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PREFACE. 
 
 THE services of army officers have been recorded by several authors, but 
 those of the Navy and Marine Corps have been wholly neglected, the 
 Official Registers merely giving the name, place of birth, date of last commis 
 sion, 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 re 
 nown. The present volume endeavors to supply this want. For the con 
 ductors 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 substantial facts of his public service, and not, as 
 hitherto, make mere mention of his name. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS 
 
 OF THE y 
 
 UNITED STATES NAVY. 
 
 REAR-ADMIRALS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 William A. Kirkland. Born in North Carolina. Appointed from 
 North Carolina, July 2, 1850; attached to sloop "Portsmouth" and frigate 
 44 St. Lawrence," 1853-5 ; Pacific Squadron, 1851-3 ; 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 Lieutenant, March 18, 1858; store-ship "Release," Brazil 
 Squadron, 1860 ; frigate " Congress," 1860 ; steamer " Pulaski," coast of 
 Brazil, 1861-2. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; 
 1862-3, sloop " Jamestown," China Station ; steam-sloop <4 Wyoming," East 
 India Squadron, 1863-4 ; commanded gunboat " Owasco," then to " Winne- 
 bago;" commanding iron-clad " Winnebago," Western Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, 1864-5 ; served under Acting Rear- Admiral Thatcher in the com 
 bined 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 ; commanding store-ship 
 "Guard," special service, 1873; ordinance duty, 1874; commanding 
 "Wasp," and South Atlantic Station, 1875-6; commanding "Frolic" 
 (fourth-rate), South Atlantic Station, 1876-7; commanding "Supply" 
 (fourth rate), special service, 1878; leave of absence, 1879-80; command 
 ing " Shenandoah," South Atlantic Station, 1881-2. Promoted to Captain, 
 April, 18*0; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1*83; commanding receiving-ship "Col 
 orado," 1883-4; Navy Yard, New York, 1885-6 (from October, 1884, to 
 January, 1885, in command); commanding receiving-ship "Vermont," 
 1887-9; Supei visor of Harbor, New York, from October, 1889, to July, 
 1891 ; commandant Navy Yard, League Island, July, 1891. Commissioned 
 Commodore, June 27,1893. Commissioned Rear-Admiral, March. 1, 1894 ; 
 commanding European Station, from April 30, 1894, to November, 1895 ; 
 commanding Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, from June 1, 1896, to 
 date. 
 
 Joseph N. Miller. Born in Springfield, Ohio, November 22, 1836. 
 Appointed Acting Midshipman, at Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., October 
 1, 1851 ; Naval Academy until June, 1854 ; passed the graduating exami 
 nation, and was given diploma No. 3 of class; " Independence," Pacific Sta 
 tion, September, 1854-6. Passed examination and was promoted to Passed 
 1 1 
 
OF DIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Midshipman, November 22, 1856 ; Naval Academy as Assistant Instructor, 
 February, 1857, to October, 1858. Warranted as Master, January 22, 1858 ; 
 sloop "Preble, October, 1858, to September, 1860, in the Paraquay Expe 
 dition and on the Home Station ; was Executive Officer of chartered steamer 
 " Indianola," at the capture of the Mexican steamer " General Miramon," at 
 Vera Cruz, on March 6, 1860. Commissioned as a Lieutenant, February 19, 
 
 1860 ; Naval Academy as an Assistant-Instructor, September, 1860, to April, 
 
 1861 ; brig Perry," May to November, 1861, on blockading duty on the 
 Atlantic Coast ; the " Perry " captured the privateer " Savannah." wnich held 
 Letter of Marque No. 1 ; also captured several other prizes which were con 
 demned ; steamer "Cambridge," November, 1861, to May, 1862, on block 
 ade duly, mouth of the Chesapeake; the "Cambridge" towed the frigate 
 " St. La\vrence " into action when the " Merrimac " engaged the fleet at 
 Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862; Naval Academy, May to August, 1862 7 
 as Executive Officer of practice ship John Adams." Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1862; iron-clad steamer "Passaic," as Execu 
 tive Officer, September, 1862, to June, 1863, on North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron; the " Passaic " was engaged in an attack on Fort McAllister, 
 March 3, 18b 3 ; was commended in official report by the commanding officer ; 
 engaged in the attack on Fort Sumter, of April 7, 1863, and was thanked 
 officially by the commanding officer ; special duty in New York in connec 
 tion with iron-clads, June to September, 1863 ; " Sacramento," as Executive 
 Officer, September to November, 1863 ; Executive Officer and in command 
 of iron-clad steamers "Sagamon" and " Nahant," November, 1863, to July, 
 1864; on May 16, 1864, took part, in command of the "Nahant," in the 
 attack on Sumter ; Executive Officer of iron-clad steamer " Monadnock," 
 September, 1864, to March, 1865, took part in both attacks on Fort Fisher, 
 and was commended officially by commanding officer ; Naval Academy, as 
 Head of Department, March, 1865, to September, 1865; "Powhatan," as 
 Executive Officer on Pacific and North Atlantic Squadron, September, 1867, 
 to January, 1870. Commissioned as a Commander, January 25, 1870; 
 Pacific Squadron as Chief of Staff and in command of " Ossipee," April, 
 1870, to November, 1872 ; Assistant-Hydrographer, February to November, 
 1873 ; command of the iron-clad steamer "Ajax," November, 1873, to May, 
 1874; Assistant-Hydrographer, June, 1874, to August, 1875 ; command of 
 * Tuscarora," August, 1875, to August, 1876, on Pacific Station; ran a line 
 of deep sea-soundings from Honolulu to Brisbane, Australia ; investigated 
 and reported on state of affairs in Samoa ; Assistant in Bureau of Yards and 
 Docks, December, 1876, to March, 1877; Lighthouse Inspector of the 
 Eleventh District, March, 1877, to October, 1880; special duty, Washing 
 ton, October, 1880, to May, 1881. Commissioned as Captain, May 28, 1881 ; 
 command of Wabash" receiving-ship, Boston, May, 1881, to April, 1882 ; 
 " Tennessee," commanding and Chief of Staff, May to August, 1882 ; mem 
 ber of " Jeannette " Court of Inquiry, October, 1882, to March, 1883 ; mem 
 ber of General Court-Martial on the loss of "Ashuelot," March to July, 1883 ; 
 " Tennessee," commanding and Chief of Staff, September, 1883, to October, 
 1884 ; President Board of Inspection Foreign Vessels at New York, Septem 
 ber, 1884, to April, 1885 ; command of " Wabash " receiving-ship, Boston, 
 May, 1885, to May, 1888 ; Navy Yard, New York, Captain of the Yard, 
 May, 1888; commanding receiving-ship, "Vermont," November 1, 1892; 
 commandant Navy Yard, Boston, August, 1894-7 ; special mission to Eng 
 land, May 18, 1897; and then to command of Pacific Station to date. 
 
 Montgomery Sicard. Born in the City of New York, September 30, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1836. Appointed from New York, October 1, 1851 ; Naval Academy, 1851- 
 55; frigate "Potomac" and steam frigate " Wabash," Home Squadron, 
 1855-7 ; steam frigate " Wabash," Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9. Pro 
 moted to Master, November 4, 1858 ; steam-sloop " Dacotah," China Station, 
 1860-61. Commissioned Lieutenant, 1861; steam-sloop " Oneida " (Execu 
 tive Officer), West Gulf Squadron, 1862-3; bombardment and passage of 
 Forts Jackson and St. Philip; destruction of the rebel flotilla and gunboats; 
 capture of the Chalmette batteries, and capture of New Orleans, April, 1862; 
 twice engaged with, and passage of, the batteries of Vicksburg, Miss., June 
 and July, 1862 ; engagement with the rebel ram " Arkansas," July, 
 1862. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; steam- 
 sloop " Ticonderoga " (Executive Officer), in pursuit of the rebel cruisers 
 "Florida," etc., and in the North Atlantic Squadron, 1864, command 
 ing the IT. S. S. " Seneca," at both attacks on and final capture of 
 Fort Fisher, N. C., December, 1864, and January, 65, Commanded left 
 wing of second division in the naval land assault on Fort Fisher, 
 January 15, 1865 ; bombardment of Fort Anderson, February. 1865. 
 At the Naval Academy as Head of Department of Gunnery and Draw 
 ing, 1865-8 ; steam-sloop "Pensacola," North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9; 
 commanding steamer "Saginaw," Pacific Fleet, 1869-71. Commissioned as 
 Commander, 1870; ordnance duty Navy Yard, New York, 1871-2; In 
 spector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Washington, 1872-6 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 
 1876-7 ; commanding U. S. S. " Swatara," North Atlantic Station, 1877-8 ; 
 Special duty Washington (re-writing the " Ordnance Inspections "), 1879 ; 
 Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Boston, 1880-&1 ; Chief of Bureau of 
 Ordnance, 1881-90. During this time he introduced steel high-power ord 
 nance into the Navy. The Naval Gun Factory at Washington was estab 
 lished under his direction, and he was prominently engaged in various 
 measures for reconstruction of the Navy. Commissioned Captain August, 
 1881 ; President of the Steel Inspection Board, March, 90 to October 91 ; 
 Commanding U.S. double-turret monitor " Miantonomah," October, 91, to 
 November, 93 ; Commandant of the Navy Yard and Station, Portsmouth, 
 N. H., January, 1894, to November, 94. Com missioned as Commodore, 1894; 
 Commandant Navy Yard and Station, New York, November, 1894 to May, 
 1897. Commissioned Rear A dmiral, April, 1897 ; Commander-in- Chief, U. 
 S. Naval force, North Atlantic Station, May, 1897 to March, 1898, when 
 he was found physically unfit for service by a board of medical survey, 
 ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, and was placed on sick leave by 
 Department s Order, March 26, 1898 ; after partial recovery from illness was 
 placed on duty in the Navy Department as President of Naval War Board. 
 E. O. Matthews. Born in Maryland. Appointed from Missouri, 
 October 2, 1851; Naval Academy, 1851-5; frigate "Potomac," Home 
 Squadron, November, 1855, to May, 1856: sloop "Saratoga," Home Squad 
 ron, May, 1856, to January, 1858 ; sloop " Macedonian," Mediterranean 
 Squadron, May, 1858, to July, I860. Promoted to Master, November 4, 
 1858. Commissioned as Lieutenant, July, 1860; Naval Academy, as In 
 structor in Mathematics, October, 1860, to April, 1861 ; steam-frigate 
 "Wabash," May, 1861, to November, 1861 (assisted in capture 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 
 
4 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 naval light artillery at Honey Hill, S. C., November 30, 1864; battles 
 at Tulifinny Cross-Roads, December, 1864; staff of Admiral Dahlgren, Jan 
 uary to July, 1865; apprentice-ship "Savannah," August, 1865; Naval 
 Academy, November, 1865, to June 9, 1869, Department of Gunnery; Head 
 of Torpedo Corps, June 9, 1869, to July 1, 1873. Promoted to Commander, 
 May 4, 1870; commanding "A shuelot," Asiatic Station, 1873-7; Inspector 
 of Ordnance, N#vy Yard, New York, April, 1878-81. Promoted to Captain, 
 September 14, 1881 ; commanding " Powhatan " (special service), August, 
 1881, to February, 1883; commanding traininsr-ship "New Hampshire," 
 April, 1883, to July, 1884 ; member of Gun Foundry Board, May, 1883, to 
 March, 1885 ; commanding " Brooklyn," Asiatic Station, October, 1885, to 
 October, 1887 ; Captain of Yard, Navy Yard, Boston, December 1, 1887, to 
 May, 1890; commanding receiving-ship "Wabash," May, 1890, to August, 
 1891 ; member Board of Inspection and Survey, August, 1891, to January, 
 1894. Promoted Commodore, 1894; Chief of Bureau, Yards and Docks, 
 1894-98. Promoted to Rear- Admiral, June 19, 1897. 
 
 Charles S. Norton. Born in New York. Appointed from New York 
 to Naval Academy, October 3, 1851 ; graduated, June, 1855 ; attached to the 
 frigates " Potomac" and " Wabash," Home Squadron, 1855-7. Promoted to 
 Passed Midshipman, 1858; frigate " Wabash," European Squadron, 1858- 
 59. Promoted to Master, 1858; steam-sloop " Seminole," Brazil Squadron, 
 1860-1. Promoted to Lieutenant, 1860; steamer "Seminole," on Charleston, 
 S. C., blockade ; Potomac Flotilla and Hampton Roads, Va., 1861-2 ; several 
 engagements at Potomac River and Hampton Roads ; battle of Port Royal, 
 S. C. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 1862; United States steamers 
 " Maratanza," "R. R. Cuyler," "Fort Jackson," "Mercedita," North Atlan 
 tic Blockading Squadron, 1862-64; steamers " Lackawanna," "Richmond/ 
 and "Albatross," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; commanded 
 " Maratanza," " Mercedita," and " Albatross," for various periods, serving 
 constantly afloat during the entire war, except two months in the hospital 
 from exposure on duty, and three months waiting orders ; steamer " Sham 
 rock," European Squadron, 1866-8; Portsmouth, N. H, Navy Yard, and 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," New York Navy Yard, 1868-9 ; iron clad duty, 
 New Orleans, 1869-71. Promoted to Commander, 1870 ; Light-House In 
 spector, 1872-5 ; commanding sloop " Shawrnut," and iron-clad " Passaic," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1875-6 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, R. 1 , 1877 ; 
 commanding receiving-ship "Passaic," Washington, D. C., 1877-8; Light- 
 House Inspector, 1878-81; commanding receiving-ship "Independence," 
 Mare Island, CaL, 1881-3. Promoted to Captain, 1881 ; commanding 
 " Shenandoah," South Pacific, 1883-6; member Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, 1886-9; Norfolk Navy Yard, 1889 to October, 1891; commanding 
 receiving-ship "Vermont,"- October, 1891, to November, 1892; member 
 Naval Examining and Retiring Board, November, 1892, to December, 1894. 
 Promoted to Commodore, July 31, 1894; December 19, 1894, commanding 
 South Atlantic Station as Acting Rear- Admiral, to April, 1896 ; command 
 ant Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., May 23, 1896, to date. Promoted to 
 Rear Admiral, December, 1897. 
 
 Francis M. Bunce. Born in Connecticut. Appointed Acting Mid 
 shipman, May 28, 1852 ; graduated Naval Academy and warranted Midship 
 man, June 10, 1857 ; " Germantown," East India Squadron, 1857-60. 
 Pasted Midshipman, June 25, 1860; "Brooklyn," Gulf Squadron, engaged 
 in Chinqui Survey. Master October 24, 1860 ; " Macedonian," Gulf Squad 
 ron, January 7, 1862. Commissioned Lieutenant from April 11, 1861 ; 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 5 
 
 Executive-Officer of " Penobscot," 1862 ; in that vessel took part in engage 
 ment with rebel batteries at Yorktown, Va. ; was assigned to temporary duty 
 with the army, and had charge of the disembarkation of the heavy artillery 
 and mortars for use in the batteries at the investment of that place by General 
 McClellan, April, 1862; rejoined "Penobscot," blockading off Wilmington, 
 N. C., and took part in several skirmishes with Fort Fisher and batteries 
 about Fort Caswell ; commanded a successful boat expedition up Little River, 
 between North and South Carolina, destroying several schooners and large 
 quantities of cotton, turpentine and resin, together with extensive salt works ; 
 on capture of " Robert Bruce " by " Penobscot," was placed in charge of her 
 as Prize-Master, and brought her to New York, November 1, 1862 ; detached 
 from " Penobscot " and ordered Executive of " Pawnee," refitting at Phila 
 delphia ; served in her in South Atlantic Blockading Squadron Station, 
 Stono River, S. C. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, January 16, 
 1863; during winter of 1863 sounded out and buoyed and removed obstruc 
 tions from interior channels from Stono River, S. C., to Morris Island ; acting 
 as Aid to General Gillmore, had charge of the embarkation and transporta 
 tion of General George C. Strong s brigade, five regiments, through these 
 channels to Morris Island, and commanded the naval part of this attack, 
 July 10, 1863, resulting in the capture of Morris Island to Fort Wagner ; 
 conduct in this affair honorably mentioned, report of Commander G. B Balch 
 and letter of Admiral Dahlgren to Navy Department ; detached from 
 * k Pawnee " and ordered to monitor " Patapsco ; " took part in that monitor in 
 all the actions in which she was engaged during siege of Charleston ; also in 
 night boat attack on Fort Sumter, Commander T. H Stevens; received 
 honorable mention for conduct in that officer s report of same ; wounded by 
 premature explosion of a cartridge, in action, November, 1863 ; detached 
 from " Patapsco " and ordered to " Wabash " for recovery ; ordered to moni 
 tor " Kaatskill," temporary duty, December 8, 1863 ; returned to " Wabash," 
 January 7, 1864; same month ordered to temporary command of " Wee- 
 hawken;" detached and returned to "Wabash," and ordered on staff of 
 Admiral Dahlgren as "Chief of Scouts;" served in that capacity and in 
 charge of picket boat line until ordered to command monitor " Lehigh," 
 April 6, 1864 ; May 14, detached from South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 and ordered North; monitor " Dictator," Commodore John Rodgers, Septem 
 ber 26, 1864; commanded monitor " Monadnock," September 5, 1865; took 
 this vessel from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Cal., the first extended sea- 
 voyage ever made by a monitor ; received for this service the thanks of the 
 Navy Department, upon recommendation of Commodore John Rodgers, and 
 was recommended for reward to the President by the Secretary of the Navy ; 
 Boston Navy Yard, 1866-9; monitor " Dictator," April, 1869; detached- 
 October 4, 1869, having fitted her for sea-service; commanded "Nantasket," 
 November 12, 1869, stationed at St. Domingo ; detached July 20, 1870 ; 
 special ordnance duty at Pittsbur.e, Pa., 1871. Commissioned Commander, 
 from November 7, 1871; commanded " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1873; on 
 duty, Navy Yard. Washington, June, 1875 ; detached on Light-House duty, 
 July to October, 1875 ; returned to duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1877; 
 attended torpedo instruction at Newport, R. I., January 7, 1879, to July 29, 
 1881; commanded "Marion," Home and South Atlantic Squadron; com 
 manded receiving-ship " Wabash," Navy Yard, Boston, 1882-5. Commis 
 sioned Captain, January 11, 1883; Senior Member of Board on Timber 
 Preservation for Naval Purposes; commanded "Atlanta," June 1, 1886, to 
 December 1, 1889 ; command of Naval Station, New London, February 12, 
 
6 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1890 ; June 30, 1891, command Training Ship Richmond and Station, New 
 port; August 21, 1894, Member Board Inspection arid Survey. Promoted to 
 Commodore, March 1,1895; ordered to command North Atlantic Station, 
 June 27, 1895; May 1, 1897, command Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., to date. 
 George Dewey. Born in Vermont. Appointed from Vermont, Sep 
 tember 23, 1854; Naval Academy, 1854-8 ; attached to steam-frigate " Wa- 
 bash," Mediterranean Squadron, 18589; 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 Lieutenant, April 19, 1861 ; steam-gunboat 
 " Agawam," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; two attacks on 
 Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant- Commander, March 3, 1865; steamer " Kearsarge," European Squad 
 ron, 1866; frigate "Colorado," flag-ship, European Squadron, 1867; Naval 
 Academy, 1868-9; commanding " Narragansett " (fourth rate), special ser 
 vice, 1870-1 ; Torpedo Station, 1872. Commissioned as Commander, April 
 13, 1872 ; commanding "Narragansett " (fourth rate), Pacific Survey, 1872- 
 5 ; Light-House Inspector, 1876-7. Secretary Light-House Board, 1877-82 ; 
 commanding " Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1882-3. Promoted to Captain, 
 September, 1884 ; commanding u Dolphin," 1884 ; commanding " Pensacola," 
 flag-ship European Station, 1885-8 ; Chief of Bureau of Equipment and 
 Recruiting, with rank of Commodore, 1889 to May, 1893 ; member Light- 
 House Board May, 1893, to 1895. President Board of Inspection and Sur 
 vey, November 5, 1895, to 1897. Promoted to Commodore, February 28, 
 1896 ; commanding Asiatic Station. The outbreak of hostilities between the 
 United States and Spain on April 21,1898, found Commodore Dewey in 
 command of the United States Naval forces (consisting of six unarmored 
 ships) at Hong Kong, China. Acting under orders from the Department to 
 "capture or destroy enemy s fleet," Dewey proceeded toward Manila, in the 
 Philippine Islands, where the Spanish fleet of seven cruisers and several gun 
 boats were assembled under the protection of the batteries at Corregidor, 
 Cavite and Manila proper. Dewey entered Manila Bay early in the morning 
 of May 1, attacked and annihilated the enemy s ships, captured the arsenal 
 at Cavite, destroyed the fortifications at the mouth of the bay, and established 
 a blockade of Manila. For this daring and brilliant action, in which he lost 
 not a single man, Dewey received the thanks of Congress and was commis 
 sioned Rear-Admiral on May 10, 1898. 
 
 REAR-ADMIRALS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired after forty -five years service, or on attaining the age of sixty -two years, 
 in conformity with section 1 of the act of December, 1861, and its amend 
 ments, dated June 25, 1864, and act of March 3, 1873, and ad of August 
 15, 1876. 
 
 Thomas O. Selfridge. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from 
 Massachusetts, January 1, 1818. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 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 
 
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 steamer " Mississippi," 1861 ; Commandant Mare Island Navy Yard, Cali 
 fornia, 1862-4. Commissioned as Commodore, July 16, 1862; Commandant 
 Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1867-8; President Examining Board, 1869. 
 Commissioned as Rear -Admiral, July, 1870. 
 
 R. N. Stembel. Born in Maryland. Appointed Midshipman from 
 Ohio, March 27, 1832 ; served in schooner " Porpoise " and sloop " Vandalia," 
 of West India Squadron, 1832-7 ; Naval School, New York, 1837-8 ; Depot 
 Charts and Instruments, Washington, 1838-9. Promoted to Passed Mid 
 shipman, 1838 ; served in frigate " Brandywine," Mediterranean Squadron, 
 1839-42. Commissioned Lieutenant, 1843; on Coast Survey, 1843-47; 
 sloop Germantown," Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; sloop " Jamestown," Brazil 
 Squadron, 1851-4 ; special duty, Washington, 1855-7 ; steam-frigate " Mis 
 sissippi," China and East India Squadron, 1857-60; Naval Asylum, Phila 
 delphia, 1860-1 ; special duty at Cincinnati, Ohio, in connection with Western 
 Gunboat Flotilla, 1861. Commissioned Commandtr, 1861 ; served in Western 
 Gunboat Flotilla, 1861-2 ; was in the engagements of Lucas Bend, Septem 
 ber 9, 1861 ; Belmont, November 7, 1861 ; Fort Henry, February 6, 1862 ; 
 bombardment and capture of Island No. 10, from March 16 to April 7, 1862 ; 
 with rebel rams at Craighead s Bend, near Fort Pillow, May 10, 1862 ; besides 
 several minor affairs on the Mississippi Kiver, from June, 1861, to June, 1862 ; 
 was seriously wounded in the above-mentioned engagement with rebel rams, 
 May 10, 1862 ; in this affair he was officially reported by the Commander and 
 Chief of the " Western Gunboat Flotilla," Charles Henry Davis, Flag Officer 
 U. S. N., as having distinguished himself; invalided in consequence of wound, 
 1863; rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1864; special duty, Pittsburg, 1864-5. 
 Commissioned Captain, 1866; commanding steam-sloop " Canandaigua," 
 European Squadron, 1865-7 ; naval rendezvous, Boston, 1869-71. Commis 
 sioned Commodore, 1870; commanded North Squadron of Pacific Fleet, 
 1871-2, and subsequently the Pacific Fleet, 1872. Commissioned Rear- 
 Admiral, June 5, 1874. Retired, December 27, 1872. 
 
 Daniel Ammen. Born in Ohio, May 15, 1820. Appointed Midship 
 man, July 7, 1836; attached to the Exploring Expedition, 1837-8; sloops 
 " 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 received 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," Mediterranean Squadron, 1850; coast survey, 1851 ; attached to 
 a commission for selecting a naval station in the Bay of San Francisco, CaL, 
 1852; scientific expedition of steamer "Water Witch," Paraguay River, 
 1853-4; brig " Bainbridge," 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 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; commanding 
 " Seneca," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2, at Battle of Port 
 Royal, November 7, 1861 ; the day following hoisted our flag over Fort Beaure- 
 gard 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 
 
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 monitor "Patapsco," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, against Fort 
 McAllister, March, 1863, and in the attack on Fort Sumter, April 7, 1863 ; 
 had charge of a draft of 220 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 assist 
 ance of Boatswain Thomas G. Bell, who was the only aid assigned, receiving 
 in doing so the excellent co-operation of Captain Tinklepaugh, who com 
 manded 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 " Miantonomah," special service, 1866. Commissioned as Captain, 
 July 25, 1866 ; special duty, Hartford, Connecticut, 1866-7 ; commanding 
 flag-ship " Piscataqua," Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8 ; Chief of Bureau of Yards 
 and Docks, 1869-71. Commissioned as Commodore, 1872 ; Chief of Bureau 
 of Navigation, 1871-8. Commissioned as Rear- Admiral, 1887; retired at 
 his own request, 1878 ; July, 1878, appointed chairman of a board for the 
 re-location of the Naval Observatory ; April, 1879, ordered to attend the 
 convocation at Paris, France, known as the Inter-oceanic Ship-Canal Con 
 gress ; had constructed 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 ; total sea-service 21 years and 1 
 month; other duty, 17 years and 3 months. In 1881 a Naval Advisory 
 Board recommended the building of five marine rams of 2000 tons displace 
 ment on plans and specifications laid before the Board by him. One is built 
 and nearly ready for trial at Bath, Maine. 
 
 George B. Balch. Born in Tennessee, January 3, 1821 ; appointed 
 from Alabama, December 30, 1837; attached to sloop "Cyane," Mediter 
 ranean Station, 1838-41; schooner "Grampus," 1841; sloop " Falmouth," 
 1842; Naval School, 1842. 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 Conner; engaged 
 in active operations from May, 1846, to surrender of Vera Cruz, March, 
 1847 ; in Mosquito Fleet, under Commodore Tatnall, covering 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, Wash 
 ington, 1849-50. Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 16, 1850; sloop 
 "Plymouth," Asiatic Squadron, 1851-5; while on the "Plymouth," Lieu 
 tenant 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 "Jamestown," Home Squadron, 1857-5S ; 
 sloop "St. Mary s/ Pacific Squadron, 1858-60; frigate "Sabine," 1860; 
 while on the " Sabine," fell in with the transport " Governor " and rescued 
 nearly four hundred marines, under Lieutenant-Colonel Reynolds, the trans 
 port sinking under the "Sabine s" stern, November 2, 1861; in command 
 of steamer " Pocahontas," South Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2; volunteered 
 for command of boats in taking possession of Tybee Island, December 26, 
 1861. Commissioned as Commander, July 16, 1862; engaged rebel battery 
 at Stono, South Carolina; in August, 1862, ascended Black River the dis 
 tance of twenty-five miles, and drove rebel battery from earthworks, and 
 
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 engaged rebel infantry on the Bluffs; commanding steamer "Pawnee," 
 South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-5; July 16, 1863, was attacked 
 by two batteries, the rebels making a simultaneous attack on General Terry s 
 forces. They were repulsed, 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 command 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 Kiver, South Caro 
 lina, from July 3 to 11, 1864, and particularly in the bombardment of Bat 
 tery Priugle, on James Island, South Carolina. On February 9, 1865, hav 
 ing 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 ; command 
 ing flagship "Albany," North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-70; navigation duty, 
 Washington, 1870-1 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1872. Commissioned as 
 Commodorey August 13, 1872 ; Governor Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 
 1873-6 ; member Light-House Board, 1877-8. Commissioned Rear-A dm iral, 
 June 5, 1878 ; member Examining Board, 1878 ; Superintendent Naval Aca 
 demy, 1878-81 ; commanding Pacific Station, 1881-83. Retired, 1883. 
 
 John C. Febiger. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Ohio, 
 September 14, 1838 ; attached to frigate " Macedonian," West Indian Squad 
 ron, 1838-40; sloop "Concord," Brazil Squadron, 1841-3; wrecked in 
 " Concord " on east coast of Africa, 1848 ; attached to brig " Chippola," pur 
 chased by government at Rio de Janeiro, and used, to recover and dispose of 
 equipment of "Concord," 1843-4. Promoted to Passed Midship man, 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. Commis 
 sioned 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 Block 
 ading Squadron, 1862-3 ; engagement off Mobile Bay, April 3, 1862 ; com 
 manding steamers "Osage," u Neosho" and "Lafayette," Mississippi Squad 
 ron, 1863; commanding steamer " Mattabeset," North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1864-5; engagement w r ith rebel ram "Albemarle " in Albemarle 
 Sound, May, 1864; commanding steamer Ashuelot," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1866-8. Commissioned as Captain, May 6, 1868 ; commanding steam sloop 
 "Shenandoah," Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9. While commanding the "Shen- 
 andoah," entered and surveyed Ping- Yang Inlet, west coast of Corea. In 
 spector of Naval Reserve Lands, from 1869-72 ; commanding U. S. steamer 
 "Omaha," South Pacific Squadron, 1872-4; member Board of Examiners, 
 1874-6; Commandant Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., 1876 to August, 
 1880 ; special duty, Washington, August, 1880, to March, 1881 ; March 8, 
 member Retiring Board, 1881-2. Promoted to Rear-Admiral, February 4, 
 18*2. Retired on his own application, July 1, 1882. 
 
 Pierce Crosby. Born in Delaware County, Pa. Appointed Midship 
 man from Pennsylvania, June 5, 1 838 ; attached to liue-of-battle-ship " Ohio," 
 from 1838 until the summer of 1841, while flag-ship in the Mediterranean; 
 
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 attached to receiving-vessel " Experiment," at Philadelphia; afterwards at 
 tached 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, 1ST. H., to the Mediterranean; served 
 in her six months; was then transferred 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, dur 
 ing the Mexican War ; participated in the attack and capture of Tuspan 
 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 ; at 
 tached to Philadelphia Navy Yard from the fall of 1850 to 1852 inclusive, and 
 then transferred to receiving-ship stationed at Philadelphia, until spring of 
 1853; 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 ; at 
 tached 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 
 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 (afterwards 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; in the 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 troop 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. Volun 
 teered and took the steamer "Fannie" (a canal-boat), secured her boilers 
 temporarily down to the deck with chains, and proceeded with her, in com 
 pany with the squadron, to the attack on Forts Hatterasand Clarke, in order 
 to have a light-draft vessel to operate in landing troops at that place ; super 
 intended 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 thou 
 sand strong, as Lieutenant Crosby succeeded in getting a strong picket thrown 
 
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 across the point in front of the enemy s batteries, thus preventing their mak 
 ing a reconuoissance or ascertaining the condition of and actual force of the 
 Union troops, when the squadron returned on the following day and relieved 
 them from their critical condition. In this way the rebels were deceived and 
 our troops were saved from attack and probable capture, as nearly all the 
 ammunition was wet, and the volunteer troops, being in a disorganized state, 
 could not, in all probability, have successfully opposed double their number. 
 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 dangerously ill with typhoid fever, brought on by con 
 stant exposure, privations, and fatigue in the performance of his duties. In 
 the winter of 1861, took command of the gunboat " Pinola," at Baltimore ; 
 took her to Washington, received her battery, and sailed for the Gulf Squad 
 ron, joining Admiral Farragut s command 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. Commanded 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 opposite shore 
 to Fort Jackson, and in so doing ran hard and fast aground, but through the 
 skillful exertions of Commander Crosby, she 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 barrier, 
 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 vessel, 
 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, an 
 nouncing 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 mortar-fleet, she 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 repassage of batteries at Vicksburg, and engage 
 ment 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 Real-Admiral 
 S. P. Lee ; commanded an expedition up the York River, co-operating with 
 General Dix. in command of the Army Corps at the White House. In the 
 winter of 1863, took command of the "Florida," destroyed two blockade- 
 runners at Masonboro Inlet, while attempting to run the blockade, just at the 
 break of day, and in so doing drew the sharp fire of flying batteries on shore ; 
 was transferred to the command of the " Keystone State " in 1864 ; captured 
 
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 five blockade-runners while in command of her, and caused many others to 
 throw overboard their cargoes in order to escape. Detached from " Keystone 
 State," and ordered to the " Muscoota ; " detached from the " Muscoota," and 
 ordered to the " Metacomet," 1864-5 ; blockaded off Galveston, Texas, and 
 commanded her in the attack on Mobile. Planned and directed the con 
 struction 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 com 
 mended by Admiral Thatcher in his official report of the naval operations at 
 that port ; was detached from the " Metacomet," on her return to Philadelphia, 
 in August, 1865, at the close -of the war. In September, 1865, received 
 orders to command the " JShamokin ; " 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 Norfolk Navy Yard as Inspector of Ordnance, 1869-70 ; Navy Yard, 
 Philadelphia, 1871-2 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1872-4. Commissioned as 
 Commodore, October 3, 1874 ; commanding Naval Station, League Island, 
 1878 ; commandant Navy Yard, League Island, 1878-80. Promoted to 
 Rear-Admiral, March 10, 1882 ; commanding South Atlantic Station, 1882 ; 
 commanding Asiatic Station, 1883. Retired on his own application, Octo 
 ber, 1883. 
 
 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 Com 
 modore Alexander Clayton, Captain Daniel Turner commanding, from Jan 
 uary, 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 "Pennsyl 
 vania," 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 summer of 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 
 1852, was ordered as Acting Master to* the receiving-ship u Ontario," where 
 he received a warrant as Master, in the line of promotion, and served in her 
 until the summer of 1853, when he was detached and granted leave of ab 
 sence. Promoted to Lieutenant, August, 1853, and in December of same 
 year, was ordered as Lieutenant in sloop-of-\var " 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 
 
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 and eighteen days from Rio Janeiro, Brazil, to Valparaiso, Chili ; while at 
 tached to this vessel in Puget Sound, Washington Territory, where he passed 
 the winter of 1855-6, had an engagement on shore at the town of Seattle, 
 with five hundred hostile Indians, who had attempted to murder the inhab 
 itants, pillage and destroy the place; but through the unremitting watchful 
 ness of the late Commodore Guert Gansevoort, their objects were frustrated 
 by the landing of the officers and crew of the " Decatur; " engagement com 
 menced 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 and thirty wounded. 
 This ended hostilities in the Territory. In the winter of 1856-7, ordered as 
 Lieutenant, and servtd on board the receiving-ship " Alleghany," Baltimore, 
 as Executive Officer until the fall of 1857, when he was ordered as Lieuten 
 ant and Executive Officer to the store-ship " Supply," of the African and 
 Brazil Squadrons, serving until the fall of 1858 ; after a month s leave, was 
 again ordered to the receiving-ship " Alleghany," where he served as a Lieu 
 tenant 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, Li 
 beria, 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 December, 1860, ordered as Lieu 
 tenant to receiving-ship " Princeton," at Philadelphia served in her until 
 April 23, 1861, on which day he was ordered to the Philadelphia 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 Lieuten 
 ant 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 attempting to run in, had grounded under the 
 guns of the fort ; when within range he opened fire upon the schooner, which 
 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 gun-boat 
 " 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 stationed 
 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. 
 
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 On approaching the town, they met the army transport with two companies 
 of volunteers returning, they having been fired into by rebel troops stationed 
 in the town, one of their men being dangerously, and two supposed mortally 
 wounded, were sent on board the "Mohawk" for medical treatment. He 
 continued on his course to the town and made fast to the wharf, sending an 
 officer on shore, who communicated with two women, apparently the only 
 inhabitants of the town ; they assured him that the men 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 Feruandina, which they de 
 clined. He then determined to fire into the town, but upon the earnest solic 
 itation of Colonel Rich, commanding 9th Regiment, Maine Volunteers, de 
 cided 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 ne sooner left the wharf than volleys of mus 
 ketry were opened upon him from different parts of the town. The channel 
 of the river was so narrow that he was obliged to drop anchor in order to get 
 the vessel s head up stream, and as soon as this could be done he opened tire 
 upon the town and destroyed the greater portion of it, completely driving the 
 rebels out of the place. He subsequently learned that one hundred and fifty 
 men were concealed there. In June, 1863, was ordered to command the 
 
 Sin-boat "Cimmaron," served in her in South Atlantic Squadron, under 
 ear-Admiral Dahlgren, until May, 1864 ; while in her he 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 Ordinance-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. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 July 16, 1862. Promoted to Commander, November 16, 1862. Promoted 
 to Captain, February 10, 1869; commanding receiving ship "Boston," 1870; 
 commanding " Pensacola " (second-rate), Pacific Squadron, 1872-4. Com 
 missioned as Commodore, February 4, 1875; commanding Naval Station, 
 Port Royal, South Carolina, 1877-78 ; Commandant Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1879-81. Promoted to Rear- Admiral, July 2, 1882 ; commanding Pacific 
 Station, 1882-3. Retired, March, 1884. 
 
 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; Mediterranean Squadron, January, 1841, to 
 September, 1843 ; sloop," Boston," Brazil Squadron. October, 1843, to Feb 
 ruary, 1846 ; Naval School, February to July, 1846. Promoted to Passed 
 Midshipman, July 11, 1846; sloop "Boston," Gulf Squadron, October 5, 
 1846 ; wrecked on the Island of Eleuthera, West Indies, 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 Hat- 
 teras, 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 Squad 
 ron, June, 1849, to December, 1850 ; frigate "Constitution," same squadron, 
 December, 1850, to February, 1851 ; schooner "Graham," steamers "Le- 
 
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 gare" 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 throughout the Indian War in Washington Territory, 1855-6. Pro 
 moted to Ma*ter, March 1, 1855. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 
 14, 1855 ; battle of Seattle, W. T., January 26, 1856 ; ordnance duty, Nor 
 folk, Virginia, May, 1857, to September, 1858; Paraguay Expedition and 
 Brazil Squadron, September, 1858, to June, 1859 ; steamer " Crusader," 
 Home Squadron, June 16 to August 24, 1859 ; commanded ffteamer " Vixen, 
 Coast Survey, and on special service, August, 1859, to September, 1861; 
 attached to expedition for the relief of Fort Sumter, March, 1861 " In 
 organizing the government for war, it was decided by the Chiefs of Depart 
 ments 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 light- 
 boats, buoys, and ranges, and the erection of heavy batteries by the rebels, 
 the Potomac Kiver 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 purpose, 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. 
 Examined 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 ; engagement with rebel gunboat " Curlew," Hatteras Inlet, November 
 14, 1861 ; received compliments of Secretary of Navy ; secret service in Vir 
 ginia waters, December, 1861 ; attached to North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, March, 1862 ; assigned to command of division for operations in rear of 
 Gloucester Point, Virginia, April 1, 1862 ; York Kiver, April 21, three engage 
 ments with Yorktown and Gloucester Point batteries ; skirmish with rebels, 
 Queen s Point, Virginia, captured five, and caused the destruction of two of the 
 enemy s vessels, prevented destruction of White House bridge, May 4, 
 1862; frequent skirmishes with main body of rebel army retreating from 
 Yorktown, May 5 and 6 ; battle of West Point, Virginia, ascended the 
 Matipony River, and prevented the junction of a large force of rebels with 
 main army, May 7 ; made reconnoissance charts of Matipony and Pamunky 
 Rivers. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862. In obe 
 dience 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 De 
 cember, 1 s 64, principally employed in making surveys in anticipation of 
 naval and military movements, and in examining dangers in the way of block- 
 aders and transports; ironclad " 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, Jan 
 uary 21, 1865; commanded steamer " Lenapee," Atlantic Coast Squadron, 
 March 2, 1865, to April 3, 1867 ; senior officer on coast of North Carolina, 
 from March, 1865, to December, 1865. Commissioned as Commander, August 
 5, 1865; Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 1867-70; commanding receiving 
 
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 ship " Independence," 1870-1 ; commanding steam-sloop " Saranac," N. P. 
 Station, 187 1-3. Commissioned as Captain, June 19, 1871 ; Navy Yard, Mare 
 Island, California, 1873-7 ; commanding receiving-ship " Independence," 
 September, 1877, to March, 1879. Promoted to Commodore, January 13, 
 1879 ; commanding Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., January 15, 1881, to 
 March 15, 1883 : commanded South Atlantic Station, 1883-4. Promoted to 
 Rear- Admiral, March 1, 1884. Retired November 2, 1884. 
 
 John H. Upsher. Born in Virginia, December 5, 1823. Appointed 
 from Virginia, November 4, 1841 ; attached to frigate " Congress," Medi 
 terranean Squadron, 1841-3; sloop "St. Marys," Mediterranean Squadron, 
 1843-6 ; Home Squadron during Mexican War ; in the Naval Battery dur 
 ing the bombardment of Vera Cruz; Naval School, 1847. Promoted to 
 Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; frigate "Cumberland," Mediter 
 ranean 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, Washington Navy Yard, 
 1856-7 ; sloop " Cumberland," coast of Africa, 1858-9 ; Instructor at Naval 
 Academy, 1859-60 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; at cap 
 ture of foris at Hatteras, North Carolina ; steam-frigate " Wabash," South 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; present at battle of Port Royal ; com 
 manding 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 "Minne 
 sota," flag-ship, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; command 
 ing 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, 1-S66 ; 
 commanding apprentice-ship " Saratoga," 1868-70 ; special duty, New Lon 
 don, Connecticut, 1871-3. Commissioned as Captain, January 31, 1872; 
 commanded the Pensacola, 1872-3 ; commanded "Brooklyn " (second-rate), 
 South Atlantic Station, 1875-6; member Board of Inspection, 1877-80; 
 member Board of Examiners, 1881. Promoted to Commodore, July, 1880; 
 commandant Navy Yard, New York, 1882-4 Promoted to RearAdmiral, 
 October, 1884 ; commanding Pacific Station, 1884-5. Retired on his own 
 application, June, 1888. 
 
