his senior officer,
having been killed.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Water Witch, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; on the
night of June 2d, 1864, the Water Witch was boarded by a large body of
rebels, and after a sharp fight, of brief duration, Lieutenant-Commander Pen
dergrast was obliged to yield his vessel to the enemy; commanding steamer
Nyackj South Pacific Squadron, 1866-7.

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Commissioned as Commander, August 31, 1867 ; ordnance duty, Philadel
phia, 1869-70.

COMMANDER JOSEPH P. FYFFE,
Born in Ohio, July 26, 1832. Appointed from Ohio, September 9, 1847 ;
attached to bomb-vessel Stromboli, Home Squadron, 1847-8; sloop Yorktown,
coast of Africa, 1848-50; Home Squadron, 1852 ; Naval Academy, 1853-4.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854; steam-frigate San Jacinto,
special service, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; store-ship Relief, Brazil
Squadron, 1856-7 ; sloop Germantown, East India Squadron, 1857-9 ; steam-
sloop Lancaster, 1860-1 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, flag-ship North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; took part in the destruction of the blockade-
runner, Hebe, and two rebel guns on the beach near Fort Fisher, North Caro
lina, August, 1863 ; also in the destruction of the blockade-runner, Ranger,
and engagement with infantry below Fort Caswell, North Carolina, January,
1864 ; engaged a rebel force of artillery above Cox's wharf, James River, May,
1864 ; engaged rebel batteries near Deep Bottom, James River, and rebel bat
teries at Curtis' Neck, near Tilgman's wharf, James River, June, 1864 ; en
gaged rebel batteries and rams near Dutch Gap, January, 1865.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; Navy Yard, Bos
ton, 1867 ; steamer Oneida, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Commander, December 2, 1867 ; commanding steamer Cen
taur, North Atlantic Fleet, 1869.

COMMANDER WILLIAM P. MoCANN*
Born in Kentucky, May 4, 1830. Appointed from Kentucky, November,
1848; attached to frigate Raritan, flag-ship of Home Squadron, November 8,
1848 to May 1, 1850; cruise in West Indies and Gulf of Mexico; again
attached to Raritan, flag-ship of Pacific Squadron, June 27, 1850 to February
2, 1853; cruise in South Pacific; Columbia, flag-ship of Home Squadron, May
4th, to October 24, 1853; Naval Academy, October 24, 1853 to June 15,
1854. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854; frigate Independence,
flag-ship Pacific Squadron, August, 1854 to November 15, 1857; cruise of
thirty-nine months in North and South Pacific, Polynesia and Sandwich
Islands. Commissioned as Lieutenant, from September 16, 1855 ; receiving-ship, Alle
ghany, January 23d to August 3, 1858 ; Lieutenant and Navigator of the frigate
Sabine, flag-ship of Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, August 14,
1858 to May 9, 1859 ; visiting Bermuda Islands and Montevideo ; again
ordered to Sabine, cruising in West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, August, 1859
to July 4, 1861 ; at Vera Cruz on the breaking out of the rebellion at Pensa
cola, reinforced Fort Pickens with sailors and marines, April 14th to 15, 1861 ;
remained off the fort one hundred and twenty-seven days, and in June, assisted
in landing additional reinforcements under Colonel Harvey Brown; again
attached to Sabine, August 30, 1861 to January, 1862 ; blockading on the coast

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of South Carolina, rescued a battalion of marines of Port Royal Expedition, and
crew of the transport-steamer Governor, which vessel foundered ; ordered to
command temporarily, gunboat Maratanza, at siege of Yorktown, April, 1862 ¦
had several engagements with the batteries there and at Gloucester Point; May
4th, enemy evacuating Yorktown, Maratanza, moved up the York and Pamunky
Rivers — co-operating with the army of the Potomac ; was relieved by Com
mander Stevens, remained as Executive-Officer ; at West Point, Virginia, May
9, 1862, drove off a rebel battery attacking Franklin's corps; led reconnoitering
expeditions on York River and Richmond Railroad, and on the right bank of
the Pamunky; with the army at Malvern Hill, on the James River, had fre
quent engagements during the guerilla warfare in the James and Appomattox
Rivers, at Point of Rocks and City Point ; July 4th, captured rebel gunboat
Teazer, with plans of batteries, torpedoes and defences of Richmond ; recap
tured thirty-six wounded officers and men of the army, captured several blockade-
runners on the Potomac, and co-operating with the army at Acquia Creek.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; Maratanza block
ading, Cape Fear River, having driven off working parties from batteries near
Fort Caswell, was attacked by a battery of Whitworth guns, having one officer
and one petty officer killed, and seven men wounded ; ordered to command the
Hunchback, in sounds of North Carolina, October 1, 1862 ; March 14, 1863,
battle at Newbern with the forces of Hill and Pettigrew, which attacked camp
Anderson and the Hunchback — they had eighteen pieces of artillery, and
several thousand infantry. After an action of an hour and a half, she succeeded
in silencing the guns and compelling the army to withdraw. Commander
Murray in his official report said : " The firing of the Hunchback was excellent,
and the manner in which Lieutenant-Commander McCann, handled the battery
which the enemy unmasked upon him in the morning, was as gratifying
to us, and as creditable to himself, as it must have been mortifying and vexa
tious to the enemy." April, 1863, during the siege of Washington, North
Carolina, had command of five gunboats with which he frequently engaged and
silenced the batteries at Hill's and Swan's Point, on the Pamlico, and assisted
in sending reinforcements and supplies to the garrison and gunboats at Wash
ington; September 6th, left the sounds with the Hunchback, which was laid up
at Norfolk for repairs ; November, 1863, was ordered to command the Kenne
bec, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, then commanded by Admiral Thatcher,
and soon after by Admiral Farragut ; had thirteen months' active service block
ading Mobile, and participating in several engagements with the batteries and
Fort Morgan, while attacking stranded blockade-runners. She was mentioned
by Admiral Farragut in a congratulatory order to the fleet on the occasion of
the destruction of the Ivanhoe, under the guns of battery G, and Fort Morgan.
Captured at sea three blockade-runners loaded with cotton, the Marshall -I.
Smith, steamer Grey Jacket and the John Scott, formerly the Victoria, with
forty-five blockade-runners and rebel officers — the vessels and cargoes sold for
half a million dollars; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. The Kennebec
was lashed to the Monongahela fifth in line of battle, and in that position
entered the bay, engaging the vessels and forts ; while ramming the iron-clad
Tennessee at full speed, with the Monongahela, she had several officers and men
wounded, one of the latter mortally, by a shell from the Tennessee,- when the
vessels were touching. After the collision the Tennessee's boat's davits and
falls were left on the port anchor, and the wreck of her boat across the Ken
nebec's stern ; after this, a 10-inch shell from Fort Morgan passed through
Kennebec's quarter, the splinters knocking down a man at the engine bell.
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and escaped by getting in shoal water at Dog River Bar. December, 1864,
detached from Kennebe'c ; command of Tahoma, February to August, 1865 —
disabled in a gale in Gulf Stream, returned to Norfolk and thence to Boston ;
Naval Academy, 1866 ; command of Tallapoosa, West Gulf Squadron, March,
1866 to January 5, 1867; Naval rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Commander, December 8, 1867; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1869-70. Sea service, 15 years, 3 months; other duty, 4 years, 1 month—
1 year and 10 months, unemployed.

COMMANDER OSCAR F. STANTON*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, December, 29, 1849 ; Naval
School, 1850 ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India and China Seas, 1851-2 ;
sloop Saratoga, China Seas and Japan Expedition, 1853—4 ; Naval Academy,
September, 1854 to June, 1855.
Promoted to Master, September, 1855 ; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean
Squadron, August, 1855 to August, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 2, 1856; steamer Memphis, Paraguay
Expedition, from October, 1858 to June, 1859 ; store-ship Supply, sloops
Marion and Portsmouth, coast of Africa, September, 1859 to October, 1860 ;
sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, December, 1860 to April, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-gunboat
Tioga, James River Flotilla and West India Flying Squadron, June, 1862 to
November, 1863; steam-gunboat Panola, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
December, 1863 to November, 1864 ; ordnance duty, New York, December,
1864 to March, 1865 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, Gulf Squadron, March to
August, 1865; Naval Academy, November, 1865 to May, 1867; steam-gunboat
Tahuna, Gulf of Mexico, May to September, 1867.
Commissioned as Commander, December, 1867 ; store-ship Purveyor, special
service, Gulf of Mexico and West Coast of Africa, July, 1868 to April, 1869;
commanding receiving-ship Vandalia, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1870.

COMMANDER BUSHROD B. TAYLOR,
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, April 3, 1849 ; attached to sloop
John Adams, coast of Africa, 1850-1 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron,
1852-4. Promoted to Master, September 16, 1855 ; sloop St. Louis, coast of Africa,
1855-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 31, 1856 ; store-ship Release, Brazil
Squadron, 1859 ; sloop Preble, Home Squadron, 1860 ; steam-frigate Colorado,
1861 ; steam-gunboat Ciromaron, N. A. B. Squadron, 1862 ; engagement with
rebel field battery at Harrison's Landing, July, 1862 ; steam-gunboat Cimma-
ron, S. A.'B. Squadron, 1863; engagement with rebel batteries on St. John's
River, Florida, November, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steam-
gunboat Kanawha, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Commander, March 14, 1868; commanding store-ship
Idaho, Asiatic Squadron, 1869-70.

182 COMMANDERS.
COMMANDER H. ERBEN, Jr.*
Born in New York City. Appointed from New York City, June 17, 1848 ;
attached to frigate St. Lawrence, 1848, '49 and '50 ; attached to frigate St.
Lawrence, World's Fair, London, 1851; attached to frigate St. Lawrence,
Pacific Squadron, 1852-3; Coast Survey, 1854; Naval Academy, 1855.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1855 ; frigate Potomac, Home Squadron,
Promoted to Master, September 15, 1855 ; store-ship Supply, Mediterranean,
1856-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 27, 1856; steam-frigate Mississippi,
East Indies, 1857-8 ; leave, 1859; store-ship Supply, Gulf Squadron, 1860-1;
at Pensacola when Navy Yard surrendered, Supply bringing home, as prison
ers, marines and workmen surrendered there ; steamer Huntsville, Blockading
Squadron, 1861; Mississippi Squadron, 1862; engagement with Fort Pillow,
April, 1862 ; engagement with rebel fleet at Fort Pillow, May 10, 1862 ; cap
ture of Memphis, June 6, 1862; passage of Vicksburg batteries, July 15,
1862 ; engagement at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and destruction of rebel ram
Arkansas, August 6, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, J uly 16,1862; iron-clad Patapsco,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1863 ; engagement with Fort McAllister, Ogeechee
River, March, 1863 ; attack upon forts below Charleston, April 7, 1863 ;
steam-frigate Niagara, special service, 1863—4; commanding steamer Panola,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1866;
commanding steamer Huron, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8; commanding
steamer Kansas, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned, as Commander, May 6, 1S68.

COMMANDER EDWARD P. McCREA,
Born in New York. Appointed from Wisconsin, October, 16, 1849 ; attached
to sloop Germantown, Home Squadron, 1850-3 ; brig Perry, Coast of Africa,
1854; Naval Academy, 1855.
Promoted to Master, September 15, 1855 ; frigate Congress, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1855-6 ; sloop John Adams, Pacific Squadron, 1856-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 24th, 1857 ; steamer Caledonia, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ; commanding steamer Jacob
Bell, Potomac Flotilla, 1861, and James River Flotilla, 1862 ; several engagements
with rebel batteries on the Potomac and James Rivers.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16th, 1862; steam-sloop
Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, 1862-5; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European
Squadron, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Commander, May 27th, 1868; commanding steamer Mono-
cacy, Asiatic Squadron, 1869-70.

COMMANDER RICHARD W. MEADE, Jr.*
Born in New York City. Appointed a Midshipman from California, October
2,1850; Naval Academy, October 2. 1850 to November 20, 1851 ; practice-
snip Preble, July to October, 1851 ; steam-frigate San Jacinto, Mediterranean

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Squadron, November 20, 1851 to April 28, 1853; sloop St. Louis, Mediterra
nean, April 28, 1853 to March, 1854 ; present at the " Kozta affair," in
Smyrna, July, 1853 ; frigate Columbia, West Indies, May 10, 1854 to April 2,
1855; Naval Academy, October 1, 1855 to June 21, 1856 — graduated No. 5
in class.
Warranted a Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856 ; steam-frigate Merriinac,
North of Europe and West Indies, July 12, 1856 to April 4, 1857; appointed
an Acting Master, April 14, 1857, and ordered to corvette Cumberland, West
coast of Africa, April 14, 1857 to January 11, 1859.
Warranted a Master, January 22, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 23, 1858; sloop Dale, African Squad
ron, January 11, 1859 to May 23, 1859 ; steam-frigate Saranae, Pacific Squad
ron, September 17, 1859 to March 20, 1860; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron,
March 20, 1860 to August 2, 1861 ; sick in Naval Hospital, N. Y., with
Acapulco fever from August to October, 1861 ; Instructor in Gunnery to
volunteer officers, receiving-ship Ohio, October 29, 1861 to January 3, 1862 ;
steam-sloop Dacotah, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, as Executive-Officer,
January 31, 1862 to March 9, 1862; sick in Chelsea Hospital from effects of
fever from March 9 to May, 1862 ; steamer Conemaugh, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron as Executive-Officer, June 17, 1862 to September 8,1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; iron-clad Louis
ville) Western Flotilla, in command from September 15, 1862 to December 1,
1862; employed in breaking up guerilla warfare on the Mississippi River,
between Memphis and Helena; co-operating with troops from Major General
W. T. Sherman's division and Brigadier General E. Carr's division; com
mended by Rear Admiral Porter in official dispatches ; invalided from broken
health in December; ordnance duty,. New York, January 26, 1863 to June 15,
1863; commanded steamer United States in search after privateer Tacony from
June 15, 1863 to July 2, 1863 ; commanded the Naval Battalion during the
July riots in New York ; stationed in the lower part of the city from Monday
to Saturday and maintained order in the limits of district — dispersing several
disorderly gatherings ; steam-gunboat Marblehead, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron; in command from September 12, 1863 to May 3, 1864; stationed
in Stono River on picket duty and performed various services against the
enemy in conjunction with General Gillmore's outposts; December 25, 1863,
battle on the Stono ; the enemy attacked from John's Island earthworks with
16 pieces of artillery and a strong supporting infantry force, the object being
to sink, capture or drive' off the Marblehead, erect heavier works and thus
drive Gillmore's transports out of Stono Inlet and turn his left flank. The
Marblehead's crew consisted of 70 men ; after a sharp fight of over an hour
, the Pawnee and Williams coming to her aid, the enemy was routed and driven
from his works with the loss of two 8-inch guns and many men ; the Marble
head was struck 30 times in the hull and lost 3 killed and 6 wounded ; on 28th,
a force of 100 men under his command landed and brought away the two
guns — destroying the batteries ; for this service, in addition to Captain Balch's
commendation, he was officially thanked in general orders by Rear Admiral
Dahlgren, the order to be read on every quarter-deck in the fleet.
Commanded steamer Chocura, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, May 3, 1864,
to July 7, 1865 ; during this time actively engaged in blockading the Texas
coast and harassing the enemy ; from October to Decerdber, 1864, captured or
destroyed seven blockade-ru oners, viz : Louisa, Cora Smyser, Louisa, No. 2,
(destroyed), Lowood, Julia, late Hurley, and Alabama; January 22,
1865, cut out of the Calcasien River, Louisiana, and destroyed, in face of a

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greatly superior force, the blockade-runner Delphina, for which service officially
thanked by Commodore J. S. Palmer, commanding Squadron in Admiral Far
ragut's absence ; April 24, 1865, present at the affair of the ram Webb, New
Orleans ; Naval Academy, July 7, 1865, to September 1, 1868 ; commanded
frigate Santee, Summer of 1865 ; commanded steamer Marblehead, Summer of
1866, coast of United States; commanded sloop Dale, Summer of 1867, coast
of Europe ; steamer Saginaw, Pacific Squadron, in command October 24, 1868,
to May 5, i869, stationed in Alaska and occupied in surveying, and keeping
refractory Indians quiet.
Commissioned as Commander, September 20, 1868 ; special duty, Blay 5,
1869 to November, 1869 ; ordnance duty, November, 1869.
By the above record it will be seen that Commander Meade has served in 20
vessels, commanding 8 ; author of a work on " Boat Exercise," and also on
" Naval Construction."
Total sea service, 11 years, 1 month; shore or other duty, 5 years, 11 months.

COMMANDER CHARLES C. CARPENTER,* i
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed Midshipman from Massachusetts, October
1, 1850; attached to sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5; Naval
Academy, 1855-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856 ; steam-frigates, Merrimac,
Roanoke, Colorado, and brig Dolphin, Home Squad-ron and special service,
1856, '57 and '58; the last named capturing slave brig Echo, with 300 slaves
on board ; in receiving-ship at Boston, 1858-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 23, 1858 ; steamer Mohawk, coast of
Cuba, 1859-60 ; capturing slaver Wildfire, with 500 slaves on board ; steamer
Mohawk, Texas and East Gulf Blockade, 1861 ; steamer Flag, South Atlantic
Blockade, 1862 ; capturing steamers Anglia and Emily.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; iron-clad Catskill,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; attacks on defences of Charleston,
April 7th, July 10th and August 17, 1863 ; Naval Academy, 1863, '64 and
'65; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1866-7; commanding
steamer Wyoming, same Squadron, 1868; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1868, '69 and '70.
Commissioned as Commander, March, 1869 ; residence, Greenfield, Massa
chusetts.

COMMANDER WILLIAM A. KIRKLAND,
Born in North Carolina. Appointed from North Carolina, July 2, 1850 ; at
tached to sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5 ; Naval Academy, 1856.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856 ; frigate St. Lawrence,
Brazil Squadron, 1856-7; sloop Falmouth, Brazil Squadron, 1857-9.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, March 18, 1858 ; store-ship Release, Brazil
Squadron, 1860; steamer Pulaski, coast of Brazil, 1861-3.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander,' J "uly 16, 1862; steam-sloop Wyo
ming, East India Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanding iron-clad Winnebago, West
ern Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; served, under Acting Rear Admiral
Thatcher in the combined movements of the military and naval forces against
the defences of the city of Mobile, which resulted in the capture of that place
and the surrender of the rebel fleet ; commanding steamer Wasp, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1866-70. Commissioned as Commander, 1869.

COMMANDER WILLIAM II. DANA,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, May 1, 1850 ; attached to sloop Decatur,
Home Squadron, 1851-2; frigate Constitution, coast of Africa, 1852-5; Naval
Academy, 1856.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Bra
zil Squadron, 1856-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 1, 1858; steam-sloop Narragansett, Pacific
Squadron, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-gunboat
Genessee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862, and Western Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1863 ; attack on Port Hudson, March, 1863 ; commanding
gunboat Cayuga, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanding
steam-gunboat Winona, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; ordnance
duty, Boston, 1866; steam-sloop Pawnee, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867;
commanding steamer Kansas, South Atlantic Squadron, 186,8.
Commissioned as Commander, 1869.

COMMANDER EDWARD E. POTTER,
Born in New York. Appointed from Illinois, February 5, 1850 ; attached to
sloop Decatur, Home Squadron, 1852; frigate Constitution, coast of Afrioa,
1853-5 ; Naval Academy, 1856.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856; frigate St. Lawrence,
coast of Brazil, 1857-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 9, 1858; steam-frigate Niagara, 1861;
Western Gulf Squadron, 1862 ; bombardment and passage of Forts Jack
son and St. Philip, and capture of New Orleans ; engagement with field-
battery at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, June 9, 1862 ; passed Vicksburg batteries
twice; engagement with ram Arkansas, above Vicksburg, June, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; steam-sloop Lack
awanna, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863; commanding iron-clad
Mahopac, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; several engagements
with Howlett House batteries, December, 1864 ; two engagements at Fort
Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865; bombardment of Fort Anderson,
February 18, 1865 ; steamer Rhode Island, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; frigate
Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8; Navy Yard, Boston, .1868-70.
Commissioned as Commander, 1869.

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COMMANDER LESTER A. BEARDSLEE,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, March 5, 1850 ; attached.to
sloop Plymouth, East India Squadron, 1851-5 ; participated in one battle and
several skirmishes with the Chinese army, at Shanghai ; Naval Academy, 1856.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856.; steam-frigate Merrimac,
special service, 1856-7; sloop Germantown, East India Squadron, 1857-60.
Promoted to Master, January 22, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1859 ; sloop Saratoga, coast of Africa, 1860-3.
Commissioned as IAeutenant- Commander, J "uly 16, 1862; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; attack on the defences of Charleston harbor, April
7, 1863; steam-sloop Wachusett, special service, 1864-5; capture of rebel
steamer Florida, by the Wachusett, in October, 1864 ; commanding steam-gun
boat Aroostook, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-8 ; steam-sloop Lackawanna, North
Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Commander, 1869 ; on duty at Hydrographical Office,
Washington, D. C, 1869-70.

COMMANDER CHARLES A. BABCOCK,*
Born in New York, June 12, 1833. Appointed from Michigan, April 8, 1850 ;
attached to sloop John Adams, coast of Africa, 1850-3 ; brig Bainbridge, Bra
zil Squadron, 1853-5 ; Naval Academy, 1856.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856 ; Coast Survey, 1857.
Promoted to Master, January 22, 1858; sloop Vandalia, Pacific Squadron,
1858-59. Commissioned as Lieutenant, October 2, 1859 ; sloop Macedonian, 1861 ;
Executive-Officer of United States flag-ship Wachusett, on James and York
Rivers, Virginia, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
United States steamer Morse, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ;
September, 1862, defeated rebel battery and infantry at City Point, Virginia ;
May, 1863, four miles below West Point, on York River, Virginia, engaged and
drove away a rebel battery ; at White House, Pamunky River, Virginia, June
20, 1864, engaged the rebel Generals, Wade Hampton and Fitz Hugh Lee's
cavalry, with three batteries, driving them from their position, and saving eight
hundred wagons, two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men, from capture
by the enemy; was Acting Fleet-Captain, Mississippi Squadron, 1864-5 ; on
the breaking up of the Mississippi Squadron, in June, 1865, by orders from
Admiral Lee, he proceeded to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, to superintend the
erection of a naval ordnance depot for the protection of the guns and ammuni
tion of that Squadron ; having accomplished the erection of the depot, and se
curing properly the ordnance of that Squadron, was relieved of the command,
in March, 1866, by Captain Lanier; in 1867-8, attached to the Navy Yard at
Portsmouth, New Hampshire; commanded steamer Nyack, South Pacific Squad
ron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Commander, October 28, 1869 — waiting orders.
During the rebellion, he was highly and favorably mentioned in Admiral
Lee's Report to the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, for his active and arduous!

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COMMANDER THOMAS 0. SELFRIDGE,
Born in Massachusetts, February 6, 1836. Appointed from Massachusetts,
October 1, 1851 ; Naval Academy, 1851-5; attached to frigate Independence,
Pacific Squadron, 1855-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, November 22, 1856; sloop Vincennes,
coast of Africa, 1857-9.
Promoted to Master, January 22, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; sloop Cumberland, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1861-2 ; Lieutenant Selfridge was on board the Cumberland
when she sank, after her engagement with the rebel ram Merrimac, in Hampton
Roads, March 8, 1862, and was favorably mentioned in the official report of
Lieutenant George U. Morris, the officer in command of the Cumberland during
the engagement ; was engaged in Hampton Roads up to the time of the capture
of Norfolk.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; Mississippi Squad
ron, 1862-4; engagements in the vicinity of Vicksburg, ending in the capture
of that city; Yazoo and Red River Expeditions; commanding steamer Huron,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; was at first and second bom
bardments of Fort Fisher, bombardment of Fort Anderson, Cape Fear River,
and operations against Wilmington, North Carolina ; Naval Academy, 1866-8 ;
commanding steamer Nipsic, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9 ; commanding
steamer Nipsic, Exploring Expedition, Isthmus of Darien, 1870.
Commissioned as Commander, 1870.

COMMANDER JOSEPH N. MILLER,
Born in Ohio, November 22, 1836. Appointed from Ohio, April 8, 1850 ;
Naval Academy, 1851—4 ; frigate Independence, Pacific Squadron, 1855-6.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, November 22, 1856 ; Naval Academy,
1858. Promoted to Master, January 22, 1858; sloop Preble, Western Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1858-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861; brig Perry, 1861; Naval Academy,
1862. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; iron-clad Passaic,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1802-3; iron-clad steamer Sangamon,
1863-4; Fort McAllister, March 3, 1863 ; Fort Sumpter, April 7, 1863 ; iron
clad steamer Monadnock, North iUlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; present
at the two attacks on Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; Naval
Academy, 1866-7 ; steamer Powhatan, flag-ship South Pacific Squadron,
1867-9 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1870.
Commissioned as Commander, 1870.

COMMANDER ALFRED HOPKINS,
Born in New York, Appointed October 1, 1851 ; Naval School, 1851-5 ;
frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1856-8.

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Promoted to Master, November 4,1858; brig Bainbridge, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1858-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861; steamer Louisiana, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; iron-clad steamer
Lehigh, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; capture of Roanoke
Island, and of rebel Squadron off Elizabeth City ; capture of Newbern ; bom
bardment of Fort Sumpter during several days, in November, 1863; also sev
eral small affairs around Sewell's Point, and on the eastern shore of Virginia;
Naval Academy, 1865 ; steamer Florida, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7;
steamer De Soto, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868 ; receiving-ship, Philadelphia,
1868-9; commanding sloop Cyane, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Commander, 1870.

COMMANDER MONTGOMERY SICARD,
Born in New York, September 30, 1836. Appointed from New York, Octo
ber 1, 1851; Naval Academy, 1851-5 ; attached to frigate Potomac, Home
Squadron, 1855-6 ; steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squadron, 1856-9.
Promoted to Master, November 4, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; steam sloop Dacotah, 1861 ; steam-sloop
Oneida, Western Gulf Squadron, 1862-3 ; bombardment and passage of Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, and Chalmette batteries, and destruction of rebel flotilla
and transports, April 24, 1862; passage of Vicksburg batteries, June, 1862;
engagement with rebel ram Arkansas, July, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-sloop Ticon
deroga, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; two attacks on Fort
Fisher, in December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; naval and land assault on Fort
Fisher, January 15, 1865; bombardment of Fort Anderson, February, 1865;
Naval Academy, 1866-8; steam-sloop Pensacola, North Atlantic Squadron,
1868-9; commanding steamer Saginaw, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Commander, 1870.

COMMANDER E. O. MATTHEWS,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Missouri, October 2, 1851; Naval Acad
emy, 1851-5; frigate Potomac, Home Squadron, November, 1855 to May,
1856; sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, May, 1856 to January, 1858; sloop,
Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, May, 1858 to July, 1860.
Promoted to Master, November 4, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July, 1860; Naval Academy, as Instructor in
Mathematics, October, 1860 to April, 1861 ; steam-frigate Wabash, May, 1861
to November, 1861 (assisted in cupture of forts at Hatteras Inlet); sick; Naval
Academy, November, 1861 to October, 1862; Instructor in Seamanship.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; October, 1862 to
June, 1864, Head of Department of Gunnery, etc. ; June, 1864 to July, 1865,
South Atlantic Squadron, commanding Sonoma, then constructing naval battery
on Morris Island ; commanded naval light artillery, at Honey Hill, South Car
olina, November 30, 1864; battles at Tullifinny Cross Roads, December, 1864;

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staff of Admiral Dahlgren, January to July, 1865; apprentice-ship Savannah,
August, 1865; Naval Academy, November, 1865 to June 9, .1869, Department
of Gunnery; assigned to duty as Head of Torpedo Corps, June 9, 1869.
Promoted to Commander, May 4, 1870.

COMMANDER EDWARD P. LULL,
Born in Vermont, Feb. 23, 1836. Appointed from Wisconsin, Oct. 7, 1851;
Naval Academy, 1851-5 ; attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean Sq., 1856-8.
Promoted to Master, Nov. 8, 1858; steam-frigate Roanoke, Home Squadron,
1858-61; engagement between Roanoke and forts at Hatteras Inlet, July, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1860; Naval Academy, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-sloop Brook
lyn, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; passage of forts in Mobile Bay,
and engagement of rebel gunboats, August 5, 1864; bombardment of Fort
Morgan, August 14, 1864; commanding captured iron-clad Tennessee, Missis
sippi Squadron, 1864-5; commanded Tennessee at the bombardment of Fort
Morgan, August 22, 1864 ; steamer Swatara, West India Squadron, 1866 ; Na
val Academy, 1867-9; commanding store-ship Guard, 1870.
Commissioned as Commander, 1870.

COMMANDER ALEXANDER F. CROSMAN,
Born in Missouri, June 11, 1838. Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 1,
1851 ; Naval Academy, 1851-5 ; attached to frigate Congress, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1856-8.
Promoted to Master, November 4, 1858; steamer M. W. Chapin, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861; steam-sloop Mohican, 1861; steam-gun
boat Tahoma, East Gulf Squadron, 1861-2 ; commanding steamer Somerset,
East Gulf Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 16, 1802; steam-frigate
Wabash, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1865 ; engagements at Honey HiU with Naval Brigade of
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Devaux Creek and two others, all on the
expedition commanded by General Hatch, endeavoring to sever the railroad
between Charleston and Savannah ; two engagements with battery Marshall, on
east end of Sullivan's Island ; engagement with Fort Pringle on Stono River ;
co-operated with the army on Stono River several times, engaging Fort Lamar
once; Naval Academy, 1866 ; steamer Ossipee, North Pacific Squadron, 1867-8 ;
temporary command of bark Onward, store-ship of South Pacific Squadron,
1868-9; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Commander, 1870.

COMMANDER CHARLES STUART NORTON,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 3, 1851; Naval
Academy, 1851-5 ; attached to frigates Potomac and Wabash, Home Squadron,
1855-8 ; frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-60.

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Promoted to Master, November 4, 1858 ; steam-sloop Seminole, Brazil Squad
ron, 1861-2 ; blockade off Charleston, Hampton Roads, Potomac Flotilla, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; several engagements with Potomac bat
teries and Sewell's Point; battle of Port Royal.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1862; steam-gunboat Mara
tanza, North Atlantic ' Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ; steamers Fort Jackson
and Mercedita, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863—4; steam-sloops
Richmond and Albatross, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steamer
Shamrock, European Squadron, 1866-8 ; Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Navy
Yard, and United States receiving-ship Vermont, New York, 1868-9; at pres
ent on iron-clad duty, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Commissioned as Commander, January, 1870.

COMMANDER R. F. BRADFORD,*
Born in Massachusetts. Resident of Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa
chusetts, May 21, 1852; Naval Academy, 1852-6; graduated from Naval
Academy, in June, 1856 ; sailed in the United States steam-frigate Merrimac,
European Squadron and West Indies, 1856-7 ; United States steam-frigate Ro
anoke, Gulf of Mexico, 1858 ; United States steam-frigate Merriniac, 1859.
Passed examination as Passed Midshipman, in 1859, and was ordered to the
United States sloop-of-war Portsmouth, coast of Africa, 1859, '60 and '61.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; Executive-Officer of the United States
gunboat Chocura, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; engaged in
the reduction of Yorktown and Gloucester, on the York River, and vicinity.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; Executive-Officer
of the United States steam-sloop Juniata ; detached and ordered as Executive-
Officer of the steamer De Soto, 1863-4 ; attached to the Flying Squadron, and
after to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, under command of Admiral
Bailey ; ordered to the Naval Academy, 1865-7 ; Executive-Officer of the
United States steam- frigate Minnesota, (1st Rate) (special service), 1868; or
dered to the command of the United States gunboat Aroostook, Asiatic Fleet,
1869, and afterward to the command of the United States steamer Ashuelot,
on same station, 1870 ; Assistant to Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks,
Navy Department, Washington, D. C.
Commissioned as Commander, June, 1870.

COMMANDERS ON RETIRED LIST.
Retired under the Act of the 28th of February, 1855.

COMMANDER JOHN F. ABBOTT,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, December 27, 1837;
attached to frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1837-41; Naval
School, Philadelphia, 1842-3.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843; attached to Squadron on
coast of Africa, 1843-5 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1849-5CT.
Promoted to Master, October 3, 1850; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1851.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 22, 1851 ; steam-frigate Saranae, Home
Squadron, 1851-3 ; Coast Survey, 1854-5 ; retired, September 13, 1855 ; un
employed from 1858-69. " Commissioned as Commander, 1867.

COMMANDER NATHANIEL T. WEST,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, February 18, 1841 ;
attached to schooner Grampus, Home Squadron, 1841-4 ; sloop St. Louis, East
India Squadron, 1845 ; Naval School, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; Home Squadron, 1847 j
steamer Vixen, Home Squadron, 1848; Germantown, Home Squadron, 1849-50;
Coast Survey, 1851 ; sloop Cyane, Home Squadron, 1852 ; sloop Macedonian,
East India Squadron, 1853 ; frigate Columbia, Home Squadron, 1854-7 ; re
tired, September 13, 1855; sick from 1855 to 1869.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865.

Retired under tiventy-third section of Act of August 3, 1861.

COMMANDER NATHANIEL C. BRYANT,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, December 23, 1836; attached to
sloop Erie, West India Squadron, 1838-41; Naval School, Philadelphia,
1842-3; sloop Plymouth, Pacific Squadron, 1843-5.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843; sloop Dale, Pacific Squad
ron, during Mexican War and to 1849.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 7, 1850; brig Bainbridge, Brazil Squad
ron, 1850-3; receiving-ship Boston, 1854; steam-frigate San Jacinto, East
India Squadron, 1855-8 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1859-60 ; steam-sloop Rich
mond, 1861; Mississippi Squadron, 1862, in several engagements with the enemy.
Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; retired, September 26, 1864.

COMMANDER BAYSE N. WESTCOTT,*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Florida, December 5, 1837 ; sloop-of-
war Erie, Home Squadron, 1838; sloop Levant, West Indies, 1838-40; steamer
Poinsett, Home Squadron, 1840; frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean, 1840-1;
McLaughlin's Florida Expedition against the Indians, 1841-2 ; Naval School,
Philadelphia, 1842-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; frigate Independence,
Home Squadron, 1843; frigate Potomac, Home Squadron, 1844; brig Somers,
Home Squadron, 1844-5 ; rendezvous. Philadelphia, 1845-6; steamer Hunter,
Gulf of Mexico, 1846-7 ; (wrecked on Green Island Reef, off Vera Cruz,
while bringing in a French bark that had run the blockade, and was captured

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while attempting to get out) ; gunboat Petrel, Gulf of Mexico, operating against
the Mexicans, 1847 ; ship Supply, special service, coast of Syria, 1847-8 ; ren
dezvous, Philadelphia, 1848-50. ,,;
Promoted to Master, October 18, 1850; frigate St. Lawrence, special service,
carrying contributions to the World's Fair, London, 1850-1.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 11, 1851 ; Coast Survey, 1852-4; frigate
Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1855-7; Light-house Inspector, 1857-9;
steamer Saginaw, East Indies, 1859-60 ; frigate Santee, Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1861; retired, May 14, 1863; special duty, New York, 1864-5; Navy
Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1867, '68 and '69; Light-house Inspector, 1869-70.:

COMMANDER ANDREW J. DRAKE,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, December 5, 1837; sloop
Levant, West India Squadron, 1838-40; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1841-3.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 29, 1843 ; frigate Columbus, East,
India Squadron, 1844-8; Navy Yard, Boston, 1850.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, October 16, 1851 ; sloop Albany, Home Squad
ron, 1852-3; sloop Decatur, Pacific Squadron, 1854-7; receiving-ship, New
York, 1858; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1859; frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron,
1860-2. Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steamer Sassacus;
1865-6; retired, April 12, 1867.

COMMANDER SAMUEL MAGAW*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 23, 1841 ;
attached to frigate Columbia, Brazil Squadron, 1841-8 ; brig Porpoise, Home
Sguadron, 1845-6 ; was sent to Texas to await the ratification of our annexa
tion resolution by the Texan Congress, afterward to St. Domingo on special
service ; piloted Commodore Conner's Mosquito Fleet to Tampico, having pre
viously (at night) surveyed the bar, which place surrendered on their approach;
served at the Naval Battery at the second day's fight at the bombardment of
Vera Cruz at the frigate Raritan's guns ; Naval School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; store-ship Supply,
Pacific Squadron, 1849-51; Pacific Squadron, 1853; frigate St. Lawrence,
Pacific Squadron, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 1856-7; Flag-Lieutenant, under Flag-Officer Mcintosh; frigates Colo--
rado and Roanoke, Home Squadron, 1857-8; commanding steamer Thomas-
Freeborn, Potomac Flotilla, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding;
steamer Commodore Read, Potomac Flotilla, 1863-4, while commanding the;
Thomas Freeborn and Commodore Read had' command of a division, and at1
one time while Commodore Harwood commanded the Navy Yard at Washing
ton, acted as senior officer afloat; Lieutenant-Commander Magaw received highly
commendatory letters from Generals Burnside and Hooker for assistance and
services rendered them while attached to the Potomac Flotilla; commanding
steamer Lenapee, North Atlantic Squadron, 1865; commanding steamer Talla
poosa, Gulf Squadron, 1866.
Commissioned as Commander, October 10, 1866.

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COMMANDER FRANCIS G. DALLAS,
Born in Massnchusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, November 8, 1841 ;
attached to frigate Columbia, Brazil Squadron, 1841-3; frigate Columbia,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-5; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1846; sloop Sara
toga, Home Squadron, 1846-7 ; Naval School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847.; unemployed from 1849
to 1855 ; sloop Decatur, Pacific Squadron, 1855-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; receiving-ship, Philadel
phia, 1858; sloop Dale, coast of Africa, 1859-60; retired, December 16, 1864.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865; sick from 1861 to 1869.

COMMANDER WILLIAM M. GAMBLE,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from New York, May 1, 1841; attached to
steamer Missouri, Home Squadron, 1841-4 ; frigate Savannah, Pacific Squad
ron, 1844-6; Naval School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; frigate St. Lawrence,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-50; Observatory, Washington, 1851; frigate
St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1851-3; sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron,
1853-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855; Coast Survey, 1856-8;
sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1858-60; steam-sloop Powhatan, South At
lantic Squadron, 1861—2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steamer Pocahontas, Western Gulf Squadron, 1863 ; South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865.

Retired under first section of Act of April 21, 1864.

COMMANDER JOHN C. BEAUMONT,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, March 1, 1838 ; at
tached to sloop Ontario, West India Squadron, 1831—48 ; frigate Constellation,
East India Squadron, 1842^.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, May 20, 1844 ; brig Somers, Home Squad
ron, 1844-5; sloop Jamestown, coast of Africa, 1845-6; frigate Ohio, Pacific
Squadron, 1846-7 ; Observatory, Washington, 1848 ; razee Independence,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-52.
Promoted to Master, August 30, 1851.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 29, 1855 ; frigate Potomac, Home
Squadron, 1856; steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squadron, 1857 ; receiving-ship,
New York, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop Hartford, East India Squadron, 1860-1 ; com
manding steamer Aroostook, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; was
an active participant in the severe engagement with the enemies batteries at
Fort Darling.

194 COMMANDERS.
Commissioned as Commander, July, 1862; commanding steam-gunboat
Sebago, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; commanded a monitor
in various engagements with rebel fortifications in Charleston harbor, and took
a leading part in the capture of Fort Wagner ; commanding steamer Macki
naw, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; present at the two attacks
on Fort Fisher, when his vessel was badly cut up by the enemy's shot and shell •
commanding iron-clad steamer Miantonomah, special cruise7 1866-7 ; retired
1868. ' '

COMMANDER GEORGE A. STEVENS,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Tennessee, May 13, 1840; attached
to frigate Potomac, Home Squadron, 1840-3 ; steam-sloop Princeton, special
service, 1844-5 ; Naval School, 1846.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, July 11, 1846 ; razee Independence, flag
ship Pacific Squadron, 1846-8 ; Coast Survey, 1849-50; frigate Raritan, Pa
cific Squadron, 1850-2 ; store-ship Southampton, Pacific Squadron, 1852-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 14, 1855 ; brig Bainbridge, Brazil
Squadron, 1858-60; ordnance duty, Boston, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding
steam-gunboat Huron, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; retired,
October 25, 1865.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865; equipment duty, Pensacola,
1867-70.

COMMANDER WILLIAM GIBSON,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 11, 1841; at
tached to line-of-battle ship Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1841; to sloop Concord,
and wrecked in her in the Mozambique Channel, 1842 ; to- Delaware again,
Mediterranean, 1843; brig Lawrence, Home Squadron, 1844; frigate Potomac,
Home Squadron, 1845; gunboat Reefer, Gulf of Mexico, 1846, from the be
ginning of the war ; closely engaged with the batteries and troops in the two
attacks on Alvarado ; present at Tobasco.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; steamer Mississippi and
other vessels of Gulf Squadron, 1848; Coast Survey, schooner Ewing, Pacific
Coast of the United States, 1849-51 ; assaulted by a mutinous and deserting
boat's crew, in the bay of San Francisco, California, September, 1849, thrown
overboard, rescued and resuscitated from drowning; thanked by Superintendent
of Coast Survey, for "characteristic gallantry;" Coast Survey, New England,
1852; steamer John Hancock, North Pacific Expedition, 1853; assisted in
survey of Gaspar Straits ; commanding schooner Fenimore Cooper, North Pa
cific Expedition, 1854-5 ; surveys solely conducted by that vessel, the coast of
Niphon in the Japan Sea, and the Aleutian chain of islands ; Commander (now
Rear Admiral) Rodgers complimented him for his " zeal, his energy, and the
hardships of a dangerous cruise," and wrote that his " usefulness was in inverse
proportion to the size of his vessel."
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; special duty, Washington,
1857-8 ; frigate Sabine, Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ; special duty, Washing-

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ton, 1859; gunboat Pocahontas, Gulf Squadron, 1860; steam-frigate Minne
sota, 1861; steamer Santiago de Cuba, 1861-2.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding steamer
Yankee, Potomao Flotilla, 1862 ; present during all the operations on the James
River, while McClellan occupied Harrison's Landing, and guarded with three
gunboats his re-crossing the Chickahominy ; captured several vessels in a night
expedition up Chip Oaks Creek, and thanked by Commodore Wilkes ; com
manding steam-gunhoat Seneca, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ;
Senior-Officer in the Ogeechee, January, 1863, blockading rebel war steamer
Nashville ; engaged in three attacks on Fort McAllister, and the destruction of
the above-named vessel, after the arrival of Captain Worden in the Montauk ;
praised by the late Rear Admiral Du Pont, in a letter to the Department, for
"great spirit and vigilance;" commanding iron-clad Catskill, steam-gunboat
Nipsic, steamer Sonoma, and iron-clad Lehigh, successively, 1864; frequent
engagements with the batteries near Charleston ; Rear Admiral Dahlgren wrote
that his " monitor service would always be a handsome testimonial in his favor;"
Rear Admiral Rowan, that he " commanded one of the iron-clads during the
active operations off Charleston, and did gallant and efficient service;" com
manding steamer Mahaska, and first division of the East Gulf Squadron, 1865 ;
thanked by Major General Newton for " zealous and able co-operation with the
land forces," in the joint expedition to St. Mark's ; commanding steamer
Tehama, 1866-7 ; rode out hurricane near Bahamas, October, 1866 ; thanked
by British Government for aid rendered those islands ; retired, April 26, 1867.
Promoted to Commander on the retired list, April 26, 1867 : special duty,
Washington, 1867; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1868-70.

COMMANDER GREENLEAF CILLEY,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, February 26, 1841; attached to
frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-5; sloop Plymouth, Brazil
Squadron, 1845-6 ; frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, 1846-7.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; Naval School, 1848 ;
frigate Raritan, Home Squadron, 1849-50; Coast Survey, 1851-2; store-ship
Fredonia, Pacific Squadron, 1852-3; Pacific Squadron, 1854; frigate St.
Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1855.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; sloop Saratoga, Home
Squadron, 1856-58; steamer Metacomet, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Ex
pedition, 1859; brig Bainbridge, Brazil Squadron, 1860 ; steamer Pulaski,
Brazil Squadron, 1861-3.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; retired March 18,
1865. Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865.

COMMANDER EDMUND W. HENRY,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, April 7, 1842 ; attached to
sloop Saratoga, coast of Africa, 1842-4 ; frigate Columbus, East India Squad
ron, 1845-6 ; Naval School, 1847-8.

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Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 15, .1848 ; frigate St. Lawrence
Mediterranean Squadron, 1848-50; mail-steamer Georgia, 1851-2; surveying
the river La Plata, 1852-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; special duty, Washington,
1857-8; steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858 ; sloop Savan
nah, 1861; steam-gunboat Sebago, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam-frigate Col
orado, West Gulf Squadron, 1863 ; commanding steam-gunboat Owasco, West
ern Gulf Squadron, 1864.
Commissioned as Commander, April, 1867 ; South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1865; commanding steamer Nipsic, Brazil Squadron, 1865; retired,
March 19, 1867 ; League Island, Pennsylvania, 1867-9.

Retired under fourth section of Act of April 21, 1864.

COMMANDER WILLIAM MITCHELL,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, Sep
tember 24, 1841; attached to frigate Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1841-4;
frigate Congress, Pacific Squadron, 1844-7 ; frigate Congress, East India Squad
ron, 1847-9.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; mail-steamer Ohio,
1849-52; brig Bainbridge, coast of Brazil, 1853-5.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, September 14, 1855 ; special duty, Washington,
1858; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Home Squadron, 1858-61.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Washington, 1862^; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865; Inspector, etc., Navy Yard,
Washington, 1867; retired, January 11, 1867.