 F. A. Roe. Born in Elmira, N. Y., October 4, 1823. Appointed 
 Acting Midshipman, October 19, 1841 ; after six months service at sea was 
 warranted, February 3, 1842; ordered to sloop-of-war "John Adams;" 
 served a full cruise on the coast of Brazil and south and east coast of Africa; 
 detached from the " John Adams," May 29, 1844 ; ordered to sloop-of-war 
 u Yorktown," September 3, 1844; made cruise -on that ship on the west 
 coast of Africa, as a Midshipman doing a Lieutenant s duty ; detached 
 from the " Yorktown," June 4, 1846 ; ordered to the sloop-of-war Boston," 
 October 5, 1846, bound to the Gulf of Mexico to join the squadron 
 under Commodore O. H. Perry, blockading Vera Cruz, Mexico; was 
 shipwrecked on that vessel on Eleuthera Island, West Indies; ship was 
 a total loss ; detached from the " Boston," February 24, 1847 ; ordered to 
 the steamer * Alleghany," fitting out at Memphis, Tennessee, February 24, 
 1847 ; served on that vessel until her arrival at Norfolk, Virginia, October 
 20, 18 47. Detached from the "Alleghany " and ordered to the Naval Acad 
 emy, Annapolis, Md., October 20, 1847 ; graduated from the Naval Academy, 
 July 12, 1848 and promoted to Passed Midshipman from August 10, 1847, 
 being a year late in going to the Academy; detached from the Academy 
 
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 and granted ninety days leave of absence, July 12, 1848. Ordered to the 
 sloop-of-war "Albany," September 2(5, 1848, and cruised in the West India 
 Islands; detached from Albany," August 13, 1841); was dismissed from 
 the service by sentence of court-martial, for disobedience of an illegal oider, 
 October 23, 1849; reappointed a Patsed Midshipman from August 10, 1847, 
 to take original rank and place in Navy List, September 27. 1850. Ordered 
 to Coast Survey, but the orders were revoked, October 9, 1850 ; ordered as a 
 watch officer to the mail steamer " Georgia ; " served two years as Execu 
 tive Officer of the "Georgia," October 23, 1850; detached from the 
 " Georgia," November 24, 1852. Ordered to the brig " porpoise," of the 
 North Pacific and Behring Strait Expedition, December 2, 1852 (was ap 
 pointed Acting Master to do the duty of Lieutenant) ; served as Executive 
 Officer of the " Porpoise" until the reorganization of the squadron in China 
 under the Acting Commodore, John Rodgers, in August, 1854. While in 
 China, as Executive Officer of the " Porpoise," had an action with a fleet of 
 thirteen heavy armored pirate junks, in Koulan Bay ; destroyed six of these 
 junks, defeated the pirate fleet and dispersed its vessels. It was a hot action 
 of two hours, fought under canvas under way. Detached from the " Por 
 poise," August, 1854; ordered and appointed an Acting Lieutenant, com 
 manding and Executive Officer of the flag-ship " Vinceunes," exploring ex 
 pedition ; made a cruise in the Arctic regions as high as latitude 72 5 N., 
 and along the north and east coasts of Siberia and Japan, and Kurile 
 Islands ; detached from the squadron and the " Vincennes," November 3, 
 
 1855, and on arrival at San Francisco, Cal., ordered East to await orders ; 
 warranted as a Master in the Navy, August 8, 1855. Promoted to a Lieuten 
 ant, September 14, 1855 ; total service to this date, ten years and nine 
 months; ordered to the Coast Survey schooner, Bowditch," February 21, 
 
 1856, coast of Georgia, surveying coast; detached from the Coast Survey 
 Service and ordered to the frigate "Macedonian" (Fourth Lieutenant), 
 April 17,1858; served the cruise in the "Macedonian" in the Gulf of 
 Mexico and Mediterranean ; detached from the Mediterranean on expiration 
 of cruise, July 14, 1860 ; ordered to ordnance duty. New York Navy Yard, 
 September 13, 1860 ; service as Assistant Inspector of Ordnance until July 
 14, 1861, when applied for service afloat at the front, civil war being de 
 clared ; ordered to the U. S. S. " Pensacola," August 2, 1861, at Washington, 
 D. C., fitting out for passage down the Potomac, which was blocked by rebel 
 batteries. While preparing for sea was ordered temporarily, in great haste, 
 in consequence of the battle and defeat at Bull Run, with 500 seamen to oc 
 cupy Fort Ellsworth, near Alexandria, Va. Occupied the Fort, which was 
 General McClellan s left, until the army moved, when he returned to the 
 " Pensacola." Was Executive Officer of the " Pensacola at the memorable 
 passage of that ship down the Potomac River, through nine miles of batteries 
 under constant fire. Passage successfully made, accompanied by the Presi 
 dent and his Cabinet until under fire. Carried the ship (" Pensacola ") to 
 New Orleans, led the starboard (van) column of the Farragut fleet at the 
 battle and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, and eighty miles above 
 the Chalmette Forts (earthworks and heavy guns). Was specially com 
 mended for good conduct on this occasion by Commodore Henry Morris, and 
 recommended for promotion to grade of Commander; detached from the 
 Pensacola, at New Orleans, August 5, 1862, and ordered to command the 
 gun-boat " Katahdin," and same day fought the battle of Baton Rouge, 
 against John C. Breckenridge. Promoted to the grade of Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, by appointment, August 6, 1862 ; detached from " Katahdin," Feb- 
 
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 ruary 2, 1863, and ordered North by Admiral Farragut on account of fail 
 ing health. During this service on the Mississippi was in several engagements 
 and constant skirmishes with the enemy, fights at Plaquemine, Bonnet Carre, 
 College Point, and the engagement with and destruction of the Rebel iron 
 clad ram " Arkansas." Commissioned a Lieutenant- Commander frcm July 
 16, 1862, on March 4, 1863; and ordered to command the Neptune," 
 August 27, 1863, but orders changed on September 4, 1863, and ordered to 
 command the double-ender and paddle-wheel steamer " Sassacus," fitting out 
 at Boston. Commanded the " Sas?acus " off Wilmington on the blockade for 
 two weeks, and destroyed two valuable blockade runners (English steam 
 ships). Was ordered to the sounds of North Carolina, until July 20, 1864, 
 when detached on account of sickness and sent to the hospital, Norfolk, Va. 
 During the service of North Carolina was engaged in action with the Rebel 
 ram k< Albemarle" and gun-boat Bombshell." The battle took place on 
 May 5, 1864, in Albernarle Sound. Attacked in the evening by broadside of 
 shot at close quarters and ramming. The ramming disabled the"Albe- 
 marle," and she retreated, leaking badly, up the sound to Plymouth, N. C., or 
 Roanoke River. To keep from sinking, the ram ran aground at a spot near 
 Plymouth. The " Bombshell," a small gun-boat, surrendered to the " Sassa 
 cus," in the first of the engagement, and her surrender was received by the 
 "Sassacus," which took possession of her. July 22, 1864, is dated a letter of 
 thanks and commendation from the Secretary of the Navy, and advancement 
 of five numbers in grade for her commander for "gallant and meritorious 
 conduct before the enemy." Having been discharged from the hospital on 
 November 11, 1864, was ordered to command the U. S. ship " Michigan," on 
 the Lakes During this command he suppressed a general insurrection of 
 the miners of the iron region at Marquette, and of the copper region at 
 Hough ton, saved the town of Marquette from being sacked by miners, and 
 had the privateer "Georgian," captured by English authority at Collingswood, 
 Canada. Detached from the "Michigan" and Lake service, and wait orders, 
 April 7, 1866; ordered to the "Madawaska," June 13, 1866 (subsequently 
 the "Tennessee"), as Executive Officer of trial service of the engineers and 
 machinery. Promoted to the rank of Commander, July 25, 1866 ; succeeded 
 Commodore S. C. Rowan, August, 1866, in the command of the " Mada 
 waska, until the completion of the work ; detached from the " Mada 
 waska," January 29, 1867, and ordered to " Tacony," double ender, fitting 
 out at Norfolk, Va., for Gulf of Mexico. Was ordered by Rear- Admiral 
 Palmer to command the Mexican Gulf Division of his squadron, and sta 
 tioned at Vera Cruz. During this command at Vera Cruz, at the time of 
 the capture and execution of the Prince Maximilian, and during the change 
 of government to a republic under President Juarez, saw the last of the 
 evacuation of the French from Mexico. Took the famous Santa Anna a 
 prisoner out of an American steamer, and sent him out of Mexico. Was 
 employed frequently as negotiator between General Beuevidez, of the Re 
 publican army, and Burreau,the Imperial Governor of Vera Cruz. Received 
 the surrender of Vera Cruz and San Juan d Ulloa from the hands of General 
 Gomez, who refused to surrender to Benevidez or Juarez, when Maximilian 
 was executed. Preserved order in Vera Cruz and established a provisional 
 government until the city was occupied by the Republican troops under 
 Benevidez. Detached from the " Tacony," at Pensatola, August 3, 1867, 
 sfter Mexican affairs were settled, and ordered to Washington. Sent for by 
 the President (Johnson) in cabinet-meeting, and received his thanks and 
 congratulations for good conduct in Mexico. On this occasion President 
 
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 Johnson ordered the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Welles, to promote this 
 officer, but the verbal order was forgotten and not carried out. Ordered as 
 Fleet Captain of the Asiatic Fleet, under Rear-Admiral S. C. Rowan, 
 August 3, 18b7, in U. S. frigate " Delaware" (nee " Piscataqua"), fitting out 
 at Portsmouth, N. H. Served full cruise, three years, as Fleet Captain in U. 
 S. Frigate "Delaware," Asiatic Station. Sea service to that date, twenty-two 
 years and seven months ; shore service three years ; detached from " Dela 
 ware," November, 1870, having arrived at New York from China, and wait 
 orders; ordered to Examination Board for promotion, March 15, 1872. 
 Commissioned as Captain, April 1, 1872; ordered to command naval ren 
 dezvous, at San Francisco, Cal., August 5, 1872 ; detached and waiting 
 orders, March 17, 1873; ordered as Executive Officer and Captain of the 
 Yard, Boston Navy Yard, June 12, 1873 ; detached and ordered to com 
 mand the frigate " Lancaster," at Key West, Fla., bound to Brazil, February 
 28, 1874 ; made cruise to Brazil, and served as flag-ship ; was chief of staff 
 again ; detached from " Lancaster," having returned from cruise, Brazil 
 Station, July 16, 1875 ; ordered to Naval Station, New London, August 9, 
 1875 ; detached from Naval Station, at New London, and placed on furlough 
 by Secretary George M. Robeson, July 18, 1876 ; ordered as member of 
 Board of Examination at Naval Academy, Annapolis, March 3, 1879 ; de 
 tached from that duty, April 5, 1879 ; ordered as president of a Board to re 
 vise the allowance books of the Bureaus of the Navy Department, under 
 commission as Captain, November 7, 1879; received letter of commendation 
 from Admiral Le Roy, with whom he served as Chief of Staff) etc., etc. ; 
 having completed the work of the Revisory Board, was detached and placed 
 on waiting orders ; ordered to Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., July, 1883, 
 as President of a Board of Examiners, of a class of thirty commissioned 
 officers, with experiments and conduct of that station ; in August completed, 
 and detached again for duty ; ordered as Governor of the U. S. Naval 
 Station for Retired Seamen (Naval Asylum), at Philadelphia, October 31, 
 1883 ; relieved Rear- Admiral A. C. Rhind on that day, and assumed com 
 mand. Commissioned as Rear Admiral in the Navy, November 3, 1884 ; 
 passed the examination before two boards, medical and professional ; detached 
 from the command of the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, October 4, 1885, and 
 transferred to the retired list, having reached sixty-two years of age. 
 
 Samuel R. Franklin. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Penn 
 sylvania, 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," Mediterra 
 nean Squadron, 1849-52 ; Coast Survey, 1 853-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 September 14, 1855; Naval Academy, 1855-6; sloop " Falmouth," Brazil 
 Squadron, 1857-59; 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 
 u Congi ess" 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 the " 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 Block 
 ading Squadron, 1863; special duty, New Orleans, 1864; on the staff of 
 
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 Acting Rear-Admiral Thatcher during the operations of Mobile Bay, in the 
 spring of 1865, and was the naval representative in the demand for the sur 
 render 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, 1869-70 ; equipment duty, Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, California, 1870-2. Commissioned as Captain, August 13, 
 1872 ; Fleet Captain of the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, under Com 
 modore Bell, Rear- Admiral Palmer, and Acting Rear- Admiral Thatcher. 
 Joined the " Wabash," on the European Station, in 1873, and commanded 
 her and served as Chief of Staff to Rear-Admiral Case. The flag was shifted 
 to the " Franklin," which vessel he commanded and served in her as Chief 
 of Staff to Rear- Admiral Worden, when he relieved Admiral Case in com 
 mand of the squadron ; President of Board of Examiners for promotion of 
 officers, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1877. Promoted to Commodore, May, 1881 ; 
 special duty, Washington, 1881-3 ; Hydrographer to the Bureau of Naviga 
 tion, 1877-80 ; Superintendent Naval Observatory, 1884-5. Promoted to 
 Rear-Admiral, January, 1885 ; ordered to command European Station, Feb 
 ruary, 1885, with the " Pene-acola " as flag ship ; remained in this command 
 till August, 1887, when he was relieved. Retired, 1887. Appointed by 
 President Cleveland, February, 1889, as one of the delegates on the part of 
 the United States to the International Marine Conference, and was chosen 
 President of that body on 16th of October, upon its assembly at Washington. 
 Stephen Bleecker Luce. Born in Albany, New York, March 25, 
 1827. Appointed Midshipman from New York, October 19, 1841, and 
 ordered to the " North Carolina," 74, New York ; April, 1842, to March, 
 1845, attached to frigate "Congress," Captain P. F. Voorhees, on the Medi 
 terranean and Brazil Stations; May, 1845, to March, 1848, attached to the 
 " Columbus," 74, Commodore James Biddle, circumnavigating the globe, 
 visiting Japan, and serving on the coast of California during the Mexican 
 War. April 1, 1848, ordered to Naval Academy for examination for pro 
 motion to Passed Midshipman; August 20, 1849, to October, 1852 attached 
 to " Van d alia," Captain William H. Gardner, during her cruise in the 
 Pacific ; December, 1852, attached to astronomical party, under Lieutenant 
 J. M. Gilliss, Washington, D. C.; May 9, 1853. to February 8, 1854, at 
 tached to steamer "Vixen," Home Squadron ; May 18, 1854, to November 
 16, 1857, attached to United States Coast Survey. Promoted to Master, 
 November 15, 1855. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; 
 November 16, 1857, to February 11, 1860, attached to sloop-of-war "James 
 town," Captain C. H. A. H. Kennedy, during her cruise in West Indies and 
 on the Isthmus; March 2, 1860, to Naval Academy, as Assistant Instructor; 
 May 2, 1861, ordered to frigate " Wabash," Captain William Mercer, attached 
 to Blockading Squadron, coast of South Carolina ; participated in the battles 
 of Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal ; commanded a howitzer launch of " Wa 
 bash " during a reconnoissance in force and engagement with rebels at Port 
 Royal Ferry, South Carolina, by combined military and naval forces ; Jan 
 uary 10, 1862, ordered to Naval Academy, Newport, Rhode Island. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant Commander, July 16, 1862; June 1, 1863, ordered 
 to command practice-ship "Macedonian" (European cruise) ; October 13, 
 1863, ordered to command monitor " Nantucket," attached to North Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron ; while in command of " Nantucket " engaged the rebel 
 forts Sumter and Moultrie a number of times; August 19, 1864, ordered to 
 command "Sonoma," double-ender, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron; 
 
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 August 27, 1864, to " Canandaigua," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron ; 
 September 1, 1864, to June 9, 1865, to " Pontiac," North Atlantic Blockad 
 ing Squadron ; while in command of " Pontiac," engaged Battery Marshall ; 
 January 5, 1865, reported to General W. T. Sherman, at Savannah, Georgia, 
 for duty in connection with the army. A\ 7 ith much difficulty got the 
 " Pontiac " up the Savannah River to Sister s Ferry, about forty miles above 
 the city, and guarded the pontoon bridge from molestation by the rebels 
 while General Slocum s wing passed into South Carolina. September 26, 
 1865, to Naval Academy (Annapolis) ; October 6, 1865, relieved Commander 
 Fairfax as Commandant of Midshipmen (Naval Academy,) ; June 8, 1866, 
 ordered to command Practice Squadron, consisting of " Macedonian " and 
 "Savannah," frigates "Winnepeg," double-ender "Saco" and "Marble- 
 head," steam third-rates; and yacht "America" (cruise on the const). 
 Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; June 12, 1867, in command of 
 Practice Squadron, consisting of "Macedonian," "Savannah" and "Dale" 
 (European cruise); May 31, 1868, in command of Practice Squadron, con 
 sisting of " Savannah," " Macedonian " and " I>ale " (West Point and Euro 
 pean cruise) ; September 30, 1868, to May 26, 1869, in command of 
 " Mohongo," double-ender, Pacific Squadron ; February 19, 1869, to July 
 12, 1872, in command of " Juniata," Mediterranean Squadron ; September 
 14, 1872, to Boston Navy Yard, as Equipment Officer. Commissioned as 
 Captain, December 28, 1872 ; December 12, 1873, ordered to command 
 frigate " Minnesota " during the " Virginius " excitement ; detached on the 
 22d, and resumed duties at Boston ; October 15, 1875, detached from Boston 
 Navy Yard (as Captain of the Yard) ; November 1, 1875, ordered to 
 command the "Hartford," at New York, relieving the " Worcester 1 as flag 
 ship of the North Atlantic Squadron ; August 21, 1877, detached from the 
 "Hartford;" August 25, 1877, ordered as Inspector of Training-ships; 
 January 1, 1878, to January 1, 1881, in command of the U. S. training- 
 ship "Minnesota, cruising on the coast; April 25, 1881, to June 30, 1884, 
 in command of U. S. Naval Training Squadron, cruising. Promoted to 
 Commodore, November 25, 1881; October 9, 1882, ordered as President of 
 Commission on the Sa ] e of Navy Yards ; July 26, 1884, ordered to com 
 mand the North Atlantic Squadron as Acting Rear-Admiral; September 20, 
 1884, ordered as President of the U. S. Naval War College, Coaster s Harbor 
 Island, R. I. Promoted to Rear-Admiral, October 5, 1885. From June 18, 
 1886, to February 13, 1889, in command of naval forces, North Atlantic 
 Station. March *25, 1889, transferred to the retired list. Total sea service, 
 thirty-three years; other duty, twelve years three months; unemployed one 
 year eleven months. May 23, 1892, commissioned by President Harrison, 
 as Commissioner- General, to represent the United States of America at the 
 Columbian Historical Exposition, held in Madrid in 1892, in commemoration 
 of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America. March 
 1, 1893, the Queen Regent of Spain conferred upon Rear- Admiral Luce the 
 "Grand Cross of Naval Merit, with the White Distinctive Mark," for his 
 services as Delegate of his Government to the Columbian Exposition. 
 Author of " Seamanship," a text-book in use at the Naval Academy, President 
 of the U. S. Naval Institute. 
 
 Jarnes E. Jouett. Born in Kentucky, February 27, 1828. Appointed 
 from Kentucky, September 10, 1841. Commissioned Passed Midshipman, 
 August 10, 1847; Master, September 14, 1855; Lieutenant, September 15, 
 1855; Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; Commander, July 25,1866, 
 Captain, January 6, 1874; Commodore, January 11, 1883; Rear-Admiral, 
 
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 February 19, 1886. Rear- Admiral Jouett entered the navy of the United 
 States as a midshipman September 10, 1841, and passed through the succes 
 sive grades of the service to the outbreak of the late war, when, on the night 
 of November 17, 1861, holding then the position of a lieutenant in the 
 United States Navy, and serving on board the United States frigate " Santee," 
 made himself conspicuous for gallantry in conducting a hazardous boat expe 
 dition against the Confederate vessel of war " Royal Yacht," off Galveston, 
 Texas, and in capturing and destroying said vessel, in which encounter he 
 .received a severe pike wound in the arm and side, and for which hazardous 
 and important^ service he was recommended by his immediate commanding 
 officer, Captain Henry Eagle, for a command suitable to his rank ; he was 
 complimented in general orders by Flag-Officer William W. McKean, com 
 manding the squadron, and ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, who offi 
 cially expressed the Department s appreciation of his " daring and successful 
 exploit," to proceed to Washington, so that he might " be given a command 
 worthy of his gallantry." Later, when commanding the United States gun 
 boat " Metacomet " in the fight in Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, he promptly 
 pursued and captured the Confederate war steamer "Selma" after a despe 
 rate conflict, and also rendered other gallant service during that fight, for 
 which he was commended to the Secretary of the Navy by Admiral David 
 G. Farragut, commander in-chief, who reported that " Lieutenant-Commander 
 Jouett s promptness and coolness throughout the fight merited high praise, 
 received his warmest commendation, and was worthy of his reputation." 
 For the gallantry displayed on that occasion Commander James E. Jouett 
 was recommended by a board of officers, of which Admiral Farragut was 
 president, appointed in 1865, " to consider the claims of officers of the Navy 
 for advancement for heroic conduct in battle," to be promoted thirty numbers ; 
 but for some reasons the advancement was never made. Lieutenant Jouett 
 subsequently commanded the "Montgomery" and "R. R. Cuyler," and was 
 actively engaged in blockade duty. His next command was the side-wheel 
 wooden steamer "Metacomet." which participated in the fight in Mobile Bay, 
 and was lashed to the side of Rear-Admiral Farragut s flag-ship, the 
 "Hartford," and passed the forts with her. It was in this fight, August 5, 
 1864, that Captain (then Lieutenant-Commander) Jouett was again eminent 
 and conspicuous in battle. Rear- Admiral Farragut says in his report : 
 " Finding myself raked by the rebel gunboats, I ordered the Metacomet 
 to cast off and go in pursuit of them, one of which, the Selma, she suc 
 ceeded in capturing. Captain Jouett was after her in a moment, and in an 
 hour s time he had her as his prize * * * Lieutenant-Commander 
 Jouett s conduct during the whole affair commands my warmest commenda 
 tion. The Morgan and Gaines succeeded in escaping under the protec 
 tion of the guns of Fort Morgan, which would have been prevented had the 
 other gunboats been as prompt in their movements as the Metacomet." 
 Again he reports : " Our little consort, the Metacomet, was under my imme 
 diate eye during the whole of the action up to the moment I ordered her to 
 cast off in pursuit of the Selma. The coolness and promptness of Lieu 
 tenant-Commander Jouett, throughout, merit high praise ; his whole conduct 
 was worthy of his reputation." 
 
 Extracts from Commodore Foxliall A. Parker s "Battle of Mobile Bay." 
 
 At a little past eight, however, the Admiral, observing that all his vessels 
 
 were clear of the fort, made signal " Gunboats chase enemy s gunboats!" 
 
 The signal was hardly above the " Hartford s " deck, when Jouett, cutting 
 
 the fasts which bound him to that vessel, started in obedience to it, followed 
 
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 at some distance by the " Itasca," " Kennebec," and " Port Royal." His 
 vessel was very fast, but owing to the fact that she drew much more water 
 than the Confederate gunboats, he found himself, before long, dragging the 
 bottom. The executive officer, Lieutenant Sleeper than whom no cooler 
 man lived reported to him that the " Metacomet " had a foot less water 
 under her bottom than her draught. This was startling ! for should the vessel 
 ground hard, the pursuit might turn upon the pursuer, and change the game 
 somewhat. " Call the leadsmen in from the chains, Mr. Sleeper ! " ordered 
 Jouett. Mr. Sleeper looked amazed. "I tell you, "-said Jouett, who idolized 
 Farragut, and was a strict constructionist, "the admiral has directed me to 
 follow these gunboats, and I am going to do it. Call the men in from the 
 chains at once, sir, they are demoralizing me! " At this, the crew who knew 
 their commander well set up a loud laugh, and the " Metftcomet " continued 
 in pursuit with the result we know. As commander of the United States Naval 
 forces on the North Atlantic Station, Rear-Admiral James E. Jouett, by his 
 prompt, firm and judicious course in the spring of 1^85, during the rebellion 
 on the Isthmus of Panama, restored order, re-established transit, prevented 
 great destruction of property and loss of life, and was instrumental in bring 
 ing about the surrender of the insurgent forces in the United States of 
 Colombia, and in effecting a peaceful solution of the United States of 
 Colombia, and reflected credit on the United States of America. Retired 
 February, 1890. By Act of Congress Rear- Admiral Jouett receives, on the 
 retired list, the full pay of his grade as a reward for his distinguished services. 
 Lewis A. Kimberly. Born in New York. Appointed from Illinois, 
 December 8, 1846; sloop " Jamestown," 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 War- 
 rington, Mississippi River; battle of Mobile Bay; steam-frigate "Colorado," 
 
 cus" (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1873. Commissioned as Captain, 
 October 3, 1874; commanding " Monongahela " (second-rate), South Atlan 
 tic Station, 1874-6; commanding "Omaha," flag-ship South Pacific Station, 
 1877-8; Navy Yard, New York, 1880-3; Member of Examining and 
 Retiring Board, 1884-5. Promoted to Commodore, November 27, 1884 ; 
 Commandant Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, 1885-6. Promoted to 
 Rear-Admiral, July 26, 1887 ; commanding Pacific Station, 1887-9. Re 
 tired April 2, 1892. 
 
 Bancroft Gherardi. Born in Louisiana, November 10, 1832. Ap 
 pointed from Massachusetts, June 29, 1846; attached to fiigate "Ohio," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1846-50 ; steam-sloop "Saranac," Home Squadron, 1850-1 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1852. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8,1852; 
 sloop "St. Louis," Mediterranean 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 
 
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 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; commanding "Jamestown " (third-rate), Pa 
 cific Fleet, 1871; commanding receiving-ship "Independence," 1872-3. 
 Commissioned as Captain, November 9, 1874; commanding " Pensacola," 
 flag-ship North* Pacific Station, 1 875-6 ; commanding receiving-ship " Colo 
 rado," 1877-80 ; commanding U. S. S. " Lancaster," flag-ship European 
 Station, 1881-3 ; leave in Europe, 1884. Promoted to Commodore, Novem 
 ber, 1884; Member of Examining Board, 1884-5 ; Governor Naval Asylum, 
 1885-6. Promoted to Rear-Admiral, August, 1887; commanding Navy 
 Yard, New York, 1887-9; commanding North Atlantic Station, 1889 to 
 June, 1893 ; commanding New York Navy Yard, June 1, 1893-4. Retired 
 November 10, 1894. 
 
 George E. 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 " Fal- 
 mouth," 1854-5; sloop "Saratoga," 1855. Promoted to Master, 1855. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; receiving-ship "Ohio," 
 Boston, 1856; sloop "Portsmouth," East India Squadron, 1856-8; com 
 manded a launch with 12-pounder howitzer 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 Squadron, 1861-2; 
 expedition against Fernandina, St. John s, St. Mary s, St Augustine, etc. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 15, 1862; ironclad steamer 
 "New Ironsides/ special service, 1862, and South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-4, many (27) engagements with defences of Charleston har 
 bor, comprising actions against Forts Wagner, Sumter, and Moultrie, Bat 
 teries Bee, Beauregard, etc. ; commanded gunboat "Seneca," North Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanded ironclad "Canonicus" in two 
 actions with Hewlett House battery, December, 1864, and at Fort Fisher, 
 December, 1864, and January, 1865, taking the advanced position ; after 
 capture of Fort Fisher, proceeded to Charleston, and was present at the 
 evacuation of the city ; fired last hostile shot at its defences ; commanded 
 same vessel in Admiral Godou s Special Squadron to Havana, in quest of the 
 rebel ironclad "Stonewall;" steam-sloop " Shenandoah," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1866-7. Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; commanding flag 
 ship "Hartford," Asiatic Squadron, 18678 ; commanded expedition against 
 Indians on Island of Formosa, 1867; naval rendezvous, New York, 1868; 
 navigation duty, Navy Yard, Boston, 1869 ; ordered to command steam-sloop 
 "Tuscarora," May, 1872, and sailed for South Pacific Station; January 1, 
 1873, ordered to take Commander Selfridge and party on board and co 
 operate in the survey for inter-oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien ; 
 May, 1873, detached from South Pacific Squadron, and assigned to special 
 
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 duty with the " Tuscarora," to make deep-sea soundings between the western 
 coast of the United States and the shores of Japan, to determine the feasibility 
 of laying a submarine cable on the bed of the Pacific. Fitted the ship for 
 the work at Mare Island Yard, California, and began operations in Septem 
 ber, 1873. Used Sir Wm Thomson s machine for sounding with pianoforte 
 wire, at that time comparatively untried ; improved the machine and deve 
 loped its working capacity, sounding with more ease and accuracy in four 
 thousand fathoms than was formerly done in five hundred fathoms, using 
 rope. Ascertained "True Continental Outline" from Cape Flattery to San 
 Diego ; ran line of soundings from San Diego to Yokohama, Japan, via 
 Hawaiian and Bonin Islands. Returning, sounded from Yokohama to Cape 
 Flattery, Washington Territory, via the Aleutian Islands. Found off the 
 coast of Japan the most extraordinary depths ever knowft, the deepest water 
 being four thousand six hundred and fifty-five fathoms, or more than five and 
 one-fourth statute miles. Invented three different cylinders or cups for 
 bringing up specimens of soil from ocean-bed, which are now in use both in 
 the naval service and the coast survey. 
 
 f Extract from "Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the 
 British Association, Glasgow, September 7, 1876, by Sir William Thomson, 
 LL D., M.A., F.R S., President of the Section :" 
 
 " I wish I could speak to you of the veteran Henry, generous rival of Fara 
 day in electro-magnetic discovery ; of Peirce, the founder of high mathematics 
 in America ; of Bache, and of the splendid heritage he has left to America 
 and to the world in the United States Coast Survey ; of the great school of 
 astronomers which followed Gould, Newton, Newcomb, Watson, Young, 
 Alvan Clarke, Rutherford, Draper (father and son) ; of Commander Belk- 
 nap and his great exploration of the Pacific depths by pianoforte wire, with 
 imperfect apparatus supplied from Glasgow, out of which he forced a success 
 in his own way. ^/ 
 
 r ^Senior officer present at Honolulu when riot occurred on the election of 
 David Kalakaua as King of Hawaiian Islands ; landed companies of blue 
 jackets and marines from "Tuscarora" and " Portsmouth," restored order, 
 and occupied the town six days, at request of the king, when, the new 
 government being firmly established, withdrew the force to the ships. Re 
 ceived therefor, in conjunction with Commander Skerrett, commanding 
 " Portsmouth," the thanks of the king, the legislative assembly, the chamber 
 of commerce, and the consular corps. Detached from "Tuscarora," October, 
 1874; ordered as hydrographic inspector, United States Coast Survey, De 
 cember, 1874 ; asked for other orders, and w r as ordered to command United 
 States receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston, January, 1875. Commissioned as 
 Captain, January 25, 1875 ; March, 1875, obliged to go south on account of 
 ill health, due to a cold contracted while doing deep-sea work ; detached from 
 " Ohio, and ordered to Navy Yard, Pensacola, as captain of the yard ; June, 
 1875, appointed member of Board of Visitors to Naval Academy ; October, 
 1875, ordered as member of Board of Examiners of Midshipmen at Naval 
 Academy; detached from Navy Yard, Pensacola, May 1, 1876, and put on 
 special duty with reference to deep-sea sounding; December 1, 1876, ordered 
 as Commandant Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1877-80; commanding Alaska, 
 Pacific Station, 1881-3 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1883-5. Promoted to Commo 
 dore, 1885 ; Superintendent Naval Observatory, 1885-6 ; Commandant Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, 1886-90. Promoted to Rear- Admiral, February, 1889 ; 
 commanding Asiatic Station, 1889-92 ; retired, January 22, 1894. 
 
 A. E. K. Benham. Born in New York, 1832. Appointed from New 
 
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26 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 York, November 24, 1847 ; attached to sloop " Plymouth," East India 
 Squadron, 1847-8 ; brig Dolphin," East India Squadron, 1849-50, and 
 assisted in capture of a piratical Chinese junk near Macoo, China, by a party 
 under command of Acting Lieutenant (late Rear- Admiral) John L. Davis, 
 and in boarding received a slight pike wound in the right thigh ; sloop 
 "Plymouth," 1850-1; steam-frigate "Saranac," Home Squadron, 1851-2 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1852-3. 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, 186CF-1 ; steamer " Bienville," South Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1861-2; battle of Port Royal, 1861; steamship " Sacramento," 1863. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam 
 gun-boat " Penobscot," Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5, and 
 during this time blockaded the coast of Texas for a period of thirteen months 
 without going into port; temporary duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1866; 
 steamer "Susquehanna," special service, 1867. Commissioned as Commander, 
 July, 1866 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1868-69 ; Light-House Inspector, 
 1870-1; commanding " Canonicus " (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 
 1871-2; commanding "Saugus" (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1872-3; 
 Light-House Inspector, 1874-8. Commissioned as Captain, March 12, 1875; 
 commanding " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, New Hampshire, 1882-4 ; Light-House Inspector, 1885-6. Pro 
 moted to Commodore, October, 1885 ; President of Board, League Island, 
 1^88 ; commanding Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1889-91. Promoted to Rear- 
 Admiral, February, 1890; waiting orders, June, 1891, to June, 1892; com 
 manding South Atlantic Station, 1892; transferred his flag from "Newark" 
 to " San Francisco " after Naval Review, and took command North Atlantic 
 Station; in December, 1893, ordered to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for the pro 
 tection of American interests, a rebellion being at that time in progress. By 
 his firm stand, he effectually stopped the insurgents practice of interfering 
 with neutral merchant ships on their way to their moorings. Retired, April 
 10, 1894. 
 
 John Irwin. Born in Pennsylvania, April 15, 1832. Appointed from 
 Pennsylvania, September 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, 1855. 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 Inlet; capture of Forts Walker and 
 Beauregard ; in charge of boat howitzers ashore at battle of Port Royal 
 Ferry, January 1, 1862 ; bombardment and capture of Fort Pulaski. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16,1862; ordnance duty, Phila 
 delphia, 1864; \Yestern Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; special duty, 
 Philadelphia, 1866-7. Commissioned as Commander, July, 25, 1866; com 
 manding steamer "Newbern," North Atlantic Squadron, 1868 ; commanding 
 steamer "Gettysburg," North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-70; commanding 
 " Yantic " (fourth-rate), North Atlantic Fleet, 1871 ; League Island Station, 
 1872; commanding receiving ship "Sabine," 1873-5. Commissioned as 
 Ca,ptain, May 15, 1875 ; commanding "Pensacola," flag-ship, Pacific Station, 
 1875-9; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1879-83 ; special duty, 1884 ; President of 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 27 
 
 Board of Inspection, California, 1884-8. Promoted to Commodore, March, 
 18*6. Waiting orders, December 13, 1889, to July 12, 1890 ; Member Board of 
 Inspection, July 12, 1890, to June, 1891. Commissioned Rear-Admiral, May 
 19, 1891; Commandant Navy Yard, Mare Island, June 9, 1891, to June 7, 
 1893 ; commanding Asiatic Station, June 7, 1893. Retired April 15, 1894. 
 James Augustin Greer. Born in Ohio, February 28, 1833. Ap 
 pointed from Ohio, January 10, 18-18 ; sloop "Saratoga," Home Squadron, 
 1848-9; steamer " Saranac," Home Squadron, 1850; sloop "St. Mary s," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1850-2; frigate "Columbia," Home Squadron, 1853; 
 Naval Academy, 1853-4. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854 ; 
 razee " Independence," Pacific Squadron, 1854-7. Promoted to Master, 
 September 15, 1855. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855; 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1858 ; steamer " Southern Star, Paraguay Expe 
 dition, 1858-9; steamer " Su inter," coast of Africa, 1859-61 ; steamer "San 
 Jacinto," coast of Africa, 1861 ; assisted in the removal of Mason and 
 Slidell from the English steamer Trent." Commissioned as Lieulenant- 
 Commander, July 16, 1862; sloop "St. Louis," special service, 1862-3; 
 Mississippi Squadron, 1863-5; commanded iron-clads "Carondelet" and 
 " Benton," and a division of Admiral Porter s Squadron ; passage of Vicks- 
 burg, April 16, 1863; fought the batteries of Grand Gulf for five hours, 
 April 29, 1863. An incident of this action was the killing and wounding of 
 twenty-two persons on board the " Benton " by one projectile ; Red River 
 Expedition, May, 1863 ; was engaged in the combined attack on Vicksburg, 
 May 22, 1863 ; was almost constantly under fire during the forty-five days 
 of the siege of Vicksburg ; Red River Expedition, March and April, 1864 ; 
 frequently engaged with small bodies of Confederate troops and guerrillas ; 
 August and September, 1864, employed in correcting abuses which existed 
 at Naval Recruiting Station, Cincinnati, Ohio ; had command of Naval 
 Station, Mound City, 111., October and November, 1864; commanded flag 
 ship " Black Hawk " until February, 1865 ; was employed under direction 
 of Admiral Lee in selecting, purchasing and contracting for the conversion 
 into gun-boats of ten river steamers ; had charge of convoying army tran 
 sports from Johnsonville up the Tennessee River, February, 1865; Naval 
 Academy, 1865-b . Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866 ; command 
 ing steamer " Mohongo," North Pacific Squadron, 1866-7 ; remained four 
 months at Acapulco, Mexico, to protect American interests which were 
 endangered on account of the downfall of the Mexican Imperial Govern 
 ment ; was commended by State Department for course pursued ; command 
 ing steamer " Tuscarora," North Pacific Squadron, 1868 ; ordnance duty, 
 Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1868-9; Naval Academy, March, 1869, until 
 July, 1873; in 1873 commanded purchased steamer "Tigress" on the 
 "Polaris" Relief Expedition; August 11, one month and four hours after 
 sailing from New York, found the wreck of the * Polaris " at Littleton 
 Island, North Greenland, lat. 78 23 N. Ascertained that the crew had 
 departed for the South in boats ; in the hope of meeting the Scotch whalers, 
 cruised without success, in Baffin s Bay and Davis Strait until October 8, 
 when, the season being so far advanced, it was deemed expedient to return 
 to the United States ; Board of Inspection, 1874-75 ; commanding steamer 
 " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1875-7. Commissioned as Captain, April 
 26, 1876; commanding training frigate "Constitution," 1877; commanding 
 sloop " Constellation," 1878 ; employed in taking exhibits to Havre, France, 
 for Paris Exposition ; commanding steamer " Hartford," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1879 ; Board of Inspection, 1880-2 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 
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 1882-4; President of Naval Examining and Retiring Boards, 1885-7. Com 
 missioned as Commodore, May 19, 1886. Appointed Acting Rear- Admiral, 
 August 24, 1887 ; commanding European Station, 1887-9 ; President of 
 Board on Organization, Tactics, and Drills, 1889 ; on duty as President of 
 the Examining and Retiring Boards, 1890 ; member of Board of Visitors, 
 Naval Academy ; Chairman of Light-House Board in 1891 Commissioned 
 as Rear- Admiral, April 3, 1892 ; President of Naval Examining and Retir 
 ing Boards, 1892 ; at present on duty as Chairman of Light-House Board. 
 December, 1894, President of Naval Examining and Retiring Boards; Feb 
 ruary 28, 1895, retired in accordance with the law. 
 
 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, 1845. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; Coast Survey steamer " Walker," 
 1856-7; steamer " Arctic," 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 Clarke, North Carolina ; bombardment and capture of Forts Beauregard 
 and Walker, Port Royal, South Carolina ; in charge of " Susquehauna 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 18, 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 engagement with rebel batteries 
 near Port Hudson, Louisiana, December 14, 1862 ; engagement with rebel 
 forces at Placquemine, 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 despatch, dated June 9, 1863; 
 engagement with rebel batteries below Donaldsonville, after fall of Port 
 Hudson: commanding steam-gunboat "Chippewa," North Atlantic Blockad 
 ing Squadron, 1864; in command "Chippewa," at first attack on Fort 
 Fisher ; was transferred to command iron-clad " Mahopac," and was in com 
 mand of that vessel at last attack and capture of Fort Fisher ; favorably 
 mentioned in Admiral Porter s despatch, dated January 15, 1865, and recom 
 mended 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 advance picket when that place and 
 its fortifications were captured ; was then ordered to James River, and par 
 ticipated in the night bombardment of rebel works near Richmond, just pre 
 vious to their evacuation ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1866. Commissioned as Com 
 mander, July 25, 1866 ; commanding United States steamer " Tallapoosa, 
 1866-7 ; commanding rendezvous, Washington, 1868 ; Inspector of Supplies, 
 Washington, 1869-70; commanding "Terror" (iron-clad), N. A. fleet, 
 1870-1 ; charge of nitre depot, Maiden, Mass., 1872-5 ; commanding " Dic 
 tator " (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1875-7. Commissioned as Captain, August 
 
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 8, 1876; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1879-81; commanding U. S. steamer 
 "Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1881-4; member of Examining Board, 1885-6. 
 Promoted to Commodore, October, 1866 ; President of Examining Board, 
 1886-90; Commandant Navy Yard, Norfolk, January 9, 1890, to January 
 17, 1893; President of Examining and Retiring Boards, January 17, 1893, 
 to September 26, 1893. Commissioned as Rear-Admiral, June 27, 1893. 
 Retired September 26, 1893. 
 
 Oscar F. Stanton. Appointed Midshipman, December 29, 1849 ; served 
 on board the U. S. steam-frigate " Susquehanna " in the East Indies, China 
 Seas, and Japan Expedition under Commodore M. C. Perry, December, 1850, 
 to June, 1853 ; U. S. sloop-of-war " Saratoga," China and Japan Seas, June, 
 
 1858, to June, 1859; U. S. store-ship, "Supply," and U. S. sloops-of-war 
 "Portsmouth" and "Marion," West Coast of Africa, September, 1859, to 
 October, 1860 ; U. S. sloop-of-war " St. Mary s," Pacific Squadron, December, 
 1860, to March, 1862; U. S. steamer " Tioga," James Kiver and Potomac 
 Flotilla and West India Flying Squadron, May, 1862, to November, 1863 ; 
 U. S. steam-gunboat " Pinola," West Gulf Blockading, December, 1863, to 
 November, 1864; ordnance duty, New York Navy Yard December, 1864, 
 to March, 1865 ; U. S. steam-frigate " Powhatan," March to August, 1865, 
 East Gulf Blockading Squadron; Navy Yard, New York, August to 
 November, 1865; Naval Academy, November, 1865, to May, 1867; U.S. 
 steamer " Tahoma," Gulf Squadron, May to September, 1867 ; U. S. store- 
 ship " Purveyor," Gulf of Mexico and West Coast of Africa, July, 1868, to 
 May, 1869 ; U. S. receiving ship " Vandalia," Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 
 February, 1870, to April, 1871; U. S. steamer " Monocacy," China and 
 Japan Seas, January, 1872, to June, 1873; U. S. steamer " Yantic," China 
 and Japan Seas, June, 1873, to October, 1874 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Vir 
 ginia, November, 1874, to March, 1877 ; Torpedo Station, June to Septem 
 ber, 1878 ; U. S. frigate "Constitution," training-ship, October, 1879, to 
 June, 1881 ; U. S. Naval Asylum, November, 1881, to October, 1884 ; U.S. 
 steamer "Tennessee," November, 1884, to October, 1885; Naval Station, 
 New London, Conn., October, 1885, to April, 1889. Promoted to Passed 
 Midshipman, June, 1855 ; promoted to Master in line of promotion, Septem 
 ber, 1855; promoted to Lieutenant, April, 1856; promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, July, 1862 ; promoted to Commander, December, 1867 ; pro 
 moted to Captain, June, 1879 ; commanding training ship " Richmond," and 
 station, October 3, 1890, to June, 1891. Commissioned Commodore, May, 
 1891. Governor Naval Home, Philadelphia, July, 1891, to July, 1893. 
 December, 1893, ordered to command the North Atlantic Station, with rank 
 of Acting Rear-Admiral Retired July 30, 1894. 
 
 Henry Erben. Born in the city of New York; appointed from New 
 York City a Midshipman in the Navy, on June 17,1848; served in the 
 frigate "St. Lawrence" (fifty guns), from July, 1848, to July, 1853 ; Coast 
 Survey schooner "Crawford," 1854; Naval Academy, 1855. Passed Mid 
 shipman, 1855; serving in the frigate "Potomac" (fifty guns), Home 
 Squadron. Promoted Master in the Navy, 1855 ; in November, 1855, or 
 dered to the prize filibuster bark " Amelia," captured at Puerto Prince, 
 Hayti ; the commanding officer was ordered to take her to New York ; after 
 being at sea seventy days, arrived at St. Thomas, destitute of provisions, and 
 a wreck, with everything gone ; store-ship " Supply," 1856 and 1857 ; em- 
 
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 ployed bringing camels for the War Department from Egypt to Texas. 
 Lieutenant December 27, 1856; joined, March 18, 1857, steamer "Vixen," 
 deep-sea sounding for Atlantic cable; joined steam frigate "Mississippi," 
 August, 1857 ; served in her on China Station, until November, 1859, return 
 ing home then with Chinese treaty ; joined the store-ship "Supply," February, 
 1860, serving on the Gulf Station ; was at Pensacola, Florida, when the 
 Navy Yard there was surrendered to the troops of Alabama and Florida ; 
 assisted in transferring the troops under Lieutenant Slemmer, from Fort 
 Barrancas to Fort Pickeus on the night of January 9, 1861, previous to 
 which, on January 8, with a small boat s crew, rendered Fort MacRee in 
 operative by spiking the guns, destroying material and twenty thousand 
 pounds of powder ; returned to New York with the surrendered sailors, 
 marines, and workmen of the Yard ; joined bark "Release " in March, 1861, 
 returning in her to Fort Pickens, Florida ; transferred to steamer " Hunts- 
 ville," engaged in blockading duty along the Gulf Coast; action at Ship 
 Island with rebel gunboats and batteries, August, 1861, and on December 25, 
 off Mobile, with rebel gunboat " Florida," she having, during the temporary 
 absence of the " Huntsville," gone out in a calm to destroy the sailing frigate 
 "Potomac" (fifty guns) ; joined the Mississippi River fleet in April, 1862 ; 
 commanded iron-clad "St. Louis," at the siege and bombardment of Fort 
 Pillow, and attack of rebel rams upon our fleet, in May, 1862 ; capture of 
 "Memphis," June 6, 1862 ; serving on the Admiral s staff; commanded the 
 " Surnter " at the siege of Vicksburg, passing the batteries then with Admiral 
 Farragut, on July 15, 1862 ; was at battle of Baton Rouge, La., on August 
 6, 1862, and destruction of rebel ram "Arkansas," on August 7, 1862. 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; returned to join naval howitzer bat 
 tery in Maryland, with General McClellan, during the Antietam campaign ; 
 in October, 1862, joined the monitor " Patapsco " as Executive Officer ; 
 engagement at Fort McAllister, March, 1863 ; at attack upon forts below 
 Charleston, S. C., on April 7, 1863 ; steam-frigate " Niagara," special service 
 on Atlantic Coast, from November, 1863, to May, 1864, when ordered to 
 command the monitor " Chimo," and in July, 1864, to command monitor 
 " Tunxis," these vessels were intended to destroy the rebel ram "Albemarle," 
 but not being seaworthy were condemned ; in October, 1864, ordered to com 
 mand the "Ponola," West Gulf Squadron; captured under the batteries at 
 Matagorda, Texas, the armed schooner " Dale," a nd the boats of the torpedo 
 station, with twenty men, destroying completely that establishment ; engaged 
 with batteries at Galveston, in attempting, with the " Princess Royal," the 
 destruction of the blockade-runner " Let Her Be ;" returned home, July, 
 1865 ; on duty, Navy Yard, New York, during 1866 ; commanded steamers 
 " Huron," " Kansas," and " Pawnee," during 1867, 1868, 1869, on South 
 Atlantic Station. Commissioned Commander, May 6, 1868 ; ordnance duty, 
 New York Navy Yard, 1871 ; Naval Rendezvous, New York, 1871, 1872 ; 
 monitor "Manhattan," 1873, at Key West; steamer " Tuscarora," North 
 Pacific Squadron, running deep-sea soundings, during 1874 and 1875 ; Navy 
 Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1876-8 ; commanding Nautical School Ship " St. 
 Mary s," 1878-82. Promoted Captain, November, 1879 ; commanding "Pen 
 sacola," 1883-4, in a cruise around the world; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. 
 H , 1885-6 ; special duty, in New York, October, 1886, to October, 1889 ; 
 waiting orders, October, 1889, to May, 1890 ; member Board Inspection Sur 
 vey, May, 1890-91 ; commandant Navy Yard, New York, May, 1891, to 
 May, 1893. Commissioned Commodore, April 3, 1892 ; commanding European 
 Station, June, 1893. Retired, September 6, 1894. After declaration of war 
 with Spain, April, 1898, placed in command Patrol Fleet, New York Harbor. 
 
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 Charles C. Carpenter. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed Mid 
 shipman from Massachusetts, October 1, 1850; attached to sloop "Ports 
 mouth, Pacific [Squadron, 1851-5; Naval Academy, 1855-6. Promoted to 
 Passtd Midshipman, June 20, 1856 ; steam frigates " Merrimac," " Roanoke," 
 "Colorado," and brig "Dolphin," Home (Squadron and special service, 
 1856-8 ; the last-named capturing the slave brig " Echo," with three hundred 
 slaves on board; in receiving-ship at Boston, 1868-9. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, January 23, 1858; steamer "Mohawk," coast of Cuba, 1859-60; 
 capturing slaver " Wildfire," with five hundred slaves on board ; steamer 
 "Mohawk," Texas and East Gulf Blockade, 1861 ; steamer "Flag," South 
 Atlantic Blockade, 1862 ; capturing steamers " Anglia " and " Emily." Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant Commander, July 16, 1862; iron-clad " Catskill," 
 South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863; attacks on Defenses of Charles 
 ton, April 7, July 10, and August 17, 1863; Naval Academy, 1863-5 ; 
 steam sloop " Hartford," flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1866-7; commanding 
 steamer "Wyoming," same squadron, 1868; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. 
 H, 1868-70. Commissioned as Commander, March, 1869; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, N. H., 1871; commanding "Nantasket" (third-rate), North 
 Atlantic Station, 1871-2; equipment duty, Portsmouth, N. H., 1872-5; 
 commanding "Huron" (third-rate). North Atlantic Squadron, 1875-6; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1878. Commissioned Captain March 25, 
 1880 ; on equipment duty, Boston Yard, 1880-2 ; commanding U. S. steamer 
 " Hartford," 1882-4 ; carried the English and American scientists from 
 Callao to Caroline Atoll, to observe the total eclipse of the sun in 1883; 
 commanding U. S. receiving-ship "Wabash," 1888, to June, 1890; Cap 
 tain of the Yard and commanding Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., June, 
 1890, to January 15, 1894 ; Commissioned Commodore, May 15. 1893. Com 
 missioned Hear- Admiral November 11, 1894; commander-in-chief of Asiatic 
 Squadron during the Chino-Japan war, 1894 and 95. Retired February 27, 
 1896. 
 
 George Brown. Born in Indiana, June 19, 1835. Appointed from 
 Indiana February 5, 1849; attached to frigate " Cumberland," Mediterran 
 ean Squadron, 1849-51 ; frigate "St. Lawrence," Pacific Squadron, 1851-4. 
 Promoted to Passed Midshipman, 1856. Promoted to Master, 1856. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, June 2, 1856 ; sloop " Falinouth," Brazil Squadron, 
 1856-9 ; storeship " 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 Caro 
 lina Blockade, 1861-2 ; engagement at Vicksburg, June 28, 1862. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanding iron-clad 
 " Indianola," Mississippi Squadron, 1862-3 ; at the passage of Vicksburg and 
 Warrenton, February 14, 1863 ; action between Indianola" and rebel rams 
 " Win. 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 min 
 utes, and resulted in the surrender of the " Indianola" to a force of four ves 
 sels manned by over one thousand men. The loss of the " Indianola " was one 
 killed and one wounded (Lieutenant-Commander Brown) severely, and seven 
 missing, while the enemy lost two officers killed and many wounded. Lieu 
 tenant-Commander Brown and his officers and crew were taken prisoners, 
 but were exchanged at Richmond a few months later in the war; command 
 ing steam gunboat " Itasca," Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; 
 battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; gunboat "Arizona," 1864-5, lost by 
 
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 fire, February, 1865 ; iron clad "Cincinnati," 1865 ; gunboat " Pocahontas," 
 1865 ; gunboat " Hornet," 1865 ; naval operations in Mobile B a} 7 , against 
 Spanish Fort and defences of city of Mobile, from March 23 to April 14, 
 1865. Commissioned as Commander, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, 1866-7 ; as agent of Japanese government in command of Japanese 
 iron-clad " Stonewall," 1867-9; commanding "Michigan" (fourth-rate), 
 1870-2 ; ordnance duty, Boston, 1873-6 ; Light House Inspector, 1876-8. " 
 Commissioned as Captain, 1877. Commanding U. S. S. " Alaska," Pacific 
 Station, 1878-81; Light House Inspector, 1881-4 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1886-9. Promoted to Commodore, September, 1887 ; commanding Pacific 
 Station, 1890. "Promoted to Rear-Admiral September 27, 1893. Command 
 ant Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., July 29, 1893, to 1897. Retired April, 1897. 
 
 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; graduated at the head 
 of his class. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 20, 1856; sloop " Fal- 
 mouth," Brazil Squadron, 1856-7; frigate "St. Lawrence," Brazil Squadron, 
 1858-59. Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 23, 1858 ; Instructor in 
 Mathematics Naval Academy, 1859-60 ; steamer " Susquehanna," 1860-61 ; 
 steamer "Connecticut," Atlantic coast, 1861; steam-gunboat " Winona," 
 West Gu!f Blockading Squadron, 1862; passage of Forts Jackson and 
 St. Philip, and capture of New Orleans ; operations against Vicksburg, in 
 summer of 1862, including the passage of the batteries both ways. Commis 
 sioned 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 Pernber- 
 ton ; capture of Yazoo City, and expedition up Yazoo River to destroy 
 steamers, having three sharp fights, in one of which the " De Kalb " was 
 blown up and destroyed by a torpedo; commanded naval battery in 15th 
 Army Corps at siege of Vicksburg; commanding steam-gunboat " Saco," 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; capture of Wilmington, 
 N. C., and forts 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; Light-House Inspector, 1871-2; Secretary Light-House 
 Board, 1873-8. Commissioned as Captain, 1877; leave of absence, 1879-80 ; 
 commanding "Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 1881; Chief Bureau of 
 Navigation, 1881-9. Promoted to Commodore, February, 1889; command 
 ing Squadron of Evolution as Acting Rear-Admiral, 1889-90. Commanding 
 South Atlantic and North Atlantic Stations, 1890 to June, 1893 ; member 
 Roard of Inspection and Survey, 1893-4. Commissioned as Rear-Admiral, 
 January, 1894 ; commanding Pacific Station for special duty in Hawaiian 
 Islands, 1894; chairman Light-House Board, 1895-7; chairman of "Deep- 
 Water Harbor Board " for locating a deep-water harbor in Southern Cali 
 fornia, 1896-7; retired under operation of general retiring law, March 20, 
 1897 ; President of Nicaragua Canal Commission, July, 1897, to date. 
 
 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, 
 1851-5 ; Naval Academy, 1855-56. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 
 1856 ; sloop " Falmouth," Brazil Squadron, 1857. Appointed Acting Master, 
 June 24, 1857; steam-frigate " Merrimac," Pacific Squadron, 1857-60. 
 
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 July 16, 1862 ; commanding iron-clad, " Choctaw," Mississippi Squadron, 
 1863-4; engagements at Haines Blutfj Yazoo River, April 30 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 ; commanded a 
 battery of three heavy guns mounted on scows, in front of Vicksburg, from 
 June 19 to July 4, 1863; commanding Third Division, Mississippi Squadron, 
 July, 1863, to September, 1864; several engagements with tield batteiies 
 and guerrillas, 1863-4; commanded expedition up Bla*ck and Ouachita 
 Rivers, March, 1864 ; engagement at Trinity, La., March, 186 i ; engagement 
 at Harrisonburg, La., Ouachita River, March 1864 ; Red River Expedition, 
 March, April, May, 1864; expedition up Black and Ouachita Rivers, April, 
 
 1864 ; several engagements with guerrillas at Fort De Russy, La., May, 1&64 ; 
 commanding Third and Fourth Districts, Mississippi Squadron, May to Sep 
 tember, 1864 ; commanded expedition into Atchafalaya River, June 8, 1864 ; 
 engagement at Simmsport, La., Atchafalaya River, June 8, 1864; command 
 ing gunboat " Unadilla," North Atlantic Squadron, 1864-5; engagements 
 with Fort Fisher, N. C., December 24 and 25, 1864; engagement with Fort 
 Fisher, N. C., January, 1865; several engagements with Fort Anderson, and 
 with other forts on the Cape Fear River, January, February, 1865 ; capture of 
 Richmond, Va. ; Naval Academy, in charge of Department of Gunnery, 
 1865-6. Promoted to Commander, July 25, 18*6; navigation duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, D. C., 1866-7 ; Fleet Captain and Chief of Staff, South 
 Atlantic Squadron, flag-ship "Guerriere," 1867-9; commanding steam- 
 frigate " Guerriere," June, July, 1869; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, D. C., 1869-72 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 1872 ; Naval Attache, London, 
 1872-.3 ; commanding "Ossipee" (third-rate). North Atlantic Station, 
 1874-5 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1875-6 ; Inspector of Ordnance, New 
 York, 1876-8; Commissioned as Captain, 1878; in charge of Torpedo 
 Station, 1878 M ; commanding "Trenton," flag-ship, European Station, 
 1881 ; Superintendent Naval Academy, 1881-6; Board for Examination of 
 Officers for Promotion, 1886-7; commanding " Boston " (special service), 
 1887-9 ; Commandant Navy Yard, New York, February to November, 1889. 
 Promoted to Commodore, March, 1889 ; Chief of Bureau of Navigation, from 
 November 1, 1889, to April 5, 1897. Transferred to Retired List, April 
 5, 1897. 
 
 Lester A. Beardslee. Born in Little Falls, New York, February 1, 
 1836. Appointed Acting Midshipman, March 5 1850; sloop "Plymouth," 
 East Indies, May, 1851, to January, 1855 ; participated in one battle and 
 several skirmishes with Chinese Army at Shanghai ; Naval Academy, Octo 
 ber, 1855, to June, 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. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, July 23, 1859; sloop " Saratoga," coast of Africa, 
 1860-3. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; monitor 
 " Nantucket," North Atlantic Squadron, January t > May, 1863 ; participated 
 in attack of the iron-clad fleet on the defences of Charleston Harbor, April 
 7, 1863; steam-sloop "Wachusett," special service on coast of Brazil, cruis 
 ing for rebel privateers, October, 1863, to January, 1865 ; participated in 
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34 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 capture of rebel steamer " Florida," at Bahai, by " Wachusett," October, 
 1864 ; commanded prize steamer " Florida," from October, 1864, and brought 
 her to Hampton Roads, Virginia; steam-sloop "Connecticut," special ser 
 vice, West Indies, 1865; commanded steam-gunboat " Aroostook," 1867-8, 
 taking her to East India Squadron from Philadelphia; commanded steamer 
 "Saginaw," Pacific Squadron, October, 1868; executive of steam-sloop 
 " Lackawanna," Pacific Squadron, 1868-9. Commissioned as Commander, 
 June 12, 1869; Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, 1869-70; steam- 
 tug "Palos," April, 1870, to January, 1871 ; took her to East Indies; Hy 
 drographic Office, January, 1871-2 ; Navy Yard, Washington, May, 1872, 
 to April 1, 1&75 ; member of United States Board for testing iron, steel, and 
 other metals, April, 1875, to April, 1879; commanding sloop "Jamestown," 
 Alaska, April, 1879, to October, 1880. Promoted to Captain, November, 
 1880; leave of absence, 1882-3; commanding receiving-ship "Franklin," 
 1883-4 ; commanding steam-frigate " Powhatan," June, 1884, to June, 1886 ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1^87; waiting orders, 1888; commanding receiving-ship 
 "Vermont," July, 1888-89, to November, 1891 ; commanding Naval Station 
 Port Royal, S. C., November, 1891 to 1894. Promoted to Commodore 
 August 24, 1894; commander-iii-chief of Naval Forces on the Pacific from 
 July, 1894, to August, 1897. Promoted to Rear Admiral May 21, 1895; 
 president of Examining and Retiring Board October, 1897 to January 27, 
 1898. Retired on account of age limit, February 5, 1878. 
 
 Thomas O. Selfridge, Jr. Born in Boston, Massachusetts. Entered the 
 Navy as Cadet Midshipman, October 3, 1851 ; graduated, June, 1853, at the 
 head of his class, and as such was the first officer of the Navy to receive a 
 diploma of graduation under the present organization of the Naval Academy. 
 Served as Midshipman on board the frigate " Independence," Pacific Squadron, 
 until September, 1856. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, November, 1856. 
 Served as Acting Master in the Coast Survey until October, 1856, and as 
 Matter of the sloop-of-war " Vincennes" on the coast of Africa until April, 
 1860. Commissioned Lieutenant, February, 1860 ; ordered to the frigate 
 Cumberland," flag-ship of Home Squadron, in September, 1860 ; was pres 
 ent at the destruction of the Norfolk Navy Yard in April, 1861, and at the 
 bombardment and capture of the Hatteras forts in September, 1^61 ; volun 
 teered for the command of a cutting out expedition of boats from the "Cum 
 berland," at Newport News, February, 1862 ; was Second Lieutenant of 
 the " Cumberland," and in command of the gun-deck battery, March 8, 186*2, 
 in the fight between the "Merrimac" and "Cumberland," in which the 
 " Cumberland " went down with her flag flying; saved himself by jumping 
 from a port as the ship sunk, and swimming to a boat ; ordered to the com 
 mand of the "Monitor," after the wounding of Captain Worden ; served as 
 Flay Lieutenant of the North Atlantic Fleet ; present at the recapture of 
 Norfolk, and engaged in destroying rebel defences in the waters of Virginia 
 until June, 1862 ; detached, and volunteered for command of the submarine 
 torpedo-boat "Alligator," destined for service against the " Merrimac," No. 
 2. The "Alligator," proving a failure for want of speed, was assigned to 
 duty in the Mississippi Squadron. Commissioned a Lieutenant- Commander 
 in July, 1862 ; was given the command of the iron-clad " Cairo," December 
 12, 1862 ; while in command of a flotilla of gunboats, forcing the passage of 
 the Yazoo, was blown up by a torpedo ; was then assigned command of the 
 gunboats " Conestoga " and " Manitou ; " commanded a battery in the siege 
 of Vicksburg, manned by guns and men from the " Manitou ; " in command 
 of a flotilla of gunboats after the capture of Vicksburg ; passed up the Red 
 
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 and Teusas Rivers, and captured the large steamer " Louisville ; " while in 
 command of the " Conestoga " was engaged in many skirmishes with guerrillas 
 and small batteries obstructing the navigation of the Mississippi River ; was 
 sunk March 8, 1863, in the "Conestoga" by collision with the ram " General 
 Price ; " was assigned to the command of the iron-clad " Osage " in the Red 
 River expedition, and while bringing up the rear on its return, in company 
 with the gunboat " Lexington," and while aground, was attacked by a battery 
 and a brigade of dismounted cavalry, near Pleasant Hill crossing, and 
 defeated them, with the loss of their General Green and four hundred killed 
 and wounded. After the Red River expedition, he was assigned to the com 
 mand of the " Vindicator " and the fifth division of the Slississippi fleet, 
 between Yicksburg and Natchez ; was selected by Admiral Porter to accom 
 pany him to the East, and assigned to the command of the gunboat " Huron," 
 in which he took part in the two bombardments of Fort Fisher, and volun 
 teered for and commanded the third division of the assaulting columns of 
 sailors and marines ; took part in the bombardment of Fort Anderson, Cape 
 Fear River, and subsequent capture of Wilmington ; was three times recom 
 mended for promotion by Admiral Porter, and was selected for a promotion 
 of thirty numbers by the Board of Admirals assembled at Washington at 
 the close of the war; ordered to Naval Academy in 1865; commanded the 
 frigate " Macedonian " in practice cruises, 1867-8 ; ordered, 1868, to the com 
 mand of the fourth-rate ".Nipsic," West India Squadron. Commissioned a 
 Commander, December, 1869 ; was selected to take charge of the expedition 
 for the surveys of the Isthmus of Darien for an interoceanic canal in 1869, 
 having under command the " Guard," " Peiiobscot," " Nyack," and " Resaca ; " 
 was engaged in these surveys till 1874, and explored and reported upon all 
 the country south of Panama to the head waters of the Atrato River, South 
 America; Navy Yard, Boston, 1877-8 ; in 1878 was selected to make a sur 
 vey of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers, South America ; ascended these 
 rivers in the u Enterprise," fourth-rate, 1300 miles; completed the survey, 
 and returned to the United States, October, 1878 ; in command of the " En 
 terprise," European Squadron, 1879-80 ; was invited as special delegate by 
 Ferdinand de Lesseps to International Canal Congress in May, 1879, at 
 Paris ; was presented by the French Government with the Decoration of the 
 Legion of Honor, in recognition of the work performed in the survey of the 
 Isthmus of Darien, and made an honorary member of the Royal Geographi 
 cal Society of Belgium. Promoted to Captain, November 26, 1880; in 
 charge of the Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, 1880-4 ; commander 
 "Omaha," second rate, Asiatic Squadron, 1885-7; was tried by court-martial 
 for alleged carelessness and neglect of duty in conducting target practice on 
 the coast of Japan, and wholly and honorably acquitted by the court, June, 
 1888; member Board of Inspection, 1 889-90 ; member Dry Dock Board, 
 October 21, 1893. Promoted to Commodore, April 11, 1894; President 
 Board Inspection and Survey, March 28, 1894 ; command European Station, 
 November 12, 1895, with rank of Acting Rear-Admiral. Commissioned 
 Rear-Admiral, February 28, 1896. Retired, April, 1898. 
 
 COMMODORES ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Frederick Vallette McNair. Born in Pennsylvania, January 13, 
 1839. Register of Service Acting Midshipman, September 21, 1853 ; origi 
 nal entry in U. S. Navy ; graduated Naval Academy. Midshipman, June 10, 
 1857. Passed Midshipman, June 25, 1860. Master, October 24, 1860. 
 
36 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Lieutenant, April 18, 1861. Lieutenant- Commander, April 20,1864. Com 
 mander, January 29, 1872. Captain, October 30, 1883. Commodore, May 
 10, 1895. Acting Midshipman, Naval Academy, September 21, 185 ; U. 8. 
 practice ship " Preble," summer of 1854, Europe and return ; U. S. practice- 
 ship " Plymouth," summer of 1856, coast of United States ; graduated from 
 Naval Academy, June 10, 1857 ; U. S frigate " Minnesota," June, 1857, 
 till May, 1859, China and East India Station ; U. S. Coast Survey schooner 
 " Varina," summer of 1859 ; U. S. S. " Iroquois," November, 1859, till Octo 
 ber, 1860; Mediterranean Squadron, West Indies, in pursuit of steamer 
 "Sumter;" Mississippi River, under Admiral Farragut ; engagements and 
 passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture of 
 New Orleans, April, 1862 ; landed at Baton Rouge and Natches to demand 
 surrender, May, 1862 ; engagements, Grand Gulf, Vicksburg, ram "Arkan 
 sas," and passed Vieksburg batteries both ways, June, July and August, 
 1862; U. S. S. "Juniata," October, 1862, till February, 1*63, coast of 
 United States ; U. S. S. " Seminole," February 18, till August, 1863, coast of 
 United States ; U. S. S. "Pensacola," August, 1863, till April, 1864, Missis 
 sippi River ; Executive Officer U. S. S. " Juniata," May, 1864, till June, 
 1866, North Atlantic Squadron ; engagements and surrender of Fort Fisher, 
 December 24 and 25, 1864, and January 13, 14 and 15, 1865; Brazil Sta 
 tion, 1865, till June, 1866; Executive Officer U.S. flagship "Brooklyn," 
 June, 1866, till September, 1867 ; Brazil Station, instructor Naval Academy, 
 September, 1867, till November, 1868 ; Executive Officer, practice-ship 
 "Macedonian," summer of 1868; Executive Officer, U. S. flagship "Frank 
 lin," November, 1868, till September, 1870, European Station ; Equipment 
 Officer, Philadelphia Navy Yard, October, 1870, till July, 1871 ; Head of 
 Department of Seamanship, etc., Naval Academy, July, 1871, till February, 
 1875; commanding U. S S. "Yantic," April, 1875, till July, 1875, Asiatic 
 Station; commanding U. S. S. " Kearsarge," July, 1875, till January, 1878, 
 Asiatic Station; commanding U- S. S. "Portsmouth," February, 1878, till 
 August, 1878, European Station ; Commandant of Cadets, Naval Academy, 
 September, 1878, till September, 1882; commanding U. S. practice-ship 
 "Constellation," summer of 1879, coast of North America; commanding 
 U. S. practice-ship "Constellation," summer of 1881, coast of United States; 
 Navy Department, October, 1882, till October, 1883, Court of Inquiry on 
 Loss of U. S. S. " Jeannette," and Board of Examiners of Officers, etc. ; 
 Mare Island Navy Yard, November, 1883, till September, 1886, Captain of 
 the Yard; commanding U.S. flagship "Omaha," May, 1887, till March, 
 1890, Asiatic Station; Superintendent Naval Observatory, June, 1890, till 
 November, 1894 ; Retiring and Examining Boards, November, 1894, till 
 November, 1895 ; commanding U. S. Naval Force on Asiatic Station, De 
 cember, 1895, till January, 1898, U. S. flagship "Olympia;" President Re 
 tiring and Examining Boards, since February, 1898. 
 
 John Adams Howell. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, September 27, 1854 ; Naval Academy, 1854-8 ; attached to sloop 
 " Macedonian," Mediterranean Squadron, 1858-9 ; store-ship "Supply," 1861. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 18, 1861 ; attached to steam-sloop "Ossi- 
 pee," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; steam-sloop "Ossipee," 
 Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; participated in the battle of 
 Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 
 3, 1865 ; steamer " De Soto," special service, 1866 ; steamer" De Soto," North 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; Naval Academy, 1868-72. Commissioned as 
 Commander, March 6, 1872; Coast Survey, 1872-4; Naval Academy, 
 
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 1875-9 ; commanding "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-81 ; Assistant Bureau 
 of Ordnance, 1881 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1882-4. Promoted to Captain, 
 March, 1884 ; member of Advisory Board, 1884-8 ; commanding " Atlanta;" 
 special service, 1888 ; Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90 ; President of Steel 
 Board, July, 1891, to February, 1893; Commandant of Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, February, 1893, to May, 1896. Commissioned Commodore, Septem 
 ber, 1895 ; Commandant of League Island Navy Yard, June, 1896, to January, 
 1898 ; February, 1898, Commander-in-Chief, European Station, United States 
 ship "San Francisco " ; commanding Patrol Squadron from April, 1898, to date. 
 Henry L. Howison. Entered the Naval Academy on the 26th of Sep 
 tember, 1854, as an Acting Midshipman; made two practice cruises in the 
 U. S. sloop-of-war " Preble ;" was the senior cadet officer cmring his first-class 
 year and graduated No. 4 of a class of fifteen, on June 11, 1858 ; received a 
 warrant as Midshipman on June 11, 1858 ; took passage on the 17th of the 
 same month on board the U. S. sloop-of-war "Saratoga," bound for Key 
 West, Florida ; served there and reported for duty ; entered the U. S. frigate 
 " Wabash " on the 12th of July, 1858 ; the " Wabash " cruised in the Medi 
 terranean, and returned to New York, when Mr. Howison was detached, De 
 cember 20, 1859 ; on March 7, 1860, he was ordered to the U. S. S. " Poca- 
 hontas," which vessel cruised in the Gulf of Mexico, on board of which Mid 
 shipman Howison performed the duties of Watch-Officer until transferred to 
 the U. S. S. " Pawnee," November 20, 1860; the "Pawnee" arrived at Phil 
 adelphia and Midshipman Howison was detached December 17, 1860, and 
 ordered to the Naval Academy for examination for promotion ; having com 
 pleted this examination, was promoted the 19th of January, 1861, to be a 
 Passed Midshipman and ordered to the " Pawnee " as a Watch-Officer the 
 12th of February, 1861. Was promoted to a Master the 23d of February, 
 1861, and on the 6th of April, 1861, ordered to the " Pocahontas " as Master 
 and Watch-Officer. Was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on the 19th of 
 April, 1861 ; served at the outside picket-post with the army at Clouds 
 Mills, Alexandria, Va., from June, 1861, to July, 1861, in command of a de 
 tachment of man-of-war s men from the " Pocahontas " and a twelve-pound 
 howitzer ; rejoined the " Pocahontas " in July, 1861 ; ordered as Executive- 
 Officer of the U. S. S. "Augusta," 23d September, 1861 ; attached to Du- 
 pont s fleet, participated in battle at Port Royal ; landed in command of com 
 pany at Tybee Island ; engagement with rams off Charleston, S. C. ; detached 
 from the " Augusta," June 8, 1863, and ordered as Executive Officer of 
 the iron-clad "Nantucket;" participated in attacks on Forts Sumter and 
 Wagner, Charleston Harbor ; blockading in Warsaw Sound ; transferred 
 from the "Nantucket" to the iron-clad " Catskill," as Executive-Officer, 14th 
 February, 1864 ; engagement with forts at Charleston, S. C. ; transferred from 
 the "Catskill " to the U. S. S. " Bienville," May 25th, 1864 ; served as Ex 
 ecutive Officer of the " Bienville" until August 3d, 1864, at which time was 
 ordered to command that vessel ; participated in the battle of Mobile Bay ; 
 blockading off Mobile Bay; employed in transferring prisoners to Pensacola 
 and New Orleans; blockading off Galveston, Texas ; December 1, 1864, was 
 relieved of the command by Commander Mullany, and resumed duties as 
 Executive Officer until detached, the 24th of April, 1865. Was promoted to 
 the rank of Lieutennnt- Commander on the 3d of March, 1865 ; was next or 
 dered as Assistant-Inspector of Ordnance at the Washington Navy Yard, on 
 the 15th of May, 1865, and served here until August 9, 1866, at which time 
 was detached and reported for duty as Navigator of the IT. S. S. " Pensa 
 cola;" in May, 1867, was made the Executive-Officer of the U. S. flag-ship 
 
38 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 " Pensacola," Pacific Station, and served as such until detached and ordered 
 home, November 21, 1868 ; was ordered as Assistant-Inspector of Ordnance, 
 at the Washington Navy Yard, llth December, 1868, serving as such until 
 31st January, 1870, when was ordered to the Naval Academy as an Assist 
 ant in Executive duty there, afterwards being placed in command of the 
 " Old Constitution " and other ships, as well as acting as Aide to the Super 
 intendent of the Academy. Was promoted to the rank of Commander the 
 19th of August, 1872; was detached from the Naval Academy the 16th of 
 December, 1872, and proceeded to Key West, Florida, and assumed com 
 mand of the U- S. S. " Shawmut ;" cruised in the Gulf of Mexico, and 
 brought the ship to the Washington Navy Yard for new boilers ; was de 
 tached October 31, 1873, from the command of the " Shawmut" and placed 
 on duty at the Washington Yard, superintending the repairs of the "Shaw 
 mut," and on January 16, 1874, was again ordered to command that vessel, 
 sailing for the Gulf of Mexico, cruising along the south side of Cuba, looking 
 for and locating doubtful banks and shoals ; the " Shawmut " was stationed at 
 New Orleans the latter part of 1874 and early part of 1875 ; Commander 
 Howison was detached from the command of the " Shawmut," 25th Febru 
 ary, 1876, and ordered to duty at the Naval Academy as head of the Depart 
 ment of Seamanship, where he served until October 1, 1878 ; during the 
 summer of 1875, Commander Howison commanded the practice-ship " May 
 flower," in her cruise of instructions with the Cadet Engineers, and during 
 the summer of 1878, he commanded the practice-ship " Constellation " dur 
 ing her cruise with the Cadets ; October 1, 1878, Commander Howison re 
 ported for duty at the Washington Navy Yard as Inspector of Ordnance, and 
 served there as such until 9th of September, 1881 ; he was a member of the 
 First Advisory Board from llth July, 1881, to 7th November, 1881 ; on No 
 vember 17, 1881, he was ordered and took command of the U. S. frigate 
 " Minnesota," for the purpose of organizing a gunnery training-school ; this 
 duty lasted until 22d February, 1882; was then attached to the Bureau of 
 Equipment and Recruiting until 16th of April, 1882, and then made a mem 
 ber of the Naval Inspection Board until the 16th of April, 1885. Was pro 
 moted to the rank of Captain on the 2d of March, 1885; from April 30, 
 1885, was employed on Boards of Appraisals, Investigations, Examinations 
 and Retirements, until the 10th of February, 1886, at which time was ordered 
 to the command of the U. S. S. " Vandalia ;" sailed with that vessel to the 
 Pacific ; was Senior-Officer on the station until relieved by Rear- Admiral 
 Kimberly in April, 1887, at which time the "Vandalia " hoisted the flag of 
 the Rear- Admiral, commanding the Pacific Station ; was detached from the 
 command of the "Vandalia," April, 1888, and ordered home. On June 25, 
 1888, was made the President of the Steel Inspecting Board, which duty 
 Captain Howison performed until January, 1893 ; commandant Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, July, 1893-96 ; ordered to command U. S. S. Oregon, 
 June, 1896 ; commissioned as Commodore March 21, 1897 ; commandant of 
 Navy Yard, Boston, May, 1897, to date. 
 
 Albert Kautz. Born in Georgetown, Ohio, January 29, 1839. Appointed 
 Acting Midshipman, September 28, 1854. Graduated at United States Naval 
 Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and appointed Midshipman, June 11, 1858 ; 
 served in Home Squadron on frigates " Colorado," " Roanoke," " Savannah," 
 and sloop " Saratoga," from July, 1858, to July, 1860. Promoted to Passed 
 Midshipman, January 19, 1861, to Master, February 23, 1861, and to Lieu 
 tenant, April 21, 1861; ordered to United States steamer "Flag," North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, in May, 1861 ; in June, 1861, placed in com- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 39 
 
 mand of the prize-brig " Hannah Balch," off Charleston, South Carolina, 
 with orders to proceed to Philadelphia ; on 25th of June, 1861, captured, in 
 sight of Cape Hatteras, by the privateer " Winslow," Captain Thomas Crog- 
 son ; on parole in North Carolina for two months, at the end of which time 
 had parole taken away, and was incarcerated in Henrico County Jail, Rich 
 mond, Virginia, by order of Jefferson Davis, as a retaliatory measure conse 
 quent on the imprisonment of privateers in the Tombs, New York City ; on 
 the last of October, 1861, was released on parole for the purpose of going to 
 Washington to procure an exchange ; had an interview with Confederate 
 Secretaries Benjamin and Mallory in Richmond, and then with President 
 Lincoln and Secretaries Seward and Welles in Washington ; succeeded in 
 negotiating an exchange, by means of which the present Admiral Worden, 
 the late Lieutenant George L Selden, and he were released from prison and 
 restored to duty, on condition that Lieutenants Stevens, Loyall, and Butt 
 should be sent South under a flag of truce. There were also 350 prisoners, 
 captured at Hatteras Inlet in August, 1861, sent South under the same nego 
 tiation, for which w r e received 350 of our people, who were captured at Bull 
 Run in July, 1861 This was the first exchange authorized by President 
 Lincoln and his Cabinet. Ordered to the flag-ship " Hartford " in January, 
 1862, arid served on Flag-Officer Farragut s staff, at the same time command 
 ing the first division of great guns in the engagements with Forts Jackson 
 and St Philip, the Chalmette batteries, and the capture of New Orleans in 
 April, 1862 ; had command of the howitzers, under Captain Henry Bell, at 
 New Orleans, arid hauled down the Lone Star Flag in person from the City 
 Hall, which Mayor Munroe refused to strike, and hoisted the " Stars and 
 Stripes " on the Custom-House (the hauling down of the " Lone Star " 
 Flag has been erroneously attributed to Captain Henry Bell by at least two 
 writers) ; continued to serve on the " Hartford" during the engagements with 
 the batteries at Vicksburg in June and July, 1862; in August, 1862, was 
 taken with malarial fever, condemned by medical survey, and sent North ; in 
 1863 served in the U. S S " Juuiata," West India Squadron, and iu 1864-5 
 served as First Lieutenant of the sloop-of-war " Cyane " in the Pacific. 
 Promoted to J ieutenant- Commander on May 29, 1865; served on the 
 " Winooski," Home Squadron, and flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific Squadron, 
 from January, 1866, to August, 1868 ; on receiving-ship " New Hampshire," 
 Norfolk, from December, 1868, to May, 1869; on duty at the Boston Navy 
 Yard from May, 1869, to August, 1871 ; Light-House Inspector, Key West, 
 Florida, from April, 1872, to October, 1873. Promoted to Commander Sep 
 tember 3,1872 ; commanding U- S. S. " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, Decem 
 ber, 1873, to August, 1875; Light-House Inspector, Cincinnati, Ohio, from 
 January, 1876, to July, 1880; commanded the U. S. S. "Michigan " on the 
 lakes, from August, 1880, to August, 1883 ; on duty in the Bureau of Equip 
 ment, Navy Department, from March to July, 1884 ; Equipment Officer at 
 the Boston Navy Yard from July, 1884, to October, 1887; traveling in 
 Europe from November, 1887, to December, 1888. Promoted to Captain 
 June 2, 1885; on duty at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Navy Yard 
 October 25, 1889. Captain, Navy Yard, Boston, June 30, 1892. Commanding 
 U. S. receiving-ship " Wabash," August 20, 1894, to April, 1897. Promoted 
 to Commodore April 6, 1897 ; President Examining and Retiring Board April 
 15, 1897, to November, 1897 ; Commandant Naval Station, Newport, R. I., 
 November 1, 1897, to date. 
 
 George C. Remey. Born in Iowa. Appointed from Iowa, September 
 29,1855; Naval Academy, 1855-9; attached to steam-sloop "Hartford," 
 
40 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 East India Squadron, 1860-1. Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 31, 
 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, 
 Pamunky River, June 29, 1862 ; engaged batteries on Sullivan s Island, 
 South Carolina, on two different occasions ; engaged Battery Wagner, Morris 
 Island, South Carolina, at long range ; took part in general engagement of 
 Battery Wagner, August 17,1863; was in command of naval battery on 
 Morris Island from August 23 to September 8,1863; and was engaged in 
 bombardment of Fort Sumter, and at times Fort Gregg ; had command of 
 the second division of boats in the night attack on Fort Sumter, September 
 8, 1863, and was taken prisoner by the rebels; steam-gunboat "Marblehead," 
 Naval Academy, Newport, 1865-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 
 June 25, 1865; steamer "Mohongo," Pacific Squadron, 1866-7; Naval 
 Academy, 1868-69; attached to frigate "Sabine," special service, 1869-70; 
 T. and N. Surveying Expedition, 1871 ; Naval Observatory, 1872. Com 
 missioned as Commander, November 25, 1872 ; Bureau of Yards and Docks, 
 1873-6; commanding "Enterprise" (third-rate), North Atlantic Station, 
 1877-8 ; torpedo instruction, 178 ; Bureau of Yards and Docks, 1879-81 ; 
 "Lancaster," European Station, 1881-3; Navy Yard, Washington, 1884-6. 
 Promoted to Captain, October, 1885; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1886-9; com 
 manding Charleston Squadron of Evolution, 1889 to May, 1892; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, May, 1892, to May, 181)4 ; June, 1895, leave of absence to July, 
 1895; Naval Retiring Board, October, 1895, to June, 1896. Commissioned 
 Commodore, June, 1897; Commandant Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., July, 
 1896, to April, 1898 ; commanding a Division of North Atlantic Squadron, 
 April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Norman H. Farquhar. Born April 11, 1840. Graduated from 
 Naval Academy, 1859 ; squadron, coast of Africa, for the suppression of slave 
 trade, 1859-61. As Midshipman, on board "San Jacinto," "Saratoga," and 
 "Constellation. * Acting Master, on board "Mystic" and "Sumter," while 
 still Midshipman, brought to the United States a captured slaver, the " Tri 
 ton," with a crew often men, and no other officer. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, August 31, 1861 ; steamer "Mystic," North Atlantic;- 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- ( ommander, August 5, 1865; Naval 
 Academy, 1866-8; steamer "Swatara," European Squadron, 1868-9; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, 1870; Executive Officer, U. S. S. "Severn" 1870-1; com 
 manding "Kansas" (fourth-rate), T. and N. Surveving Expedition, 1871; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1872; U. S. S. "Powhatan," 1872. Commissioned as 
 Commander, December 12, 1872 ; Naval Academy, 1872-8, commanding 
 "Santee," and in charge of buildings and grounds; commanded "Ports 
 mouth," 1878 ; in command of " Quinnebaug " and " Wyoming," European 
 Squadron, 1878-81 ; Commandant of Cadets, Naval Academy, 1881-6 ; 
 commanded "Constellation," two practice cruises, 1883-4. Commissioned as 
 Captain, March 4, 1886; commanded "Trenton," Pacific Station, 1886-9, 
 when the ship was wrecked in the memorable hurricane at Apia, Samoa, 
 March 16, 1889; by good seamanship managed to save from drowning the 
 450 officers and men who composed her crew ; Senior Member of Board of 
 Visitors, Torpedo Station, August, 1889; member of Light-House Board 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 41 
 
 October, 1889 ; Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, 
 March 6, 1890, to March, 1894; commandant Navy Yard, League Island, 
 March 7, 1894, to June, 1896 ; command U. S. S. "Newark," June 16, 1896, 
 to December, 1896. President Examining Board, December 14, 1896, to 
 June, 1897 ; commandant Norfolk Yard, June 1, 1897, to date. Promoted 
 to Commodore, July 21, 1897. 
 
 J. Crittenden Watson. Born in Kentucky, August 24, 1842. Ap 
 pointed from Kentucky, September 29, 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 Jackgon and St. Philip, 
 and Chalmette batteries, April, 1862; passage of Vicksburg batteries, June 
 and July, 1862 ; passage of Port Hudson, March 14, 163 ; passage of Grand 
 Gulf, March 19 and 30, 1863; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; was 
 wounded by a fragment of shell from a rebel battery at Warrington ; steam- 
 frigate " Colorado," flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866; steam-frigate "Franklin," flag 
 ship European Squadron, 1867-8. Executive officer steam-sloop " Can an- 
 daigua," European Squadron, 1868-9. Special duty Philadelphia, 1869 to 
 February, 1870. Executive officer steam sloop "Alaska" (second rate), 
 Asiatic Squadron, April, 1870, to May, 1871. Commanded store-ship 
 " Idaho," Yokohama, May, 1871-3. Leave of absence, July, 1873, to De 
 cember, 1873. Ordnance duty, New York Navy Yard, December, 1873, to 
 January 25, 1874 Commissioned Commander, January 23, 1874. Inspector 
 of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Mare Island, April, 1874, to November, 1874. 
 Senior Aid to Commandant, Mare Island, November, 1874, to April, 1877. 
 Commanding " Wyoming," European Station, February, 1878, to March, 
 1880. Torpedo instruction, June to September, 1880. Light House Inspec 
 tor llth District, October, 1880, to October, 1883. Navy Yard, New York, 
 November, 1883, to December, 1884. Navy Yard, New York, May, 1885, to 
 August, 1886. Commanding " Iroquois," South Pacific, September, 1886, to 
 May, 1887. Commissioned Captain, March 6, 1887. President Board of 
 Inspection, San Francisco, Cal., February, 1888, to July, 1890. Captain of 
 Yard, Mare Island, July, 1890, to June 20, 1892. Commanded " San Fran 
 cisco," July, 1892, to July 20, 1894. Member Retiring Board, 1894, to May, 
 1895. Governor U, S. Naval Home, May, 1895, to 1898. Commissioned 
 Commodore, November 7, 1897 ; commanding a Division of North Atlantic 
 Squadron, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry B. Robeson. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connect 
 icut, September 25, 1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60. Promoted to Master, 
 1860; attached to steam-frigate "Niagara," Blockading Squadron, 1860-1 ; 
 engagement at Fort McRae, November 23, 1861 ; iron-clad steamer " New 
 Ironsides," special service, 1863 ; and South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 1864 ; engagement with the defences of Charleston, S. C., April 7, 1863 ; 
 commanded a landing party from the " New Ironsides" in the assault and 
 capture of rebel works on the lower part of Morris Island, July 10, 1863 ; 
 various bombardments of Forts Wagner, Sumter, 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, 15, 1865 ; steamer "Colorado," flag-ship Euro 
 pean Squadron, 1865-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, July 25, 
 1866; steam-sloop " Piscataqua," Asiatic Squadron, 1867-70; special duty, 
 
42 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ifff 
 
 1871-2; iron-clad "Dictator," 1873; Xavy Yard, New York, 1874-6. Com 
 missioned as Commander, February 12, 1874; European Squadron, 1876-7 ; 
 commanding "Vandalia" (third rate), European Station, 1877-9; Naval 
 Academy, 1879-83 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1883-88. Promoted to Captain, 
 August, 1887 ; member Advisory Board, 1888-9 ; commanding " Chicago," 
 Squadron of Evolution 1889, to July, 1891 ; Supervisor New York Harbor, 
 July, 1891, to July, 1892; leave of absence, July, 1892 ; detached from duty 
 as Supervisor of New York Harbor, July, 1892 ; waiting orders and leave, 
 including six months sick leave, until August, 1894 ; court-martial duty and 
 Naval War College, June 1, to September 1, 1895 ; Captain of the Yard, 
 Portsmouth, N. H., October 8, 1895, to March 9, 1898. Promoted to Commo 
 dore, February 1, 1898. 
 
 Winfield *S. Schley. Born in Maryland, 1839. Appointed from 
 Maryland, September 20, 1856 ; Naval Academy, 1856-60 Promoted to 
 Master, 1861; attached to frigate "Potomac" store-ship, at Ship Island, 
 1861-2; steam-gunboat " Winona," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862- 
 63 ; engaged with a field battery near Port Hudson, Louisiana, December 14, 
 1862 ; in all the engagements which led to the capture of Port Hudson, 
 from March 16 to July 9, 1863; in one or two small skirmishes in cutting 
 out schooners. Commissioned as Ijieutenant, July 16, 1862 ; steam-gunboat 
 " Wateree," Pacific Squadron, 1864-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, July 25, 1866; Naval Academy, 1867-9; " Benicia " (third rate), 
 Asiatic Fleet, 1871-2; Naval Academy, 1873-6. Commissioned as Com 
 mander, June 10, 1874; commanded the "Essex" (third-rate), S. A. Sta 
 tion, 1877-80; Light-House Inspector, 1880-3; Bureau of Equipment, 
 1883; in charge of Greely Expedition, 1884; Chief Bureau of Equipment 
 and Recruiting, 1885-9. Promoted to Captain, March, 1888 ; commanding 
 "Baltimore," 1889 to March, 1892; Light-House Inspector, March, 1892, to 
 March, 1895; member Board Inspection and Survey, March 1, 1895, to 
 October, 95 ; commanding U. S. S. * New York," October 5, 1895, to 
 March, 97; chairman L. H. Board, March 20, 1897, to March, 1898. 
 Promoted to Commodore, February, 1898 ; after declaration of war with 
 Spain, ordered to command " Flying Squadron." 
 
 COMMODORES OX THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Rf.tirvl after forty- five yesirs* service or on attaining the age of sixty-two years. 
 
 Louis C. Sartori. Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jer 
 sey, February 2, 1829; attached to ship "Warren " and schooner "Enter 
 prise." Brazil Station, 1831-3 ; frigate " Constellation," Mediterranean Squad 
 ron, 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, 
 1839-41. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 8, 1841 ; receiving-ship 
 " North Carolina," New York, 1842 ; receiving-ship "Philadelphia," 1843; 
 ship "Plymouth," Mediterranean and Brazil Squadron, 1845-6; bomb- 
 schooner " Stromboli," Mexican War, 1847-8 ; at the capture of Tobasco ; 
 Mediterranean Squadron, 1849-52 ; on board steamer " Alleghany," frigates 
 " Constitution " and " Independence ; " receiving-ship " Pennsylvania," Nor 
 folk, 1853; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1853-4; ship "John Adams," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1855-6 ; commanded expedition and engagement against 
 the Fejees. 1855; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1857-8; commanding steamer 
 " Water Witch," West Indies, 1859-60. Commissioned as Commander, April 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE XJ. S, NAVY. 43 
 
 7, 1861 ; commanding steamer "Flag," Blockading Squadron. 1861 ; com 
 manding receivinp-enip "Ohio," Boston, 186- ; commanding steamer 
 " Florida," North Atlantic Squadron, 1862; commanding ship" Portsmouth/* 
 West Gulf Squadron, 1863; commanding u Monongahela" and * Oneida," 
 otf Mobile. 1864: commanding steamer i% Agawanu" North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1866. Commissioned as Captain, September 26, 1866 ; commanding steamer 
 " Ossipee," Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; commanding steamers " Saranae *" and 
 w Lackawanna," 1870; commanding naval rende/vous, San Francisco, 
 1871-2; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1872-3. Commissioned as Cowwex/oir, 
 December 12, 1878. Retired, June, 1874. 
 
 Albert G. Clary. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa 
 chusetts, May 8, 1832; attached to sloop "Vincennes,** ^Pacific Squadron, 
 1834-0; Naval School, New York, 1837. Promoted to 7Vw</ JI/ttfaAt/umifi, 
 July 8, 1830; sloop c * Marion," Brazil Squadron, 1830-42 ; receiving-ship, 
 "Boston," 1843-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, April 11, 1845; sloop 
 "Preble,* 1 Home Squadron, during the war with Mexico, at Tuspan and 
 Tobasco : sloop " Preble." Pacific Squadron, 1847-50 ; receivinff-shin, " Bos 
 ton," 1852; sloop Marion," coast of Africa, 1853 ; frigate " Constitution/* 
 coast of Africa, 1854-5; Navv Yard, Portsmouth, N. II., 1856-57; steam- 
 frigate "Minnesota," East India Squadron, 1858-9; steam-frigate "Color- 
 ado," 1861 ; commanding steamer " Anaeostia," Potomac Flotilla, 1871 ; 
 engagement at Aquia Creek, May 31 and .Juno I. 1861 ; battle of Port 
 Koyal, November 7, 1861. Commissioned as O>ww<iwfor, July 16, 18(>2 ; 
 commanding steamer " Mount Vernon," North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1862; commanding steamer " Tiojra," West India Squadron, 1863 ; 
 commanding steam-sloop " Daeotah," North Atlantic Hlockadiuir Squadron, 
 1864; commanding steam-sloop u Seminole," West (iult % H!ockadin<? Squad 
 ron, 1864-5; commanding receiving-ship " Norfolk, 1 186(5. Commissioned 
 as (\iphiin % November 21, 1866; commanding ** Dictator," 1870-2. Com 
 missioned as Commodore^ 1873. Retired, 1874. 
 
 Somerville Nicholson. Born in New York, January 1, 1822. Ap 
 pointed MuhhipiHan from Now York, June 21, 183!); attached to fripito 
 M Brandywine, Mediterranean Stpiadron, 1^39-42; brijf " Truxton," 1843- 
 4; Naval School, Philadelphia, 1845 Promoted to 7*r*,W Mid$hinm(tn t 
 July 2, 1845; Coast Survey, 1845-6-7; steamer " AUejjhany," Brazil 
 Squadron, 1848-0; Coast Survey, 1840-52; steam-frigate "rowhatan," 
 ]^ast liulia Squadron, 1852-4. Promoted to J/<w^r, St^ptember 0, 1853. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, May 5, 1854; steam-frigate "Mississippi,"* 
 Kast India Squadron, 1855; ordnance duty, Washington, 1856-7 ; sloop 
 "Cumberland, coast of Africa, 1858-0 ; sloop " Macedonian," Home Squad 
 ron, 18(H)-1 ; commanding steam gunboat " Nfarblehead," South Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, 1862. Commissioned as Lieutenant- CowtnandoT) July 
 16, 1802; commanding iron-clad "Sangamon," 1863. Commissioned as 
 Commander, January 2, 18(53 ; oommanoing steamer " State of Georgia," 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding steamer " (Jala- 
 tea," West India Squadron, 1865; special duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 
 18668; member of Ordnance Hoard, 1800 ; commanding steam-sloop, 
 11 Bonicia," Asiatic Fleet, 18(50-70. Commissioned as 0()taw, June, 1870; 
 commanding " Lancaster" (second-rate). South Atlantic Squadron, 1872-3. 
 Promoted to Commodore, January, 18S(). Retired, A|>ril, 1881. 
 