COMMANDER WILLIAM C. WEST,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, January 30, 1841 ; attached
to frigate United States, Pacific Squadron, 1841—4 ; sloop Vincennes, East India
Squadron, 1845-6; Naval School, 1847-8.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; sloop St. Louis, Brazil
Squadron, 1849-51 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 15, 1855 ; Naval Observatory, Wash
ington, 1856-7; sloop Vincennes, coast of Africa, 1858-60; frigate St. Law
rence, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; ordnance duty,'
Navy Yard, Boston, 1863; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864.
Commissioned as Commander, March 3, 1865 ; commanding at Beaufort,
1865; retired, April 26,1866; special duty, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
1868.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ROBERT L. PHYTHIAN.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, January 28th, 1852 ;
Naval Academy, 1852-6 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Brazil Squadron,
1857-9 ; promoted to Master, 1859 ; sloop Jamestown, 1861 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1862-3 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, July 16th, 1862 ; iron-clad Lehigh, South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1863—4 ; iron-clad New Ironsides, South Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5 ; Naval Academy, 1866-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER AUGUSTUS P. COOKE.
Bqrn in New York. Appointed from New York, May 27th, 1852 ; Naval
Academy, 1852-6; steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squadron, 1856-8; promoted
to Master, 1859 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; steam-sloop San Jacinto,
1861; steam gunboat Pinola, Western Gulf Squadron, 1862-3 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, August 11th, 1862 ; commanding steamer Estrella,
Western Gulf Squadron, 1864 ; Naval Academy, 1865-7 ; steamrfrigate Frank
lin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European
Squadron, 1868-9 ; at present, Naval Academy.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER LE ROY FITCH.
Born in Indiana, October 1st, 1835. Appointed from Indiana, October 1st,
1851; Naval School, 1851-6; attached to sloop St. Marys, Pacific Squadron,
1856-9 ; promoted to Master, 1859; commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; steamer
Wyandot, 1861; Mississippi Squadron, 1861-5; engaged at Island No. 10,
and Fort Pillow; capture of Memphis, Tennessee, and destruction of rebel fleet;
Fort Donaldson, Cumberland river, February 3d, 1863.
On the morning of the 19th July, 1863, Lieutenant-Commander Le Roy
Fitch, then in command of the steamer Moose, intercepted the flying guerilla
Morgan, frustrating him in his attempts to recross the Ohio, at Buffington
Island, having followed him for more than five hundred miles up the river.
The zeal, energy and ability displayed by Lieutenant-Commander Fitch called
forth complimentary letters from Generals Burnside and Cox, and also a con
gratulatory letter from Secretary Welles, in which he says: "Your pursuit of
the flying guerilla Morgan, intercepting him, and frustrating him in his attempts
to recross the Ohio, capturing his train, a portion of his guns, and routing his
band, all of which materially crippled his strength and led to his final capture,
gives additional evidence of your zeal and activity, and reflects additional credit
on the service and yourself."
Defended Johnsonville, Tenn., from the attack of the rebel general Forrest ;
engagement before Nashville, Tennessee, during the operations of Hood ; nu
merous minor engagements with guerillas on the Mississippi, Cumberland and
Tennessee rivers ; was on several land expeditions with the army up the Ten
nessee, Cumberland and Ohio rivers ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
September 21st, 1862 ; Naval Academy, 1866; commanding steamer Marble
head, North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER THOMAS H. EASTMAN.
Born in New York, August, 1847. Appointed from New Hampshire, Janu
ary 31st, 1853 ; Naval Academy, 1853-6; attached to steam-frigate Wabash
Home Squadron, 1856-8; promoted to Master, 1859 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, 1860; commanding steamer Yankee, Potomac flotilla, 1861; steamer
Thomas Freeborn, Potomac flotilla, 1861 ; numerous sharp engagements with
rebel batteries and guerrillas on the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers, 1861;
steamer Keystone State, Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; engagement
with Forts Hatteras and Clarke ; engagement of Keystone State with rebel
iron-clads Chicura and Palmetto, off Charleston, in 1863 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, September 30th, 1862; South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1863-5; on board the Weehawken at the reduction of Fort Sump
ter and Charleston, South Carolina; Naval Academy, 1866-7; commanding
steamer Penobscot, North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-9. ,

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER RUSH R. WALLACE.
Born in Tennessee, November 7th, 1835. Appointed from Tennessee, May
25th, 1852; Naval Academy, 1852-6 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Brazil
Squadron, 1856-9 ; promoted to Master, 1859 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
1861 ; steamer Crusader, 1861 ; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron,
1861-3 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, October 1st, 1862 ; steam-
sloop Shenandoah, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; present at the
two attacks on Fort Fisher, December, 1864 and January, 1865 ; steamer Fort
Jackson, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865; Naval Academy, 1866-7;
frigate Guerriere, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1868 ; steam-sloop Rich
mond, European Fleet, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHESTER HATFIELD.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from New York, May 21st, 1852;
Naval Academy, 1852-6; attached to steam-frigate Merrimack, special service,
1856-7 ; steam-frigate Merrimack, Pacific Squadron, 1857-8 ; promoted to Mas
ter, 1859 ; commissioned as Lieutenant 1860 ; steamer Mohawk, 1861 ; steam
gunboat Owasco, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; bombardment and
passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and attack on Vicksburg; capture of
Galveston, Texas; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, October 2d, 1862;
commanding steam gunboat Aroostook, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,1863-4;
steamer Roanoke, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; Naval Acade
my, 1866; steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron, 1867; steam-sloop Shenandoah,
Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9 ; at present on duty afr Navy Yard, New York.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES J. McDOUGAL.
Born in New York. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 26th, 1852;
Naval Academy, 1852-6 ; attached to sloop Cyane, Home Squadron, 1856-8;
sloop Marion, Coast of Africa, 1858-60 ; promoted to Master, 1859 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, January 23d, 1861 ; steamer Saginaw, 1861 ; steam gun
boat Port-Royal, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, November 16th, 1862 ; commanding steamer Hendrick
Hudson, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; commanding steamer Ca-
manche, San Francisco, California, 1865-6 ; commanding store-ship James
town, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ; steam-sloop Guerriere, flag-ship South
Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE H. PERKINS.
Born in New Hampshire, October 21st, 1831. Appointed from New Hamp
shire, October 1st, 1851 ; Naval Academy, 1851-6 ; attached to sloop Cyane,
Home Squadron, 1856-8 ; store-ship Release, Brazil Squadron, 1858-60 ; pro
moted to Master, 1859 ; steamer Sumpter, 1861; commissioned as Lieutenant,
February 2d, 1861; steam gunboat Cayuga, Western Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1862-3; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 13th, 1862;
commanding steam gunboat Sciota, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ;
bombardment of the forts below New Orleans and Chalmette batteries ; passage
of the forts in Mobile Bay and capture of the city; skirmishes on the Missis
sippi in the New London, Cayuga and Sciota, and on the blockade of the Coast
of Texas in the Sciota; special duty, New Orleans, 1866; steam-sloop Lacka
wanna, North Pacific Squadron, 1867-8. At present, ordnance duty, Boston.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WELD N. ALLEN.
Born in Maine, March 27th, 1837. Appointed from Maine, May 24th, 1852 ;
Naval School, 1852-6 ; attached to sloop Cyane, Home Squadron, 1857-8 ;
brig Perry, Brazil Squadron, 1858-60 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1861 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant, February 24th, 1861 ; steam gunboat Kanawha, West
ern Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, January 2d, 1863 ; commanding steamer New London, Western Gulf
Squadron, 1863-4 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5; two attacks on Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January,
1865; assault on Fort Fisher, January 15th, 1865.
In this engagement Lieutenant-Commander Allen was wounded in the left
arm. Steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1866-8 ; receiving-ship, Bos
ton, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER NATHANIEL GREEN.*
Born in Penna. Appointed from Penna., May 28th, 1852; Naval Academy,
1852-6 ; steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squadron, 1856-8 ; sloop Marion, steamer

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Mystic and sloop Pawnee, Coast of Africa, 1859-60; sloop St. Louis, 1861;
commissioned as Lieutenant, Feb. 27th, 1861; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, January 2d, 1863 ; steamers Katahdin, Genessee and Monongahela,
W. G., 1862-3; Naval Academy, 1864; commanding steamer Itasca, W. G.,
1865 ; trip of the iron-clad Tonawanda ; Naval Academy, 1865 ; steamer Chic-
opee, 1866; at Vera Cruz in Tacony, 1867; R. S. Vermont, 1868; S. S. Con-
toocook, N. A. Fleet, 1869; commanding steamer Resaca, Pacific Fleet, 1870;
reinforcement of Fort Pickens, April, 1861 ; bombardment and passage of forts
below New Orleans, and Chalmette batteries ; operations against Vicksburg, from
April to Sept., 1862; picketing Mississippi River, above New Orleans; battle
of Baton Rouge and destruction of rebel ram Arkansas ; numerous skirmishes
in the river while in the Katahdin and Genessee ; siege and surrender of Port
Hudson; convoyed Banks' Expedition to the Rio Grande; shelled Arkansas
Pass battery while in the Monongahela ; capture of the city of Mobile ; con
voyed Asboth's Ex. from Pensacola to Apalachicola while in command ofthe Itasca.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS B. BLAKE.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from same State, September 30th, 1853 ;
Naval Academy, 1853-7 ; attached to steam-frigate Minnesota, East India
Squadron, 1857-9 ; steam-frigate Colorado, 1861 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
March 4th, 1861 ; steam gunboat Kennebec, Western Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1861-2 ; destruction of rebel privateer Judith, at Pensacola, September
14th, 1861 ; bombardment and passage of forts Jackson and St. Philip, and
passage of Vicksburg, June, 1862 ; Naval Academy, 1863-4 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, January 2, 1863 ; steamer Susquehanna, Brazil Squad
ron, 1865-6; commanding steamer Nipsic, South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7;
Naval Academy, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JAMES M. PRITCHETT.
Born in Indiana, August 25th, 1836. Appointed from Indiana, May 27th,
1852; Naval Academy, 1852-7; attached to steam-frigate Mississippi, East India
Squadron, 1857-9 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1851 ; commissioned as Lieuten
ant, April 3d, 1861 ; Mississippi flotilla, 1861-2 ; steam gunboat Tyler, Mis
sissippi Squadron, 1863-4; at Haines' Bluff, December, 1862; siege .of
Vicksburg, 1863; numerous skirmishes on the Mississippi river; commis
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, January 2d, 1864 ; steamer Mahopao, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steamer Augusta, European Squadron,
1866-7; steamer Tuscarora, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9; at present
steam-sloop Dacotah, Pacific Fleet.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD TERRY. •
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, September 21st, .1853;
Naval Academy, 1853-7 ; attached to sloop Germantown, East India Squadron,
1857-9; steam-sloop Richmond, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-5;
engagement with rebel ram Manassas, and steamers inthe Mississippi river.

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October 12th, 1861 ; Fort MoRae and rebel batteries, November 22d, 1861 ;
bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, capture of New
Orleans and passage of Vicksburg, bombardment of batteries at Port Hudson,
March 14th, 1863 ; battle of Mobile bay, August 5th, 1864 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, January 4th, 1863; steam-frigate Powhatan, Pacific
Squadron, 1866-7 ; Naval Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS M. BUNCE.
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from same State, May 28th, 1852 ; Naval
Academy, 1852-7 ; attached to sloop Germantown, East India Squadron,
1857-9 ; sloop Macedonian, 1861 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 11th,
1861 ; steam gunboat Penobscot, Nortb Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ;
skirmishes at Yorktown and Gloucester, April, 1862 ; engagements at Fort
Fisher and other rebel batteries at mouth of Cape Fear river, from May to
August, 1862 ; steam-sloop Pawnee, South Atlantic Squadron, 1863 ; iron-clad
Catskill, South Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4.
July iOth, 1863, commanded aboat expedition co-operating with Gen. Gilmore
in assault on and capture of a part of Morris Island ; participated in all actions at
siege of Charleston, from July 16th to November 12th, 1863; attack upon Fort
Sumpter, September 8th, 1863; was wounded by the premature explosion of a
one hundred and fifty pound rifled gun in the turret of the iron-clad Patapsco.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, January 16th, 1863 ; iron-clad
Dictator, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding iron-clad
Monadnock, special cruise, 1865-6 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER BYRON WILSON.
Born in Ohio, December 17th, 1837. Appointed from Ohio, January 31st,
1853 ; Naval Academy, 1853-7 ; attached to steam-frigate Mississippi, East
India Squadron, 1857-9 ; steam-sloop Richmond, Western Gulf Squadron, 1861 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, April 16th, 1861 ; commanding iron-clad Mound
City and a division ofthe Mississippi Squadron, 1864-5; passage of Vicksburg
batteries, April 16th, 1863 ; attack on Grand Gulf, April, 1863 ; Deer Creek,
1863 ; Red River Expedition, 1864 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
November 5th, 1863 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ; steam-
sloop Plymouth, European Fleet, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY B. SEELY.
1 Born in New York, July 7th, 1838. Appointed from New York, May 26th,
1852 ; Naval Academy, 1852-7 ; attached" to steam-frigate Minnesota, East
India Squadron, 1857-9 ; steamer Keystone State, 1861 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, April 17th, 1861 ; steamer Sumpter, South Atlantic Blockading

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Squadron, 1862; steam-sloop Narragansett, Pacific Squadron, 1863-5; commis.
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, February 21st, 1864; steamer Bienville,
1866; steamer Pawnee, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FREDERICK V. McNAIR.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 21st,
1853 ; Naval Academy, 1853-7 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, East India Squads
ron, 1857-9 ; steam-sloop Iroquois, West Gulf Squadron, 1861-2; bombardment
of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and Chalmette batteries ; engagement at Grand
Gulf; passage both ways of Vicksburg batteries, and destruction of rebel ram
Arkansas ; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 18th, 1861 j steam-sloop Juniata,
1862-3; steam-sloop Seminole, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4;
steam-sloop Juniata, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; at both
attacks on Fort Fisher ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, April 20th,
1864 ; steam-sloop Juniata, Brazil Squadron, 1865-6 ; steamer Brooklyn, flag
ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; Naval Academy, 1868 ; frigate Frank
lin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM B. CUSHING.
Born in Wisconsin. Appointed from New York, September 25th, 1857;
resigned, 1858; re-entered the service as an acting officer in 1861; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, United States Navy, July 16th, 1862 ; attached to North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-5.
On the 23d of November, 1862, Lieutenant Cushing, then in command of
the steamer Ellis, entered New River Inlet, with orders to capture the town of
Jacksonville, intercept the Wilmington mail, take possession of any vessels
found in the river, and to destroy any salt works found on its banks. At 1 P.
M. he reached the town of Jacksonville, captured twenty-five stand of public
arms, a large mail and two schooners. He then started down tho river, shelling
a rebel camp on his way, and came to anchor about five miles from the outer bar,
it being impossible to take the steamer from the river that night. On the ^"
lowing morning the enemy opened on him with two pieces of artillery from a
bluff, but were soon silenced, the Ellis passing within short range without re
ceiving fire. At about five hundred yards from this point the Ellis grounded^
and every effort was made to get her afloat, but without success. Everything
was removed from the steamer excepting the pivot-gun and a few small arms ;
the crew were called to muster and told that they could go aboard the prize
schooner. Lieutenant Cushing then called for six volunteers to remain with
him on board the Ellis and fight the remaining gun. Six men came forward,
two Masters' Mates, Valentine and Barton, amongst the number. The schooner
was ordered to drop down the channel and await the termination of the impend
ing engagement. On the morning of the 25th, the enemy opened a cross fire
on the Ellis from four points with heavy rifled guns, so disabling the vessel that
the only alternatives left were surrender, or a pull of one and a half miles in a
small boat, under fire, to the schooner; the latter alternative was chosen. Lieu-

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tenant Cushing fired the Ellis, reached the schooner and made sail for sea, and
four hours later arrived at Beaufort. The coolness, courage and conduct of
Lieutenant Cushing was specially commended in the official reports of Com
mander H. K. Davenport and Acting Rear Admiral S. P. Lee, commanding
N. A. B. Squadron.
On the night of the 27th of October, 1864, Lieutenant Cushing ascended
the Roanoke river in a torpedo-boat, having the second cutter of the steamer
Shamrock in tow, for the purpose of blowing up the rebel ram Albemarle, at
Plymouth. He passed the rebel steamer Southfield without being noticed, and
arrived within a short distance of the ram before he was discovered, when he
cast loose the cutter, ordering her to board the Southfield and capture the picket
Stationed there, while he attacked the ram with the torpedo. Although
the enemy kept up a severe fire of musketry and with howitzers mounted on the
Wharf, he succeeded in exploding his torpedo under the Albemarle at the same
instant that the gun of that vessel, to which they were directly opposite, was
fired on the torpedo-boat, which immediately filled, and the Lieutenant ordered
his officers and men to save themselves, and j umped overboard. Mostof the party
were captured, some drowned, and only two escaped. Lieutenant Cushing man
aged to reach the shore, and after some hours' travel through the swamps came
to a creek, where he took possession of a boat belonging to a picket of the
enemy, and by eleven o'clock the next night had made his way out to the
steamer Valley City. For this daring act Lieutenant Cushing received a vote
of thanks from Congress, and a complimentary letter from the Secretary of
the Navy.
There was not a year during the war that Lieutenant Cushing did not distin
guish himself by some signal act of perilous adventure.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, October 22d, 1864 ; steamer Lan
caster, flag-ship Pacific Squadron, 1866-7; commanding steamer Maumee,
Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ARTHUR R. YATES*
Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, September 24th, 1853;
graduated, 1857. From 1857 until 1860, in steamer Mississippi, Asiatic
Squadron; July, 1860 until December, 1860, in steam-sloop Brooklyn, Gulf
Squadron. From December, 1860 until December, 1863, in the sloop Cyane,
Pacific Squadron.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 18th, 1861.
. From January, 1864 until August, 1864, steamer Augusta. A volunteer on
board the flag-ship Hartford, at battle of Mobile Bay. (See Admiral Farragut's
Report.) Evening of day of the battle, placed in command of the captured
gunboat Selma. From that time until June, 1867, successively in command of
Selma, J. P. Jackson and Chocura, Gulf Squadron.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, November 16th, 1864. September,
1867 until June, 1868, Executive-Officer of flag-ship Piscataqua, Asiatic
Squadron. From June, 1868 until July, 1869, successively in command of
steamers Ashuelot and Unadilla. same squadron; arriving in the United States

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in September, 1869. On special duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.,
and '70. Sea service, 11 years and 7 months ; shore and other duty, 3 years
and 9 months.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN ADAMS HOWELL.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 27th, 1854;
Naval Academy, 1854-8 ; attached to sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1858-9; store-ship Supply, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 18th, 1861 ; attached to steam-sloop Ossi
pee, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; steam-sloop Ossipee, West
ern Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; participated in the battle of Mobile
Bay, August 5th, 1864.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 3d, 1.865 ; steamer De Soto,
special service, 1866 ; steamer De Soto, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7;
Naval Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALLEN V. REED*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 26th, 1854;
Naval Academy, 1854-8 ; graduated No. 1 of class, and was presented with a
sword from the Academy; attached to sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1858-60 ; steamers Water Witch and Colorado, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 18th, 1861 ; frigate Potomac, Ship Island
and Pensacola, 1862-3 ; steamer Lackawanna, 1863 ; steamers Tuscarora and
Pawtuxet, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; present at both attacks :
on Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865; aiso, engaged with other
defences of Cape Fear river, February 1865.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 30, 1865; iron-clad Mian-
tononioh, 1865-6; on shore duty at Norfolk, Va., three months in 1866;
steamer Resaca, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-7; steamer Saranae, 1868;'
sloop Jamestown, till July 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE DEWEY.
Born in Vermont. Appointed from Vermont, September 23d, 1854 ; Naval
Academy, 1854-8; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron,

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1858-9; steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Squadron, 1861-3; capture of
New- Orleans, April, 1862 ; Port Hudson, March, 1863 ; engagements with
rebels below Donaldsonville, Louisiana, July, 1863 ; commissioned as Lieuten
ant, April 19th, 1861; steam gunboat Agawam, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5; two attacks on Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January,
1865 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 3d, 1865 ; steamer Kear
sarge, European Squadron, 1866 ; frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squad
ron, 1867 ; Naval Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES L. FRANKLIN.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, October 23d, 1854 ; Naval Academy,
1854-8 ; attached to sloop Macedonian, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9 ;
steam-frigate Minnesota, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861; steamer
Hetzel, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; Capture of Forts Hat
teras and Clark ; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 19th, 1861 ; steamer
James Adger, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; was engaged at
Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City, Port Macon and Fort Fisher, cutting out
steamers; steamer Iosco, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; at Fort
Fisher in December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 3d, 1865; steamer Vanderbilt, North Pacific Squadron,
1866-7; Naval Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE B. WHITE.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from same State, September 28th, 1854 ;
Naval Academy, 1854-8 ; attached to steam-sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron,
1858-60 ; was on the Saratoga in the action which resulted in the capture of
the steamers Miramon and Marquis de la Habana, Vera Cruz, 1860 ; steamer
Union, Home Squadron, 1861; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 19th, 1861 ;
steam gunboat Ottawa, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; at battle
of Port Royal, 1861; engagement at Port Royal Ferry, June 1st, 1862; en
gagement with rebel flotilla, Wilmington river, February, 1862; capture of
Fernandina, and action in St. Marys river, March, 1862, and operations in
Stono river ; steamer State of Georgia, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-4; steamer Mendota, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5;
capture of Fort Fisher ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 3d,
1865; steam-sloop Dacotah, Pacific Squadron, 1866-8; League Island, Pa.,
1869 ; at present, on equipment duty, Philadelphia.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY L. HOWISON.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, September 26th, 1854 ; Naval
Academy, 1854-8 ; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron,
1858-60; steamer Pocahontas, 1861 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 19th,

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1861; steamer Augusta, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3; at
Port Royal; engagement with rams off Charleston, 1863; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864; engagement with the Forts of Charleston, 1863-4 ¦
steamer Bienville, Western Gulf Squadron, 1864-5; battle of Mobile Bay,
August 5th, 1864; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 3d, 1865;
temporary ordnance duty, Washington, 1866; steam-sloop Pensacola, North
Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ; ordnance duty, Washington, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALBERT KAUTZ.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 28th, 1854 ; Naval Acade
my, 1854-8; attached to steam-frigate Roanoke, Home Squadron, 1858-60;
prisoner in North Carolina, 1861; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 21st,
1861; steam-sloop Hartford, Western Gulf Squadron, 1861-2; steam-sloop
Susquehanna, 1863 ; served in the Hartford at the capture of New Orleans,
and the passage of Vicksburg, June 29th and July 16th, 1862; Pacific Squad
ron, 1865 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, May 31st, 1865 ; steamer
Towanda, 1866; steamer Pensacola, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-8; receiving-
ship, Norfolk, 1869 ; at present, on duty at Navy Yard, Boston

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALFRED T. MAHAN.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 30th, 1854 ;
Naval Academy, 1856-9; attached to frigate Congress, Home Squadron, 1861;
steamer Pocahontas, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1863 ; steam-sloop
Seminole, Western Gulf Squadron, 1863-4; steamer James Adger, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1864-5 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, June 7th,
1865; steamer Muscoota, Gulf Squadron, 1865-6; steamer Iroquois, Asiatic
Squadron, 1867-9 ; at present, commanding steamer Aroostook, Asiatic Fleet.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE C. REMEY.
Born in Iowa. Appointed from Iowa, September 20th, 1855 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1855-9 ; attached to steam-sloop Hartford, East India Squadron, 1860-1 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861 ; steam gunboat Marblehead,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-4; was present at the siege of
Yorktown, and on several occasions engaged the batteries at long range. In
consequence of the Marblehead being grounded, was compelled to witness the
battle of West Point, Virginia, without being able to participate. Engagement
with rebels at White House, Pamunkey river, June 29th, 1862; engaged bat
teries on Sullivan's Island, S. O, on two different occasions; engaged Battery
Wagner, Morris Island, S. C, at long range ; took part in general engagement
of Battery Wagner, August 17th, 1863 ; was in command of naval battery on

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Morris Island, from August 23d to September 8th, 1863, and was engaged in
bombardment of Fort Sumpter, and at times Fort Gregg ; had command of the
2d division of boats in the night attack on Fort Sumpter, September 8th, 1863,
and was taken prisoner by the rebels; steam gunboat Marblehead, Naval Aca
demy, Newport, 1865-6; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, June 25th,
1865; steamer Mohongo, Pacific Squadron, 1866-7; Naval Academy, 1868-9;
at present, attached to frigate Sabine, special service.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER NORMAN H. FARQUHAR.
Born in Pennsylvania, April 11th, 1840. Appointed from Pennsylvania,
September 27th, 1854; Naval Academy, 1854-9; Squadron on coast of
Africa, 1860-1; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861; steam
gunboat Mahaska, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; steamer
Rhode Island, West India Squadron, 1863-4 ; steamer Santiago de Cuba, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; present at both attacks on Fort Fisher;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, August 5th, 1865 ; Naval Academy,
1866-8; steamer Swatara, European Squadron, 1868-9; at present, on duty
at Navy Yard, Boston.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SAMUEL D. GREENE.
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Rhode Island, September 21st, 1855;
Naval Academy, 1855-9 ; attached to steam-sloop Hartford, East India Squad
ron, 1859-61; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861; iron-clad
steamer Monitor, North Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2 ; was Executive Officer
of the Monitor during the engagement with the rebel ram Merrimack, in
Hampton Roads, March 9th, 1862 ; engagement at Sewell's Point, May 1862 ;
also in engagement at Fort Darling, James river, May 15th, 1862 ; steamer
Florida, 1863; steamer Iroquois, special service, 1864-5; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, August 11th, 1865; Naval Academy, 1866-8; steamer
Ossipee, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER THEODORE F. KANE.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from New York, September 27th,
1855 ; Naval Academy, 1855-9 ; attached to sloop Constellation, Coast of Africa,
1859-61; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861; Naval Academy,
1862-3; steamer Neptune, West India Squadron, 1863-5; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, September 22d, 1865; Naval Academy, 1866-8;
steamer Mohongo, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER BEATTY P. SMITH.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 29th, 1855;
Naval Academy, 1855-9; attached to steam-sloop Wyoming, Pacific Squadron,
1859-61 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, 1861 ; steam-sloop San Jacinto, East
Gulf Squadron, 1861-3 ; steamer Mackinaw, North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, October 25th, 1865;
steamer Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron, 1865-6; Naval Academy, 1866-7;
steamer Shamokin, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8; steamer Wasp, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER C. M. SCHOONMAKER.
. Born in New York, February 2d, 1839. Appointed from New York, Sep
tember 28th, 1854 ; Naval Academy, 1854-9 ; attached to steam-frigate Minne
sota, 1860-1; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861; steam gunboat
Sagamore, East Gulf Squadron, 1861-2 ; steam gunboat Octorara, West India
Squadron, 1862 ; steam gunboat Octorara, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-4; battle
of Mobile bay and capture of Fort Morgan ; steamer Augusta, 1865 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 24th, 1865 ; steamer Juniata, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1865-7 ; steamer Piscataqua, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER RODERICK S. McCOOK.
Born in Ohio, March 10th, 1839. Appointed from Ohio, September 21st,
1854; Naval Academy, 1854-9; attached to steam-frigate Minnesota, 1859-61;
commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31st, 1861 ; commanding steamer Stars
and Stripes, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; steamer Bienville,
North Atlantic Squadron, 1862-3; engagements with rebel batteries in the
James river and off Wilmington, N. C., Forts Hatteras, Clark, and Roanoke
Island ; iron-clad steamer Canonicus, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-5 ; commanded a battery of six howitzers at battle of Newbern, N. C. ;
both attacks on Fort Fisher ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March
3d, 1865; steamer Tioga, Gulf Squadron, 1865-6; Naval Academy, 1867;
steamer Kearsarge, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GILBERT C. WILTSE.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 20th, 1855;
Naval Academy, 1855-9; attaohed to frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron,
1859-60; frigate Congress, Home Squadron, 1860-2; took part in the battle
between the Congress and Cumberland and the rebel ram Merrimack, in Hampton
Roads, March 9th, 1862 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, April 19th, 1861 j steam-
sloop Dacotah, West India Squadron, 1862-3; South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1863-5 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 3d, 1865;

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steamer Agawam, Atlantio Squadron, 1866-7 ; apprentice-ship Sabine, 1868 ;
Navy Yard, New York, 1869 ; at present, attached to steamer Centaur, North
Atlantic Fleet.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOSEPH D. MARVIN.
Born in Ohio, October 2d, 1839. Appointed from Ohio, September 25th,
1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; promoted to Master, 1861 ; attached to
steam-frigate Niagara, 1861 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ;
Naval Academy, 1862-4; steamer Mohican, South Atlantio Squadron, 1864-5;
present at both attacks on Fort Fisher ; steamer Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron,
1865—6 ; .commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, April 12th, 1866 ; steam-
sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; ordnance duty,
Navy Yard, Washington, 1867; frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron,
1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JAMES O'KANE.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, October 30th, 1856; Naval
Academy, 1856-60 j promoted to Master 1861 ; attached to steam-frigate
Niagara, 1861 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, West Gulf Squadron, 1861-3 ; passage
of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries and capture of New
Orleans ; passage of Vicksburg ; was wounded by a musket-ball in the left leg
at passage of the forts below New Orleans. Commissioned as Lieutenant,
July 16th, 1862; steam gunboat Paul Jones, South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1863-5; engagements at Honey Hill, Tullifirmy Cross Roads, and on
the Charleston and Savannah railroad ; steamer Rhode Island, flag-ship West
India Squadron, 1865-6 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, April 12th,
1866; steamer Swatara, European Squadron, 1866-7; Naval Academy, 1868-9 y
at present, attached to steam-sloop Lancaster.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SIMEON P. GILLETT.
Born in Indiana, November 2d, 1840. Appointed from Indiana, September
20th, 1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; promoted to Master, 1861 ; attached to
steam-sloop Dacotah, 1861; Naval Academy, 1862; steamer State of Georgia,'
North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
July 16th, 1862; steamer Glaucus, North Atlantio Squadron, 1863-4; twice
engaged with Fort Fisher while chasing blockade-runners ; also with batteries ,
on Smith's Island, N. C, and with batteries above Fort Fisher, while on same/
duty in 1863 ; steamer Canandaigua, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1864-5 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, January 6th, 1866 ; Naval
Academy, 1867-9; at present, serving in the European Squadron.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER THOMAS L. SWANN.*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, December 8th, 1856 ; gradu
ated, June, 1860, and ordered to steam-frigate Niagara ; engaged on special ser
vice conveying home Japanese Embassy, 1860 ; returned home, April, 1861
and was ordered immediately to blockade Charleston, and from thence as flag
ship of Gulf Squadron ; active blockade duty on Gulf, 1861-2 ; present at the
engagements between Forts McCrea, Barrancas, Pensacola Navy Yard and Fort
Pickens, assisted by Niagara and Richmond, in 1861 ; was in boat expedition,
June, 1861, which cut out steamer Ariel from under the guns bf Fort Morgan.
Promoted to Master, August, 1861 ; returned home in Niagara, in June,
1862 ; attached to Naval Academy, Newport, from June 14th, 1862 to November,
1863 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1862 ; attached to steam-sloop
Brooklyn, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; was present at the battle
of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864, and bombardment of Fort Morgan, August
22d, 1864 ; the Brooklyn was riddled in the action of the 8th of August, and
returned North for repairs, September, 1864 ; joined the following month Ad
miral Porter's Fleet in Hampton Roads ; Executive of Brooklyn during both
attacks on Fort Fisher ; detached from Brooklyn, February, 1865, and ordered
to Naval Academy, Newport, R. I., and after making practice cruise with Mid
shipmen, was ordered as Executive-Officer of steamer Algonquin; detached from
Algonquin, March, 1866, and ordered to Navy Yard, Boston; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, May 2d, 1866, and in July ordered as Executive-Officer
of steam-sloop Mohican; detached for duty on the North Pacific Squadron;
detached from Mohican, October, 1868, and ordered to duty at Naval Academy,
where he is now on duty as Head of Department of Ethics and English Studies.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER J. CRITTENDEN WATSON.
Born in Kentucky, August 24th, 1842. Appointed from Kentucky, Sep
tember 29th, 1856; Naval Academy, 1856-60; promoted to Master, 1861;
attached to frigate Sabine, 1861 ; steam-sloop Hartford, West Gulf Squadron,
1862-4; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1862.
Bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and Chalmette
batteries, April, 1862 ; passage of Vicksburg batteries, June and July, 1862 ;
passage of Port Hudson, March 14th, 1863; passage of Grand Gulf, March
19th and 30th, 1863 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; was wounded
by a fragment of shell from rebel battery at Warrington.
Steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship
European Squadron, 1867-8 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European Squadron,
1868-9 ; at present, special duty, Philadelphia.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY B. ROBESON.
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, September 25th, 1856;
Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; promoted to Master, 1860 ; attached to steam-frigate

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Niagara, Blockading Squadron, 1860-1; engagement at Fort McRae, Novem
ber 23d, 1861; iron-clad steamer New Ironsides, special service, 1863; and South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864.
Engagement with the defences of Charleston, S. C, April 7th, 1863; com
manded a landing party from the New Ironsides in the assault and capture of
rebel works on the lower part of Morris Island, July 10th, 1863 ; various bom
bardments of Forts Wagner, Sumpter, Moultrie, and all the actions in which
the New Ironsides was engaged off Charleston.
Steam-frigate Colorado, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5.
Both assaults on Fort Fisher ; commanded a landing party from the Colorado
in the assault upon Fort Fisher, January 15th, 1865.
Steamer Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steam-sloop Piscataqua, Asiatic
Squadron, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ANTOINE R. McNAIR*
Born in Louisiana. Appointed from Missouri, September 22d, 1856 ; Naval
Academy, 1856-60 ; sloop-of-war Preble, 1857; sloop-of-war Plymouth, 1859;
Midshipman, June, 1860; sloop-of-war Seminole, 1860-2; off Charleston, South
Carolina, from August to September, 1861 ; in Potomac River, September and
October, 1861 ; engaged with batteries at Freestone Point, Virginia, September,
1861, and with batteries at Evansport, Virginia, October, 1861.
Promoted to Master, August, 1861; battle of Port Royal, South Carolina,
November 7th, 1861 (slight splinter wound in hand) ; boat operations in the
sounds of South Carolina and Georgia, November and December, 1861 ; boat
and other operations incident to the cutting off of Fort Pulaski, Georgia, Jan
uary, February and March, 1862 ; expedition to Fernandina, Florida, March,
1862; Skiddaway battery, Georgia, March, 1862; in Hampton Roads, Vir
ginia, in front of the ram Merrimac and consorts, April and until May 10th,
1862; engaged with battery at Sewell's Point, and capture of Norfolk, May, 1862.
Promoted to Lieutenant, July, 1862; sloop-of-war Powhatan, off Charleston,
S. C, 1862-3 ; engaged in attack on Fort Sumpter and defences of Charleston,
S. C, April, 1863 ; engaged in the capture of batteries on Morris Island, S. C,
July, 1863 (slight wound in head); engaged in the attack of the 8th of Sep
tember, 1863, on the defences of Charleston, S. C; Powhatan, West India
Squadron, from October, 1863 to June, 1864; in command of S. S. Gemsbok,
West Indies, from June to August, 1864; Powhatan, August to October, 1864;
frigate New Ironsides, 1864-5 ; engaged in attack on Fort Fisher, N. C, De
cember 24th and 25th, 1864; also in the capture of Fort Fisher and defences of
Cape Fear River, N. C., January 13th, 14th and 15th, 1865 ; in front of rebel
Tarns, James River, Va., Feb. and March, 1865 ; steamer Chicopee, Atlantic
Squadron, 1865-6; promoted to Lieutenant-Commander, July, 1866 ; Instructor
at Naval Academy, 1866-7 ; frigate Minnesota, special service, 1867-8 ; flag
ship Contoocook, W. I. Squad., '68; Fr. Franklin, F. S. European Squad., '69.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY D. H. MANLEY.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 25th,
1856; Naval Academy, 1856-60; promoted to Master, 1861; attached to
steam-sloop Brooklyn, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861.

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Reinforcement of Fort Pickens ; on board the Congress, in her fight with
the rebel iron-elad Merrimack, March 8th, 1862, and favorably mentioned in the
official report ofthe action.
Steam-sloop Canandaigua, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4.
Attack on Fort Sumpter, April, 1863 ; attack and capture of lower end of
Morris Island, July, 1863 ; numerous engagements during the siege of
Charleston. A
Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862; steamer State of Georgia;
South Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; school-ship Sabine, 1866 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steam-frigate Franklin, '
flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8; Hydrographical Office, Washington,
1869 ; at present, attached to steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship South Atlantic
Squadron.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM WHITEHEAD.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 23d,
1856; Naval Academy, 1856-60; promoted to Master, 1861; attached to
steam-sloop Dacotah, 1861 ; steam gunboat Sonoma, West India Squadron,
1861-2 ; North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, in York river, from March to
May, 1862; in James river, from May to July, 1862; commissioned as Lien-
tenant, July 16th, 1862; iron-clad steamer Passaic, South Atlantio Blockading
Squadron, 1863-5.
Engaged off Charleston, S. C, from July, 1863, to April, 1864 ; engageinfent
in Stono river, S. O, with batteries on James Island, July 3d to 6th, 1864; in
Togoda ereek, February 9th, 1865.
Attached to iron-clad Monadnock, on her passage from New York to San
Francisco, 1866; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866;
steamer Saco, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, South
Pacific Squadron, 1867-8; steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron,
1868-9 ; at present, attached to steam-frigate Powhatan, Pacific Squadron.,

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD A. WALKER.
Born in Massachusetts, December 31st, 1840. Appointed from same State,
September 26th, 1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; promoted to Master, 1861 ;
attached to steam-sloop Seminole, 1861 ; slight engagement with battery at
Freestone Point, on the Potomao river ; frigate Sabine, 1862 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862; steam gunboat Paul Jones, South Atlantio
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; steam gunboat Chippewa, South Atlantio Block
ading Squadron, 1863-5 ; numerous engagements in the inland waters of North
and South Carolina and Georgia; steamer Don, Atlantio Squadron, 1866;
steam-sloop Lackawanna, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-9; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; at present, on duty, at Hydrographi
cal Office, Washington, D. C.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WINFIELD S. SCHLEY.
Born in Maryland, 1839. Appointed from Maryland, September 20th, 1856 ;
Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; promoted to Master, 1861 ; attached to frigate Po
tomac, store-ship at Ship Island, 1861-2 ; steam gunboat Winona, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; engaged with afield battery near Port Hudson,
La., Dec. 14th, 1862 ; in all the engagements which led to the capture of Port
Hudson, from March 16th to July 9th, 1863 ; in one or two small skirmishes
in cutting out schooners ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; steam
gunboat Wateree, Pacific Squadron, 1864-6 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, July 25th, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SILAS CASEY, Jr.
Born in Rhode Island, September 11th, 1841. Appointed from New York,
September 25th, 1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; promoted to Master, 1861 ;
attached to steam-frigate Niagara, 1861 ; engagements with the batteries at
Pensacola, Florida, October 1861 ; steam gunboat Wissahickon, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; several engagements with Fort McAllister, Oc
tober, 1862 ; first attack on Charleston, under Admiral Du Pont; commissioned
as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862; steamer Quaker City, North Atlantic Blocka
ding Squadron, i863-5; attack on Fort Fisher, December, 1864; steamer
Winooski, Atlantic Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
July 25th, 1866; Naval Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM T. SAMPSON.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 24th, 1857;
Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; frigate Potomac, 1 861 ; promoted to Master, 1861 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; practice-ship John Adams,
1862-3 ; Naval Academy, 1864 ; iron-clad Patapsco, South Atlantio Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5; was in Patapsco when she was destroyed in Charleston
harbor, January 15th, 1865; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squad
ron, 1865-7; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; Naval
Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALFRED T. SNELL.
Born in New Hampshi-e. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 25th,
1857; Naval Academy, 1857-60; attached to steam-sloop Pawnee, Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; engagements with batteries in Potomac river
during June and October, 1861; Hatteras Inlet, August, 1861; Port Royal,
November 7th, 1861 ; expedition to Fernandina, Florida, and Stono river, S. C,
1862 ; St. Johns Bluff, September 1862 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July
16th, 1862; steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship Pacific Squadron, 1864; steamer

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Glaucus, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865; steam-sloop Ticonderoga,
European Squadron, 1866-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July
25th, 1866 ; at present, on duty at Hydrographical Office, Washington.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM F. STEWART.
Born in Pennsylvania, June 30th, 1840. Appointed from Pennsylvania,
September 23d, 1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; attached to steamer Union,
1861 ; sloop St. Louis, special service,- 1 862-5 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
July 16th, 1862 ; steamer Bienville, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, July 25th, 1866; steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8;
steam-sloop Oneida, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE P. RYAN.
Born in Massachusetts, May 8th, 1842. Appointed from Massachusetts,
September 30th, 1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; attached to brig Bainbridge,
1861 ; steam-sloop Sacramento, special service, 1862-5 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, July 16th, 1862 ; steamer Lenapee, Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1867-9 ;
at present, attached to frigate Sabine, special service.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE M. BACHE.
Born in District of Columbia, November 12th, 1840. Appointed from Penn
sylvania, November 19th, 1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; attached to sloop
Jamestown, Atlantic Squadron, 1861; steam-sloop Powhatan, Blockading
Squadron, i861-2 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862; commanding
iron-clad Cincinnati, Mississippi Squadron, 1862-3 ; attack on Haines' Bluff,
December 27th, 1862 ; engagement with batteries and sharp-shooters, March)
1863 ; engagement with Vicksburg batteries, May 27th, 1863, at which time
the Cincinnati was sunk.
Lieutenant Bache received the commendation of his commanding-officer, Rear
Admiral Porter, for his meritorious conduct in this affair ; and General Sher
man, who was an eye-witness of the engagement, testifies, that " the style in
which the Cincinnati engaged the battery elicited universal praise." Lieutenant
Bache also received a letter of thanks from the Navy Department.
Commanding steam gunboat Lexington, Mississippi Squadron, 1863-4; en
gagement with batteries and sharp-shooters at Blair's Landing, on Red river,
April 12th, 1864, and at Point of Rocks, La., April 26th, 1864; steam-sloop
Powhatan, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; both attacks on
Fort Fisher, and in the naval assault on the works ; wounded in the right
shoulder in the assault on Fort Fisher ; steam-sloop Sacramento, special cruise,
1865—7; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; Navy
Yard, Philadelphia, 1868 ; steam-sloop Juniata, European Squadron, 1869.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER BARTLETT J. CROMWELL.
Born in Georgia. Appointed from Nebraska, September 21st, 1857; Naval
Academy, 1857-60; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, 1861; steamer Quaker
City, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; steam gunboat Conemaugh,
South Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; attack on Morris Island and Battery
Gregg ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; steamer Proteus, East Gulf
Squadron, 1863-5; steamer Shawmut, Brazil Squadron, 1865-6 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; Naval Academy, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE W. HAYWARD.
Born in Ohio, Octoher 31st, 1838. Appointed from Wisconsin, Septem
ber 26th, 1857 ; Naval Academy 1857-60 ; attached to sloop Vandalia, 1861 ;
battle of Port Royal, November 7th, 1861 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1862-3; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862; steam gunboat
Sonoma, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; blockading Charleston
from December, 1863, to October, 1864 ; practice-ship Sabine, 1865-6 ; steamer
Mohican, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, July 25th, 1866 ; steamer Mohongo, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ;
at present, on duty at Naval Academy.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN W. PHILLIP.
Born in New York, August 26th, 1840. Appointed from New York, Sep
tember 22d, 1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; attached to sloop Marion, 1861;
commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; steam gunboat Chippewa, special
service, 1862-3 ; steam gunboat Chippewa, South Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1863-5 ; siege of Charleston, July 10th, 1863, to January 1st, 1864 ;
wounded in the leg by a splinter in Stono river, July 16th, 1863 ; steam-sloop
Wachusett, East. India Squadron, 1866-7 ; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship
Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8 ; at present, attached to steam-sloop Richmond, Euro
pean Fleet.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY F. PICKING.
Born in Pennsylvania, January, 1840. Appointed from same State, Septem
ber 28th, 1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; sinking of the privateer Petrel;
engagement with the rebel ram Merrimack and Sewell's Point batteries, 1862 ;
frigate St. Lawrence, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; Naval Academy, 1864 ; South Atlantic Blocka
ding Squadron, 1864-5 ; several skirmishes with batteries on Sullivan's Island
during 1864-5: steamer Swatara, West India Squadron, 1865-6; commissioned

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as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer Swatara, European Squad
ron, 1866-8; League Island, Pa., 1868-9; at present, on duty at Naval
Academy.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FREDERICK RODGERS.
Born in Maryland, October 3d, 1842. Appointed from Maryland, Septem
ber 25th, 1857; Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; attached to frigate Santee, 1861-2s
commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1862-3; engagement at Donaldsonville, La., October 4th, 1862; Port
Hudson, La., March 14th, 1863 ; steamer Grand Gulf, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1863—4; steamer Grand Gulf, West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866;
steamer Swatara, European Squadron, 1866-7 ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes,
1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS 0. DAVENPORT.
Born in Michigan, October 3d, 1842. Appointed from Michigan, Septem
ber 26th, 1856; Naval Academy, 1856-60; attached to brig Perry, 1861;
capture of privateer Savannah, 1861; steam gunboat Scioto, West Gulf Blocka
ding Squadron, 1862-3 ; bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, 1862; engagements with guerillas, Galveston, Texas, July 9th, 1863.
While temporarily in charge of the Scioto, Lieutenant Davenport went on
shore on the coast of Texas with two boats and twelve men, crossed the island
(three and a half miles in width,) and captured one schooner, with one hun
dred bales of cotton, and one sloop with thirty bales; not being able to bring
them out on account of the low water, he burned them. In preparing to leave he
was wounded by the accidental discharge of a rifle, the ball entering the right
knee, and passing out at the side of the knee, fracturing his left arm, and"
rendering amputation above the elbow necessary.
Naval Academy, 1864; frigate Sabine, 1865-6; steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 1866-7; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866;
steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Pacific Squadron, 1868 ; store-ship Onward, South
Pacific Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HORACE E. MULL AN.
Born in Maryland, April 8th, 1837. Appointed from Kansas, Septembor
25th, 1857; Naval Academy, 1857-60; attached to steamer Anacostia, Potomac
flotilla, 1861; engagement with batteries at Acquia Creek, Va., 1861; South
Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; battle of Port Royal, 1861 ; steam-
sloop Iroquois, North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; Naval Academy, 1864 ; steamer Nereus, convoy
service, West India Squadron. 1864; steamer Nereus, North Atlantic Block-

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ading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher, 1864-5 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron,
1866 j steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron, 1867 ; steam-sloop Pisca
taqua, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN F. McGLENSEY.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 28th,
1857; Naval Academy* 1857-60; Navy Yard, Washington, 1861; South At
lantio Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; battle of Port Royal, November 7th, 1861 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; East Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1864; steamer Mingo, South Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; several
engagements with the enemy; steam-sloop Monongahela, Atlantic Squadron,
1866-8; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; Naval
Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN WEIDMAN.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 27th,
1857 j Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; attached to steamer Flag,1861 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant, July 16th, 1862 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ;
steam-sloop Tuscarora, special service, 1863 ; steam gunboat Osceola, North
Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; bombardment of Fort Fisher, De
cember, 1864, and capture of Fort Fisher, January, 1865 ; bombardment of
two forts on Cape Fear river, January, 1865 ; steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil
Squadron, 1865-6 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 \
steam-sloop Ossipee, North Pacific Squadron, 1867 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, South
Pacific Squadron, 1868; steamer Nyack, South Pacific Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDGAR C. MERRIMAN.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 21st, 1857 ;
Naval Academy, 1857-60 ; resigned, 1860 ; re-entered the service as Acting-
Master, 1861 ; mortar flotilla, 1861-3 ; bombardment of forts Jackson and St.
Philip, April, 1862 ; commissioned as Lieutenant U. S. Navy, July 16th, 1862 ;
steamer Florida, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. 1864 ; Pacific Squadron,

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1865-6; commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer.
Wateree, South Pacific Squadron, 1867 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 1868 ¦
steam-sloop Pensacola, flag-ship North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; navigation
duty, Mare Island, Cal., 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN H. ROWLAND.
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentucky, September 21st, 1857;
Naval Academy, 1857-61 ; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; battle of Hatteras Inlet, 1861 ; battle of Port
Royal, 1861 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862 ; Naval Academy,
1864 ; sloop St. Marys, Pacific Squadron, 1865-6 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer Gettysburg, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ;
steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8; naval rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FREDERICK R. SMITH.
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, September 24th, 1858; Naval
Academy, 1858-61 ; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, West Gulf Blockading.
Squadron, 1861; steamer Flambeau, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1862-3 ; engagement with Fort McAllister ; boat expedition Bull's Island, S. C,
1863; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862; steam-sloop Ticonder^
oga, 1864 ; steamer Rhode Island, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5;
both attacks on Fort Fisher ; land assault on Fort Fisher ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron,
1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JAMES P. ROBERTSON.
Born in Pennsylvania, Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 8th,
1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-61 ; steam-frigate Wabash, Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1861-3; battle with Forts Hatteras and Clarke, 1861 ; battle of Port
Royal, 1861 ; siege and reduction of Fort Pulaski ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
August 1st, 1862 ; steamer Keystone State, North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1866-7;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer Frolio, Eu
ropean Squadron, 1868 ; sloop Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES L. HUNTINGTON.
Born in Illinois. Appointed from Illinois, September 29th, 1858 ; Naval
Academy, 1858-61; attached to steamer Cambridge, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862; steam-sloop Monongahela,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863.
Siege of Port Hudson, and frequently under the fire of the enemy's batteries;
several engagements with rebel batteries near Donaldsonville, Louisiana; at
tached to steam-sloop Oneida, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; par
ticipated in the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steamer Kansas,
Brazil Squadron, 1866-8; League Island, Pa., 1869-70.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER LOUIS KEMPFF.
Born in Illinois. Appointed from Illinois, September 21st, 1857; Naval
Academy, 1857-61; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1861-2.
Battle of Port Royal, November 7th, 1861.
In charge of a howitzer from the Wabash, and with the body of troops under
General Stevens in the expedition against Port Royal Ferry, January, 1862;
expedition which resulted in the capture of Fernandina and Jacksonville, Flor
ida, and St. Mary's, Georgia.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862; West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1863; supply-steamer Connecticut, 1864; steamer Suwanee, South
Pacific Squadron, 1865-7.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; apprentice-ship
Portsmouth, 1868; receiving-ship Independence, Mare Island, California,
1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SMITH W. NICHOLS.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 25th,
1858; Naval Academy, 1858-61; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862 ; school-ship Macedonian,
1863; attached to steam-sloop Shenandoah, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5; bombardment of Fort Fisher, N. C, December, 1864; cap-

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ture of Fort Fisher, January, 1865 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander
July 25th, 1866; steam-sloop Shenandoah, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-9; special
duty, Boston, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ARCHIBALD N. MITCHELL.
Born in Illinois. Appointed from Illinois, September 27th, 1858 ; Naval
Academy, 1858-61 ; attached to sloop Savannah, Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1861-2 ; Hilton Head, 1861 ; Stono river, 1862 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
August 1st, 1862 ; steamer Pocahontas, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863;
Galveston and Texas Coast, 1863 ; steam gunboat Mattabessett, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; engagement with rebel ram Albemarle, 1864;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steamer Wasp, Brazil
Squadron, 1866-8 ; apprentice-ship Saratoga, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS J. HIGGINSON.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from same State, September 21st, 1857;
Naval Academy, 1857-61; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; capture of rebel privateer Judith at Pensacola,
Florida, 1861; bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette bat
teries, and capture of New Orleans, April, 1862 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
August 1st, 1862 ; steamer Vixen, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862;
steam-sloop Powhatan, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; bombard
ment of Fort Sumpter; Naval Academy, 1864-5; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, July 25th, 1866; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic Squad
ron, 1866-8; steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN McFARLAND*
Born in Penna. Appointed from same State, Sept. 21st, 1857 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1857-61; attached to S. S. Iroquois, W. G. B. S., 1862; Forts Jackson
and St. Philip, and engagements attendant on capture of New Orleans ; hauled
down first rebel flag and hoisted first U. S. flag since war at New Orleans; both
attacks on Vicksburg; ram Arkansas; attack on Grand Gulf; Lieutenant, Aug.
1st, 1862; steam-gunboat Chocura, N. A. B. S., 1863-4; under fire several
times at Forts Fisher and Caswell ; Executive-Officer Galushia, West Indies,
1864-5; ship nearly lost by fire, Cape Hay tien, Summer of .1864, three men
burned to death; Lieut. Commander, July 25th, 1866; Shamokin, Brazils, 1866;
Juniata, to Coast of Africa and back, 1867; Monocacy, Asiatic Squadron,
1867-9; Typhoon, China Sea, Sept., 1868, barometer 27.85.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE W. SUMNER.
Born in Michigan. Appointed from Kentucky, September 20th, 1858;
Naval Academy, 1858-61; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; mortar flotilla, 1862 ; bombardment of Forts Jack
son and St. Philip, April, 1862; Vicksburg batteries, 1862; commissioned as
Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4;
steamer Massasoit, North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steamer De
Soto, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July
25th, 1866; steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER BENJAMIN T. DAY*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 20th, 1858; Naval Academy,
1858-61 ; attached to steamer New London, W.G. B. Squadron, 1862-3 ; wounded
in a night engagement at Madam Winchester's Plantation, July 9th, 1863 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862; steam-frigate Colorado, W. G.B.
Squadron, 1863-4 ; steamer Saugus, N. A. B. Squadron, 1864-5 ; engagements
with Howlett House Batteries in James River ; attacks on Fort Fisher ; steam-
sloop Tuscarora, Pacific Squadron, 1866-8; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, July 25, 1866 ; steam-sloop Contocook, flag-ship N. A. Squadron, 1868-9,

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER STEPHEN A. McCARTY.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 20th, 1856 ;
Naval Academy,/1856-61 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862;
Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1862; steam-sloop Lackawanna, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Wyoming,
Asiatic Squadron, 1866-7 ; steamer Monocacy, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY C. TALLMAN.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 24th, 1857 ;
Naval Academy, 1857-61 ; attached to steam-sloop Wachusett, James river
flotilla, 1862, and later in the same year attached to West India Squadron ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862 ; South Atlantio Blockading
Squadron, 1863-4 ; engagements with the forts in Charleston harbor, November,
1863, on the occasion of the grounding of the iron-clad Lehigh ; engagement '
with Fort Moultrie, May 16th, 1864; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1864-5 ; both attacks on JPort Fisher ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship Brazil
Squadron, 1866-7; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866;
apprentice-ship Sabine, 1868; steamer Yantic, North Atlantio Squadron,
1868-9.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JAMES D. GRAHAM.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Illinois, September 25th
1857; Naval Academy, 1857-61; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2;
Forts Jackson and St. Philip ; two attacks on Vicksburg ; James river flotilla
1862 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, August 1st, 1862 ; sloop Jamestown, East
India Squadron, 1862-5 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th,
1866; steamer Augusta, special service, 1866-7; steam-sloop Powhatan, flag
ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8; receiving-ship Boston, 1868-9; steam-
sloop Juniata, European Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM R. BRIDGMAN.
Born in Iowa. Appointed from Iowa, November 29th, 1859 ; Naval Acade
my, 1859-61 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; passage of Forts
Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans, April,
1862; Arkansas Post, 1862 ; promoted to Ensign, September 10th, 1862 ; most
of the naval fights about Vicksburg, ending in the capture of the city, July,
1863; steam-frigate Niagara, special service, 1864 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
February 22d, 1864 ; steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steam-frigate Min
nesota, special service, 1868 ; steam-sloop Contocook, flag-ship North Atlantio
Squadron, 1868-9 ; frigate Sabine, special cruise, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALEXANDER H. McCORMICK.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Texas, September 21st, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to steamer Norwich, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1862-3 ; bombardment of Fort Pulaski, 1862 ; fort in Wingaw
Bay, S. C, 1862 ; second occupation of Jacksonville, Florida, 1863 ; promoted
to Ensign, December 22d, 1862; steam-sloop Iroquois, special service, 1864-5;
commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864 ; Naval Academy, 1866-9 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steam-sloop Lancas
ter, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY L. JOHNSON.
Born in Vermont. Appointed from same State, September 30th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to steam-sloop Mississippi, 1861 ; steam-
sloop Tuscarora, special service, 1862-3 ; promoted to Ensign; September 24th,
1863 ; South Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, February 22d, 1864; steamer Nipsic, Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; Naval Academy,
1866-9 ; steam-sloop Juniata, European Squadron, 1869.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALBERT S. BARKER*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from that State, October 25th, 1859 ; at
Naval Academy, 1859 to '61; in steamer Mississippi, W. G. B. Squadron,
1861, '62 and '63 ; bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans, 1862; in attack on and at
tempted passage of Port Hudson, March 14, 1863, his ship was destroyed and
he joined the steam-sloop Monogahela, in her taking part in the siege of Port
Hudson, in the fight below Donaldsonville, and guerilla fighting generally until
the river was clear ; promoted to Ensign, February 22d, 1862 ; in steam-frigate
Niagara, special service, 1864; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d,
1864 ; Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July
25th, 1866; in flag-ship Guerriere, S.A. S., 1867-8-9; steamer Terror, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER MORTON W. SANDERS.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 25th,
1859; Naval Academy, 1859-61; attached to sloop Vincennes, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; engagement with rebel fleet at S. W. Pass,
Mississippi river, October, 1861 ; promoted to Ensign, November 22d, 1862 ;
Mississippi Squadron, 1864 ; Red River Expedition, 1864 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, February 22d, 1864 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ;
bombardment of Fort Fisher, December, 1864 ; capture of Fort Fisher, January,
1865; Pacific Squadron, 1865-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
July 25th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Juniata, European Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES S. COTTON.
Born in Wisconsin. Appointed from Wisconsin, September 23d, 1858;
Naval Academy, 1858-61 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, North Atlantio
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; sinking of the privateer Petrel ; battle with the
rebel ram Merrimack, March 8th, 1862 ; promoted to Ensign, November 11th,
1862 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; steam-sloop Iroquois, special
Service, 1863-4 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864 ; steam-sloop
Oneida, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, Au
gust 5th, 1864; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866;
steam-sloop Shenandoah, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9 ; Naval Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES F. BLAKE.
Born in Massachusetts. Appoinfcd from Massachusetts, October 26th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to steam-sloop Mississippi, Atlantic Coast,
1861 ; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron, 1862-3 ; promoted to
Ensign, June 26th, 1863; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; battle of
Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d,
1864; steam-sloop Powhatan, Pacific Squadron, 1865-8; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; Naval Academy, 1868-9.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN R. BARTLETT.
Born in New York. Appointed from Rhode Island, November 25th, 1859 •
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1861-2 ; bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans ; attack on Vicksburg
June, 1862 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; pro
moted to Ensign, September 8th, 1863 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron
1863-4; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864; steam-sloop Sus
quehanna, North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; bombardment of
Fort Fisher, December, 1864; on shore with assaulting, party at capture of Fort
Fisher, January, 1865 ; steam-sloop Susquehanna, special service, 1866 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer Nipsic, Atlantio
Squadron, 1866-7; Naval Academy, 1867-9; frigate Sabine, special cruise,
1869. *

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER OLIVER A. BATCHELLER.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, November 25th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to sloop ViBcennes, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1861-2; promoted to Ensign, November 22d, 1862; steam-sloop
Mississippi, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; attack on Port Hudson,
March 14th and 15th, 1863 ; siege of Port Hudson ; West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5 ; battle of Mobile bay, August 5th, 1864 ; siege of Fort
Morgan; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864; steamer Frolic,
European Squadron, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th,
1866; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867; steam-sloop
Piscataqua, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SILAS W. TERRY.
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentucky, September 28th, 1858;
Naval Academy, 1858-61; attached to sloop Dale, Atlantic Coast, 1861-2;
steamers Wabash and Alabama, engagement with rebels on the South Edisto
river in 1862; promoted to Ensign, September 16th, 1862; North Atlantio
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864;
Mississippi Squadron, 1864; Red River Expedition, 1864.
While in temporary command of a naval transport, had an engagement with
a rebel battery, supported by a large force of infantry. Lieutenant Terry was,
upon recommendation of Rear Admiral Porter, advanced several numbers in his
grade for his gallantry upon this occasion.
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; battles with Forts Fisher and
Anderson and other rebel batteries near Wilmington, N. C. j was on the James
river and present at the fall of Richmond ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1865-8;
receiving-ship, New York, 1868-9 ; at present, on duty at Naval Academy.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER MERRILL MILLER.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, November 28th, 1859 ; Naval Acad
emy 1859-61; attached to frigate Potomac, Atlantic Coast, 1861-2 ; promoted
to Ensign, October 13th, 1862 ; Mississippi Squadron,, 1862-3 ; battle of Ar
kansas Post, 1863 ; Haines' Bluff, 1863 ; in charge of mortar-boats, at siege of
Vicksburg, for twenty-three days, in 1863 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, Febru
ary 22d, 1864 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; expedition up '
James river, 1864 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher ; attached to iron-clad Monadnock
on her passage from New York to San Francisco, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1867-9 ; steam-sloop
Lancaster, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FREDERICK J. NAILE.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 27th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Coast,
1861 ; sinking of privateer Petrel, 1861 ; steam-sloop Oneida, Western Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862; attack on and passage of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip and Chalmette batteries ; capture of New Orleans ; bombardment and
passage of Vicksburg batteries twice ; promoted to Ensign, 1862; Mississippi
Squadron, 1863-5 ; Red River Expedition, 1864 ; co-operation of the Mississippi
Squadron, on the Cumberland and Tennessee, with the army under General
Thomas, in the defeat of the rebel General Hood ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
February 22d, 1864; steamer Lenapee, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steamer Penobscot, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FREDERICK PEARSON.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 21st, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Coast,
1861 ; sinking of privateer Petrel ; steam-frigate Wabash, flag-ship South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; attached to the naval howitzer battery which
accompanied the army in the operations against the enemy's batteries on Coo-
saw creek, S. C. ; attached to the rifle battery at the reduction of Fort Pulaski,
at the occupation of Fernandina, Florida, and the engagement the day after
between the Ottawa and the enemy up the St. Marys river ; attached to the navy
howitzers at the battle of Pocotaligo ; promoted to Ensign, September 16th,
1862 ; sloop Jamestown, East India Squadron, 1864-5; commanded a chartered
steamer, and co-operated with vessels of the English, French, and Dutch fleet
at Simonasaki, Straits of Japan, 1864; commissioned as Lieutenant, February
22d, 1864 ; Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
July 25th, 1866 ; steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8 j
practice-ship Macedonian, 1868-9.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD N. KELLOGG.
Born in Maine. Appointed from Illinois, September 24th, 1858 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1858-61 ; attached to sloop Marion, Atlantic Coast, 1861; steam gunboat
Sonoma, West India Squadron, 1862-3 ; promoted to Ensign, September 8th,
1863; steam-sloop Oneida, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of
Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864 ;
steamer Mackinaw, Atlantic Coast, 1866-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, July 25th, 1866; apprentice-ship Portsmouth, 1868; store-ship Guard,
European Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER RICHARD S. CHEW.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, No
vember 22d, 1859; Naval Academy, 1859-61; attached to steam-frigate
Roanoke, N. A. B. Squadron, 1861 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, N. A. B. Squad
ron, 1862-3; battle with rebel ram Merrimack, March,8th and 9th, 1862 — slightly
wounded in the first day's fight; promoted to Ensign, Decemher 13th, 1862;
steamer Sacramento, N. A. B. Squadron, 1863 ; steam-frigate Niagara, special
service, 1864; commissioned as Lieutenant, Feb. 22d, 1864; West Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864; steam-sloop
Shenandoah, Asiatic Squadron, 1865-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Command
er, July 25th, 1866; at present, on duty at Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN J. READ.
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, September 21st, 1858,;
Naval Academy, 1858-61; Atlantic Squadron, 1861; steam-sloop Hartford,
flag-ship West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; in all of Farragut's battles,
from the South West Pass of the Mississippi river to Vicksburg, 1862-3 ; pro
moted to Ensign, November 22d, 1862 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-4; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864; steamer R. R.
Cuyler, North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steamer De Soto, At
lantic Squadron, 1865-6 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th,
1866 ; steamer Rhode Island, Atlantic Squadron, 1867 ; steam-sloop Susque
hanna, flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 18.69.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WALTER ABBOTT.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Rhode Island, November 29th, 1859 j
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Blocka
ding Squadron, 1861-2 ; bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans ; promoted to Ensign,
November 22d, 1862; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863; iron-clad

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steamer New Ironsides, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864; sohool-ship Sabine, 1865-6;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Sacra
mento, special cruise, 1867 ; steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron,
1868--9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWIN T. WOODWARD*
Born in Vermont. Appointed, November 21st, 1859; Naval Academy,
1859-61 ; steam-sloop Mississippi, 1861 ; attached to garrison of Ship Island,
November 4th, 1861 to January 24th, 1862 ; gunboat Sciota, 1862 ; attack on
and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture
of New Orleans ; passage of the Mississippi river to Vicksburg ; two attacks on
Vicksburg, 1862, under Admiral Farragut — passing the batteries both times ;
engagement with rebel ram Arkansas, above Vicksburg, 1862; sloop Cyane,
Pacific Squadron, 1863-4 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, Feb. 22d> 1864 ; steam-
frigate Minnesota, N. A. B. Squadron, 1864-5; two attacks on Fort Fisher (in
landing party) ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, European Squadron, 1865-6 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1866-7 ;
steam-frigate Guerriere, flag-ship S. A. Squadron, 1867-8 ; steamers Quinnebaug
and Kansas, 1869; ordnance duty, Navy Yard. New York, 1869-70.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY B. RUMSEY.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, October 25th, 1859 ; Naval
Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Coast, 1861 ;
steamer Clifton, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; Forts Jackson and
St. Philip and Vicksburg, capture of 'Galveston, October, 1862; Matagorda,
Texas, November, 1862 ; re-capture of Galveston, January 1st, 1863 ; promoted
to Ensign, February 24th, 1863 ; iron-clad steamer Roanoke, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22d,
1864 ; frigate New Ironsides,- North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ;
both attacks on Fort Fisher; steam -sloop Monongahela, Atlantic Squadron,
1866-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-sloop
Guerriere, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE W. WOOD.
Born in Ireland. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 22d, 1859
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Coast, 1861; destruc
tion of privateer Petrel; steam-sloop Oneida, W. G. B. Squadron, 1862,
through all the operations With Admiral Farragut on the Mississippi, from the
attack on the forts below New Orleans until the siege of Vicksburg was raised
m 1862 ; commanded a howitzer and landing party that forced the surrender of
Natchez, May 12th, 1862 ; promoted to Ensign, February 24th, 1863 ; steam-
sloop Dacotah, North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, February 22d, 1864 ; iron-clad Roanoke, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5.

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On February 5th, 1865, commanded a boat expedition consisting of ten boats
and one hundred and fifty men, proceeded up Pagan creek, a tributary to the
James, and captured a torpedo-boat and torpedo, filled, and ready for use.
Steamer Vanderbilt, special service, 1866-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer Suwanee, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-
sloop Cyane, North Pacific Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES W. TRACY.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from same State, October 27th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Coast,
1861 ; destruction of privateer Petrel; steam gunboat Octorara, Mississippi
Squadron, 1862-3 ; Vicksburg, July, 1862 ; promoted to Ensign, December
10th, 1862; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; at Charleston,
April 1863, and other actions during the siege ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
February 22d, 1864 ; Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Plymouth, European Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GOUVERNEUR K. HASWELL.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, November 25th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to steam-frigate Roanoke, North Atlantio
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; engagement with rebel ram Merrimack and
Sewell's Point batteries, March, 1862 ; steam-sloop Adirondack, West India
Squadron, 1862 ; promoted to Ensign, October 7th, 1862 ; steam-frigate Colo
rado, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
February 22d, 1864; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; steamer Van
derbilt, special cruise, 1866-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July
25th, 1866; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1868; receiving-ship,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD E. PREBLE.
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, November 29th, 1859; Naval
Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to ste'am-sloop Mississippi, W. G. B. Squadron,,
1861 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, special service, 1862-3 ; promoted to Ensign,
August 9, 1864 ; steam-sloop Susquehanna, North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher ; commissioned as Lieutenant, Febru
ary 22d, 1864; steam-sloop Susquehanna, special service, 1866-7; commissioned
as Lieutenant Commander, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, special
cruise, 1868 ; Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWIN M. SHEPARD*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, November 24th, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to sloop Vincennes, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1861-2; passes of the Mississippi river; promoted to Ensign, No
vember 22d, 1862; steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1862-3 ; remained on board the Mississippi until her destruction ; ordered
thence to gunboat Essex; remained on board during the siege of Port Hudson,
and served with naval battery of 19 guns on shore with the army for several
weeks; received a commendatory letter from General Arnold, General Banks'
Chief of Artillery ; attached to monitor Mahopac, during the siege of Charles
ton, S. Cj and in James River; steam-sloop Wachusett, special service, 1864-5 ;
capture of rebel privateer Florida, October 7th, 1864; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, February 22d, 1864 ; steamer Vanderbilt, June, 1865, during the trial-
trip ofthe Dictator; steamer Tacony, Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, July 25th, 1866; steamer Osceola, Atlantic Squad
ron, 1867 ; apprentice-ship Saratoga, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES McGREGOR.*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Illinois, Sept. 21st, 1860; Naval Academy,
1860-3 ; while on leave of absence in 1862, volunteered against Kirby
Smith; was assigned to duty, first with the army, and afterward transferred to
the gunboat flotilla, under Commodore Duble, of the gunboat service, and
received commendations from that officer and General Wallace, for services
rendered; was appointed Acting Assistant Professor at the Naval Academy,
in 1862.
Promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863; steam-gunboat Tuscarora, North At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; steam-sloop Juniata. North and South
Atlantic Blockading Squadrons, 1864-5.
Both attacks on Fort Fisher, and land assault on same ; received commenda
tion of Captain W. R. Taylor ; was in the expedition to Bull's Bay, at the cap
ture of Charleston, South Carolina; steam-sloop Juniata, Brazil Squadron,
1865-7. Promoted to Master, November 10th, 1865.
; Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 25th, 1866.
Flag-ship Powhatan, South Pacific Squadron, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868.
Flag-ship Powhatan, West India Squadron, 1869; Naval Observatory,

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER IRA HARRIS, Jr.

Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 22d, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to
steamer Rhode Island, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both at-

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tacks on Fort Fisher and assault on same ; wounded by a rifle-ball in the leg, in
naval assault on Fort Fisher; steam-frigate Colorado, European Squadron,
1865-7; commissioned as Lieutenant, J^ily 25th, 1866 ; steam-frigate Franklin,
flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
March 12th, 1868 ; sloop Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER DOUGLAS R. CASSEL.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 29th, 1860 ; Naval Aoad-
emy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; served in W. G. B.
Squadron, 1864 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; wounded during the
passage of the forts in Mobile Bay ; attached to naval battery on shore during
the bombardment of Fort Morgan, August, 1864; steam-sloop Brooklyn, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher, and naval
assault on the same ; steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, July 25th, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Richmond, European Squadron,
1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ROBLEY D. EVANS.
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Utah, September 20th, 1860 ; Naval
Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to steam-
sloop Powhatan, West India Squadron, 1864; North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5; both attacks on Fort Fisher, January 15th, 1865; in the
land attack on Fort Fisher received, two severe wounds from rifle shots ; Navy
Yard, Philadelphia, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 25th, 1866 ; ord
nance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1867 ; steam-sloop Pisoataqua, flag-ship
Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March
12th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE W. COFFIN.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 20th,
1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; steam-
sloop Ticonderoga, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; both attacks
on Fort Fisher. Wounded by a minie ball in right leg at land assault on
Fort Fisher; Steamer Shawmut, Brazil Squadron, 1866; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, July 25th, 1866 ; steam-frigate Franklin, European Squadron, 1867-8 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; Naval Academy,
1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY GLASS.
Born in Kentuoky. Appointed from Illinois, September 24th, I860; Naval
Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, September 8th, 1863; attached to steam-

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sloop Canandaigua, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; all the
general engagements with forts and batteries in Charleston harbor, from July
8th to September 28th, 1863 ; engagements with batteries in Stono river, S. C,
December 28th, 1863, and July 3d and 11th, 1864 ; engagements with batteries
in North Edisto river, February 9th, 1865; capture of Georgetown, S. O,
February 5th, 1865 ; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1865 ; steam-sloop
Powhatan, Pacific Squadron, 1865-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, July 25th,
1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop
Tuscarora, North Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ERNEST J. DICHMAN.
Born in Wisconsin. Appointed from Wisconsin, September 20th, 1860;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to
Steam-sloop Canandaigua, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; Fort
Wagner, August, 1863; Stono river, S. C, July, 1864; several engagements
With defences of Charleston harbor, from July, 1863, to February, 1865 ; protect
ing working party while building battery " Swamp Angel," from an attack of the
enemy's boats, with two launches under his command, August 1863; capture of
Montgomery, Ga., 1864; various operations with torpedoes; engaged in scout
and picket duty at Charleston and other points on the coast; promoted to Master,
November 10th, 1865 ; Bteam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1866-8 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, May 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European Squad
ron, 1868-9 ; at present, on duty at Naval Observatory, Washington.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM W. MACLAY.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 4th, 1860 ; Naval
Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop
Ticonderoga, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort
Fisher; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1865; steam-sloop Shenandoah,
Asiatic Squadron, 1865-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; on duty at Naval
Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER PHILIP H. COOPER.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 28th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to -
steam-sloop Richmond, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of
Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; promoted to Master, November, 1865 ; steam-
sloop Powhatan, South Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
November 10th, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1867-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; frigate Sabine, special cruise, 1869.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY C. TAYLOR.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Ohio, September 28th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Shenandoah, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; steam-
sloop Iroquois, special service, 1864-5 ; promoted to Master, November 10th,
1865; steamer Rhode Island, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; commissioned
as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866; steam-sloop Susquehanna, flag-ship North
Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March
12th, 1868 ; store-ship Guard, European Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALLEN D. BROWN.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 26th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863; attached to
steam-sloop Iroquois, special service, 1863—4 ; promoted to Master, November
10th, 1865 ; steamer Rhode Island, North Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866; steamer Unadilla, Asiatic
Squadron, 1867-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ;
Naval Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER MARSTON NILES.
Born in New York. Appointed from New Jersey, November 25th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1860 ; attached to
steam-sloop Sacramento, special cruise, 1863-5; promoted to Master, November
10th, 1865 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1866 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866; steam-sloop Susquehanna,
flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1868 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, March 12th, 1863 ; steam -sloop Contocook, flag-ship North Atlantic
Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE H. WADLEIGH
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, September 26th,
1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863;
attached to steam-sloop Lackawanna, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5;
battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1834 ; promoted to Master, November 10th,
1865 ; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1865-9 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
March 12th, 1868; Naval Academy, 1869.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER A. S. CROWNINSHIELD.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 21st, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Ticonderoga, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both"
attacks on Fort Fisher; steam-sloop Hartford, East India Squadron, 1865-8 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, March 10th, 1868; steam-sloop Richmond, European
Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES H. CRAVEN.
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, September 20th, i860; Naval
Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863; serving in South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; occupation of Morris Island, July,
. 1863; in command of Fifth Division at assault on Fort Sumpter, September
7th, 1863; attacks on rebel batteries in Stono river, July 3d and 7th, 1864;
joint expedition of naval and military forces to cut Charleston and Savannah
Railroad, August and September, 1864 ; in charge of launch from Housatonic,
stationed inside of Morris Island, to prevent rebel communication ; while on
this duty, captured Major Walley, of the rebel army, who was in a boat, with
a surgeon and the crew ; made attack with the army on Forts Gregg and Wagner,
and at the evacuation of Morris Island captured three boats with eighty men
and officers in them ; performed duty in naval battery on Morris Island ; was
attached to Housatonic when she was blown up, February 17th, 1864 ; steam-
frigate Colorado, European Squadron, 1865-7 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
November 10th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Wampanoag, 1868 ; commisioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868; steam-sloop Powhatan, Pacific Squad
ron, 1868-9 ; store-ship Onward, South Pacific Squadron, 18Q9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANK WILDES.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 21st,
1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached
to steam-sloop Lackawanna, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; Mobile
Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; siege of Mobile, April, 1865 ; attached to iron-clad
Monadnock, on her passage from New York to San Francisco, 1866 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; steamer Vanderbilt, North Pacific
Squadron, 1867 ; steamer Suwanee, North Pacific Squadron, 1868; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868; receiving-ship, Boston, 1868;
steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1869.

' LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM W. HENDRICKSON.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Ohio, September 26th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to

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steam-sloop Brooklyn, 1864; Pacific Squadron, 1864-7; commissioned as
Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; apprentice-ship Portsmouth, 1867-8 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Plymouth,
European Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER AUGUSTUS G. KELLOGG.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Illinois, September 21st, 1860; Naval Acad
emy, 1860 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to steamer Rhode
Island, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; steam-sloop Powhatan,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher ;
promoted to Master, November 10th, 1865 ; steam-sloop Shenandoah, East India
Squadron, 1865-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; steam gunboat Aroos
took, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9 ; iron-clad duty, New Orleans, 1869,

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOSEPH B. COGHLAN.
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Illinois, September 27th, 1860 ; Naval
School, 1860-3 ; promoted" to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to steam-frigate
Niagara, special service, 1864-5 ; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1865 ;
steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1865-8 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Richmond, European Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JAMES H. SANDS.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Maryland, November 22d,
1859; Naval Academy, 1859-63 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863; at
tached to steam-sloop Tuscarora, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ;
steam-sloop Shenandoah, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both
attacks on Fort Fisher ; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship East India Squadron,
1865-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Richmond, European
Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER YATES STIRLING.
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, September 27th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, May 28th, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Shenandoah, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; both
attacks on Fort Fisher; steamer Mohongo, Pacific Squadron, 1865-7; com
missioned as Lieutenant, November 10th, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Contocook, flag-ship North Atlan
tic Squadron, 1868-9.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM C. WISE.*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Kentucky, September 29th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; attached to
frigate New Ironsides, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; besides
being on constant picket duty and in several skirmishes, took part in the famous
Jacksonville Expedition ; steam-frigate Minnesota, North Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher ; ordered to command of the
flag-ship Malvern, Admiral D. D. Porter, and commanded her until the fall of
Richmond, participating in the bombardment and capture of the various forts
on Cape Fear river; with the Malvern in James river, participated in the final
movements against Richmond, the Malvern being the first vessel to anchor off
the city; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1865-6; steamer
Wachu-jett, 1866-8; landed one hundred men, with Lieutenant-Commander J.
W. Phillips, marched six miles into the interior, surprised and captured a band
of robbers, bringing in twenty, prisoners and a number of arms ; commissioned
as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
March 12th, 1868; practice-ship Dale, 1869; steamer Miantonomoh, New
York, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER LEWIS CLARKE.*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, September 24th, 1861 ;
Naval Academy, 1861-3; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; steam-sloop
Richmond, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay,
August 5th, 1864 ; attack on Spanish Fort, Alabama river, and capture of Mo
bile, April, 1865 ; burned by explosion of torpedo, off Mobile Point ; steam-
sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1865-8; promoted to Master, May
10th, 1866; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 1st, 1867; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; receiving-shin, Boston, 1868 : Naval
Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER PURNELL F. HARRINGTON.*
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware, Sept. 20, 1861 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1861-3; promoted to Ensign, Oct. 1st, 1863; attached to steam-sloop
Ticonderoga, 1863 ; attached to steam-sLoop Monongahela, W. G. B. Squadron,
1864-5; battle of Mobile Bay, Aug. 5th, 1864, and in all the operations
against the rebel defences at the entrance of Mobile Bay during the Summer of
1864; steam-sloop Monongahela, N. A. Squadron, 1865-8; while attached to
Monongahela, that vessel was thrown ashore by a tidal wave, at St. Croix, Danish
West Indies, Nov. 18th, 1867; promoted to Master, May 10th, 1866; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, February. 21st, 1867; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, March 12th, 1868 • Naval Academy, as Instructor of Mathematics,
1868-70.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE HOFF.
Born in Pennyslvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 24th, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to

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steam-frigate Niagara, 1864; East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steamer
Shawmut, Brazil Squadron, 1865-6; promoted to Master, May 10th, 1866;
steam-frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8; commissioned as
Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander
March 12th,1868 ; Naval Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM K. WHEELER.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, December 2d, 1859;
Naval Academy, 1859-63; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; attached to
steam-sloop Iroquois, special service, 1864-5 ; steam-sloop Rhode Island, flag
ship West India Squadron, 1865-6; promoted to Master, May 10th, 1866;
steamer Huron, South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,.
February 21st, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th,
1868 ; steamer Kansas, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM S. DANA*.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 25th, 1859 ;;
Naval Academy, 1859-63 ; promoted to Ensign, Oct. 1st, 1863 ; steam-frigate?
Niagara, 1863 ; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ehip W. G. B. Squadron, 1863-4;-
received the thanks of Rear Admiral Farragut, in General Order No. 9, dated
July 6th, 1864; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864; steam-sloop Lan
caster, flag-ship Pacific Squadron, 1865; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron,\
1865-6; t promoted to Master, May 10th, 1866; steamer Aroostook, Asiatic
Squadron, 1867-8; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868; steam-sloop Shenan
doah, Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9 ; steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER NICOLL LUDLOW.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 28th, 1859; Na
val Academy, 1859-63 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Wachusett, Brazil Squadron, 1863-5; attached to iron-clad Monad
nock, on her passage from New York to San Francisco, in 1866 ; promoted to
Master, November 10th, 1866; steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-9;
commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 12th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS A. COOK.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 20th,
1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; at-

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tached to steam-sloop Seminole, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5;
gteamer Vanderbilt, North Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ; promoted to Master,
November 10th, 1866; North Atlantio Squadron, 1867-8; commissioned as
Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
March 12th, 1868 ; Naval Academy, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER COLBY M. CHESTER.
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, October 31st, 1859 ;
Naval Academy, 1859-63 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Richmond, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay,
August 5th, 1864 ; operations against Mobile ; steam-"frigate Powhatan, South
Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1866 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867; steamer Gettysburg, North At
lantic Squadron, 1868-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th,
1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ARTHUR H. WRIGHT.*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 20th, 1860 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1860-3; steamer Richmond, W. G. B. Squadron, 1863-4; battle of Mo
bile Bay, Aug. 5th, 1864 ; at the siege of Mobile, was attached to steamer Mil
waukee, till that vessel was destroyed by a torpedo; transferred to steamer
Osage, which being also destroyed by a torpedo, was ordered to the steamer Cin
cinnati, S. A. B. Squadron, 1865; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squad
ron, 1865-8 ; promoted to Master, Nov. 10th, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieuten
ant, Feb. 21st, 1867; receiving-ship, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868-9;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868; receiving-ship,
New York, 1869; Naval Academy, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES E. CLARK.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 29th, 1860 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; attached to steam-
sloop Ossipee, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th,
1864 ; bombardment of Fort Morgan ; steam-frigate Vanderbilt, Pacific Squad
ron, 1865-7 ; promoted to Master, November iOth, 1866 ; steamer Suwanee,
North Pacific Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21st,
1867; receiving-ship, Portsmouth, N. H., 1868-9; commissioned as Lieuten
ant-Commander, March 12th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES J. BARCLAY.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 21st, 1860 ;
Naval Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign,. October 1st, 1863; steam-sloop

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Wachusett, Brazil Squadron, 1863-4 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, European
Squadron, 1865-6; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1866 ; steam-frigate
Susquehanna, special service, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21st
1867 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, special service, 1868 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES V. GRIDLEY.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Michigan, September 26th, 1860 ; Naval
Academy^ 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to steam-
sloop Oneida, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay,
August 5th, 1864; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1865-7 j
promoted to Master, November 10th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, South Pacifio
Squadron, 1867-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, February, 21st, 1867 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS MORRIS.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 27th, 1860;
Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Powhatan, flag-ship West India Squadron, 1863-4 ; North Atlantio
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; both attacks on Fort Fisher; steam-sloop
Monongahela, West India Squadron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, November
10th, 1866 ; steam-sloop Piscataqua, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9 ; com
missioned as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 12th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES D. SIGSBEE.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 27th, 1859;
Naval Academy, 1859-63 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Monongahela, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-4 ; battle of Mobile Bay,
August 5th, 1864 ; North Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; both attacks
on Fort Fisher, and final assault on the same ; steam-sloop Wyoming, Asiatic
Squadron, 1865-7 ; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1866 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867; steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic Squadron,
1867-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; at present,
on duty at Naval Academy.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM H. WHITING.
Born in New York. Appointed from Wisconsin, September 21st, 1860;
Naval Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863. Attached

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to steam-sloop Monongahela, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile
Bay, August 5th, 1864, and burning of the blockade runner "Ivanhoe," under
the guns of Fort Morgan, August 5th, 1864; surrender of Fort Gaines, Au
gust 8th, 1864; bombardment and surrender of Fort Morgan, August 24th,
1864 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, European Squadron, 1865-6 ; promoted to Master,
November 10th, 1866 ; steamer Frolic, European Squadron, 1866-8; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, February 21st, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, March 12th, 1868; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron,
1868-9. /

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER DENNIS W. MULLAN.
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Kentucky, September 21st, 1860; Na
val Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863 ; attached to
steam-sloop Monongahela, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of
Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864 ; two attacks on Fort Morgan ; steamer Mohongo,
Pacific Squadron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1867; steam-
sloop De Soto, North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8; commissioned as Lieutenant,
February 21st, 1867; Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-
Commander, March 12th, 1868 ; at present, attached to steamer Monocacy, Asi
atic Squadron.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE T. DAVIS.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 20th,
1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; at
tached to iron-clad steamer New Ironsides, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1863-4; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; both attacks on Fort
Fisher, and final assault on the same ; steam-sloop Dacotah, Pacific Squadron,
1865-8; promoted to Master, November 10th, 1866; commissioned as Lieu
tenant, February 21st, 1867; steam-sloop Plymouth, European Squadron,
1868-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE D. B. GLIDDEN.
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, September 24th, 1860; Naval
Academy, 1860-3; promoted to Ensign, October 1st, 1863; attached to steam-
sloop Seminole, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; battle of Mobile
Bay, August 5th, 1864; steam-sloop Wyoming, East India Squadron, 1865-7;
promoted to Master, November 10th, 1866 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, Feb
ruary 21st, 1867 ; steamer Monocacy, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868; steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic
Squadron, 1868-9 ; at present, on duty at Naval Academy.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER N. MAYO DYER.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, May 2d, 1862;
entered the Volunteer Navy as a Master's Mate, 1862 ; attached to steamer R.
R. Cuyler, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
On May 18th, 1863, at 2 A. M., Master's Mate Dyer, having under his com
mand the second cutter, manned by nine of the crew of the R. R. Cuyler, and
being on picket duty close to the swash channel leading out of Mobile Bay,
discovered a vessel close under Fort Morgan, and seeing no movement on her
part he pulled cautiously along, trying to get in-shore of her, but ran upon a
hawser which was run from the vessel to the fort. Concluding she was aground,
he boarded her, taking the crew completely by surprise, and capturing her cap
tain with six men and all her papers. Finding it impossible to get her off, and
seeing the rebel gunboat Gaines coming to her relief, Master's Mate Dyer re
moved the prisoners, papers, etc., and set fire to her. As she burned but slowly,
he returned, knocked in the heads of two barrels of turpentine, and again fired
her and returned to his ship, leaving the schooner in flames. According to the
statement of the captain of the blockade-runner, his vessel was boarded and
burned within two hundred yards of Fort Morgan. Her cargo consisted of two
hundred bales of cotton.
Promoted to Acting Ensign, May 18th, 1863 ; commanding steamer Eugenia,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; promoted to Acting Master, 1864 ;
attached to steamer Metacomet, at the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5th, 1864;
promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, April 22d, 1865 ; special duty, Navy
Department, 1866-7; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy,
December 18th, 1868; South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS M. GREEN.*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, June 18th, 1861;
entered the service as Acting Master, in the Volunteer Navy, June 18th, 1861 ;
attached to sloop Vincennes, West Gulf Blockading ^Squadron, 1861-2 ; passes
of the Mississippi ; steam-sloop Oneida and commanding steamer Commodore,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieu
tenant, April 21st, 1864; steam-frigate Niagara, special service, 1864; com
manding steamer Louisiana, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; com
manding steamer Boxer, 1865 ; capture of Fort Fisher ; steamer Florida, North
Atlantio Squadron, 1866 ; special duty, Navy Department, 1867 ; steam-sloop
Guerriere, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander U. S. Navy, December 18th, 1868; steamers Wasp and
Kansas, South Atlantic Squadron, 1869 ; receiving-ship Ohio, 1869-70.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD HOOKER*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Rhode Island, July 19th, 1861, as
Acting Master, and ordered to North Atlantio Blockading Squadron on board

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the gunboat Louisiana, and was severely wounded, October 5th, 1861 ; was in
the Louisiana in the Burnside Expedition, and fought her, in the absence of her
commanding officer, at Washington, North Carolina, September 5th, 1862, he
being then executive-officer ; for this, was promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieu
tenant, for gallantry in action, September 20th, 1862; commanded steamer
Victoria, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; captured brig Minna and
steamer Nicholai I., off Wilmington, North Carolina; detached, June, 1863,
, ordered to the Potomac Flotilla ; commanded the steamer Curretuck two and a
half months, steamer Yankee six months, and steamer Com. Read during the
rest of the war; had command of the boats acting on the Rappahannock, when
General Grant advanced ; cleared the river of torpedoes and opened it to the
transports; promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant-Commander, January,
1865; Naval Store-keeper, Navy Yard, New York, from Oct., 1865 to Oct.,
1867; commanding store-ship Idaho, Oct., 1867 to July, 1869; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy, Dee. 18th, 1868; Receiver and In
spector Yards and Docks, Navy Yard, New York, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY H. GORRINGE.
Born in West Indies. Appointed from New York, October 1st, 1862; en
tered the service as a Master's Mate, October 1st, 1862; Mississippi Squadron,
1862-5; promoted to Acting Ensign, 1863 ; promoted to Acting Master, 1864;
promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, 1865.
Acting Lieutenant Gorringe took part in nearly ^,11 the important battles of
the Mississippi Squadron, and was three times promoted for gallantry in battle.
Promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant-Commander, July 10th, 1865;
commanding steamer Memphis, Atlantic Squadron, 1867; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, U. S. Navy, December 18tb, 1868; Navy Yard, New
York, 1868; sloop Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES O'NEIL.*
Born in England, in 1842. Entered the U. S. Navy as Master's Mate, in
July, 1861, on board the sloop Cumberland, and was attached to that vessel at
the capture of Forts Hatteras and Clarke, August, 1861, and in the engagement
with Confederate iron-clad Merrimac, March 8th, 1862; rescued Lieutenant
Morris from drowning, and being favorably mentioned, was promoted to Acting
Master, May 1st, 1862 ; attached to gunboat Tioga, during latter part of 1862-3
to July, '64 ; cruised in Wilkes' Special West India Squadron, and East Gulf
Blockading Squadron; steamer Rhode Island, North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1864-5; both attacks on Fort Fisher — favorably mentioned for the same;
promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, May 30th, 1865; receiving-ship
Princeton, at Philadelphia, part of 1865-6 ; steam-gunboat Shamrock, European
Squadron, part of 1866-7 — visited west coast of Africa, islands in Atlantic,
Spain,_ France and Italy; store-ship Guard, European Squadron, part of 1867-8 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant in Regular Navy, March 11th, 1868; promoted to
Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868; receiving-ship Ohio, Boston,
1869; Aid to Port Admiral Hiram Paulding, at Boston, 1870.

242 lieutenant-commanders.
LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CASPER F. GOODRICH.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Connecticut, December 9th, 1861;
Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European
Squadron, 1865-7 ; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steamer Frolic,
European Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868;
sloop Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ALBERT G. CALDWELL.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, December 23d, 1861 ; Naval
Academy, 1861-4; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European
Squadron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866; steamer Sham
rock, European Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March ,12th,
1868 ; steamer Nipsic, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9 ; commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES W. KENNEDY.
Born in New York. Appointed from Wisconsin, September 28th, 1861;
Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron, 1865-6 ;
promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steamer Nipsic, South Atlantic Squad
ron, 1866-7 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, South Pacific Squadron, 1867-8 ; commis
sioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, flag-ship
South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
December 18th, 1868 ; at present, attached to steam-sloop Pensacola, flag-ship
Pacific Squadron.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER BOWMAN H. McCALLA.
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, November 30th, 1861 ;
Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squad
ron, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron,
1866-7; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866; steam-sloop Kearsarge,
South Pacific Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th,
1868 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRENCH E. CHADWICK.
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, September 28th, 1861 ; Naval
Academy, 1861-4; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron,

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1865-6; steam-sloop Juniata, South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; promoted to
Master, December 1st, 1866 ; apprentice-ship Sabine, 1868 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Pacific Squadron,
1868-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SAMUEL H. BAKER.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Arkansas, September 24th, 1861 ;
Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; attached to steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship South
Atlantic Squadron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866; steamer
Shamokin, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8; commissioned as Lieutenant,
March 12th, 1868 ; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1868-9 ; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, December i8th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER THEODORE F. JEWELL.
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Virginia, November 29th,
1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship,
European Squadron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866; steam-
sloop Canandaigua, European Squadron, 1867-8 ; commissioned as Lieutenant,
March 12th, 1868; Hydrographical Office, Washington, 1868-9; commissioned
as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868 ; at present, attached to frigate
Sabine, special cruise.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES F. SCHMITZ.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, October 19th, 1861; Naval
Academy, 1861^1 ; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squad
ron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steam-sloop Piscataqua,
flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1 867-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th,
1868; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE W. ARMENTROUT.
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, November 23d, 1861 ; Naval
Academy, 1861-4; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squad
ron, 1865-7; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; apprentice-ship Sabine,
1868 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Contocook,
flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, December 18th, 1868.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER DAVID C. WOODROW.
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 21st, 1861 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1861-5; attached to steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron,
1865-7 ; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steamer Ashuelot, Asiatic
Squadron, 1867-9; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868; commis
sioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HENRY C. WHITE.
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from New York, October 16th, 1861 ;
Naval Academy, 1861-5 ; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squad
ron, 1865-6 ; promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn,
flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; store-ship Guard, European Squad
ron, 1868-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868; commissioned as
Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD M. STEDMAN*
Born in Mass. Appointed from Mass., Sept. 27th, 1861 ; Naval Academy
until Nov. 22d, 1864 ; duty on board the North Carolina, February 8th, 1865 to
April 3d, 1865 ; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, in search of privateer
Stonewall, 1865; steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron, from June 21st,
1865 to March 26th, 1866; steamer Juniata, Brazil Squadron, March 27th,
1866 to July 1st, 1867, during which time made a cruise to the coast of Africa;
promoted to Ensign, Nov. 1st, 1866, and Master, Dec. 1st, 1866; apprentice
ship Saratoga, Oct. 1st, 1867 to Dec. 10th, 1868; commissioned as Lieutenant,
March 12th, 1868 ; receiving-ship New Hampshire, Norfolk, Va., December
18th, 1868 to March 31st, 1869 ; gunboat Galena, April 15th, 1869 to May
17th, 1869; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, April 19th, 1869; steam-
sloop Seminole, May 20th, 1869 to June 26th, 1869; Naval Academy, Sep
tember 29th, 1869, until present time.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN C. KENNETT.
Born in Missouri. Appointed from Missouri, October 2d, 1861 ; Naval
Academy, 1861-5; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron,
1865-6 ; steamer Rhode Island, flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ;
promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steam-sloop Susquehanna, North
Atlantic, 1868 ; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop
Kearsage, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, December 18th, 1868.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER WILLIAM M. FOLGER*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, Sept. 21st, 1861 ; at Naval Academy
until Nov. 22d, 1864; receiving-ship North Carolina, at New York, and school-
ship Sabine, New London, from Feb. 6th, 1865 to July 25th, 1865; steam-sloop
Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, July 25th, 1865 to Aug. 6th, 1868; pro
moted to Master, Dec. 1st, 1866 ; promoted to Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868 ;
commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, Dec. 18th, 1868; at Norfolk Navy
Yard, Oct. 1868, until ordered to the Franklin; in steam-frigate Franklin, flag
ship European Squadron, 1868-70.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER BENJAMIN P. LAMBERTON. •
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 21st, 1861;
Naval Academy, 1861-5 ; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squad
ron, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop Juniata, South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; promoted
to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; apprentice-ship Saratoga, 1867-9 ; commissioned
as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1867 ; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN SCHOULER.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 25th,
1861 ; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7 ;
promoted to Master, December 1st, 1866 ; steamer Frolic, European Squadron,
1867-8; commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868; sloop Portsmouth,
South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander,
December 18th, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FRANCIS W. DICKINS.
'Born in New York. Appointed from Connecticut, September 20th. 1861;
attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7 ; pro
moted to Master, December 1st, 1866; school-ship Sabine, 1868; commissioned
as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868; steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Pacific Squad
ron, 1868-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE F. F. WILDE. *•
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, November 30th, 1861 ;
Naval Academy, 1S61-5 ; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squadron,
1865-6 ; steamer Nipsic, South Atlantic Squadron, 1806-7 ; promoted to Master,
December 1st, 1866; steam-sloop Kearsarge, South Pacific Squadron, 1867-8;

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commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12th, 1868 ; steam-sloop Contoocook, flag
ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9; commissioned as Lieutenant-Com
mander, December 18th, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES H. DAVIS.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, November 29, 1861-
Naval Academy, 1861-5 ; attached to steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European
Squadron, 1865-7.
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866; South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868 ; steam-sloop Guerriere, flag
ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.
•Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, December 18, 1868.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES J. TRAIN.*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, November 27,
1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-4; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1866-7.
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866 ; steam-sloop Frolic, European Squad
ron,' 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868 ; steam-frigate Sabine, special
cruise, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, June 30, 1869.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWIN WHITE*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, November 29, 1.861 ; Naval Acad
emy, 1861-4; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship Mediterranean Squadron, 1866-7.
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866; steam-sloop Shamrock, European
Squadron, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868; steam-sloop Yantic, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1869.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, September 15, 1869; Hydrogra-
phic Office, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER OSCAR F. HEYERMAN*
Born in Prussia. Appointed from Michigan, November 29, 1861 ; Naval
School, 1861—4; steam-frigate Colorado; flag-ship, Mediterranean Squadron,
1866-7. '
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European
Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868.
Commissioned vs, Lieutenant- Commander, October 13, 1869; steam.frigate
Colorado, 1870.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE W. PIGMAN*
Born in Indiana. Appointed from Indiana, September 28, 1861 ; Naval
School 1861-4; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship, Brazil Squadron, 1866-7.
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866, steam-sloop Kansas, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, October 28, 1869; iron-clad Sau-
gus, North Atlantic Fleet, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER SAMUEL L. WILSON*
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 20, 1861; Naval School,
1861-4; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship, Brazil Squadron, 1866-7.
Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866; steam-sloop Monocacy, Asiatic
Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, December 31,1869; Naval Ren
dezvous, San Francisco, California, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GUSTAVUS V. MENZIES*
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Ohio, September 21, 1861 ; Naval
Academy, 1861—4 ; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship, European Squadron,
1865-7. Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866 ; steam-sloop, Powhatan, Pacific
Squadron, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868 ; receiving-ship, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWARD S. KEYSER*
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from New York ; entered the service as
an acting volunteer officer ; was in active service during the rebellion.
Appointed to the regular Navy with the rank of Master, 1867; receiving-
thip, Philadelphia, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December, 1868 ; steam-sloop Seminole, North
Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70.
Commissioned as Lieutenants Commander, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER THOMAS NELSON*
Born at sea. Appointed from Pennsylvania, January 1, 1862 ; entered the
service as Acting Master's Mate ; attached to the steamer Carretuck, Potomac
Flotilla, 1862-4, co-operating with the army of the Potomac,

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Promoted to Acting Ensign, November, 1862 ; temporarily detached from
the Carretuck and ordered to duty as Signal-Officer of the steamer Wachusett,
on a passage from Philadelphia to Port Royal, S. C, having the iron-clad San
gamon in tow, January, 1864; on arrival at Port Royal, returned to duty on
board the Carretuck; steamer Commodore Read, February, 1864 to June,
1864; commanded the steamer Dragon, Potomac Flotilla, from June 1, 1864 to
October 8, 1864; commanded the steamer Mercury, blockade duty at the Great
Yeocomiso River, and adjoining creeks of Virginia, from October 8, 1864 to
January 27, 1865 ; kept in check and eventually driving off the home guards
and Chesapeake Bay pirates.
Promoted to Acting Master, March 27, 1865 ; commanding the steamer Cour
de Leon until the close of the war ; Navy Department, 1865-6 ; steamer Don,
as Navigator, January, 1866 to August 7, 1866; steamer Pensacola, Pacific
Squadron, August 7, 1866 to October, 1867; steamer Penobscot, West India
Squadron, as Navigator, December 9, 1867 to July 9, 1869.
Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 18, 1868; steamer New Hampshire,
as Executive-Officer, from September, 1869 to June, 1870.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, January 25, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER De WITT C. KELLS*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, December 24, 1861 ; en
tered the service as an acting volunteer officer ; was actively engaged during
the rebellion.
Appointed to the regular service, with the rank of Master, 1867.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 18, 1868 ; special duty, New Orleans,
1869; iron-clad Dictator, North Atlantic Fleet, 1870.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER FELIX McCURLEY*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, November 13, 1861 ; entered
the service as an acting volunteer officer ; was actively engaged during the re
bellion. Appointed to the regular navy, with the rank of Master, 1867; steamer
Quinnebaugh, South Atlantic Squadron, 186S-70.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, December 18, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER JOHN McGOWAN, Jr.*
Born in Delaware. Appointed from New Jersey; entered the service as an
acting volunteer officer ; was engaged during the rebellion.
Appointed to the regular navy with rank of Master, 1867 ; receiving-ship,
Philadelphia, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 18, 1868; steam-sloop Unadilla,
Asiatic Fleet, 1869; steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic Fleet, 1870.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 1870.