 Oscar C. Badger. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, September 0, 1841 ; attached to ra/.eo " Independence," Home Squad" 
 ron, 1841-2; sloop "Saratoga," coast of Africa, 1843-4; \vaa in landing 
 
44 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 
 
 party from the " Saratoga," and took part in the destruction of the Bereby 
 villages, 1843 ; steamer " Mississippi," Gulf Squadron, during Mexican War ; 
 at attack on Alvarado, 1846; frigate " Brandy wine " 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 " Vincennes," Pacific Squadron, as navigator, 
 1851-2 ; Naval Observatory, Washington, 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, commanded a party which attacked and destroyed the village of Yutia, 
 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, Washing 
 ton, 1861; commanding steamer " Anacostia," Potomac Flotilla, 1861-2; 
 attack on Cock-pit Point battery, January 2, 1862, was favorably men 
 tioned, in despatches from the commander of the 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 Yorktown, 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 ; en 
 gaged in the attack on Morris Island batteries, July 11, 1863; commanded 
 the ironclad "Patapsco," in the attack on Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, and 
 on Forts Wagner, Gregg, and Sumter, August 17, 1863; commanded the 
 ironclad " Moutauk " in a night attack on Fort Sumter, August 22, 1863 ; 
 appointed Fleet-Captain, ad, interim, of South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 and was in the flag-ship " Weehawken " (ironclad), in an attack on Fort 
 Sumter on the night of September 1, 1863, and was severely wounded, his 
 right leg being shattered by a metallic splinter ; favorably mentioned in the 
 despatches by the Rear- Admiral commanding the squadron for services dur 
 ing these operations ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, and Inspector 
 of Cannon, Pittsburgh, 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 Anti 
 gua 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, N. H., 1868-70; 
 commanding steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," South Atlantic Fleet, 1871-3. 
 Commissioned as Captain, November 25, 1872 ; commanding receiving-ship 
 "Ohio," 1873-4; Navy Yard, Washington, 1875-8; commanding frigate 
 " Constitution," special service, 1878-9. Special duty, revision of ship s 
 allowance books, Washington, 1880 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1881. 
 Promoted to Commodore, November, 1881 ; member of Examining Board, 
 1881 ; commandant Navy Yard, Boston, 1881-5. Retired, August, 1885, 
 being at that date sixty-two years of age. 
 
 William Kennon Mayo. Born at Drummondton, Virginia. Ap 
 pointed Midshipman from Virginia, October 18, 1841; began naval service 
 on the "Pennsylvania," 120, at Norfolk, Virginia, in November, 1841; 
 joined the flag-ship "United States" (frigate) Pacific Squadron, November 19, 
 1841, and transferred to the " Cyane," February, 1843 ; at the capitula 
 tion of Monterey, in charge of the boats of the landing party ; November, 
 1844, ordered to the sloop "St. Mary s," of the Texas Annexation Squad- 
 
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 ron ; served iii 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 ; Septem 
 ber, 1847, ordered to be a pupil of the Naval School ; passed examination 
 July 14, 1848. Warranted Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847; during 
 July, 1848, ordered to the frigate "St. Lawrence," European Seas; March, 
 1851, ordnance duty at Norfolk, Va ; July, 1851, ordered to the brig " Dol 
 phin," on special service to make scientific observations in the North At 
 lantic, surveys, etc ; commended as an accurate and critical navigator 
 (Senate Doc., Cruise of the Dolphin") ; July, 1852, ordered to the steam- 
 frigate " Saranac," on special service to Brazil ; commended by the Depart 
 ment, May, 1853; during July, 1853, ordered to the Coi&t 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 Pacific 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 Department, and as Instructor 
 in Seamanship, Naval Tactics and Gunnery, with promotion to Acting 
 Master; cruise of the Practice ship, 1855; special commendation (Report of 
 Secretary of the Navy, 1855, page 76); author of MS. "System of Naval 
 Tactics and Fleet Sailing," taught at the Academy, the only one used. Pro 
 moted Master, September 14, 1855. Commissioned Lieutenant, September 
 15, 1855 ; May, 1857, joined the steam-frigate " Minnesota," which sailed on 
 a special diplomatic mission to Asia; September, 1859, ordered to the Naval 
 Academy, as Instructor in Ethics, etc. ; February, 1860, ordered to Norfolk, 
 "Pennsylvania," 120; December, 1860, to the" sloop "St. Mary s " of the 
 Pacific Fleet ; ordered East, January, 1862, and assigned the Executive 
 Officer of the new steam sloop " Housatonic," blockade of Charleston, S. C. 
 Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; in command of the 
 gunboat " Kanawha," Western Gulf Squadron, November, 1862 ; engage 
 ment with riflemen and field batteries, Mobile Point ; fight with Fort Mor 
 gan, on October 12,1863; commended for gallantry, etc. (Report of Secre 
 tary 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 contrabands to the Pacific fleet, at Panama, New Granada ; 
 July, 1864. under direct orders from the Department, took command of the 
 monitor " Nahant," in front of Charleston, S. C. ; 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 nine trading steamers were run 
 ashore in seven months ; affairs with Fort Moultrie as episodes of picket 
 duty ; fall of Charleston, February, 1865 ; general commendation as an iron 
 clad commander (see Secretary of Navy s Report, 1864, page 11) ; March, 
 1865, Ordnance Officer of the South Atlantic Blockading Fleet, and com 
 mandant of Bay Point Depot until May, 1866. Commissioned Commander, 
 July 25, 1866, under the operation of the proviso of the first 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; com- 
 
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 manding "Congress" (second-rate), North Atlantic Fleet, 1870-1; com 
 manding "Omaha" (second-class), North Pacific Station, 1872-4. Com 
 missioned as Captain, December 12, 1873. Commanding " Hartford " South 
 Atlantic Station, 1877-9; leave of absence, 1880; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1881-2. Promoted to Commodore, July, 1882 ; Commandant Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, 1882-5. Retired, 1886. 
 
 William P. McCann. Born in Kentucky, May 4, 1830. Appointed 
 from Kentucky, November, 1848 ; attached to frigate " Raritan," nag-ship 
 cf Home Squadron, November 8, 1848, to May 1, 1850 ; cruise in West 
 Indies and Gulf of Mexico ; again attached to " Karitan," flag-ship of Pacific 
 Squadron, June 27, 1850, to February 2, 1853 ; cruise in South Pacific ; 
 " Columbia," flag-ship of Home Squadron, May 4 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. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant from September 16, 1855; receiving-ship "Alle- 
 ghany," January 23 to August 3, 1858 ; Lieutenant and Navigator of frigate 
 " Subine," flag-ship of Brazil Squadron and Paraguay expedition, August 
 14, 1858, to May y, 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 
 Pensacola, reinforced Fort Pickens with sailors and marines, April 14 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 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 4, enemy evacuating Yorktown, " Maratanza " 
 moved up the York and Pamunkey Rivers, co-operating with the Army of 
 the Potomac ; was relieved by commander Stevens, remained as Executive 
 Officer ; at West Point, Va., May 9, 1862, drove off a rebel battery attacking 
 Franklin s corps; led reconnoitering expedition on York River and Rich 
 mond Railroad and on the right bank of the Pamunkey ; with the army at 
 Malvern Hill, on the James River, had frequent engagements during the 
 guerrilla warfare in the James and Appomattox Rivers, at Point of Rocks 
 and City Point ; July 4, captured rebel gunboat " Teazer," with plans of bat 
 teries, torpedoes, and defenses of Richmond ; recaptured thirty-six wounded 
 officers and men of the army, captured several blockade-runners on the Poto 
 mac, and co-operating with the army at Aquia Creek. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; "Maratanza," blockading 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. Com 
 mander Murray, in his official report, said : " The firing of the Hunchback 
 was excellent, and the manner in which Lieutenant-Commander McCann 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 47 
 
 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 vexatious to the enemy." April, 1863, during the siege of 
 Washington, N. C., had command of five gunboats, with which he frequently 
 engaged and silenced the batteries at Hill s and Swain s Point, on the Pam- 
 lico, and assisted in sending reinforcements and supplies to the garrison and 
 gunboats at Washington ; September 6, left the sounds with the " Hunch 
 back," which was laid up at Norfolk for repairs; November, 1863, was 
 ordered to command the "Kennebec," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, then 
 commanded by Admiral Thatcher, and soon after by Admiral Farragut ; 
 had thirteen months active service blockading 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-runneis loaded with cotton, the "Marshall I. Smith," 
 steamer "Grey Jacket," and the "John Scott," with forty-five blockade- 
 runners and rebels officers, the vessels and cargoes sold for half a million of 
 dollars; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. The "Kennebec" was 
 lashed to the " Monongahela," fifth in line of battle, and in that position en 
 tered 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 " Tennes 
 see," 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 "Kennebec s" stern ; after this, a 10-inch shell from Fort 
 Morgan passed through the " Kennebec s " quarter, the splinters knocking 
 down a man at the engine bell. At night she pursued and attacked the 
 " Morgan," that had eluded the fleet below, and escaped by getting into shoal 
 water at Dog River Bar. December, 1864, detached from " Kennebec ;" com 
 mand 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; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 
 1869-70; Inspector of Lights, Eighth District, October, 1870, to September, 
 1871 ; commanding " Nipsic," North Atlantic Squadron, October 1, 1871, to 
 August 27, 1872. July 2 1872, commissioned Commander, from July 25, 
 1866 ; advanced sixteen numbers ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, January 20 to Sep 
 tember 12, 1873 ; Inspector, Eleventh Light-House District, October 1, 1873, 
 to November 1, 1876. Promoted to Captain, from September 21, 1876; com 
 mand of " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, March 1, 1877, to January 23, 1878 ; 
 commanding receiving-ship "Independence," California, from April 10, 1879, 
 to June 18, 1881 ; commander of flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific Station, from 
 June 18, 1881, to August 1, 1882; court-martial duty at Washington, Hong 
 Kong, China, Panama, and Boston, 1883 ; member of Light-House Board, 
 December 16, 1883, to August 2, 1887 ; in addition, President of the Naval 
 Advisory Board, from November 4, 18 35, to June 1, 1887. Promoted to 
 Commodore, January 26, 1887 ; commandant Boston Naval Station, from 
 June 1, 1887, to August, 1890; in addition, President of Navy Yard Site 
 Commission, South Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts, and President of a 
 Board on the policy for the increase of the Navy. Commanding South 
 Atlantic Station, August, 1890, to August, 1891; President Examining and 
 Retiring Boards, August, 1891, to May, 1892, when he was placed on the 
 retired list. 
 
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 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 Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 15, 1854 ; sloop " John Adams," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1854-5. Promoted to Master t 1855. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, September 17, 1855 ; Coast Survey, 1856-7 ; store-ship " Supply," 
 {South Atlantic Squadron, 1857-9 ; sloop " Germantown," coast of Africa, 
 1859. While attached to the store-ship " Supply," then lying in the harbor 
 of Montevideo, during the prevalence of a terrific pampero, rescued the cap 
 tain and three of the crew of a vessel that had foundered outside of the har 
 bor, for which he was made an honorary member of several societies in 
 Montevideo, and received the thanks of the Argentine Minister. Steamer 
 " Water-Witch," Home Squadron, 1860 ; frigate " St. Lawrence," Atlantic 
 Squadron, 1861 ; sinking of 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. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862 ; commanded steamer 
 "Com. Morris," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; battle of 
 Jamestown Island, South Carolina, June, 1862 ; North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-4; engagement with rebel battery at Taylor s Landing, 
 Pamimkey River, April 16, 1863 ; commanded the " Elk," West Gulf Block 
 ading Squad on, 1 s 64 ; 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 sinking of the "Milwaukee," until the fall of that 
 work ; commanded the "Monongahela " and "Scioto," West Gulf Blockad 
 ing 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 Gi lis re 
 ceived the thanks of the English Government for assistance rendered British 
 subjects during the time of the earthquake in Arica, in 1868; equipment 
 duty, Washington, 1869-71; commanding Mahopac " (iron-clad), N. A. 
 Fleet, 1 872 ; commanding " Michigan " (fourth -rate), 1873-6. Commissioned 
 as Captain, September 30, 1876 ; equipment duty, New York, 1876-8 ; com 
 manding receiving-ship " Franklin," 1878-80 ; commanding " Lackawanna," 
 Pacific Station, 1880-2; commanding training-ship "Minnesota" 1883-4; 
 special duty, 1886. Promoted to Commodore, January, 1887. Commanding 
 S. A. Station as Acting Rear-Admiral, October, 1888-90 ; member Light-House 
 Board, July, 192, to May, 1893, when he was retired. 
 
 Edward E. Potter. Born in New York. Appointed from irinois, 
 February 5, 1850 ; attached to sloop " Decatur," Home Squadron, 1852 ; 
 frigate " Constitution," coast of Africa, 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," May 9, 1860 ; conveyed the first Japanese Embassy to 
 their home; on return in April, 1861, found the War of the Rebel ion had 
 fairly commenced ; detached from " Niagara ; " ordered to " Wissahickon," 
 and in her passed Forts Jackson and St. Philip, etc., etc.; frigate "Frank- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 49 
 
 Jin," 1867-8, was the flagship of Admiral Farragut ; during the cruise of the 
 "bhawmut," ascended the Itiver Orinoco to Ciudad Bolivar, and recovered 
 from revolutionists two steamers belonging to an American Company ; the 
 "Shawmut " was the second United States man-of-war to visit Ciudad Boli 
 var; in 1880, commanded the U. S. S. "Constellation," taking supplies to 
 suffering Ireland. Promoted to Captain, July 11, 1880; Brooklyn Navy 
 Yard, 1881-2-3 ; November, 1883, in command of U. 8. S. " Lancaster ; " on 
 European Station until May, 1885 ; then ship attached to South Atlantic 
 Station; commanded the station from December, 1885, until detached and 
 ordered home in September, 1886 ; in December, 1886, ordered to command 
 League Island Navy Yard, and on May 31, detached and ordered as Gov 
 ernor of the United States Naval Home. April 1, 18$1, detached and 
 ordered to command United States receiving-ship "Minnesota." In Janu 
 ary, 1893, was ordered to Navy Yard, Norfolk, and from there, in full of 
 1893, wa,s ordered as Governor of Naval Home, Philadelphia, with rauk of 
 Commodore, to May, 1895. Ketired, May 9, 1895. 
 
 Robert L Phythian. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, January 28, 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 16, 1862; iron-clad 
 " Lehigh," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; iron-clad "New 
 Ironsides," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; Naval Academy, 
 1866-9. Commissioned as Commander, July 13, 1870; Chief- of Staff, Pacific 
 Squadron, 1870-2 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1873-4 ; commanding nautical 
 School-ship " St. Mary s," 1875-8 ; special duty, 1879. Promoted to Captain, 
 November, 1881 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1882-3 ; commanding " Trenton," 
 Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; Superintendent Naval Observatory, 1886, to June, 
 1890 ; Superintendent Naval Academy, June, 1890, to October, 1894. Com 
 missioned as Commodore, September 7, 1894 ; Superintendent Naval Obstr- 
 vatory, November 21, 1894, to 1897. Ketired, 189d. 
 
 Rush R. Wallace. Born in Tennessee, November 7, 1835 Appointed 
 from Tennessee, May 25, 1852 ; Naval Academy, 1852-6 ; attached to frigate 
 "St. Lawrence," Brazil Squadron, 1856-9. Promoted to Master, 1859. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, 1H61 ; steamer " Crusader "1861 ; sloop "Constella 
 tion," Mediterranean Squadron, 1861-3. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, October 1, 1862 ; steam-sloop " Shenandoah," North Atlantic Block 
 ading Squadron, 1863-5 ; present at the two attacks on Fort Fisher, Decem 
 ber, 1864, and January, 1865 ; steamer " Fort Jackson," Western Gulf 
 Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; Naval Academy, 1866-7 ; frigate " Guerriere," 
 flagship, South Atlantic Squadron, 1868 ; steam sloop Richmond," Euro 
 pean Fleet, 1868-9. Commissioned as Commander, October 25, 1870. 
 Commanding " Idaho," store-ship, Asiatic fleet, 1870-1 ; commanding "Ash- 
 uelot," Asiatic fleet, 1872. Inspector of Ordnance, Norfolk, 1873-4. Lijrht 
 House Inspector, 1875-8. Torpedo Station, Newport, 1882. Commanding 
 " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, 1883-5. Promoted to Captain, Febru 
 ary, 1882. Navy Yard, Washington, 1885-6. Commandant, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1886-7. Member of Examining Board, 1887-90. Com 
 manded U. S. S. " Miantonomoh," November 13, 1893, to August, 1894. 
 Commanding Naval Station, Newport, August 20, 1894, to September, 1894. 
 Promoted to Commodore, November 11, 1894. Retired September, 1897. 
 
 George Hamilton Perkins. Born at Hopkinton, N. H., October 20, 
 1836. Graduated at the Naval School, in 1856 ; October 20, 1856, ordered 
 
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 on board the " Cyane," Captain Robb, to cruise in the West Indies ; detached 
 from the "Cyane," January 11, 1858; January 19, 1858, ordered to the 
 "Release," Commander William A. Parker, for the Mediterranean and 
 Paraguay. Appointed Acting Master of the "Release," August 18,1858; 
 detached from the " Release " and ordered to the " Sabine," at Montevideo, 
 Captain H. A. Adams, March 17, 1859 ; April 29, 1859, ordered to the 
 "Sumter," Commander Armstrong, as Acting Master, for cruise on the west 
 coast of Africa. September 5, 1859, appointed Master , September 18, 1861, 
 detached from the "Sumter;" December 16, 1861, ordered to the " Cayuga," 
 Captain N. B_. Harrison ; passed Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 24, 
 1862 ; passed the Chalmette batteries, April 25, 1862 ; engaged in several 
 skirmishes up the Mississippi after the taking of New Orleans ; October 31, 
 186:2, detached from the " Cayuga," and ordered as Executive-Officer of the 
 " Pensacola," Commodore H. W. Morris. December 31, 1862, appointed 
 Lieutenant- Commander ; June, 1863, given command of the gunboat "New 
 London," to convey powder and despatches between New Orleans and Baton 
 Rouge ; ran the batteries at Port Hudson successfully five times ; on the 
 sixth had a severe skirmish with the enemy at Whitehall s Point, July 9, 
 1863 ; July 31, 1863, ordered to the command of the "Scioto," for blockade 
 duty off the coast of Texas ; April 7, 1864, captured the " Mary Sorley," 
 blockade-runner, laden with cotton ; April 20, 1864, relieved from the com 
 mand of the " Scioto," with leave to proceed North, but volunteered for the 
 battle of Mobile Bay, and took command of the iron-clad " Chickasaw," July 
 28,1864; in the subsequent operations, resulting in the taking of Mobile, 
 and in the reduction of Forts Powell, Gains and Morgan, and in the capture 
 of the " Tennessee," his ship was chiefly instrumental ; July 10, 1865, detached 
 from the " Chickasaw," with leave to proceed North ; November 12, 1865, 
 appointed Superintendent of iron-clads at New Orleans; April 16, 1866, 
 detached from iron-clad duty, and ordered North ; May 17, 1866, ordered as 
 Executive Officer of the " Lackawanna" Captain Reynolds, for duty in the 
 North Pacific ; January 2, 1869, detached from the " Lackawanna ;" March 
 19, 1869, ordered for ordnance duty to the Boston Yard. January 19, 1871, 
 appointed Commander ; March 3, 1871, given command of United States 
 storeship " Relief," to convey contributions to the French ; from September, 
 1871, until January 29, 1876, on duty in Boston as Ordnance Officer and 
 afterwards Light-House Inspector ; January 29, 1877, commanding the 
 " Ashuelot," Asiatic Squadron, 1879-81 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, 1882; 
 leave of absence, 1883-5. Promoted to Captain, March, 1882; commanding 
 "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1885-6. Waiting orders, 1887-8; leave of 
 absence, 1889. Waiting orders, 1890 ; retired October 1, 1891. May 9, 1896, 
 promoted to Commodore for his distinguished services during the rebellion. 
 
 CAPTAINS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Silas Casey. Born in Rhode Island, September 11, 1841. Appointed 
 from New York, as Acting Midshipman, September 25, 1856 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1856-60. Appointed Midshipman, June, 1860 ; attached steam-frigate 
 "Niagara," 1860-2. Promoted Master, 1861 ; engagements with batteries at 
 Pensacola, Florida, October, 1861. Commissioned as Lieutenant, July, 1862 ; 
 Executive Officer, gunboat " Wissahickon," South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1862-3 ; several engagements with Fort McAllister, 1862 ; first 
 attack on Charleston, under Admiral Dupont, Executive-Officer U. S. S. 
 " Quaker City," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; attack on 
 
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 Fort Fisher, December, 1864 ; Navigating Officer, U. S. S. " Winooski," 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1865 7 ; Commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, July 
 25, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1867-70 ; Executive Officer frigate " Colorado," 
 flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1870-3 ; command of battalion of sailor?, from 
 the fleet in the Corean Expedition and assault on Fort McKee (Elbow Fort), 
 Soul River, June, 1872 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1873-4. 
 Commissioned as Commander, June, 1874; command of training-ship "Ports 
 mouth," Pacific coast, 1875-6; Inspector Twelfth Light-House District, 
 1876-9 ; command of U. S. S. " Wyoming," and " Quiimebaug," European 
 Station, 1880-2 ; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Washington, 1882-4; In- 
 spector Fifth Light-House District and commanding U. S. receiving-ship 
 "Dale." 1884-9. Promoted Captain, February, 1889; du-fy connected with 
 the "Newark," July, 1890, to February, 1891 ; commanding"" Newark," Feb 
 ruary, 1891, to May, 1893, and then granted leave of absence ; commanding 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," April, 1894, to February, 1897 ; commanding U. 
 S. S. "New York," March, 1897, to December, 1897 ; ordered to command 
 League Island Navy Yard, January, 1898, to date. 
 
 William T. Sampson. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, September 24, 1857; Naval Academy, 1857-60; frigate "Potomac," 
 1861. Promoted to Master, 1861. Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 
 1862; practice-ship " John Adams," 1862-3 ; Naval Academy, 1864; iron 
 clad "Patapsco," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; was in 
 "Patapsco" when she was destroyed in Charleston harbor, January 15, 1865 ; 
 steam -frigate "Colorado," flag-ship European Squadron, 1865-7. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1868-71 ; 
 " Congress " (second-rate), special service, 1872, and same ship, European 
 Station, 1873. Commissioned as Commander, August 9, 1874 ; commanding 
 "Alert" (third-rate), 18745; Naval Academy, 1876-8; commanding "Swa- 
 tara," Asiatic Station, 1879-82 ; Naval Observatory, 1882-5 ; Member of 
 International Prime Meridian and Time Conference, 1884 ; in charge of 
 Torpedo Station, 1885-6 ; member of Board on Fortifications and other 
 defences, 1885-6 ; Superintendent Naval Academy, 1886-90 ; delegate from 
 United States to International Maritime Conference, Washington, 1889. 
 Promoted to Captain, March, 1889; Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, January, 
 1893-97 ; ordered to command the U. S. S. " Iowa," June 16, 1897. Feb 
 ruary, 1898, President of Board of Inquiry as to cause of destruction of U. 
 S. S "Maine" in Havana harbor, February 15, 1898; after declaration of 
 war with Spain was ordered to command North Atlantic Squadron, with 
 rank of Acting Rear-Admiral. 
 
 Barlett J. Cromwell. Born in Georgia. Appointed from Nebraska, 
 September 21, 1857; Naval Academy, 1857-60; attached to frigate "St. 
 Lawrence," 1861 ; steamer " Quaker City, South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1862 ; steam-gunboat " Conemaugh," South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1862-3 ; attack on Morris Island and Battery Gregg ; commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, July 16. 1862; steamer "Proteus," East Gulf Squad 
 ron, 1863-5 ; steamer " Shawmut," Brazil Squadron, 1865-6. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 1868-9 ; "Ply 
 mouth " (third-rate), European Fleet, 1871-2 ; " Powhatan," special service, 
 1873-4. Commissioned as Commander, October 24, 1874; Inspector of Ord 
 nance, Philadelphia, 1875-7 ; Inspector of Ordnance, 1878 ; commanding 
 "Rio Bravo," special service, 1877-8 ; commanding " Ticonderoga," 1879-81 ; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1882-5 ; commanding Naval Rendezvous, Philadel 
 phia, 1885 ; Navy Yard, League Island, 1886-9. Promoted to Captain, 
 
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 March, 1889 ; ordnance duty, 1889-90 ; Captain Navy Yard, Norfolk, Octo 
 ber 29, 1891, to December, 1894 ; commanding " Atlanta," December 22, 
 1894, to September, 1895 ; member Examining Board, November 25, 1895, 
 to date. 
 
 John W. Philip. Born in New York, August 26, 1840. Appointed to 
 the Naval School from New York, September 20, 1856. Midshipman, Jan 
 uary 1, 1861, and attached to the frigates "Constitution" and " Santee." 
 Promoted to Acting Master, June 1, 1861, and ordered to the sloop-ot-war 
 * Marion," Gulf Blockading Squadron; attached to the "Sonoma," James 
 Kiver Fleet, 1862. Commissioned a Lieutenant, July 16,1862; Executive 
 of the " Chippewa," " Pawnee," and the monitor " Montauk," South Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, during the siege of Charleston, from September, 1862, 
 to January, 1865 ; wounded in the leg whilst attached to the " Pawnee," in 
 the Stono River; Executive of the " Wachusett," Asiatic Squadron, January, 
 1865, to September, 1867. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 
 1886; Executive of the flag-ship "Hartford," Asiatic Squadron, September, 
 1867, to August, 1868 ; Executive of the "Richmond," European Squadron, 
 December, 1868, to November, 1871 ; Executive of the flag-ship "Hartford," 
 Asiatic Squadron, September, 1872, to June, 1873, when detached to com 
 mand the " Monocacy ; " detached from the latter vessel, February 28, 1874-6 ; 
 on leave of absence from the Department in order to command one of the 
 steamers of the Pacific Mail Steam-Ship Company. Commissioned a Com 
 mander, December 18, 1874 ; leave revoked, July, 1876, and ordered to com 
 mand the " Adams ; " detached, April, 1877, and granted leave to command 
 the " Woodruff Scientific Expedition around the World ; " ordered to the 
 command of the l< Tuscarora," December, 1877, engaged in surveying the 
 West Coast of Mexico and Central America ; transferred from the " Tus 
 carora" to the " Ranger," August, 1880, and detached from the command of 
 the latter vessel in October, 1883 ; Light-House Inspector, 12th District, 
 April, 1884, to April, 1887 ; in command of the II. S receiving-ship " Inde 
 pendence," at the Mare Island Navy Yard, May, 1887, to May, 1890. Com 
 missioned as Captain, March 31, 1889; commanding "Atlanta," December, 
 
 1890, to December, 1891 ; General Inspector of "New York," December, 
 
 1891, and when finished, was placed in command to August, 1894 ; Captain 
 of Navy Yard, Boston, August 24, 1894, to October, 1897 ; command of 
 U. S. S. " Texas," October 18, 1 897, to date. 
 
 Henry F. Picking. Born in Pennsylvania, January, 1840. Appointed 
 from same State, September 28, 1857; Naval Academy, 1857-61. Appointed 
 Acting Master, June 4, 1861 ; attached to frigate " St. Lawrence," North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2. Commissioned as Lieutenant, July, 
 1862 ; sinking of the privateer " Petrel ; engagement with the rebel ram 
 " Merrimac," and Sewell s Point batteries (monitor engagement), 1862 ; East 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; Naval Academy, 1864 ; monitor " Na- 
 hant," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864; commanding " Nahant/ 
 1865; several skirmishes with batteries on Sullivan s Island during 1864-5 ; 
 steamer " Swatara," West India Squadron, 1865-6. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, July 25, 1866 ; steamer "Swatara," European Squadron, 
 1866-8 ; League Island, Pennsylvania, 18689 ; on duty at Naval Academy, 
 1869-71 ; flag-ship " Colorado," Asiatic Fleet, 1870-3 ; ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1873 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., 1873-4 : " Roan- 
 oke " (ironclad), New York, 1874. Commissioned as Commander, January 
 25, 1875 ; Naval Rendezvous, New York, 1875 ; Light House Inspector, 
 1875-8 ; commanding " Kearsarge," 1879-81 ; Light House Inspector, 1881- 
 
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 2 ; Naval Secretary, Light House Board, 1882-7 ; commanding naval force, 
 Northwestern Lakes (IT. S. S. " Michigan "), 1887-9. Commissioned as 
 Captain, August 4, 1889 ; Hydrographer, Navy Department, 1889. Com 
 manding U S. S. "Charleston" from March, 1892, to February, 1894. 
 Leave of absence, April, 1894. Commanding receiving ship " Minnesota," 
 November, 1894. Member Board Inspection and Survey, October, 1895, to 
 April, 1897. Commanding receiving ship " Wabash," April, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frederick Rodgers. Born in Maryland, October 3, 1842. Naval 
 Academy, 1857-61; attached to frigate "Wabash," 1861. Appointed 
 Acting Master, U S. Navy, April, 1861. Appointed Acting Master " Santee," 
 1861-2. Prize-Master of brig "Delta," 1861. Commissioned as Lieutenant 
 July 16, 1862 ; Executive Officer of the U. S. S. "Kineo,^ 1862-3 ; engage 
 ments at Donaldsonville, Port Hudson, and College Point, Louisiana, Feb 
 ruary and March, 1862 ; steamer " Grand Gulf," North Atlantic Squadron. 
 1863-4; steamer "Grand Gulf," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; 
 U. S. steamer " Semiuole," 1865. Commissioned Lieutenant Commander 
 July 25, 1866; U. S. S. "Chattanooga," 1866; U. S. S. "Sacramento," 
 October, 1866, until she was lost in the Bay of Bengal, June 6, 1867 ; 
 "Michigan," on the lakes, 1868-9; U. S. S. "Pensacola," North Pacific 
 Station, 1869 ; U. S. S. " St. Mary s," North Pacific Station, 1870 ; IT. S. S. 
 " Saranac," North Pacific Station, 1871-2 ; ordnance duty, Washington 
 Navy Yard, 1872; commanding U. S. S. "Despatch," special service, 
 1873-6. Commissioned Commander, February 4, 1875; Light-House In 
 spector, on the lakes, 1876-7 ; commanding "Adams," South Atlantic and 
 Pacific Stations, 1877-9 ; Light-House Inspector, Philadelphia, 1881-3 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Independence," 18*3-6; Light-House Inspector, in 
 charge of Light-House Depot, 1888, to September, 1890. Promoted to 
 Captain, February 26, 1890 ; commanding "Philadelphia," September, 1890, 
 to July, 1892 ; Supervisor Harbor of New York, July, 1892, to September, 
 1893; Captain of New York Navy Yard, 1893-6; ordered to command U. 
 S. S. " Massachusetts," June 10, 1896-97 ; President Board Inspections and 
 Survey, December 1, 1897, to date. 
 
 Louis Kempff. Appointed from Illinois, September 25, 1857 ; left the 
 Naval Academy, April, 1861, and ordered to sailing sloop-ofwar " Vanda- 
 lia;" sailed from New York, June, 1861, and blockaded off Charleston, 
 August, 1861 ; captured the schooner " Henry Middleton," of Charleston, 
 which schooner he took to New York, and rejoined the " Vandalia " in Octo 
 ber following, at Hampton Roads. Appointed Acting Master, October, 
 1861 ; attached to the "Vandalia" during the battle at Port Royal, S- C , 
 November 7, 1861; November 11, 1861, ordered to flagship "Wabash;" 
 commanded a howitzer in the expedition against Port Royal Ferry, under 
 General Isaac I. Stevens, U. S. Army, January 1, 1862; in charge of boat 
 and howitzer during the expedition of the Navy, which resulted in the cap 
 ture of Fernandina, Fla., St. Mary s, Ga., Nassau Inlet and Jacksonville, 
 Fla., and St. Augustine; detached from "Wabash" and ordered to the 
 " Susquehanna," March, 1862 ; was present and took part in bombardment of 
 SewelPs Point, Va., in May, 1862, and the re-occupation of Norfolk, Va., 
 May 10, 1862 ; on board of this vessel as Watch and Navigation Officer, 
 blockading off Mobile part of 1862 and 1863. Promoted to Lieutenant, August 
 1, 1862 ; detached from "Susquehanna," May 14, 1863 ; ship out of commis 
 sion ; gunboat " Sonoma," June 22, 1863 ; detached from the " Sonoma," 
 July 9, 1863 ; ordered to the " Connecticut," blockading off Wilmington, 
 N. C., 1863 and 1864; Executive Officer of the "Connecticut," until Octo- 
 
54 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE IT. S. NAVY. 
 
 ber 8, 1864, when she was put out of commission ; Executive Officer gun 
 boat "Suwanee," November 15, 1864; on duty in this vessel Pacific Squad 
 ron, 1865, to March, 1867. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 26, 
 1866; detached from " Suwanee," March 28, 1867, at Mare Island, Cal., 
 and ordered east, via Panama; ordered to the apprentice-ship " Portsmouth," 
 as Executive Officer, May 27, 1867 ; detached from the " Portsmouth," the 
 vessel going out of commission, October 2, 1868, and ordered as Executive of 
 " Independence," at San Francisco ; ordered temporarily as Executive of the 
 " Mohican," <June 15, 1869, and went to Siberia on total eclipse expedition ; 
 ordered back to the " Independence," September 22, 1869, and remained 
 until October, 1870, when he was ordered to the Pacific Squadron for duty; 
 Executive Officer of the " Mohican," May 2, 1871 ; detached from this vessel 
 when she was put out of commission at Mare Island, June, 1872 ; " Saranac," 
 as Executive Officer, July 17, 1872, to November, 1872 ; flagship " Cali 
 fornia," as Executive, from November, 1872, to April, 1873 ; duty at Naval 
 Rendezvous, San Francisco, August 16, 1873, to November, 1874; Novem 
 ber, 1874, ordered as Inspector of Thirteenth Light-House District ; detached 
 by request from this duty, October, 1876, and placed on waiting orders. 
 Promoted to Commander, March 9, 1876 ; Senior Aid to Commandant Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, March 21, 1877 ; this office being abolished, was ordered 
 as Equipment Officer of the same yard, March 30, 1878 ; commanded Naval 
 Rendezvous, San Francisco, September 10, 1880 ; commanded "Alert," 
 Asiatic Station, July, 1881, to July, 1882; ordnance officer of the Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, also attended to duties of navigation officer of yard, 
 from January, 1883, to October, 1885 ; commanded the "Adams," attached 
 to the Pacific Station, from October, 1885, to May, 1888 ; Navy Yard, Mare 
 Island, from June, 1888, to July, 1890, while stationed here was assigned by 
 the Commandant to the duties of Captain of the Yard and in charge of the 
 Department of Yards and Docks ; ordered to duty as member of the Board 
 of Inspection. Promoted to Captain, May 19, 1891 ; San Francisco, Cal., 
 July 17, 1890; ordered as General Inspector of the "Monterey," June 3, 
 1893, and ordered to command this vessel February 7, 1893; vessel com 
 missioned and assumed command February 13, 1893 ; detached February 
 13, 1895, and granted two months leave ; ordered to War College, on duty 
 there from June 1, 1895, to October 12, 1895 ; then detached and ordered as 
 member of Examining and Retiring Board, Washington, D. C. ; reported 
 October 17, 1895 ; detached from board duty October 1, 1896, and ordered to 
 the command of the United States receiving-ship <4 Independence," at Mare 
 Island, Cal. ; assumed command October 17, 1896, and is now on this duty. 
 
 Francis J. Higginson. Born in Massachusetts, July 19, 1843. Ap 
 pointed Acting -Midshipman, September 21, 1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-61 ; 
 attached to steam frigate " Colorado," as Midshipman, 1861-62, West Gulf 
 Blockading Squadron ; wounded at capture and destruction of rebel priva 
 teer " Judith," at Pensacola, Florida, 1861 ; Signal Midshipman and Aide to 
 Captain Theodorus Bailey, on board the " Cayuga," at the bombardment 
 and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Mississippi River, by the fleet 
 under Admiral Farragut ; participated in the action of the Chalmette bat 
 teries, and the capture of New Orleans, April, 1862. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, August 1, 1862 ; Executive Officer steamer "Vixen," South Atlantic 
 Squadron, 1862 ; steam-sloop " Powahatan," as Watch Officer, 1862 ; Execu 
 tive Officer steamer " Housatonic," when she was blown up and sunk by 
 rebel torpedo-boat off Charleston, February 17, 1865 ; commended by Gen 
 eral Gilmore, U. S. A., for efficient service in command of picket launches 
 
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 operating at night inside Morris Island, between Forts Gregg and Sumter ; 
 Executive Officer monitor " Passaic," and engaged in bombardment Fort 
 Sumter, 1865 ; commanded division of boats in naval attack on Fort Sumter 
 under Captain Stevens, September 8, 1863 ; Naval Academy, 1865 ; Exec 
 utive Officer "Marblehead," sent in pursuit of rebel steamer "Tallahassee," 
 under Commander Carpenter. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 
 25, 1866 ; attached to " Hartford," flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, as Watch 
 Officer, 1865-8; Executive Officer receiving-ship "New Hampshire," Sep 
 tember, 1868; attached to U. S. S. "Franklin," flag-ship Mediterranean 
 Squadron, as Watch Officer, December, 1868 ; ordered to " Richmond," as 
 Navigator, December, 1869 ; ordered to " Shenandoah " as^xecutive Officer, 
 August, 1871, to July, 1873 ; attached to Naval Academy, September, 1873 ; 
 Executive Officer U. S. S. " Franklin," November, 1873, taking part in the 
 squadron evolutions at Key West, during the " Virginius " excitement ; or 
 dered as Executive Officer of "Dictator," March, 1874; commanding Naval 
 Rendezvous, Boston, July, 1874; Executive Officer receiving-ship " Ohio," 
 Boston, January, 1875; Torpedo School, Newport, Rhode Island, for instruc 
 tion, May, 1875; special duty Bureau of Ordnance, September, 1875; em 
 ployed at West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, New York, inspecting rifle 
 ordnance. Commissioned Commander, June 10, 1876 ; ordered to Constanti 
 nople, Turkey, to command the " Despatch," December, 1877 ; ordered to 
 command the "Miantonomah," October, 1882; ordered to command the U. 
 S. S. " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, August 23, 1883 ; employed in protecting 
 American interests in Foo Chow during bombardment of the arsenal by 
 French fleet under Admiral Courbet ; commandant at Naval Training Sta 
 tion, Newport, Rhode Island, October 31, 1887. Commissioned as Captain, 
 September 27, 1891 ; ordered to command U. S. S. "Atlanta," December 10, 
 1891 ; May 28, 1893, placed on waiting orders ; ordered to Navy Yard, Mare 
 Island, June 29, 1894; commanded "Monterey," February, 1895 ; special 
 duty New York Navy Yard, December, 1895 ; Captain of the Navy Yard, 
 New York, June, 1896, to July, 1898 ; ordered to command U. S. S. " Mass 
 achusetts," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 George Watson Sumner. Born in Constantine, St. Joseph s County, 
 Michigan, December 31, 1841. Appointed from Fifth Congressional Dis 
 trict, Kentucky, September 20, 1858; at Naval Academy, 1858-61 ; attached 
 to steam-frigate "Colorado," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; Mortar 
 Flotilla, 1862; Executive Officer of Senior Officer s vessel, of Third Division 
 of Flotilla ; bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April, 1862 ; 
 special duty on board U. S. S. " Harriet Lane," during morning of passage 
 of Forts Jackson and St. Philip ; Vicksburg batteries, 1862. Commissioned 
 as Lieut<-nant, August 1, 1862 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; 
 Executive Officer, U. S. S. "Pinola ;" Navigation Officer U. S. S. "Pensa- 
 cola;" Naval Academy, Newport, R. I.; U. S. S. "Macedonian ;" other ser 
 vice in West Gulf Blockading Squadron, etc., 1861-4; steamer "Massasoit," 
 Executive Officer, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; commanded 
 U.S. S. "Massasoit" in the latter part of January, 1865, in the James River, 
 Va., when the rebel iron-clads " Fredericksburg" and "Virginia" came 
 down to the obstructions at Dutch Gap, with the intention of going down to 
 City Point to destroy General Grant s transports and stores at that place ; 
 and assisted U. S. S. " Onondago " in her engagement with these vessels, 
 defeating their plans and forcing them to retreat up the James River ; 
 steamer "De Soto," Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7, as Navigation and as Execu 
 tive Officer. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866 ; steam- 
 
56 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 frigate "Franklin," flag-ship European Squadron, 1868-71 ; as Watch Officer, 
 and as Navigation Officer ; Hydrographic Office, 1872-6. Commissioned as 
 Commander, June 13, 1876; commanding " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 
 1877-80; special duty, Washington, 1880-1; Bureau of Ordnance, 1881-6; 
 waiting orders, 1886-7 ; commanding " Galena," flag-ship, North Atlantic 
 Station, 1888-91; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, New York, 1891-93. 
 Commissioned as Captain, October 2, 1891; commanding U. S. S. " Balti 
 more," February to May, 1893, during "Naval Review ;" General Inspector 
 U. S S. "Columbia," May, 1893, to April, 1894; commanding triple-screw 
 cruiser " Columbia," April, 1894, to September, 1895 ; commanded " Colum 
 bia" at ceremonies of the opening of the Kiel Canal, Germany, 1895; raced 
 "Columbia" home, Southampton, England, to New York, making fastest 
 long-distance run on record for a man-of-war; commanded monitor "Monad- 
 nock," Pacific Station, February, 1896, to June, 1897 ; Captain of the Yard, 
 Navy Yard, New York, July, 1897, to date ; member Empire State Society, 
 Sons American Revolution, and Honorary Member Regular Army and Navy 
 Union. 
 
 Benjamin F. Day. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, September 
 20, 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 9, 1863. Commissioned as Lieutenant, August 
 1,1862; steam-frigate "Colorado," W. G. B. Squadron, 1863-4; steamer 
 " Saugus," N A. B. Squadron, 1864-5; engagements with Hewlett House 
 batteries in James River ; attacks on Fort Fisher ; steam-sloop " Tuscorara," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1866-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 
 25, 1866 ; steam-sloop " Contocook," flag-ship N. A. Squadron, 1868-9 ; 
 " Ticonderoga " (second-rate), 1871; "Congress" (second-rate), special ser 
 vice, 1872, and same ship, European Station, 1872-3 ; receiving ship " New 
 Hampshire," 1874-5 ; commanding " Manhattan" (iron clad), N. A. Station, 
 1876. Commi.-sioned as Commander, August 8, 1876 ; commanding naval 
 force, Rio Grande, 18778 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1879-81 ; torpedo instruc 
 tion, 1881 ; Light House Inspector, 1881-4 ; commanding " Mohican," Pacific 
 Station, 1885-8 ; waiting orders, 1888 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1889-92. 
 Promoted to Captain, November 5, 1891 ; commanding U. S. S. " Boston," 
 February, 1893, to September, 1893, and then placed on waiting orders. 
 Commanding U. S. S. "Baltimore," July 12, 1894, to February, 1896. 
 President Steel Board, April 14, 1896, to 1897. Member Examining Board, 
 January 11, 1897, to date. 
 
 Alexander H. McCormick. Born in the District of Columbia, 1842. 
 Appointed as Acting Midshipman at the Naval Academy, from Texas, Sep 
 tember, 1859 ; ordered into active service, April, 1861 ; served in the steamer 
 " Quaker City," on the Chesapeake Bay Blockade, from June to September, 
 1861 ; on the receiving ship " North Carolina " from October to December, 
 1861 ; in the steamer " Norwich," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, from 
 January, 1862, to April, 1863. Appointed a volunteer Acting Master, April, 
 1862 ; at the bombardment of Fort Pulaski, 1862, and of fort in Winyaw 
 Bay, S. C., 1862. Promoted to Ensign, December, 1862 ; at second occupa 
 tion of Jacksonville, Florida, 1863 ; in the " Housatonic," off Charlestc n, 
 from April to July, 1863 ; in the " Wabash,"from July to September, 1863. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, February, 1864 ; in the steam sloop-of war " Iro- 
 quois," on special service, from March, 1864, to October, 1865 ; in the " Chat 
 tanooga " from February to August, 1866. Promoted to Lieutenant Com 
 mander, July, 1866 ; on duty in the Department of Mathematics, Naval 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 57 
 
 Academy, from September, 1866, to June, 1869 ; in the "Macedonian," from 
 June to September, 1867 ; in the flag-ship "Lancaster," on the East coast of 
 South America, from August, 1869, to July, 1872 ; in the " Portsmouth " 
 from July to September, 1872; in the Department of Astronomy and 
 Navigation at the Naval Academy, from September, 1872, to July, 1875; 
 in the steamer "Fortune," from July to September, 1873; in the " Pensa- 
 cola," flag-ship of the Pacific Station, from July, 1875, to November, 
 1876. Promoted to Commander, September, 1876 ; on duty in the Bureau of 
 Ordnance, from February, 1877, to November, 1881 ; in command of the 
 " Essex," in a cruise around the world, from November, 1881, to January, 
 1885 ; as Inspector of Ordnance, at the Navy Yard, Washington, from March, 
 1885, to October, 1888 ; in the Bureau of Ordnance, from October, 1888, to 
 November, 1889 ; as Inspector of Ordnance, at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 
 December, 1889, to June, 1892. Promoted to Captain, April 3, 1892 ; com 
 manding " Lancaster," June, 1892, to June, 1894. Leave of absence. June, 
 1894. Captain Norfolk Navy Yard, October, 1894, to July, 1897. Member 
 Armor Board, October, 1897. 
 