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LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GERHARD C. SCHULZE.*
Born in Germany. Appointed from New York, November 13, 1861 ; en
tered the service as a volunteer officer.
Appointed to the regular navy, with the rank of Master, 1867 ; steamer
Shawmut, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, December 18, 1868; steamer Nipsic, North At
lantic Squadron, 1869 ; steamer Guard, Darien Expedition, 1870.
Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER EDWIN H. MILLER.*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 25,
1861 ; entered the service as an acting officer, and was attached to the sloop-of-
war Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron, 1861-5 ; on his return to the
States, Acting Ensign Miller was ordered to iron-clad duty at New Orleans,
where he remained until the Winter of 1867.
Appointed Master in the regular service, 1867.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 18, 1868 ; steam-sloop Narragansett,
North Atlantic Fleet, 1869 ; receiving-ship New Hampshire, Norfolk, Virginia,
1869-70. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 1870.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDERS ON RETIRED LIST.
Retired under twenty-third section of Act of August 3, 1861.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER GEORGE F. MORRISON.*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Ohio, November 5, 1849 ; Naval
School, 1849-50; attached to sloop Plymouth, East India Squadron, 1851-5.
Promoted to Master, September 16, 1855 ; retired, 1856 ; unemployed,
1856-70. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 1867.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER CHARLES E. McKAY*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 29, 1857;
Naval Academy, 1857-61.
Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1861.
Promoted to Master, 1861 ; steam-sloop Pensacola, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1861-64 ; passage of Potomac batteries ; capture of New Orleans,
and various engagements on the Mississippi River.

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Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1862 ; steamer Princess Royal, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commaider, July 25, 1866; steam-sloop Brook
lyn, flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1866-68; retired on account of ill-health, 1869.

Retired under first section of Act of April 21, 1864.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER J. N. QUACKENBUSH*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 24,1847;
frigate Cumberland, Home Squadron, during Mexican War; sloop Falmouth,
Pacific Squadron, 1849-51 ; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1851-53 ; dis
missed the service, January 3, 1854; reinstated in the service, 1861, as an Act
ing-Lieutenant. Commissioned as Lieutenant-Commander, July, 1862 ; Lieutenant-Com
mander Quackenbush was actively employed against the enemy during the en
tire period of the rebellion; commanding steamer Mackinaw, Atlantic Squad
ron, 1866-8 ; retired, 1869 ; Naval Station, League Island, Pa., 1869-70.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER ROBERT BOYD*
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, January 14, 1850 ; attached to
sloop John Adams", coast of Africa, December, 1850, until February, 1852;
brig Bainbridge, coast of Africa, February, 1852, to September, 1853; sloop
St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, October, 1853, to July, 1855 ; Naval Academy,
1855-6. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June, 1856 ; store-ship Release, Home
F-'quadron, 1856 ; Coast Survey, 1856-7 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, East India
Squadron, December, 1857 to August, 1860.
Promoted to Master, January, 1858.
Commissioned as Lieutenant, January, 1858 ; attached to store-ship Release,
until her arrival at Sardinia, Mediterranean; transferred to flag-ship Richmond,
Mediterranean Squadron, July, 1861; steam-frigate Powhatan, cruising in
the West Indies, in search of rebel steamer Sumpter; attached to Gulf Block
ading Squadron ; several skirmishes with rebel gunboats ; participated in the
bombardment of Pensacola, Fla.; flag-ship Colorado, East Gulf Blockading
Squadron, until June, 1862.
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; sloop Ossipee, at
Hampton Roads, October, 1862 to February, 1863; receiving-ship Ohio, May
to September, 1863; steam-frigate Powhatan, South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, September, 1863; ordered to tow the captured iron-clad Atlanta to
Philadelphia; after which proceeded to West Indies as flag-ship of that Squad
ron, until October, 1864 ; Mississippi Flotilla, as Commander of the 9th Dis
trict (Tennessee River), December, 1864 ; was employed keeping open commu
nications on that river until the close of the war, in several skirmishes with
the enemy; remained cruising in western rivers, until December, 1865;
Naval Academy to June, 1866; temporary duty at Navy Yard, Boston, until,

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August, 1866 ; steamer Winooski, West India Squadron, August, 1866, to
July, 1867; steamer Wampanoag, on trial duty from September, 1867 to June,
1868 ; receiving-ship Ohio, Boston, Mass., until September, 1868 ; commanding
steamer Yantic, West India Squadron, until January, 1869 ; waiting orders
since April, 1869, to June, 1870.

Retired under fourth section of Act of April 21, 1864.

LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER C. E. HAWLEY.*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, December 3, 1849 ;
Nival School, 1849-50; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron,
1851-5. Promoted to Master, September 15, 1855 ; Coast Survey, 1856-8.
Commissioned as IAeutenant, June 26, 1856 ; receiving-ship Philadelphia,
1831 ; ordnance duty, Washington Navy Yard, 1862 ; retired, 1862 ; receiving-
ship, New York, 1863 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1864-5 ; special duty, Maiden,
Mass., 1866.
Commissioned as IAeutenant- Commander, 1866 ; Light-house Inspector, Key
West, 1868 ; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1869-70.

SURGEON WILLIAM MAXWELL WOOD*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, May 16, 1829 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1830-1; schooner Gram
pus, West India'Squadron, 1832-3; special duty, 1834-7.
Commissioned as Surgeon, February 20, 1838 ; steamer Poinsett, Home
Squadron, 1838-42; served at that time in co-operation with the army in the
Seminole War; Naval Station, Baltimore, 1843; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Squad
ron, 1844-6 ; in this period he rendered the service referred to in the following
official documents. Commodore Sloat, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific
Squadron, writes him :
" I am most happy to acknowledge the very important services you rendered
the Government, and the squadron in the Pacific, under my command, at the
breaking out of the Mexican War. The information you furnished me at
Mazatlan, from Guadalaxara (at the risk of your life), was the only reliable in
formation I received of that event, and which induced me to proceed imme
diately to California, and upon my own responsibility to take possession of that
country. " I have always considered the performance of your journey through Mexico
at that time, as an extraordinary feat, requiring great presence of mind and ad
dress. How you escaped from the heart of an enemy's country and such a peo
ple, has always been a. wonder to me, and bas been so characterized on all occa
sions."

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The Chairman of the Naval Committee of the Senate commented on his
valuable services as follows :
" Every intelligent mind must at once appreciate the importance of the ser
vice which you have rendered the country, and your personal hazard in traveling
through the heart of the enemy's country, communicating with your military
superior, and furnishing him with the sole and otherwise unattainable informa
tion, upon which he based the acquisition of California.
" The importance of this acquisition ean best be estimated, by asking ourselves
what would have been our national position in the Pacific and upon our Oregon
frontier, had Great Britain, instead of ourselves, acquired permanent possession
of it? I have always contended that its acquisition constitutes one of the
Navy's strongest claims upon the gratitude of the nation, and this chapter in
its history, furnished by your own service, but strengthens this conviction."
Receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1847-8; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1850-1;
Naval Station, Sackett's Harbor, New York, 1853-5; Fleet-Surgeon, East
India Squadron, 1856-8; during this service, taking part in the Chinese War,
and, on board the flag-ship, participating in the brilliant capture (by Commodore
Armstrong and the late Admiral, then Commander, Foote) of the four Barrier
Forts on the Canton River, of which Admiral Seymour, R. N., in his report to
the Admiralty, writes in the following terms, under date of December 14,
1856: " The American ships-of-war completed the destruction of the Barrier Forts,
on the 6th, and dropped down to Whampoa. These forts were of enormous
strength and solidity, being entirely built of large blocks of granite, with walls
nine or ten feet thick. They were heavily armed, many of the guns being
of seven or eight tons weight, with a bore of thirteen inches ; one brass eight-
and-a-half-inch gun was over twenty-one feet long."
Steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1859-61 ; Fleet-Surgeon, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, during the rebellion; participating on board the flag
ship Minnesota, in the first battle of iron-clads, that of the Monitor with the
Merrimac and other vessels of the Confederate Squadron, in Hampton Roads,
also in the capture of Sewell's Point; Baltimore, 1866-7; President ofthe
Examining Board, 1868 ; Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1870.

SURGEON JONATHAN M. FOLTZ,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Maryland, April 4, 1831 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to frigate Potomac, Pacific Squad
ron, 1832-4; Medical Bureau, Washington, 1835; Navv Yard, Washington,
1836-7. Commissioned as Surgeon, December, 8, 1838 ; United States Naval Hos
pital, Port Mahon, 1839-40; frigate Raritan, Brazil Squadron, 1844-7; Navy
yard, Washington, 1850; sloop Jamestown, Brazil Squadron, 1851-4; rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1855-8; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1859; steam-frigate
Niagara, 1861 ; Fleet-Surgeon, West Gulf Squadron, 1862-3 ; was with Ad
miral Farragut in all his battles on the Mississippi during 1862-3; member
Board of Examiners 1864-6; President Board of Examiners, 1867; Fleet-
Surgeon, European Squadron, 1868-9.

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SURGEON JAMES C. PALMER*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, March 26, 1834; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon, attached to frigate Brandywine, Pacific Squadron,
1835; sloop Vincennes, cruise around the world, 1836; rendezvous, Balti
more, 1837; Exploring Expedition, 1838-42; Navy Yard, Washington, 1842.
'Commissioned as Surgeon, October 27, 1841 ; sloop St. Mary's, Home Squad
ron, 1844-6; sloop Vandalia, Pacific Squadron, 1850-3 ; receiving-ship Balti
more, 1853-6; frigate Niagara, Cable Expedition, 1857; sloop Macedonian,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-60 ; Naval Academy, 1861-3 ; Fleet-Surgeon,
flag-ship Hartford, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August
5, 1864; Naval Hospital, New York, 1866-9; special duty, Newport, R. I.,
1870.

SURGEON NINIAN PINKEY,
BOrn in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, March 26, 1834; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Erie, Brazil Squadron, 1835-7;
frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1839-40.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 27, 1841 ; store-ship Relief, Pacific Squad
ron, 1842-3 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1844-6; sloop Albany, Home Squadron,
1847 ; sloop Germantown, Home Squadron, 1848 ; steam-frigate Saranae, Home
Squadron, 1850-1; Navai Academy, 1853-5; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Med
iterranean Squadron, 1857-8; Hospital, Norfolk, 1859; special duty, Wash
ington, 1860-2; Fleet^Surgeon, Mississippi Squadron, 1863-5; special duty,
1868-9.

SURGEON DAVID HARLAN,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, February 23, 1835 ; attached
to sloop Peacock, East India Squadron, 1835-7 ; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1843 ;
brig Somers, Home Squadron, 1844-5.
Commissioned as Surgeon, December 6, 1845 ; steamer Princeton, Home
Squadron, 1846 ; sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1849-51 ; receiving-ship
Boston, 1852— 4; steam-frigate Merrimac, 1855-7; receiving-ship, Baltimore,
1859 ; sloop Cyane, 1861 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1863 ; Naval
Asylum, Philadelphia, 1864-5 ; Naval Academy, 1867-8.

SURGEON J. D. MILLER,*
Born in New York. Commissioned as Assistant Surgeon, December 6, 1836 ;
ordered to the North Carolina, 74, flag-ship of the Pacific Squadron, Com
modore Ballard; in 1838, transferred to the sloop-of-war Lexington; detached
July, 1840; in 1841, examined for promotion, and passed; ordered to the
Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, and transferred in the same year to the Navy Yard,
Philadelphia; in 1843, ordered to the brig Perry, East India Squadron, and
detached in 1845 ; in 1846, ordered to the Naval Asylum, and in 1847, pro
moted and ordered to the Gulf of Mexico ; detailed for steamer Scorpion, and

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in 1848, ordered to take charge of the Naval Hospital established in Laguna •
ordered to sloop-of-war Saratoga ; in 1849, transferred to sloop-of-war German-
town; in 1850, ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard; in 1852, detached and
ordered to the sloop-of-war St. Louis, Mediterranean Squadron ; detached in
1855 ; in 1856, ordered member of a Medical Board of Examination, convened
at New Orleans; in 1857, ordered to the sloop-of-war Plymouth; detached in
January, 1859 ; ordered as member of a Medical Board of Examination, and
in the same year, to the Navy Yard, Boston ; detached in 1861, and ordered to
the frigate Potomac, on blockade duty in the Gulf of Blexico ; detached in
1863, and ordered to the Colorado ; in 1864, ordered to the receiving-ship
Princeton, Philadelphia ; detached in 1866, and ordered as Fleet-Surgeon of
the North Atlantic Squadron, consecutively in the vessels Rhode Island Sus
quehanna, Wampanoag and Contoocook; detached in 1869, and ordered to the
receiving-ship Potomac, Philadelphia.

SURGEON JOSEPH BEALE,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 8, 1837 :
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop John Adams, East
India Squadron, 1839—41; brig Bainbridge, Home Squadron, 1842-3; Naval
Hospital, New York, 1845; brig Boxer, coast of Africa, 1846-8.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 19, 1848 ; sloop John Adams, coast of
Africa, 1849-51; rendezvous, Baltimore, 1852-3; sloop Germantown, Brazil
Squadron, 1853-7; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1858-60; steam-sloop Sus
quehanna, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; hospital, Chelesa, Mas
sachusetts, 1863-5; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship East India Squadron,
1865-6 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-8 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1869; special duty, Philadelphia, 1870.

SURGEON GEORGE MAULSBY,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania an Assistant Surgeon,
March 7, 1838; attached to frigate Constellation, Home Squadron, 1838; ship-
of-the-line Ohio and frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron, 1839-41;
Washington Navy Yard, 1841-2; brig Washington, Coast Survey, 1842; ex
amined for Passed Assistant Surgeon, November, 1844 ; attached to brig Por
poise, coast of Africa, 1842-4; brig Porpoise, Home Squadron, 1845-7; em
ployed in Mexican War, blockading coast and capture of Tampico ; attached to
New York Hospital, 1847-9 ; store-ship Relief, 1849-51 ; Naval Rendezvous,
Boston, 1851-2.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 14, 1852; attached to steam-frigate Saranae,
Brazil, 1852-3; steam-frigate Saranae, Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-6; re
ceiving-ship North Carolina, New York, 1856-9 ; steam-sloop Wyoming, Pacific
Squadron, 1859-61 ; Retiring Board, New York, 1862-4 ; steam-frigate Brook
lyn, West Gulf Squadron, 1864, blockading Mobile and capture of the forts;
also in North Atlantic Squadron, 1864-5, at capture of Fort Fisher, North
Carolina ; Naval Asylum, 1865-8 ; Retiring Board, Erie, Pennsylvania, 1868 ;
Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 1868-9; Examining Board, Annapolis, 1869;
Medical Examining Board, Naval Asylum, 1869-70.

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SURGEON WILLIAM GRIER,
Born in Ireland. Appointed from Maryland, March 7, 1838; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to sloop Cyane, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1838-41; store-ship Erie, Pacific Squadron, 1842-4; schooner Shark,
Pacific Squadron, 1844-6; Hospital, New York, 1848; razee Independence,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-52.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 14, 1852; Fleet-Surgeon, North Pacific
Surveying Expedition, 1853-6; Naval Academy, 1859; sloop Macedonian,
1861; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1862; Naval Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee,
1863-5; special duty, Hartford, Conn., 1867; member Board of Examiners,
1868-9; at present, on special duty at Baltimore.

SURGEON J. WINTHROP TAYLOR,
Born in New York. Appointed from 'New Jersey, March 7, 1838; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to sloop Erie, West India Squadron,
1838^40; sloop Marion, West India Squadron, 1842-3; sloop John Adams,
Home Squadron, 1845-8; receiving-ship, Boston, 1850; sloop Dale, 1851-3.
Commissioned as Surgeon, May 1, 1852; rendezvous, New York, 1854-6;
sloop St. Mary's, 1856-9 ; steam-sloop Pensacola, West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1861-3; Naval Rendezvous, Boston, 1864-6; Fleet-Surgeon, Gulf Squad
ron, 1866-7; Fleet-Surgeon, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9; Naval Hospital,
Chelsea, 1870.

SURGEON SAMUEL JACKSON*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from North Carolina, June 20, 1838 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon, attached to frigate Constitution,
1839-41; frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron, 1841-3; sloop Fairfield,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1844-5 ; razee Independence, flag-ship Pacific Squad:
ron, 1846-9; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1849-50 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1851 ;
sloop Decatur, Home Squadron,«1851-2.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 2, 1852; rendezvous, New York,
1854-5 ; steamer St. Louis, coast of Africa, 1855-8 ; Navy Yard, New York,
1858-61 ; frigate Cumberland, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ;
steam-sloop Brooklyn, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; with Rear
Admiral Farragut in the passage of the forts below New Orleans, and in the capture
pf that city, and in his operations before Vicksburg; Naval Academy, 1864;
Navy Yard, Boston, 1865-6; Fleet-Surgeon, North Pacific Squadron, 1867-9;
at present on duty at Naval Hospital, New York.

SURGEON JAMES McCLELLAND,*
Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Entered the service as an Assistant-Sur
geon, June 20, 1838; ordered to the United States steamer Fulton, October
1838, at New York ; in November, 1839, transferred to United States frigate

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United States, then fitting out in Boston as the flag-ship of the Brazil Squadron
Commodore Charles G. Ridgely ; in May, 1840, transferred to the frigate Poto
mac, at Norfolk, Virginia ; sailed for the coast of Brazil, remained in her until
June 1841; transferred to the United States schooner Enterprise, on that sta
tion, was attached to her during 1841, '42,-43 and '44 ; returned to the United
States, September 1844; the following Spring was examined for promotion and
found qualified ; in July, 1845, was again ordered to the coast of Brazil, took
passage in the United States sloop Erie on her arrival there; ordered to the
United States brig Brainbridge — remained in her until November, 1846. The
Mexican War at this time was being carried on ; applied to be transferred to
the United States ship Southampton, then in the harbor of Rio Janeiro, on her
passage to California; transferred to her and served in her during the war; was.
present at the taking of Mazatlan, Mexico, in the Winter of 1847; also, engaged
in blockading the port of Guaymas, in the Gulf of California, at the termination
of the war, in the Summer of 1848 ; transferred to the United States sloop
Dale; visited the northwest coast of Mexico and the Sandwich Islands; re
turned to California in January, 1849 ; sailed from San Francisco for home,
February, 1849 ; touching at Valparaiso, Chili and Rio Janeiro ; arrived in
New York, September, 1849 ; in October, 1850, ordered to the United States
Naval Asylum, remained there until March, 1853.
Commissioned as Surgeon, March, 1853; October, 1853, was ordered to the
United States sloop St. Mary's; sailed for the Pacific Squadron, invalided and
sent home by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, in June, 1854; October, 1854,
ordered to the United States steamer Michigan, remained in her until Novem
ber, 1857 ; in July, 1858, ordered to the United States frigate Savannah,
West India Squadron ; in July, 1860, transferred at Vera Cruz, Mexico, to the
United States steamer Brooklyn ; was present at the reinforcement of Fort
Pickens, afterward for six months blockading at Pass-a-1' outre, one of the
mouths of the Mississippi; returned to the United States, September, 1861;
October, 1861, ordered to the receiving-ship Princeton, at Philadelphia, re
mained attached to her until September, 1864; was ordered to proceed to
Fortress Monroe, to report for duty on board of the United States steamer
Colorado, preparatory to the attack on Fort Fisher ; was present at both attacks
and capture of that fort ; returned to New York ; was attached and placed on
waiting orders ; June, 1864, was ordered to the steam-ship Colorado, flag-ship
of the European Squadron, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Louis M. Golds
borough. Appointed Fleet-Surgeon ofthe European Squadron, October, 1865;
returned to the United States, August, 1867; October, 1867, ordered to the
United States Marine Rendezvous at Philadelphia; February, 1868, ordered to
the United States Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia ; October, 1868, reported for
duty at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia.

SURGEON JOHN S. MESSERSMITH,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 9, 1837;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Fairfield, Brazil
Squadron, 1839-40; brig Dolphin, Home Squadron, 1842-3; steamer Col.
Harney, 1845 ; bomb-brig JEtna, Home Squadron, 1846-8 ; Hospital, New
York, 1850 ; store-ship Southampton, Pacific Squadron, 1850^.
Commissioned as Surgeon, July 13, 1853; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East
India Squadron, 1855; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1857-9 ; steam-

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sloop San Jacinto, 1861 ; sloop Constellation, Mediterranean Squadron, 1861-4;
Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1866; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1867-8.

SURGEON THOMAS M. POTTER,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, October 17, 1839 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Vandalia, Home
Squadron, 1840-3; frigate Raritan, Brazil Squadron, 1845-6; sloop York-
town, coast of Africa, 1849-50 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1852-3 ; store-
ship Relief, Home Squadron, 1853-4.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 17, 1854 ; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1854-8 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1859 ; frigate Santee, 1861-2 ;
receiving-ship, Boston, 1863—4 ; steam-frigate Niagara, special service, European
waters, 1864-5 ; Naval Rendezvous, New York, 1866-9.

SURGEON ANDREW A. HENDERSON,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 8, 1841,
as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to United States vessels Flirt, Madison and
Phoenix, 1841-2 ; coast of Florida, co-operating with the army in the Seminole
War ; three months in canoes in the Everglades ; attached to sloop Vincennes,
Gulf of Mexico, 1842—4 ; store-ship Erie, coast of Africa, and Pacific, 1844-6 ;
sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1846-8; present at the engagement ofthe
forces under command of Commodore Stockton with the Californians, at San
Gabriel, January 8th, and on the plain of Mesa, January 9, 1847 ; preceding
the capture of San Pueblo de Ios Angeles, California ; capture of Guaymas,
Mexico, October, 1847; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1849; brig Perry, coast of
Africa, 1849 to 1851 ; brig Dolphin, employed making deep sea soundings in
the North Atlantic, 1852-3 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, and member of
Board of Examiners, 1853-6.
Commissioned as Surgeon, March 1, 1856; sloop Portsmouth, East India
Squadron, 1856-8 ; present at the engagement with the Barrier Forts, below
Canton, China, November 15th, and at their capture November 20, 1856 ; vis
ited Java, China, Japan, Singapore, Siam, and Philippine Islands ; Navy Yard,
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1858-61; steam-sloop Richmond, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; engagement with iron-clad Manassas, etc., Oc
tober, 1861 ; Fort McRea, Florida, November 22, 1861 ; Forts Jackson and
St. Philip, April 24th; capture of New Orleans, April 25, 1862; Vicksburg
upward passage, June 28th; iron-clad Arkansas, Vicksburg, downward passage,
July 15th ; Port Hudson, March 14, 1863 ; member of Board of Examiners,
1863-4; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, 1864-7; Fleet-Surgeon, South
Pacific Squadron, 1868-9; Navy Yard, Boston, 1869-70.

SURGEON LEWIS J. WILLIAMS*

Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, January 25, 1842; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon; sloop Falmouth, Home Squadron, 1842-4;
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schooner Phoenix, 1844; sloop Yorktown, coast of Africa, 1844-6; brig Wash
ington, 1847 ; brig Porpoise, coast of Africa, 1847-8 ; sloop Jamestown, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1848-50 ; hospital, New York, 1850; steamer John Han
cock, 1851; steam-frigate Mississippi, East India Squadron, 1852-3; sloop
Saratoga, East Indies, 1853-4 ; hospital, New York, 1855.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 30, 1856; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron,
1858-60; Navy Yard, New York, 1861-3; steam-sloop. Richmond, West Gulf
Squadron, 1863-5; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; Navy Yard, Wash
ington, 1866-9.

SURGEON MARIUS DUVAL*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, January 25, 1842; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to frigate Constitution, Home Squad
ron, 1842-3 ; was engaged in the war with the Seminole Indians, in October,
1842; frigate Brandywine and Naval Station, Norfolk, Virginia, 1843 ; frigate
Constitution, East India Squadron, 1844-5; visited Madagascar, Sumatra,
Borneo, Cochin-China, etc.; frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1845-6;
detached and ordered to sloop Portsmouth, which single vessel captured San
Francisco, July 9, 1846 ; served on land during the Mexican War, and in So
noma was the medical officer of the expedition composed of marines, seamen
and artillerists and two companies of cavalry, under Captains Weber and Smith,
which defeated the enemy at Santa Clara, January 1, 1847; was also aid ofthe
commanding officer of this expedition ; senior medical officer of the expedition
under Commodore Stockton, which landed at San Pedro to march to Los An
geles; steam-frigate Saranae, Home Squadron, 1850-1; practice-ship Preble,
1852-4; Coast Survey, 1855.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 12, 1856; sloop Jamestown, Home
Squadron, 1858-60; Navy Yard, Washington, 1861; iron-clad steamer New
Ironsides, special service, 1862, and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1862-4; attack on Fort Sumpter, April 7, 1863, and subsequently in all the
bombardments of the enemy's works off Charleston ; while on the New Iron
sides, Surgeon Duval gave useful information to the Navy Department about
the works of the enemy and attack of April 7th, which was published by the
Department; Navy Yard, Washington, 1865-6; store and hospital-ship James
town, Panama, 1867; Fleet-Surgeon, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9; Naval
Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, 1870.

SURGEON JOSEPH WILSON, Jr.,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 13, 1843; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to frigate Savannah, Pacific Squad
ron, 1843-5; sloop Levant, Pacific Squadron, 1846 ; brig Bainbridge, coast of
Africa, 1849-50 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1851-2; store-ship -Supply,
East India Squadron, 1853-5 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1856-7.
Commissioned as Surgeon, May 23, 1857 ; sloop Vandalia, Pacific Squadron,
1857-9; steam-sloop Powhatan, 1861; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1862-4;
steamer Vanderbilt, North Pacific Squadron, 1865; member Board of Exam
iners, 1867; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, 1868-9; at present, Fleet-
Surgeon, South Atlantic Squadron.

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SURGEON CHARLES EVERSFIELD,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, May 28, 1843 ; entered the
service as Assistant-Surgeon ; attached to frigate Macedonian, coast of Africa,
1843-5 ;. frigate Congress, Pacific Squadron, 1846-8 ; Naval Asylum, Phila
delphia, 1850; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1851-3;
Navy Yard, Washington, 1854-5 ; frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron,
1855-7. Commissioned as Surgeon, August] 15, 1857; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1859;
sloop Vandalia, 1861 ; store-ship Vermont, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1862-3 ;
Navy Yard, New York, 1864-7; steam-frigate Minnesota, special service, 1868 ;
special duty, Philadelphia, 1869; at present, Fleet-Surgeon, European Fleet.

SURGEON ROBERT T. MACCOUN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from New Jersey, October 2, 1844 ; en
tered the service as Assistant-Surgeon ; attached to sloop Jamestown, coast of
Africa, 1844-6 ; .frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, 1847-50 ; receiving-ship, New
York, 1851; frigate Columbia, Home Squadron, 1852-5; Mediterranean
Squadron, 1857; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Home Squadron, 1858.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 21, 1858; rendezvous, Baltimore,
1859; steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; in
the attack on the batteries at Port Hudson, March, 1863 ; special duty, Balti
more, 1864-6; steam-sloop Susquehanna, special service, 1867; Fleet-Surgeon,
Asiatic Fleet, 1869-70.

SURGEON HENRY 0. MAYO,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, February 24, 1846 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to frigate United States, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1846-8 ; Coast Survey, 1850 ; sloop Albany, Home Squad
ron, 1850-2 ; Hospital, New York, 1854-5 ; frigate Potomac, Home Squadron,
1856; Coast Survey, 1857-8; steamer Fulton, Brazil Squadron, 1859.
Commissioned as Surgeon, January 24, 1859; sloop Savannah, 1861 ; steam-
sloop Powhatan, South Atlantic Squadron, 1862-3; flag-ship West India
Squadron, 1864-5; marine rendezvous, New York, 1866-8; steam-sloop Colo
rado, Navy Yard, New York, 1870.

SURGEON PHILIP LANSDALE,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, March 5, 1847 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Onkahyes, Brazil Squadron,
1848; frigate Brandywine, Brazil Squadron, 1849-50; frigate Cumberland,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-5 ; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1856-9;
sloop John Adams, 1861.
Commissioned as Surgeon, January 20, 1861 ; steam-sloop Pensacola, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863—4 ; naval rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1866-8 ;
Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1868-9 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.

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SURGEON WILLIAM LOWBER,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 8, 1847 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Plymouth, East
India Squadron, 1847-8 ; sloop Preble, Pacific Squadron, 1850 ; receiving-ship,
Boston, 1852; frigate Savannah, Brazil Squadron, 1854-6; brig Perry, Brazil
Squadron, 1858 ; steamer Westernport, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expe
dition, 1859; steam-sloop Narragansett, 1861..
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 18, 1861 ; store-ship Vermont, South At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; store-ship Portsmouth, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; receiving-ship, Philadelphia, 1867-9.

SURGEON PHINEAS J. HORWITZ,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 8, 1847;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to Home Squadron, 1847-8;
frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron, 1850 ; store-ship Relief, Brazil
Squadron, 1852; steamer Princeton, Home Squadron, 1854; Navy Yard, Pen
sacola, 1855; receiving-ship Norfolk, 1856; Coast Survey, 1857; store-ship
Supply, Brazil Squadron, 1858-9; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1861.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 19, 1861; Bureau of Medicine and Sur
gery, 1862-5 ; chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1866-9 ; on_duty at
Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1870.

SURGEON CHARLES MARTIN*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 5, 1848 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon, attached to sloop Albany, Home Squadron,
1848-50; Coast Survey, California, 1850-1; wrecked on the way out in the
Jefferson off the coast of Patagonia, February, 1851 ; taken off, May, 1851
frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1851-3; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1854
receiving-ship, Boston, 1854-5; schooner Arago, Coast Survey of Texas, 1855—6
steam-frigate Minnesota, East India Squadron, 1857-9 ; Naval Asylum, Phila
delphia, 1859-60; steam-frigate Susquehanna, West India and Mediterranean
Squadrons, 1860-1.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 22, 1861; receiving-ship, Boston, 1861; razee
Cumberland, Newport News, 1861-2; in her engagement with the Merrimac,
1862; Naval Rendezvous, Boston, 1862; steam-sloop Sacramento, North Atlan
tio Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; steamer Seminole, South Atlantic Blockad-*
ing Squadron, 1863-4; steamer Mohican, North Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1865, both attacks on and capture of Fort Fisher ; receiving-ship, Boston,
1866-9; steam-frigate Franklin, Mediterranean Squadron, 1869; transferred to
steam-sloop Ticonderoga, 1869 ; Fleet-Surgeon, flag-ship Albany, West India
Station, 1869 ; flag-ship Severn, West India Station, 1869-70.

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SURGEON FRANCIS M. GUNNELL*
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, March
29, 1849 ; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon, attached to sloop Falmouth,
Pacific Squadron, 1849-51 ; store-ship Supply, Pacific Squadron, 1852 ; Navy
Yard, Washington,, 1853 ; frigate Independence, Pacific Squadron, 1855-7 ;
steam-frigate Niagara, Atlantic Cable Expedition, 1858 ; receiving-ship at New
York, 1858-9; steamer Fulton (Wrecked), 1859; steam-sloop Pawnee, 1860-2;
North and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 23, 1861 ; Naval Hospital, Washington,
1863-5; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, European Squadron, 1866-8; Naval Hos
pital, Washington, 1869.

SURGEON JAMES SUDDARDS,
Born in England. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 17, 1849 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop John Adams, coast of Africa,
1849-50 ; store-ship Lexington, Pacific Squadron, 1852-3 ; Coast Survey,
1854-5; receiving-ship Boston, 1857; Coast Survey, 1858-9.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 24, 1861 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ; receiving-ship Vermont, New York,
1866 ; special duty, Philadelphia, 1867 ; steam-sloop Oneida, Asiatic Squadron,
1868-9.

SURGEON EDWARD SHIPPEN ,*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Pennsylvania, August 7, 1849 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Marion, East India Squad
ron, 1849-52; receiving-ship Ohio, Boston, 1852-3; steamer Fulton, Fishing-
Banks' Squadron, 1853; steamer Hetzel, Coast Survey, 1854; brig Dolphin,
coast of Africa, 1855, '56 and '57; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1857; Naval
Asylum, Philadelphia, 1858 ; steamer Caledonia, Paraguay Expedition, 1859 ;
flag-ship Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1859, '60 and '61.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 26, 1861 ; frigate Congress, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; in the Congress when attacked by the rebel
ram Merrimac at Newport News, and injured by shell ; recorder of Medical
Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1862 ; receiving-ship, and special recruiting
duty, New York, 1862-4 ; frigate New Ironsides, North Atlantic Squadron,
1864-5; at both battles of Fort Fisher, and at Bermuda Hundred; steam-
sloop Canandaigua, European Squadron, 1866, '67 and '68, during which made
the Russian cruise, under Admiral Farragut ; member of Naval Retiring Board,
Philadelphia, 1868 ; at present Surgeon of the Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Maryland.

SURGEON SAMUEL F. COUES,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, February 25,
1851 ; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Portsmouth,
Pacific Squadron, 1852-5 ; hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 1857 ; Laboratory, New
York, 1858-9 ; steamer Saginaw, 1861.

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Commissioned as Surgeon, April 26, 1861 ; steam-sloop Housatonic, West
Gulf Squadrpn, 1862; steam-sloop Housatonic, South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1863 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1864-5 ; Naval Hob-
pital, Chelsea, Mass., 1866-8; steam-sloop Richmond, European Squadron,
1868-70.

SURGEON JACOB S. DUNGAN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, February 25, 1851 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Vixen, Home
Squadron, 1852 ; Coast Survey, 1853 ; steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 1854-5;
Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1857-8 ; Paraguay Expedition, 1859 ; receiving-ship,
Philadelphia, 1861 ; sloop Portsmouth, West Gulf Squadron, 1861—4.
Commissioned as Surgeon,Ma,y 1, 1861; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1865;
Naval Academy, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1867-8 ; steamer Ossipee, Pacific
Squadron, 1869-70.

SURGEON GEORGE PECK,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New York, February 25, 1851 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Cyane, Home Squadron,
1851-4 ; rendezvous, New York, 1855 ; frigate St. Lawrence, Brazil Squadron,
1857-9 ; steam-sloop Seminole, 1861 ; Marine Rendezvous, New York, 1861-4.
Commissioned as Surgeon, May 30, 1861 ; steam-sloop Dictator, North At
lantic Squadron, 1865; steamer Vanderbilt, Pacific Squadron, 1866; Navy
Yard, Norfolk, 1868; frigate Sabine, special cruise, 1869.

SURGEON JOHN M. BROWNE,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, March 26, 1853;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; store-ship, San Francisco, California,
1853-5; Coast Survey, 1856; hospital, Norfolk, 1859; sloop Constellation,
1861. ¦ _
Commissioned as Surgeon, June 19, 1861; steam-sloop Kearsarge, special
service, 1862-4 ; in fight with privateer Alabama, in June, 1864 ; temporary
duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1865; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 1866-8.

SURGEON THOMAS J. TURNER,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, December 16, 1853 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to Pacific Squadron, 1854-5 ;
frigate Independence, Pacific Squadron, 1856; sloop John Adattns, Pacific
Squadron, 1857-8; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1859; laboratory, New York,
1861-2.

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Commissioned as Surgeon, June 10, 1861 ; steam-sloop Ossipee, North At
lantic Squadron, 1863; Naval Hospital, Pensacola, 1864-5 ; special duty,
Philadelphia, 1866; member Board of Examiners, 1867; Recorder Board of
Examiners, 1868-9; at present, attached to steam-sloop Juniata, European
Squadron.

SURGEON JOHN Y. TAYLOR,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Delaware, September 26, 1853 ; en
tered, the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Decatur, Pacific
Squadron, 1853-7; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1858; sloop Preble, Brazil
Squadron, 1859 ; brig Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1860 ; Naval Hospital, New
York, 1861 ; steam-sloop Oneida, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-4 ;
in engagement with the rebel batteries at Vicksburg, June, 1862.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 1, 1861; steam-sloop Tuscarora, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; Recorder Examining Board, Philadel
phia, 1866 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1867-8 ; steam-sloop Plymouth, Euro
pean Squadron, 1868-70.

SURGEON WM. P. HORD*
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentucky, November 1, 1854 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon; went to Mediterranean in United States
frigate Congress, July, 1855 ; transferred to United States frigate Saranae, on
that station, September 28, 1855 ; returned to United States and detached,
June 28, 1856; ordered to store-ship Relief, Brazil Squadron, August 14, 1856;
detached, March 3, 1857; ordered to store-ship Supply, Brazil Squadron,
March 18, 1857; detached, August 18, 1857; ordered to Coast Survey steamer
Walker, October 28, 1856 ; detached June 8, 1858 ; ordered to Naval Hos
pital, Norfolk, Va., June 14, 1858; detached, December 22, 1858.
' Examined and promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, April, 1859 ; ordered
to United States steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, April 9, 1859 ;
transferred to sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, at Acapulco, June, 1861.
Promoted to Surgeon, August 1, 1861, detached from Cyane, at Panama and
ordered Home, November 11, 1861 ; volunteer Aid on General Nelson's Staff,
from the battle of Pittsburg Landing to the evacuation of Corinth, Miss., by
General Beauregard; ordered June 14, 1861, to receiving-ship Ohio, at Boston;
detached, December, 1862, and ordered to steam-sloop Pawnee, attached to
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron ; participated in all the operations against
the enemy's works at Charleston, South Carolina, during the year 1863, by
Admirals Du Pont and Dahlgren and General Gilmore ; ordered to United
States steam-frigate Wabash, off Charleston, South Carolina, August 10, 1863;
detached sick, December, 1863 ; ordered to recuiting-service, June 15, 1864,
at Jersey City, New Jersey ; detached and ordered -to Mound City, Illinois,
August 31, 1864; detached and ordered to United States steam-sloop Monon
gahela, November 8, 1865, West India Squadron ; wrecked in an earthquake
at. Santa Croix, West Indies, November 18, 1867; ordered to Navy Yard, Nor
folk, Virginia, October 12, 1868.

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SURGEON JOHN S. KITCHEN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 1, 1855 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop St. Louis, coast of Africa
1855-8; steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1859.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 1, i861 ; steamer Pocahontas, expedition
for relief of Fort Sumpter, and Potomac flotilla, 1861 ; steamer Mohican, capture
of Port Royal, Brunswick and Fernandina, 1861-2 ; steam-frigate Minnesota
flag-ship North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; steamer Sacramento,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863, and special cruise, 1864-5 ; Naval
Hospital, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1866; Naval Rendezvous, Boston,. Mas
sachusetts, 1867-8; receiving-ship, Boston, Massachusetts, 1868-9; iron-clad
Dictator, North Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70.

SURGEON ALBERT L. GIHON,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 1, 1855 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Levant, East India Squad
ron, 1855-8; brig Dolphin, Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1859.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 1, 1861 ; sloop St. Louis, special service,
1862-5; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-7; store-ship Idaho,
Asfetic Squadron, 1868-70.

SURGEON EDWIN R. DENBY,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, July 11, 1855; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-frigate Merrimac, special cruise,
1855-7; steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 185S; steamer Atlanta, Brazil
Squadron, and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop Dacotah, West India
Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 1, 1861 ; steam-sloop Wyoming, East
India Squadron, 1862-4; naval rendezvous, New York, 1865; Naval Asylum,
Philadelphia, 1866; Recorder Medical Board, Philadelphia, 1867 ; steam-sloop
Saranae, North Pacific Squadron, 1868; sloop Jamestown, Pacific Squadron,
1868-9.

SURGEON RICHARD C. DEAN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from New Jersey, April 17, 1856; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Dale, coast of Africa,
1857-9; steamer Crusader, Home Squadron, 1860; steam-sloop Wyandotte,
1861; steam-sloop Tuscarora, special service, 1861-3.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 1, 1861; steam-sloop Tuscarora, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; Naval Academy, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop
Sacramento, special service, 1867; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1868-9;
Bureau of Medicine, 1870.

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SURGEON PHILIP S. WALES,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, August 7, 1856 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeo^; attached to Naval Academy, 1857; steam-frigate
Mississippi, East India Squadron, 1858-60 ; steamer Water Witch, 1861.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 12, 1861 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1863 ;
steamer Fort Jackson, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; steamer
Fort Jackson, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; Examining Board,
1868; sloop Portsmouth, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

SURGEON ALBERT C. GORGAS,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, August 30, 1856; en
tered the service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to sloop Germantown, East
India Squadron, 1858-60; steamer Crusader, Home Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 13, 1861 ;¦ sloop Vandalia, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1864; steam-sloop
Juniata, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865; steam-sloop Juniata,
Brazil Squadron, 1866; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868-70.

SURGEON DELAVAN BLOODGOOD*
Born in Erie County, New York ; resident of Brooklyn ; entered the service
as Assistant Surgeon, March 13, 1857 ; first cruise in steam-frigate Merrimac,
flag-ship Pacific Squadron, 1857-60 ; visited the principal ports from Talca-
huana to Gulf of California and the Sandwich Islands ; observant of revolutions
in Chili, Peru, and some of the Central American States, besides the machina
tions of Walker, " the gray-eyed man of destiny;" volunteered his services at
a time when serious illness prevailed among the employes of the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company (English), at Toboga, and attended the sick until the sup
posed epidemic abated, for which his commanding officer received a letter of
thanks from the British consul at Panama ; duty at Chelsea Hospital, May to
September, 1860 ; thence to steamer Mohawk, cruising for slavers about Cuba
(two captures made) ; in same vessel at earliest monition of the rebellion ; par
ticipated in saving the forts at Key West and Tortugas ; next as convoy in the
removal from Texas of the troops surrendered by Twiggs ; on the first blockade,
eastern end of Santa Rosa Island ; detached from Gulf Blockading Squadron,
November, 1861, and arrived at Port Royal; ordered to transport Atlantic, in
charge of wounded and sick from the battle ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, Decem
ber 20, 1861 ; duty at rendezvous, New York, till January 24, 1862.
Promoted to Surgeon, January 24, 1862 ; attached to steam-sloop Dacotah,
1862^, viz.: at Hampton Roads, from raid of ram Merrimac till her destruction,
in which time occurred skirmishes and engagements with the rebel fleet, Se
well's Point and other batteries; at re-occupation of Norfolk; destruction of
enemy's works along James River ; in co-operation with army in first Peninsular
campaign; after which, joined the West India Flying Squadron and cruised for
privateers until in October, 1862, an epidemic of yellow fever aboard compelled
a return to cold latitudes; after abatement of the fever, joined blockading
squadron on the coasts of the Carolinas, but following autumn the ship was

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again disabled, in consequence of an epidemic of smallpox, and went north ; rid
of this latter pestilence, cruised in Winter of 1863 on coast of Nova Scotia, in
search of steamer Chesapeake, piratically captured ; this mission accomplished,
returned to the blockade off Wilmington, and, though in never a prize, shared
in several skirmishes with batteries and rams at nie entrances of Cape Fear
River; detached from Dacotah, July, 1864, and en route home, was one of the
captured and plundered by rebel raiders at Gunpowder River, Maryland; latter
part of 1864, on receiving-ship Vermont, at New York; in 1865, attached to
steamer Michigan, on the lakes; 1866, returned to receiving-ship Vermont;
February, 1867, ordered to the Jamestown, at Panama, after the breaking out
of the extremely virulent epidemic of yellow fever, and is one of the surviving
sufferers ; detached from Jamestown at San Francisco, and ordered to Cyane,
but two months subsequently accompanied the expedition, aboard the Ossipee,
to take possession of Alaska, and rejoined the Jamestown at Sitka, where the
Winter of 1867-8 was passed; on returning to California, was ordered to
steam-sloop Lackawanna, on the Mexican Coast, and served there until expira
tion of her cruise ; ordered East in Spring of 1869, and to the receiving-ship
Vermont, at New York.

SURGEON THOMAS WALTER LEACH,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, July 29, 1858;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-sloop Brooklyn,
Home Squadron, 1858-61 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1862.
Commissioned as Surgeon, May 21, 1862; steam-sloop Lackawanna, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863, and West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1864-5; Naval Hospital, New York, i866 ; steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic Fleet,
1867-70.

SURGEON WILLIAM M. KING,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, December 3, 1858 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; temporary duty, Navy Yard, Pensa
cola, 1859; attached to sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1860; store-ship Sup
ply, 1861; steam-sloop Hartford, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Surgeon, May 22, 1862; Naval Academy, 1864; steam-
sloop Wachusett, East India Squadron, 1865-6 ; member Examining Board,
1868 ; steam-sloop Congress, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1870.

SURGEON BENJAMIN F. GIBBS,*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, November 12,1858;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Memphis, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ; sloop John Adams, East India
Squadron, 1859-62; joined the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, September,
1862, and was ordered in charge of Naval Hospital at Navy Yard, Pensacola,
Florida; steam-sloop Ossipee, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; battle

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of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; chased the rebel ram Webb down the Missis
sippi River, April, 1865 ; school-ship Sabine, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop Ossipee,
North Pacific Fleet, 1867-9; special duty in connection with iron-clads in ordi
nary, at New Orleans, La., 1869-70.

SURGEON DAVID KINDLEBERGER*
Born in Ohio, September 2, 1834. Appointed from Ohio, May 20, 1859 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-sloop San Jacinto,
coast of Africa, June 10th to December 20, 1859; sloop Portsmouth, coast of
Africa, December, 1859 to October, 1861 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, December,
1861 to February, 1862 ; steamer Miami, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
February to May, 1862 ; present at the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
and capture of New Orleans ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, July to August, 1862.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 14, 1862 ; steam-sloop Monongahela,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, December, 1862-3 ; West Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5 ; was in the actions of Port Hudson, Donaldsonville,
Forts of Mobile Bay, and the rebel ram Tennessee ; gunboat Itasca, April to
September, 1865 ; leave of absence, September, 1865 to October, 1866 ; steamer
De Soto, North Atlantic Squadron, October, 1866 to January, 1868; was in
her during the great earthquake at St. Thomas, October, 1867, when she came
near being lost by the tidal waves ; Marine Rendezvous, 'Washington, Blay to
July, 1869 ; receiving-ship Independence, Marc Island, California, July to
August, 1869 ; Naval Rendezvous, San Francisco, California, 1869-70.

SURGEON WILLIAM E. TAYLOR.
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, July 3, 1859 ; entered the ser
vice as Assistant Sursjeon ; attached to sloop Savannah, Home Squadron,
1859-60; sloop St. Mary's, 1861.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 5, 1862 ; steam-sloop Iroquois, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; receiving-ship, Boston, 1864-5; iron
clad Miantonomah, European Squadron, 1867; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cali
fornia, 1869-70.

SURGEON JAMES MoM ASTER,*
Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Appointed as Assistant Surgeon from Penn
sylvania, October 8, 1859 ; attached to the Naval Academy from November,
1859, until May, 1860; attached to the United States steamer Niagara, Cap
tain W. B. McKean commanding, June, 1860 ; sailed from New York, June
30, 1860, with Japanese Embassy on board for Yeddo, Japan ; outward bound,
touched at Puerto Grande, St. Paul de Toando, West Coast of Africa, Angier
-Point and Batavia, Java, Hong-Kong, China, Yeddo and Yokohama, Japan ;
returning stopped at Hong-Kong, China, when the American minister, Mr.
Ward, was received ; touched at Singapore and proceeded to Aden, when Mr
Ward disembarked; thence to Cape Town, Boston, New York and Charleston,
when a blockade was established ; thence to Havana and Key West, off Mobile,

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Pensacola and the mouths of the Mississippi, November 22, 1861 ; participated
in the attacks on Forts McRae and Barrancas ; returned to Boston, June, 1862.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 11, 1862 ; was attached to the Philadel
phia Navy Yard in the Autumn of 1862, and Naval Asylum in Winter of
1862-3; joined the steamer Shenandoah, June, 1863, and started in pursuit
of rebel privateers off the coast ; returned .to Philadelphia, thence to Beaufort,
and afterward remained for several months on the blockade off New Inlet, N. C. ;
was attached to the Shenandoah in the first attack on Fort Fisher, December
24, 1864; again in the second attack and final reduction of the Fort, January
13, 14 and 15, 1865; immediately afterward joined the South Atlantic Squad
ron and was present at the evacuation of Charleston ; attached to the iron-clad
Miantonomah, September 6, 1865; visited Fortress Monroe, Norfolk and Wash
ington ; returned to New York and was detached previous to. the departure of
the Miantonomah for Europe ; attached to receiving-ship Vermont in February,
1867; detached March 31, 1869; attached to sloop Savannah, May, 1869;
visited Cherbourg and Brest, in France, Portsmouth, England, and Fauchal,
Madeira ; returned to Annapolis, September, 1869, and reported for duty on
board the Albany, in October, 1869 ; visited San Domingo, Samana Bay, St.
Thomas; detached at New York, January, 1870.

SURGEON CHRISTOPHER J. CLEBORNE,*
Born in Scotland, December 16, 1838. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May
9, 1861; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to sloop-of-war
Jamestown, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; engaged in the
destruction of the Alvarado under rebel battery at Fernandina, Florida, August
5, 1861 ; sloop Dale, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; gunboat
Aroostook, James River Flotilla and West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ;
Naval operations off Mobile, 1863.
Commissioned as Surgeon, November 24, 1863; Naval Rendezvous, Phila
delphia, 1863—4 ; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, coast of Brazil and South Atlantic
Squadron, 1864-5 ; present at bombardment of Fort Fisher, both attacks,
December, 1864 and January, 1865; Recorder of Medical Examining Board
and Judge Advocate Naval Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 1865 ; flag-ship
Rhode Island, North Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6; steamer Bienville, 1866;
Judge Advocate Naval Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 1867; sloop Saratoga,
1867-9 ; sloop Macedonian, 1869 ; flag-ship Powhatan, North Atlantic Squad
ron, 1869-70; Member of Board of Medical Examiners at Naval Hospital,
Philadelphia, 1870.

SURGEON JOHN CRAWFORD SPEAR*
Born in Delaware. Graduated at the University of Pennsylvania, 1861;
commissioned Assistant Surgeon, May 9, 1861.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, October 26, 1863.
Promoted to Surgeon, June 23, 1864 ; attached to steam-frigate Roanoke,
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; engagement between United States
vessels and rebel ram Merrimac, Hampton Roads, March 8th and 9, 1862; at
tached to steamer Mahaska, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; bat
tle of Malvern Hill ; the affair at Buggies' Point, and other similar engage-

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ments with the rebels on the James and York Rivers, in Virginia ; affair with
rebel battery at mouth of Cape Fear River) North Carolina ; land expedition
to Matthew's Court House, Virginia ; attached to flag-ship Minnesota, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1863-4 ; at
tached to steamer Seminole, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; bombard
ment and surrender of Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay ; attached to steamer Monon
gahela, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; special duty, Washington,
1865; attached to steamer Swatara; cruised in West Indies, 1865-6; in the
Mediterranean, coast of Europe and west coast of Africa, 1866-8 ; Naval Ren
dezvous, Philadelphia, 1869-70.

SURGEON CHARLES H. BURBANK,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, May 9, 1861 ; entered the service
as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to Naval Hospital, Pilot Town, Mississippi,
1861-2; school-ship Marion, 1863; steam-sloop Housatonic, 1864.
Commissioned as Surgeon, August 24, 1864; South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1865 ; receiving-ship, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-7 ; steam-
sloop Kearsarge, Pacific Squadron, 1868-70.

SURGEON HENRY C. NELSON,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, May 9, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-sloop Susquehanna, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3; Naval Hospital, New York, 1864.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 25, 1864 ; steam-sloop Pawnee, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1865-7 ; apprentice-ship Sabine, 1868 ; steamer Michigan,
on the lakes, 1868-9'; attached to apprentice-ship Macedonian, 1869; steam-
sloop Benicia, Asiatic Fleet, 1870.

SURGEON SOMERSET ROBINSON,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from District of Columbia, May 9, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-gunboat Katahdin,
West Gulf Squadron, 1861-3 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1864.
Commissioned as Surgeon, December 18, 1864 ; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squad
ron, 1865-6; steam-sloop Saranae, North Pacific Squadron, 1867 ; receiving-
ship, Norfolk, 1868-9; steamer Monocacy, Asiatic Fleet, 1870.

SURGEON ARCHIBALD C. RHOADES,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, July 30, 1861; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Pocahontas, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; Naval Hospital, New York, 1864.

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Commissioned as Surgeon, March 19, 1865; steamer Bienville, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1865; steam-sloop Shenandoah, East India Squadron,
1866-9 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1870.

SURGEON MICHAEL BRADLEY,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, July 30, 1861; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Louisiana, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; Mississippi Squadron, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Surgeon, June 12, 1865 ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes,
1867-8 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, North Atlantic Squadron, 1869-70.

SURGEON ADRIAN HUDSON,
Born in Canada. Appointed from New York, July 30, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to Mississippi Flotilla, 1862 ; steam-
gunboat Eastport, Mississippi Squadron, 1863 ; apprentice-ship Sabine, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Surgeon, June 12, 1864 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, South
Pacific Squadron, 1866-7 ; Mound City, Illinois,' 1868-70.

SURGEON NEWTON L. BATES,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 30, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-gunboat Seneca, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; Naval Laboratory, New York, 1863-7.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 16, 1865; apprentice-ship, Ports
mouth, 1868; steam-sloop Swatara, European Squadron, 1869; steam-sloop
Miantonomah, special service, 1870.

SURGEON JAMES H. LINKHAM,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 30, 1861; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-frigate Roanoke, 1861 ; gunboat
Kanawha, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; receiving-ship, Boston,
1864; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1864; steam-frigate Wabash, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1865; with assaulting party on Fort Fisher, 1865.
Commissioned as Surgeon, December 5, 1865 ; steam-frigate Colorado, flag
ship European Squadron, 1865-7; steamer Frolic, European Squadron, 1868;
steam-sloop Canandaigua, European Squadron, 1869 ; Recorder Board of Ex
aminers, 1870.

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SURGEON STEPHEN D. KENNEDY *
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Maryland, May 9, 1861 ; entered the ser
vice as Assistant SurgeOn ; attached to steam-sloops Colorado, Mohawk, Preble
and Hartford, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; in the expedition
that cut out the Juliet, at Pensacola, September, 1861 ; battles of Port Hudson,
Grand Gulf and Warrenton, Mississippi River; Navy Yard, Washington,
1863-4; resigned, 1865; re-appointed, January 5, 1866.
Commissioned as Surgeon, January 5, 1866; steam-sloop Lackawanna, North
Pacific Squadron, 1867-8; special duty, New York, 1869; receiving-ship New
Hampshire, Norfolk, Virginia, 1870.

SURGEON FREDERICK E. POTTER,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, July 30, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Monticello, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1863 ; steam-
sloop Narragansett, Pacific Squadron, 1864-6.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 6, 1866 ; steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship
Pacific Squadron, 1867; steam-sloop Mohican, Pacific Fleet, 1870.

SURGEON EDWARD S. BOGERT,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 30, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to frigate Congress, 1861 ; attached to
steaih-gunboat Cayuga, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; participated
in the passage of the forts below New Orleans, and action with rebel gunboats,
and subsequent campaign in the Mississippi RiveT ; Naval Hospital, New York,
1864; steam-frigate Niagara, special service, 1864; Naval Hospital, New
Briton, 1866.
Commmissioned as Surgeon, April 7, 1866; Naval Laboratory, New York,
1867-70.

SURGEON WALTER K. SCHOF1ELD,
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, July 30, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-gunboat Sagamore, East
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; steamer Union, East Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1864 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1865-6; steamer Augusta, Euro
pean Squadron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Surgeon, June 19, 1866 ; Naval Rendezvous, Boston, 1868 ;
sloop Saratoga, North Atlantic .Squadron, 1869; iron-clad Terror, special ser
vice, 1870.

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SURGEON AARON S. OBERLY,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Connecticut, July 30, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-gunboat Kineo, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; Naval Academy, 1864 ; steamer Santiago de
Cuba, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865; Naval Station, Mound Citv
111., 1866-8. > J>
Commissioned as Surgeon, June 19, 1866 ; steam-sloop Narragansett, 1869.

SURGEON GROVE S. BEARDSLEY,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 30, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific Squad
ron, 1861-4 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn,
flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1866, and South Atlantic Squadron, 1867.
Commissioned as Surgeon, July 25, 1866; receiving-ship Independence, San
Francisco, 1868-9.

SURGEON J. S. KNIGHT,*
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware, July 30, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon; Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, 1861 ; attached
to steam-sloops Brooklyn and Preble, 1861-3 ; remained with the Preble until
she was destroyed by fire, in which disaster Surgeon Jackson lost all his per
sonal effects; participated in the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and
the capture of New Orleans, and was three times under the batteries at Vicks
burg; Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1863. Surgeon B. F. Gibbs, in a letter
to Assistant Surgeon Jackson, says : "It gives me great pleasure to express at
this time my entire approval of your conduct as a student, a physician and a
gentleman while on duty with me at the hospital at this yard. If any other
encomium were necessary, I could refer to nothing more praiseworthy than
your willing and industrious energy during the dark and trying passage of our
lives, while an epidemic of yellow fever raged so fearfully and fatally in our
midst, calling forth those pure elements of our nature, sympathy, charity and
courage. I cannot help but recognize how well you combine these." Naval
Asylum, Philadelphia, 1864; Mississippi Squadron, 1864-5. Fleet-Surgeon
Pinkney thus writes under date of November 12, 1865 : " Before severing my
association with a squadron to which I have been attached during a period of
more than two years and a half, I deem it an act of justice to tender you my
thanks for the efficiency with which you discharged the duties as my assistant;
your conduct was such as to entitle you to my esteem and confidence." Naval
Station, Mound City, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Surgeon, July 25, 1866; steam-sloop Mohican, North
Pacific Squadron, 1866-8; visited all the principal ports on the Pacific Coast;
receiving-ship Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts, 1870.

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SURGEON HENRY M. WELLS*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, July 30, 1861;
entered the. service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to Naval Rendezvous and
Hospital, Boston, 1861 ; sloop Portsmouth and steamer Tennessee, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; participated in engagements with Forts Jack
son and St. Philip in April, 1862; batteries at Donaldsonville, Grand Gulf,
Port Hudson and Vicksburg on the Mississippi River in 1862-3 ; receiving-
ship and hospital, Boston, 1864 ; frigate Sabine, 1864 ; iron-clad Onondaga,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; batteries on James River, Va.,
1865; Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, and steamer Shamokin, Brazil Squad
ron, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 9, 1866; Naval Hospital, New York,
1869-70.

SURGEON EDWARD S. MATTHEWS,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from District of Columbia, July 30, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steamer Hatteras, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3; steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship Pacific
Squadron, 1864; East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865; Pacific Squadron,
1866. Commissioned ' as Surgeon, July 25, 1866; store-ship Fredonia, Callao,
1867; steam-sloop Saranae, North Pacific Squadron, 1868; Naval Rendezvous,
Boston, 1869-70.

SURGEON JOHN H. CLARK,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, October 19, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1861-4; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1865; steamer
Mohongo, Pacific Squadron, 1865-7.
Commissioned as Surgeon, May 14, 1867 ; receiving-ship, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1868-9; steam-sloop Alaska, 1870.

SURGEON ADOLPH A. HOEHLING,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, August 14, 1861 ; en
tered the service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to mortar flotilla, 1861-3 ;
steam-frigate Roanoke, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; Naval
Asylum, Philadelphia, 1865; steam-sloop Dacotah, Pacific Squadron, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 2, 1867 ; Retiring Board, Philadelphia,
1868-9; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1869; steam-sloop Frolic, Navy Yard, New
York, 1870.

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SURGEON BENJAMIN H. KIDDER,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 20, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-gunboat Marble
head, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862—4 ; steam-frigate Colorado,
flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1865 ; steamer De Soto, special service, 1866,
and North Atlantic Squadron, 1867.
Commissioned as Surgeon, March 2, 1868; special duty, Boston, 1869-70.

SURGEON WILLIAM K. VAN REYPEN,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, November 29, 1861;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to Naval Hospital, New
York, 1862; frigate St. Lawrence, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4;
steamer Lenapee, Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, Euro
pean Squadron, 1868; steamer Frolic, European Squadron, 1868-9; special
dutyj New Orleans, 1869 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1870.

SURGEON THOMAS C. WALTON,
Born in England. Appointed from New York, October 5, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Jamestown, East India Squad
ron, 1862-5 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 1866-7 ; steamer Suwanee, North Pacific
Squadron, 1868.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 22, 1868 ; steamer Resaca, Pacific Squad
ron, 1869-70.

SURGEON THEORON WOOLVERTON,
Born in Canada. Appointed from Pennsylvania, July 17, 1862 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1864 ;
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
1866; steamer Monocacy, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Surgeon, November 23, 1868 ; steamer Michigan, 1870.

SURGEON THOMAS HILAND,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New Hampshire, November 22,
1861; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to steam-gunboat
Sonoma, West India Squadron, 1862-3 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1864-5 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European Squadron, 1866-8; steamer Swa
tara, European Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Surgeon, November 24, 1868; on duty at Quarantine Hos
pital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1870.

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SURGEONS ON RETIRED LIST.
Retired under fifst section of Act of December 21, 1861.

SURGEON DAVID S. EDWARDS*
Born in Connecticut, June 22, 1794. Graduated at Yale College, 1814; en
tered navy as Assistant Surgeon, July 30, 1818 ; to frigate Congress, for China
Sea, 1818; ship visited at Manilla, 1820, by Asiatic Cholera, a new disease; to
Washington, 74, 1821; schooner Grampus, 1822; by aid of boats, five sail of
pirates destroyed near Cuba; was severely wounded; to Erie, for Mediterranean,
1823. Commissioned as Surgeon, May 6, 1825 ; to the Boston, 1826, four years to
Brazil; rendezvous, New York, 1830; cholera hospital, New York, 1832;
Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1834 ; ship St. Louis, West Indies, 1836 ; Fleet-Sur
geon, West India Squadron, 1837; Navy Yard, Washington, 1839 ; steamer
Fulton, 1841 ; North Carolina, 74, 1843 ; waiting orders, 1846 ; to Marine
BattaUon, 1847, to join the army in Mexico; July, 1847, Medical Director
General Pierce's Brigade, Vera Cruz; in engagements at Santa Fe, National
Bridge, Tres Rios; August, 1847, at Puebla, Medical Director General Quit
man's Division, army 10,000 strong, en route for the City of Mexico; in en
gagements at Contreras, Chapultepec and City of Mexico; in charge of general
hospital at St. Augustine; Inspector of sick and wounded of the army previous
to their return to the States; Fleet-Surgeon West India Squadron, 1848 to
1850 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1854; Fleet-Surgeon Pacific Squadron, 1857
to 1860; Naval Rendezvous, New Bedford, 1861 to 1864; steamer Rhode
Island, Mobile, 1865; waiting orders, 1866; special duty, Navy Department,
1869-70.

SURGEON BENJAMIN F. BACHE,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Pennsylvania, July 1, 1824.
Commissioned as Surgeon, June 3, 182S"; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1832-6 ;
sloop Fairfield, Brazil Squadron, 1838—41; Fleet-Surgeon Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1841-4; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1845-7; Fleet-Surgeon Brazil
Squadron, 1848-50 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1850^; Director of Labora
tory, New York, 1855-70.

SURGEON JAMES M. GREENE,
Born in Ireland. Appointed from Pennsylvania, April 29, 1825.
Promoted to Surgeon, December 4, 1828; sloop Concord, 1830-3; rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1834; frigate Brandywine, Mediterranean Squadron,
1839-42; Fleet-Surgeon, Home Squadron, 1843-6 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1847-50 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Squadron, 1850-3 ; Naval Asylum, Philadel
phia, 1856-8; Fleet-Surgeon, Brazil Squadron, 1858-60; Navy Yard, Philadel
phia, 1861-3; President Board of Examiners, 1864-6; waiting orders, 1867;
President Board of Examiners, 1868 ; waiting orders, 1869-70.

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SURGEON G. R. B. HORNER,*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, May 26, 1826; entered the
service as Surgeon's Mate ; attached to frigate Macedonian, Brazil Squadron,
June 20, 1826 to November, 1828; frigate Brandywine, Home Squadron,
1830-1. Commissioned as Surgeon, April 4, 1831 ; sloop John Adams, Mediterranean
Squadron, May, 1831-3'; sloop Levant, 1833-4 ; frigate United States, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1836-7; sloop Levant, Mediterranean Squadron, 1837; Fleet-
Surgeon, frigate Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1841-3 ; frigate Delaware, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1843-4 ; Fleet-Surgeon, frigate Savannah, Pacific Squad
ron, 1849-50 ; frigate Wabash, October, 1856-8 ; captured the noted General
Wm. Walker at Greytown, in December, 1856; steam-frigate Colorado, flag
ship, Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; steam-frigate Niagara, flag-ship, East
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; steam-frigate San. Jacinto, at Key West,
Florida, 1862; frigate St. Lawrence and gunboat Magnolia, 1862-3; retired
in May, 1863.

SURGEON WILLIAM S. W. RUSCHENBERGER,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, August 10, 1826; entered
the service with the rank of Assistant Surgeon ; Pacific Squadron, 1826-9.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 4, 1831 ; sloop Falmouth, Pacific Squadron,
1832-4; Fleet-Surgeon, East India Squadron, 1836-9; Naval Rendezvous,
Philadelphia, 1840-2; Naval Hospital, New York, 1845; Fleet-Surgeon, East
India Squadron, 1847-9; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1852; Fleet-Surgeon,
Pacific Squadron, 1854-7; Navy Yard, Boston, 1860— 4; special duty, Phila
delphia, 1865-6 ; President Board of Examiners, 1869-70.

SURGEON WILLIAM JOHNSON,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware, August 16, 1826.
Promoted to Surgeon, April 4, 1§31 ; sloop Boston, West India Squadron,
1834-9; Navy Yard, New York, 1840-2; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Squadron,
1842-5; Navy Yard, Boston, 1846-8; Fleet-Surgeon, African Squadron,
1848-51; Navy Yard, Boston, 1852-5; Naval Hospital, Pensacola, 1857-8;
Fleet-Surgeon, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-60; Naval Asylum, Philadel
phia, 1861-3 ; Fleet-Surgeon, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ;
special duty, Philadelphia, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1867 ; Navy Yard, Phil
adelphia, 1868-70.

SURGEON THOMAS L. SMITH,*
Born in, and appointed from the State of New Jersey ; was commissioned a
Surgeon's Mate, January 3, 1828, and ordered for first duty to the frigate
Hudson, then fitting at New York, for the Brazil station, Commodore Creighton;
in August, 1830, while on that station, and under command of Commodore

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Cassin, was appointed Acting Surgeon, and ordered to the U. S. sloop
Vandalia, Captain Gallagher, who after a short time was relieved by Captain
Kennon ; returned to the United States, and arrived at Norfolk, December,
1831 ; after a very short leave of absence was ordered to the receiving-ship
Franklin, New York, and continued on duty at that station, until September,
1834, when ordered to United States schooner Boxer, fitting for sea at Norfolk,
Virginia ; sailed from that place early in November, encountering a terrific gale
off the coast ; although receiving some damage continued on the cruise for the
Pacific Station, then under command of Commodore Wadsworth ; continued on
duty as Passed Assistant Surgeon on that station, until July, 1837, when or
dered to return to the United States, taking passage in the brig Lady Adams,
of Baltimore, where she arrived in the following September.
Promoted to Surgeon, February 7, 1837; December, 1838, joined the frigate
Macedonian, for the West India Station, Commodore Shubrick ; soon after the
arrival at Pensacola, was transferred to the sloop Erie, Commander Smoot ; the
Summer of 1840, the Squadron sailed North, touching at the Boston Station,
Portland, and East Port; on the return, the Erie was put in ordinary at Bos
ton, the officers detached ; after a leave of absence, was attached to the receiv
ing-ship on the Boston Station, continuing on duty there until April, 1842,
when he was transferred to the frigate Congress, being fitted for sea at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire ; in July following, sailed for the Mediterranean Sta
tion under the command of Captain Voorhies; continued on that station until
December, 1843, when the ship was ordered to the Brazils, finishing the cruise
on that station ; returned to the United States, arriving March, 1845 ; in
1846, did duty a short time on board the receiving-ship Pennsylvania, at Nor
folk, Virginia ; in 1847, '48 and '49, was attached to Navy Yard, New York,
and on the Board for the examination of candidates for promotion and admis
sion into the Medical Corps of the Navy ; August, 1850, joined the sloop Sar
atoga, Captain Walker, and sailed from Norfolk the following September, for
the coast of China ; Commodore Perry arriving and taking command, the, Sara
toga was made one of the Japan expedition ; Surgeon Smith was there appointed
Fleet-Surgeon, and ordered to the flag-ship Susquehanna, where he continued
until March, 1855, when he was detached to join the Saratoga, to return to
the United States, arriving the 1st of September following ; September 13,
1855, ordered to the Navy Yard, New York, and continued on duty at that sta
tion until May 31, 1858 ; April 9, 1859, received orders for the Constellation,
as Fleet-Surgeon of the African Squadron ; Commodore Inman sailed in July
for Madeira and the coast of Africa ; returned from that Squadron, arriving in
the United States August 28, 1861, in the midst of the troubles of the country ;
January 1, 1862, took charge of the Naval Hospital, New York, and continued
in charge until December, 1865, when he was placed On leave, until the 20th
of May, 1869, when he was put on duty at the Navy Yard, New York.

SURGEON LEWIS B. HUNTER,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from the same State, January, 1828 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to frigate Hudson, Brazil Squadron,
1828-33 ; hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, 1830-1 ; schooner Porpoise, West
India Squadron, 1831-2 ; frigate Java, Norfolk, Virginia, 1833-4 ; sloop John
Adams, sehooner Shark, Mediterranean Squadron, 1834-6 ; Navy Yard, New
York, 1836-7.

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SURGEONS.

Commissioned as Surgeon, February, 1837 ; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1837;
steamer Fulton, 1837-8; sloop Cyane, Mediterranean and coast of Africa,
1S38-41; rendezvous, Baltimore and Philadelphia, 1842-3 ; steamer Princeton,
1843-5; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1845-6; sloop Saratoga, Gulf of Mex
ico, 1847-8; rendezvous and Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1848-50 ; frigate
St. Lawrence, west coast of Europe, 1851 ; Naval Examining Board, Philadel
phia, 1852 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Mediterranean Squadron, 1852-5 ; Navy Yard,
Philadelphia, 1855-8; Fleet-Surgeon, coast of Brazil, 1859-61; Retiring-
Board, New York, 1861-2; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1863—4; Fleet-Surgeon,
North Atlantic Squadron, 1865; Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 186.6; Surgeon
to Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 1867 ; Naval Board of Examination, Phila
delphia, 1868-70.

SURGEON GEORGE CLYMER,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, July 1, 1829; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; frigates Constellation and Brandywine, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1829, '30, '31, .'32 and '33 ; receiving-ship, New York,
1836; sloop John Adams, and frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron
1836-8. Commissioned as Surgeon, February 20, 1838; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squad
ron, 1841-4; Navy Yard, Washington, 1845-7; frigate St. Lawrence, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1848-50 ; Naval Observatory (special duty), Washington,
1851—4; Fleet-Surgeon, African Squadron, 1855-7; Navy Yard, Washing
ton, 1858-60; Fleet-Surgeon, West India Squadron, 1861; Fleet-Surgeon,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; Naval Observatory (special
duty), 1865-8; member of Medical Board, Washington, 1869-70.

SURGEON ISAAC BRINKERHOFF,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 1, 1829; schooner
Shark, West India Squadron, 1830-3 ; ship-of-the-line North Carolina, Pacific
Squadron, 1836-8.
Promoted to Surgeon, February 28, 1838; receiving-ship New Jersey,
1839—42; sloop John Adams, Brazil Squadron, 1842-4; sloop Marion, coast
of Africa, 1845-7; sloop Marion, Mediterranean Squadron, 1847-8; receiving-
ship, New York, 1849-51; sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1851-5; ren
dezvous, Boston, 1856-9; Naval Rendezvous, 1861-5; waiting orders, 1866-8;
special duty, New York, 1869-70.

SURGEON DANIEL EGBERT,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Ohio, August 22, 1829 ; Naval Hos
pital, Norfolk; 1831-3; schooner Shark, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-8;
sloop Warren, West India Squadron, 1838—42.
Commissioned as Surgeon, February 2, 1838; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1843-5;
sloop Preble, Pacific Squadron, during Mexican War; rendezvous, Baltimore,

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1849-51; Fleet-Surgeon, Brazil Squadron, 1853-7; rendezvous, Philadelphia,
1858-61; retired, 1861; Naval Station, Baltimore, 1862-4; Naval Station,
Baltimore, 1865-6; waiting orders, 1867-8; special duty, Philadelphia,
1869-70. F

SURGEON CHARLES D. MAXWELL,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware, September 6, 1837; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon; frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron,
1839-42; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1843^4; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1845;
sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1845-8; actively engaged against the enemy
during the war with Mexico ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1849-50.
Commissioned as Surgeon, October 18, 1849 ; steam-frigate PoWhatan, East
India Squadron, 1852-6; special duty, Washington, 1857-9; sloop Ports
mouth, 1860-1 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1862-4 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific
Fleet, 1864-7; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1867-9; special duty, Washing
ton, 1870.

SURGEON JOHN J. ABERNATHY,
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, February 9, 1837; sloop
Levant, West India Squadron, 1838-42 ; store-ship Lexington, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1844-5; store-ship Lexington, Pacific Squadron, during war with
Mexico; receiving-ship, New York, 1850.
Commissioned as Surgeon, November 7, 1850; sloop St- Mary's, Pacific
Squadron, 1850-3; receiving-ship New York, 1854-7; sloop Falmouth, Brazil
Squadron, 1857-9 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1860-1 ; frigate Sabine, Atlan
tic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; Naval Rendezvous, New York, 1865 ; wait
ing orders, 1866; Naval Hospital, Pensacola, 1867-8 ; Naval Hospital, Nor
folk, 1869; retired, 1861.

Retired under third section of Act of February 21, 1861.

SURGEON GEORGE W. CODWISE,
Born in West Indies. Appointed from New York, May 14, 1825; sloop
Ontario, Brazil Squadron, 1833-6; sloop John Adams, Home Squadron,
1847-8; Navy Yard, Memphis, 1849-50; unemployed from 1850-70; retired
in 1861

280 surgeons.
SURGEON ROBERT DODD.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 29, 1826; sloop
Warren, Brazil Squadron, 1830-3 ; Sloop Lexington, Brazil Squadron, 1834;
frigate Potomac, Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-8; rendezvous, Boston,
1839-42; sloop Boston, East India Squadron, 1843-7; Naval Asylum, Phila
delphia, 1848-51; unemployed, 1851-70; retired 1861.

SURGEON JOHN H. WRIGHT,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from Massachusetts, December 9, 1839 ;
entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; sloop Boston, East India Squadron,
1843-7 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1848-51 ; steam-frigate San Jacinto, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1852-3; receiving-ship, Boston, 1854-5.
Commissioned as Surgeon, April 18, 1855 ; steam-sloop Levant, East India
Squadron, 1856-8; unemployed, 1859-70 ; retired in 1861.

SURGEON JOHN THORNLEY*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, October 13, 1840 ; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop Dale, Pacific Squadron, 1840-3 ;
Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, 1843-5.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, February 23, 1846 ; steamer Spitfire,
Home Squadron, 1846-7 ; was engaged in all the active operations of that
vessel in the Gulf of Mexico from Tampico to Alvarado, until April 26, 1847 ;
Naval Hospital, Island of Salmidina, near Vera Cruz, here he was busily engaged
with yellow fever patients, there being over two hundred in as many months,
but succumbing himself to the fever was sent to the Naval Hospital at Pensa
cola; store-ship Supply, New York, 1847; store-ship Supply, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1847-8; receiving-ship, North Carolina and Naval Rendezvous,
New York, 1849. This was during the cholera epidemic. Store-ship Supply,
Pacific Squadron, 1849-51 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1852-3 ; sick, 1853-5 ;
steamer Savannah, Mediterranean Squadron, 1855; frigate Cumberland, 1855;
special duty, Washington, 1855.
Commissioned as Surgeon, September 1, 1855 ; waiting orders, 1855-7 ;
receiving-ship Alleghany, Baltimore, 1857 ; sloop Vincennes, coast of Africa,
1858-9 ; unemployed, 1859-61 ; retired, February 21, 1861 ; Naval Rendezvous,
New York, 1861-65 ; unemployed, 1865-70.

Retired under third section of Act of August 3, 1861.

SURGEON ALBERT SCHRIVER,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, June 28,1852 ; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon ; steam-frigate Potomac, East India Squadron,
1852-6 ; steam-frigate Merrimac, Pacific Squadron, 1857-60.

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Commissioned as Surgeon, June 23, 1861 ; sloop Marion, 1861 ; steam-sloop
Juniata, Blockading Squadron, 1863; steam-sloop Wachusett, special cruise,
1863; special duty, Philadelphia, 1865; waiting orders, 1866-70; retired in
1861.

SURGEON ROBERT L. WEBER,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, May 20, 1854; entered
the service as Assistant Surgeon; Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1862-3.
Commissioned as Surgeon, January 25, 1863; retired in 1863; waiting orders,
1867-70.

SURGEON EDWARD M. STEIN,
Born in Hungary. Appointed from New York, May 3, 1861; entered the
service as Assistant Surgeon, steam-frigate Wabash, South Atlantic Squadron,
1861-2; iron-clad Weehawken, South Atlantic Squadron, 1863; South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; Navy
Yard, Washington, 1866; waiting orders, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Surgeon, 1867; Marine Rendezvous, Washington, 1870.

PAYMASTER EDWARD T. DUNN*
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, February
21, 1831 ; attached to sloop John Adams, Mediterranean Squadron, 1831-4 ;
schooner Boxer, Pacific Squadron, 1834-5 ; sloop Vincennes, Pacific and East
India Squadrons, 1835-6 ; store-ship Relief and frigate Macedonian, South Sea
Exploring Expedition, 1837-8 ; frigate Macedonian, West India Squadron,
1838^2; receiving-ship Pennsylvania, Norfolk, 1843-5; line-of-battle-ship
Columbus, East India Squadron, and in the Paciflc Squadron during Mexican
War, 1845-8; Navy Yard, New York, 1849-52; frigate Columbia, Home
Squadron, 1852-5 ; steamer Merrimac, 1857 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1858-60 ;
sloop St. Mary's, 1860-3 ; Fleet-Paymaster, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1863-5 ; Paymaster at Baltimore, 1865-9 ; Chief Bureau Provisions and Clothing,
1869-70.

PAYMASTER JOHN B. RITTENHOUSE,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Alabama, July 21, 1840 ;
attached to brig Oregon, survey of Tampa Bay, etc., 1840-3; sloop Levant
Pacific Squadron, 1844-7; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1848-50; sloop Albany,
Home Squadron, 1851-2 ; steam-frigate San Jacinto, Mediterranean Squadron,
1852-3; receiving-ship Boston, 1854-6; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1856-8; Navy Yard, Boston, 1859-60; special duty, 1861;
Inspector Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1862-4 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Pacific Squad
ron, 1864-6; Inspector of Provisions, Boston and Philadelphia, 1867-70.

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PAYMASTER HORACE M. HIESKELL,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 13, 1841 ;
attached to brig Somers, special service, 1842-4 ; sloop Falmouth, Home Squad
ron, 1844-6 ; sloop Jamestown, coast of Africa, 1847-50 ; Navy Yard, Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, 1851—4; frigate Potomac, Home Squadron, 1854-6;
sloop Germantown, East India Squadron, 1857-60 ; frigate Constitution, school-
ship, Naval Academy, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1862-4; Fleet-Paymaster, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; Inspector of Provisions, Philadelphia,
1867-8; Paymaster at Philadelphia, 1868-9.

PAYMASTER GEORGE F. CUTTER*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, June 5, 1844; attached
to brig Truxton, coast of Africa, 1844-5; brig Truxton, 1846, wrecked at
Tuspan, Mexico, and taken prisoner during the Mexican War ; receiving-ship,
Boston, 1846-7; sloop Albany, West India Squadron, 1847-50 ; receiving-ship,
Boston, 1851^; steamer Massachusetts, Pacific Squadron, 1854-7, and engaged
in Indian War in Washington Territory ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, 1857-60; steam-sloop Richmond, flag-ship Mediterranean Squadron,
1860-1; Western Gulf Squadron, 1861-2; at capture of forts below New
Orleans, and of that city, and at the attack on Vicksburg, in 1862, by Admiral
Farragut's Squadron; Fleet-Paymaster, Eastern Gulf Squadron, 1863; Inspector
at Navy Yard, Boston, 1864-7; Fleet-Paymaster,' Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9 ;
Inspector at Boston, 1870.

PAYMASTER JAMES H. WATMOUGH *
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, December 12, 1844 ;
attached to sloop Portsmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1844-8 ; during the Mexican
War, was in most of the operations in California, including the bombardment of
Guaymas ; brig Perry, coast of Africa, 1849-51 ; frigate Constitution, coast of
Africa, 1852-5; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1857-8; sloop Saratoga, Gulf
of Mexico, 1859-60; in action with two Spanish steamers which were captured;
Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1861-3; steam-frigate Niagara, special service,
1863-4; Fleet-Paymaster, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; was
in most of the operations of the squadron, including seven or eight days' opera
tions in Stono River, and the subsequent operations on James and John's Islands
previous to the evacuation of Charleston, South Carolina; Navy Yard, New York,
1866-8 ; Inspector, etc., Navy Yard, New York, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER JOHN O. BRADFORD,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Pennsylvania, March 14, 1845 ; attached
to sloop Saratoga, 1845-6 ; sloop Germantown, Home Squadron, 1846-8 ; sloop
Portsmouth, coast of Africa, 1849-51; Navy Yard, Boston, 1854-5; steam-
frigate San Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1855-8; receiving-ship, Boston,,
1860-1; Navy Yard, Boston, 1862; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863 ;

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Fleet-Paymaster, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; Inspector of
Provisions, etc., New York, 1865-7; Fleet-Paymaster, European Squadron,
1867-9 ; Paymaster at New York, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER J. GEORGE HARRIS *
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Tennessee, August 19, 1845; Navy
Yard, Memphis, 1845-6 ; attached to sloop Albany, in the Gulf of Mexico, at
the capture of Vera Cruz, Tuspan, Tobasco, etc., in the Mexican War, 1846-7 ;
sloop Decatur, suppressing the slave trade on the western coast of Africa,
1848-9 ; sloop Saratoga, of the East India and China Squadron and of Perry's
Expedition, which opened Japan to the commerce of the worid, 1850—4 ; Navy
Yard, New York, 1855-7 ; steam-frigate Wabash, flag-ship of the Mediterranean
Squadron, 1858-9; steamer Michigan, on the iakes, 1861; frigate Sabine, of
the North and South Atlantic Blockading Squadrons, 1861-3; special duty at
New York, 1864; Fleet-Paymaster of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron,
attached to flag-ships San Jacinto and Powhatan, 1864-5; Navy Yard, Boston,
1865-8; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, Boston, 1869.

PAYMASTER EDWARD C. DORAN ,*
BorN in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Indiana, September 15, 1845 ; attached
to brig Dolphin, coast of Africa, 1845-6; sloop Marion, coast of Africa and
Mediterranean Squadrons, 1847-8; sloop John Adams, coast of Africa,
1849-50; sloop Plymouth, East India Squadron and Perry's Expedition to
Japan, 1851-4; participated in land battle of Americans and English with
Chinese Imperialists, at Shanghae, April 1854 ; receiving-ship Norfolk, 1855-6 ;
Naval Academy, 1856 ; steam-frigates Colorado and Roanoke, 1858-60 ; Nor
folk Navy Yard, 1860-1; special duty, 1861; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cali
fornia; Paymaster of Station, Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, and Pur
chasing Paymaster, San Francisco, 1864-7; Paymaster, San Francisco, 1867-8 ;
Fleet-Paymaster, North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; receiving-ship Mare Island,
1869; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1870.

PAYMASTER JOSEPH C. ELDREDGE,*
Born in the city of New York. Appointed from Texas, February 2, 1847 ;
attached to frigate Brandywine, and brig Perry, of the Brazil Squadron, under
command of Commodore Jacob Storer, during 1847, '48 and '49 ; to the brig
Porpoise, coast of Africa, under command of Commodore F. H. Gregory, 1850,
'51 and '52; to United States steam-frigate Powhatan, ofthe East India Squad
ron, 1853-6, under command of Commodore M. C. Perry, participating in his
expedition to open the ports and negotiate the first treaty with Japan ; to the
United States steam-frigate Niagara, under command of Captain William L.
Hudson, during the first and second expedition, in 1857-8, for laying the Atlan
tic telegraph cable; inspector of provisions, etc., at Navy Yard, New York,
1858-61 ; to steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship Pacific Squadron, under command
of Rear Admiral Charles H. Bell, as Fleet-Paymaster, 1862-4 ; special duty at
New York, 1865 ; Disbursing and Purchasing Paymaster at New York, 1866-9 ;
waiting orders, 1870.

284 PAYMASTERS.
PAYMASTER JOHN S. GULICK,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, February 1, 1851 ; at
tached to sloop Jamestown, Brazil Squadron, 1851—4 ; special duty, Washing
ton, 1855 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1857-9 ; steam-frigate
Wabash, flag-ship South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; Navy Yard,
Washington, 1863; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1864; Fleet-Paymaster, Missis
sippi Squadron, 1864-5 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1865 ; Naval Academy,
1867-8 ; Fleet-Paymaster, European Squadron, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER W. BRENTON BOGGS,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New York, November 30, 1852 ; at
tached to sloop Vincennes, North Pacific Expedition, 1852-6; special duty,
Washington, 1857 ; ordnance-ship Plymouth, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop Wyoming,
1861; special duty, Washington, 1862; specialduty, Mississippi Squadron,
1863-4 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1866-9.

PAYMASTER WILLIAM G.' MARCY,
Born in New York. Appointed from California, April 1, 1853; attached to
steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 1853-6; sloop Cumberland, flag-ship African
Squadron, 1857-9; receiving-ship, New York, 1860^1; iron-clad Dictator,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steam-sloop Madawaska, 1867;
Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1867-9.

PAYMASTER THOMAS H. LOOKER,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, August 31, 1853 ; attached to brig
Bainbridge, Brazil Squadron, 1853-6; sloop Portsmouth, East India Squadron,
1856-8; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Home Squadron, 1858-60; steam-sloop Brook
lyn, Atlantic Squadron, 1861; store-ship Brandywine, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1862-3 ; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1864 ; steam-sloop Pow
hatan, South Pacific Squadron, 1866 ; Fleet-Paymaster, South Pacific Squadron,
1867-8; Paymaster at Baltimore, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER C. J. EMERY*
Born in Maine. Appointed from New Hampshire, April 1855; attached to
United States Store-ship Relief, Brazil Squadron, 1855-6 ; sloop Levant, East
India Squadron, 1857-8; sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop
Narragansett, Pacific Squadron, 1859-62 ; store-ship Brandywine, North At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; Navy Yard, Inspector of Provisions and
Clothing, and Pay and Purchasing Paymaster at Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H.,
1863-5; Fleet-Paymaster and Naval Storekeeper, Asiatic Squadron, 1866—9 j
Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, New York, 1869.

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PAYMASTER CHARLES. W. ABBOTT, *
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, September 2, 1856 ;
attached to sloop Falmouth, Brazil Squadron, 1856-8; frigate St. ¦ Lawrence,
Brazil Squadron, 1859 ; steamrsloop Mohican, coast of Africa, 1859-60 ; steam-
sloop Pawnee, Atlantic Coast, 1861 ; had several engagements with the Acquia
Creek and Jlathias Point Batteries in the Potomac River, and participated in the
capture of the forts at Hatteras Inlet; steam-sloop Brooklyn, West Gulf Blockad
ing Squadron, 1862 ; capture of Forts Jackson and S*- Philip, and city of New
Orleans; first attack on Vicksburg batteries ; special duty, New York, 1864;
Naval Academy, 1865-7; Fleet-Paymaster, North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8;
Paymaster, Boston, 1869.

PAYMASTER JOHN S. CUNNINGHAM,* '
Born in Charleston, South Carolina. Appointed from South Carolina, March
13, 1857 ; purser of sloop-of-war Dale, West Coast of Africa, full cruise,
1857-9 ; purser of Naval Academy, Annapolis, 1859-60 ; Paymaster of sloop-
of-war Plymouth, practice-cruise to Spain, Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, etc.,
1860; Paymaster of sloop-of-war Macedonian, Gulf of Mexico and Vera Cruz,
1860-1; Fleet-Paymaster, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, steam-frigate
Wabash, 1862-3 ; Inspector and Paymaster, Navy Yard, Washington, 1864-5 ;
Fleet-Paymaster, European Squadron, steam-frigate Colorado, 1865-7; In
spector, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1868; Paymaster, Navy Yard, New York,
1869-70.

PAYMASTER CALVIN C. JACKSON,
Born in New York. Appointed from Michigan, July 17, 1857; attached to
sloop Vandalia, Pacific Squadron, 1857-8 ; steamer Memphis, Brazil Squadron
and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop Dacotah, East India Squadron,
1859—61 ; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1862-3 ; special duty, Mississippi
Squadron, 1864-5; Paymaster at Washington, 1866-8; Naval Academy,
1869-70.

PAYMASTER ROBERT H. CLARK *
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware, July 18, 1857 ; attached to
steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 1857-8; steamer Fulton, Paraguay Squadron,
1858-9; steamer Iroquois, Mediterranean Squadron, 1859-61; steamer Iroquois,
West Gulf Squadron, 1861-2; attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, in the
Mississippi River, at the capture of New Orleans, 1862 ; attack on the batteries
at Vicksburg, on the 28th of June and 16th of July, 1862; attack on Grand
Gulf, and other skirmishes on the Mississippi River, 1862 ; capitulation of
Baton Rouge, Natchez, 1862 ; Naval Station, Pensacola, Florida, 1862-5 ; Pur
chasing-Paymaster, Boston, Mass., 1865-8; Fleet-Paymaster, South Pacific
Squadron, 1869; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Philadel
phia, 1870.

286 PAYMASTERS.
PAYMASTER JAMES D. MURRAY,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Minnesota, June 3, 1858 ; attached to
sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1858-9 ; frigate Potomac, Atlantic Coast, 1861;'
store-ship Potomac, West Gulf Squadron, 1862 ; iron-clad Roanoke, North At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; receiving-ship and Naval Asylum, Phila
delphia, 1865-7; Fleet-Paymaster, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9; Navy
Yard, Washington, 1870.

PAYMASTER JAMES FULTON*
Born in Tennessee. Appointed from Tennessee, November 20, 1858 ; attached
to store-ship Relief, Home Squadron, 1859 ; steamer Saginaw, Pacific Squadron,
1859-62; steam-sloop Adirondack, special service, July, 1862, until she was
wrecked near Abaco Island, August 23, 1862 ; steam-sloop Lackawanna, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ;
Navy Yard, Washington, 1865-6 ; member Board of Examiners, 1866-7 ; steam-
frigate Minnesota, special cruise, 1867-8; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER JAMES N. CARPENTER,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Kentucky, September 13, 1860; attached
to sloop Saratoga, coast of Africa, 1860-2 ; Potomac Flotilla, i863-5 ; steamer
Rhode Island, North Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6; Fleet-Paymaster, North Atlan
tic Squadron, 1866-7; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868-9;
attached to steam-sloop Colorado ; Navy Yard, New York, 1870.

PAYMASTER ALEXANDER W. RUSSELL*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from District of Columbia, February 28, 1861 ;
attached to steamer Pocahontas, Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, April and
May, 1861 ; to the' sloop Savannah, 1861-2 ; to the iron-clad steamer New
Ironsides, special service, 1862; and South Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4,
where he was specially thanked by Admiral Rowan, commanding the New
Ironsides, in his official dispatches, " for great zeal and ability in command
of the powder and shell division," during the various engagements of that ves
sel with the forts and batteries in Charleston harbor ; receiving-ship North Caro
lina, New York, 1864-5 ; steamer Chattanooga, special service, 1866 ; steam-
sloop Sacramento, special service, 1866-7 ; wrecked on the coast of India ;
Inspector of Provisions, etc., Washington, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER GEORGE LEONARD DAVIS,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Wisconsin, April 16, 1861 ; attached
to brig Perry, and was on board at the capture of the Savannah, first privateer
under the first letter of mark; also, the Hannah M. Johnson, 1861; Wash-

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ington Navy Yard, 1861 ; passed down the Potomac by the rebel batteries,
January, 1862; attached to steam-sloop Pensacola, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1862-3; acting Fleet-Paymaster of West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron and commanded the Powder Division during the whole cruise, and was
honorably mentioned in the report of that ship; engagements of Forts St.
Philip and Jackson, and capture of New Orleans ; was ordered to take charge
of the mint and raised the United States flag; receiving-ship, Cairo, Illinois,
1865 ; steam-sloop Pensacola, flag-ship, North Pacific Squadron, as Fleet-Pay
master, 1867-8; Paymaster, Navy Yard, Boston, 1868-9.

PAYMASTER AUGUSTUS J. GILMAN,
Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from Maine, June 1, 1861 ; attached to
sloop Marion, Atlantic Coast, 1861; frigate Santee, 1862; special duty, Cairo,
Illinois, 1863-5 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-7; Inspec
tor of Provisions, etc., Washington, 1867-8 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Asiatic Fleet,
1869-70.

PAYMASTER RUFUS C. SPAULDING,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, June 1, 1861; attached to sloop Vin
cennes, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; Mississippi Squadron, 1863-4;
Inspector, etc., Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1865; Naval Station, Mound City, 111.,
1866; school-ship Sabine, 1867-8; in charge of stores, Panama, 1869; Fleet-
Paymaster, Pacific Fleet, 1870.

PAYMASTER CUTHBERT P. WALLACH,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, June 1,
1861 ; attached to sloop Preble, Atlantic Coast, 1861-2 ; steam-sloop Missis
sippi, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863; steam-sloop, Powhatan, flag-ship
West India Squadron, 1864 ; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1867-8 ;
receiving-ship, Portsmouth, N. H., 1869-70.

PAYMASTER CHARLES H. ELDREDGE,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from New York, July 10, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-sloop Canandaigua,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, February 6, 1862 ; special duty, Navy Yard, New
York, 1866; Navy Yard and Station, Pensacola, Fla., 1867-8; Storekeeper,
Asiatic Fleet, 1869-70.

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PAYMASTER GILBERT E. THORNTON,
Born in New York. , Appointed from Massachusetts, September 6, 1861 ¦
entered the service as Assistant Paymaster; store-ship Brandywine, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, 1864-5 ; Inspector
of Provisions, etc., Norfolk, 1866-7; Storekeeper, Naval Academy, 1868-9-
Fleet-Paymaster, South Atlantic Fleet, 1869-70. '

PAYMASTER EDWARD FOSTER,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 23, 1861; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to store-ship Supply, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862.
Promoted to Paymaster, February 6, 1862 ; steam-sloop Ossipee^North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; steam-sloop Lancaster, flag-ship Pacific Squadron,
1866-7; receiving-ship New York, 1868-9 ; Fleet-Paymaster, North Atlantic
Fleet, 1870.

PAYMASTER EDWARD MAY,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, September 6, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-gunboat Unadilla,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862.
Promoted to Paymaster, February 6, 1862; Mississippi Squadron, 1863-4;
special duty, Washington, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop Lackawanna, North Pacific
Squadron, 1867-9 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER HENRY M. DENNISTON,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 9, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-gunboat Winona, West
Gulf Blockaking Squadron, 1862.
Promoted to Paymaster, April 14, 1862; steamer Blackstone, 1863; steam-
sloop Ticonderoga, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; store-ship
Onward, Brazil Squadron, 1866; in charge of stores in Rio Janeiro, 1867-8;
steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1869; steamer Michigan, 1870.

PAYMASTER RICHARD WASHINGTON,
BoRN in the District of Columbia. Appointed from Virginia, August 21, 1861;
entered the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-sloop Dacotah,
West India Squadron, 1862, and North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, April 14, 1862; Naval Station, Norfolk, 1865-7;
receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1868-9 ; steam-sloop Guerriere, South Atlantic Sqnad-
dron, 1869.

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PAYMASTER FRANK COSBY,
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentuoky, August 24, 1861 ; entered the
service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to Potomac Flotilla, 1862-3.
Promoted to Paymaster, April 14, 1862 ; store-ship Vermont, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1865-7 ; in charge of
coal, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, 1868-9 ; receiving-ship Independence, San
Francisco, 1869 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Mare Island, California, 1870.

PAYMASTER EDWIN STEWART,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 9, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-gunboat Pembina, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1862, taking part in the capture of Port Royal.
Promoted to Paymaster, April 14, 1862 ; steam-sloop Richmond, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1863-5, taking part in the engagement at Port Hudson,
and the capture of the forts in Mobile Bay; steamer Michigan, on the lakes,
1866-8; Paymaster at Washington, 1869.

PAYMASTER JOSEPH A. SMITH,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, October 8, 1861 ; entered the service
as Assistant Paymaster; steam-sloop Kearsarge, special service, 1864.
Promoted to Paymaster, August 23, 1862; receiving-ship, Norfolk, 1866;
Fleet-Paymaster, Gulf Squadron, 1867; receiving-ship, Boston, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER AMBROSE J. CLARK,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 12, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-sloop Tuscarora, special
service, 1862-3.
Promoted to Paymaster, August 19, 1863; steam-sloop Tuscarora, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; steam-sloop Susquehanna, Brazil Squad
ron, 1865-6; special service, 1867; receiving-ship, New York, 1868; special
duty, 1869.