 Albert S. Barker. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from that State, 
 October 25, 1859; at Naval Academy, 1859-61; in steam-frigate "Missis 
 sippi," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; bombardment and passage 
 of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and capture of New 
 Orleans, 1862; in attack on and attempted passage of Port Hudson, March 
 14, 1863, where the " Mississippi " was destroyed, after which he joined the 
 steam-sloop " Monongahela," and took part in the siege of Port Hudson, in 
 the fight below Donaldson ville and guerrilla fighting generally, until the river 
 was clear. Promoted to Ensign, February 22, 1862 ; detached from "Mon 
 ongahela," August 9, 1863, and ordered home in the " Brooklyn " detached, 
 August 26, 1863; steam-frigate "Niagara," special service, September 29, 
 1863, to February 22, 1864. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22, 
 1864; flagship " Lancaster," Pacific Station, May 1, 1864, as Flag-Lieuten 
 ant; transferred to flag-ship " Powhatan," July, 1866, while " Lancaster " 
 was being repaired ; witnessed the bombardment of the batteries at Callao 
 by the Spanish fleet under Admiral Nunez. Commissioned as Lieutenant- 
 Commander, July 25, 1866 ; returned home in " Lancaster ;" detached, 
 March 18, 1867; flag-ship "Guerriere" and " Quinnebaug," S. A. Station, 
 May 21, 1867, to July, 1869; monitor "Terror," November 25, 1869, to 
 November 26, 1870 ; " Wachusett," European Station, June ], 1871, to June 
 25, 1873 ; Torpedo Station, September 1, 1873, to July 13, 1874; while there 
 fired shells with dynamite from 24-pound howitzers, using the ordinary 
 powder cartridge, being the first one to fire dynamite in shells on this conti 
 nent, as far as known ; temporary duty as Executive of " Intrepid," July 
 13, 1874, to September 15, 1874 ; Naval Academy, September 15, 1874, to 
 February 20, 1876, when was ordered to command the " Palos," Asiatic 
 Station ; remained on her one year, when received orders to return home for 
 examination for promotion, but was detained at Yokohama, Japan, to take 
 command of the IT. S. S. "Alert," and while in that vessel cruised among 
 the islands in the vicinity of New Guinea and Dampier Straits, in search of 
 a supposed shipwrecked crew ; skirted and examined many islands, found the 
 object of search, and returned to China via Amboyna, Ternate, and the 
 Philippine Islands ; reached home, October, 1877. Commissioned as Com 
 mander, March 28, 1877; Torpedo Station, summer of 1878; Light-House 
 Inspector, Eighth District, November, 1878, to January 1, 1881 ; command 
 ing monitor " Montauk," July 24, 1882, to December 3, 1882, when was 
 
58 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ordered to command the " Enterprise." While on this vessel ran a line of 
 deep-sea soundings around the world, the casts being taken at intervals of 
 about 100 miles. The line between New Zealand and Magellan Straits was 
 made on a latitude 47 to 50 south. On the way out, visited South Africa, 
 Madagascar, Zanzibar, Comoro, and Seychille Islands ; reached the Straits of 
 Sunda six days after the great eruption of Krakatoa, when the accompanying 
 tidal-wave swept into the sea the large town of Aujer and all other settle 
 ments in the vicinity ; rendered such assistance to the Dutch authorities as 
 was possible ; was present at Pagoda Anchorage, Mire River, China, when 
 the French fleet under Vice- Admiral Courbet sunk the Chinese men-of-war, 
 destroyed the arsenal, and demolished the forts on each side of the river, 
 1885 ; returned home by way of Australia and New Zealand; detached from. 
 "Enterprise," April 1, 1886; Light-House Inspector, Second District, 
 October 1, 1886, to November 15, 189 ; Bureau Navigation, January 1, 
 1890. Command U. S. S. " Philadelphia," July 6, 1892, to August, 1894 ; 
 leave of absence, September 1, 1894; Captain Navy Yard, Mares Island, 
 February 11, 1895, to March, 1897 ; command U. S. S. "Oregon," March 20, 
 
 1897, to February, 1898 ; special duty, Navy Department, February to May, 
 1898; commanding protected cruiser "Newark," N. A. Squadron, May, 
 
 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Stanhope Cotton. Born February 15, 1843, at Milwaukee, 
 Wis. Appointed Acting Midshipman, at Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 
 from First District of Wisconsin, September 23, 1858 ; May 10, 1861, de 
 tached from the Naval Academy, and detailed for active duty; June 7 to 
 August 15, 1861, served on board frigate "St. Lawrence;" on July 28 she 
 captured the Confederate privateer "Petrel ; " August 15 to November 19, 
 duty in Philadelphia in connection with the trial of prisoners captured on 
 board the " Petrel ; " November 19, 1861, to February 24, 1863, served on 
 board frigate "Minnesota," flag-ship, N. A. Blockading Squadron; par 
 ticipated in action between " Merrimac " and " Monitor " and the fleet in 
 Hampton Roads, on March 8 and 9, 1862. Promoted to Ensign, November 
 11, 1862 ; February 24 to July 13, 1863, attached to steam-sloop " Iroquois," 
 off Wilmington, N. C. ; March 8, 1864, to August 10, 1865, attached to steam- 
 sloop "Oneida," W. G. B. Squadron, except a few weeks of service on board 
 the " Hartford " and the " Kineo." Promoted to Lieutenant, February 22, 
 1864 ; August 5 to 23, 1864, served on board " Oneida" during the battle of 
 Mobile Bay and subsequent operations to surrender of Fort Morgan ; Novem 
 ber 13, 1865, to May 3, 1869, attached to steam-stoop " Shenaudoah," in 
 the East Indies and China. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 
 1866 ; from September 30, 1869, to July 29, 1870, duty at Naval Academy; 
 October 1 to December 23, 1870, duty at Navy Yard, Kittery ; January 5 
 to April 24, 1871, attached to frigate "Tennessee," San Domingo Expedition ; 
 April 24, 1871, to February 16, 1874, attached to steam-sloop "Ticonderoga," 
 as Executive, on the Brazil Station ; May 1, 1874, to June 1, 1876, duty at 
 Navy Yard, Kittery ; June 1 to September 9, 1876, Torpedo Instruction at 
 Newport ; September 15 to October 4, 1876, Executive of receiving-ship 
 "Worcester," Norfolk ; October, 1876, to July, 1880, on duty at New York 
 Navy Yard. Promoted to Commander, April 25 1877; commanding U. S. 
 S. "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, September, 1880, to September, 1883, except 
 a period of six weeks, during which commanded the U. S. S. " Alert," on that 
 station, June-July, 1881 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 
 from January, 1884, to October, 1887; Inspector Fifteenth Light-House 
 District, from October, 1887, to December, 1890 ; commanding " Mohican," 
 
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 April, 1891, to May, 1892. Promoted to Captain, May 28, 1892 ; command 
 ing receiving-ship " Independence," May, 1892, to August 15, 1894 ; com 
 manding U. S. flag-ship " Philadelphia," Pacific Station from August 24, 
 1894, to September 1, 1897 ; temporary duty, Washington Navy Yard, from 
 January 17, 1898, to April 1, 1898 ; commanding auxiliary cruiser " Harvard," 
 N. A. Squadron, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Silas Wright Terry. Born in Kentucky, December 28, 1842. Ap 
 pointed Acting Midshipman, Naval Academy, September 28, 1858. Appointed 
 Ensign, September 16, 1862. Commissioned Lieutenant, February 22, 1864. 
 Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866. Commissioned Com 
 mander, July 11, 1877. Upon the outbreak of the Kebellion in 1861, before 
 completing academic course, was ordered to New York Nilvy Yard for active 
 service, and, from June, 1861, to September, 1862, attached to the sloop 
 " Dale," blockading on the Atlantic coast ; engagement with rebel sharp 
 shooters on a boat expedition up South Edisto River, April, 1862 ; attached 
 to flag-ship " Wabash," September and October ; " Alabama " in November ; 
 December, 1862, aide on staff of Rear- Admiral Lee; from March to July, 
 1863, steam-sloop " Dakotah," blockading mouth of Cape Fear River ; flag 
 ship " Black Hawk," Mississippi Squadron, from September, 1863, to October, 
 1864 ; took part in Red River Expedition, and at Alexandria, La. ; was placed 
 in command of transport " Benefit," with a detchment of fifty men and two 
 brass howitzers, to carry despatches and supplies to Admiral Porter. In a 
 letter to the Secretary of the Navy, dated May 4, 1864, Admiral Porter says : 
 "I endeavor to do justice to all officers under my command, but have failed 
 to mention the gallant conduct of Ensign S. W. Terry on the expedition up 
 Red River. He was placed on board of the transport Benefit to take de 
 spatches to me at Springfield Landing. I had a field-piece and a twenty-four 
 pounder howitzer placed on this vessel, and a part of the crew of the flag 
 ship to go to her. About fifty miles above Grand Ecore Mr. Terry discov 
 ered a battery of four guns facing down the river, on which he opened fire 
 with his howitzers and steamed on. The battery opened a quick fire on him, 
 striking the little vessel almost every time. The river captain of the Bene 
 fit was killed, together with three other men, but the little transport fought 
 her way through and brought me the despatches, which were important. 
 Such cool and brave conduct gives promise of a good officer. I commend 
 him to the notice of the Department." The President, " with the advice and 
 consent of the Senate," advanced Lieutenant Terry five numbers in his grade 
 " for gallant conduct on the expedition up Red River." In May, 1864, was 
 appointed Detail Officer on the staff of Admiral Porter, and served in this 
 capacity until the Admiral was relieved at the close of the war, May 5, 1865. 
 Was present during the operations of the naval force under Admiral Porter 
 against Forts Fisher and Anderson, and at the capture of Wilmington in 
 February, 1865 ; afterwards in the culminating events in James River, and 
 present at the fall of Richmond ; accompanied President Lincoln and Ad 
 miral Porter when they entered Richmond the morning it was occupied by 
 the army of General Grant ; from August, 1865, to November, 1868, served 
 on steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," European Station ; Naval Academy, 1869 to 
 1871 ; Executive Officer of the flag-ships " Severn " and "Worcester," from 
 March, 1871, to June, 1873; 1873 to 1874, Naval Observatory; 1874 to 
 1877, Naval Academy; 1877 to 1880, Inspector Fifth Light-House District; 
 May, 1881, to December, 1882, commanding "Marion," South Atlantic Sta- 
 ion ; while at Montevideo in November, 1881, was ordered by cable to "pro 
 ceed to Heard Island, lat. 53 20 S., long. 73 30 E., to rescue crew of bark 
 
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 Trinity/ suppose to be there." Left Montevideo November 14, 1881, 
 stopping for coal and supplies at Cape Town ; reached Heard Island January 
 15, and rescued thirty-three of the "Trinity s" crew, who had been wrecked 
 October, 1880, and just in time to save them from starvation, as the little 
 food saved from the wreck had been exhausted several months before, and 
 they were existing upon such sea-fowls and their eggs as could be obtained on 
 this desolate island. From Cape Town Commander Terry wrote the Depart 
 ment, December 20, that he would sail for Heard Island on the 24th, and 
 hoped to be back by the 20th of February. His hopes were realized, for on 
 the 20th of February, 1882, the "Marion" anchored off Cape Town, and 
 Commander Terry s cable despatch anno jncing the rescue of the "Trinity s" 
 crew was received by the Secretary of the Navy the same afternoon. "The 
 day after reaching Cape Town, Commander Terry was requested by Lloyd s 
 agents to render assistance to the English ship " Poonah," stranded on the 
 beach about ten miles northeast of the port. The request was complied with, 
 though it was known the commander of the English Squadron, then lying off 
 Simonstown, had declined to render any assistance. Fortunately, the efforts 
 of the "Marion" were successful in hauling the "Poonah" off, and she was 
 soon able to continue her voyage to India. For this service Commander 
 Terry received the thanks of the Colonial Government, embodied in a resolu 
 tion of the ministry, accompanied by a flattering letter from the Governor 
 and High Commissioner, Sir Hercules Robinson ; also the thanks of Her 
 Majesty s Government, transmitted through the British Minister at Washing 
 ton, to the Department of State and the Navy Department. From April, 
 1883, to October, 1884, League Island Navy Yard ; October 14, 1884, to 
 May 26, 1886, commanding the training-squadron, comprising " Portsmouth," 
 "Jamestown," and "Saratoga;" October, 1887, appointed member of the 
 Naval Examining and Retiring Board to May, 1893. Promoted Caj)tain, 
 January 9,1893; commanding U.S. S. "Newark," May, 1893, to June, 
 1895 ; was present under command of Rear- Admiral Benham during the in 
 surrection in Rio, from October, 1893, to March, 1894 ; from July, 1895, to 
 to date, commanding the receiving-ship " Franklin," Norfolk, Va. 
 
 Merrill Miller. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, November 28, 
 1859 ; Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to frigate " Potomac," Atlantic 
 coast, 1861-62. Promoted to Ensign, October 13, 1862 ; Mississippi Squad 
 ron, 1862-63 ; battle of Arkansas Post, 1863 ; Haiues Bluff, 1863 ; in charge 
 of mortar-boats, at siege of Vicksburg, for tw 7 enty-three days, in 1863. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, February 22, 1864 ; North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1864-65 ; 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 Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 
 1866; Naval Academy, 1867-69 ; steam-sloop " Lancaster," flag-ship. South 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1869-72; " Worcester" flag-ship N. A. Station, 1872-74; 
 Naval Academy, 1875-79 Commissioned as Commander, 1878; command 
 ing U. S. S. " Yantic," North Atlantic Station, 1880 ; Light-House Inspector, 
 1881-84; commanding "Marion," Asiatic Station, 1885-88 ; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, 1888-89 ; Naval Home, Philadelphia, 1889, to September, 1892; 
 Light-House Inspector, September, 1892, to April, 1893. Promoted Cap 
 tain, February 25, 1893; commanding U.S. receiving-ship "Franklin," 
 June, 1893, to April 17, 1894 ; commanding U. S S. " Raleigh," from April 
 17, 1894, to January 6, 1897 ; commanding U. S. receiving-ship " Vermont," 
 from March 17, 1897, to date. 
 
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 John J. Read. Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey, 
 September 21, 1858; Naval Academy, 1858-61; Atlantic Squadron, 1861 ; 
 steam-sloop "Hartford," flagship, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862; 
 in all of Farragut s battles, from the Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River 
 to Vicksburg, 1862-3. Promoted to Ensign, November 22, 1802; South 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, Feb 
 ruary 22, 1864 ; steamer " R. R. Cuyler," North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1864-5 ; steamer " De Soto," Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant- Commandtr, July 25, 1866 ; steamer " Rhode Island," Atlantic 
 Squadron, 1867 ; steam-sloop "Susquehanna," flag-ship, North Atlantic 
 Squadron, 1867-8; steamer "Michigan," on the lakes, 1869; "Guerriere" 
 (second-rate), European Station, 1870-2 ; " Richmond," (^second rate), North 
 Pacific Station, 1873-6 ; commanding " Richmond " flag-ship, South Pacific 
 Station, 1876-7 ; Bureau Yards and Docks, 1877-9. Promoted to Com- 
 mander, December, 1877 ; Light-House Inspector, 1879-83 ; commanding 
 " Michigan," 18*3-6 ; Light-House Inspector, 188b to December, 1890 ; com 
 manding " Iroquois," March, 1891, to July, 1892; Light-House Inspector, 
 July, 1892, to May, 1893. Promoted Captain, April 27, 1893 ; waiting 
 orders, May, 1894; temporary duty Newport, July, 1894; commanding 
 receiving-ship " Independence," August, 1894 ; commanding " Olympia," 
 February, 1895, to July, 1897 ; waiting orders, November, 1897, to date. 
 
 Mortimer L/. Johnson. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from 
 Massachusetts, November 29, 1859-; Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to 
 steam-sloop " Susquehanna," May to August, 1861 ; frigate " Sabine," August 
 to November, 1861 ; steam frigate " Wabash," November, 1861, to August, 
 
 1864, all in South Atlantic Squadron ; was in all operations on that coast 
 under Admirals Du Pont and Dahlgren. Promoted Ensign, September 16, 
 1862 ; and Lieutenant, February 22, 1864. From August, 1864, to January, 
 
 1865, steam frigate " Colorado," at both attacks on Fort Fisher; January, 
 1865, to September, 1865, West Gulf Squadron, as flag-lieutenant and com 
 manding U. S. S. "Estrella;" October, 1865, to August, 1868, U. S. S. 
 " Dacotah " and " Wateree " on Pacific Station. Promoted Lieutenant Com 
 mander, July, 1866 ; November, 1868, to March, 1870, U. S. S. ".Plymouth," 
 European Station; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1870-1; U. S. S. 
 "Wyoming," as executive officer, 1871-3; receiving ship "Sabine," 1873; 
 U. S. S. " Powhatan," on special service, 18745; receiving ships "Ohio" 
 and "Wabash," 1875-8. Promoted Commander, May, 1878 ; commanding 
 " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1879-81 ; special duty, 1882 ; Navy Yard, Bos 
 ton, 1883-7; leave Europe, 1887-8; U. S. S. "Monocacy," Asiatic fetation, 
 1889-91; leave, 1892; Equipment Officer, Portsmouth, N H, 1893. Pro 
 moted Captain, May, 1893; commanding receiving-ship "Franklin," 1894- 
 5; commanding U. S. S. " Cincinnati," North Atlantic Station, August, 1895, 
 to April, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. "San Francisco," European Station, 
 April, 1897, to October, 1897 ; leave to March, 1898, when ordered to U. S. 
 S. " Miantonomah," N. A. Squadron. 
 
 Edwin M. Shepard. Born in New York. Appointed from New York, 
 November 24, 1859 ; Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to sloop " Vincen- 
 nes," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; passes of the Mississippi 
 River. Promoted to Ensign, November 22, 1862 ; steam-sloop "Mississippi," 
 West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; remained on board the "Missis 
 sippi " 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 
 
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 letter from General Arnold, General Banks s Chief of Artillery ; attached 
 to monitor " Mahopac " during the siege of Charleston, South Carolina, and 
 in James River; steam sloop " Wachusett," special service, 1864-5 ; capture 
 of rebel privateer " Florida," October 7, 1864. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 February 22, 1864 ; steamer " Yanderbilt," June, 1865 ; during the trial- 
 trip of the "Dictator;" steamer "Tacony," Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866 ; steamer " Osceola," 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1867 ; apprentice-ship "Saratoga," 1868-9 ; " California " 
 (second rate), 1871 ; torpedo service, 1872; "Hartford" (second-rate) flag 
 ship, Asiatic Squadron, 1872-5 ; during Asiatic cruise, from 1872 to 1875, 
 twice ordered to commands, first the " Palos " for a short time, and the 
 " Yantic " for several months in 1875 ; ordnance duty, Washington, 1875-6 ; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1876-8. Promoted to Commander, 
 June, 1878 ; Naval Academy, 1878-81 ; commanding " Constitution," 1879- 
 81 ; commanding " Enterprise," N. A. Station, 1882 ; commanding nautical 
 school-ship "St. Mary s," 1882-6; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1886-9; 
 May, 1889, commanded the U. S. S. " Kearsarge " for four months ; ordered 
 to command of " Mohican," Pacific Squadron, February, 1890, to August, 
 1891 ; Light-House Inspector, August, 1891, to May, 1893 ; Equipment 
 Officer, Navy Yard, New York ; May, 1893, to August, 1893, commanding 
 U. S. S. "Minnesota," August, 1893. Promoted to Captain, May 15, 1893 ; 
 ordered to command U. S. S. "San Francisco," November 21, 1&94, to July, 
 1897 ; command U. S. receiving ship " Richmond," September 25, 1897, to 
 April, 1898; L. H. District, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Robley D. Evans. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Utah, Septem 
 ber 20,1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, October 1, 
 1863; attached to steam-sloop " Powhatan," West India Squadron, 1864 ; 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher, 
 January 15, 1865 ; in the land attack on Fort Fisher received two severe 
 wounds from rifle shots ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1866. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, July 25, 1866 ; ordnance duty at Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1867; steam-sloop " Piscataqua," flag-ship, Asiatic Squadron, 1869. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 12,1868; Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 1870-1; Naval Academy, 1871-2; "Shenandoah" (second-rate), 
 European Fleet, 1873 ; " Congress " (second-rate), European Fleet, 1873-6 ; 
 commanding training-ship " Saratoga," 1877-8. Promoted to Commander, 
 July, 1878 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1881-2 ; Light-House Inspector, 1882- 
 6 ; Chief Inspector of Steel, new cruisers, 1886-7 ; Secretary Light-House 
 Board, 1887-89; leave of absence, October, 189, to July, 1891 ; command 
 ing U. S. S. " Yorktown," July, 1891, to November, 1892; Secretary Light- 
 House Board, November, 1892-94. Commissioned Captain, 18^3 ; ordered 
 to command New York, August, 1894, to January, 1896 ; ordered to com 
 mand " Indiana," January, 1896-97 ; member of Light-House Board, January 
 1897 ; ordered to command the battle-ship "Iowa," March, 1898, and is now 
 serving with Rear- Admiral Sampson s fleet operating against the Spanish in. 
 West Indian waters. 
 
 Henry Glass. Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Illinois, Septem 
 ber 24, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, May 24, 
 
 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop " Canandaigua," South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-5 ; all the general engagements with forts and batteries in 
 Charleston Harbor, from July 8 to September 28, 1863 ; engagements with 
 batteries in Stono River, S. C., December 28, 1863, and July 3 and 11, 
 
 1864 ; engagement with batteries in North Edisto River, February 9, 1865 ; 
 
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 capture of Georgetown, S. C., February 5, 1865 Promoted to Master, No 
 vember 10, 1865 ; steam-sloop " Powhatan," Pacific Squadron, 1865-8. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, November 10, 1866. Commissioned as Lieutenant- 
 Commander, March 12, 1868 ; steam-sloop " Tuscarora," North Atlantic 
 Squadron, 1869 ; " Mohican" (third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1870-1 ; command 
 ing " Nyack," in Pacific Station, in 1870, for six months ; staff-duty, Pacific 
 Station, from March, 1871, to August, 1872 ; Pacific Fleet, 1872 ; " Iro- 
 quois " (third-rate), Asiatic Station, 1872-3 ; receiving-ship " Independence," 
 1875; commanding Nautical S. S. "Jamestown," 1876-8. Promoted to 
 Commander, October, 1879; commanding "Wachusett," Pacific Station, 
 1881-2 ; commanding " Jamestown," and senior officer in Alaska, in charge 
 of Indian affairs in the Territory, 1880 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1883-6; 
 ommanding " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1886-8 ; Nav&l Academy, 1888, 
 to May, 1891 ; member Examining Board, May, 1891, to March, 1892 ; 
 Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Mare Island, March, 1892 ; Captain of Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, August, 1893 ; commissioned as Captain, January 23, 
 1894 ; ordered to command " Cincinnati," June, 1894-95 ; ordered to com 
 mand "Texas," January, 1896 ; Captain of Navy Yard, Mare Island, April, 
 1897, to May, 1898; commanding cruiser "Charleston," Asiatic Station, 
 May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Philip Henry Cooper. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, September 28, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, 
 May 28, 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop " Richmond," West Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-5; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. Promoted to 
 Master, November, 1865 ; steam-sloop " Powhatan," South Pacific Squadron, 
 1865-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10, 1866 ; Naval Academy, 
 1867-9. Commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, March 12, 1868 ; frigate 
 " Sabine," special cruise, 18H9; T. and N. Surveying Expedition, 1870-1; 
 Naval Academy, 1872-4; Torpedo Station, 1875; Experimental Battery, 
 Annapolis, 1875-6 ; Coast Survey Office, 1877-9. Promoted to Commander, 
 November, 1879; special navigation duty, 1879-81 ; commanding "Swatara," 
 Asiatic Station, 1881-4; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1886-8; commanding 
 "Swatara," March, 1890, to December, 1891 ; special duty, December, 1891, 
 to June, 1892 ; Board Inspection and Survey, June, 1892 to July, 1894 ; 
 commanding " San Francisco " to November, 18d4 ; Superintendent Naval 
 Academy, November 15, 1894, to date. 
 
 Henry Clay Taylor. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from 
 Ohio, September 28, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, 
 May 28, 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop " Shenandoah," North Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; steam-sloop " Iroquois," special service, 
 1864-5. Promoted to Master, November 10, 1865 ; steamer " Rhode Island," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 
 10, 1866 ; steam-sloop " Susquehanna," flag-ship, North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1867-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 12,1868; store- 
 ship "Guard," European Squadron, 1868-9; Naval Academy, 18H9-71 ; 
 Executive of flag-ship of Pacific Squadron, U. S. S. "Saranac," 1872-4; 
 commanding Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," 1874-7; Hydrographic Office, 
 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1879-80. Promoted to Commander, 
 December, 1879 ; commanding "Saratoga* (training-ship), 1880-4; special 
 duty, New York, 1884-5 ; member Board of Inspection, 1885-7 ; leave of 
 absence, 1888 ; commanding " Alliance," Asiatic Station, 1890, to September, 
 1891 ; leave of absence, September, 1891, to December, 1892; special duty, 
 December, 1892, to June, 1893 ; President Naval War College, Newport, 
 
64 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 R. I., November, 1893. Commissioned Captain, April, 1894, to November, 
 1896; December, 1896, ordered to command battle-ship " Indiana," and is 
 now serving with N. A. Squadron operating against the Spanish iii the West 
 Indies. 
 
 George Henry Wadleigh. Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from 
 New Hampshire, September 26, 1860 ; graduated Naval Academy, May, 
 1863. Promoted to Ensign, May 28, 1863, and ordered to steam-sloop 
 " Lackawanna," West Gulf Blockading Squadron ; active blockade duty 
 until end of war; present at attack on Fort Powell, March 2, 1864; battle 
 of Mobile Bay,_August 5, 1864, and subsequent operations resulting in sur 
 render of Fort Morgan, August 23, 1864; ordered to steam-sloop "Rich 
 mond," March, 1865 ; officer of deck and beat to quarters when the rebel 
 ram Webb " attempted to escape from the Mississippi River, April 24, 
 1835 ; upon finding she was recognized, the Webb " was run on shore and 
 burned. Commissioned Master, November 10, 1865; steam-sloop Ticon- 
 deroga," European Station, 1865-9. Commissioned Lieutenant, November, 
 1866. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, March, 1868 ; Naval Academy, 
 1869-70 ; torpedo duty, 1870-1 ; Executive Officer " Shawmut " (third rate), 
 North Atlantic Station, 1871-3. During this cruise the Shawmut," Com 
 mander E. E. Potter commanding, ascended the Orinoco River, 250 miles, to 
 Bolivar, and compelled the revolutionists to restore two steamers belonging 
 to United States citizens ; Executive Officer iron-clad " Canonicus," receiving- 
 ship * Ohio," 1873-4 ; Ordinance duty Navy Yard, Boston, 1874 ; Executive 
 Officer nautical school-ship "St. Mary s," 1874-6; Executive Officer steam- 
 sloop Pensacola " (flag-ship), Pacific Station, 1876-8 ; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, N. H., 1879-81. Commissioned Commander, March, 1880; 
 applied for and ordered to command steam-sloop "Alliance," special Arctic 
 cruise in search of " Jeannette," summer of 1881, and North Atlantic Station, 
 1881-2. While in the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Spitzbergen, the "Alli 
 ance " reached the latitude of 80 10 ; Light-House Inspector, 1883-6; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, 1887-9; commanding steamer "Michigan, Northwestern 
 Lakes, 1889 to December, 1891 ; leave of absence, December, 1891, to Feb 
 ruary, 1892 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Boston Navy Yard, February, 1892, 
 to July, 1894. Commissioned Captain, July, 1894; commanding receiving- 
 ship " Richmond," July to December, 1894 ; commanding U. S. S. "Minne 
 apolis," North Atlantic and European Stations, December, 1894, to June, 
 1897 ; Inspector Navy Yard, Boston, July to October, 1897 ; Captain, Yard, 
 October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Arent Schuyler Crowninshield. Born in New York. Appointed 
 from New York, September 21, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted 
 to Ensign, May 28, 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 Lieu 
 tenant, November 10, 1866. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 
 10,1868; steam-sloop "Richmond," European Squadron, 1868-9; "Rich 
 mond" (second-rate), European Fleet, 1870-1; "Lackawanna" (second- 
 rate), Asiatic Station, 1872-4 ; leave of absence in Europe, 1875 ; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1875-8 ; commanding " Portsmouth " (train 
 ing-ship), 1878-82. Promoted to Commander, March, 1880; Light-House 
 Inspector, 1882-5; member of Advisory Board, 1885-6; commanding 
 school-ship "St. Mary s," 1887 to October, 1891; Navy Yard, New York, 
 October, 1891, to March, 1892; commanding " Kearsarge," March, 1892, to 
 September, 1893 ; member Board of Inspectors, Navy Yard, New York, at 
 
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 present time. Promoted to Captain, July 21, 1894 ; commanding U. S. 
 receiving-ship "Richmond," December 11, 1894 ; command U. S. S. " Maine," 
 September 17, 1895, to April, 1897; Chief Bureau of Navigation, April 8, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 Frank Wildes. Born in Massachusetts. Naval Academy, September 
 21, 1860 ; graduated, May 28, 1863, appointed Ensign same day ; steam sloop 
 "Lackawanna," West Gulf Squadron, June 15, 1863; battle of Mobile and 
 Naval Battery, until surrender of Fort Morgan; monitor " Chickasaw " 
 during operations in Mobile Bay, March and April, 1865, till occupation of 
 Mobile; iron-clad " Monadnock," about October 1, 1865, to San Francisco; 
 on being put out of commission, to " Vanderbilt," about June, 1866 Pro 
 moted to Master, 1866, and to Lieutenant, 1867 ; steamer /Suwanee," spring 
 of 1867, until her wreck on north coast of Vancouver s Island, July, 1868. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March 12, 1868; steam-sloop " Pensa- 
 cola," August 1, 1868; ordered home September 1, 1868: frigate "Frank 
 lin," January, 1869, until her return home, November, 1871 ; Boston Navy 
 Yard, about February 1, 1872; Executive of steam-sloop "Wyoming," 
 August 1, 1873 ; in West Indies until April, 1874, when transferred to steam- 
 sloop " Wachusett," as Executive; arrived Boston, December, 1874; Torpedo 
 School, Newport, June 1, 1875, detached October 9, 1875 ; Executive iron 
 clad " Dictator," Port Royal, South Carolina, May 15, 1876 ; detached on 
 being put out of commission, Philadelphia, June 7, 1877 ; special ordnance 
 duty, Cold Spring, New York, January 1, 1878-81. Promoted to Com 
 mander, April, 1880; commanding "Yantic," N. A. Station, 1882-5; Navy 
 Yard, Portsmouth, 1885-8 ; Light-House Inspector, First District, 1889 to 
 October, 1892 ; commanding " Yorktown," October, 1892, to September, 
 1893 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1893-4. Commissioned as Captain, July, 1*94 ; 
 waiting orders, November, 1894 ; commanding receiving-ship " Independ 
 ence," 1895 ; commanding protected cruiser " Boston," Asiatic Station, 
 1896-8 ; took part in battle of Manila, May 1, 1898. 
 
 James H. Sands. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from 
 Maryland, November 22, 1859; Naval Academy, 1859-63. Promoted to 
 Ensign, May 28, 1863; attached to steam-sloop " Tuscarora, " North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4; steam-sloop " Shenandoah," North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; and evacuation of Charleston, South 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron ; both attacks on Fort Fisher, and twice 
 recommended by Boards of Admirals to be advanced in grade for gallantry 
 on shore during second attack; steam-sloop " Hartford," flag-ship East- 
 India Squadron, 1865-8; in skirmish with savages on Island of Formosa, 
 and mentioned twice in Squadron General Orders. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, November 10, 1866. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 
 12, 1868; steam-sloop " Richmond," European Squadron, 1869-70; " Cali 
 fornia," flag-ship Pacific Fleet, 1871-2; Hydrographic Office, 1873-4; 
 "Minnesota" (first-rate), training ship, New York, 1875-6; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1876-80; special duty, Washington, 1880-2. Promoted to 
 Commander, November, 1880; commanding l< Iroquois," Pacific Station, 
 1882-4; Navy Yard, Washington, 1884-6; leave of absence, 1886-90; 
 commanding " Monongahela," March, 1891, to November, 1892; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, November, 1892, to May, 1893 ; Equipment Officer, 
 Navy Yard, Boston, May, 1893-5. Commissioned as Captain, September, 
 1894; captain of Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., May, 1895; commanding 
 " Columbia," September, 1895-8. This cruiser is now serving in N. A. Patiol 
 Squadron. 
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 Yates Stirling. Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland, Sep 
 tember 27, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, May 28, 
 186 * ; attached to steam-sloop " Shenandoah ; " was detached from "Shenan- 
 doah," April 13, 1864, while that vessel was undergoing repairs at Phila 
 delphia, and reassigned to her in June following ; during that time served in 
 the flag-ship N. A. B. S monitor "Onondaga," in James River; North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5; both attacks on Fort Fisher; 
 steamer " Mohongo," Pacific Squadron, 1865-7. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, November 10, 1866. Commissioned as Lieutenant - Commander, 
 March 12, 1868 ; " Wampanoag," during trial trip, 1868; steam-sloop 
 " Contocook," flag-ship North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9; receiving ship 
 " Independence," 1871-2 ; sick leave, 1873-5 ; receiving ship " Worcester," 
 1875-6; torpedo duty, 1877; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1877-8; <4 Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1878-8L. Promoted to Com 
 mander, November 26, 1880; Navy Yard, Washington, 1882-4 ; command 
 ing " Iroquois " Pacific Station, 1884-6 ; commanding receiving ship "Dale," 
 1887-90; commanding "Dolphin," March, 1890, to June, 1891; Light- 
 House Inspector, December, 1892, to December, 1894. Commissioned 
 Captain, September, 1894. Waiting orders, December, 1894, to May, 1895; 
 commanding U. S. S. "Newark," Slay, 1895, to July, 1896; commanding 
 IT. S S. " Lancaster," July, 1896, to June, 1897 ; July, 1897, commanding 
 South Atlantic Station to December, 1897 ; member Light-House Board, 1898. 
 
 William Clinton Wise. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Ken 
 tucky to the Naval Academy, September, 1860. Promoted to Ensign, Octo 
 ber 1, 1863. Master, May 10, 1866. Lieutenant, July 21, 1867. Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, March 12, 1868. Commander, February 24, 1881. At 
 Naval Academy, 1860-3 ; October, 1863, attached to and serving on the 
 "New Ironsides,"* South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, off Charleston, S.C. ; 
 on picket duty, and various attacks on Charleston and the Jacksonville ex 
 pedition ; steam-frigate * Minnesota," 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher, 
 N. C., 1865 ; commanding flag ship " Malvern " in the attacks on Forts An 
 derson and Strong, and various operations on Cape Fear River ; commanding 
 the Malvern " on the James River during the final movements against 
 Richmond, the " Malvern " being the first U. S. vessel to reach the city, and 
 having President Lincoln on board ; recommended for promotion for war ser 
 vices by Board of Admirals in 1866 ; flag-ship "Hartford," Asiatic Station, 
 1865-6 ; U. S. S. " Wachusett," 1866-7 ; same station with landing party in 
 Northern China in capturing and breaking up a band of robbers ; practice- 
 ship "Dale," 1869; U. S. S. " Miantonomah," 1869-70; U. S. S "Brook 
 lyn," European Station, 1870-3 ; U. S. S " Ajax," West India Station, 1873- 
 4 ; U. S. receiving-ship "Vermont," 1874-5; flag-ship " Ten net-see," Asiatic 
 Station, 1875-6 ; commanding U. S. S. " Palos," same station, 1877-8 ; In 
 spector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1878-81 ; commanding U S. 
 S. "Portsmouth," 1882-4 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 
 N. H, 1884-7; commanding U. S. S. " Juniata," 1888-9; Equipment Of 
 ficer, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va,, 1889-90 ; Light-House Inspector, November, 
 1890, to June, 1894. Promoted to Captain, November 19, 1894; commanding 
 "U. S. S. Amphitrite, from April, 1895, to April, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. 
 " Texas," from April, 1897, to October, 18, 1897 ; Captain of Yard, Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk, Va , November 1, 1897, to 1898. Since April, 1898, com 
 manding auxiliary cruiser "Yale," N. A. Squadron. 
 
 Purnell Frederick Harrington. Born in Dover, Delaware, June 6, 
 1844 Appointed Midshipman at the N^val Academy, September 10, 1861. 
 
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 Promoted to Ensign, and ordered to steam-sloop " Ticondergoa," October 1, 
 1863; attached to steam-sloop "Monongahela," West Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, 1864-5; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and all the opera 
 tions against the rebel defences at the entrance of Mobile Bay during the 
 summer of 1864; steam-sloop "Monongahela," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1865-8. Promoted to Master, May 10, 1866; to Lieutenant, February 21, 
 1867; and to Lieutenant- Commander, March 12,1868; attached to Naval 
 Academy, 1868-70; steam-frigate " California," Pacific Fleet, 1870-1; 
 Executive-Officer of the flag ship " Pensacola," South Pacific Squadron, 
 1872-3; Naval Academy, l73-6 ; Executive- Officer of the "Hartford," 
 flag-ship, South Atlantic Station, 1877-9 ; and, in consequence of the illness 
 and death of the late Captain Henry A. Adams, in command of that ship 
 during fourteen months ; Naval Academy, 1880-3. Promoted to Com 
 mander, May 28, 1881; command practice-ship "Dale" during summer 
 cruises of 1881 and 1882; commanded steam-sloop "Juniata," Asiatic 
 Station, 1883-5 ; Naval Academy, 1886-9 ; commanded practice-ship " Con 
 stellation," summer cruises of 1888 and 1889 ; Light-House Inspector, May, 
 1890, to July 1893 ; commanding U. S. S. Yorktown," September, 1893-94; 
 special duty, March 6,1894; President of Steel Board, September, 1894-96. 
 Commissioned as Captain, March 1, 1895; commanding <% Terror," 1896-7; 
 commanding " Puritan " since March, 1898. 
 
 Nicoll Ludlow. Born at Islip, Long Island, N. Y., September 11, 
 1842; entered Naval Academy October 28, 1859, from First Congressional 
 District of New York; attached to steam-sloop Wachusett," 1863-1864; 
 "Wachusett" captured Confederate cruiser " Florida," October 7, 1864, in 
 the harbor of Bahia, Brazil ; attached to iron-clad monitor " Dictator," 
 1864-5 ; attached to iron-clad monitor u Monadnock," 1865-6, on her pas 
 sage from Philadelphia to Mare Island, Cal. ; returned home overland in 
 1866, and was ordered to the " Iroquois," steam-sloop, in November. 1866, 
 made the cruise on the China Station and returned home in April, 1870; 
 Naval Academy as instructor in gunnery, 1870-3; ordered to steam-sloop 
 Monongahela," October, 1873 ; on South Atlantic Station, returning home 
 as executive of flag-ship " Brooklyn," in 1876 ; torpedo school, Newport, R. I , 
 1876-7; executive officer flag-ship {t Trenton," on European Station, 1877- 
 80, returning home in 1880 in the " Constellation ; " ordnance inspector 
 West Point Foundry, South Boston Iron Works and Midvale Steel Works, 
 1880-3; in command of steam-sloop " Quiunibaug," European Station, 
 1883-6; light-house inspector Twelfth District, 1887-1890; inspector of 
 ordnance, Mare Island, Navy Yard, 1890-1 ; light-house inspector Ninth 
 District, 1891-2 ; commanding steam-sloop "Mohican," 1893, as flag-ship 
 Pacific Squadron ; January to May and May to November as senior officer in 
 command of Bearing Sea Squadron; on leave, 1894; War College, 1895; 
 in command of "Monterey," February to November, 1896; member of 
 Examining and Retiring Boards until July 8, 1897, when ordered to present 
 command of " Terror," North Atlantic Squadron. Ensign, October 1, 1863 ; 
 Master, May 10, 1866; Lieutenant, February 21, 1867; Lieutenant Com 
 mander, March 12, 1868 ; Commander, October 1, 1881 ; Captain, May 21, 
 1895. 
 
 Francis A. Cook. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachu 
 setts, September 20, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, 
 October 1, 1863; attached to steam-sloop "Seminole," West Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-5; steamer " Vanderbilt," North Pacific Squadron, 18o5-7. 
 Promoted to Master, November 10, 1866; North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8. 
 
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 Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867. Commissioned as Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, March 12, 1868; Naval Academy, 1869; "Saranac" 
 (second-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1870-71 ; receiving-ship "Independence," 1872; 
 "Richmond," flag-ship, S. P. Station, 1872-4; receiving-ship "Sabine," 
 1875-6 ; " Plymouth " (second-rate), N. A. Station, 1876-8; Naval Academy, 
 1880-3. Promoted to Commander, October, 1881 ; Light-House Inspector, 
 1883-6; commanding "Ranger," North Pacific Station, 1886-9; waiting 
 orders, 1890; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Boston, March, 1890, to 
 May, 1893 ; Assistant Bureau of Navigation, May, 1893, to December, 1896. 
 Promoted to Captain, February 28, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. " Brooklyn," 
 December 1, 1896, to date. The "Brooklyn" is now flagship of Flying 
 Squadron. 
 
 C. M. Chester. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, 
 October 31, 1859 ; Naval Academy, 1859-63. Promoted to Ensign, October 
 
 I, 1863; ordered to "Richmond" (second-rate), October 21, 1863; took part 
 in battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and bombardment and capture of 
 Fort Morgan, August 22,1864; temporary duty monitor "Kickapoo," taking 
 part in operations against and capture of Mobile, Ala., April 12, 1865 ; 
 returned to the " Richmond," April 14, and detached from that vessel, July 
 
 II, 1865 ; ordered to the " Powhatan " (first-rate), September 16, 1865, which 
 vessel joined the South Pacific Station as flag-ship. Promoted to Master, May 
 10, 1866 Promoted to Lieutenant, Ftbruary 21, 1867; detached from 
 "Powhatan," November 16, 1867. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 March 12, 1868 ; ordered to the " Contocook " (first-rate), afterwards the 
 "Albany," flag-ship of the North Atlantic Station, April 1, 1868; detached 
 and ordered as executive of the " Gettysburg," May 12, 1868 ; detached from 
 the " Gettysburg," October 12, 1869 ; ordered to the "Alaska " (second-rate), 
 December 1, 1869, and joined the Asiatic Station; had charge of steam 
 launches of squadron, for surveying Salee River, Corea, when fired upon by 
 the fortifications at its entrance, June 2, 1871; became executive of the 
 " Alaska," October, 1871 ; detached from that vessel, March 4, 1873 ; ordered 
 to torpedo station, August 19, 1873; ordered to the Naval Academy, July 
 24, 1874; executive of practice-ship " Constellation," during summer of 1875 ; 
 detached from the Naval Academy, September 1, 1877 ; ordered to the United 
 States Coast Survey, October 2, 1877 ; commanded steamer " Bache," until 
 December 1, 1880, when became Hydrographic Inspector. Promoted to 
 Commander, October 15, 1881 ; detached from Coast Survey, October 25, 
 1881; took command of the "Galena" (third-rate), October 31, 1885; the 
 " Galena" rendered assistance to the British steamer "Historian," which ves 
 sel was stranded on the Magdalena River bar, December 21, 1885, for which 
 the officers received a set of silver from the owners, and the thanks of the 
 British Government ; also seized filibustering steamer " Central America," at 
 St. Andrew Island, February, 1886, which vessel was condemned for breaking 
 the neutrality laws and sold ; detached from the " Galena," December 1, 1888 ; 
 appointed member of commission to select a site for a Navy Yard on the 
 Pacific coast of the United States, north of the forty-second parallel of north 
 latitude, November 27, 1888; ordered as member of Board on Organization, 
 Tactics, and Drill, July 1, 1889, and detached from Navy Yard Commission, 
 September 30, 1889; Bureau of Navigation, 1890 to April, 1891; Naval 
 Academy, April, 1891, to 1894; Navy Yard, New York, November, 1894, 
 to December, 1895; Commander Receiving Ship "Richmond," January, 
 1896. Commissioned Captain, June, 1896 ; Commanding United States 
 steamer " Newark," December, 1896, to March, 1897 ; Commanding "Minne- 
 
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 apolis," May, 1897 ; Commanding South Atlantic Station, January, 1898 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Cincinnati," N. A. Squadron in West Indies, since 
 January, 1898. 
 
 Charles Edgar Clark. Born in Vermont, September 29, 1840; Naval 
 Academy, 1860-3, Promoted to Ensign, October 1, 1863 ; steam sloop 
 " Ossipee," Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile 
 Bay, August 5, 1864; bombardment of Fort Morgan, August V3, 1864. 
 Commissioned as Master, November 10, 1866 ; steamer " Vanderbilt," Pacific 
 Station, 1865-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867. Com 
 missioned Lieutenant- Commander, March 12, 1868; steamer " Suwanee " 
 (wrecked July 7, 1868), 1867-8; receiving ship " Vaudalia." Portsmouth, 
 N. H., 1868-9 ; North Atlantic Station, steamer " Semiable " and ironclad 
 "Dictator," 1869-70; Naval Academy, 1870-3; " Saratoga," practice cruise 
 of 1871 ; North Atlantic Station, ironclad " Mahopac," 1873-4 ; Asiatic 
 Station, steamers "Hartford," " Monocacy," and "Kearsarge," 1874-7; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1877-80; training ship New Hampshire," 1881. 
 Commissioned as Commander, November 15, 1881 ; training ship " New 
 Hampshire," 1882-3 ; Torpedo Station, 1883 ; steamer " Hanger," survey of 
 the North Pacific, 1883-6 ; Light House Inspector, 1887 to May, 1891 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, May, 1891, to September, 1893; command 
 ing " Mohican," September, 1893, to December, 1894. Leave of absence 
 December 9, 1894, to January, 1895. Special duty, January 30, 1895. 
 Command U. S. receiving ship "Independence," November 18, 1895, to Sep 
 tember, 1896. Promoted to Captain, June 21, 1896. Command U. S. S. 
 "Monterey, September 30, 1896, to January, 1898, when he was ordered to 
 command of battle-ship " Oregon," at Mare Island Navy Yard, and at this 
 date, May 23d, the safe arrival of the " Oregon " at Key West, has just been 
 officially announced after a cruise around the Horn, which will always be 
 memorable in naval annals. 
 
 Charles James Barclay. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from 
 Pennsylvania. September 21, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to 
 Ensign, October 1, 1863 ; steam-sloop " Wachusett." Brazil Squadron, 186 -4 ; 
 steam sloop Kearsarge," European Squadron, 1865-6. Promoted to Mas 
 ter, November 10, 1866; steam-frigate * Susquehanna," special service, 1867. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867 ; steam -frigate "Minnesota," 
 special service, 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 12, 
 1868 ; steamer " Michigan," on the lakes, 1869 ; Pacific Fleet. 1870-2 ; Tor 
 pedo Station, 1873; commanding "Saugus" (iron-clad), North Atlantic 
 Station, 1874; "Dictator" (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1875-6; 
 commanding "Onward," 1877-79; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1880-1. Pro 
 moted to Commander, November, 1881 ; commanding "Alert," Asiatic Sta 
 tion, 1883-6; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1887, to November, 
 1891; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, November, 1891, to 
 May, 1893 ; commanding training-ship "Portsmouth," May, 1893 ; command 
 ing U.S.S." Mohican," November 30, 1893, to May, 1895; leave of absence, 
 May 24, 1896; Inspector Ordnance, Navy Yard, Boston, July 17, 1894. 
 Promoted to Captain, October 1, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. " Raleigh," 
 December 26, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. "Amphitrite," January 6, 1897, 
 to date 
 
 Joseph Bullock Coghlan. Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Illi 
 nois, September 27, 1860 ; Naval School, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, 
 May 28, 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop " Sacramento," special service, 1863- 
 5. Promoted to Master, November 10, 1865 ; steam-sloop " Brooklyn," flag- 
 
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 ship Brazil Squadron, 1865-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10, 
 1866; Executive Officer " Pawnee," 1867 ; steam-frigate " Guerriere," 1867- 
 8; sailing-sloop "Portsmouth," 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, March 12, 1868 ; steam-sloop " Richmond," European Squadron, 
 1868-71 ; Hydrographic Office, 1871-3 ; sick leave, 1873-4 ; commanding 
 " Saugus " iron-clad, North Atlantic Station, 1875-6; receiving-ship " Col 
 orado," 1877. " Monongahela," Asiatic Station, 1877-9 ; receiving ship 
 " Independence," 1879. Promoted to Commander, February, 1882 ; com 
 manding Adams," Pacific Station, 1883-4; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 1886-8 ; commanding " Mohican," Pacific Station, 1888-90 ; Inspector 
 Ordnance, League Island Navy Yard, January, 1891-4 ; Light-House In 
 spector, 1894-7. Commissioned as Captain, November 18, 1896; command 
 ing " Raleigh," Asiatic Station, 1897, to date ; took part in battle of Manila, 
 May 1, 1898. 
 
 Charles Vernon Gridley. Born in Indiana. Appointed from Mich 
 igan, September 26, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, 
 October 1, 1863; attached to steam-sloop "Oneida," West Gulf Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; steam sloop 
 " Brooklyn," flag-ship Brazil Squadron, 1865-7. Promoted to Master, No 
 vember 10, 1866 ; steam sloop " Kearsage," South Pacific Squadron, 1867-9. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867. Commissioned as Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, March 12, 1868; "Michigan" (fourth-rate), 1870-2; "Mo 
 nongahela" (second-rate), South Atlantic Station, 1873-4; Naval Academy, 
 1875-9; Executive Officer of practice-ship " Constellation " during summer 
 cruises of 1877 and 78 ; Executive Officer of U. S. flag-ship " Trenton," 
 European Station, from December, 1879, to November, 1881. Promoted to 
 Commander, March 10, 1882 ; in attendance at Torpedo Station during 
 summer of 1882 ; Navigation Officer at Boston Navy Yard from October, 
 1882, to February, 1884; ordered to command training-ship "Jamestown," 
 February 5, 1884; detached and ordered to command training-ship "Ports 
 mouth" on May 11, 1886; detached from " Portsmouth," December 10, 
 1886. Senior officer of Cruising Training Squadron from June, 1886, till 
 November, 1886; Inspector of Tenth Light-House District, Buffalo, N. Y., 
 July, 1887, to October, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Washington, October, 1891, to 
 July, 1892; commanding Marion," July, 1892-4; Light-House Inspector, 
 1895-7. Commissioned as Captain, March, 1897 ; commanding " Olympia," 
 Asiatic Station, July, 1897, to date; took part in battle of Manila, May 1, 
 1898. 
 
 Charles D. Sigsbee. Born in New York. Appointed from New York, 
 September 27, 1859; Naval Academy, 1859-63. Promoted to Ensign, Oc 
 tober 1, 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop " Monongahela," West Gulf Squadron, 
 1863-4 ; " Brooklyn," West Gulf Squadron, 1864 ; battle of Mobile Bay, 
 August 5, 1864; North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1865; both attacks 
 on Fort Fisher, and final assault on the same ; steam-sloop " Wyoming," 
 Asiatic Squadron, 1865-7. Promoted to Master, May 10, 1866. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867 ; steamer " Ashuelot," Asiatic Squad 
 ron, 1867-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander , March 12, 1868 ; on 
 duty at Naval Academy, 1869-71 ; " Severn " and " Worcester," flag-ships, 
 N. A. Station, 1871- ; " Canandaigua," 1872-3 ; Hydrographic Office, 1873^ 
 4; Coast Survey, 1874-5; commanding Coast Survey steamer "Blake," 
 1875-8; Hydrographic Office, 1878-82. Promoted to Commander, May 11, 
 1882 ; Naval Academy, 1882-5 ; commanding practice-ship " Dale," sum 
 mers of 1883-4 ; commanding * Kearsarge," European Station, 1885-6 ; spec- 
 
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 ial duty, Navy Department, September, 1887 ; member Examining and Re 
 tiring Board, 1887 ; Naval Academy, 1887-90; commanding practice-ship 
 "Constellation," part of summer, 1889; commanding training-ship Ports 
 mouth, 1891-92 ; Hydrographer, Navy Department, 1893-97. Commis 
 sioned as Captain, March 21, 1897; commanding battle-ship "Maine," 
 April, 1897, and until this splendid vessel was destroyed, February 15, 1898, 
 in Havana harbor, by an act of dastardly treachery ; commanding auxiliary 
 cruiser "St. Paul" since April, 1898. 
 
 Richard Phillips Leary. Born in, and appointed from, Maryland; 
 graduated from N. A., class of 1860. Promoted to Ensign, October, 1863. 
 Promoted to Master, May, 1866. Promoted to Lieutenant, February, 1867. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March, 1868. Attached to Blockading 
 Squadrons off Charleston, S. C., 1863-5 ; attached to " Canandaigua," Eu 
 ropean Station, 1865-8 ; attached to " Dictator," N. A. Fleet, 1870-3 ; 
 " Constellation," special service, 1879 ; " Pensacol a," Pacific Station, 1879- 
 81; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1881-2. Promoted to Commander. June, 
 1882; commanding receiving-ship "Wyandotte," 1883-5; commanding 
 " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1886-8; commanding Adams," Pacific Station, 
 1888-9 ; was Senior Officer at Samoa during the Revolution of 1888, when 
 the Tamasese government was overthrown ; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, September, 1890-3 ; General Inspector of the "Katahdin," Novem 
 ber, 1893 ; ordered to Naval War College, 1894 ; General Inspector of " Ka 
 tahdin, " 1895 ; Ordnance Instructor, Navy Yard, Washington, 1896 ; order* d 
 to command " Katahdin," February, 1896. Commissioned as Captain, April, 
 1897 ; ordered to command receiving-ship " Richmond, July, 1897 ; ordered 
 to command " San Francisco," September 28 1897, to date; the "San Fran 
 cisco " is now flagship of N. A. Patrol Squadron. 
 
 William Henry Whiting. Born in New York City, July 8, 1843. 
 Appointed from Wisconsin, September 21, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. 
 Promoted to Ensign, October 1, 1863; attached to flag-ship "Hartford," 
 West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; honorable mention by Admiral Farragut in 
 Squadron General Orders, for gallant conduct at the burning of the block 
 ade-runner " Ivanhoe," under the guns of Fort Morgan on the night of July 
 5, 1864 ; honorable mention by the Captain of the " Hartford," at the battle 
 of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; at the surrender of Fort Gaines, August 8, 
 1864 ; hauled down the Confederate flag and hoisted the United States flag ; 
 bombardment and surrender of Fort Morgan, August 24, 1864 ; steam-sloop 
 "Kearsarge," European Squadron, 1865-6. Promoted to Master, November 
 10, 1866; steamer "Frolic," European Squadron, 1866-8. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 
 March 12, 1868; steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," European Squadron, 1868-9; 
 "Swatara" (fourth-rate), N. A. Squadron, 1869-71; "Benecia" (second- 
 rate), N. P. Station, 1872-5 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1875-6 ; Torpedo 
 School, Newport, R. 1 , 1876 ; " Constitution," special service, 1878-9 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, 1881-4. Promoted to Commander, July, 1882 ; command 
 ing training-ship " Saratoga," 1884-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1886-9 ; 
 commanding " Kearsarge," N. A. Squadron, 1889 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 February, 1890, to October, 1892; commanding "Alliance," October, 1892, 
 to October, 1893; commandant Navy Yard, Pensacola, January, 1894, to 
 July, 1896; commandant Port Orchard Naval Station, August, 1896, to 
 June, 1897. Promoted to Captain, June 19, 1897. Commanding "jMonad- 
 nock " (second-rate), Pacific Station, June, 1897, to date. 
 
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 N. Mayo Dyer Entered the volunteer navy in 1861 as a Master s Mate, 
 and served in that grade in Western Gulf Squadron, until he was, for gallant 
 and meritorious conduct, promoted to Acting Ensign, May 18, 1863, and ap 
 pointed to command the "Eugenie," afterwards called the "Glasgow," block 
 ading off Mobile and despatch duty. January 12, 1864, promoted to Acting 
 Mader in consideration of gallant and faithful service; July, 1864, granted 
 two months leave ; but relinquished it upon arriving at New Orleans en route 
 North, upon learning of the near prospect of an attack upon the Mobile 
 forts Returning off Mobile, and soliciting orders, was assigned to the " Me- 
 tacomet," July J9, 1864, in which vessel, as the consort of the "Hartford," 
 took part in the passage of the forts and capture of the rebel fleet, receiving 
 the surrender of the "Selma " in person. Upon the surrender of Eort Mor 
 gan accepted his leave, before relinquished, and upon his return therefrom 
 October 28, 1864, was ordered to the " Hartford," flag-ship of Admiral Far- 
 ragut. Upon that vessel s return North, December, 1864, Mr. Dyer was 
 appointed to the command of the U. S. S. "Rodolph," with which command 
 he co operated with the forces under General Granger during the winter of 
 1864-5, in their operations against Mobile from Pascagoula, rendering im 
 portant service in this connection in Mississippi Sound and Pascagoula River. 
 In the advance upon the defences of Mobile, in the spring of 1865, via 
 Blakely, his vessel, the " Rodolph," was sunk by a torpedo in Blakely 
 River, April 1, 1865. April 22, 1865, Mr. Dyer was promoted to an Acting 
 Volunteer Lieutenant, and upon the surrender of the rebel fleet under Com 
 modore Farrand, in the Tombigbee River, May 10, 1865, Mr. Dyer was 
 selected to command successively two of the surrendered vessels, the " Black 
 Diamond" and Morgan;" appointed to command the "Elk" in June, 
 
 1865, and in July ordered to command the " Stockdale," and proceed to Missis 
 sippi Sound for the protection of the people along that shore and to " culti 
 vate friendly relations with the people lately in rebellion ; " September, 1865, 
 " Stockdale" ordered to New Orleans to be sold, Mr. Dyer was transferred to 
 the u Mahaska" at Apalachicola, Florida ; in October detached from the 
 " Mahaska " and ordered to command the " Glasgow " at Pensacola ; April, 
 
 1866, detached and ordered North to report to the Bureau of Navigation ; 
 on special duty in the Bureau until May, 1868. Commissioned a Lieutenant 
 in the regular navy, March 12, 1868 ; July, 1868, ordered to the "Daeotah," 
 South Pacific Squadron, joining at Valparaiso, August 27. December 18, 
 
 1868, commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander ; " Dacotah " being ordered to 
 San Francisco, upon her arrival there Mr. Dyer was ordered, September, 
 
 1869, to command the " Cyane " and proceed to Sitka, Alaska, where he 
 remained until March, 1870, from whence he was ordered to San Francisco 
 to join the " Pensacola ; " ordered to " Ossipee." July, 1870, on a short cruise 
 to Lower California and the Mexican coast. While the " Ossipee " was pro 
 ceeding North from the Mexican coast she encountered a hurricane which 
 left the sea in a troubled state, and in the morning whilst making sail a man 
 fell overboard from maintopsail-yard the halyards carrying away while 
 hoisting top-sails. Striking in main-chains he was knocked senseless, and 
 was drifting astern. Dyer was taking an observation on the poop-deck, and, 
 immediately turning a bowline in the end of boat fall, jumped into the sea and 
 saved the man from sharks or drowning. For this he was publicly thanked 
 by Commodore W. R. Taylor, Commander-in-Chief, and received a medal, 
 etc. In September, to the South Pacific Station ; detached and ordered 
 home, August 22, 1871 ; November 7, 1871, ordered to Boston Navy Yard ; 
 September 1, 1873, to Torpedo School at Newport ; November 24, to com- 
 
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 mand torpedo-boat " Mayflower " at Norfolk, for duty on the North Atlantic 
 Station ; April 10, 1874, transferred to command of the " Pinta ; " February, 
 1876, detached from the " Pinta " and ordered as Executive of the " New 
 Hampshire," fitting out at Norfolk, for permanent flag-ship at Port Royal ; 
 December, 1876, detached from "New Hampshire," ordered home, ordered 
 to equipment duty, Boston Navy Yard, 1877-9 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 
 1879-81; attached to Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1881-3. Pro 
 moted to Commander, April, 1883 ; Light-House Inspector, 1883-7 ; com 
 manding " Marion," Asiatic Station, 1887-90 Waiting orders, June, 1893 ; 
 Naval War College, June, 1894 ; waiting orders, November, 1894 ; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, June, 1895, to May, 1896 ; light-house inspector, June, 1896, to 
 July, 1897 ; commissioned Captain, July, 1897 ; commanding protected 
 cruiser "Baltimore," Asiatic Station, August, 1897, to date. Took part in 
 battle of Manila, May 1, 1898. 
 
 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 
 8,1862; rescued Lieutenant Morris from drowning, and, being favorably 
 mentioned, was promoted to Acting Master, May 1, 1862; attached to gun 
 boat " Tioga," during latter part of 1862 to July, 1864 ; cruised in Wilkes s 
 Special West India Squadron, and East Gulf Blockading Squadron ; steamer 
 1 Rhode Island," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 j both attacks 
 on Fort Fisher, favorably mentioned for the same. Promoted to Actiny 
 Volunteer Lieutenant, May 30, 1865 ; receiving-ship " Princeton," at Phila 
 delphia, part of 1865-6; steam-gunboat "Shamrock," European Squadron, 
 part of 1886-7, visited west coast of Africa, islands in Atlantic, Spain, 
 France, and Italy ; store-ship " Guard," European Squadron, part of 1867-8. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 11, 1868. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, December 18, 1868; receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston, 1869; 
 Aide to Port-Admiral Hiram Paulding, at Boston, 1870; iron-clad "Dicta 
 tor," North Atlantic Squadron, 1870-1; receiving ship "Boston," 1872; 
 "Wasp" (fourth-rate), South Atlantic Squadron, 1873-6; training-ship 
 "Minnesota," 1876-7; commanding " Supply," (fourth- rate), 1877; "Swa- 
 tara," Asiatic Station, 1877-9 ; ordnance duty, Boston Navy Yard, 1879-82 ; 
 "Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1882-4; special ordnance duty, 1884-6. Pro 
 moted to Commander, July, 1884 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New York, 
 1886-9; commanding "Dolphin," special service, 1889-90; General In 
 spector of the " Marblehead," September, 1892-96 ; Inspector Ordnance, 
 Navy Yard, Washington, April, 1896 to 1897 ; Chief of Bureau of Ord 
 nance, June, 1897, to date, with relative rank of Commodore. Commissioned 
 as Captain, July, 1897. 
 
 Caspar Frederick Goodrich. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed 
 from Connecticut, December 9, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-4; graduated 
 at the head of the class of 1864; attached to steam-frigate "Colorado," flag 
 ship European Squadron, 1865-7. Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866 ; 
 steamer " Frolic," European Squadron, 1867-8. Commissioned as Lieulenanf, 
 March 12, 1868; sloop "Portsmouth," and steam-sloop "Lancaster," South 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1868-71. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, De 
 cember 18, 1868; Naval Academy, 1871-3; "Tennessee" (second-rate), 
 Asiatic Squadron, 1875-6; "Kearsarge" (third-rate), Asiatic Station, 1876-8 ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1878-80; "Lancaster," European Station, 1881-4; Naval 
 attache Staff of Lieuteuant-General Sir Garnet W T olseley, during the Tel-elr 
 
74 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Kebir campaign, 1882 : Special Inspector of Ordnance, 1884-6 ; member of 
 the Endicott Board of Fortifications, 1885. Promoted to Commander, Sep 
 tember, 1884; in charge Torpedo Station, 1886-9; commanding "Constel 
 lation," November, 1891, to June, 1893; commanding "Concord," June, 
 1893, to 1895; Lecturer at Naval War College, 1896-7 ; President Naval 
 War College, 1897 to date. Gold Medallist Naval Institute. 
 
 French Ensor Chadwick. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Vir 
 ginia, September 28, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; attached to steam-sloop 
 " Susquehanna/* Brazil Squadron, 1865-6; steam-sloop "Jimiata," South 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7. Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866 ; appren 
 tice-ship " Sabine," 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868; 
 steam-sloop " Tuscarora," South Pacific Squadron, 1868-70. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant- Commander, December 18,1868; " Guerriere " (second-rate), 
 European Squadron, 1870-2; Naval Academy, 1873-4; " Powhatan " 
 (second-rate), North Atlantic Station, 1875-8; Navy Yard, New York, 
 1879-80; Special Light-House Duty, 1880-2; Naval Attache, London, 
 1882-9. Promoted to Commander, December, 1884 ; commanding "York- 
 town," Squadron of Evolution, April, 1889, to July, 1891 ; special duty, 
 Navy Department, and on Board of Labor Re-organization, July, 1891, to 
 September, 1892 ; Chief Intelligence Officer, September, 1892. to July, 1893 ; 
 Chief Bureau of Equipment, with rank of Commodore, July, 1893, to Novem 
 ber, 1897. Commissioned Captain, November, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. 
 " New York," armored cruiser, flagship of North Atlantic Squadron, De 
 cember, 1897, to date, 
 
 Theodore Frelinghuysen Jewell Born in Georgetown, D. C. Ap 
 pointed Acting Midshipman from Virginia, and entered Naval Academy, 
 November 29, 1861. Midshipman, July 16, 1862 ; in June, 1863, the invasion 
 of Maryland by Lee s army being imminent and the defences of Washington 
 being threatened, was ordered to report to the Commandant of the Washing 
 ton Navy Yard and Potomac Flotilla for duty ; organized a battery of field 
 artillery from the crews of the vessels of the Potomac Flotilla, with which he 
 served in the defense of the capital until the end of July ; graduated from 
 the Naval Academy, November 22, 1864 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," at 
 New York, until April, 1865 ; frigate " Colorado," flagship of the European 
 Squadron, April, 1865, to December, 1866. Promoted Ensign, November 1, 
 1866. Master, December 1, 1866. Lieutenant, March 12, 1868; steam- 
 sloop " Canandaigua " and steamer " Frolic," from December, 1866, to May, 
 1868 ; Hydrographic Office from October. 1868, to May, 1869. Promoted 
 Lieutenant- Commander, March 26, 1869; frigate "Sabine," May, 1869, to 
 August, 1870; Naval Observatory, September, 1870, to March, 1871 ; Naval 
 Academy, assistant in Department of Physics and Chemistry, March, 1871, 
 to May, 1872; "Tuscarora," from May, 1872, to October, Ib74, during 
 which assisted in a survey of an inter-oceanic canal route ; served as Execu 
 tive Officer of the " Tuscarora," during her deep-sea sounding expedition in the 
 North Pacific Ocean ; in command of a force of sailors and marines landed 
 at Panama in 1873 for the protection of American property ; also in com 
 mand of a force landed from the " Tuscarora " at Honolulu, in February, 
 1874, on the election of Kalakaua as king, the city being in the hands of a 
 mob. Naval Academy, Instructor in Physics and Chemistry, December, 
 1874, to June 1878 ; in command of steamer " Gedney," Coast Survey, June, 
 1878, to August, 1879 ; Executive Officer of frigate " Constitution," training- 
 ship for apprentices, August, 1879, to May, 1881 ; Torpedo Station, June, 
 1881, to June rf 1886. Promoted Commander, January 26, 1885; commanded 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 75 
 
 " Essex," on Asiatic Station, June, 1886, to May, 1889; member of Board 
 of Organization, etc., October and November, 1889 ; Inspector of Ordnance 
 in charge of Torpedo Station from December, 1889, to January, 1893 ; 
 Superintendent of the Naval Gun Factory at Washington Navy Yard, from 
 January 4, 1893, to February 10, 1896 ; in command of " Marblehead," 
 European and North Atlantic Stations from March 15, 1896, to March 16, 
 1897; Inspector Tenth Light House District, April 1, 1897, to March 12, 
 1898. Promoted to Captain, February 1, 1898; in command of "Minne 
 apolis," protected cruiser, March 15, 1898. 
 
 William Mayhew Folger. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, 
 September 21, 1861 ; at Naval Academy until November 22, 1864; receiv 
 ing-ship " North Carolina," at New York, and school-ship " Sabine," New 
 London, from February 6, 1865, to July 25, 1865; steam-sloop "Hartford," 
 flagship Asiatic Squadron, July 25, 1865, to August 6, 1868, Promoted to 
 Ma4er, December 1, 1866 Promoted to Lieutenant, March 11, 1868. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant- Commander, December 18, 1868; at Norfolk Navy 
 Yard, October, 1868, until ordered to the "Franklin;" in steam-frigate 
 "Franklin," flagship European Squadron, 1868-71 ; European Fleet, 1872 ; 
 ordnance duty, 1873-4; leave Europe, 1875-6; "Marion" (third-rate), 
 European Station, 1877; Naval Academy, 1877-79; "Swatara," Asiatic 
 Station, 1879-82 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 1882 ; ordnance duty, Annapolis, 
 1882-85. Promoted to Commander, March, 1885 ; commanding " Quinnebaug," 
 European Station, 1886-88 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, 1888-90; Chief of Bureau of Ordnance, with rank of Commodore, from 
 February, 1890, to January, 1893; command of U. S. S. "Yorktown," in 
 Behring Sea and China Station, 1894-95 ; Light-House Inspector, 1896-7. 
 Promoted to Captain, February, 1898 ; commanding protected cruiser "New 
 Orleans," North Atlantic Station, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Benjamin Peffer Lamberton. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed 
 from Pennsylvania, Sept. 21, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-5 ; attached to 
 steam-sloop " Susquehanna," Brazil Squadron, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop " Juni- 
 ata," South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7. Promoted to Master, December 1, 
 1866 ; apprentice-ship " Saratoga," 1867-9. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 12, 1867. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, December 18, 
 1868; "Mohican" (third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1870-2; " Dictator" (iron 
 clad), North Atlantic Fleet, 1873-4; torpedo service, 1875; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1876 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1876-7 : "Alaska," 
 Pacific Station, 1877-9; Bureau of Equipment, 1879-82; " Vandalia," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1882-4; Light House Inspector, 1885-8. Promoted 
 to Commander, June, 1885; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1888-9; commanding 
 training-ship " Jamestown," 1889 to November, 1891 ; Bureau Yards and 
 Docks, November, 1891, to October, 1894. Light House Inspector, 1894-7. 
 Promoted to Captain, May 17, 1898; reported for duty on Asiatic Station 
 April, 1898 ; served as Chief of Staff to Admiral Dewey at the battle of 
 Manila, May 1, 1898. 
 
 CAPTAINS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired on their own application, after forty years service. 
 
 Milton Haxtun. 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 
 SquadroD, lS46 ; Home Squadron, 1846-7 ; attack on Alvarado, 1846 ; Naval 
 
76 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 School, 1847-8. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, August 10, 1847 ; mail- 
 steamer " Ohio," 1850 ; mail-steamer " Baltic," 1851 ; sloop " Plymouth," East 
 ludia SquadroD, 1852-4. Attack on and capture and destruction of Impe 
 rial Chinese fortified camp (defended by several thousand troop-), 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 ; North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1862.; attack and capture of Fort Ma con, April 26, 1862. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1862; commanding steam- 
 gunboat " Kineo," Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863; commanding 
 steamer " Maratanza," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; com 
 manding steamer "Mercidita," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; 
 Naval Rendezvous, New York, 1866 ; receiving- ship New York, 1866. Com 
 missioned as Commander, December 29, 1866 ; Naval Rendezvous, New 
 York, 1868 ; commanding the store-ship "Onward," Pacific Fleet, 1869-71 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1871-5 ; commanding " Vandalia" (third-rate), N. 
 A. Station, 1876 ; commanding <l Despatch " (fourth-rate) special service, 
 Europe, 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1878-81. Promoted to Captain, Feb 
 ruary, 1878. Retired, February, 1883, on his own application, after more 
 than forty years service. 
 
 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 " Bainbridge," Brazil Squadron, 1851 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1852. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852 ; brig 
 Dolphin," special service, 1853 ; sloop " Cyane," Home Squadron, 1853-4 ; 
 while on the " Cyane," assisted in the destruction of Graytown ; Coast Survey, 
 1855-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 ; steam-frigate 
 " Merrimac." Pacific Squadron, 1858-60; steam-sloop <l Richmond," Medi 
 terranean Squadron, 1860 ; steamer " Crusader." 1861 ; commanded yacht 
 " Wanderer," as despatch-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 Block 
 ading Squadron, 1863-4 ; Inspector, etc., Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 
 1867-8. Commissioned as Commander, April 14, 1867 ; commanded the 
 steam-gunboat " Galena," 1869; Naval Observatory, 1870-1; commanding 
 R. S. "Vandalia," 1871-2; commanding R. S. "Potomac," 1872-3; equip 
 ment duty, Norfolk, 1874; commanding "Ossipee" (third-rate), N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1875-8. Promoted, April, 1878; commandiner R. S. " Wabash," 
 1878-81 ; commanding " Lancaster," S. A. Station, 1886-8. Retired, March, 
 1888. 
 
 Allen V. Reed. Entered the Naval Academy as Acting Midshipman, 
 September 26, 1854 ; two practice-ship cruises in " Preble, Commander 
 Joseph H. Green, in 1855-7 ; graduated June 10, 1858 ; joined " Mace 
 donian," Key West, July 12, 1858 ; went to Mediterranean Squadron, 
 waiting orders, July 28, 1860 ; final examination, January 5, 1861. Pro 
 moted to Passed Midshipman, January 9, 1861 ; joined u Pawnee," February 
 12. Promoted to Master, February 28, 1861 ; transferred to " Water-Witch," 
 March 8, Gulf Squadron, as Navigator and Watch -Officer. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, April 18, 1861 ; joined flag-ship " Colorado," September 16, as 
 Watch-Officer; joined "Potomac" in December, 1861, as Watch-Officer, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 77 
 
 and afterwards was Executive-Officer for one year ; joined " Lackawanna " as 
 Executive-Officer, August 17, 1863 ; detached November 12, and ordered 
 North; waiting orders till February 6, 1864; then joined "Tuscarora" at 
 Beaufort, North Carolina, as Executive-Officer, North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron ; detached at Baltimore, June 1, and took the crew on to New 
 York; joined the "Pawtuxet" (double-ender),as Executive-Officer, June 6. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March 3,1865; in command of the 
 "Pawtuxet" for two months ; detached July 15, 1865; waiting orders till 
 September 14 ; then joined " Miantonomah" as Executive-Officer ; detached 
 April 29, 1866; wailing orders till July 11 ; then at Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 as assistant to the Executive Officer till September 26 ; theji joined * Resaca," 
 as Executive Officer, and went to Pacific Station ; transferred to " Saranac," 
 February 20, 1868 ; officers and crew transferred to " Jamestown," January 
 25, 1869 ; detached July 1, and ordered home ; joined receiving-ship " Ver 
 mont," September 11, as Executive-Officer ; equipment duty at Navy Yard, 
 New York, from May, 15, 1870, to September 26 ; navigation duty (same 
 yard) from September, 1870, to May, 1872. Promoted to Commander, 
 April 1, 1872 ; waiting orders till July*23 ; joined " Kansas " at Key West, 
 August 9 ; in command till June 20, 1874 ; connected with the Nicaragua 
 Surveying Expedition and the North Atlantic Station ; waiting orders till 
 November 19 ; then attached to Hydrographic Office, and as Assistant 
 Hydrographer since September 20, 1875-80. Commanding "Alliance," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1882-4. Promoted to Captain, July, 1884; com 
 manding training-ship <; Minnesota," 1884-6; waiting orders, 1887-8 ; Com 
 manding "Richmond," South Atlantic Station, 1888-90; commanding Navy 
 Yard, Pensacola, December, 1890, to June, 1894; waiting orders, June, 1894, 
 to November, 1894 ; commanding Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., Novem 
 ber, 1894, to January, 1896. Retired, June, 1896. 
 
 Alfred T. Mahan. Born in New York. Appointed from New York, 
 September 30, 1856; Naval Academy, 1856-9; Brazil, 1859-61; steamer 
 " Pocahontas," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, August 31, 1861; Naval Academy, 1862-3; steam-sloop, 
 " Seminole," Western Gulf Squadron, 1863-4 ; steamer " James Adger, "South 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1864-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant Commander, June 
 7, 1865; steamer " Muscoota," Gulf Squadron, 1865-6; steamer " Iroquois," 
 Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9; commanding steamer " Aroostook," Asiatic Fleet, 
 18^9 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1870-71 ; steamer " Worcester," 1871 ; R. S., 
 New York, 1872. Commissioned as Commander, November 20, 1872; com 
 manding " Wasp " (fourth -rate), South Atlantic Station, 1873-4; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1876-7; Naval Academy, 1877-80; Navy Yard, New York, 
 1880-3 ; commanding " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1883-5, Promoted to 
 Captain, 1885 ; Naval War College, 1885 ; President Naval War College, 
 1886-9 ; President of a Commission for selecting site for Navy Yard on 
 Northwest Coast, 1889 ; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, 1889, to July, 
 1892 ; President War College and Torpedo School, July, 1892, to May, 1893 ; 
 commanding "Chicago," May, 1893, to May, 1895. Retired upon his own 
 app ication, after forty years service, November 17, 1896. May, 1898, 
 ordered to duty at Navy Department as member of Naval War Board. 
 
 Henry B. "Seely. Born at Seneca Falls, N. Y., July 7, 1838. Ap 
 pointed from New York, May 26, 1852; Naval Academy, 1852-7 ; " Minne 
 sota," East India Squadron, 1857-9. Passed Midshipman, June 25, 1860. 
 Master, October 24, 1860; " Iroquois," European Station, 1860-1. Lieuten 
 ant, April 17, 1861; "Keystone State," West Indies (cruising), 1861; 
 
78 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 "Sumler," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2; " Saranac," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1863-5. Lieutenant- Commander, February 21, 1864; 
 "Bienville," West Indies. 1866; " Guerriere " and "Pawnee," 1867-9; 
 commanding "Kansas," Paraguay River, 1869; Rendezvous, Boston, 1873. 
 Commander, August 24, 1873 ; Light-House Inspector, 1873-6 ; torpedo 
 instruction, 1878 ; commanding "Ajax," 1878-80; in charge of Rendezvous, 
 New York, 1881 ; commanding " Nipsic," European and South Atlantic 
 Squadrons, 1881-4. Captain, December 13, 1886 ; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, Captain of Yard, 1884-8 ; commanding receiving-ship " St. Louis," 
 1886-7 ; Commandant Navy Yard, League Island, 1888, to March, 1891 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Lancaster," March, 1891, to June, 1892, when he was 
 placed on the retired list. Retired from incapacity resulting from long and 
 faithful service. 
 
 Francis Lowry. Born in Vermont. Appointed from Vermont, August 
 3,1831; attached to flag-ship "Fairfield," West India Squadron, 1831-2, 
 visiting St. Domingo, Windward 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 " Brandy- 
 wine," Pacific Squadron, 1834-6 to April, 1837; part of years 1837-8 at 
 Naval School, New York. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 23, 1838 ; 
 Coast Survey, 1838-40 ; in 1841-2, steamer " Fulton," part of the time as 
 Acting Master ; receiving-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, 1845-7; retired in 1855; Naval Rendez 
 vous, Portland, Maine, 1861. Commissioned as Captain, 1867. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from long and faithful service. 
 
 Francis S. Haggerty. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Penn 
 sylvania, February 17,1832; attached to schooner "Experiment," Chesa 
 peake Bay, 1832-3, and also in Charleston Harbor during the time of nulli 
 fication, 1833; sloop-of-war "Ontario," coast of Brazil, 1833-4; frigate 
 "Constitution," Mediterranean Squadron, 1835-7. Promoted to Passed Mid 
 shipman, 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 ; brig " Bainbridge," coast of Africa, 1849-51 ; 
 receiving-ship "New l^ork," 1851-2 ; steam-frigate "Powhatan," Japan Ex 
 pedition, Commodore Perry, 1852-5; Naval Observatory, Washington, 
 1855-7 ; steam frigate "Saranac," Pacific Squadron, 1857-9 ; brig "Perry," 
 East Gulf Squadron, 1860; at the commencement of the Rebellion, was em 
 ployed on the river Potomac, in command of the brig " Perry ; " was trans 
 ferred to the sloop-of-war " Vandalia," belonging to the Squadron under com 
 mand of Commodore Dupont, Port Royal Expedition ; convoyed the powder 
 and store-ships to the place of destination ; commanded the sloop-of-war 
 " Vandalia," in the attack on the rebel batteries 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 Congress 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 ; retired, March, 1867, in charge of iron clads, New Orleans, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 79 
 
 1867-9 ; Light-House Inspector, Seventh District, Key West, Florida, 
 1870-1. 
 
 Theodore F. Kane. Born in Washington, D. C., August 19, 1840. 
 Appointed from New York, September 27, 1865; Naval Academy, 1855-9; 
 attached to flag-ship " Constellation " and steamer " Mystic," West Coast of 
 Africa, 1859-61. Commissioned as Lieutenant, August, 1861, executive- 
 officer, " Bainbridge," Blockading Squadron, coast of Florida, 1861-2; 
 " Sonoma," James River Flotilla ; engagements with rebel batteries on James 
 River, 1862; Naval Academy, 1862-3; commanded U. S. schooner yacht 
 "America," summer of 1863; sent in search of the pirate "Tacony" and 
 others; "Neptune," Flying Squadron, West India Squadron, 1863-5; 
 apprentice-ship " Savannah," summer of 1865. Commissioned as Lieutenant- 
 Commander September, 1865; Naval Academy, Instructor in Gunnery, 
 1865-8; " Mohongo," North Pacific Station, 1868-9 ; " Juniata," European 
 Fleet, 1869-71 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1871-2; commanded "Fiolic," 
 1872. Commissioned as Commander, December, 1872 ; special duty, Aide 
 to the Admiral of the Navy, 1873-6; commanded "Alliance," European 
 Station, 1876-9; Naval Observatory, 1879-80; Naval Academy, command 
 ing "Santee, 1880; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, New York, 
 1881-4; commanded " Galena," North Atlantic Station, 1884-5 ; was Senior 
 Officer at Aspinwall, March, 1885, during revolt and fire, his action receiv 
 ing Department s approval ; commanded training-ship " Minnesota," 1886-8. 
 Commissioned as Captain, May, 1886; commanded flag-ship "Lancaster;" 
 President Board Inspection of Merchant Vessels, New York, November, 
 1893; waiting orders, November, 1894; Court Martial duty, June, 1895 ; 
 commanding "Monterey," September, 1895-96. Retired, June, 1896. 
 
 John R. Bartlett. Bora in New York. Appointed from Rhode Island, 
 November 25, 1859; Naval Academy, 1859-61; attached to steam-sloop 
 " Mississippi," West Gulf Blockading 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. Promoted to Ensign, September 
 8, 1863; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, February 22, 1864; steam-sloop "Susquehanna," North Atlantic 
 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. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866 ; steamer " Nipsic," Atlantic Squad 
 ron. 1866-7; Naval Academy, 1867-9; frigate "Sabine," special cruise, 
 1869 ; T. and N. Surveying Expedition, 1870-1 ; special duty, 1871-2 ; ord 
 nance duty, Navy Yard, Boston, 1872-4 ; Hydrographic Office, 1877. Com 
 missioned as Commander, 1877 ; Bureau of Equipment, 1877-9 ; command 
 ing Coast Survey steamer "Blake," 1879-82; in charge of Hydrographic 
 Office, 1882-8; leave of absence, 1889 to December, 1890; commanding 
 "Marion," April, 1891, to December, 1892. Captain, July 1, 1892 ; special 
 duty, December, 1892, to May, 1893, and then ordered to command "Atlan 
 tic;" on sick leave, December, 1894; special duty, War College, June, 1895; 
 member Light House Board, November, 1895 ; commanding " Puritan," 
 December, 1896. Retired, July, 1897. 
 
 George W. Coffin. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa 
 chusetts, September 20, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to 
 Ensign, October 1, 1863 ; steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," North Atlantic Block 
 ading Squadron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher; wounded by a Minie- 
 
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 ball in right leg at land assault on Fort Fisher; steamer "Shawmut," Brazil 
 Squadron, 1866. Commissioned as Lieutenant, July 25, 1866 ; steam-frigate 
 "Franklin," European Squadron, 1867-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant- 
 Commander, March 12, 1868 ; Naval Academy, 1868-9 ; Chief of-Staff, S. S. 
 of North Atlantic Fleet, 1870-1 ; " Constellation " (gunnery-ship), 1871-2; 
 Naval Academy, 1873-4; "Plymouth," North Atlantic Station, 1875; 
 "Hartford," flagship, North Atlantic Station, 1875-6; Coast Survey (com 
 manding "Hassler"), 1876-8. Promoted to Commander, November, 1878; 
 Light-House Inspector, 1881-4; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New York, 
 1884-6; commanding steamer "Alert," Greeley Relief Expedition, 1884; 
 commanding steamer " Quinnebaug," Mediterranean Squadron, 1886-7 ; 
 Light-House Inspector, 1888-9; Secretary Light Board, 1889-90; leave of 
 absence, November, 1892; commanding " Charlestown," February, 1894-6; 
 member of Examining Board, October, 1896 ; member Board Inspection 
 and Survey, April, 1897. Retired, September, 1897. 
 
 William Bainbridge-Hoff. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from 
 Pennsylvania, October 24, 1860; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to 
 Ensign, October 1, 1863; attached to steam-frigate "Niagara," 1864; East 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; taking part in the expedition to capture 
 St. Mark s, Fla., which terminated in the Battle of Natural Bridge ; steamer 
 "Shawmut," Brazil Squadron, 1865-6. Promoted to Master, May 10, 1866 ; 
 steam-frigate, "Franklin," flagship, European Squadron, 1867-8. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, February 21, 1867. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, March 12, 1868; Naval Academy, 1869; "Kansas" (fourth-rate), 
 T. and N. Expedition, 1870-1 ; torpedo service, 1872; Senior Aide to Rear- 
 Admiral Pennock, Commander-in-chief, Pacific Station ; "Saranac" (second- 
 rate >, Pacific Fleet, 1872-4; special duty, Washington, 1875; commanding 
 "Alarm " (torpedo-boat), 1875-6 ; League Island Station, 1876-7 ; aide to 
 Admiral Porter, 1877-81. Promoted to Commander, August, 1881 ; com 
 manding training-ship " Portsmouth," 1881-3 ; torpedo station, 1883 ; special 
 duty (Chief Signal-Officer), Navy Department, 1883-6 ; commanding 
 "Ossipee," North Atlantic Station, 1886-8; commanding " Dale" (school 
 for seamen gunners), January, 1890, to March, 1892 ; author of several 
 works on Naval Tactics, "Avoidance of Collisions at Sea," and originator of 
 the system of tactics officially adopted in the Navy (1890) ; duty in connec 
 tion with the World s Columbian Exposition as Commissioner to Great 
 Britain (London, England), March, 1892, to October, 1893 ; special duty 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1895 ; commanding U. S. S. " Lancaster," September, 
 1895 ; transferred to command U. S. S. "Newark," spring 1896; placed on 
 retired list of Navy for serious illness, spring of 1897. 
 
 Retired as not recommended for promotion. 
 
 Thomas G. Corbin. Born in Virginia, August 13, 1820. Appointed 
 from Alabama, May 15, 1838. Midshipman, May 15, 1838 ; frigate u Brandy- 
 wine," May 15, 1839 ; detached May, 1842 ; " Fairfield," May, 1842-3 ; " Pre- 
 ble," 1843. Passed Midshipman, May 15, 1844 ; surveying schooner " Nau 
 tilus," 1844-8 ; frigate " Columbia," 1845-7. Acting Lieutenant, latter part 
 ot cruise; Coast Survey, 1848-50, " St. Mary s," as Acting Master, 1850-3. 
 Lieutenant, June 10, 1852 ; " Princeton," West India Squadron, 1853-5 ; 
 "Active," 1855-6, Pacific and Puget Sound ; " John Adams," 1856-7, Pacific 
 Ocean; frigate " Wabash," 1858-60, Mediterranean; Naval Rendezvous, 
 Philadelphia, 1860-1 ; "Wabash," Executive Officer, April, 1861 ; August, 
 1861, engaged in the capture of the forts at Hatteras Inlet; and in the same 
 
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 vessel, in the capture, November 7, of Port Koyal, South Carolina ; and, 
 1862, in the fall of St. Augustine, Fernandina, etc. Commander, July 16, 
 1862 ; 1862-3, in command of flag-ship " Wabash," South Atlantic Block 
 ading Squadron, S. F. Dupont, Rear-Admiral ; July, 1863, Commandant of 
 Midshipmen at Naval Academy, and Ordnance Officer, Philadelphia Navy 
 Yard; "Augusta," 1864-5, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron; Fleet 
 Captain, West India Squadron, 1866. Captain, July 22, 1866 ; May, 1867-8, 
 commanding flag-ship " Guerriere," South Atlantic Squadron ; 1869-74, 
 Courts Martial, Examining Boards, and Inspector of Light-Houses, Fourth 
 District. Retired, January 5, 1874. 
 
 The cause of Captain Corbin s retirement is fully explained in the follow 
 ing report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives : 
 
 The Committee on Naval Affairs, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 3532) for the relief of 
 Capt. Thomas G. Corbin, having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the, fol 
 lowing report : 
 
 Captain Corbin was appointed an acting midshipman in 1838. He passed through all 
 the intermediate grades of the service and in July, 1866, was promoted to the rank 
 of captain. On the 21st of May, 1873, Captain Corbin was ordered to report in Wash 
 ington for examination preliminary to promotion. On appearing before the examining 
 board, he was informed that he would be required to submit to an oral examination to 
 test his proficiency in the knowledge of his profession. He thereupon filed a paper, 
 electing, under section 3 of the Act of April 26, 1864, section 1500, Revised Statutes, to 
 be absent during the examination of his case, which paper is as follows : 
 
 " MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE BOARD: I am now given to understand 
 that the board proposes to examine me in person, by interrogatories, to ascertain my 
 proficiency in one or more branches of professional knowledge. 
 
 " I respectfully object to any such examination, as entirely beyond the purview of the 
 several acts of Congress under which the board is constituted. 
 
 "I call the attention of the board to the accompanying paper, marked A, embodying 
 briefly the construe! ion of the Act of 1864, which much careful consideration convinces 
 me is the only tenable one. 1 refrain from presenting to the board at this time arguments 
 which make it seem to me impossible that Congress should ever mean to subject a naval 
 officer of the rank of Captain, after thirty-five years service, to the same sort of examina 
 tion as a clerk in one of the executive departments. 
 
 " For at le;ist eighty years of our national history the rank which I now hold was the 
 highest to which an officer of the navy could attain. I should esteem myself wanting, 
 not only in self-respect, but in the duty which you and I, gentlemen, alike owe to the 
 honor and dignity of our professions, should I willingly consent to such an examination 
 as is now proposed. Happily, as 1 think, the law requires from me no such degra 
 dation. 
 
 " The Act of 1864 leaves it optional with me to be present or absent during the pend 
 ing investigation, and I hereby elect to be absent. In doing so, I enter my solemn pro 
 test against such withdrawal being allowed any weight in framing your report in my 
 case. Upon every principle of honor with which I am acquainted, a failure to report an 
 officer as fitted for promotion is equivalent to the expression of an opinion that, for some 
 reason, you deem that officer unfit for promotion. If from any testimony before the 
 board, from any record in the department, or from any answer to written interrogatories, 
 the board shall find matter requiring personal explanation from me, I will cheerfully 
 answer the summons of the board upon being duly notified as required by third sec 
 tion of the Act of April 21, 1864. 
 
 " I respectfully request the board to examine and consider the accompanying paper. 
 4< Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 " THOMAS G. CORBIN, 
 " Captain United States Navy." 
 