PAYMASTER GEORGE COCHRAN*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 27, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-sloop Wyoming,
East India Squadron, 1862-4 ; during the engagement with the Japanese forts
and vessels, Semona Saki, Japan, July 16, 1863, the Wyoming was engaged*
in the chase of the Alabama, in the China and Java Seas, missing her on' one
occasion by twenty or thirty miles in the Straits of Sunda.
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290 PAYMASTERS.
Promoted to Paymaster, June 12, 1863 ; steam-frigate Wabash, 1864-5 ; was
present at both attacks on Fort Fisher ; steamer De Soto, special service, 1865-6 ;
the De Soto on this occasion took out Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State,
Hon. Wm. T. Seward, Assistant Secretary and family, on a trip to St. Thomas,
St. Domingo, Hayti and Havana; North Atlantic Squadron, 1867; receiving-
ship and Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1868-9.

PAYMASTER THOMAS T. CASWELL,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, September 9, 1861 ;
entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-gunboat Huron,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; iron-clad steamer, Sangamon, 1863 ;
steam-sloop Seminole, West Gulf Squadron, 1863-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, September 17, 1863; store-ship Guard, European
Squadron, 1866-7 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER CASPAR SCHENCK,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 14, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to sloop Portsmouth, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, January 6, 1864 ; steam-sloop Juniata, South
Atlantic Squadron, 1865; receiving-ship, Mare Island, Cal., 1867-9; steam-
sloop Congress, 1870.

PAYMASTER WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, August 29, 1861 ; entered the service
as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Louisiana, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1862-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, March 2, 1864; steam-sloop Wachusett, Brazil
Squadron, 1864; Mound City, Illinois, 1865; store-ship Fredonia, at Callao,
1867-8 ; special duty, South Pacific Squadron, 1869.

PAYMASTER JAMES HOY, Jr.,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New York, October 11, 1861 ^entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-sloop Mohican, special
service, 1863-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, October 8, 1864; special service, New York, 1865;
sJ;eam-sloop Monongahela, West India Squadron, 1866, and North Atlantic
Squadron, 1867-8 ; school-ship Constitution, 1869 ; Naval Storekeeper, Naval
Academy, 1870.

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PAYMASTER ARTHUR J. PRITCHARD,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, October 11, 1861 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-gunboat Itasca, West
Gulf Squadron, 1861-3; steam-gunboat Wyalusing, North Atlantic Squadron,
1863-5. Promoted to Paymaster, November 9, 1864; steam-sloop Ticonderoga, Euro
pean Squadron, 1865-8; steam-sloop Benicia, Asiatic Fleet, 1870.

PAYMASTER ALBERT S. KENNY,*
Born in Iowa. Appointed from Vermont, March 19, 1862; entered the service
as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steamer South Carolina, South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862^4; steamer St. lago de Cuba, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher.
Promoted to Paymaster, March 9, 1865 ; in charge of stores at Loando, 1866;
Paymaster, at San Francisco, California, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER FORBES PARKER,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, October 19, 1861 ; entered the service
as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Dawn, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1861 ; appointed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, March
19, 1862; steam-sloop Monongahela, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1862-3, and West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4.
Promoted to Paymaster, August 25, 1865 ; steamer Winooski, North Atlantic
Squadron, 1865-6; receiving-ship Baltimore, 1867; in charge of stores, Rio
Janeiro, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER GEORGE A. LYON,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania', June 11, 1862 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to the Lexington and Tuscumbia,
Mississippi Flotilla, 1862-3; participated in the attack on Haines' Bluff, De
cember, 1862 ; in the capture of Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863 ; in several
conflicts on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, during January, February
and March, 1863; battle of Grand Gulf, April 29, 1863, and in all the engage
ments of the Mississippi Squadron, during the siege of Vicksburg; steam-sloop
Pontoosuc, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort
Fisher, 1864-5, and in the subsequent engagement on Cape Fear River, which
resulted in the surrender of Wilmington, North Carolina ; afterward in the
James River, Virginia, until the fall of Richmond; receiving-ship Potomac, Gulf
Squadron, 1866-7.
Promoted to Paymaster, January 23, 1866 ; store-ship Idaho, Asiatic Squad
ron, 1867-70; at present, waiting orders.

292 PAYMASTERS.
PAYMASTER GEORGE W. BEAMAN,
Born in Vermont. Appointed from Missouri, March 5, 1862 ; entered the
service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to' steam-gunboat Seneca, South
Atlantio Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; steamer Union, East Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1863; special duty, Mound City, 111., 1864; steamer Algonquin, 1865-6.
Promoted to Paymaster, March 28, 1866; practice-ship Marion, 1867; store-
ship Cyane, Panama, 1868-9; gteam-sloop Ossipee, Pacific Fleet, 1870.

PAYMASTER HORATIO L. WAIT,
Born in New York. Appointed from Illinois, July 14, 1862; entered the
service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-gunboat Pembina, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862, and West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1862-3 ; steamer Philadelphia, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4;
store-ship Ino, European Squadron, 1865-6.
Promoted to Paymaster, April 1, 1866; receiving-ship Norfolk, Va., 1867;
Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla., 1868-9.

PAYMASTER ARTHUR BURTIS,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 14, 1862; entered the
service as Assistant Paymaster; attached to steam-gunboat Sangamon, East
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862; steamer Connecticut, special service, 1863,
and North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; steamer Muscoota, ' Gulf
Squadron, 1864-5.
Promoted to Paymaster, May 4, 1866; League Island, Pa., 1867-9.

PAYMASTER EDWIN PUTNAM,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, September 20, 1862 ; entered the
Bervice as Assistant Paymaster; attached to the iron-clad steamer Nahant, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; sloop Portsmouth, West Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steamer Mackinaw, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866.
Promoted to Paymaster, May 4, 1866; in charge of stores at Loando,
1867-8 ; Paymaster at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER GEORGE R. MARTIN,
BORN in New York. Appointed from New York", June 30, 1862 ; entered the
service as Acting Assistant Paymaster; attached to steamer Albatross, WeBt
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; steamer Oneida, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron. 1864-5; appointed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, June 30, 1864;
steamer Mohican, North Pacific Squadron, 1866.
Promoted to Paymaster, May 4, 1866; steamer Mohican, North Pacific
Squadron, 1868 ; steamer Juniata, 1869-70. - -' ¦

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PAYMASTER WILLIAM N. WATMOUGH,*
Born in Maryland. Entered the United States Service as 2d Lieutenant, Co.
H., 33d Infantry, Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861 ; appointed aid de-camp to
General Meade ; commanding Second Brigade, McCalls Division, Army of the
Potomac, October, 1861; wounded in action, Battle of White Oak Swamp, June
30, 1862 ; resigned and honorably discharged, November, 1862 ; appointed,
same month Acting Assistant Paymaster U. S. Navy ; ordered to steamer Harriet
Lane, West Gulf Squadron, December, 1862; steamer Calhoun, January, 1863;
on service in the inland waters of Louisiana, Atchafalaya River, Red River and
Mississippi River; steamer Nereus, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864;
appointed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N., June 30, 1864; steamer De Soto,
1865 ; steamer Kearsarge, 1865-6, European and African Squadrons ; appointed
Paymaster U.S. N., May 4, 1866; store-ship Onward, Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8;
on temporary duty at Philadelphia Navy Yard, as Inspector of Provisions and
Clothing, etc., 1869 ; November 9, 1869, ordered to Naval Station, Norfolk, Va.,
as Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, etc.

PAYMASTER WORTHINGTON GOLDSBOROUGH,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, September 30, 1862 ; entered
the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster; attached to steamer Southfield, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; store-ship St. Lawrence, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863—4; appointed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy,
July 2, 1864 ; steamer Shamrock, European Squadron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; frigate Constitution, school-ship,
1869-70.

PAYMASTER HORACE P. TUTTLE.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, February 17, 1863 ;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster; attached to school-ship
Macedonian, 1863-4 ; appointed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, July 2, 1864;
iron-clad Catskill, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; Bureau of
Provisions and Clothing, 1865-6.
Commissioned as Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; store-ship Onward, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1867; store-ship Guard, European Squadron, 1868-9; iron-clad,
special service, 1870.

PAYMASTER FRANK H. HINMAN.
Born in New York. Appointed from Ohio, March 7, 1863; entered the
service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-guriboat Penobscot,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; appointed Assistant Paymaster,
U. S. Navy, July 2, 1864.
Commissioned as Paymaster, May 4, 1866; special duty, New Orleans. I$<zfl?r8 ;
ironclad Dictator, North Atlantic Squadjon? J8§^70. '

294 PAYMASTERS.
PAYMASTER CHARLES F. GUILD,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 8, 1864; entered the
service as Assistant Paymaster; special duty on the staff of Rear Admiral Porter,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, Eu
ropean Squadron, 1865-8.
Commissioned as Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER JAMES E. TOLFREE,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 13, 1862; entered
the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster; attached to steamer Vanderbilt,
special service, 1862-5 ; appointed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, March 3,
1865. Commissioned as Paymaster, U. S. Navy, May, 4, 1866 ^ steam-sloop Rich
mond, European Squadron, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER LUTHER G. BILLINGS ,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, October 24, 1862 ; entered
the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Water Witch,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ; while attached to the Water
Witch, took part in a number of minor engagements and expeditions, the most
important of which, were St. John's Bluff, Florida, Charleston, Pocatalego, North
Edisto and Georgetown, South Carolina, and Ossabaw Sound, Georgia ; on the
4th of June, 1864, the Water Witch was attacked, while at anchor in Ossabaw
Sound, by a large boarding party of rebels, and after a desperate hand-to-hand
conflict was captured. Paymaster Billings took an active part in this engagement,
being the first man on deck, killed the commanding officer of the confederates,
and several men in hand-to-hand conflict; saved the life of his commanding offi
cer by killing the man who had cut him down, and while in the act of dispatching
him, received a severe wound which disabled him. The confederates suffered a loss
of eight killed, twenty-two wounded and four missing ; was taken to the C. S.
Naval Hospital, Savannah, the same day, remaining under treatment until June
12th, when having incurred the displeasure of Com. Hunter, was sent to prison-
camp Oglethorp, Macon, Georgia, before his wounds had healed. On the 20th of
July, in company with fifteen-hundred officers, was removed to Charleston, South
Carolina; shortly after crossed the North Edisto River with four comrades,
jumped from the train while in rapid motion, and, aided by the darkness, suc
ceeded in reaching the woods, after almost unendurable suffering from fatigue
and hunger, and after escaping the bloodhounds by crossing a large marsh, was
recaptured on the 25th of July, when about four miles from the sea-coast,
by a detachment of the Second South Carolina Cavalry, aided by a pack of
thirty-four bloodhounds; only escaped being torn to pieces by the proximity
of the troopers ; was then taken to Charleston, where he arrived on the 27th of
July ; on the 1st of September all the naval officers and men were started for
Richmond, Virginia, arriving at Libby Prison on the 5th, having had but one;
ration served out to them while in transition,. which caused the death of a
number of prisoners from starvation, afflong whom were four of the "Water

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Witch." Paymaster Billings received commendatory letter's from Rear Admiral
H. Paulding and Commodore Austin Pendergrast, for his meritorious conduct
during the defence of the Water Witch; steamer Connecticut, special cruise,
1864-5 ; visited all the forts in the West Indies and Laguayra, Carthagena,
Cumana and Aspinwall on the main-land ; appointed Assistant Paymaster, March
3, 1865; steamer Wateree, South Pacific Squadron, 1866-8; witnessed the
bombardment of Callao by the Spanish fleet, and visited all the ports of the
South Pacific Squadron, until the 14th of August, 1868, when the cruise was
brought to a sudden end by the terrible earthquake at Arica, Peru, which left
the ship some five-hundred yards inland, utterly destroyed the town and the
remaining shipping in the harbor, and caused immense loss of life ; Paymaster
Billings received a commendatory letter from Commander Gillis for his cool and
courageous bearing during the trying circumstances in which the officers of that
vessel were placed.
Commissioned as Paymaster, U. S. Navy, May 4, 1866 ; receiving-ship, Nor
folk, Virginia, 1869.

PAYMASTER JAMES F. HAMILTON,
Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine, May 19, 1863 ; entered the service as
Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to receiving-ship Ciara Dolsen, Mississippi
Squadron, 1863-4 ; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1865 ; appointed Assist
ant Paymaster, United States' Navy, March 3, 1865; steam-sloop Dacotah,
South Pacific Squadron, 1865-8.
Commissioned as Paymaster, United States Navy, June 29, 1866 ; store-ship
Onward, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-70.

PAYMASTER CHARLES P. THOMPSON,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from New York, January 19, 1865; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster; special duty, Navy Department, 1865-8.
Commissioned as Paymaster, August 1, 1866; attached to steam-sloop Ply
mouth, European Squadron, 1869-70.

PAYMASTER FRANCIS H. SWAN.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, December 9, 1861 ;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Potomska,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; prisoner of war, 1864-5 ; ap
pointed AssistantPaymaster, United States Navy, March 9, 1865 ; steamer Frolic,
European Squadron, 1865-7.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, May 4, 1866.
Commissioned as Paymaster, March 5, 1867 ; steam-sloop Saranae, North Pacific
Squadron, 1867-8; practice-ship Macedonian, 18§9«-70.

296 PAYMASTERS.
PAYMASTER SAMUEL T. BROWNE.
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, September 30, 1862-
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to iron-clad steamer
Montauk, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, i862-3; iron-clad Onondaga,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; appointed Assistant Paymaster,
United States Navy, March 9, 1865 ; steamer Mackinaw, North Atlantic Squad
ron, 1865-6.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; steamer Ashuelot,
Asiatic Squadron, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, March 22, 1867.

PAYMASTER ROBERT P. LISLE.
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 2, 1863;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster; special duty, Bureau of
Provisions and Clothing, 1863-4 ; appointed Assistant Paymaster, July 2, 1864 ;
iron-clad Canonicus, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steam-sloop
Swatara, West India Squadron, 1865-6.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; steam-sloop Resaca,
North Pacific Squadron, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, December 11, 1867 ; League Island, 1870.

PAYMASTER ROBERT W. ALLEN.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, January 20, 1864 ;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Mahaska,
East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; store-ship New Hampshire, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; receiving-ship New Hampshire, Norfolk,
Va., 1866; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, July
23, 1866 ; steam-sloop Resaca, European Squadron, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, February 1, 1868 ; Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing, 1870.

PAYMASTER HENRY M. MEADE,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, January 31, 1862 ; entered
the service as Aoting Assistant Paymaster ; attaohed to receiving-ship, New
York, 1862-4; steamer Mattabessett, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1864-5; special duty, Navy Department, 1865-6; appointed Passed Assistant
Paymaster, U. S. Navy, July 23, 1866 ; steam-sloop Juniata, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1867 ; steam-sloop Kearsarge, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, April 9, J868; steam-sloop Kearsarge, Pacific
Fleet, 1870, '!.

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PAYMASTER FRANK CLARKE,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode Island, December 4, 1862
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Carre
tuck, Potomac Flotilla, 1862-5; bark L. C. Kuhn, Gulf Squadron, 1865-6
appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, July 23,1866; steamer. Paul Jones,
Gulf Squadron, 1867.
Commissioned as Paymaster, June 5, 1868 ; steamer De Soto, North Atlantic
Squadron, 1868 ; receiving-ship, Baltimore, 1869 ; steam-sloop Alaska, 1870.

PAYMASTER ALBERT D. BACHE,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 19, 1862 ;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Hend-
rick Hudson, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862—4 ; steam-gunboat Tacony,
Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, United
States Navy, July 23, 1866 ; steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, June 11, 1868; steam-sloop Iroquois, Asiatic
Fleet, 1870.

PAYMASTER DOMINICK B. BATIONE,
Born in Spain. Appointed from Nevada, March 15, 1865 ; entered the service
as Acting Assistant Paymaster; Potomac Flotilla, 1865; appointed Passed
Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, July -23, 1866 ; steamer Conemaugh,
Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7; store-ship Purveyor, 1868-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, August 26, 1868.

PAYMASTER WILLIAM F. A. TORBERT,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, May 11, 1864; entered the
service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to iron-clad Lehigh, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; special duty, Pensacola, 1866 ; ap
pointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, July 23, 1866 ; supply-steamer
Massachusetts, 1866-7 ; steam-sloop Wampanoag, 1867-8.
Commissioned as Paymaster, September 16, 1868 ; special duty, Philadelphia,
1869 ; attached to school-ship Savannah ; store-ship Idaho, Asiatic Fleet, 1870.

PAYMASTER LEONARD A. FRAILEY,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, August
20, 1864 ; entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to
steamer Quaker City, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steamer
Nyack, Pacific Squadron, 1865-7; appointed Passed Assistant Paynjaster,

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PAYMASTERS.

United States Navy, July 23, 1866; special duty, Navy Yard, Washington,
1867-8; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1869.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869 ; Mound City, Illinois, 1870.

PAYMASTER JOHN H. STEVENSON,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 19, 1862 ; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Satellite, Potomac
Flotilla, 1862-3 ; was in the first battle of Fredericksburg, on land, with Hook
er's division ; all the battles and skirmishes of the Potomac Flotilla, from Octo
ber, 1862 to April, 1863 ; in December, 1862, took two boat's crews, went
ashore on the banks of the Rappahannock through the enemy's pickets, several
miles back, and captured a Captain on Stonewall Jackson's staff, who was re
cruiting ; steamer Princess Royal, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; bat
tles of Donaldsonville and College Point, Louisiana, and several skirmishes on
the Mississippi ; while at Donaldsonville, Louisiana, went as a spy into Generals
Taylor's, Morton's and Magruder's camps, and brought the information of how
and when the enemy would attack us, to Captain M. B. Woolsey, United States
Navy ; then carried dispatches eighty miles through the enemy's country, from
Captain Woolsey to Admiral Farragut ; for this service he was nominated by the
President, April 22, 1870, to the United States Senate for advancement fifteen
numbers in his grade, "for extraordinary heroism;" steam-sloop Pensacola,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; steamer Massasoit, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; was in the battle between our naval and land
forces, and the rebel iron-clads under Semmes, shortly before the fall of Rich
mond, and all the skirmishes and fights on the James River during the last year
of the war ; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 1866 ; steamer
Tacony, North Atlantic Squadron, 1866 ; steam-sloop Pawnee, South Atlantic
Squadron, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869 ; receiving-ship Vermont, New York,
1869-70.

PAYMASTER GEORGE E. HENDEE,*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts ; entered the service
as Paymaster's Clerk, October 11, 1861; attached to the store-ship Brandywine,
1861-2; attached to the steamer Pinola, 1863; appointed Acting Assistant
Paymaster, March 25, 1864 ; attached to steamer Don, North Atlantic Block
ading Squadron, 1864-5.
Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, July 23,
1866 ; steam-sloop Ossipee, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869 ; receiving-ship Independence, Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, January 1, 1869.

PAYMASTER MILTON B. CUSHING,
Born in Ohio. Appointed from New York, August 20, 1864; entered the
service, as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-gunboat Seneca, North'
Atlautic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steam-gunboat CJhocuro, Gulf Squad-

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ron, 1865-6; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, July
23, 1866; steamer Suwanee, North Pacific Squadron, 1866-8.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869 ; special duty, Navy Department, 1870.

PAYMASTER J. HENRY BUCKLEY,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 4, 1862 ;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to ship National
Guard, Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ; steamer Vicksburg, North Atlantic
Squadron, 1864-5 ; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy,
July 23, 1866; steamer Monocacy, Asiatic Squadron, 1866-70.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869.

PAYMASTER ROBERT BURTON RODNEY*
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 25, 1862 ; entered
the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to sloop Dale, East Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; schooner James S. Chambers, of same squadron,
1863^; supply-steamer Massachusetts, and afterward steamer Conemaugh,
Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6 ; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, July 23,
1866; attached to school-ship Constitution, at Annapolis, 1867; store-ship
Cyane, at Panama, 1868.
Commissioned as Paymaster, June 30, 1869 ; on leave, Europe, 1869-70 ; a
family name borne on the American Declaration of Independence, and English
naval history and peerage ; author of Alboin and Rosamond and lesser poems,
Philadelphia.

PAYMASTER JAMES S. GIRAUD,
Born in New York. Appointed from District of Columbia, December 12, 1864 ;
entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Gettys
burg, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; steamer Wasp, Brazil
Squadron, 1865-7; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy,
July 23, 1866 ; apprentice-ship Saratoga, 1867-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869; Brooklyn, New York, 1870.

PAYMASTER GEORGE L. MEADE,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 11, 1862 ; entered
the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Sovereign, Mis
sissippi Squadron, 1862-3 ; steam-gunboat Itasca, West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1864; receiving-ship New York, 1865; steamer South Carolina, Atlantic
Squadron, 1866; appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy,
July 23, 1866 ;-steamer Memphis, Atlantic Squadron, 1866; Naval Storekeeper,
Key West, Florida, 1867-9. -
¦ Commissioned as Paymaster, 1869 ; in charge pf stores, Key West, Florida,
1870;

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PAYMASTERS ON RETIRED LIST.
Retired under first section of Act of December 1, 1861.

PAYMASTER JOHN N. HAMBLETON,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, October 26, 1814; sloop War,
ren, Brazil Squadron, 1829-33 ; frigate Constitution, Mediterranean Squadron,
1835-8; Baltimore Station, 1839; sloop Yorktown, coast of Africa, 1844-6;
special duty, California, 1849-51; Naval Academy, 1858-60; sloop Constitu
tion, 1861 ; retired 1861.

PAYMASTER GARRETT JI. BARRY*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Captain's Clerk of the frigate Franklin in
October, 1817, and appointed Acting Parser of the brig Spark, at Messina, by
the late Commodore Stuart, January, 1819 ; ordered to the sloop Erie, May
1819, and remained in her until August, 1821 ; appointed Purser U. S. N. on
board the Schooner Grampus, January, 1824; sloop Vincennes, October,
1828 to January, 1831 ; Naval Station, Baltimore, as Purser and Navy Agent,
April 1, 1833 to September 1, 1834; ordered to the frigate Potomac, Septem
ber 1, 1834 to March 1, 1837 ; ordered to steamer Fulton, November, 1837 to
March, 1838 ; Navy Yard, Washington, November 1, 1840 to September 30,
1843; ordered to sloop Boston, October 1, 1843; attached until March, 1846;
receiving-ship North Carolina, April 1, 1848 to March 31, 1850; attached to
steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron, December, 1850 to March,
1855; steam-frigate San Jacinto, June, 1859 to June, 1860; steam-frigate
Niagara, April, 1861 to June, 1862 ; appointed Purchaser of Flour and In
spector of Bread at New York, 1863.
Commissioned as Paymaster, 1863; Navy Yard, New York, 1863-6; Pur
chaser of Flour and Inspector of Bread, 1867.

PAYMASTER McKEAN BUCHANAN*
Born in Maryland, July 27, 1798. Appointed from District of Columbia,
August 21, 1826; entered the service as Purser; took passage in frigate
Brandywine, with orders to schooner Dolphin, 1826-9.
Commissioned as Paymaster, September 26, 1829 ; attached to sloop Vin
cennes, at South Pacific Islands and around the world, being the first United
States ship-of-war that circumnavigated the globe; sioop Falmouth, Pacific
Squadron, March, 1831 to January, 1834 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, May,
1834 to September, 1835 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, October, 1835-8, and tem
porary Navy Agent, 1836; frigate Constitution, Pacific Squadron, 1839-41;
Navy Yard, New York, June, 1842 to January, 1844; sloop Dale, Pacific
Squadron, June, 1846 to 1849, during the Mexican War; present at the cap
ture of Guaymas and neighborhood, and served as Collector of Customs; Navy

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Yard, Boston, Febrwyi 1851 to March, 1853 ; frigate San Jacinto, July, 1854
to June, 1855, which vessel escorted the U. S. Minister to Madrid during the
trouble with Spain ; frigate Wabash, August, 1856 to March, 1858 ; captured
Walker and his filibusters, at San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua ; Naval Inspector,
Navy Yard, Boston, 1858-61 ; frigate Congress, destroyed by the Merrimac,
after a sanguinary battle of three hours, having received orders to take com
mand of the Berth-deck Division, from September, 1861 to March, 1862;
practice-ship Savannah, Navy Yard, New York, September, 1862 to August,
1864 ; receiving-ship Ohio, Boston, October, 1864 to October, 1867 ; special
duty, Navy Yard, Boston, August, 1869 to June, 1870.

PAYMASTER HENRY ETTING,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Pennsylvania, January 1, 1818 ; Navy
Yard, Boston, 1834 ; Baltimore Station, 1836-8 ; sloop Macedonian, coast of
Africa, 1844-5; Navy Yard, New York, 1846-8; steamer Mississippi, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1849-51; sloop Cyane, Home Squadron, 1855-8; flag
ship of Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2 ; retired, 1861 ; receiving-ship, Philadel
phia, 1862-4; special duty, New York, 1865; Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1866-8,.

PAYMASTER BENJAMIN J. CAHOONE,
Born in Rhode Island. Appointed from New York, November 12, 1830 ;
schooner Grampus, West India Squadron, 1831-3 ; sloop Ontario, Brazil
Squadron, 1834-6; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1836-8; receiv
ing-ship, New York, 1837—40;* frigate Congress, Mediterranean Squadron,
1841-5; receiving-ship, New York, 1846-9; frigate Constitution, Mediter
ranean Squadron, 1849-51 ; receiving-ship, New York, 1852—4; sloop Levant,
East India Squadron, 1855-7; sloop Savannah, Home Squadron, 1858-60;
steam-frigate Roanoke, Atlantic Coast, 1861; retired, 1861; Navy Yard,
Boston, 1862-5; -receiving-ship, Portsmouth, N. H., 1867-8.

PAYMASTER STERRET RAMSEY,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, November 18, 1830;
schooner Grampus, West India Squadron, 1832-6 ; sloop Natchez, We$t India
Squadron, 1837-9 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1843-8 ; steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 1848-50; store-ship Relief, 1851-3; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1854-9;
retired, 1861.

PAYMASTER JOHN A. BATES*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts; in October, 1823,
he was appointed Secretary to Commodore Hull, on board the frigate United
States, bound for the Pacific Ocean; April 20, 1824, a vacancy occurring on
$oard the schooner Dolphin, was appointed Acting Purser by- Commodore

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Hull and ordered to that vessel, serving in that capacity until the expiration of
the cruise, April, 1827, giving him six years and three months actual sea ser
vice that does not appear on the Navy Registers to his credit.
Commissioned as Purser, U. S. Navy, March 2, 1831; ordered to schooner
Porpoise, West India Squadron, Mareh 3, 1831, cruise one year and seven
months; ordered to sloop Fairfield, Pacific Squadron, March 29, 1835, cruise
two years- and eight months ; ordered to Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hamp
shire, November 1, 1839, remained eighteen months; ordered to sloop St.
Louis, Pacific Squadron, April 27, 1840, cruise nineteen months; ordered to
frigate Columbia, Brazil Squadron, May 26, 1842, cruise three years ; ordered
to Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 13, 1846; ordered to frigate
Raritan, West India Squadron, October 30, 1848, cruise nineteen months;
ordered to frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, October 13, 1851, cruise
three years and seven months; ordered as Inspector of Provisions and Clothing
at Navy Yard, Boston, September 1, 1855, served three years; ordered to
sloop Portsmouth, African Squadron, April, 1859, cruise nineteen months ;
ordered to receiving-ship Ohio, Boston, Massachusetts, October 30, 1861, served
three .years; retired 1861.

PAYMASTER T. MARSTON TAYLOR,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, November 3, 1834;
Schooner Grampus, West India Squadron, 1836-9 ; sloop Warren, West India
Squadron, 1839—42; receiving-ship, Boston, 1842-4; frigate Constitution,
East India Squadron, 1844-6; Navy Yard, Boston, 1847-9; steamer Michi
gan, on the lakes, 1850-3; sloop Jamestown, African Squadron, 1855-7;
receiving-ship, Boston, 1858-60 ; steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Blockad
ing Squadron, 1861-3; special duty, 1863-6; retired, 1861.

PAYMASTER A. EUGENE WATSON.
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from the same State, August 31, 1836
Brig Dolphin, Brazil Squadron, 1836-9; sloop Marion, Brazil Squadron
1839-42; frigate Raritan, Brazil Squadron, 1845-7; Navy Yard, Philadel
phia, 1847-9; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1850-2; Navy Yard, Phil
adelphia, 1855-7 ; steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, 1860-1 ; retired,
1861 ; special duty, Mississippi Squadron, 1862-4; Navy Agent, Philadelphia
1865 ; Paymaster at Philadelphia, 1866-8 ; Inspector Navy Yard, Portsmouth
New Hampshire, 1870.

PAYMASTER ROBERT PETTIT,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, April 6, 1837 ; sloop
Falmouth, Pacific Squadron, 1839-42 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1842-3 ;
at sea, 1833-4; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1845-6; at sea, 1847-9 ; re
ceiving-ship, New York, 1850-2 ; frigate Cumberland, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1852-5; steam-frigate Minnesota, East India Squadron, 1857-60; steam-
frigate Minnesota, Atlantic Coast, 1861-2 ; special duty, Philadelphia, 1863—4;
President Board of Examiners, Philadelphia, 1867 ; special duty, Philadelphia,
1869; Paymaster, Philadelphia, 1870 ; retired, 1861.

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PAYMASTER HORATIO BRIDGE,*
Born in 1806 in Augusta, Maine. Graduated at Bowdoin College, Maine, in
1825 ; practiced law from 1828 to 1838, when he entered the Navy as Pay
master ; made a cruise in the Cyane from 1838 to 1841 ; another cruise in the
Saratoga upon the coast of Africa- in 1843-4, some sketches of which were
published in 1845 under the title of " Journal of an African Cruiser," edited
by his friend and classmate, Nathaniel Hawthorne ; in 1846 he sailed on a
cruise on the coast of Africa and in the Mediterranean as Paymaster of the flag
ship United States, Commodore George Read being the Flag-Officer ; from 1849
to 1851 he was stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and late in the year
last mentioned sailed for the Pacific in the sloop Portsmouth ; in 1854 he was
ordered home to fill the position of Chief of the Bureau of Provisions and
Clothing, the duties of which he performed for nearly fifteen years, comprising
the whole period ofthe war; in July, 1869, he resigned the position of Chief
of Bureau, and was assigned to duty as Chief Inspector of Provisions and
Clothing.

PAYMASTER CHARLES MURRAY,*
Born in Ireland. Appointed from District of Columbia, March 31, 1843 ;
steamer Union, Home Squadron, April 3, 1843 to April, 1845; store-ship
Erie, Pacific Squadron, 1845-8; laid in a large supply of stores from Honolulu,
and opened by order of Commodore Biddle, commandant of the squadron, the
old custom house at Monterey ; frigate Independence, flag-ship Mediterranean
Squadron, 1849-52 ; frigate Savannah, flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1853-6 ;
Navy Yard, New York, 1858-61 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, as Pay
master of the Yard, 1861—4 ; doing duty as Inspector of Provisions and Cloth
ing, and as Paymaster of the ships on the coast ; retired, 1864 ; Naval Store
keeper, Panama, 1864-8 ; special duty, New York, 1869-70.

Retired under twenty-third section of Act of August 3, 1861.

PAYMASTER GEORGE A. SAWYER,
Born in Vermont. Appointed from Vermont ; entered the Service as Assistant
Paymaster, August, 1861; ordered to join sloop-of-war Marion, blockading in
the Gulf of Mexico — served in her till she was put out of commission in July,
1862 ; attached to the Potomac Flotilla until October, 1862, when ordered to
the double-ender Port Royal, and sailed again for the West Gulf Squadron ;
blockaded tbe rebel steamer Chattahoochee in the Apalachicola River for a
year and a day, at the end of which period the Chattahoochee exploded her
boilers while looking for a boat expedition from the Port Royal, and was totally
destroyed ; the Port Royal was off Mobile during the Winter of 1863-4, and
participated in Admiral Farragut's attack on Fort Powell, Mobile Bay.

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Promoted to Paymaster, September, 1863 ; detached from the Port Royal in
April, 1864, and ordered north ; in.June, 1864, ordered to the frigate Sabine
and while attached to her in July, 1866, was taken ill with disease of the
heart, and in June, 1869, was found physically incapacitated for active service
and was placed on the retired list, in the class of those officers whose disability
was the result of disease contracted in the line of duty.

PAYMASTER ALEXANDER McC. BISHOP.
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, March 19, 1862; entered
the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steamer Wyandotte, Potomac
Flotilla, 1862; steamer Mendota, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864;
attached to iron-clad steamer Tonawanda (now Amphitrite), 1865.
Promoted to Paymaster, November 22, 1865; in charge of stores, Bay
Point, S. C, 1866; store-ship Cyane, at Panama, 1868; retired on account of
ill health, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM W. W. WOOD,
Born in North Carolina. Appointed from New York, March 15, 1845; entered
the service with the rank of Chief Engineer; stationed at Navy Yard, Pensa
cola, 1845-7 ; special duty, Boston, 1849 ; steam-frigate Saranae, Home Squad
ron, 1850-3 ; superintending constructions of Engines of steam-frigate Merri
mac, Cold Spring, New York, 1854-7; special duty, Philadelphia, 1858-9;
steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, 1859-61 ; special duty, Philadelphia,
1862; special duty, New York, 1863; special duty, Boston, 1864; special
duty, New York, 1865; Naval, Academy, 1866-7; Navy Yard, New York,
1868-9 ; Inspector of Machinery Afloat, New York, 1870. *

CHIEF ENGINEER BENJAMIN F. ISHERWOOD,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, May 23, 1844; entered the
service as Firsts Assistant Engineer ; stationed at Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1844-5;
attached to steamer General Taylor, Pensacola, 1846-7; special duty, 1848-50.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 31, 1848; special duty, Navy Depart
ment, 1852-3 ; steam-frigate San Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1854-8 ; spe
cial duty, 1859-60; appointed Engineer-in-Chief, 1861, which position he
retained until 1869 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER GEORGE SEWELL,*
Born in New York, December 17, 1824. Appointed from New Jersey, March
13, 1847 ; attached to steamer Scorpion, as Acting Second Assistant Engineer,
and upon his arrival at Vera Cruz, passed a successful examination, and. was ap-

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pointed First Assistant Engineer in the regular service ; was at the capture of
Tobasco, and the battle of Tamaltay, three miles inland from Tobasco ; remained
on the Scorpion during the Mexican War; returned home in charge of the
engineer department of the steamer Vixen, which, with the Spitfire, had been
useless for over eight months, owing to defective valve connections to their
bottoms ; Engineer Sewell rearranged and made them seaworthy, without the use
of a dry dock, thus giving to the government two valuable vessels that would
have otherwise been useless ; ordered to the steamer Mississippi, 1849 ; detached
to superintend the construction of the machinery of the steamer Powhatan,
1849-52. Commissioned as Chief Engineer, July 15, 1852 ; steam-frigate Powhatan,
East India Squadron, 1852-6 ; on the passage out the same trouble was expe
rienced as mentioned with the Vixen and Spitfire, but was remedied
by Engineer Sewell without the aid of a dry dock ; inspector of ocean
steamers, etc., 1857-8 ; special duty, Mare Island, California, 1859, building
machinery for the steamer Saginaw, being the. first vessel built in that country ;
ordered as Chief Engineer to steam-sloop Richmond, June, 1860; detached and
ordered to steam-sloop Susquehanna, European Squadron, 1860-1 ; steam-sloop
Susquehanna, Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; was at the capture of Hat
teras and Port Royal, and bombardment of Sewell's Point, Virginia, and also at
the capture of Norfolk; steam-sloop Susquehanna, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1862-3; capture of Fernandina, Florida; general inspector of ma
chinery outside of Navy Yards, 1863 ; Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
1864-5; Fleet-Engineer North Atlantic Squadron, 1865-8; special duty, New
burg, New York, March, 1868 to April, 1869 ; Chief Engineer, Navy Yard,
New York, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM H. SHOCK,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland ; January 18, 1845, entered
the naval service as Third Assistant Engineer ; during the Mexican War, served
on board the United States steamers General Taylor, Princeton, Spitfire, and
the frigate Mississippi; in which vessels, at different periods, he participated in
the capture of Tampico, under Commodore Connor, and Alvarado, Tuxpan,
Tlacotalpan and Vera Cruz, under Commodore Perry.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 10, 1847; ordered to the
United States steamer Engineer, Home Squadron.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, October 31, 1848 ; 1849, was Senior
Engineer United States steamer Legar6, Coast Survey; 1850-1, special duty at
Philadelphia, superintending construction of machinery of United States steam-
frigate Susquehanna.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, March, 1851 ; 1851-2, special duty, Boston,
Mass., superintending construction of machinery of United States steamer
Princeton ; 1853—4, Inspecting Engineer of ocean steamers for United States
mail service, and Chief Engineer of United States steamer Princeton, Home
Squadron ; 1854-5, West Point, superintending construction of machinery for
United States steam-frigate Merrimac ; 1855-6, Chief Engineer United States
steam-frigate Merrimac, Home Squadron; 1857-60, Chief Engineer United
States steam-frigate Powhatan, East. India Squadron; 1860-2, President of
Examining Board of Engineers; 1862-3, special duty at St. Louis, superin
tending construction of river monitors ; 1863-5, Fleet-Engineer, West Gulf
tr

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Squadron, participating in the capture of forts Gaines and Morgan, under Ad
miral Farragut, and the Spanish Fort and city of Mobile, under Admiral
Thatcher; 1865-6, Chief Engineer of Boston Navy Yard; 1867-8, Chief En
gineer of Washington Navy Yard; 1868-9, Fleet-Engineer of European Squad
ron ; 1869-70, Inspector of Machinery Afloat, and member of Board of Visit
ors to Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland.

CHIEF ENGINEER J. W. KING*
Born in the north of Maryland; a resident of New Jersey. Appointed Third
Assistant Engineer, September 2, 1844 ; served in the steamers General Taylor,
Col. Harney and Poinsett, on the coast of Florida; also, on the steamer Missis
sippi in the Mexican War, and participated in the capture of Tobasco, Tampico
and Vera Cruz.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 10, 1847; in the steamer
Princeton, Mediterranean, 1847 to 1849.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, September 13, 1849 ; served in the
steamer Saranae, Home Squadron, and in the steamer Michigan, northern lakes.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 12, 1852; Inspector of Ocean
Steamers, at New York, 1853—4 ; Superintendent of the Construction of Machin
ery, at Philadelphia, for U. S. S. Wabash, 1855-6 ; steam-frigate Wabash,
Home Squadron, 1856-8 ; Chief Engineer of the Navy Yard, New York,
April, 1858 to April, 1861 ; Chief Engineer of the South Atlantic Fleet, May,
1861 to June, 1862; participated in the capture of the forts at Hatteras, under
Stringham, and of the forts at Port Royal, under Du Pont; the latter battle
was fought with the vessels under way, traversing a circle ; in the report of
Admiral Du Pont, he says :
" The Engineer Department was conducted by Chief Engineer King with
consummate skill." After the detachment of Mr. King, the Admiral again
states, in a letter to him : " Your services have been of great value to the
squadron, and I part with you with reluctance."
Special duty, Pittsburg, from June, 1862 to 1863 ; General Inspector of all
the iron-clad vessels building west of the Alleghanies, 1863-4; latter part of
1864, was sent to Europe to examine the dock-yards, iron-works and iron-clads
of Great Britain and France ; made a report on the subject to Congress ; the
Secretary of the Navy said, officially, of this report — " It is interesting and in
structive;" 1865, made a tour of inspection in the United States, examined and
reported on all the iron vessels, iron-clads, and steam machinery under construc
tion for the navy; 1866-7, Chief Engineer of the New York Navy Yard;
1868, special duty; March 15, 1869, appointed by President Grant, Chief of
Bureau of Steam Engineering.

CHIEF ENGINEER THEODORE ZELLER,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, Third Assistant Engineer in
the United States Navy, June 15, 1843, and ordered to duty on board the
frigate Missouri, for a cruise which terminated at Gibraltar, September 26,
1843, by the loss of the ship by fire ; July 20, 1844, ordered to duty on board
the steamer Col. Harney, stationed in the Gulf of Mexico and in the rivers of
Florida and Louisiana, for the protection of live-oak timber, until Feb. 21, 1846 ;

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March 23, 1846, ordered to duty in the Bureau of Construction, Equipment and
repairs, as assistant to the Engineer-in-Chief, remained until October 23, 1846.
Examined, passed and promoted to the grade of Second Assistant Engineer,
February 17, 1847; March 23, 1847, ordered to the steamer Union, at Wash
ington, and detached, May 25, 1847, as the vessel was condemned as unfit for
service ; October 20, 1847, ordered to the steamer Iris, as Senior Assistant En
gineer, and after three months as Acting Chief Engineer until the termination
of the war with Mexico ; detached, December 8, 1848 ; April 18, 1849, ordered
to the Pacific Ocean, to join the Massachusetts as Senior Engineer ; this vessel
had been detailed for special service with a joint commission of army and navy
officers, to select a site for a navy yard in California, and sites for fortifications
on the coast of California and Oregon ; the discovery of gold in California ren
dered it impossible to obtain white seamen for the wages then allowed, and
natives of the Sandwich Islands and Chinese, none of whom could speak Eng
lish, were with difficulty obtained to compose a crew ; with these the bays,
straits and inlets of California and Oregon were explored, and the object of the
commission was accomplished.
Promoted to the grade of First Assistant Engineer, November 6, 1849,
while on the last-mentioned cruise ; detached, March 25, 1853 ; October, 1853,
ordered as Senior Assistant Engineer of the frigate Saranae ; made the cruise
with this vessel, and returned to the United States from the Mediterranean,
June 26, 1856.
Examined and promoted to the grade of Chief Engineer, August 15, 1856,
with date of June 27, 1855 ; August 12, 1857, ordered to the frigate Saranae
for duty in the Pacific Ocean ; detached, November 19, 1859, and returned to
the United States; December 31, 1859, ordered to Erie, Pennsylvania, to
superintend repairs to the steamer Michigan ; "November 19, 1860, appointed
member of a Board on the Michigan, to make a series of important experiments
with steam ; after the completion of these, was ordered again to the Michigan,
for duty on the lakes; June 3, 1861, detached from the Michigan and ordered
to the Novelty Iron Works, at New York, to superintend the building of mach
inery for gun-boats, screw-sloops-of-war, iron-clads and other vessels, upon which,
with other duties, he was engaged up to May 19, 1863, when he was appointed
Fleet-Engineer of the Eastern Gulf Squadron, and remained upon the staff of
Rear Admiral Theodoras Bailey until September 1, 1864, when the Department
permitted him to return north to recruit his health, after severe illness from
yellow fever; he was, however, immediately ordered to the North Atlantic
Squadron, and reported to Admiral David D. Porter for duty, on the 5th of
October, as Fleet-Engineer, on which duty he remained until the close of the
war; in a letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated August 6, 1864, Rear Ad
miral Bailey, then in command of the Eastern Gulf Blockading Squadron,
speaks in very complimentary terms of tbe services of Mr. ZeUer as Fleet-En
gineer, and in the following month, Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the
Navy, sent a letter to Chief Engineer Zeller, then in New York, in which he
expresses his gratification at the efficient and satisfactory manner in which that
officer had performed his duties as Chief Engineer.

CHIEF ENGINEER ELBRIDGE LAWTON,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, March 23, 1848 ; en
tered the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; Home Squadron, 1848 ; special
duty, Baltimore, 1849-50.

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Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, September 13, 1849; steam-frigate
Saranae, Home Squadron, 1850-2.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; steamer John
Hancock, North Pacific Expedition, 1852-5.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, June 26, 1856; steam-frigate Roanoke, Home
Squadron, 1859-60 ; steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1861-2; special duty, New York, 1863-4; Fleet-Engineer, East Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1865 ; special duty, New York, 1866-7; special duty, Bridge-
water, Massachusetts, 1868-9; on duty at Navy Yard, Boston, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER ROBERT DANBY,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Massachusetts, March .23, 1848 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; steamer Colonel Harney, Home Squad
ron, 1845-7; steamer Genera! Taylor, Home Squadron, 1847-8.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 10, 1847; steamer Mississippi,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, February 1, 1851 ; steam-frigate Mis
sissippi, East India Squadron, 1852-5 ; special duty, New York, 1856-7.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, June 26, 1856 ; steam-frigate Mississippi, flag
ship East India Squadron, 1858-60 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1861-2 ; special
duty, Philadelphia, 1863 ; Fleet-Engineer, South Atlantic Blockading Squad
ron, 1863-5 ; special duty, New York, 1866-7 ; Inspector, Navy Yard, New
York, 1868-9 ; Inspector Machinery Afloat, New Orleans, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER BENJAMIN F. GARVIN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, March 29, 1847 ; en
tered the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; steamer Spitfire, Home Squad
ron, 1847-8.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, October 31, 1848 ; steamer Water
Witch, Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; Coast Survey, 1851 ; steamer Jefferson,
wrecked May 25, 1851, coast of Patagonia, on the way to California.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; steam-frigate San
Jacinto, Mediterranean Squadron, 1851-3; steamer Princeton, Home Squadron,
1854-5; special duty, Philadelphia, 1856; steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squad'
ron, 1856-7.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, May 11, 1858; steam-frigate Wabash, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1858-9; Navy Yard, New York, 1861-2; special duty,
New York, 1863 ; Fleet-Engineer, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 ;
in Colorado, at Fort Fisher fight, as Chief Engineer; steam-frigate Colorado,
flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7 ; President Board of Examiners, 1868-9 ;
Inspector of Machinery Afloat, Philadelphia.

CHIEF ENGINEER HENRY H. STEWART,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Pennsylvania, March 23, 1848; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; Home Squadron, 1848-9.

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Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, September 13, 1849 ; Coast Survey,
1849 ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1850-5.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; special duty,
Philadelphia, 1856; Coast Survey, 1857-8.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, July 1, 1858 ; steam-sloop Dacotah, Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861; special duty, Wilmington, Delaware, 1862-4;
steamer Wyalusing, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; President
of Board of Examiners, 1866-7 ; member of Board of Examiners, 1868-9 ;
Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER HARMAN NEWELL,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 22, 1849,
entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; Coast Survey, 1849-50; office
of Engineer-in-Chief, 1851.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851; steamer Vixen,
Home Squadron, 1851-2; steam-frigate Saranae, Home Squadron, 1853.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; steamer Princeton,
Home Squadron, 185.4-5 ; special duty, 1856-7 ; steamer Fulton, Brazil Squad
ron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, April 23,1859; steam-sloop Powhatan, At
lantic Blockading Squadron, 1861; frigate New Ironsides, special service,
1862-3; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1864-5; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia,
1866-9; Fleet-Engineer, South Atlantic Squadron, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER ANDREW LAWTON*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, June 24, 1850 ; en
tered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; Coast Survey, 1850; steamer
Water Witch, Home Squadron, 1850.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851; steam- frigate
Saranae, Home Squadron, 1852-3.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853; Coast Survey, 1854-5;
steam-frigate San Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1855-8 ; in the engagement at
Barrier Forts, Canton, China; special duty, Boston, 1859-60.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, April 23, 1859 ; steam-sloop Hartford, Asiatic
Squadron, 1861; special duty, Taunton, Mass., 1862; special duty, Boston,
1863-4; special duty, Wilmington, Delaware, 1864-5; steam-sloop Hartford,
1865-8; engagement at Formosa; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1869.

CHIEF ENGINEER EDMUND S. De LUCE,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 22, 1849 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer; office of Engineer-in-Chief, 1849-51,
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; steamer Vixen,
Home Squadron, 1851-2.

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, Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; Coast Survey, 1853-5;
steam-frigate San Jacinto, East India Squadron, i855-8; steam-sloop Brooklyn
Home Squadron, 1858-60.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 12, 1861 ; special duty, 1861 ; special
duty, Boston, 1862-3; special duty, New York, 1864; Navy Yard, New York
1865 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1865-7; special duty
New York, 1867-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER EDWIN FITHIAN,
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 31, 1848 ; en
tered the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; special duty, Boston, 1849-50.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; steam-frigate
Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1851-5.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; special duty, Rich
mond, 1856; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Mediterranean Squadron, 1856-8;
special duty, Philadelphia, 1859 ; steam-sloop Narragansett, Pacific Squadron,
1859-61. Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 23, 1859; special duty, New York,
1862-3 ; steam-frigate Roanoke, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ;
special duty, New York, 1866-8 ; Fleet Engineer, European Fleet, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER MONTGOMERY FLETCHER,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Pennsylvania, June 25, 1850 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; Coast Survey, 1850-1.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 21, 1851 ; special duty,
Norfolk, 1852-3 ; steam-frigate Saranae, Mediterranean Squadron, 1854-6.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, June 21, 1856 ; office of Engineer-
in-Chief, 1857; steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squadron, 1857-8.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 25, 1859 ; steam-frigate Saranae,
Pacific Squadron, 1861-5 ; special duty, New York, 1866; Navy Yard, Mare
Island, California, 1867-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER THOMAS A. SHOCK*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, February 6, 1851 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India
Squadron, 1851-5.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; steamer Michigan,
on the lakes, 1856.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, June 21, 1856 ; steam-frigate Niagara,
Cable Expedition, 1857; steam-frigates Colorado and Roanoke, 1858; special
duty, Portsmouth, N. H, 1859.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, December 6, 1859 ; steam-sloop Mohican, coast
of Africa, 1860-1 ; member Board of Examiners, 1861-2 ; special duty, Hart
ford, 1863-7; Fleet-Engineer, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9.