 He filed therewith an argument, which is as follows : 
 
 " Before examining the purport of the law, it is to be observed that the board is to be 
 governed solely by the act of Congress itself, which confers no other power upon the ex- 
 cutive department of the government than to appoint the members of the board. In this 
 respect it differs from some other acts of a similar character, as for instance the Act of 
 February 28, 1855, which directed the board of officers to perform their duty under such 
 regulations as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy. Accordingly, the Secre- 
 
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82 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 tary embodied his instructions in a letter to the board dated June 20, 1855, acting, as 
 he expressly said, under the power conferred by Congress. The act under consideration 
 gives no such power, and, therefore, there is no right in the Secretary of the Navy or the 
 President to prescribe rules for the government of the board. They must be governed 
 by the act, and the act alone. 
 
 "Taking up the act itself, it seems clear that the normal mode of procedure was in 
 tended to be without the presence of the party whose fitness is to be investigated. 
 
 "1. The first section is evidently intended to embody all that was expected to be 
 usually essential for the decision of the case. It says nothing of the presence of the party 
 or of any such thing as a literary, quasi-scientific or professional interrogation of the 
 officer himself. It looks entirely to the ascertaining of the officer s fitness by examina 
 tion of witnesses arid records. 
 
 " 2. That a decision in this matter was thought possible, and was expected also, to be 
 the usual mode, is made manifest by the 3d section, which states explicitly that any 
 officer to be acted on by said board shall have the right to be present if he desires it. How 
 could it be made more clear, that if he does not desire it, he need not appear? 
 
 " The right to appear is evidently based upon the supposition that something may 
 occur to make it desirable for him to rebut testimony unfavorable to his professional 
 character. In that case, he is given the right to make his own statement of his case/ 
 to call witnesses, and to have the statement, the testimony of the witnesses, and his own 
 examination recorded. This is the only examination mentioned in the whole act 
 (except where the first section speaks of examining records), and it most clearly points to 
 his examination as a witness in regard to some fact or facts then under consideration. It 
 has no relation at all analogous to that in the new civil service system. 
 
 " 3. If such an examination as that just referred to had been in contemplation of the 
 act, it would certainly have clearly prescribed the nature and scope of the different sub 
 jects to be taken up for the different classes of officers, and, in various ways, have ex 
 pressed such a purpose. 
 
 "4. r l he last clause of section 3 requires a word of comment. It must be noted that it 
 expressly looks to the case of an officer declining to appear, after notice, and it does not 
 say that his failing to appear shall be ipso facto ground for an unfavorable verdict, nor 
 even for censure. Its meaning is simply this. It says to the officer: Something has 
 turned up in this investigation which it was thought you might wish to explain or deny, 
 and you were notified to appear. You preferred to remain absent, and you are stopped 
 from any objection on that score. His absence, after notice, is not to enter into consi 
 deration at all as an element in making up the judgment of the board. 
 
 " Kespectfully submitted, 
 
 "THOMAS G. CORBIN, 
 " Captain United States Navy." 
 
 In support of his right not to submit to an oral examination, as was required of him 
 by the board, acting in pursuance to a circular of the department issued on the 25th of 
 January, 1869, directing examining boards "to ascertain the fitness of the candidate for 
 promotion by a rigorous personal examination as to his professional knowledge and qual 
 ifications." The Act of April 21, 1864, defines the duties of the examining board, and 
 confers upon the Secretary of the Navy no authority to make any regulations in the 
 premises, an authority which had been conferred by the Act of February 28, 1855. The 
 omission of such authorization in the Act of 1864, it is evident, was intentional on the 
 part of Congress, and not the result of accident. Still less could the Secretary of the 
 Navy assume the power to subject an officer to an oral examination when the third sec 
 tion of the Act of 1864 expressly leaves it optional with the officer to appear or not in 
 person before the board, as he may elect. 
 
 Captain Corbin refused, therefore, to appear before the board, which refused to recom 
 mend him for promotion. The Secretary of the Navy thereupon offered Captain Corbin 
 an opportunity to reconsider his determination not to appear before the examining board, 
 of which he refused to avail himself. The papers in the case were then, by request of 
 Captain Corbin, placed before the President, who sustained the action of the department. 
 
 Captain Corbin still refusing to appear before the board for the purpose of an oral 
 examination, on January 5, 1874, he was, by order of the Secretary, placed upon the re 
 tired list. 
 
 Captain Corbin then preferred a request to be furnished with a copy of the report of 
 the examining board and of all matter on the files and records of the department touch 
 ing his case, which was refused. 
 
 Your committee, having maturely examined the facts and the law in the case of Cap- 
 
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 tain Corbin, have reached the conclusion that the department had no power to extend 
 the scope of an act of Congress by requiring of an officer an oral examination as a pre 
 requisite to promotion. It is evident that in imposing such a condition as a prerequisite 
 to promotion the department exceeded its powers and practically usurped the functions of 
 the law-maker. At most it can be contended that the department can make such regu 
 lations as are necessary to give effect to the act of Congress, but the circular of 1869 goes 
 much further, and, in fact, violates section 3 of the Act of 1864. The act says, any 
 officer shall have the right to be present if he desires." The department tells him, "you 
 must be present or you shall not be promoted." Such action is a clear usurpation ; and 
 your committee are further satisfied that the circular of 1869 was not intended to apply 
 to officers m the higher grades of the service, but solely to those young men who, because 
 of the extraordinary demand for officers caused by the outbreak of the late civil war, 
 were graduated before they had completed the regular course at the Naval Academy. 
 They are fortified in this opinion by the information that until JJB72, when this novel 
 construction was placed upon the act, no oral examination was ever required for promo 
 tion to the higher grades in the service. 
 
 The cases of Captains Pennock and Case and of Commander Davenport support this 
 conclusion of your committee. The facts in the case of Captain Case are pari passu with 
 those in the case under consideration. Captain Case declined to be present at the sittings 
 of the board, but he was recommended for promotion without questioning his right to 
 absent himself this in 1868. Commander Davenport likewise refused to attend upon 
 the board, and Captain Pennock during his examination was absent upon a cruise this 
 also in 1868. 
 
 You committee are clear that it was never the intention of the act to subject officers 
 of high rank and long-established reputation to the humiliation of an oral technical 
 examination, required in no other service in the world, and utterly ineffectual to any 
 good purpose, when left to the arbitrary limitation of the Secretary of the Navy or an 
 examining board. They, therefore, recommend the passage of the bill. 
 
 Again, in 1882 Mr. Morse, from the Committee on Naval Affairs, made an equally 
 strong report, this time with the strong endorsement of Secretary Hunt ; but, owing to 
 the pressure of public business, neither report was acted upon by Congress, and Captain 
 Corbin remains a Captain on the retired list. 
 
 COMMANDERS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 John Schouler. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval Academy, 
 from Massachusetts, September 25, 1861 ; was graduated November, 1864. 
 Ordered to Navy Yard, New York.; attached to steam-frigate " Colorado," 
 flag-ship European Station, 1865-6. Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866 ; 
 steamer " Frolic," European Station, 1866-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 12, 1868; sloop "Portsmouth," South Atlantic Station, 1868-70; 
 flag-ship " Lancaster," same Station, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant- 
 Commander, June 3, 1869 ; Executive of " Terror" (double-turret monitor), 
 North Atlantic Station, 1871-2; Hydrographic Office, 1872-3; Naval 
 Academy, 1873-6; practice-ship "Constellation, "1874; Executive of "Essex," 
 North Atlantic and South Atlantic Stations, 1876-9 ; Naval Academy, 
 1880-84; commanding practice-vessel " Mayflower," 1881; Executive of 
 " Lancaster," flag-ship European Station, 1884-5. Commissioned as Com 
 mander, June 8, 1885 ; Naval Academy, 1885-8 ; commanding training- 
 ship " Portsmouth," 1889-91 ; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, 1891-2 ; 
 Member of Examining and Retiring Boards, 1893; Chief of Staff, North 
 Atlantic Station, 1895-7 ; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, May, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 Francis William Dickins. Born in Beekmanville, Dutchess County, 
 N. Y., November 2, 1844. Entered United States Naval Academy as Acting 
 Midshipman, from the Fourth Congressional District of Connecticut, Sep 
 tember 20, 1861 ; promoted to Midshipman, July 16, 1862 ; was put into an 
 advanced class, and graduated in three years, November 22, 1864; on leave 
 
84 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 until Febiuary, 1865; then on duty on board the receiving-ship "North 
 Carolina," until April, 1865, when he reported for duty on board the " Colo 
 rado," flag-ship of the European Fleet. Commissioned as Ensign, November 
 1, 1866. Commissioned as Master, December 1, 1866; transferred to the 
 "Augusta," March, 1867, and convoyed the monitor " Miantonomah " about 
 the Mediterranean, and home via the Canaries, Cape de Verdes, and West 
 Indies; detached from the "Augusta," at New York, July, 1867; on leave 
 until October, 1867, and then ordered to the apprentice-ship " Sabine ; " de 
 tached from the, " Sabine," April, 1868, and ordered to " Tuscarora," fitting 
 out for South Pacific Station, Mare Island, Cal. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 12, 1868; in June sailed in "Tuscarora" for Souih Pacific Station; 
 on duty there until May, 1869, and then " Tuscarora " joined West India 
 Station. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, June 12, 1869 ; remained 
 in West Indies until January, 1871, and then sailed for Portsmouth, N. H., 
 and went out of commission ; on leave until June, 1871, and then ordered to 
 duty at U. S. Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I. ; detached from Torpedo 
 Station, January, 1872, and ordered to receiving-ship " Vermont," at New 
 York; detached from "Vermont," March, 1872, and ordered to the "Lan 
 caster," flag ship of the South Atlantic Station, but could not go on account 
 of illness ; on leave until October, 1872, and then joined the " Kansas," as 
 Executive Officer, and sailed on the Nicaragua Inter-oceanic Canal Survey 
 ing Expedition; detached from "Kansas," May, 1873, and then ordered to 
 Asiatic Station, and joined the " Monocacy," as Executive Officer ; when 
 " Monocacy " visited Bangkok, was presented with a silver medal by the 
 King of Siam, acceptance of same being authorized by Congress ; January, 
 1875, was transferred to the " Kearsarge," as Executive Officer ; was trans 
 ferred to " Yantic " for three months as Executive, and then ordered back to 
 " Kearsarge ; " in April, 1876, was ordered to command the " Yantic ; " was 
 relieved in August, 1876, and arrived home in December, 1876; on leave 
 until January, 1*79, and ordered to duty at the U. S. Naval Academy as 
 Instructor in Mathematics ; commanded the U. S. practice-ship " Standish " 
 during the summer cruise of 1879; then rejoined the Naval Academy as 
 Instructor in Seamanship, Naval Tactics, and Naval Construction ; detached 
 from Naval Academy, August, 1880 ; in December, 1880, ordered as a 
 member of the board, convened at the Navy Department, to determine the 
 dates of precedence of the officers of the Navy; May, 1881, ordered to the 
 training-ship "Constitution," flag-ship of the Apprentice Training Squadron, 
 as Executive Officer ; detached from the " Constitution," October, 1881, owing 
 to an injury from a falling spar ; ordered to the Hydrographic Office, 
 December, 1881; detached from the U. S. Hydrographic Office, May, 1882, 
 and ordered to " Kearsarge," as Executive Officer, on North Atlantic Sta 
 tion ; detached from "Kearsarge," October, 1882, and granted leave; in 
 June, 1883, ordered to command store ship "Onward," stationed at Callao, 
 Peru; detached from the "Onward," November, 1884, as vessel was sold, 
 arriving home December, 1884. Commissioned as Commander, Septem 
 ber 23, 1885; employed on several general courts-martial until May, 
 1887, and then ordered to command the " Tallapoosa," on the South 
 Atlantic Station ; in March, 1889, rescued the British steamer " Zarate," 
 which had gone ashore on Lobos Island, off Maldonado, Uraguay ; for 
 this service, received complimentary letters from the Navy Department 
 and the Admiral commanding the squadron ; also received for this service, 
 from a Maritime Association of London, England, through the British Min 
 ister at Washington, a present of $7,500 to the officers and crew of the "Tal- 
 
RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 85 
 
 lapoosa;" arrived home, November, 1889; during January, 1890, employed 
 on general court-martial duty at the Navy Yard, New York ; September, 
 1890, ordered to the Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. ; about two and one- 
 half years of the time at the Washington Navy Yard filled the position and 
 performed duties of civil engineer of the YWd ; received from Chief of 
 Bureau of Yards and Docks commendatory letter for taking down the West 
 Ship House; in June, 1892, was sent to the Asiatic Station for temporary 
 duty as member of a general court-martial; returned to the United States, 
 September of the same year, and resumed duties at the Navy Yard ; Jan 
 uary, 1893, ordered on special duty at Fremont, Ohio, as the Representative 
 of the President of the United States to attend the funej^al of ex-President 
 R. B. Hayes; March, 1893, was ordered to special duty, under the State 
 Department, for two months, as Representative of the President of the United 
 States, in charge of the courtesies to the Duke of Veragua, lineal descendant 
 of Christopher Columbus, who came as a guest of the nation ; for this service 
 received a commendatory letter from the Secretary of State, and was deco 
 rated as Knight of the Cross of Naval Merit by the King Alphonso XIII. 
 of Spain, through the Queea Regent ; this decoration he was permitted to 
 receive by Act of Congress; July 22, 1893, was detached from the Navy 
 Yard, Washington, D. C., and ordered to command the U. S training-ship 
 " Monongahela," made a summer cruise in command of her to Europe ; Jan 
 uary, 1894, placed the " Monongahela " out of commission ; was detached 
 from her, and ordered to command the U. S. training-ship " Essex " on the 
 same day; cruised with the "Essex" on the Home Station until detached, 
 July 9, 1894; August 20, was ordered to command U. S. Training Station 
 at Newport, R. I., and U. S. training ship " Constellation ; " December 15, 
 1896, detached from command of Training Station and training ship "Con 
 stellation." and reported, on December 17, as Assistant to the Chief of 
 Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, which is his present duty. 
 
 George F. F. Wilde. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa 
 chusetts, November 30, 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-5; attached to steam- 
 sloop " Susquehanna," Brazil Squadron, 1865-6; steamer u Nipsic," South 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7. Promoted to Master, December 1, 1866. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868 ; steam-sloop " Contocook," flag-ship, 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 
 December 1 8, 1868 ; " Tennessee " (second-rate), special service, 1871; " Wa- 
 bash," flag-ship, European Fleet, 1872; commanding "Canonicus" (iron 
 clad), North Atlantic Fleet, 1873-4; Torpedo Station, 1875; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1875-7; Inspector Ordnance at South Boston, February, 1878, to 
 1879 ; " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, 1879-81 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 
 1882-3 ; Light-House Inspector, 1883-5. Promoted to Commander, October, 
 1885; commanding " Dolphin," North Atlantic Station, 1886-9; Light- 
 House Inspector, 1889-90. While serving on United States ship " Vandalia," 
 as Executive-Officer, twice received letter of thanks from Secretary of Navy. 
 Waiting orders, December, 1893; Naval War College, June, 1894 ; Secre 
 tary Light- House Board, August, 1894, to 1898; April, 1898, ordered to 
 command U. S. S. "Katahdin," North Atlantic Patrol Squadron. 
 
 Charles Henry Davis. Born in Massachusetts Appointed from 
 Massachusetts, November 29, 1861; Naval Academy, 1861-4; receiving- 
 ship, New York Station, winter of 1864-5; attached to steam-frigate 
 "Colorado," flag-ship, European Station, 1865-7; "Augusta" (second- 
 rate), 1867; and "Idaho" (store ship), 1867. Promoted Ensign, Novem 
 ber 1, 1866 ; and Master, December 1, 1866 ; steam-sloop " Guerriere," 1867- 
 
86 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 9; sloop "Portsmouth," 1869-70; both on South Atlantic Station. Pro 
 moted Lieutenant, March 12, 1868, and Lieutenant- Commander, June 30, 
 1869 ; receiving-ship, Norfolk, Va., 1871-2 ; "Omaha" (second-rate), 1872 ; 
 and " Pensacola " (second-rate), 1873-4, on the Pacific Station ; Naval 
 Observatory, 1875-7 ; from 1877 to 1885 connected with the several expedi 
 tions for the determination of differences of longitude by means of submarine 
 telegraph cables from Europe to the Atlantic Islands and east coast of South 
 America ; in India, China, Japan, and the Indian Archipelago ; in Mexico 
 and Central America ; and on the west coast of South America ; k< Powhatan " 
 (second rate), 1885. Promoted to Commander, October 30, 1885 ; com 
 manding sloop "Saratoga" and cruising training squadron, 1886-8; com 
 manding the " Quinnebaug " (third-rate), European Station, 1888-9 ; Chief 
 Intelligence Officer, Navy Department, 1889, to September, 1892 ; General 
 Inspector of Montgomery, December, 1891, to June, 1894; commanding 
 Montgomery (third-rate), North Atlantic Station, June, 1894, to July, 1896; 
 Member Board of Inspection and Survey, July, 1896, to July, 1897. 
 Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, July, 1897, to April, 1898 ; com 
 manding auxiliary cruiser " Dixie," North Atlantic Squadron, May, 1898, 
 to date. 
 
 Bowman H. McCalla Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New 
 Jersey, November 3 , 1861 ; Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; attached to steam- 
 sloop " Susquehanna," Brazil Squadron, 1865-6 ; steam-sloop " Brooklyn," 
 flag-ship, South Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7. Promoted to Master, December 
 1, 1866 ; steam-sloop " Kearsarge," South Pacific Squadron, 1867-8. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868; steam-sloop " Tuscarora," South 
 Pacific Squadron, 1868-71. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, De 
 cember 18, 1868 ; " Wabash," flag-ship, European Fleet, 1872 ; " Wachu- 
 sett" (third rate), European Fleet, 1873; Naval Academy, 1875-8; " Pow 
 hatan," North Atlantic Squadron, 1878-81 ; Assistant Bureau Navigation, 
 1881-87, Promoted to Commander, November, 1884; commanding " En 
 terprise," European Station, 1887-90. Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, October 4, 1893, to April, 1897. Naval War College. April 
 28, 1897. Commanding " Marblehead," protected cruiser, North Atlantic 
 Squadron, September 11, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles J. Train. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massachu 
 setts, November 27, 1861; Naval Academy, 1861-4; steam frigate "Colo 
 rado," flag-ship, Mediterranean Squadron, 1866-7. Promoted to Master, 
 December 1, 1866 ; steam sloop "Frolic," European Squadron, 1868. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 12, 1868 ; steam frigate " Sabine," special 
 cruise, 1869-70. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, June 30,1869; 
 Naval Academy, 1871-2 ; special duty, 1873 ; special duty (transit of Venus), 
 1874-5; "Tuscarora" (third rate), N. P. Station, 1875-6; Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, 1877; " Lackawanna " (second rate), N. P. Station, 1877; 
 Naval Academy, 1877-81 ; " Powhatan," special service, 1881-4 ; Bureau 
 of Equipment and Recruiting, 18846. Promoted to Commander, January, 
 1886 ; commanding training ship " Jamestown," 1886-8 ; commanding train 
 ing ship "Constellation," 1888-9 , Light House Inspector, 1889-90. Ordered 
 to command " Machias," July 20, 1893; Naval War College, June, 1894; 
 Naval Member of Atlanta Expedition, October, 1894-6 ; Light House In 
 spector. 4th District, June, 1896-8 ; commanding U. S. S. " Prairie," auxil 
 iary cruiser, North Atlantic Patrol Squadron, March, 1898. 
 
 Edwin White. Born in Ohio, and appointed from that State to the 
 United States Naval Academy, November 29, 1861 ; graduated November, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 87 
 
 1864 ; February, 1865, ordered to Navy Yard, New York, and attached to 
 receiving-ship " Vermont ; " April of the same year ordered to frigate " Colo 
 rado," flag-ship of European Station. Promoted to Ensign November ], 
 1866 ; to Master, December 1, 1866 ; and in March, 1867, ordered to steamer 
 "Shamrock," on the same station. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 12, 
 1868; and in September following was ordered to steamer "Yantic" as 
 navigator ; served in that capacity in the West Indies until November, 1869, 
 when her commander and others, having died of yellow fever, the ship was 
 put out of commission at New York. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander 
 September 15, 1869 ; Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, January to 
 September, 1870 ; Naval Academy, October, 1870, until April, 1871; Navy 
 Yard, Philadelphia, until following September, when ordered as Executive 
 Officer to the U. S. S. " Kansas ; " ship sent to Havana upon report of mas 
 sacre of students in November, where she remained for the protection of 
 American citizens pending an expected outbreak ; March, 1872, the ship 
 detailed to receive on board, at Key West, a Nicaraguan surveying expedi 
 tion, under command of Commander Crossman, and convey the party to 
 Greytown ; Commander Crossman, in attempting to land at Greytown, hav 
 ing been drowned, the command of the expedition devolved upon Com 
 mander Hatfield, of the " Kansas," who landed with the party, and directed 
 Lieutenant-Commander White to command the ship. While in command, 
 having proceeded to Aspinwall for coal and other supplies, he found the 
 Spanish man-of-war " Pizarro " blockading the American steamer " Virgin- 
 ius," which steamer, at that time, had acquired the reputation of having 
 successfully run the Spanish blockade on the Cuban coast. The master of 
 the " Virginius " appealed to Lieutenant-Commander White for protection, 
 and the Captain of the " Pizarro " informed him in person that he had orders 
 to prevent the " Virginius " from going to sea. When the " Virginius " was 
 ready for sea, Lieutenant-Commander White requested the United States 
 Consul to bring her papers to him for examination ; and, having carefully 
 considered the case, was convinced that no power had the right to interfere 
 with the steamer ; that whatever had been her past record, there was nothing 
 in evidence at that time which would warrant detention by a foreign cruiser. 
 He then sent an officer with the Consul to deliver the steamer her papers, and 
 informed the commanding officer of the "Pizarro," by letter, that, having 
 investigated the present status of the " Virginius," he considered her free to 
 sail without molestation, and trusted that no attempt would be made to 
 detain her. To this letter no reply was received, and upon the " Virginius " 
 making preparations for sea, the " Pizarro " followed suit. When the " Vir 
 ginius " got under way, the " Kansas," being in readiness for sea, and for 
 action as well, was interposed between the "Virginius" and the "Pizarro." 
 The latter vessel got under way at once, and the three vessels proceeded to sea 
 in that order. After a few hours run it became evident that the " Pizarro " 
 was no match for the " Virginius " in point of speed and, the master of the 
 latter vessel having declared that he feared nothing further from the 
 " Pizarro," the " Kansas " returned to Aspinwall, and the " Virginius " pro 
 ceeded to the Venezuelan port for which she had cleared. In relation to the 
 protection and convoying to sea of the " V 7 irginius," the Navy Department 
 addressed him a letter, saying: "Your whole course is approved in every re 
 spect;" commanding U. S. S. "Onward," on the Peruvian coast from Sep 
 tember, 1872, to March, 1875, where, for months at a time, he was senior 
 officer during the frequent turbulent periods ; his reports of the condition of 
 affairs on shore were commended by the commander-in-chief, and by the 
 
88 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Navy Department; 1875-7 served on board the U. S. S. " Tennessee," as 
 principal aide to Rear-Admiral Reynolds, commander-in-chief on the Asiatic 
 Station ; 1878, Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I. ; 1879-82, Instructor in 
 Seamanship, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. ; commanded the practice- 
 ship " Dale," with naval cadets on board, during the summer of 1880 ; June, 
 1882, ordered to the " Hartford," flagship, Pacific Station ; served as Execu 
 tive Officer until April, 1884. when invalided home; speci<il duty Navy De 
 partment, December, 1884, to April, 1885 ; May, 1885, Training Station, 
 R. I. Promoted to Commander, March 4, 1886 ; during summer of 1886, 
 Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I. ; December, 1886, to October, 1888, com 
 manding training-ship "Portsmouth," with naval apprentices, cruising to the 
 coast of Europe during the summer months, and in the winter through the 
 West India Islands ; November, 1888, ordered as Equipment-Officer at the 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H ; ordered to the command of the U. S. S. 
 "Concord," April, 1892. Ascended the Mississippi River to Memphis, 
 Tenn., to participate in the. celebration of the opening of the bridge across 
 the river at that point. Afterwards went to Cairo, Illinois, and anchored in 
 the Ohio River. This novel cruise for a vessel of sixteen feet draft attracted 
 much attention throughout the country ; on the return of the ship to the sea, 
 stopping at all important river towns, much enthusiasm prevailed, and the 
 display of patriotism at sight of a national vessel in those waters was very 
 marked. Cruised with the North Atlantic Squadron, during summer of 
 1892 ; proceeded under telegraphic orders to Venezuela, September, 1892, to 
 protect American interests during a prolonged revolution, and where our 
 mail steamers had been interfered with ; on the arrival of Admiral Walker, 
 ordered to Colon to restore the traffic on the Isthmus, which had been inter 
 rupted by local authority. Attached to the fleet of Admiral Gherardi, in 
 March, 1893, and participated in the Naval Review at Hampton Roads and 
 New York; July, 1893, ordered as Equipment Officer of the Navy Yard, 
 New York ; June, 1895, ordered to Naval War College, Newport, R. I. ; 
 November, 1895, ordered as Commandant of Cadets, U. S. Naval Academy, 
 Annapolis. Crossed the Atlantic during the summers of 1896 and 1897, in 
 command of Cadet Practice Ship Monongahela. Present duty, Commandant 
 of Cadets. 
 
 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, Octo 
 ber 28, 1869; iron-clad " Saugus," North Atlantic Fleet, 1870; Naval 
 Academy, 1871-3; "Hartford," flagship Asiatic Station, 1873-5; Naval 
 Observatory, 1876-8; " Wachusett," South Atlantic Station, 1879-82 ; Hy- 
 drographic Office, 1882-4; Torpedo Station, 1884-5; " Tennessee," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1885-6 Promoted to Commander, October, 1886 ; com 
 manding "Alliance," South Atlantic Station, 1888-9; League Island Navy 
 Yard, 1890, to October, 1891; commanding monitors at Richmond, Va., 
 March, 1892, to July, 1895; commanding " Bennington," July, 1895, to 
 April, 1897 ; Inspector Ordnance, Newport News, to date. 
 
 John McGowan. Born in Delaware. Appointed from New Jersey, 
 Master s Mate, March 8, 1862 ; duty in Potomac Flotilla. Promoted to 
 Acting Master, May 8, 1862, and ordered to command " Wyaudank," Poto 
 mac Flotilla ; detached, February, 1863, and ordered to the " Florida," 
 North Atlantic Station ; detached, November, 1864, and ordered to the 
 
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 " State of Georgia," North Atlantic Station, until after fall of Fort Fisher, 
 and then South Atlantic Station ; April, 1865, after fall of Charleston, to 
 Colon, N. G., protecting American interests; detached from "State of 
 Georgia," August, J 865, and in November ordered to " Monongahela," North 
 Atlantic Squadron; January, 1867, detached from "Monongahela," and in 
 February ordered to " Tacony," Gulf Squadron; detached from "Tacony," 
 October, 1867, and ordered same month to the receiving ship, Navy Yard, 
 Philadelphia. Commissioned Master, March 12, 1868 ; detached from receiv 
 ing ship, Philadelphia, September, 1868, and ordered to Asiatic Squadron. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, December 18,1868; January, 1869, "Unadilla ;" 
 November, 1869, "Iroquois ;" detached from " Iroquois," April, 1870, and 
 ordered to Ordnance Duty, Navy Yard, Philadelphia. Promoted to Li&uten- 
 ant- Commander, April 22,1870; detached from Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 
 October, 1870, and ordered to "Terror;" detached from "Terror;" August, 
 1871, granted leave; November, 1871, to Ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Phila 
 delphia ; July, 1872, leave, Europe; May, 1873, " Wachusett," European 
 Station ; April, 1874, " Juniata," European Station ; December, 1875, leave, 
 Europe; June, 1876, Hydrographic Office; September, 1879, "Marion," 
 South Atlantic Station ; detached, December, 1882 ; February, 1883, Navy 
 Yard League Island; July, 1883, Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia; Septem 
 ber, 1885, Navy Yard, New York. Promoted to Commander, January 27, 
 1887 ; March 1, 1888, to command " Swatara," South Atlantic and Asiatic 
 Stations; April, 1890, detached and granted sick leave, Europe; January, 
 1891, commanding Nautical School-ship, St. Mary s; March, 1894, de 
 tached, and to Navy Yard, Washington, D. C.; May, 1894, to command 
 training-ship " Portsmouth ;" January, 1895, transferred to training-ship 
 "Alliance" October, 1895, detached, and to Bureau of Navigation ; Decem 
 ber, 1896, command of training-ship and station, Newport, R. I., to date 
 (May, 1898). 
 
 James G. Green. Entered the volunteer service as an Acting Ensign, 
 and at the close of the Rebellion was transferred to the regular navy. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 3, 1870 ; Asiatic Fleet, 1870-1; 
 "Saco" (third-rate), Asiatic Station, 1872-6; commanding "Palos," Asiatic 
 Station, 1877-81; Hydrographic Office, 1881-3; "Galena," N. A. Station, 
 1883-6. Promoted to Commander, March, 1887 ; Torpedo Station, 1886-7 ; 
 commanding "Alert," January, 1889, to August, 1890 ; Light-House Inspec 
 tor, August, 1890, to October, 1894; Ordnance Instructor, Washington, 
 D. C., October 15, 1894, to February, 1895; waiting orders, February 5, 
 1 895 ; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Norfolk, December 16, 1895, to April, 
 1896; commanding U.. S. S. "Marion," April 23, 1896, to June, 1897; 
 commanding Puget Sound Naval Station, June 19, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles H. Rockwell. Was born in Chatham, Massachusetts, April 
 29, 1840. He entered the naval service of the United States as an Acting 
 Master, July 5, 1862 ; served on board the receiving-ship " North Carolina 
 for a few weeks, and was then ordered to the U. S. steamer " Penguin ; " 
 served as Executive Officer on the ship in the East Gulf Squadron until May 
 10, 1863, when he was ordered to the U. S. schooner " Wanderer ; " on July 
 6, 1863, he was detached from the " Wanderer" and ordered to command the 
 U. S. schooner "Two Sisters;" during the time that he held this command 
 active and important services were performed on the west coast of Florida, 
 calling forth a commendatory letter from the Commander-in-Chief, who 
 recommended Mr. Rockwell for promotion ; December 16 1863, the Depart 
 ment promoted him to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, "in consideration of 
 
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 good service ; "Jon December 29, 1863, Lieutenant Rockwell was detached 
 from the command of the " Two Sisters " and ordered to command the bark 
 " Gem of the Sea ; " on November 5, 1864, Mr. Rockwell was detached from 
 the command of the " Gem of the Sea," and ordered to command the U. S. 
 steamer " Hendrick Hudson ; " while in command of this ship, and of the 
 force blockading off St. Marks, Florida, he organized and directed an expe 
 dition against rebel salt works, dispersing the armed force at the entrance to 
 the river, and destroying a large amount of property. This called forth 
 another letter of commendation from the Commander-in-Chief. On February 
 22, 1865, an expedition under Brigadier-General John Newton was organized 
 to operate in the vicinity of St. Mark s, and at the request of General Newton, 
 Lieutenant Rockwell was assigned to duty with the expedition, and was 
 appointed Naval Aide on the Staff of the Commanding-General, and placed 
 in charge of the transportation of the troops. The forces landed at St. 
 Mark s, and an engagement followed at Newport, and a bloody battle at a 
 point known as Natural Bridge, eight miles below Tallahassee. In this 
 expedition, Lieutenant Rockwell served constantly on the Staff of General 
 Newton, receiving from him a letter of thanks for his services on the return 
 of the expedition. Resuming command of the "Hendrick Hudson," he was 
 on March 27, 1865, promoted to the grade of Ading Volunteer Lieutenant 
 Commander. He remained in command of this ship until August 8, 1865, 
 when he was detached and granted four months leave of absence, and was 
 honorably discharged from the naval service December 8, 1865. In Novem 
 ber, 1866, Mr. Rockwell was examined for the regular service, and on the 
 19th of that month was re-appointed Acting Master in the Navy ; he served 
 on board the U. S steamer " Osceola " in the West Indies until September, 
 1867 ; in October of that year he took passage in the U. S. S. " Idaho " to 
 Brazil, and served on the flagship " Guerriere " until her return to the 
 United States in July, 1869. On March 12, 1868, he was commissioned a 
 Master in the regular service, and on December 18, of the same year, was 
 promoted to Lieutenant. After a short service on the receiving-ship " Van- 
 dalia" at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he was ordered to the U. S. S. 
 " Palos," and proceeded in her to China, commanding her there until Octo 
 ber, 1872, when he returned to the United States in the "Alaska." During 
 the time Lieutenant Rockwell was in command of the " Palos " he partici 
 pated in the actions with the Corean forts in the expedition under the com 
 mand of Rear- Admiral John Rodgers. From March, 1873, until September, 
 1874, he was on duty at the Portsmouth Navy Yard ; from the latter date 
 until April, 1875, he served on the "Plymouth" and "Colorado," and on 
 June 1, 1875, became Light-House Inspector of the Fourteenth Light-House 
 District. On June 1, 1876, was ordered as Executive of the U. S. S. "Adams." 
 On February 26, 1878, was promoted to Lieutenant- Commander ; served 
 at Torpedo School, and on May 1st joined U. S. S. " Jamestown," as Execu 
 tive, and served in that ship in Alaska until September, 1881 ; was on duty 
 at the Boston Navy Yard until October 1, 1882 ; 1883 was on the receiving- 
 ship "Franklin," at Norfolk, Virginia; in September, 1884, took a large 
 draft of men to the Isthmus for the Pacific Squadron ; was again at the Tor 
 pedo School in 1885 and at the War College ; from April, 1886, to October, 
 1888, served on the training-ship "Minnesota," at New York. October 31, 
 1888, was promoted to Commander, and February 20, 1889, took command 
 of the U. S. S. "Yantic," until October, 1891; commanding receiving-ship 
 "St. Louis," from October, 1891, to 1894; later commanded the receiving- 
 ship " Richmond." From July 20, 1894, to date, Commandant of Naval Sta 
 tion, Port Royal, S. C. 
 
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 James M. Forsyth. Entered the volunteer navy, September 25, 1861, 
 as an Acting Master s Mate ; served through the Rebellion, being attached at 
 various times to the North and South Atlantic and West Gulf Squadrons, 
 and participating in the capture of Forts Clarke and Hatteras, August 27, 
 1861 ; the engagements under Farragut, on the Mississippi, from Forts Jack 
 son and St. Philip to Vicksburg; and the engagement with rebel ram 
 " Arkansas;" and, while attached to the S. A. Squadron, took part in the 
 various engagements with Sumter, Moultrie, and other fortifications in 
 Charleston Harbor. Promoted to Acting Ensign, September 5, 1862, and to 
 Acting Master, August 1, 1864 ; Executive Officer steamer " Nyack," Pacific 
 Squadron, 1865-8. Commissioned as Master in the regular navy, March 12, 
 1868, and commissioned as Lieutenant, December 18, ^1868 ; Executive 
 Officer steamer "Purveyor," special service, 1868; receiving ship "Poto 
 mac," May, 1869, to May, 1870; Executive Officer ironclad " Saugus," 
 N. A. Squadron, in 1870, and Executive Officer of ironclad " Ajax," N. A. 
 Squadron, in 1871 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, May, 1871, to December, 
 1872 ; Executive Officer ship " Supply," special service (Vienna Exposition), 
 January to December, 1873 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, December, 1873, to 
 March, 1874; Navigating Officer steam-sloop " Powhatan," N. A. Squadron, 
 March, 1874, to February, 1877; torpedo instruction, June to October, 
 1877; navigation duty, League Island Station, 1877-80. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander , May, 1878; "Lancaster," European Station, 1881- 
 4; Navy Yard, League Island, 1884-6; Naval Asylum, 1886-9. Pro 
 moted to Commander, March, 1889 ; commanding " Tallapoosa," S. A. Sta 
 tion 1889-90 ; Naval Home, Philadelphia, June, 1892, to 1895 ; command 
 ing monitors Richmond, Va., June, 1895. Commanding Naval Station, 
 Key West, August, 1895, to May, 1898. 
 
 George A. Converse. Born in Vermont. Appointed an Acting Mid 
 shipman at Naval Academy, September 29, 1861 ; graduated in 1865 ; steam- 
 sloop " Canandaigua," European Squadron, 1865-69. Promoted to Ensign, 
 December 1, 1866; Master, March 12, 1868; Lieutenant, March 26, 1869; 
 torpedo service, 1870-77. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1878 ; 
 "Marion," European Station, 1877-79 ; sick leave, 1879-81 ; Lancaster," 
 European Station, 1883-5 ; Instructor at Torpedo Station, 1885-9. Pro 
 moted to Commander, March, 1889 ; in charge of Torpedo Station, January 
 2, 1893, to June, 1897; command U. S. S. "Montgomery," cruiser, North 
 Atlantic Squadron, June 14, 1897, to date. 
 
 Royal Bird Bradford. Born in Maine. Appointed Acting Midship 
 man at Naval Academy, November 28, 1861 ; graduated in June, 1865 ; 
 " Swatara," in the West Indies, 1865-6 ; the " Rhode Island," flagship, North 
 Atlantic Station, 1866 ; the " Iroquois," on the Asiatic Station, 1867-9 ; and 
 the "Delaware" (flag-ship), Asiatic Station, 1870. Promoted to Ensign, 
 December 1, 1866 ; Master, March 12, 1868, and Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; 
 torpedo service, 1872-3, at Newport, Rhode Island. " Wabash " and " Frank 
 lin " (flag-ships), European Station, 1873-5 ; instructor in Torpedo Warfare, 
 Torpedo Station, 1875-6; Executive-Officer, "Alliance," European Station, 
 1877-9. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, November 30, 1878 ; Instruc 
 tor, Torpedo Station, 1880-3 ; Executive-Officer, " Trenton " (flag-ship), 
 Asiatic Station, 1883-5; special duty at Newport, R. I., re-writing Navy 
 Regulations and organizing a Naval Department of Electricity, 1885-6. 
 Served as the first Naval Inspector of Electric Lighting, 1885-7 ; Assistant 
 to the Chief of Bureau of Navigation, 1887-91. Promoted to Commander, 
 March 26, 1889; commanded " Bennington," 1891-3; member Board of 
 
92 RECORDS OF LIVING* OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Inspection and Survey, 1893-6 ; commanded " Montgomery," North Atlantic 
 Station, July 1, 1896, to July 23, 1897 ; chief of Bureau of Equipment, 
 September, 7, 1897, to date. 
 
 Joseph Edgar Craig. Born in New York. Appointed an Acting Mid 
 shipman at Naval Academy, November 29, 1861 ; title changed to Midship 
 man, July 16, 1862 ; graduated 1865 ; " Monongahela," West India Squad 
 ron, November, 1865, to July, 1868. Promoted to Ensign, December 1, 
 1866. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868 ; " Portsmouth, " South Atlantic 
 Fleet, January, 1869, to October, 1871. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 26, 
 1869 ; Naval Academy, December, 1871, to June, 1874 (" Constellation," 
 summer practice cruise,. June to September, 1873); Naval Observatory, 
 special duty, June to October, 1874 ; tl Narragansett," special duty as astron 
 omer, North Pacific Survey, November, 1874, to August, 1875 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, special duty in connection with " Narragansett s " Survey, 
 August, 1875, to October, 1877; "Alaska," Pacific Station, April, 1878, to 
 April, 1881. Promoted to Liev tenant- Commander, March 13, 1885; Naval 
 Academy, June, 1881, to September, 1885 (commanding "Mayflower." sum 
 mer practice cruise, 1882) ; " Vandalia," Pacific Station, February, 1886, to 
 April, 1887; commanding "Palos," Asiatic Station, June, 1887, to March, 
 1890. Promoted to Commander, January 3, 1890; Naval Academy, June, 
 1890, to December, 1894, when took command of U. S. S. " Concord," to 
 May, 1896; Navy Yard, New York, July 1, 1896; Hydrographer Bureau 
 of Navigation, April 19, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles Mitchell Thomas. Entered Naval Academy, November 28, 
 1861; graduated September 26, 1865; served in " Shenandoah," on the 
 Asiatic Station, from October 17, 1865, to May 3, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, 
 December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; League Island, June 1, 1869, to September 4, 
 1869; "Supply," European Station, November 2, 1869, to July 26, 1870 ; 
 "Guerriere," European Station, August 10, 1870, to September 13,1871; 
 receiving-ship "Potomac," Philadelphia, March 18, 1872, to October 22, 
 1872; monitor "Terror," Key West, Florida, October 26, 1872, to June 18, 
 1873 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, September 1, 1873, to April 
 20, 1874; monitor "Dictator," Key West, Florida, June 22, 1874, to April 
 22, 1875 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, June 17, 1875, to November 15, 1875 ; 
 Centennial Exposition, November 17, 1875, to March 23,1877; receiving- 
 ship "St. Louis," March 24, 1877, to January 9, 1878; "Constitution," Paris 
 Exposition, 1878, and training-ship, 1879-80. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, April, 1880; Naval Academy, September, 1880, to June, 1884; 
 "Hartford," flagship, Pacific Station, June, 1884, to January, 1887; com 
 manding C S. steamer "Patterson," April, 1887, to April, 1889; Hydro- 
 graphic Inspector, Coast Survey, July 1, 1889, to March, 1891. Promoted 
 to Commander, February, 1890; Bureau of Navigation, March, 1881, to July, 
 1893; commanding " Bennington," July. 1893, to July, 1895 ; Naval Home, 
 October, 1895, to May, 1897 ; War College, June to September, 1897 ; Naval 
 Academy, September, 1897, to date. 
 
 Albert Sydney Snow. Born in Maine. Appointed an Acting Mid 
 shipman, at Naval Academy, November 30, 1861, graduated, 1865 ; " Chat 
 tanooga " (first rate), March, 1866, to August, 1866 ; " Pensacola " (second- 
 rate), North Pacific Squadron, September, 1866, to April, 1868 ; " Kesaca," 
 North Pacific Squadron, April, 1868, to August, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, 
 December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; " Alaska " (second-rate), Asiatic Squadron, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 93 
 
 December, 1869, to March, 1873, taking part in the expedition to Corea, and 
 attack on Corean forts ; Torpedo Station, 1873 ; " Congress " (second-rate), 
 European Station, March, 1874, to July, 1876; receiving-ship " Wabash," 
 and Navy Yard, Boston, 1877 to 1879; training-ship "Portsmouth," Janu 
 ary, 1879, to December, 1881. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 
 11, 1880; Navy Yard, Boston, May, 1882, to May, 1883; U. S. C. and G. 
 Survey, from July, 1883, to April 30, 1887. Commanding steamers " Ged- 
 ney," "Hassler" and "Patterson," the two latter in the Pacific; surveying 
 on the coast of Oregon, Washington and Alaska. Member Board of In 
 spection and Survey, from December, 1887, to April, 1890. Commanding 
 "Essex," April, 1890, to July, 1892; waiting orders, July, 1892, to May, 
 1893. Promoted to Commander February 28,1890 ; Nav&l Academy May, 
 1893, to November, 1894; Inspector Third Light-House District from 
 March 1, 1895, to February 2, 1898 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H , from 
 February 4, 1898, to May, 1898; commanding transport "Badger," North 
 Atlantic Squadron, on special service, from May, 1898. 
 
 George Cook Reiter. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed as Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, September 20, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; 
 schoolship "Sabine," 1865-6; "Lackawanna" (second-rate), N. P. Squad 
 ron, 1866-68. Promoted to Ensign, December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, 
 March 12, 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 18H9 ; "Ply 
 mouth" (third-rate), European Fleet, 18S9-72 ; "Narraganset" (third-rate), 
 surveying service in the Pacific, 1872-5 ; " Lehigh " (iron-clad), North At 
 lantic Station, 1875-6 ; equipment duty, Norfolk, Va., 1876-7 ; "Tuscarora," 
 Pacific Station, 1877-8; Light-House Inspector, 1879-83. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, November, 1880; "Nipsic," South Atlantic Station, 
 1883-86; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1886-9; commanding Ranger," North 
 Pacific Station, 1889-90. Promoted Commander, July 31, 1890; command 
 ing " Thetis," May, 1891, to July, 1893 ; Light-House Inspector, July, 1893- 
 96 ; commanding " Detroit," June, 1896, to 1897 ; ordered to Thirteenth Light- 
 House District, December, 1897-8 ; ordered to command U. S. S. " Vene 
 zuela " March, 1898. 
 
 Willard Herbert Brownson. Born in New York. Appointed Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, November 29, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; 
 " Rhode Island " (second-rate), West India Station, 1865-7. Promoted to 
 Ensign, December 1, 1866; " Susquehanna " (second-rate), N. A. Station, 
 1867-8. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868; "Dacotah" (third-rate), 
 Pacific Fleet, 1869-70. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March" 26, 1869; 
 "Mohican "(third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1870-1; " St. Mary s," Pacific Fleet, 
 1870-1 ; " Ossipee," 1871 ; torpedo service, 1872 ; Naval Academy, 1872-5 ; 
 "Kearsarge" (third-rate), Asiatic Station, 1875-6; "Tennessee" (second- 
 rate), Asiatic Station, 1876-8 ; Naval Academy, 1878-81. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, December, 1880; commanding C. S. S. " Gedney," 
 1881 ; commanding C. S. S. " Blake," 1881-4 ; " Powhatan," N. A. Station, 
 1884-5; Hydrographic Inspector, Coast Survey, 1885-9; commanding 
 " Petrel," N. A. Station, 1*89 to October, 1891. Promoted Commander, May, 
 1891 ; General Inspector Cruiser No. 10, October, 1891, to March, 1892, and 
 July, 1893 ; commanding" Detroit," July, 1893-4 ; Naval Academy Novem 
 ber, 1894-5 ; leave of absence, November, 1895 ; Member Board Inspection 
 and Survey, Dec., 1896-8; commanding the U. S. S. "Yankee," March, 1898. 
 
 Henry Ezra Nichols. Born in New York. Appointed an Acting 
 Midshipman, at Naval Academy, Oct. 1, 1861; graduated, 1865; "Swatara" 
 (third-rate), West India and European Squadrons, 1865-9, Promoted to 
 
94 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE TJ. S. NAVY. 
 