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CHIEF ENGINEER CHARLES H. LORING,
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachusetts, February 26, 1851;
entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; steamer John Hancock, special
service, 1851 ; special duty, Baltimore, 1852 ; steamer Princeton, Home Squad
ron, 1853-5.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; steam-frigate Merri
mac, Pacific Squadron, 1855-9.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, March 21, 1861 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, flag
ship North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; at capture of Forts Hatteras
and Clarke, 1861 ; in action with Merrimac, March 8th and 9, 1862 ; special
duty, Cincinnati, 1863—4 ; special duty, St. Louis, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop Sus
quehanna, special service, 1867 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, special service, 1868 ;
Navy Yard, Washington, 1869.

CHIEF ENGINEER ALEXANDER HENDERSON,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Virginia, February 26, 1851 ;
entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; steam-frigate Susquehanna,
East India Squadron, 1852-5.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; office of Engineer-
in-Chief, 1856; steam-frigate Susquehanna, Mediterranean Squadron, 1857-8.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857 ; steamer Southern Star,
Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858; steam-sloop Iroquois, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1859-60.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, June 28, 1861 ; special service, 1861 ; steam-
sloop Adirondack, Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; special duty, Newburg, N. Y.
1863; iron-clad Onondaga, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5
special duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1866; Navy Yard, Boston, 1867-8
special duty, 1869 ; steam-sloop Colorado, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER STEPHEN D. HIBBERT,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, February 26, 1851 ; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India
Squadron, 1851-5.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; steamer Michigan,
on the lakes, 1856-7.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857 ; steam-frigate Merrimac,
Pacific Squadron, 1857-9.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, June 29, 1861 ; special duty, 1861 ; steam-
sloop Pensacola, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; special duty, Bu
reau of Steam Engineering, 1863-7 ; Fleet-Engineer, Asiatic Fleet, 1868-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER FRANCIS C. DADE,*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, January 20, 1849; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer ; steamer Water Witch, Home Squadron,
1849-50; steam-frigate Saranae, Home Squadron, 1851-2.

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Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; Coast Survey,
loO^— o.
Promoted, to First Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853; steam-frigate Saranae,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-6 ; Coast Survey, 1857 ; special duty connected
with the Colorado, 1858; special duty, Boston, 1859; steam-sloop Hartford,
East India Squadron, 1859-61.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, June 30, 1861; steam-sloop Oneida, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and
capture of New Orleans; passage of the batteries at Vicksburg; special duty
Philadelphia, 1864-5 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European Squadron, 1866-7 ;
member Board of Examiners, 1866-8 ; Inspector of Machinery Afloat, Norfolk
1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER DAVID B. MACOMB,*
Born in Tallahassee, Florida. Appointed from Pennsylvania, January 11, 1849,
as Third Assistant Engineer ; office of Engineer-in-Chief, 1849-50 ; steamer
Bibb, Coast Survey, 1850-1.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; steamer Bibb,
Coast Survey, 1851-2; steamer John Hancock, Exploring Expedition to the
North Pacific, China and Japan Seas, 1853-5.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, June 26, 1856; steam-frigate Wabash,
flag-ship Home Squadron, 1856-7; steam-frigate Saranae, Pacific Squadron,
1858-9 ; steam-frigate Niagara, sent to convey the Japanese Ambassadors to
Yeddo, Japan, 1860 ; returned to United States, April 23, 1861 ; and was the
first war vessel on the blockade off Charleston, S. C; at the bombardment of
Pensacola Navy Yard, and reduction of Fort McCrae, November, 1861; special
duty connected with building iron-clads, Boston, 1862 ; iron-clad monitors Na
hant and Canonicus, James River Fleet and North Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1853-5 ; iron-clad monitor Canonicus at the reduction of Howlett's House bat
tery, James River, June 21, 1864; at the battles of Dutch Gap and Deep Bot
tom, August 13, 1864; in the Canonicus at Fort Fisher, December 24th and
25, 1864 ; at the final reduction and occupation of that place by the combined
army and naval forces, January 14th, l'5th and 16, 1865 ; from thence to
Charleston, S. C. ; at the evacuation by the rebels and occupation by United
States forces of that city, February 18, 1865, the iron-clad Canonicus throwing
the last hostile shot at the defences of that place ; Cononicus sent in pursuit of
rebel ram Stonewall; went to Havana, Cuba, June, 1865; first American iron
clad that ever entered a foreign port ; special duty, Baltimore, 1866 ; Navy Yard,
Pensacola, 1867 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1868.

CHIEF ENGINEER EDWARD DUNHAM ROBIE, *
Born in Burlington, Vermont. Appointed from Binghamton, New York ;
entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer, February 16, 1852 ; ordered ¦
to duty in steam-frigate Mississippi, flag-ship Japan Expedition, March, 1852;
selected by Commodore Perry for special service to take charge of the telegraph
and daguerreotype apparatus, and operated with them in Japan, receiving com
plimentary letter from Commodore Perry; circumnavigated the globe in the
Mississippi ; detached in New York, May, 1855.

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Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, June, 1855 ; steamer Michigan, on
the lakes, from September, 1855, until March, 1856; transferred to steam-frigate
Susquehanna; served in that vessel in Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranenn Squad
ron, first Atlantic Telegraph Expedition ; returned to Gulf of Mexico, and
remained there until a yellow fever epidemic compelled a return to New York,
in April, 1858.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858 ; steam-frigate Niagara,
coast of Africa, 1858; March, 1859, joined steam-sloop Lancaster, at Philadel
phia; doubled Cape Horn in that vessel, serving in the Pacific Squadron;
transferred at Panama to steam-frigate Saranae, and served as senior engineer on
the west coast of South America; returned to New York, September, 1861.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, September 21, 1861 ; in October, 1861, joined
the steam-sloop Mohican, and served in that vessel during the capture of the
forts at Port Royal, S. C, Fernandina, Fla., on the coast of Georgia, and on
blockading duty for several months off Charleston, S. C. ; during part of the
time was Senior Engineer of the North Atlantic Squadron ; employed on special
duty, superintending construction of iron-clad ram Dictator, from September,
" 1862, until the winter of 1863—4, when took charge of the Ericsson Torpedoes
off Charleston, S. C, in the steamship Ericsson ; special service, iron-clad Dic
tator, 1864-5 ; member Board of Examiners for naval engineers, in Philadelphia,
in 1866; transferred from that duty to steam-sloop Ossipee, October, 1866,
serving in that vessel while going to the North Pacific via Straits of Magellan ;
Fleet-Engineer of the North Pacific Squadron, and Chief Engineer of flag-ship
Pensacola, 1867-8-9 ; returned to New York, March, 1869 ; member of Board
to examine steam machinery afloat, at New York, Boston, Portsmouth, Phila
delphia, Norfolk and Washington ; appointed Inspector of Machinery Afloat at
Navy Yard, Boston, in August, 1869.

CHIEF ENGINEER THOMAS WILLIAMSON,
Born in North Carolina. Appointed from Virginia, May 24, 1853 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; steam-frigate Saranae, Mediterranean
Squadron, 1853-6.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, June 22, 1855; special duty, con
nected with steam-frigate Powhatan, 1857; steam-frigate Wabash, flag-ship
Eome Squadron, 1858-9.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1859; steam-sloop Lancaster, Pacific
Squadron, 1859-61.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, September 21, 1861 ; special duty, Mystic,
Connecticut, 1862-3; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1863-4 ; special duty, New York, 1865-7 ; Naval Academy, 1868-9 ;
Fleet-Engineer North Atlantic Fleet, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM S. STAMM,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Delaware, February 26, 1851 ; en
tered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; Coast Survey, 1851-2; steam-
frigate Powhatan, East India Squadron, 1852-6.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853.

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Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857 ; special duty, 1857-8 ;
steam-sloop Hartford, East India Squadron, 1859-61.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, September 22, 1861 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ; special duty, Newburg, New
York, 1864-8 ; Fleet-Engineer, Pacific Fleet, 1868-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM J. LAMDIN *
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, February 6, 1851; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer; Coast Survey, 1851.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, October 1, 1852; steamer Water
Witch ; survey of the river La Plata, 1852-6 ; honorably mentioned by the
commanding officer for conduct in an engagement between a Paraguayan fort
and the Water Witch.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857; Coast Survey, 1857;
steam-frigate Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1857-9 ; special duty in Baltimore,
1860 ; steam-sloop Powhatan, Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 1, 1861 ; special duty at Baltimore,
1862-5; steam-sloop Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron, 1866-7; Fleet-Engineer
South Pacific Squadron, 1868; iron-clad duty at New Orleans, Louisiana,
1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER GEORGE R. JOHNSON,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, February 16, 1852; entered the
service as Third- Assistant Engineer; East India Squadron, 1852; steamer
Princeton, Home Squadron, 1853—4; special duty, Norfolk, 1855-6.
Promoted to Second-Assistant Engineer, February 27, 1855 ; steam-frigate
Merrimac, special cruise, 1857.
Promoted to First- Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858 ; steam-sloop Lancaster,
Pacific Squadron, 1861—4.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, December 1, 1861 ; special duty, Chester, Pa.,
1865-7; Inspector, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1868-9; iron-clad Dictator,
1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM B. BROOKS*
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, February 16, 1852 ; entered the
service as Third- Assistant Engineer, steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1852-5.
Promoted to Second-Assistant Engineer, June 27, 1855 ; steam-frigate San
Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1855-8.
Promoted to First-Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858; steamer Canada,
Paraguay Expedition, September, 1858 ; New York Navy Yard, November,
1858 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Gulf Squadron, 1859-61.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 16, 1861, steam-sloop Brooklyn, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; participated at capture of Forts Jackson
and St. Philip, and New Orleans, Chalmette Batteries, Port Hudson and Vicks
burg; special duty, New York and Newburg, 1863-6 ; steam-sloop Sacramento,
1866-7; shipwrecked on that vessel, June, 1867; duty in India, connected
with the wreck of the Sacramento until April, 1868 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1869; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1870.

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CHIEF ENGINEER JAMES B. KIMBALL,
Born in Illinois. Appointed from Illinois, September 8, 1853 ; entered the
service as Third- Assistant Engineer; steamer Fulton, Home Squadron, 1853-6.
Promoted to Second-Assistant Engineer, June 26, 1856; steam-frigate
Wabash, Home Squadron, 1857; steamer Michigan, on the lakes, 1858; steam-
frigate Wabash, 1859.
Promoted to Mrst-Assistant Engineer, 1859 ; special duty, 1861 ; steam-sloop
Hartford, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 17, 1861 ; special duty, New York,
1864-5 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, Pacific Blockading Squadron, 1866-7 ; steamer
Michigan, 1869.

CHIEF ENGINEER JOHN W. MOORE,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, May 21, 1853 ; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer ; duty in office of Engineer-in-Chief, Navy
Department, Washington, 1853 ; steam-frigate Saranae, Mediterranean Squad
ron, 1853-6.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, June 27, 1855; steam-frigate Nia
gara, Atlantic Cable Expedition, 1857 ; steam-frigates Colorado and Roanoke,
Home Squadron, 1858-60. _
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858; steam-sloop Richmond,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1860-1 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, August 5, 1861; engagement at head of passes
of Mississippi River, October 12, 1861 ; Fort McRae and rebel batteries, 1861 ;
Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 24, 1862 ; capture of New Orleans, April
25, 1862; passage of Vickshurg batteries, June 27, 1862; passage of Vicks
burg batteries and rebel ram Arkansas, July 15, 1862; Port Hudson, March
15, 1863; capture of Port Hudson, July 8, 1863; originated and first carried
into effect the idea of protecting the sides of wooden vessels with chain cables ;
also, of painting the vessels with mud of Mississippi, a color afterward adopted
by the Navy Department, and used universally during the remainder of the war;
special duty, New York, 1863; special duty, Philadelphia, 1863—4; special
duty, East Boston, 1864-7 ; steam-frigate Franklin and Fleet-Engineer, Euro
pean Squadron, 1867-8; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER CHARLES HENRY BAKER,*
Born in Salem, Massachusetts, January 16, 1831. Appointed Third Assistant
Engineer, August 2, 1855 ; flag-ship San Jacinto, East India Squadron, 1855-8 ;
engaged in capture of Barrier Forts, near Canton, China, 1856.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858; steamer M. W.
Chapin (afterward called Anacostia), Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition,
1858-9. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, August 2, 1859; steamer Mystic,
African Squadron, 1859-61 ; special duty at Boston Navy Yard, 1861.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 29, 1861 ; steam-sloop Wachusett,
1862 ; engaged in siege of Yorktown and operations in York and James Rivers,
Virginia, 1862; captured by rebels while assisting in medicalrelief of rebel sick

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at City Point, Virginia, May 19, 1862 ; detained as prisoner of war, at Salis
bury, N. O, and at Richmond, Va., three months; member of Examining
Board, 1862-3; special duty in construction of machinery and iron vessels,
Boston, 1863-7; Fleet-Engineer, South Atlantic (Brazil) Squadron, flag-ship

Guerriere, 1867-9.

CHIEF ENGINEER JOHN S. ALBERT,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, September 8, 1855 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer ;• Coast Survey, 1857-8.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858 ; steamer Caledonia,
Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1859.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1859; steamer Mohawk, Home Squad
ron, 1860-2.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, October 29, 1861 ; steam-sloop Housatonic,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; special duty, New York, 1865-8;
Fleet-Engineer, South Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; steam-sloop Powhatan, Pacific
Squadron, 1869 ; steam-sloop Powhatan, North Atlantic Fleet, 1869.

CHIEF ENGINEER RICHARD MILNE BARTLEMAN,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, December 24, 1853 ;
entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; office of Engineer-in-Chief,
1854 ; Coast Survey, 1855 ; steam-frigate Merrimac, Home Squadron, 1856-7.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857; steam-frigate Missis
sippi, East India Squadron, 1858-60.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1859.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 6, 1861 ; steam-frigate Mississippi,
from May, 1861 to August, 1862 ; battle at Forts St. Phillip and Jackson ;
capture of New Orleans; steam-frigate Colorado, West Gulf Blockading Squad
ron, 1863-4; Chief Engineer Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
1864-5; steam-sloop Shenandoah, East India Squadron, 1866-9.

CHIEF ENGINEER MORTIMER KELLOGG,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, February 16, 1852 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer; East India Squadron, 1852-3; steam-
frigate Powhatan, East India Squadron, 1853-6.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, June 27, 1855 ; special duty, New
York, 1857.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1859 ; steam-sloop San Jacinto, Coast
of Africa, 1860-1.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 8, 1861 ; steam-sloop San Jacinto,
East Gulf Squadron, 1862-3 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, 1864-5 ; special duty,
New York, 1866 ; special duty, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1867 ; steamer De
Soto, North Atlantic Squadron, 1868; iron-clad Terror, special service, 1870.

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CHIEF ENGINEER GEORGE F. KUTZ,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, June 26, 1856 ; en
tered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; Niagara, Atlantic Cable Expe
ditions in 1857-8 ; steamer Atlanta, Brazil Squadron, and Paraguay Expedition,
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1859 ; steamer Saginaw, East India
Squadron, 1860-1.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 10, 1861; steam-sloop Pawnee,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; steam-sloop Monongahela, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, *1863, '64 and '65; steam-sloop Ticonderoga,
European Squadron, 1866-9 ; Inspector of Machinery Afloat, League Island,
1869. b

CHIEF ENGINEER ANDREW J. KIERSTED,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Maryland, June 26, 1856; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer; special duty, Philadelphia, 1866-7; steam-
frigate Merrimac, Pacific Squadron, 1858 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, East India
Squadron, 1859.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1869 ; steam-sloop Mohican, coast of
Africa, 1860-1 ; steam-sloop Tuscarora, special service, 1861-3.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 12, 1861; steam-sloop Tuscarora,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; special duty, Philadelphia,
1866-7 ; steam-sloop Ossipee, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM H. RUTHERFORD,
"Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Virginia, September 22, 1849 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer; Coast Survey, 1851.
Promoted to Second Assistant, February 16, 1852 ; attached to steam-frigate
Mississippi, East India Squadron, 1853-6.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, June 26, 1856 ; special duty connected
with Roanoke, 1857 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, East India Squadron, 1858-68.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, December 1, 1861; steam-sloop Pawnee, 1861;
steam-sloop Juniata, 1862; steam-sloop Mississippi, West Gulf Blockading
Squadron, 1863; steam-sloop Wachusett, Brazil Squadron, 1864-5; steam-sloop
Monongahela, West India Squadron, 1866 ; steam-sloop Canandaigua, European
Squadron, 1867-9 ; special duty, Providence, Rhode Island ; Navy Yard, Pen
sacola, Florida, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM W. DUNGAN,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, June 26, 1856 ; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer; attached to steam-frigate Powhatan, East
India Squadron, 1858-60.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1860 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, 1861 ;
steam-gunboat Ottawa, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.

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Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 1, 1861 ; steam-sloop Dacotah, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; special duty, Philadelphia, 1865;
Bteam-sloop Pensacola, North Pacific Squadron, 1865-7 ; steam-sloop Ossipee,
North Pacific Squadron, 1867; steam-sloop Lackawanna, North Pacific Squadron,
1868; special duty, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1869; special duty, Washing
ton, D. O, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER JAMES W. THOMPSON, Jr.,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from New Jersey, June 26, 1856; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer ; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, Home
Squadron, 1857-60.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1860; steam-sloop Dacotah, 1861.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 2, 1862; steam-sloop Shenandoah,
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4; special duty, Philadelphia, 1865;
member of Board of Examiners, 1866-9; steam-sloop Congress, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER THOMAS J. JONES,
Born in Iowa. Appointed from New York, June 26, 1856 ; entered the service
as Third Assistant Engineer; attached to steam-frigate Wabash, Home Squad
ron, 1857-8.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858; steamer Atlanta,
Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9; steamer Sumpter, coast of
Africa, 1860-61.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1860; steam-gunboat Penobscot, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, January 18, 1863 ; steam-sloop Ticonderoga,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863—4; special duty, New York, 1865-8;
steam-sloop Juniata, European Fleet, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER WILLIAM H. HUNT,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York, December 24, 1853; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer; special duty, 1853—4; attached to
steam-frigate San Jacinto, special service, 1854-5 ; office of Engineer-in-Chief,
1856; Coast Survey, 1857.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857 ; steam-frigate Saranae,
Pacific Squadron, 1857-60.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, August 2, 1859; steam-sloop Mississippi,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Promoted, to Chief Engineer, February 19, 1863; steam-sloop ' Oneida, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; steamer Bienville, 1865; steam-sloop
Dacotah, South Pacific Squadron, 1667-9.

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CHIEF ENGINEER JACKSON McELMELL,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, August 2, 1855 ; entered
the service as Third Assistant Engineer, attached to steamer Michigan, on the
lakes, 1856-7; special duty connected with Niagara, 1858 ; steamer Memphis,
Brazil Squadron', and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, March 25, 1861 ; steam-sloop Powhatan,
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1860-1 ; steam-gunboat Octorara, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, April 21, 1863 ; steam-sloop Richmond, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; steam-sloop Richmond, West Gulf
Blockading Squadron, 1863—4; special duty, Philadelphia, 1865-7; special
duty, League Island, Pennsylvania, 1868; steam-sloop Plymouth, European
Squadron, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER B. B. H. WHARTON,
Born in Virginia. Appointed from Maryland, November 21, 1857; entered the
service as Third Assistant Engineer; attached to steamer Water Witch, Brazil
Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1857-9; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific
Squadron, 1859-61.
Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1859.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, October 16, 1861; steam-gunboat
Mahaska, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; iron-clad Patapsco, South
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; steam-gunboat Chicopee, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1863—4.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 10, 1863; steam-sloop Lancaster, flag
ship Pacific Squadron, 1865—7 ; Inspector, Navy Yard, Boston, 1868-9 ; steam-
sloop, Asiatic Fleet, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER JAMES W. WHITTAKER

Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, November 21, 1857 ;
entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; office of Engineer-in-Chief,
1857; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Home Squadron, 1858-61.
Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, October 16, 1861 ; steam-sloop Kear
sarge, special service, 1862; special duty, Cairo, Illinois, 1863; steamer Octorara,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-6.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 10, 1863; member of Board of Ex
aminers, 1867; Inspector, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1868;
steam-sloop Tuscarora, South Pacific Squadron, 1868; steam-sloop Tuscarora,
North Pacific Squadron, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER GEORGE S. BRIGHT,*
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, May 20,
1857; ordered to the steam-frigate Colorado, at Norfolk, Va., July 18, 1857,
during the week's trial of her machinery; ordered August 14, 1857, to the
steam-frigate Roanoke, at Boston, Mass. ; detached from the Roanoke, Septem
ber 5, 1857; ordered September 17, 1857, to the steam-frigate Powhatan, flag-

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ship of the East India Squadron ; went out by the way of Cape of Good Hope
and came home by way of Cape Horn, having visited the following ports:
Funchal, Madeira (having as passengers ex-president Pierce and wife), visited
also St. Helena, Cape Town, Mauritius, Acheen, (coast of Sumatra) Singapore,
Hong-Kong, Shanghai, Pei Ho, Gulf of Pechele, (was there when the first
fight began between the Chinese and English) Macao, Whampoa, Canton,
China, Mangasaki, Yokohama, Simoda, Yeddo; at Kanagama took in the
Japanese embassy for the United States ; visited the following ports with the
Japanese on board, and were very handsomely treated, the Japanese being a
curiosity at that time: Honolulu, Sandwich Islands; San Francisco, California;
Panama; at Panama the Japanese left for the United States; on the passage
around the Horn visited Valparaiso, St. Catherine and Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, from thence to Philadelphia, arriving in August, 1860.
Promoted to Second-Assistant Engineer, from August 2, 1859 ; ordered to
steam-frigate Minnesota, April 4, 1861.
Promoted to First-Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1861; was atthe capture of
Forts Hatteras and Clark, Hatteras Inlet, also in the fight with the rebel ram
Merrimac at Hampton Roads, March 8th and 9, 1862; at one time during the
fight it was thought the Monitor was disabled, and the Merrimac appeared to
be approaching the Minnesota (the Minnesota was aground and immovable
during the two days mentioned); it was the intention to abandon the Minnesota
and set fire to her or blow her up so as she would not fall into the hands ofthe
rebels, he volunteered with one first class fireman, Tiernay, to stay and set fire
to her or blow her up if possible, but the idea was given up and all stayed or
came back with the exception of a few that got to Fortress Monroe ; so the
ship was ultimately saved from the rebels and destruction; detached from
Minnesota, July 10, 1862, and ordered to the iron-clad Ironsides, North Atlan
tic Squadron ; detached from the Ironsides, December 6, 1862, and ordered to
the iron-clad Passaic, South Atlantic Squadron ; the Passaic was in company
with the Monitor when she was lost off Hatteras ; was in the following fights
while in the Passaic : Fort McAlister, Ogeechee River and the first fight with
the Forts at Charleston Harbor ; detached from the Passaic, June 26, 1863.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, Nov prober 10,1863; ordered to steam-sloop San
Jacinto, East Gulf Squadron, November 24, 1863 ; was attached to San Jacinto
when she was wrecked off Abaco, January 1, 1865 ; detached from late San
Jacinto, February 24, 1865; ordered March 3, 1865, to superintend all govern
ment work building at Merrick & Sons, Philadelphia ; detached from special
duty, February 17, 1866, and ordered to Chattanooga; detached from Chatta
nooga, December 6, 1866, and ordered to the U. S. S. Pawnee; the Pawnee
sailed for the South Atlantic Squadron, visiting the following ports during her
cruise : Point au Petre, Guadaloupe; Maranham, Brazil; Bahia, Rio de Janeiro,
Island St. Catherine, Pernambuco, Montevideo, Buenos Ayres, Rosario, Co-
nienties ; arrived in New York, June, 1869 ; detached from Pawnee, July 20,
1869; waiting orders, 1870.

CHIEF ENGINEER PHILIP INCH,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia, Novem
ber 21, 1857; entered the service as Third-Assistant Engineer; steam-frigate
Roanoke, Home Squadron, 1858-60.

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Promoted to Second-Assistant Engineer, 1860 ; steam-sloop Wyoming, East
India Squadron, 1861—4.
Promoted to First-Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1861.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 10, 1863 ; special duty, Providence,
Rhode Island, 1865-8 ; steam-sloop Mohican, Pacific Fleet, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER JOHN JOHNSON,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware, May 20, 1857 ; steam-frigate
Merrimac, Pacific Squadron, 1858-60.
Promoted to Second-Assistant Engineer, 1860; steam-sloop Pawnee, Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Promoted to First-Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1861; steam-gunboat Pinola,
Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862—4.
Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 10, 1863 ; steam-sloop Susque
hanna, Brazil Squadron, 1864-6 ; steam-sloop Richmond, European Squadron,
1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER JOHN H. LONG,
Born in England. Appointed from New York, July 1, 1861; entered the
service as Acting First- Assistant Engineer; attached to steam-sloop Iroquois,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; special duty, New York, 1862;
steam-frigate Minnesota, flag-ship North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863—4 ;
appointed Chief Engineer, U. S. Navy, November 10, 1863 ; special duty, New
York, 1865-8 ; steam-sloop Seminole, North Atlantic Fleet, 1869-70.

CHIEF ENGINEER J. Q. A. ZIEGLER, *
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Acting First Assistant Engineer from that
State, April 24, 1862; ordered to steamer Florida, South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, until December, 1862, when she joined in the blockade off Wil
mington, North Carolina.
Promoted to Acting Chief Engineer, February 4, 1863; detached December
15,-1863, and ordered to superintend building of machinery and turrets of mon
itor Monadnock, at Boston, as her Chief Engineer; in her joined the North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; off Wilmington during all the bombard
ment until January 18, 1865. The Monadnock then joined the South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, till after the fall of Charleston; March, 1865, rejoined
North Atlantic Blockading Squadron in James River, until the fall of Richmond ;
sent to Havana to look after the rebel ram Stonewall, being the first American
monitor to enter a foreign port; refitted at Philadelphia, and made the famous
experimental trip to California via Straits of Magellan— 16,000 miles in 97
days and 7 hours, steaming all the way; detached December 12, 1866, having
served three years in her ; February 5, 1867, ordered to steam-sloop Monongahela,
at Boston, with yellow fever on board ; sailed in March, as flag-ship of West
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India Division of North Atlantic Squadron, encountering the yellow fever and
the hurricanes of September and October. During the earthquake of November
18, 1867, at St. Croix Island, the vessel was washed ashore by the tidal wave, over
houses, into Bay street, and laid there six months, the earth frequently quaking,
and men dying every day of fever ; raised the ship with hydraulic power ; re
paired and launched her again May, 1868, the Danish fort saluting the American
flag with 21 guns in honor of the event; returned, and detached at New York,
July 14, 1868; sick with yellow fever until October; on iron-clad duty at
League Island from November 20, 1868, to October 1, 1869 ; joined monitor
Miantonomah at Philadelphia; went south, where he remains; appointed Chief
Engineer in the Regular Navy, June 18, 1868 ; wounded twice by the rebels
during the war.

OFFICERS OF THE MARINE CORPS.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL J. ZEILIN, COMMANDANT*
Born in Philadelphia. Appointed from Pennsylvania.
Commissioned Second-Lieutenant, October 1, 1831 ; at Washington and Phila
delphia, 1831 ; Gosport, Va., November, 1831 ; sloop Erie, March, 1832 ; Boston,
Mass., August, 1832; New York, 1833; sloop Erie, 1834.
Commissioned First-Lieutenant, September 12, 1836; Boston, Mass, 1837;
New York, 1840 ; Boston, Mass., 1841 ; joined frigate Columbus, Brazil Squad
ron, February, 1842 ; Washington, D. C., 1845; Philadelphia, 1845; ordered
to frigate Congress, Pacific Station, September, 1845 ; defence of Monterey,
Upper California, July 15, 1846 ; capture of Los Angeles, August 13, 1846 ;
action on the La Mesa, January 13, 1847.
Commissioned Captain, September 14, 1847 ; breveted Major for gallantry in
action at the crossing of San Gabriel River, 1847 ; appointed Military Com
mandant of San Diego; bombardment of Guyamas, September 20, 1847; fight
at St. Joseph's, September 30, 1847; occupation of Mazatlan, October, 1847;
continued skirmishing to June, 1848, when peace was ratified ; at Gosport, Va.,
January, 1849 ; New York, 1849 ; Gosport, Va., 1849-52 ; Washington, 1852;
ordered to frigate Mississippi, East India Squadron, June, 1852; transferred to
frigate Susquehanna, May, 1853 ; sloop Saratoga, March, 1854 ; Gosport, Va.,
September, 1854 ; Navy Yard, Washington, May, 1857 ; frigate Wabash,
Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9; Norfolk, Va., 1859; commanding officer at
Philadelphia, 1860; ordered to Washington, July, 1861; co-operation with the
army, July, 1861 ; battle of Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861 ; wounded same day
in action.
Commissioned Major, July, 1861 ; commanding officer at New York, Novem
ber, 1862; commanding Marine Battalion at Port Royal, S. C, August, 1863;
commanding officer at Portsmouth, N. H., March, 1864.
Commissioned Colonel Commandant of the United States Marine Corps, June
30, 1864 ; assumed command of the corps at headquarters, Washington, D. C,
July, 1864.
Commissioned Brigadier-General and Commandant, March 2, 1867.

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GENERAL STAFF.

MAJOR WILLIAM B. SLACK, QUARTERMASTER,*
Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant, January 28, 1839 ; headquarters, Wash
ington, D. C, 1839^40 ; frigate Delaware, Brazil Squadron, 1841-4 ; Marine
Barracks, Gosport, Va., 1845-6 ; Home Squadron during Mexican War ; was
at the capture of Tuspan ; commanded a company of marines serving with the
Third Regiment of Artillery, acting as infantry, at the siege and capture of
Vera Cruz ; was at the capture of Tobasco ; commanded a battalion of marines
at the battle of Tamulte ; was military commandant of Tobasco during the time
it was held by the naval forces; brevetted Captain for bravery in battle, 1847.
Commissioned First-Lieutenant, March 3, 1847 ; Marine Barracks, Wash
ington, D. C, 1850-1 ; steam-frigate Susquehanna, East India Squadron, 1851-2 ;
steam-frigate Mississippi, East India Squadron, 1853-5 ; was with Commodore
Perry, commanding a company of marines, upon both occasions of his landing
in Japan; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1855-6; receiving-ship Penn
sylvania, Norfolk, Va., 1857.
Commissioned Captain, February 8, 1857 ; steam-frigate Merrimac, Pacific
Squadron, 1858-60.
Commissioned Major, and appointed Quartermaster of Marine Corps, 1861 ;
acted as quartermaster to battalion of marines in first battle of Bull Run ; head
quarters, Washington, D. O, 1861-70.

MAJOR AUGUSTUS S. NICHOLSON, INSPECTOR.
Born in New York. Appointed from New York.
Commissioned as Second IAeutenant, March 16, 1827; on duty with the
army in Mexico, 1847-8 ; brevetted for bravery in action, September 13, 1847;
razee Independence, Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-51; Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C, 1852; frigate St. Lawrence, Pacific Squadron, 1853; sloop
Germantown, Brazil Squadron, 1854-6.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, March 14, 1856 ; Marine Barracks, Wash
ington, D. C, 1857; receiving-ship Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Virginia, 1858;
steam-frigate Saranae, Pacific Squadron, 1859-60.
Commissioned as Major, and appointed Adjutant and Inspector of the Marine
Corps, 1861 ; headquarters, Washington, D. C, 1861-9.

MAJOR JOHN C. CASH, PAYMASTER*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 14, 1845; frigate Columbus,
East India Squadron, 1846-8 ; during the Mexican War, was on the west coast
of Mexico, on duty with the marines at Monterey and San Francisco, in 1847;
Marine Barracks, Washington, D. O, 1849-50; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squad
ron, 1850-2.

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Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 21, 1852; Marine Barracks,
Navy Yard, Washington, D. O, 1853-5; sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron,
1855-6; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1857; steam-frigate Saranae,
Pacific Squadron, 1857-8 ; frigate Sabine, Home Squadron, 1859-61, as Senior
Marine officer, and was in command of a detachment from the Squadron to re
inforce Fort Pickens, at a most critical period, and aided materially in preserving
that Fort to the government. The following is a copy of Orders No. 46, from
Col. Brown, in relation to this service :
"The services of the marines being no longer indispensably necessary, they
are relieved from duty at this post. The Colonel commanding takes pleasure in
publishing his entire approval of the conduct, and his appreciation of the ser
vices of Lieutenant Cash and his command, which have been of great value,
and always cheerfully rendered, and the conduct pf the troops uniformly: correct
and soldierly.
" By order of Colonel Brown.
«G. D. BAILEY,
" 2d Lieutenant, and 2d Asst. Post Adjutant."
Commissioned as Captain, 1861.
Commissioned as Major, and appointed Paymaster of the Marine Corps, 1862 ;
headquarters, Washington, D. C, 1862-9.

CAPTAIN WM. T. A. MADDOX, ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER,*
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland; served one year, 1836, in the
wars with the Creek and Seminole Indians, in Georgia, Alabama and Florida,
as 1st Lieutenant, commanding a company of volunteers under General Jessup,
United States Army.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, United States Marine Corps, October
17, 1837, to take rank from October 14, 1837; .reported at headquarters Octo
ber 23, 1837; ordered to Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, April 10,
1838; detached from Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, September 19, 1840;
headquarters, Washington, D. C, September 21, 1840, until April 14, 1841 ;
frigate Delaware, Mediterranean Squadron, April 15, 1841 to March 23, 1844 ;
headquarters, Washington, March 23, 1844 to June 22, 1845; ordered to Nor
folk, Virginia, August 7, 1845; sloop Cyane, Pacific Squadron, August 10,
1845-7; landed at Monterey, July 4, 1846, when the American flag was hoisted,
thereby assisting in taking possession of the country ; embarked on board the
Cyane, July 26, 1846, and hoisted the American flag at San Diego, July 29,
1846; landed on the 15th of August at San Pedro, with a guard of marines,
and marched from there on foot to the Puebla De Los Angeles, remaining there
three days ; was appointed by Commodore Stockton to take command of two
companies of volunteer mounted riflemen, and to proceed to the North in pur
suit of General Alvarado and his command ; on his march to Monterey (500
miles), at and near the mission of San Louis Obispo, after a sharp skirmish,
made prisoners of a number of men and fifteen officers, and paroled them;
among the latter were Generals Babtiste Alvarado and Manuel Castro, and Col
onel Pero; arrived at Monterey September 10, 1846; on the 18th of Septem
ber, 1846, was appointed, for services rendered, Military Commandant of the
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command by a force of artillery, under a complimentary general order issued by
command of Commodore W. B. Shubrick, February 18, 1847 ; sailed in the
frigate Savannah for San Diego, California, March 15, 1847; transferred there
to the frigate Congress, and sailed for Ersanada, Southern California, and there
landed and traveled with a party of men as far South as Santa Tomassa, and
from there to Rio Colorado, in order to intercept the Mexican force expected in
the country by that route; returned to frigate Congress, and arrived at Monte
rey, May 15, 1847 ; attached to the frigate Columbus, June 4, 1847 to March
2, 1848; headquarters, Washington, D. C, March 21, 1848 to June 1, 1850 ;
brevetted Captain, October, 1848, to take rank from January 3, 1847, for gallant
and meritorious conduct at the battle of Santa Clara, on that date, and in supi
pressing the insurrection at Monterey, during the time he was Commandant of
the middle district of California ; Marine Barracks, New York, June 16, 1850
to October 3, 1850; receiving-ship North" Carolina, October 7, 1850, as com
manding Marine Officer, to July 1, 1851; Navy Yard, Washington, July 9,
1851 to May 23, 1853 ; commanding Marine Guard of steamer Michigan, on
the lakes, May 23, 1853 to June 4, 1855 ; receiving-ship North Carolina, as
commanding Marine Officer, June 15, 1855 to August 21, 1855; Marine Bar
racks, Philadelphia, August 22, 1855 to September 19, 1857.
Commissioned as Captain, March 7, 1857, to take rank from September 27,
1856; ordered to proceed to Boston, Mass., to report as Marine Officer to com
mand the guard of the steamer Merrimac, and commanding Marine Officer of
the Pacific Squadron, September 19, 1857 ; attached to the steamer Merrimac,
September 29, 1857 to October 6, 1857.
Commissioned as Assistant Quartermaster, Marine Corps, October 6, 1857,
to take rank from September 28, 1857 ; headquarters, Washington, D. C, Oc
tober 8, 1857 to October 26, 1857 ; commanded the second company of the
Marine Battalion who fired on the mob in June, 1857, at Washington, D. O,
and thereby assisting in capturing the cannon used by the " Plug Ugly" rioters,
and suppressing the riot ; stationed at Philadelphia in charge of the Assistant
Quartermaster's Office, 1857-70.

CAPTAIN JAMES WILEY, ASSISTANT QUARTERMASTER *
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Indiana.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, June 9, 1847 ; frigate Brandywinl, Brazil
Squadron, 1847; ship-of-the-line Ohio, west coast of Mexico, 1847-9 ; Marine
Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1851; steamtfrigate Saranae, Home Squadron,
1851-2; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1852; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific
Squadron, 1853-6.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 27, 1856 ; Marine Barracks,
Philadelphia, 1857-8 ; steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9 ;
steam-frigate Powhatan, West India Squadron, 1859-60 ; served in South Caro
lina and Florida, in the Winter of 1860-1, in command of a marine battalion;
steam-frigate Wabash, Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861; battle of Port
Royal, etc.
Commissioned as Captain, and appointed Assistant Quartermaster ot the
Marine Corps, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1862-3 ; San Fran
cisco, California, 1863-7; New York, 1868.

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OFFICERS OF THE LINE.

COLONEL MATHEW R. KINTZING*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, September 8, 1841.
Commissioned as Second IAeutenant, September 8, 1841; sloop Vincennes,
Home Squadron, 1841—4; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1845-6; sloop Bos
ton, Home Squadron, was wrecked on the Bahama Islands, 1847 ; sloop Ger
mantown, Home Squadron, during Mexican War ; was engaged in the taking of
several seaport towns ; was wounded at Tobasco.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, July 16, 1847 ; Marine Barracks, Phila
delphia, 1849-50 ; sloop Saratoga, East India Squadron, 1850-3 ; Marine Bar
racks, Philadelphia, 1854-6 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, Mass., 1856-7 ; sloop
Cumberland, coast of Africa, 1857-9.
Commissioned as Captain, August 1, 1860 ; sloop Cumberland, Gulf Squad
ron, 1861 ; at the commencement of the rebellion, was present at the destruction
of Norfolk Navy Yard ; steam-frigate Roanoke, Atlantic Blockading Squadron,
1861 ; was in the engagement with the Merrimac and Sewell's Point batteries ;
ordered to establish a marine barracks at Cairo, Illinois, Mississippi River ; in
command two years ; commanded the Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California,
1864-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Colonel, June 10, 1864.
Commissioned as Colonel, December 5, 1867; command of Marine Barracks,
Philadelphia, 1867-9.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL JAMES H. JONES,
Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware.
Commissioned as Second IAeutenant, March 2, 1847 ; Marine Barracks, Phila
delphia, 1848; frigate Raritan, Home Squadron, 1849-50; steam-sloop Sara
nae, Home Squadron, 1851; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1852; sloop Mace
donian, East India Squadron, 1852—4, and frigate Powhatan, East India Squad
ron, 1855-6.
Commissioned as First IAeutenant, September 1, 1853; receiving-ship Ohio,
1857-8 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1859 ; sloop Macedonian, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1859-60.
Commissioned as Captain, May 7, 1861 ; was present at the battle of Bull
Run; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1861; steam-sloop Lancaster,
Pacific Squadron, 1862-3; Marine Barracks, Navv Yard, Washington, D. C,
1864. ' ' ° '
Commissioned as Lieutenant- Colonel, June 10, 1864; Marine Barracks, Ports
mouth, N. H., 1866-8 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California, 1868-9.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CHARLES G. McCAWLEY,*
Born in Pennsylvania, Appointed from Louisiana.
Commissioned as Second-Lieutenant, March 3, 1847 ; in June ordered to join
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ing of the Castle of Chapultepec, and taking pf the City of Mexico ; brevetted
First-Lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct in these actions, September
13, 1847 ; in August, 1848, was ordered for duty to Marine Barracks, Phila
delphia ; December, 1848, Marine Barracks, Boston ; July, 1849, Cumberland,
Mediterranean Squadron; March, 1850, at Naples, to razee Independence;
August, 1852, Marine Barracks, Philadelphia; June, 1853, Princeton, Home
Squadron. Promoted to First-Lieutenant, January 2, 1855 ; July, 1855, Marine Barracks,
New York; December, 1855, Marine Barracks, Boston; July, 1857, steamer
Mississippi; detached and ordered to Philadelphia; December, 1857, James
town, at Philadelphia, for Home. Squadron ; March, 1860, Marine Barracks,
Philadelphia ; December, 1860, Macedonian, Home Squadron, Atlantic Coast,
West Indies, and Spanish main; January, 1862, Marine Barracks, Boston; de
tached immediately, and ordered to join Battalion of Marines at Bay Point,
S. C. ; April, 1862, returned with Battalion to Washington, D. C.
Received commission as Captain, July 26, 1861 ; ordered in command at head
quarters ; May 1862, ordered with detachment of 200 men to reoccupy the Norfolk
Navy Yard ; hoisted the flag again on the part of the navy; October, 1862,
ordered to headquarters, Washington, D. C. ; in command until July, 1863;
ordered to join Battalion of Marines for service in South Atlantic Squadron ;
served with same on Morris Island during bombardment and destruction of
Fort Sumpter, and capture of Forts Wagner and Gregg ; commanded a detach
ment of 100 men and officers in the boat-attack on Fort Sumpter, September 8,
1868 ; received a brevet as Major for gallant and meritorious conduct in this
action ; served on Folly Island, and in December, 1863, battalion returned to
Philadelphia; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia.
Promoted to Major, June 10, 1864; ordered to Marine Rendezvous, Phila
delphia ; March, 1865, ordered to command Marine Barracks, Boston.
Promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel, December 5, 1867.

MAJOR THOMAS Y. FIELD,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania.
Commissioned as Second-Lieutenant, March 3, 1847 ; with the army in Mex
ico during the war ; brevetted First-Lieutenant for gallant and meritorious con
duct; frigate Raritan, Pacific Squadron, 1850-3; Marine Barracks, Philadel
phia, 1854-5. _ ,
Promoted to First-Lieutenant, October 15, 1854 ; sloop Constellation, Medi
terranean Squadron, 1854-5 ; Marine Barracks, Charlestown, Mass., 1856-7 ;
sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1858-9 ; steam-sloop Saranae, Pacific Squad
ron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, May 30, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia,
1862-3 ; Marine Barracks, Gosport, Va., 1864.
Commissioned as Major, June 10, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Wash
ington, D. O, 1865; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1866-7; Marine Barracks,
Gosport, Va., 1868-9.
MAJOR GEORGE R. GRAHAM ,*
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia.
Commissioned as Second-Lieutenant, July 27, 1847 ; Marine Barracks, Wash
ington, D. C.j Harris' Battalion, Mexico; Norfolk, Va., 1847-8; Marine Bar-

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racks, Philadelphia, 1848-50 ; sloop St. Mary's, Pacific Squadron, 1850-52;
Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1853-5; frigate Potomac, and sloop
Cyane, Home Squadron, 1855-8.
, Commissioned as First-Lieutenant, October 22, 1856 ; Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C, Philadelphia and .Washington, 1859; steam-sloop Brook
lyn, Home Squadron, 1859-60.
Commissioned as Captain, July 26, 1861 ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, Blockading
Squadron, 1861; Du Pont's Expedition to Port Royal; headquarters, Washing
ton, D. C, 1862; steam-frigate Colorado, West Gulf Blockading Squadron,
1862-4. Commissioned as Major, June 21, 1864; headquarters, Washington, D. C,
1864-8; Recruiting Rendezvous,. Washington, D. C, 1869; Norfolk, Va.,
1870.

MAJOR JOHN L. BROOME,*
Born in New York. Appointed from New York.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenarit, January 12, 1848 ; appointed Adjutant
of Marine Battalion, at Laguna, Mexico, June, 1848, upon the recommenda
tion of the late Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Reynolds ; in command of the steam
ship New Orleans, seized at New York by the United States authorities for
engaging in a fillibustering expedition, September, 1849; received a compli
mentary official letter by order of Commodore Isaac McKeever, Naval Com
mandant, from Commander Joshua R. Sands, expressing Commodore McKee-
ver's approbation of the manner in which he performed his duty while ih charge
of the New Orleans ; attached to sloop Marion, East India Squadron, 1849-52 ;
received the thanks of the Portuguese government, with the officers and crew
of the Marion for services rendered on the occasion of the blowing up of the
Portuguese frigate Donna Maria II., off Macao, China, October 29, 1850;
Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New York, 1853—4 ; sloop John Adams, Pacific
Squadron, 1854-5; performed the duty of Purser in the U. S. Navy for nine
months as Paymaster of the John Adams, by order of Commodore Henry K.
Hoff, approved by the Navy Department ; settled his accounts to the satisfac
tion of the Department and received a complimentary official letter from Com
modore Hoff for the attention paid to his duties as Marine Officer and Purser
of the John Adams ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1856-7.
Commissioned as First IAeutenant, September 28, 1857; sloop John Adams,
Pacific Squadron, 1857-8; receiving-ship Pennsylvania, Norfolk, Va, 1859;
sloop Portsmouth, coast of Africa, 1859-60 ; ordered to duty by Captain T. A.
Dornin, October i0, 1860, on board prize slaver Bomto, on the coast of Afrioa;
performed the duty of Watch Officer on board the Bonito until she arrived at
Savannah, Ga., January 10, 1861 ; steam-sloop Powhatan, West Gulf Blockad
ing Squadron, 1861 ; was present at the relief of Fort Pickens, April 17, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 26, 1861; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; battles of Forts Jackson and' St.
Philip, April 24, 1862; Chalmette Batteries, April 25, 1862; first landed at
quarantine, Mississippi River, above Forts Jackson and St. Philip with the
marines ofthe flag-ship Hartford, April 24, 1862; being senior Marine Officer
present on shore received the surrender of the rebel officers and their troops
Stationed there, and hoisted the U. S. flag over the rebel barracks; landed with
the marines of the flag-ship Hartford under his command at New Orleans, and

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accompanied Admiral Farragut's demand for the surrender of the city ; landed
with the marines of Admiral Farragut's Fleet, who hoisted the U.S. flag on
the custom house, and hauled down the rebel flag from the city hall, which flag
he delivered in person on board the Hartford ; received, with the officers and
men of the West Gulf Squadron, the thanks of Congress for services rendered
at the capture of New Orleans ; first battle of Vicksburg, June 28, 1862 —
wounded in the leg and thigh but remained on duty until the battles was over ;
reported by Commander R. M. Wainwright for efficiency in battle and sustain
ing the reputation of the U. S. Marine Corps; battle with the ram Arkansas,
July 15, 1862; second battle of Vicksburg, July 15, 1862; severely wounded
but remained at his station on the quarter deck until the battle was over;
landing of the marines under his command at Donaldsonville, La., burning the
place, August 9, 1862; battle of Port Hudson, March 14, 1863 ; received the
brevets of Major and Lieutenant Colonel for gallant and meritorious conduct;
Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1864.
Commissioned as Major, September 8, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Mound City,
Illinois, 1864r-5 ; Marine Barracks, Gosport, Va., 1865-7; Marine Barracks,
Brooklyn, N. Y., 1868-70.

MAJOR JAMES LEWIS,*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, September 25, 1855 ; Marine Barracks,
Philadelphia, 1855 ; steam-frigate Wahash, Home Squadron, 1856-8 ; frigate
Macedonian, Mediteranean Squadron, as Fleet Marine Officer, 1858-60 ; Marine
Barracks, Philadelphia, 1860; frigate St. Lawrence, Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, July 26, 1861; steam-frigate Wabash, flagship
South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, as Fleet Marine Officer, 1862-3; rendez
vous, Philadelphia, 1864 ; frigate Susquehanna, flag-ship, Brazil Squadron, as
senior Marine Officer, 1865-6; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia,
1867; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1868-9.
Commissioned as Major, 1869.

CAPTAINS.

CAPTAIN CLEMENT D. HEBB*

Born in Virginia. Appointed from California^.
Commissioned as Second IAeutenant, March 14, 1856 ; headquarters U. S.
Marine Corps, 1856 ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1856; sloop Falmouth,
Brazil Squadron, 1856-9 ; sloop Preble, Paraguay Expedition, 1859 ; head
quarters, Washington, D. C> 1859 ; Marine Barracks, New York, 1859-60 ;
Marine Barracks, Pensacola, Florida, frpm March to December, I860; ordered
with a detachment of marines to Fort Washington, oh the PdtoJnac, to prevent
that fort from falling into the hands of the rebels, 1861.
Commissioned as First IAeutetumt, 1861 ; frigate Santee, West Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1861-2.

330 MARINE CORPS.
Commissioned as Captain, July 26, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Gosport, Va.,
1862-3; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, March to August, 1863; detached and or
dered to a battalion of marines, to Morris and Folly Islands, S. C; Marine Bar
racks, New York, 1863-4; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., March to
December, 1864; Marine Barracks, Washington, from December, 1864 to
April, 1865; steam-frigate Colorado, flag-ship European Squadron, 1866-7;
Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, 1867-9; Mound City, Illinois,
1869; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1869; commanding Marine Bar
racks, Naval Station, Pensacola, Florida, 1869-70.

CAPTAIN PHILIP R. FENDALL,*
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from California, for services in
Indian War in Washington Territory, in 1856.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, October 17, 1857; Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C.; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, May, 1858; steam-frigate
Merrimac, from June, 1858 to February, 1860 ; Marine Barracks, Washington,
D. C.; joined Portsmouth, N. H., Station, in April, 1860; joined Boston
Station in October, 1860; joined Philadelphia Station, January, 1861; trans
ferred, April, 1861, to steamer Keystone State; same month, detached and
commanded marines at the gate, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 1861 ; June, 1861, joined steamer Susque
hanna, Atlantic Blockading Squadron, Commodore Silas H. Stringham; Sus
quehanna afterward joined Admiral Du Pont's South Atlantic Blockading
Squadron, and afterward Admiral Farragut's Western Blockading Squadron;
battles of Hatteras Inlet, Port Royal, Sewell's Point, Ocrakoke Inlet; Savannah
River, February, 1862 ; James River, etc. ; received the brevet of Major, for
gallant and meritorious conduct in the above actions.
Commissioned as Captain, July 21, 1861 ; May, 1863, detached from Sus
quehanna and ordered to headquarters ; July, 1863, joined Portsmouth, N. H.,
Station; December, 1863, joined California Station; March, 1866, joined Ma
rine Barracks, Washington; August 10th to 29th, attached to steamer Pensa
cola; September, 1866, joined Norfolk, Va., Station; May, 1867, joined steam-
sloop Guerriere, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron; July, 1869, detached from
Guerriere; October, 1869, joined Boston, Massachusetts, Station; February,
1870, took command of marines at Annapolis, Maryland.

CAPTAIN JOHN SCHERMERHORN,
Born in New York. Appointed from Indiana.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, January 10, 1858 ; steamer Memphis,
Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1858-9.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 1861 ; sloop Vandalia, Blockading Squad
ron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, November 16, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Charles
town, Massachusetts, 1862 ; steamer San Jacinto, East Gulf Squadron, 1862-3;
steamer Minnesota, flag-ship North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4;
Marine Barracks, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Ports
mouth, N. H., 1866-7; steam-sloop Pensacola, flag-ship North Pacific Squad-
ion, 1868-9.

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CAPTAIN CHARLES HEYWOOD,
Born in Maine. Appointed from New York.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, April 5, 1858; frigate Niagara, special
service, 1858; sloop St. Louis, Home Squadron, 1859-60.
Commissioned "as First Lieutenant, 1861 ; sloop Cumberland, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Lieutenant Heywood was attached to the Cumberland when that vessel was
sunk by the rebel ram Merrimac, and was favorably mentioned in the official
report of Lieutenant Morris, the commanding officer of the Cumberland.
Commissioned as Captain, November 22, 1861 ; recruiting rendezvous, New
York, 1862; frigate Sabine, special service, 1863; steam-sloop Hartford, flag
ship Farragut's Squadron, 1864-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, etc.; received brevets
of Major and Lieutenant-Colonel for distinguished gallantry in the presence of
the enemy; Marine Barracks,Navy Yard, Washington, D. C, 1866-7; steam-
frigate Franklin, flag-ship European Squadron, 1867-8; headquarters, Washing
ton, D. C, 1869.

CAPTAIN LUCIEN L. DAWSON,
Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Texas.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, January 13, 1859; steam-sloop Hartford,
East India Squadron, 1859-61.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, November 23, 1861 ; steam-sloop San Jacinto, East
Gulf Squadron, 1862 ; recruiting rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1863 ; steam-frigate
Colorado, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; bombardment of and
land assault on Fort Fisher; brevetted Major for gallant and meritorious
service; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1867-8; steam-frigate Franklin, flag
ship European Squadron, 1868-9.

CAPTAIN GEORGE BUTLER,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from Arkansas.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, February 11, 1859 ; Mediterranean
Squadron, 1859-60.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, July 9, 1861; steam-frigate Niagara, Block
ading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as Captain, November 4, 1862; Marine Barracks, Charles
town, Massachusetts, 1862—4 ; steam-frigate Minnesota, North Atlantic Blocka
ding Squadron, 1864-5 ; two attacks on Fort Fisher, and land assault on the
same ; brevetted' Major for bravery in action ; Marine Barracks, Boston, Massa
chusetts, 1866-7; steam-sloop Contoocook, flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron,
1868; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1869.

CAPTAIN GEORGE W. COLLIER,
Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland.
Commissioned as Second-Lieutenant, September 5, 1860; steam-frigate Min
nesota, Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.

332 MARINE CORPS.
Commissioned as First-Lieutenant, September 1, 1861; Marine Barracks,
Charlestown, Mass., 1861-4.
Commissioned as Captain, November 4, 1862 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn,
N. Y., 1864-7; steam-sloop Piscataqua, flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9.

CAPTAIN GEORGE P. HOUSTON,
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania.
Commissioned as Second-Lieutenant, Oct. 23, 1860; sloop Jamestown, 1860-2.
Commissioned as First-Lieutenant, September 1, 1861 ; steam-sloop Wachu
sett, West India Squadron, 1862-3 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Pensacola,
1863. Commissioned as Captain, February 6, 1864 ;. steam-sloop Brooklyn, West
Gulf "Blockading Squadron, 1864; battle of Mobile Bay, etc.; brevetted Major
for gallant and meritorious services; steam-sloop Brooklyn, North Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; recruiting rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1866-7;
steam-frigate Minnesota, special oruise, 1867-8; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn,
N. Y., 1868-9.

CAPTAIN JAMES FORNEY*
Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania.
Commissioned as Second-Lieutenant, March 1, 1861 ; steam-frigate Roanoke,
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as First-Lieutenant, September 1, 1861; October, 1861, com
manded Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C. ; November, 1861, commanded
Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N..H. ; steam-sloop Brooklyn, West Gulf Block
ading Squadron, 1861-4 ; battles of New Orleans, Port Hudson, Vicksburg,
ram Arkansas, etc. ; commanded a division of guns at the attack on Grand
Gulf, Mississippi,. May 26, 1862; commanded a division of guns at the bom
bardment of Donaldsonville, La., July, 1862 ; commanded marines at Bayou
Sara, La. ; destroyed and successfully cut off the telegraphic communications of
the rebels, 1863 ; commanded guns at Galveston, Texas, and the attacks on
the batteries and town, February 24, 1863 ; commanded marines in a boat
expedition at Brazos de Santiago, mouth of the Rio Grande ; successfully cap
tured and destroyed four vessels, loaded with valuable drugs, from under the
rebel batteries ; sent on shore, at Texas, by Commander Bell, to kill cattle for
the crew of the Brooklyn. Owing to the rise of the water, which prevented
the boats from coming in, the men were obliged to swim off, and in great danger
of being shot-by the rebel cavalry. Lieutenant Forney, while attached to the
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, was handsomely mentioned in the special re
ports of the different battles in which he had taken part, and was brevetted Cap
tain for gallant and meritorious services.
Commissioned as Captain, April 23, 1864. Captain Forney, on his return
north from the Gulf Squadron, was offered the commission of Colonel of Vol
unteers, and the command of a regiment of Pennsylvania troops by Governor
Curtin, of Pennsylvania, but owing to the representations of the commandant
of the Marine Corps that there was not enough of efficient officers to perform
the duties of the corps, Captain Forney was obliged to decline. In July, 1864,
when the city of Washington was threatened by the rebel army, Captain Forney

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was ordered to take command of a battalion of marines and a battery of howit
zers, and proceed from Philadelphia to Havre de Grace, Md., to open the rail
road to Baltimore, then in possession of the rebels. The conduct of Captain
Forney on this occasion elicited a highly complimentary letter from Major Gen
eral French, in which he says : " The battalion commanded by Captain Forney,
attracted my attention by its fine military appearance, its discipline, and the
admirable manner in which it was handled. The arrangements made by Captain
Forney for the artillery to repel the attack threatened upon the station, had a great
influence in preventing one. The rapid manner in which the order concentrat
ing the troops at Havre de Grace was obeyed by him, and the valuable and
effective services performed by the battalion under his direction, entitle him and
them to the recognition of the government." Recruiting rendezvous, Phila
delphia, April, May and June, 1865; steam-sloop Hartford, flag-ship Asiatic
Squadron, 1865-8; brevetted Major for gallant conduct at Formosa, 1867;
Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1869-70 ; on March 15, 1870, brevetted Lieu
tenant-Colonel "for meritorious services in defeating a rebel raid at Gunpowder
bridge, which threatened the ferries at Havre de Grace, and the border of Penn
sylvania, in July, 1864."

CAPTAIN MoLANE TILTON

Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland.
Commissioned as Second IAeutenant, March 2, 1861 ; steam-frigate Colorado,
West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 1, 1861; Marine Barracks,
Pensacola, Florida, 1862-3 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, June 10, 1864 ; commanding Marine Guard, at
Naval Academy, 1866-9.

CAPTAIN JOHN H. HIGBEE,
Born in New York. Appointed from New York.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 9, 1861 ; sloop Vincennes, West
Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 1, 1861 ; steam-sloop Hartford,
flag-ship West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; brevetted Captain for gal
lantry in battle, May 25, 1863 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New York, 1864.
Commissioned as Captain, June 10, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Gosport, Vir
ginia, 1865; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New York, 1866; recruiting rendez
vous, New York, 1867 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
1868-9.

CAPTAIN FRANK MUNROE,
Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District of Columbia.
Commissioned as Second IAeutenant, June 5, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Wash
ington, D. C.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 1, 1861 ; Marine Barracks,
Gosport, Virginia, 1862; Marine Barracks, Cairo, Illinois, 1863; iron-clad
Roanoke, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4.

334 MARINE CORPS.
Commissioned as Captain, June 10, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Washington,
D. 0, 1865 ; steam-sloop Powhatan, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1865-7 ;
headquarters, Washington, D. O, 1868; Marine Barracks, Pensacola, Florida,
1869.

CAPTAIN ROBERT W. HUNTINGTON,
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, June 5, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Wash
ington, D. C, 1861 ; was attached to Marine Battalion at battle of Bull Run.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 1, 1861 ; served in Marine
Battalion, co-operating with South Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2 ; sloop James
town, East India Squadron, 1862-5.
Commissioned as Captain, June 21, 1864; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New
York, 1866 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1866-7; Marine
Barracks, Gosport, Virginia, 1867; headquarters, Washington, D. C, 1867-8;
Marine Barracks, Boston, Massachusetts, 1868-9; attached to steam-sloop Lan
caster, flag-ship South Atlantic Squadron, 1870.

CAPTAIN JOSEPH F. BAKER,
Born in Illinois. Appointed from Illinois.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, June 5, 1861 ; sloop Congress, North
Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; engagement with rebel ram Merrimac,
March 8, 1862 ; by his gallant bearing in the action with the Merrimac, Lieu
tenant Baker won honorable mention in the official report of the affair.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 1, 1861 ; Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C, 1862-3; steam-frigate Niagara, special service, 1864-5.
Commissioned as Captain, June 22, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia,
1866; headquarters, Washington, D. C, 1867; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn,
New York, 1867-8 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, Massachusetts, 1868 ; steam-
sloop Severn, flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1869.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. PARKER*
Born in New York. Appointed from Wisconsin.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, June 5, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Wash
ington, D. C, 1861 ; ordered with a battalion of marines to Maryland, August,
1861. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 1, 1861 ; ordered with battal
ion of marines, under Admiral Du Pont, to Port Royal, South Carolina ; wrecked
in the steamer Governor, and rescued by U. S. S. Sabine, Com. Ringold,
October, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New York, 1862 ; ordered with
a detachment of marines to suppress a meeting in the Empire Brigade,
East New York, August, 1862; ordered to the command of .Guard of
steam-sloop San Jacinto, September, 1862 ; ordered to command of Guard of

MARINE CORPS. 335
steamer Vanderbilt, from October, 1862 to February, 1865 ; two attacks on
Fort Fisher, and land assault on the same, December 24th and 25, 1864, and
January 13th, 14th, and 15, 1865; brevetted Major for gallant and meritorious
conduct. Commissioned as Captain, December 8, 1864; Marine Barracks, Mound
City, Illinois, 1865-7 ; steam-sloop Powhatan, flag-ship South Pacific Squadron,
1868-9.

CAPTAIN HENRY ANTHONY BARTLETT ,*
Born in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, August 19, 1838. Appointed from Rhode
Island; served in the First Rhode Island Regiment, Volunteers; September 8,
1861, appointed as Second Lieutenant U. S. Marine Corps, headquarters,
Washington, D. C; October 16, 1861, Port Royal Marine Battalion; on board
transport Governor, which foundered at sea, November 3, 1861 — crew rescued
by frigate Sabine; Fernandina and Fort Clinch Expedition, February, 1862;
St. Augustine Expedition, March, 1862.
Commissioned as First IAeutenant, November 26, 1861 ; Marine Barracks,
Boston, April, 1862 to July, 1862; iron-clad frigate New Ironsides, July,
1862 to August, 1864 ; Forts Moultrie and Sumpter, April 7, 1863 ; twenty-six
engagements with Forts Wagner, Gregg, Sumpter, Moultrie, Bee and others,
having charge of two 11-inch guns manned by the Marine Guard ; July, 1863,
Morris Island, in command of a battalion of three hundred and twenty marines;
February, 1864, St. John's River and Jacksonville, in command of a battalion
of marines; Brooklyn Barracks, August, 1864 to March, 1865; receiving-ship
North Carolina, March, 1865 to September, 1865 ; Boston Barracks, Septem
ber, 1865 to March, 1866 ; steam-frigate Chattanooga, special cruise, March,
1866 to September, 1866; steam-sloop Sacramento, special cruise, September,
1866 to June 19, 1867, on board at the time she was wrecked on the Cora-
mandel Coast, bay of Bengal, India.
Commissioned as Captain, November 29, 1867; Boston Barracks, Decem
ber, 1867 to September, 1868 ; flag-ship Contoocook, September, 1868 to Octo
ber, 1869; Boston Barracks, December, 1869 to February, 1870; receiving-
ship Vermont, February, 1870.

CAPTAIN CHARLES A. STILLMAN,*
Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut Second Lieutenant, August
30, 1861.
Commissioned First IAeutenant, November 25, 1861 ; served in Marine Bat
talion in South Carolina, 1861-2; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1862;
U. S. S. Colorado, West Gulf Squadron, 1862; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn,
N. Y., 1863 ; commanded a company of marines in draft's riots in city of New
York, July 13th to 20, 1863; Cairo, 111., and Mississippi River, 1864; U. S. S.
Juniata, special service, 1864; U. S. S. Cyane, Pacific Squadron, 1865-6; flag
ship Lancaster, Pacific Squadron, 1866-7.
Commissioned as Captain, December 5, 1867; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn,
N. Y., 1867-9; U. S. S. Vermont, 1869-70; senior Marine Officer, North
Squadron, Pacific Fleet, 1870.

336 marine corps.
CAPTAIN HORATIO B. LOWRY,
Born in Vermont. Appointed from South Carolina.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, November 25, 1861.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, November 26, 1861 ; Marine Barracks,
Washington, D. C, 1861; steam-frigate Wabash, flag-ship South Atlantic
Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious
service, September 8, 1863; Marine Barracks, Boston, Massachusetts, 1864-5;
store-ship New Hampshire, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5;
receiving-ship New Hampshire, Norfolk, Va., 1866 ; Marine Barracks, Boston,
Massachusetts, 1867; receiving-ship Vermont, New York, 1867-8; Marine
Barracks, Philadelphia, 1868-9 ; attached to frigate Sabine, special cruise.
Commissioned as Captain, 1869.

CAPTAIN FREDERICK H. CORRIE,
Born in New York. Appointed from Kentucky.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, November 25, 1861.
Commissioned as First IAeutenant, November 26, 1861 ; Marine Battalion,
serving in South Atlantic Squadron, i861-2 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New
York, 1.862; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California, 1862-4; steam-sloop
Powhatan, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; battle of Fort Fisher,
etc., brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious conduct; Marine Barracks,
Gosport, Virginia, 1866-7 ; receiving-ship New Hampshire, Norfolk, Virginia,
1868; receiving-ship Vermont, New York, 1868-9; attached to steam-sloop
Juniata, European Fleet, 1870.
Commissioned as Captain, 1870.

CAPTAIN PERCIVAL C. POPE*
Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from New Hampshire; Captain's Clerk,
U. S. Navy; attached to steam-sloop Richmond, 1861; in the engagement at
the Passes of the Mississippi River, October 12th and 13, 1861.
Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, November 23, 1861, Marine Corps.
Commissioned as First Lieutenant, November 26, 1861 ; served at headquarters
of the Marine Corps, 1861-2 ; Marine Barracks, Charlestown, Massachusetts,
1862 ; Marine Battalion, South Carolina, 1862 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, 1862 ; steam-frigate Powhatan, 1862—4, South Atlantic Block
ading Squadron and West India Squadron ; brevetted Captain for gallant and
meritorious services, September 8, 1863 ; Marine Barracks, Charlestown, Massa
chusetts, 1864-7; steam-sloop Monongahela, West India Squadron, 1867; steam-
frigate Susquehanna, flag-ship West India Squadrpn, 1867-8 ; steam-sloop Mon
ongahela, West India Squadron, 1868; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, New York,
1868 ; Marine Barracks, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 1868-70.
Commissioned as Captain, April 12, 1870.

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INDEX TO NAMES OP OFFICERS
WHOSE RECORDS ARE GIVEN.

NAME. BANK. PAGE.
Abernathy, J. J.  Surgeon  279
Abbott, C. W  Paymaster  285
Abbott, John F  Commander  190
Abbott, Walter  Lt. Commander  226
Adams, H. A. Jr  Commander;  168
Albert, John S  Chief Engineer  316
Alden, James  Commodore  50
Allen, R. W  Paymaster  296
Allen, W. N  Lt. Commander... ..199
Almy, J. J  Commodore  57
Ammen, Daniel  Captain  99
Armentrout, G. W  Lt. Commander... ..243
Armstrong, James F  Captain  107
Arnold, H.N. T  Commander  137
Auliek, John H  Commodore  62

NAME. HANK.
Blake, H. C  Commander....
Bloodgood, D  Surgeon 
Boarman, Charles,  Commodore....
Bogert, E. S  Surgeon 
Boggs, Charles S  Rear Admiral..
3, W. B  Paymaster.

PAGE.
....143 ....265 .... 80
 271
.... 26
.284

Babcock, C. A  .'Commander  186
Bache, A. D  Paymaster  297
Bache, Benj. F  Surgeon  275
Bache, 6. M  Lt. Commander  214
Badger, 0. C  Commander  150
Bailey, Theodoras  Bear Admiral  38
Baker, Charles H  Chief Engineer  315
Baker, F. H  Commander  178
Baker, J. F.  Captain M. C  334
Baker, S. H  Lt. Commander.... 243
Baleh, G. B  Captain  101
Baldwin, Augustus S.... Captain  135
Baldwin, C. H  Captain  120
Barclay, C. J  Lt. Commander  237
Barker, A. S  Lt. Commander  223
Barrett, E  Commander  142
Barry, Garrett R  Paymaster  300
Bartlett, H. A  Captain M. C  335
Bartlett, John R  Lt. Commander  224
Bartleman, R. M  Chief Engineer  316
Batcheller, O. A  Lt. Commander... ..224
Bates, John A  Paymaster.  301
Bates, N. L  Surgeon  270
Batione, D. B  Paymaster  297
Beale, J  Surgeon  254
Beaman, G. W  Paymaster  292
Beardslee, L. A  Commander  186
Beardsley, G. S  Surgeon  272
Beaumont, J. C  Commander  193
Belknap, G. E  Commander  163
Sell, Charles H  Rear Admiral  35
Benham, A. E. K  Commander  177
Berrien, John M  Commodore  74
Billings, L. G  Paymaster  294
Bishop, A. MoC  Paymaster  304
Biseell, S. B  Commodore  76
Blakej Charles F  Lt. Commander  223
Blake, F. B  Lt. Commander  200
Blake, George S.....  Commodorei  69(339)

Bowers, Edw. C  Captain  127
Boyd, Robert  Lt. Commander  250
Boyle, J. J  Commodore  84
Bradford, J. M  Commander.  146
Bradford, J. O  Paymaster  282
Bradford, R. F  Commander  190
Bradley, Michael  Surgeon  270
Braine, D. L  ,  Commander  162
Brasher, Thomas M  Captain  135
Breese, K. R  Commander  159
Breese, Samuel L  Rear Admiral  30
Breese, S. L  ..Commander  176
Bridgman, William E....LI. Commander  222
Bridge, Horatio...,  Paymaster  303
Bright, G. S  Chief Engineer  319
Brinkerhoif, Isaac  Surgeon  278
Brooks, W. B  Chief Engineer  314
Broome, J. L  '.  Major M. C  328
Brown, A. D  Lt. Commander  232
Brown, George  Commander  168
Browne, J. M  Surgeon  262
Browne, S. T  Paymaster  296
Brownell, Thomas  Captain  13 0
Bruce, Henry  Commodore  82
Bryant, Nathaniel C  Commander  191
Bryson, A  Captain  104
Buchanan, McKean  Paymaster  300
Bullns, Oscar  Commodore  82
Buckley, J. H  Paymaster  299
Bunce, F. M  Lt. Commander  201
Burbank, C. H  Surgeon  269
Burtis, A  Paymaster  ,292
Butler, George  Captain M. C  331

Caldwell, A. G  Lt. Commander.. ..242
Cahoone, Benjamin  Paymaster  301
Caldwell, C. H. B  Captain  112
Carpender, Edw. W  Commodore  82
Carpenter, C. C  Commander  184
Carpenter, J. N  Paymaster  286
Carr, Overton  Captain  132
Carter, John C  Commodore  88
Carter, S. P  Commander  139
Case, A. L  Commodore  52
Casey, S. Jr  Lt. Commander. ...213
Cash, J. C  Major M. C  323
Cassel, D. R  Lt. Commander. ...230
Caswell, T. T  Paymaster  290
Chadwick, F. E  Lt. Commander. ...242

340

INDEX.

Chandler, R  Commander  159
Chaunoey, John S  Commodore  64
Chester, C. M  Lt. Commandor  237
Chew, R. S  Lt. Commander  226
Cilley, Greenleaf  Commander  195
Clark, A. J  Paymaster  289
Clark, Charles E  Lt. Commander  237
Clark, J. H  Surgeon  273
Clark, L  Lt. Commander  235
Clark, R.H  Paymaster  285
Clarke, F  Paymaster!  297
Clary, A. G  Captain  108
Cleborne, C. J  Surgeon  268
Clitz, J. M. B  Captain  103
Ciymer, George  Surgeon  278
Cochrane, George  Paymaster  289
Codwise, G. W  Surgeon  279
Coffin, George W  Lt. Commander  230
Coghlan, J. B  Lt. Commander  234
Colhoun, E. R  Captain  120
Colhoun, John  Commodore  87
Collier, G. W  Captain M. C  336
Collins, N  Captain  91
Colvoooresses, G.M  Captain  134
Cooke, A. P  Lt. Commander  197
Cook, F. A  Lt. Commander  236
Cooper, G. H  Captain  112
Cooper, P. H  Lt. Commandor  231
Corbin, T. G  Captain  105
Corrie, F. H  Captain M. C  336
Cosby, F  Paymaster  289
Cotton, C. S  Lt. Commander  223
Cones, S. F  Surgeon  261
Crabbe, Thomas.  Rear Admiral  31
Craven, Charles H  Lt. Commander  233
Craven, T. T  Rear Admiral  41
Creighton, J. B  Captain  117
Cromwell, B. J  Lt. Commander  215
Crosby, P  Captain  115
Grossman, A. F  Commander  189
Crowningshield, A. S...Lt. Commander  233
Cunningham, J. S  Paymaster  285
Cushing, William B  Lt. Commander  202
Cashing, M. B  Paymaster  298
Cushman, Charles H  Commander  167
Cutter, George F  Paymaster  282
Dade, F. C  Chief Engineer  311
Dahlgren, J. A  Rear Admiral  17
Dallas, F. G  Commandor  193
Dana, William H  Commander  185
Dana, W. S  Lt. Commander... ..236
Danby, Robert  Chief Engineer  308
Davenport, F. O  Lt. Commander  216
Davenport, H. K  Captain  113
Davis, C. H  Rear Admiral  16
Davis, C. H  Lt. Commander... ..246
Davis, George L  Paymaster  286
Davis, G. T  Lt. Commander  239
Davis, J. L  Commander  152
Dawson, L. L  Captain M. C  331
Day, B. T  Lt. Commander  221
Dean, R. C  Surgeon  264
Decatur, Stephen  Captain  84
De Camp, John  Commodore  79
Do Krafft, J. C. P  Commander  150
De Luce, E. S  Chief Engineer  309
Denby, 1. R  Surgeon  264

RANK.

PASE.

Denniston, H. M  Paymaster  288
Dewey, G  Lt. Commander  204
Dichman, E. J  Lt. Commander  231
Dickens, F. W  Lt. Commander  245
Dodd, Robert  Surgeon  280
Donaldson, E  Captain  94
Doran, E. C  Paymaster  283
Dornin, T. A  Commodore  65
Drake, A. J  Commander  192
Dungan, J. S  Surgeon  262
Dungan, W. W  Chief Engineer  317
Dunn, E. T  Paymaster  281
Duvall, M.  Surgeon  258
Dyer, N. M  Lt. Commander  240
Eagle, Henry  Commodore  68
Eastman, Thos. H  Lt. Commander  198
Edwards, David S  Surgeon  275
Egbert, Daniel  Surgeon  278
Eldredge, C. H  Paymaster.  287
Eldredge, J. C  Paymaster  283
Ellery, Frank  Commodore  81
Ellison,F. B  Commodore  86
Emery, C. J  ,  Paymaster;  284
Emmons, G. F  Commodore  55
English, E  Commander  146
Erben, H. Jr  Commander  182
Etting, Henry  Paymaster  301
Evans, R. D  Lt. Commander.. ..230
Eversfield, C  /Surgeon  259
Fairfax, D. M  Captain  103
Farquhar, N. H...  Lt. Commander.. ..207
Farragut, D. G  Admiral  7
Febiger, J. C  Captain  114
Fendall, P. R  Capt. M. C  ..„330
Field, T. Y  Major M. C  327
Fillebrown, T. S  Commander..  158
Fitch, Le Roy  Lt. Commander.. ..197
Fithian, E  Chief Engineer  310
Fitzhugh, Wm. E  Commander  167
Fletcher, M  Chief Engineer  310
Foltz, J. M  Surgeon  252
Folger, W. M  Lt. Commander  245
Forney, James  Captain M. C  332
Foster, Edw  Paymaster  288
Frailoy, J. M  Commodore  68
Frailey, A. Leonard  Paymaster  297
Franklin, C. L  Lt. Commander  205
Franklin, S. R  Commander  172
Fulton, James  Paymaster  286
Fyffe, Jos. P  Commander  179
Gamble, Wm. M  Commander  193
Gardner, Wm. H  Commodore  65
Garvin, B. F  Chief Engineer  308
Gherardi,B  Commander  162
Gibbs, B. F  Surgeon  266
Gibson, Alex  Captain  133
Gibson, Wm  Commander  194
Gihson, A. L  Surgeon  264
Gillett, S. P  Lt. Commander ....209
Gillis, Jas. H  Commander  166
Gillis, John P  Commodore  77
Gillman, A. J  Paymaster  2S7
Giraud, J. S  Paymaster..  299
Glass, Henry  Lt. Commander.. ...230
Glasson, Jno. J  Commodore  89

Index.

341

NAMB- RANK. PAGB.
2}??**' Wm. M  Commodore  68
G hdden, G. D. B  Lt. Commander  239
G hsson 0. S  Rear Admiral  24
Glynn, James  Commodore  67
Goodrich, Casper F  Lt. Commander  242
G°a°n, S.W  Rear Admiral  19
Goldsborough, L. M  Rear Admiral  11
Goldsborough, J. R  Commodore... 76
Goldsborough, W  Paymaster  293
Gorgas, A. C  Surgeon  265
Gori-inge, H. H  Lt. Commander  241
Graham, G. R  Major M. C  327
Graham, Jas. D  Lt. Commander,".'.222
Graham, John II  Commodore  81
Grafton, E. C  Commander  '. 173
Green, Chas.  Commodore  ' 86
Green, F. M  Lt. Commander  240
Green, J. F  Commodore  52
Green, Nathl  Lt. Commander  199
Greene, Jas. M  Surgeon  275
Greene, S. D  Lt. Commander .....207
Greene, T. P  Commodore  51
Greer, J. A  Commander  164
Gridley, Chas. V  Lt. Commander  238
Grier, W  Surgeon  255
Guest, John  Captain  102
Guild, Chas. F  Paymaster  ,.294
Gnlick, J. S  Paymaster  284
Gunnell, F. M  Surgeon  261
Haggerty, F. S  Captain  132
Hambleton, John N  Paymaster  300
Hamilton, Jas. F  Paymaster  295
Handy, Robert  Commodore  86
Harlan, D  Surgeon  253
Harmony, D. B  Commander  164
Harrell, A. D  Captain  135
Harrington, P. F  Lt. Commander  235
Harris, I. Jr  Lt. Commander  229
Harris, J. G  Paymaster  283
Harris, T. C  Commander  151
Harrison, N. B  ,  Captain  113
Harwood, A. H  Rear Admiral  37
Haswell, G. K  Lt. Commmder.. ..228
Hatfield, C-  Lt. Commander  198
Hawley, C. E  Lt. Commander  251
Haxton, M  Commander  ,173
Hayward, G. W  Lt. Commander  215
Hebb, C. D  Captain M. C ... .329
Heiskell, H. M  Paymaster  282
Hendee, George £  Paymaster  298
Henderson, A  Surgeon  257
Henderson, Alex  Chief Engineer  311
Hendrickson, W. W  Lt. Commander  233
Henry, E. W  Commander  195
Heyerman, O. S  Lt. Commander  246
Heywood, C  Captain M. C  331
Hibbert, S. D  ChiefEngineer  311
Higbee, J. H  Captain M. C  3B3
Higginson, F. J  Lt. Commander  220
Hiland, Thomas  Surgeon  274
Hinman, F. H  Paymaster  293
Hitchcock, R. B  Commodore  73
Hoehling, A. A  Surgeon  273
Hoff, Henry K  Rear Admiral  42
Hoff, Wm. B  Lt. Commander  235
Hooker, E  Lt. Commander  240
Hopkins, Alfred  Commander  187

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Hopkins, W. E  Captain  124
gOTd. W. P  Surgeon  263
Horner, G. R. B  Surgeon  276
Horwitz, P. J  Surgeon  260
Houston, G. P  Captain M. C  332
Howell, John A  Lt. Commander.... 204
Howell, J. C  Captain  98
Howison, H. L  Lt. Commander  206
Hoy, Jas  Paymaster  290
Hudson, A  Surgeon  270
Hughes, A. K  Captain  H8
HuU, Jos. B  Commodore  63
Hunt, T. A  Commodore  74
Hunt, W. H  Chief Engineer.... 318
Hunter, Cbas  Captam  129
Hunter, Lewis B  Surgeon  [277
Huntington, C. L  Lt. Comma'nder""'219
Huntington, R.W  Captain M. C  334
In«n> p  Chief Engineer  320
Inman, Wm  Commodore  63
Irwin, John  Commander  164
Isherwood, B. F  Chief Engineer  304
Jackson, C. C  Paymaster  285
Jackson, C. H  Commodore  83
Jackson, S  Surgeon  255
Jamesson, Wm  Commodore  81
Joifers, W.N  Captain  126
Jenkins, T. A  Commodore  46
Jewell, T. F  Lt. Commander  243
Johnson, A. W  Commander  175
Johnson, G. R  Chief Engineer  314
Johnson, Henry L  Lt. Commander .,..222
Johnson, J  Chief Engineer  321
Johnson, M. L  Lt. Commander  222
Johnson, Wm  Surgeon  276
Jones, J. H  Lt. Colonel M. C...326
Jones, T. J  Chief Engineer  318
Jouett, James E  Commander  157
Kane, T. F  Lt. Commander  207
Kautz, A  Lt. Commander  206
Kellogg, A. G  Lt. Commander  234
Kellogg, E.N  Lt. Commander... ..226
Kellogg, M  Chief Engineer  316
Kells, DeWitt C  Lt. Commander  248
Kempff, L  Lt. Commander  219
Kennedy, C. W  Lt. Commander  242
Kennedy, S. D  Surgeon  270
Kennett, J. C  Lt. Commander  244
Kenny, A. J  Paymaster  291
Keyser, Edw. S  Lt. Commander  247
Kidder, B. H  Surgeon  274
Kiersted, A. J  Chief Engineer  317
Kilty, Aug. H  Commodore  75
Kimball, J. B  Chief Engineer  315
Kimberly, L. A  Commander  161
Kindleberger, D  Surgeon  267
King, J. W  Chief Engineer  306
King, W. M  Surgeon  266
Kintzing, M. R  Colonel M. C  326
Kirkland, Wm.A  Commander  184
Kitchen, J. S  Surgeon  264
Knight, J. S  Surgeon  272
Knox, Samuel R  Captain  129
Kutz, G. F  :.. Chief Engineer  317

342

INDEX.

NAME. HANK. , PAGE.
liamberton, B. P  Lt. Commander  245
Lamdin, W. J  Chief Engineer  314
Lanier, Edmund  Captain  136
Lanman, Joseph  Rear Admiral  20
Landsdale, P  Surgeon  259
Lardner, Jas. L  Rear Admiral  38
Latimer, Wm. K  Commodore  80
Law, R. L  Commander  ,...171
Lawton, A  Chief Engineer  309
Lawton, E  Chief Engineer  307
Leach, T. W  Surgeon  266
Lee, S. P  Rear Admiral  23
Le Roy, W. E  Commodore  62
Lewis, James  Major M. C  .329
Lewis, R. F. R  Commander  174
Lisle, R. P  Paymaster  296
Livingston, J. W  Commodore  73
Lockwood, Samuel  Commodore  87
Long, J. H  Chief Engineer  321
Looker, T. H  Paymaster  284
Loring, C. H  Chief Engineer  311
Low, W. W  Commander  147
Lowber, W  Surgeon  260
Lowndes, Charles  Commodore  67
Lowry, Francis  Captain  130
Lowry, H. B  Captain M. C  336
Lowry, R. B  ...Commander  147
Luce, S. B  Commander  152
Ludlow, N  Lt. Commander  236
Lull, E. P  Commander  189
Lynch, D  Captain  128
Lyon, G. A  Paymaster  291
Maccoun, R. T  Surgeon  259
Maolay, William W  Lt. Commander  231
Macomb, D. B  Chief Engineer  312
Macomb, W. H  Commodore  61
Madigan, John  Commander  142
Maddox,W.A. T  Captain M, C  324
Magaw, Samuel  Commander  192
Mahan, A. T  Commander  206
Manley, H. D. H  Lt. Commander  211
Marchand, J. B  Commodore  47
Marcy, W. G.  Paymaster  284
Marin, M. C  Captain  136
Martin, Charles  Surgeon  260
Martin, G. R  Paymaster  292
Marston, John  Commodore  67
Marvin, Joseph D  Lt. Commander  209
Mathews, E. O  Commander  188
Mathews, E. S  Surgeon  273
Maulsby, G  Surgeon  ,..254
Maxwell, C. D  Surgeon  279
May, E  Paymaster.  288
Mayo, H. O  Surgeon  259
Mayo, W. K  Commander  156
MoBishop, Alex  Paymaster  304
McCalla, B. H  Lt. Commander  242
McCann, William P  Commander  179
MoCarty, S. A  Lt. Commander  221
MoCauley, E. Y  Commander  172
McCawley, C. G  Lt. Colonel M. C...326
McClelland, J  Surgeon  255
McCook, R. S  Lt. Commander  208
MoCormick, A. H  Lt. Commander  222
McCrea, E. P  Commander  182
McCurley, Felix  Lt. Commander  248
McDonough, C. S  ...Captain  133

NAME. bank. page.
McDougal, C. J  Lt. Commander  199
McDougal, D.D  Commodore  57
McElmell, J  Chief Engineer  319
MoFarland, John  Lt. Commander  220
McGlensey, John F  Lt. Commander  217
MoGowan, Jr. John  Lt. Commander  248
McGregor, Charles  Lt. Commander  229
McKay, Chas. E  Lt. Commander  249
McKinstry, J. P  Commodore  74
McMaster, James  Surgeon  267
McNair, A. R  Lt. Commander  211
McNair, F. V  Lt. Commander  202
Mead, G. L  Paymaster  299
Meade, H. M  Paymaster  296
Meade, R. W. Jr  Commander...'  182
Menzies, Gust. V  Lt. Commander  247
Merriman, E. C  Lt. Commander  217
Messersmith, J. S  Surgeon  286
Middleton, E  Commodore  56
Miller, Edwin H  Lt. Commander  249
Miller, J. D  Surgeon  253
Miller, Joseph N  Commander  187
Miller, M  Lt. Commander  225
Mitchell, A. N  Lt. Commander  220
Mitchell, William  Commander  196
Moeller, B. J  Captain.....  126
Montgomery, J. B  Rear Admiral  32
Moore, J. W  Chief Engineer  315
Morris, F  Lt. Commander  238
Morris, G. U  Commander  161
Morrison, G. F  Lt. Commander  249
Mullan, D. W  Lt. Commander  239
Mullan,H. E  Lt. Commander  216
Mullany, J. R. M  Captain  90
Munroe, F  Captain M. C  333
Murray, A  Captain  93
Murray, Charles  Paymaster  303
Murray, J. D  Paymaster  286
Naile,F. J  Lt. Commander  272
Nelson, H. C  Surgeon  269
Nelson, Thomas  Lt. Commander  247
Newell, H  Chief Engineer  309
Nichols, E. T  Captain  100
Nichols, S. W  Lt. Commander  219
Nicholson, A. S  Major M. C  323
Nicholson, J. W. A  Captain  104
Nicholson, S.....  Captain  124
Nicholson, Wm. C  Commodore  63
Niles, Marston  Lt. Commander  232
Norton, C. S  Commander  189
Oberly, A. S  Surgeon  272
O'Kane, James  Lt. Commander  209
O'Niel, Charles  Lt. Commander  241
Owen, E. K  Commander  165
Palmer, J. C  Surgeon  253
Pa»ker, F  Paymaster  291
Parker, F. A  Captain  101
Parker, Wm. A  Captain  134
Parker, Wm.H  Captain M. C  334
Parrott, E. G  Commodore  59
Patterson, T. H  Captain  97
Pattison, T  Captain  125
Paulding, Hiram  Rear Admiral  30
Pearce, Samuel  Captain  130
Pearson, F  ,,,Lt. Commander  225

INDEX.

343

NAME. BANK. PASE.
Peek, George  Surgeon  262
Pendergrast, A,  Commander  178
Pennook, A. M  Commodore  54
Perkins, Geo. H  Lt. Commander  199
Perry, M. C  Captain  132
Perry, Rodger  .....Captain  133
Pettit, Robert  Paymaster  302
Phelps, Thos. S  Commander  141
Phillip, J. W  Lt. Commander  215
Phythian, R. L  Lt. Commander  197
Pickering, C. W  Captain  131
Picking, H. F  Lt. Commander  215
Pigman, G. W  Lt. Commander  247
Pinkney, N  Surgeon  253
Poor, C. H..  Rear Admiral  43
Pope, John  Commodore  68
Pope, P. C  Captain M. C  336
Porter, D. D  Vice Admiral  9
Potter,E. E  Commander  185
Potter, F. E.  Surgeon  271
Potter, T. M  Surgeon  257
Powell, L. M  Rear Admiral  36
Preble, E. E  Lt. Commander  228
Preble, G. H  Captain  109
Price, Cicero  Commodore  76
Pritchard, A. J  Paymaster  291
Pritchett, J. M  Lt. Commander  200
Purviance, H. Y  Commodore  70
Putnam, E  Paymaster  292
Qnackenbush, J. N  Lt. Commander  250
Quackenbush, S. P  Commander  145
Queen, W. W  Commander  158
Radford, William  Rear Admiral  42
Ramsey, F. M  Commander  171
Ramsey, Sterret  Paymaster .'  301
Ransom, G. M  Captain  .....123
Read, J. J  Lt. Commander  226
Reed, A. V  Lt. Commander  204
Remey, G. C  Lt. Commander  206
Renshaw, R. T  Captain  117"
Reynolds, Williams  Commodore  59
Rhind, A. C  '.Captain  122
Rhoades, A. C  Surgeon  269
Rittenhouse, J. B  Paymaster  ....281
Robertson, J. P  Lt. Commander  218
Robeson, H. B  Lt. Commander  210
Robie, E. D  Chief Engineer  312
Robinson, S  Surgeon  269
Rodgers, C. R. P  Captain  '91
Rodgers, Frederick  Lt. Commander  216
Rodgers, John  Rear Admiral  21
Rodney, R. B  .....Paymaster  299
Roe, F. A  Commander  148
Ronckendorff, Wm  Captain  106
Rowan, S. C  Rear Admiral  19
Rowland, J. H  Lt. Commander  218
Rnmsey, H. B  Lt. Commander  227
Rnschenberger, S. W.... Surgeon  276
Russell, A. W  Paymaster  286
Russell, J. H  Commander  174
Rutherford, W. H  Chief Engineer  317
Ryan, George P  Lt. Commander  214
Sampson, Wm.T  Lt. Commander  213
Sanders, M. W  Lt. Commander  223

NAME. BANK. PAGE.
Sands, B. F  Commodore  48
Sands, Jas. H  Lt. Commander.. ...234
Sands, Joshua R  Rear Admiral  34
Sartori, L. C  Captain  106
Sawyer, George A  Paymaster  303
Sohenck, Caspar  Paymaster  290
Schenck, J. F  Rear Admiral  44
Schermerhorn, J  Captain M, C  330
Schley, W. S  Lt. Commander.....213
Schmitz, Charles F  Lt. Commander  243
Sehofield, W. K  Surgeon  271
Schoonmaker, C. M  Lt. Commander  208
Sohouler, John  Lt. Commander  245
Schulze, G. C  Lt. Commander  249
Sehriver, Albert  Surgeon... >  280
Scott, G. H  Commodore  56
Seely, H. B  Lt. Commander.. ...201
Selfridge, T. O  Rear Admiral  44
Selfridge, T. O  ¦.  Commander  187
Semmes, A. A  Commander  154
Sewell, George  Chief Engineer  304
Shaw, T. D  Commodore  85
Shepard, E.M  Lt. Commander  229
Shippen, E  Surgeon  261
Shirk, James W  Commander  169
Shirley, Paul  Captain  ;  125
Shock, Thos. A  Chief Engineer  310
Shock, W. H  Chief Engineer  305
Shubrick, Wm. B  Rear Admiral  27
Shufeldt, R. W  Captain  121
Sieard, M  Commander  188
Sigsby, Charles D  Lt. Commander  238
Simpson, 15  Commander  137
Skerrett, Joseph S  Commander  177
Slack, W. B  Major M. C  323
Smith, B.P  Lt. Commander.. ...208
Smith, F. R  .Lt. Commander  218
Smith, Joseph  TRear Admiral  28
Smith, J. A  Paymaster  289
Smith Melancthon  Rear Admiral  25
Smith, Thos. L  Surgeon  276
Smith, William  Commodore  71
Snell, A. T  Lt. Commander  213
Spalding, R. C  Paymaster....  287
Spear, J. C  Surgeon  268
Spicer W. F  Captain  123
Spotts, J. H  Captain  104
Stamm, W. S  Chief Engineer...,..313
Stanly F  Commodore  60
Stanton, O. F  Commander  181
Stedman, E. M  Lt. Commander  244
Steedman, C  Commodore  49
Stein, Edward M  Surgeon  281
Stembel, R. N  Captain  90
Stevens, George A  Commander  194
Stevens, T. H  Captain  95
Stevenson, J. H  Paymaster  298
Stewart, E  Paymaster  289
Stewart, H. H  Chief Engineer  308
Stewart, W. F  Lt. Commander  214
Stillman, Charles A  Captain M. C  335
Stirling, Y  Lt. Commander  234
Stone, E. E  Commander  158
Stribling, Corn. K  Rear Admiral  33
Stringham, S. H  Rear Admiral  29
Suddards, J  Surgeon  261
Sumner, G. W  Lt. Commander  221
Swan, F. II  Paymaster  295

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INDEX.

NAME. RANK. PAGE.
Swann, T. L  Lt. Commander  210
Swift, Jonathan W  Commodore  83
Tallman, Henry C  Lt. Commander  221
Taylor, Alfred  Commodore  51
Taylor, B. B  Commander  181
Taylor, H. C  Lt. Commander  232
Taylor, J. W  Surgeon  255
Taylor, J. Y  Surgeon  263
Taylor, T. M  Paymaster  302
Taylor, William E  Surgeon  267
Taylor, W. R  Commodore  48
Temple, William G  Commander  138
Terry, E  Lt. Commander  200
Terry, S.W  Lt. Commander  224
Thatoher, H. K  Rear Admiral  40
Thomas, Charles  Captain  128
Thompson, C. P  Paymaster  295
Thompson, Egbert  Captain  Ill
Thompson, Edw. R  Commodore  85
Thompson, J. W. Sr  Chief Engineer  318
Thornley, John  Surgeon  280
Thornton, G.E  Paymaster  288
Thornton, J. S  Commander  149
Tilton, McLane  Captain M. C  333
Tinkham, J. A  Surgeon  270
Tolfree, J. E  Paymaster  294
Torbert, William F. A. ..Paymaster  297
Totten, Benjamin J  Commodore  88
Tracy, C. W  Lt. Commander  228
Train, Charles J  ..Lt. Commander.... 246
Trenchard, S. D  Captain  92
Truxton, W. T  Commander  155
Turner, Peter  Commodore  84
Turner, Thomas  Rear Admiral  42
Turner, T. J  Surgeon  262
Tuttle, H. P  Paymaster  293

Upshur, J. H  >  Commander .

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Van Reypen, W. R  Surgeon  274
Wadleigh, G. H  Lt. Commander  232
Wait.H.L  Paymaster  292
Wales, P. S  Surgeon  265
Walke, Henry  Commodore  45
Walker, E. A  Lt. Commander  212
Walker, J. G  Commander  170
Wallace, R. R  Lt. Commander  198
Wallach, C. P  Paymaster  287
Walton, T.C  Surgeon  274
Washington, R  Paymaster  288
Watmough, J. H  Paymaster.  282
Watmough, W. N  Paymaster  293
Watson, Eugene...  Paymaster  302
Watson, J. 5  Lt. Commander  210

NAME. RANK. PAGE.
Watson, James M  Commodore  8S
Watters, John  Commander  175
Weaver, A. W  Commander  165
Weber, R. L  Surgeon  281
Weidman, John  Lt. Commander  217
Wells, C. H  Commander  144
Wells, H. M  Surgeon  273
Werden, Reed  Captain  92
West, N. T  Commander  191
West, William C  Commander  196
Wescott, B. N  Commander  191
Wharton, B. B. H  Chief Engineer  319
Wheeler, W. K  Lt. Commander  236
White, Edwin  Lt. Commander  246
White, George B  Lt. Commander  205
White, George M  Captain  127
White, H. C  Lt. Commander.. ...244
Whitehead, William  Lt. Commander  212
Whiting, W. D  .....Commander  150
Whiting, William B  Captain  128
Whiting, W. H  Lt. Commander  238
Whittaker, J. W  Chief Engineer.'.. ..319
Wilde, G. F. F  Lt. Commander  245
Wildes, F  Lt. Commander  233
Wiley, James  Captain M. C  325
Wilkes, Charles  Rear Admiral  37
Williams, L. J  Surgeon  257
Williams, W. W  Paymaster  290
Williamson, J. C  Captain  108
Williamson, T  Chief Engineer  313
Wilson, Byron  Lt. Commander  201
Wilson, Henry  Commander  176
Wilson, Jr., J  Surgeon  258
Wilson, Samuel L...  Lt. Commander  247
Wiltse, G. C  Lt. Commander  208
Winslow, J. A  Rear Admiral  22
Wise, William C  Lt. Commander  235
Wood, George W  Lt. Commander  227
Wood, W. M  Surgeon  251
Wood, W. W. W  Chief Engineer  304
Woodrow, D. C  Lt. Commander  244
Woodward, E. T  Lt. Commander  227
Woolsey, M. B  Captain....  93
Woolverton, T  Surgeon  274
Worden, J. L  Commodore..  54
Wright, A. II  Lt. Commander  237
Wright, John H. II  Surgeon  280
Wyman, R. H  Captain  100
Yates, A. R  Lt. Commander  203
Young, Jonathan  Commander  154
Young, John J  Commodore  81
Zeilin, J  Bg. Gen. M. C  322
Zeller, Thoo  Chief Engineer  306
Zeigler, J. Q. A  Chief Engineer  321

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