 Ensign, December 1, 1866 Promoted to Master, December 12, 1868. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; " Frolic " (fourth-rate), Port- 
 Admiral flag-ship, New York, harbor, 1869-70 ; ordnance duty, Pittsburgh, 
 1870-1 ; S. A. Station, 1872-3 ; torpedo duty, 1874 ; Coast Survey, 1875 ; 
 "Supply" (fourth -rate), special service, 1876; Coast Survey, 1876-7; 
 "Despatch" (fourth-rate), special service, Europe, 1877-8; Coast Survey, 
 1878-80; commanding C. C. S. "Hassler," 1880-4. Promoted to Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, January, 1881 ; commanding "Pinta" (Alaska), 1884-6; 
 inspector of new steel cruiser, 1886-7 ; Coast Survey, 1887 to July, 1891. 
 Promoted Commander, June, 1881 ; member of Board of Inspection, July, 
 1891 ; recruiting duty, 1891 ; service on " Ranger," 1892 ; Light-House In 
 spector, December, 1892, to September, 1895. Senior Member Board of In 
 spection of Supplies, 1896. " Benniugtou," December, 1896, to May, 1898. 
 
 William Whitman Mead. Born in Kentucky. Appointed as Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, December 30, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; 
 " Lackawanna " (second-rate), North Pacific Squadron, 1866-9. Promoted 
 to Ensign, December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; Signal Office, Washington, 1870 ; 
 "Colorado" (first-rate), flag-ship, Asiatic Fleet, 1870-3; had command of 
 " Colorado," steam launch, in first day s fight with Corean forts ; when expedi 
 tion landed for capture and destruction of the forts commanded light artillery 
 from flag-ship ; " Michigan " (fourth -rate), 1873-4 ; " Shawmut " (third-rate), 
 North Atlantic Station, 1875-6; Hydrographic Office, 1877-9; " Shenan- 
 doah," South Atlantic Station, 1 879-82. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 March, 1881 ; Hydrographic Office, 1882-3 ; " Tennessee," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1883-5; Light-House Inspector, 1886, to May, 1890; receiving-ship 
 " Independence," May, 1890, to October, 1891 . Promoted Commander, 
 August 2, 1891 ; commanding " Essex," May, 1892, to April, 1893 ; Light- 
 House Inspector, May, 1893, to 1896 ; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Nor 
 folk, May, 1896. 
 
 Edwin Samuel Houston. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed as 
 Acting Midshipman at Naval Academy, April 18, 1862 ; graduated, 1865 ; 
 " Laciawanna " (second-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1866-9. Promoted to Ensign, 
 December 1, 1866 Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, March 29, 1869 ; u Severn " (second-rate), flagship North 
 Atlantic Fleet, 1869-71 ; " Lancaster" (second-rate), South Atlantic Station, 
 1872-4 ; Naval Rendezvous, San Francisco, 1875-6 ; nautical school-ship 
 " Jamestown," 1876-7 ; " Hartford," South Atlantic Station, 1877-79 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1879-81. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March, 
 1881 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1881-4 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1885-6 ; 
 "Trenton," special service, 1886-7; "Lancaster," South Atlantic Station, 
 1887-9 ; receiving-ship " Minnesota," 1889, to October, 1891. Promoted to 
 Commander, September 27, 1891 ; commanding receiving-ship li Dale," March, 
 1892-4; commanding "Machias," September, 1894-6; Captain Navy Yard, 
 League Island, December, 1896, to May, 1898. 
 
 Edwin Longnecker. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed as Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, September 24, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; 
 "Shenaudoah" (second-rate), East India Station, 1866-9. Promoted to 
 Ensign, December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; receiving- ship, Philadelphia, 1869 ; 
 " Swatara " (third-rate), North Atlantic Fleet, 1870-71 ; "Colorado" (first- 
 rate), North Atlantic Station, 1872-3; "Alaska" (third-rate), European 
 Station, 1874-6 ; " Wyoming" (third-rate), Paris Exposition Service, 1878 ; 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 95 
 
 Naval Observatory, 1878-82. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, August, 
 1881 ; " Michigan " (ou the lakes), 1882-3 ; " Shenandoah," Pacific Station, 
 1883-6; training-ship "Richmond," August, 1888, to October, 1891, to 
 November, 1892. Promoted to Commander, October 2, 1891 ; commanding 
 " Ranger," November, 1892, to December, 1894 ; leave of absence, December, 
 9, 1894 ; Naval War College, June 1, 1895, to August, 1895 ; Inspector 
 Ordnance, League Island, August 28, 1895, to 1898 ; commanding Navy 
 Yard, League Island, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 George E. Ide. Born in Ohio. Appointed as Acting-Midshipman, at 
 Naval Academy, September 27, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; Pacific Fleet, 
 1866-8. Promoted to Ensign, December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, 
 March 12, 1868 Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 26, >869 ; " Plymouth," 
 European Squadron, 1869-72; "Juniata," N. A. Squadron, 1873; leave, 
 1875; training-ship " Monongahela," 1875; receiving-ship "Independence," 
 1876-7 ; Naval Observatory, 1877-8 ; " Vandalia," European Station, 1878-9 ; 
 "Alliance," N. A. Station, 1879-80. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 October, 1>81 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1881-3 ; "Adams," Pacific Station, 
 1883-4; "Alliance," S. A. Station, 1886-9. Promoted to Commander, Oc 
 tober 2, 1891 ; Member Board Inspection Merchant Vessels, N. Y., Septem 
 ber 1, 1892; commanding U. S. S. "Alert," October 8, 1894, to June 17, 
 1895 ; waiting orders, June, 1895, to November, 1896 ; Ordnance Officer, 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., November 24, 1896 ; commanding Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, Va , February, 1898 ; commanding U. S. S. "Justin," May, 1898. 
 
 George Milton Book. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed as Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, November 22, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; W. 
 I. Squadron, 1865-7. Promoted to Ensign, December 1, 1866 ; apprentice 
 ship "Portsmouth," 1867-9. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 29, 1869 ; sick-leave, 1870-1 ; retired, 1871 ; 
 restored to active list, 1875 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1876 ; "Adams " (third- 
 rate), S. A. Station, 1876-8; commanding "Montauk," N. A. Station, 
 1879-81. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, May, 1881 ; "Enterprise," 
 N. A. Station, 1882-4 ; Asiatic Station, 1884-6 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," 
 1885-8 ; Navy Yard, New York, December, 1889, to August, 1891 ; waiting 
 orders, August, 1891, to May, 1892. Promoted to Commander, December 
 16, 1891 ; Navy Yard, New York, May, 1892, to April, 1893 ; commanding 
 "Alert," April, 1893, to October, 1893 ; Naval War College, June, 1894 ; 
 October, 1894, waiting orders; court-martial duty, June, 1895; Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, August, 1895 ; waiting orders, July, 1896 ; ordered to command 
 "Marion," May, 1897; Navy Yard, Mare Island, December, 1897; com 
 manding U. S. S. " Mohican," 1898, to present date. 
 
 Thomas Perry. Born in New York. Appointed an Acting Midship 
 man at Naval Academy September 21, 1861; graduated, 1865; school-ship 
 "Sabine," 1866. Promoted to Ensign, December 1, 1866; " Pensacola," 
 North Pacific Fleet, 1867; " Suwanee " (third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1868; 
 "Dictator" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1869 ; " Miantonomah " (second- 
 rate), special service, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869; 
 "Shenandoah," European Fleet, 1871-2; "Manhattan," North Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1873-4; "Omaha," South Pacific, 1875-7; Naval Observatory, 
 1878-9; "Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1879-81; "Alert," Asiatic Station, 
 1881-2. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, November, 1881 ; Light- 
 House Inspector, 1883-6 ; " Brooklyn," Asiatic Station, 1887-9 ; light-house 
 duty, 1890 to December, 1892. Promoted Commander, January 10, 1892 ; 
 General Inspector of the " Castine," February, 1893; commanding "Cas- 
 tine," 1894-6. Light-House Inspector, 1897 to date. 
 
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 Charles Herbert Stockton. Entered the Naval Academy in Novem 
 ber, 1861, graduating in 1865; served in the " Dacotah," " Chattanooga," 
 and " Mohican," going to the North Pacific by the way of the Strait of 
 Magellan, in the " Mohican," served in the Pacific from 1866-9 ; was stationed, 
 1^69-70, at Navy Yard, Philadelphia; was ordered to the " Congress" in 
 1870 ; made a varied cruise in the West Indies, Greenland, and in the Medi 
 terranean, in the " Congress ; " returning from the Mediterranean in 1874, in 
 the "Brooklyn," was again stationed at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia; left 
 the Navy Yard in 1875, and joined the U S. 8. " Swatara," making the 
 cruise around the world in that ship; on the Transit of Venus Expedition ; 
 Hydrographic Office, Washington, and from there, in 1876, to U. S. S. 
 " Plymouth ; " detached from U. 8. S. " Plymouth," North Atlantic Station, 
 May 17, 1879 ; ordered to Navy Yard, New York, July 1, 1879 ; at torpedo 
 station, Newport, R. I., May 31, 1880; ordered to Navy Yard, Washington, 
 D. C., October 1, 1880. Promoted to grade of Lieutenant- Commander, No 
 vember 15, 1881 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Iroquois " as Executive-Officer, March, 
 18S2 ; serving upon Pacific Station, and landing with battalion at Panama, 
 during riots in 1885 ; detached from " Iroquois " and returned home, May, 
 1885 ; ordered to duty in Bureau of Yards and Docks, September 1, 1885 ; 
 ordered as member of Board to report upon the drills and exercises of the 
 naval service, June 16, 1886 ; ordered as member of Board to examine and 
 revise signal and tactical books, January 13, 1887; lecturer at Naval War 
 College, at Newport, R. I., in 1887 and 1888 ; member of Board of Examin 
 ers at Torpedo Station, July 27, 1888 ; appointed as member of the Commis 
 sion to select a suitable site for a Navy Yard upon the Pacific Coast north of 
 42, north latitude, on the 30th of November, 1888 ; commanded U. S. S. 
 " Thetis," April 11, 1889, to May, 1891, making a cruise in Behring Sea and 
 Arctic Ocean with the whaling fleet, as far east as Herschel Island, Macken 
 zie Bay, in British America, and to the westward as far as Herald Island, and 
 Wrangell Land ; War College, May, 1891, to October, 1894. Commissioned 
 Commander, April 3, 1892 ; on duty to prepare lectures on International law, 
 delivered by Dr. Snow at War College for publication ; Lecturer on Inter 
 national law at War College, summer term of 1895 ; in command of "York- 
 town," Asiatic Station, Oct., 1895, to Dec., 1897 ; special duty as lecturer on 
 International law at \Var College, from Dec. 27, 1897, to present date. 
 
 Oscar Walter Farenholt. Born in Texas. Entered the navy at New 
 York as seaman, April 18, 1861 ; sent to the frigate " Wabash," flag-ship of 
 Flag Officer Dupont ; participated in the engagements and battles at Fort 
 Hatteras, North Carolina, Port Royal, South Carolina, Fort Pulaski, Georgia, 
 and in all the boat expeditions sent from the " Wabash " in the year 1861-2 into 
 South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida ; October 22, 1862, was severely wounded 
 at the battle of Pocotaligo, South Carolina, where the four howitzers of the 
 " Wabash " covered the retreat of the Federal army ; sent to the Naval Hos 
 pital at New York, and discharged from the Navy ; as soon as recovered from 
 wounds, entered the service again, in February, 1863 ; for the especial detail 
 on the monitor " Catskill ; " participated in her in the almost daily engage 
 ments with the defences of Charleston, South Carolina, from April, 1863, to 
 April, 1864 ; was by the side of Commander George W. Rodgers when he and 
 Assistant Paymaster J. G. Woodbury were killed in the pilot-house of the 
 " Catskill," August 17, 1863 ; participated in the unsuccessful storming-party 
 of Fort Sumter, September, 1863. Promoted Acting Ensign, August, 1864, 
 and ordered to the command of the schooner" Henry Janes," attached to the 
 squadron in the sounds of North Carolina; participated in the re-capture of 
 Plymouth, several engagements on the Roanoke, Chowan and Black Water 
 
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 Rivers, and the capture of Fort Fisher, North Carolina ; at the end of the 
 war was ordered to monitor " Shawnee " and duty at Boston Navy Yard ; in 
 1866, served in store-ship "Purveyor" and steam-frigate " Susquehanna ;" 
 in 1867, served in receiving-ships "New Hampshire" and "Ohio;" ex 
 amined for regular navy, in January, 1867 ; in October, 1867, ordered to 
 the ship " Idaho ; " served in her and the steamer " Ashuelot," on the Asiatic 
 Station until November, 1870. Commissioned Ensign, March 12, 1868; 
 Master, December 18, 1868; and to Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; May, 1871, 
 ordered to Norfolk Navy Yard; November, 1871, to the command of the 
 steamer "Standish," Home Station;" June, 1873, to the steamer "IShenan- 
 doah," European Station ; June, 1874, to the command of the receiving-ship 
 " Relief," at Washington Navy Yard; June, 1875, as Navigator to flag ship 
 " Minnesota;" June, 1876, Executive Officer of training-ship " Supply ; " Octo 
 ber, 1876, Navigation Officer, Navy Yard, Norfolk ; June, 1877, to October, 
 
 1879, in charge of the Naval Nitre-Depot at Maiden, Massachusetts ; Decem 
 ber, 1879, ordered to the Asiatic Station, on the steamer "Swatara;" May, 
 
 1880, to June, 1882, Executive Officer of the steamer "Monocacy." Pro 
 moted to the grade of Lieutenant- Commander, May 11, 1882 ; September, 1882, 
 Executive Officer of receiving-ship "Wabash," Navy Yard, Boston ; March, 
 1885, Executive Officer training-ship " Portsmouth ; " October, 1885, Execu 
 tive Officer steamer "Swatara," Home Station; October, 1886, Executive 
 Officer receiving-ship "Wabash;" September, 1889, to September, 1891, 
 commanding the steamer "Pinta," in Alaskan waters; November, 1891, 
 equipment duty at Navy Yard, Boston. June 19, 1892, promoted to Com 
 mander, and ordered as Inspector of the Thirteenth Light-House District with 
 headquarters at Portland, Oregon ; detached from this duty, July, 1896, and 
 ordered to the command of the steamer " Monocacy," on the Asiatic Station, 
 which is his present duty. 
 
 Edward T. Strong. Native of Massachusetts. Entered the service, 
 November 24, 1862, as a volunteer officer; transferred to the regular service, 
 and commissioned as Ensign, March 12, 1868 ; apprentice-ship " Portsmouth ;" 
 receiving-ship "New Hampshire." Commissioned as Master, December 18, 
 1868 ; " Seminole " (third-rate), North Atlantic Station, 1869-70. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; receiving-ship "Ohio," 1870 ; "California" 
 (second-rate), flag-ship, Pacific Fleet, 1870-3 ; monitor " Terror," at Phila 
 delphia, 1873; "Shenandoah" (second-rate), North Atlantic Fleet, 1874; 
 receiving-ship "Ohio" and "Wabash," 18745; " Vandalia," European 
 Station, 1876-9; Navy Yard, Boston, 1879-82; Torpedo Station, 1882. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 2, 1882; "Minnesota" (appren 
 tice ship), 1882-3; "Swatara" (third-rate), North Atlantic Station, 1883-5 ; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1886-9 ; nautical school-ship "Saratoga," Philadelphia, 
 1889 to June, 1892; leave of absence, June, 1892, to February, 1893. Pro 
 moted to Commander, January 9, 1893 ; commanding school-ship Saratoga," 
 from February, 1893. to November, 1895; commanding U. S. S. "Essex," 
 from January, 1896, to March, 1898 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., March, 
 1898, to May, 1898. 
 
 Robert E. Impey. Born in Ohio. Entered the U. S. Naval Academy, 
 1861; was graduated, 1865 ; as Midshipman served on the " Ticonderoga," 
 Mediterranean Station, 1866. Promoted to Ensign, December, 1866 ; 
 served as Ensign on the " Miantonomah," Mediterranean Station, 1867. 
 Promoted to Master, March, 1868 ; served as Master on the " Powhatan," 
 flag-ship South Pacific Station, 1868-69. Promoted to Lieutenant, March, 
 1869 ; served as Lieutenant on the " Kansas," T. and N. Surveying Expe- 
 
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98 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 dition, 1870 ; " Ajax," North Atlantic Station, 1871 ; " Iroquois," Asiatic 
 Station, 1872 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1873; "Independence," Mare 
 Island, California, 1874; "Pensacola," flag-ship, North Pacific Station, 
 1874-77; Navy Yard, New York, 1879; " Quinnebaug," Mediterranean 
 Station, 1881. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, October, 1882; served 
 as Lieutenant-Commander on the " Tennessee," flag-ship, North Atlantic 
 Station, 1885; Navy Yard, Washington, 1887; " Tallapoosa," South Atlan 
 tic Station, 1888-91 ; War College, Newport, R. I., 1892. Promoted to Com 
 mander, January, 1893 ; commanded the U. S. S. " Monocacy," Asiatic Sta 
 tion, during th Japanese-China war, 1893-95 ; War College, Newport, R. I., 
 session of 1896 ; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., from 
 November 3, 1896. 
 
 E. W. Watson. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed a Master s Mate 
 on board the " Lancaster," May 2, 1859 ; served in that vessel until October, 
 1861 ; "Rhode Island," 1862-3. Promoted to Acting Ensign, September 18, 
 1863; "Circassian" and "Flag," 1863-5; "Frolic," European Station, 
 1865-7; store-ship "Guard," 1867-8. Commissioned as Ensign in regular 
 service, March 12, 1868 ; League Island, October, 1868, to April, 1869. 
 Promoted to Master, December 18, 1868; "Seminole," 1869. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; "Frolic" (third-rate), special service, 1870; 
 ordnance duty, Norfolk, 1871; "Canonicus" and "Saugus" (ironclads), N. 
 A. Fleet, 1872 ; Norfolk Navy Yard, 1873-5 ; " Ossipee " (third-rate), N. A. 
 Fleet, 1875; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1877-80; R. S. "Franklin," 1880-2; 
 "Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1882-4. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 November, 1883 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1884-6 ; Torpedo Station, ordnance 
 instruction, 1887; " Swatara," Asiatic S. A. Station, 1888, to November, 
 1891; training-ship "Richmond," November, 1891, to April, 1893. Pro 
 moted Commander, April 27, 1893 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, April, 1893, to November, 1894; commanding U.S. S. " Ranger," 
 Pacific Station, 1895 ; commanding U. S. S. " Adams," Pacific Station, 1896 ; 
 commandant Naval Station, New London, Conn., from March, 1897, to date. 
 
 John F. Merry. Born in Maine. Entered the navy as a volunteer 
 officer, October 15, 1862; served during the Rebellion; in 1868 was ap 
 pointed an Ensign in regular service. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 
 21, 1870; Asiatic Fleet, 1868-72; Naval Rendezvous, Boston, 1873-4; 
 commanding receiving-ship "Relief," 1875-77; "Gettysburg" (fourth-rate), 
 special service in the Mediterranean, 1877-9 ; examining naval timber lands 
 in Florida, 1879-81 ; Torpedo Instruction, 1881 ; "Tallapoosa," special ser 
 vice, 1881-84. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, December, 1883; 
 "Marion," Asiatic Station, 1884-7; "Michigan" (on the lakes), 1888-9 ; 
 receiving-ship " Wabash," 1889 to November, 1892 ; commanding school- 
 ship "Enterprise," November, 1892. Promoted Commander, May 9, 1893 ; 
 commanding nautical school-ship "Enterprise," November, 1892-5; waiting 
 orders, Dec., 1895 ; Naval War-college, June, 1896 ; Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, Oct., 1896 ; commanding " Machias," April, 1897, to present date (1898). 
 
 William C. Gibson. Bora in Albany, New York, July 23, 1838. 
 Entered the service as a Volunteer Officer, December 15, 1862 ; served 
 during the Rebellion, on Potomac Flotilla and North and South Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadrons. Commissioned an Ensign, in regular service, March 
 12, 1868. Master, December 18, 1868. Lieutenant, March 21, 1870 ; " Nar- 
 ragansett " (third-rate), West India Station, 1869 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 1870 ; "Mohican " (third rate), Pacific Fleet, 1871-2; "Pensacola" (second- 
 rate), Pacific Fleet, 1872-3; "Onward," store-ship at Callao 1873; 
 "Roanoke" (iron-clad), 1874-5; "Frolic" (fourth-rate), South Atlantic 
 
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 Station, 1875-7 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1877-80 ; " Yantic " (fourth-rate), 
 North Atlantic Station, 1881-3. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 
 13, 1884; Commandant Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, 1884-8; store-ship 
 " Monongahela," 1888, to October, 1890 ; Navy Yard, New York, Special 
 and Equipment duty, November, 1890, to March, 1892 ; commanded supply- 
 steamer "Fern," March, 1892, to November, 1893. Promoted to Commander, 
 July 4, 1893 ; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., Novem 
 ber, 1893, to November, 1896 ; commanding training-ship "Adams " in the 
 Pacific, January 7, 1897, to date. 
 
 Washburn Maynard. Bora in Tennessee. Entered Naval Academy 
 in 1862; graduated, 186J5; "Susquehann a," North Atlantic Squadron, 1866 
 -7 ; " Franklin," flag-ship European Fleet, 1867-8 ; " Frolic," European 
 Squadron, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; to Master, March 26, 
 1869 ; " Seminole," North Atlantic Station, 1869-70. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, March 21,1870; torpedo duty, 1870-2; "California," "Sara- 
 nac," " Richmond," Pacific Fleet, 1872-4 ; special duty, seal fisheries, 1874-5 ; 
 " Wyandotte " (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1876 ; Coast Survey, 
 1876-7; commanding C. S. steamer "Fathomer," 1877; torpedo station, 
 1877-9 ; " Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1879-82 ; torpedo station, 
 1882-f). Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, September 27, 1884 ; "Brook 
 lyn," North Atlantic and Asiatic Stations, 1885-7 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 
 1887 to June, 1891 ; commanding "Pinta," September, 1891, to January, 
 1893 ; Bureau of Equipment, January, 1893. Promoted to Commander, 
 September 27, 1893, to August, 1897; commanding U. S. S. "Nashville," 
 August 19, 1897, to date (May, 1898). 
 
 Henry "Ware Lyon. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, October 7, 1862 ; graduated, 1866 ; "Sacramento," 1866-7 this vessel 
 was lost off coast of India. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; ordnance 
 duty, Boston, 1868; store-ship "Guard," Mediterranean Squadron, 1869. 
 Promoted to Master, July 26, 1869 ; steam-sloop " Richmond," European 
 Fleet, 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; "Wabash," 
 1872-3; frigate " Franklin," North Atlantic Fleet, 1873; special ordnance 
 duty, 1874; "Tennessee," flag-ship, European Squadron, 1875-7; special 
 ordnance duty, 1877-80; "Galena," European Station, 1880-3 ; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1883. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 November, 1884; South Boston Iron AVorks, 1884-6; "Trenton," Pacific 
 Station, 1886-9 ; commanding "Nipsic," Pacific Station, 1889 to April, 1890 
 the " Nipsic s " passage from Samoa to Honolulu, where she was repaired, 
 was with a jury rudder, deformed screw, all outside keel gone, and leaking; 
 Torpedo Station, June, 1890, to May, 1893 ; commanding " Yantic," May, 
 1893, to December, 1893. Promoted to Commander, October 1, 1893. Naval 
 War College, June 12, 1894, to April, 1894; Navy Yard, Boston, April 28, 
 1894-7 ; commanding U. S. S. " Dolphin " May 29, 1897, to January, 1898; 
 Navy Yard, New York, January, 1898, to date. 
 
 James H. Dayton. Bom in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 27, 1862 ; graduated, 1866 ; " Pensacola " (second-rate), North Pacific, 
 1867-9. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868, and to Master, March 26, 1869 ; 
 " Miantonomah " (iron-clad), special service, 1870. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, March 21, 1869; "Plymouth," European Fleet, 1871-3; "Worces 
 ter," flag-ship N. A. Fleet, 1874 ; Naval Academy, 1875-7 ; " Quinnebaug," 
 Europeon Station, 1878-81 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1882-3; Mid vale Steel Works, 1883-4. Promoted to Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, November, 1884; "Dolphin," special service, 1884; "Mohican," 
 Pacific Station, 1S84-7 ; Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, 1888-90 ; com- 
 
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 manding the "Petrel," February, 1893. Promoted to Commander, January, 
 1894; Light-house Inspector, April, 1894, to 1897; commanding "Detroit," 
 June, 1897, to present date (1898). 
 
 Asa Walker. Born in New Hampshire. Entered Naval Academy, 
 November 27, 1862 ; graduated, 1866 ; North Atlantic Squadron, 1867. Pro 
 moted to Ensign^ April, 1868 ; ordnance duty, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 
 1868; "Jamestown," Pacific Fleet, 1868-71. Promoted to Mender, March 
 26, 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870 ; Naval Academy, 
 1872-6 ; " Essex," South Atlantic Station, 1876-8 ; Naval Academy, 1879-81 ; 
 practice-ship " Dale," 1881-2 ; Naval Academy, 1882-3; " Trenton," Asiatic 
 Station, 1883-4. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, December, 1884; 
 "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1884; "Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1884-6; 
 Naval Academy, 1886-90; waiting orders, August, 1890, to October, 1891 ; 
 " Miantonomah," N. A. Station, October, 1891, to March, 1893; command 
 ing " Bancroft," special service, March, 1893, to July 1893 ; Naval Academy, 
 July, 1893. Promoted to Commander, April, 1894-7; commanding "Con 
 cord," May, 1897, to present date. 
 
 M. R. S. Mackenzie. Born in New York. Appointed to Naval 
 Academy, September 27, 1862 ; graduated, 1866 ; N. A. Station, 1867. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, April, 1868; ordnance duty, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 
 1868; " Guard, store-ship, European Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to Master, 
 March 26, 1869; "Franklin," flag-ship, European Fleet, 18H9-71. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Academy, 1873-4; " Pen- 
 sacola," flag-ship, North Pacific Station, 1875-8; Naval Academy, 1877-80; 
 "Essex," Asiatic Station, ] 882-4. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 December, 1884; Light-House duty, 1884-9; "Chicago," European Station, 
 1889, to July, 1891 ; commanding U. S S. "Petrel," Asiatic Station, July, 
 1891, to February, 1893 ; Light-House Inspector, June, 1893, to June, 196. 
 Promoted to Commander, April 16, 1894; waiting orders, June 28, 1896, to 
 September, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. " Machias," September "2V, 1896, to 
 April, 1897 ; sick leave, April 28, 1897, to April, 1898 ; commanding U. S. 
 S. "Mayflower," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Stillman Sperry. Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 27, 1862; U. S. S. "Sacramento," 1866-7. Promoted to 
 Ensign, April, 1868; ordnance duty, Boston, 1868; " Kearsarge," Pacific 
 Fleet, 1868-70. Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; " Worchester," flag-ship, N. A. Fleet, 1871-4; 
 Naval Academy, 1874-8; "Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1878-81; Naval 
 Academy, 1881-4 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1884-7. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander , March, 1885; Naval Academy, 1887 to July, 1891 ; 
 " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, and S. A. Station, July, 1891, to May, 
 1893 ; Bureau of Ordnance, May, 1893, to July, 1895. Promoted to Com 
 mander, July, 1894 ; New York Navy Yard, July, 1895, to date (May, 1898 ). 
 
 Frank Courtis. Graduated from Naval Academy, June, 1866 ; served 
 as Midshipman on U. S. S. " Pawnee," South Atlantic Station, from January, 
 1867, until July, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, March 12, 1868. Promoted 
 to Master, March 26, 1869; joined U- S. S. "Resaca," Pacific Station, 
 August, 1869; transferred to U. S. S. "Ossipee," January, 1871 ; served on 
 her until December, 1872. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; served 
 on U. S. receiving-ship "Independence," from January until June, 1873 ; on 
 leave until December, 1873 ; on " Independence " until January, 1874 ; joined 
 U. S. Coast Survey steamer "Hassler ; " served in her until November, 1876 ; 
 commanded U. S. Coast Survey steamer "McArthur" until March, 1878; 
 ordnance and torpedo instruction until September, 1878; joined U. S. S 
 
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 " Tuscarora," November, 1878 ; transferred to U- S. S. " Ranger ; " served on 
 her until August. 1881 ; on duty at Navy Yard, Washington, from October, 
 1881, to July, 1882 ; on duty on U. S. S. " Montauk " until December, 1882 ; 
 then to Navy Yard, Washington, until April 1, 1885. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant Commander, March 2, 1885; served on U. S. S. "Omaha," Asiatic 
 Station, from April 1, 1885, to May, 1888; Steel Inspection duty, Pittsburg, 
 from September 1, 1888 ; commanding U. S. S. "Vesuvius," June 15, 1893, 
 to September, 1894. Promoted to Commander, July 10, 1894 ; Inspector of 
 ^teel, Pittsburg, September 1, 1894; Light-House Inspector, 12th district, 
 September 3, 1895, to April, 1898. 
 
 William Wagner Reisinger. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy in April, 1862; graduated, 1866; N. A. Fleft, 1866-7; Asiatic 
 Station, 1867-70. Promoted to Ensign, April. 1868; to Master, March 26, 
 1869 ; and commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870 ; torpedo service, 
 1871 ; " Constellation" (gunnery ship), 1872 ; " Richmond," flagship South Pa 
 cific Squadron, 1873-4; Hydrographic Office, 1875-6; ordnance duty, 
 Washington. 1877-9; "Trent," on European Station, 1879-82; in charge of 
 Bellevue Magazine, 1882-4; " Yantic," N. A. Station, 1884-6. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1885; "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1888, to 
 August, 1891 ; Bureau of Navigation, August, 1891, to June, 1892; receiv 
 ing-ship "Dale," June, 1892-4. Promoted to Commander, July, 1894; 
 waiting orders, December, 1894; Naval War College, June, 1895; ordered 
 to command " Monocacy," November, 1895; waiting orders, December, 1896 ; 
 commanding Navy Yard, Pensacola, June, 1897, to present date (May, 1898). 
 
 William Turnbull Burwell. Born in Mississippi. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 29, 1862 ; graduated in 1866 ; Asiatic Station, 1867- 
 71. Promoted to Ensign, in April, 1868. Promoted to .Master, March 26, 
 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; "Worcester," flag 
 ship North Atlantic Fieet, 1872-5 ; "Hartford," flag-ship North Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1876 ; special duty, New York, 1877 ; " Trenton," European Station, 
 1877-81 ; Naval Academy, 1881-5; " Juniata," cruise to all stations, 1885- 
 89; in command of "Juniata" during cruise on Asiatic Station. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander, September, 1885; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1889, to 
 February, 1893 ; commanding " Pinta," Alaska, February, 1893, to Novem 
 ber, 1894. Promoted to Commander, July 3, 1894. Equipment Officer, 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, November 8, 1894, to December, 1895. Commanding 
 U. S. S. "Dolphin," December 3, 1895, to June, 1896. Light-House In 
 spector, Sixteenth District, June 14, 1896, to February, 1898. Light-House 
 Inspector, Custom House, Memphis, Tenn., to date (May, 1898). 
 
 John J. Hunker. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Academy, 
 April 18, 1862; graduated, 1866; "Susquehanna," flag-ship North Atlantic 
 Station, 1866-8. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868; "Franklin," flag-ship 
 European Squadron, 1869-71. Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870 ; torpedo service, 1872 ; " Michigan " 
 (fourth rate), 1873; "Swatara " North Atlantic Station, 1874-5; "Michigan" 
 (fourth rate), 1876; torpedo duty, 1877; Nautical school-ship "St Mary s," 
 1878-80; "Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1882-4 ; "Michigan," Northwestern 
 Lakes, 1884-7. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, October, 1885; 
 "Adams," Pacific Station. 1889-90; U. S. receiving-ship "Independence," 
 July, 1890, to April, 1891 ; U. S. S. " Palos," Asiatic Station, April, 1891, 
 to June, 1893 ; U. S. receiving-ship " Wabash," June, 1893-4. Promoted to 
 Commander, September. 1894 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, November, 1894; Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, New York, Feb., 
 1895, to 1897 ; .commanding the "Annapolis/ July, 1897, to present date. 
 
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 Franklin Hanford. Born in Chili, Monroe County, N. Y., November 
 8, 1844, and entered the U. S. Naval Academy, November 29, 1862, as a 
 Midshipman. He was appointed to that institution from Scottsville, N. Y., 
 in the Monroe County District, by the Hon. Alfred Ely, M. C. Mr. Ely 
 had then only recently returned from Richmond, Va., where he had been 
 imprisoned by the Confederates after his capture at the first battle of Bull 
 Run. Commander Hanford graduated at the Naval Academy in June, 
 1866, and was then ordered to duty on the U. S. S. " Saco," cruising in the 
 West Indies and Gulf of Mexico until the close of 1867. In January, 1868, 
 he joined the " Jvearsarge," proceeding in her to the South Pacific Station, 
 where he was promoted to Ensign in April, 1868. In September, 1868, he 
 was transferred to the " Tuscarora," and cruised on the latter vessel in the 
 South Pacific and West India Stations until February, 1871, being promoted 
 to Master in 1869, and to Lieutenant in 1870. In 1871 he was ordered to 
 the " Wabash," flag-ship of the European Station, and served on that vessel 
 until May, 1874. From July to November, 1874, he was on torpedo 
 duty at Newport R. I., and then until May, 1875, on receiving-ship "Ver 
 mont," at New York, when he joined the " Tennessee," flag-ship of the 
 Asiatic Station, and cruised in Asiatic waters on board the " Tennessee " and 
 " Ashuelot " until the return of the former vessel to the United States in 
 July, 1878. He then had ordnance duty at the New York Navy Yard until 
 June, 1881, when he was attached to the flag-ship " Pensacola," on the 
 Pacific Station, as navigator, until May, 1884. During the latter part of 
 this cruise the " Pensacola " circumnavigated the globe, taking numerous 
 observations for the determination of the variation of the compass. Ord 
 nance duty at the Washington Navy Yard followed from 1884 to 1886; and 
 from 1886 to 1888, he was Inspector of Ordnance at the West Point Foundry, 
 Cold Spring, N. Y., where modern guns were built for the new vessels of the 
 Navy. From 1888 to 1891 he was again attached to the " Pensacola," this 
 time as executive officer, having been promoted to Lieutenant- Commander in 
 October, 1885. During this cruise the " Pensacola" was, at first, on special 
 duty in South America and on the Atlantic Coast of the United States; then 
 conveyed a Scientific Expedition to West Africa during 1889-90, and was 
 afterwards flag-ship of the South Atlantic and South Pacific Stations, visit 
 ing Chile at the opening of the rebellion of 1891. From 1892 to 1895, he 
 was Senior Aid to the Commandant at the New York Navy Yard, being 
 promoted to Commander in September, 1894. In June, 1895, he was ordered 
 to command the U. S. S. " Alert " on the Pacific Station, and remained on her 
 until August, 1897. During this cruise the " Alert " visited all the countries 
 of the west coast of South America, from Callao, Peru, to Sitka, Alaska; 
 protected American interests during revolutions in Ecuador and Nicaragua, 
 and also spent several months in the Hawaiian Islands. After a few months 
 leave of absence, Commander Hanford was ordered, in January, 1898, as 
 Assistant Inspector of the Tenth Light-House District, with headquarters at 
 Buffalo, N. Y , and on the 12th of March, 1898, as Inspector of that district. 
 
 Robert M. Berry. Born in Kentucky. Entered Naval Academy, June 
 31, 1862 ; graduated, 1866 ; " Guerriere,"* flag-ship, South Atlantic Station, 
 1867-8 ; " Kansas," same station, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868, 
 and to Master, March 26, 1869 ; "Cyane," Pacific Feet, 1869-72. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870 ; " Dictator " (iron -clad), North Atlantic 
 Station, 1873 ; " Franklin," flag-ship European Fleet, 1874-6 ; torpedo duty, 
 summer of 1877 ; " Saratoga," training-ship. 1877-81 ; commanding Rodger s 
 special service, 1881-2 ; nautical school-ship " St. Mary s," 1882-6. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander, February, 1886; "Atlanta," North Atlantic 
 
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 Station, 1886-8 ; Light-House Inspector, 1889 to March, 1892 ; commanding 
 U. S. S. "Michigan," March, 1892, to December, 1894; waiting orders, 
 December, 1894. Promoted, February 2, 1895 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 July 8, 1895, to December, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. " Castine," December 
 8, 1896, to date. 
 
 Samuel Williams Very. Born in England, April 23, 1846. Entered 
 Naval Academy, February 23, 1863; was graduated June, 1866 Commis 
 sioned as Ensign, March 12, 1868 ; as Master, March 26, 1869 ; as Lieutenant, 
 March 21, 1870 ; as Lieutenant- Commander, March 4, 1886 ; at Naval Acad 
 emy and in practice-ships Macedonian," " Marblehead," " Marion," and 
 "Savannah," 1863-6; " Resaca," " Mohican," and "Onward," Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1866-71 ; Torpedo Station, 1871-2 ; " Lancaster " add " Wasp," South 
 Atlantic Station, 1872-4; Boston Navy Yard, 1874-5; "Omaha," South 
 Pacific Station, 1875 ; " Richmond," same and South Atlantic Station, 1875- 
 77 ; Naval Academy and in the practice-ship " Constellation," 1877-80 ; 
 Hydrographic Office, Washington, 1880 ; Magnetic Observations, Hudson s 
 Bay and coast of Labrador, under Coast Survey, 1880-2 ; in charge of 
 Transit of Venus Expedition to Patagonia, 1882-3 ; " Tennessee," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1883-6 ; Torpedo Station, 1886 ; Inspection of Steel, 1886 
 -87; War College, 1887; Naval Academy, in charge of ships, 1887-90; 
 special duty connected with the " Newark " and on board " Newark," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1890-1 ; " Mohican " and " Boston," Pacific Station, 1891-3 ; 
 Washington Navy Yard, 1894; League Island Navy Yard, 1894-5; In 
 spector of Ordnance, Cramps Ship Yard and Cramps Gun Works, 1894-6; 
 Boston Navy Yard, 1896 to date. 
 
 Henry Newman Manney. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 24, 1861 ; graduated in 1866; steam-sloop "Resaca," North 
 Pacific Squadron, 1866-8. Promoted to Ensign in April, 1869. Promoted 
 to Master, March 26, 1869; "Swatara," North Atlantic Fleet, 1870-1; 
 " Marion," 1871. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21,1870; "Michi 
 gan," 1872-3; "Independence," 1873; steam-sloop " Tuscarora," surveying 
 duty in Pacific, 1873 ; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Fleet, 1873-5 ; steamer " Yan- 
 tic," Asiatic Station, 1875-6; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1878-81 ; Torpedo 
 Instruction, 1881-2; Naval Academy, 1881-4. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, October, 1886 ; " Lancaster," European and South Atlantic 
 Station, 1884-7; "Trenton," 1887; Hydrographic Office, 1888; Naval 
 Home, Philadelphia, 1889 to June, 1891 ; " Newark," June, 1891, to Septem 
 ber, 1892; Naval Home, Philadelphia, September, 1892-5. Promoted to 
 Commander, May, 1895; commanding training-ship "Alliance," October, 
 1895-8 ; commanding U. S. Naval Home, Philadelphia, 1898. 
 
 Chapman Coleman Todd. Born in Kentucky. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, October 9, 1861; graduated in 1866; steam-sloop " Resaca," North 
 Pacific Fleet, 1866-8 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868; Pacific Fleet, 
 1869. Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 25, 1870; Pacific Fleet, 1870-1; "Worcester," flag-ship, North 
 Atlantic Station, 1872 ; "Wyoming," North Atlantic Station, 1873 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1874; " Pensacola," flag-ship North Pacific Station, 1875-6 ; 
 receiving-ship Franklin," 1877-8 ; "Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1878-9; 
 " Wyoming," Naval Station, Port Royal, 1881-2 ; " Kearsarge," European 
 Station, 1883-5 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1885-6. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, November, 1886; Naval Academy, 1886- 
 89 ; Charlestown, special service, 1889 to November, 1891 ; receiving- ship 
 "Minnesota," November, 1891, to January, 1893; Inspector of Ordnance 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, January, 1893-6. Promoted to Commander, May, 
 
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 1895; ordered to War College, June, 1896; Navy Yard, Washington, No 
 vember, 1896 ; commanding " Wilmington," May, 1897, to present date. 
 
 Joseph Newton Hemphill. Appointed to the Naval Academy, Ohio. 
 Entered the Academy at Newport, R. I., and was warranted a Midshipman, 
 September 27, 1862; graduated at Annapolis, June, 1866; was ordered to 
 the " Tacony," transferred to the " Osceola " and then to the " Monongahela," 
 during the autumn and winter of 1866 ; wrecked in the West India earth 
 quake, November, 1867, and brought north in the " De Soto," December, 
 1867 ; was commissioned an Ensign, March 12, 1868, and served on board 
 the "De Soto "-part of that year; duty at League Island, autumn of 1868, 
 and on the "Kenosha," afterwards the " Plymouth," from December, 1868, 
 to July, 1873; commissioned Master, March 26, 1869, and Lieutenant, 
 March 21, 1870; duty at Norfolk Navy Yard, as Navigation Officer, 1874; 
 Navigator of the " Tuscarora," deep-sea sounding, 1875-76 ; Coast Survey 
 steamer "Gedney," and U. S. S. " Swatara," 1877-8; Washington Navy 
 Yard and Naval Observatory 1879-80 ; " Powhatan," October, 1880, to Sep 
 tember, 18>S3; Torpedo School and Washington Gun Factory, 1884-87; 
 commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, January 26, 1887; "Jamestown," 
 December, 1887, to August, 1890; Board of Inspection and Survey, Septem 
 ber, 1890, to November, 1893; commanding "Fern," November, 1893-94; 
 Bureau of Yards and Docks, October, 1894, to 1898. Promoted to Com 
 mander, June, 1895 ; Bureau of Navigation at present date. 
 
 Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck Lillie. Born in New York. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 24, 1862; graduated, 1866; Kearsarge " 
 (third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1867-70. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868. 
 Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 
 21, 1870; "Shawmut" (third-rate), North Atlantic Fleet, 1871-2; 
 "Brooklyn" (second-rate), European Station, 1872-6; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1876-7 ; " Constellation " (training-ship) 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1878-9 ; " Nipsic," special duty, 1879-83 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 
 1883-4; receiving-ship "Vermont," 1884-5; " Juniata," Asiatic Station, 
 1885-6. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, January, 1887 ; " Richmond," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1886-8; Navy Yard, New York, 1888, to March, 
 1892 ; "Baltimore," Asiatic Station, March, 1892, to May, 1883 ; sick leave, 
 May, 1893, to October, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, October, 1893-4; Light- 
 House Inspector. June, 1894, to 1897 ; promoted to Commander, September, 
 1895 ; ordered to Navy Yard, New York, May, 1897 ; commanding training- 
 ship " Vicksburg," October, 1897, to present date. 
 
 William Thomas Swinburne. Born in Rhode Island. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 24, 1862; graduated, 1866; " Kearsarge " 
 (third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1867-70. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; to 
 Master, March 26, 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1880 ; 
 " Michigan" (fourth-rate), 1871-2 ; "Lancaster," flag-ship, South Atlantic 
 Station, 1872-5 ; Torpedo Station, 1875 ; "Hartford," flag-ship. N. A. Station, 
 1876-7 ; C. S. S. " Hassler," 1879-81 ; commanding C. S. S. " McArthur," 
 1881-3; ."Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1883-6. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, March, 1887; Naval Academy, 1886-90; U. S. S. "Boston," 
 Pacific Station, August, 1890, to April, 1893 ; Naval Academy, April, 1893, 
 to July, 1897. Promoted to Commander, December 28, 1895 ; commanding 
 U. S. S. "Helena," July 7, 1897, to date. 
 
 William Hemsley Emory. Born in District of Columbia. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 23, 1862; graduated in 1866; "Iroquois" 
 (third-rate), Asiatic Station, 1867-9, and "Maumee," same station, 1869-70. 
 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868. Promoted to Matter, March 26, 1869. 
 
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 Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Observatory, 1871; 
 "Constellation" (gunnery-ship), Washington, 1872; "Hartford," flagship, 
 Asiatic Station, 1873-4; " Franklin," flag-ship, European Station, 1875-6; 
 Naval Academy, 1877-8; "Trenton," European Station, 1880-1 ; special 
 duty, Washington, l<*81-3 ; temporary command of "Palos," Asiatic Station, 
 1883; Aide to the Admiral, 1883-4; commanding the "Bear," Greely 
 Relief Expedition, 1884; commanding "Despatch," special service, 1885-6; 
 commanding "Thetis," special service, North Pacific, 1886-9. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander , May, 1887 ; Naval Attache, London, England, 1889, 
 to February, 1893 ; leave of absence from February, 1893, to March, 1894 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Petrel," March 10, 894, to June, 1896. Promoted 
 to Commander, December 29, 1895 ; leave of absence, Jun 2, 1896 ; " Brook 
 lyn " (Chief of Staff), May, 18, 1897 ; Member Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, July 19, 1897, to April, 1898; commanding U. S. S. "Yosemite" 
 May, 1898. 
 
 George Augustus Bicknell. Born in New Jersey, May 15, 1846. 
 Acting Midshipman, from Indiana, December 2, 1861 ; served as First Lieu 
 tenant of a company in Indiana during the Morgan raid, until regiment was 
 mustered out; graduated, 1866; " Iroquois," As atic Fleet, 1867-70; at the 
 opening of the Ports Kobe and Osaka, Japan, to trade, in 1868 ; in landing 
 party repelling attack of Prince Hyzea ; at Yokohama was second in com 
 mand of the marines of two ships, on out-post duty, protecting Yokohama 
 until good order was restored, about ten days, during which the fleet left. 
 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; to Master, March, 1869; to Lieutenant, 
 March 21, 1870; to Lieutenant- Commander, May, 1886. Naval Academy 
 Instructor, 1870-1 ; " Worcester," flag-ship, North Atlantic, 1872-5 ; Tor 
 pedo Station, 1875; South Pacific and South Atlantic Stations, 1875-6 ; flag 
 ships" Richmond " and the" Omaha," Navigator of the " Wachusett," South 
 Atlantic Station, 1879, going up the Mississippi, one hundred miles above 
 Vicksburg; Navigator of "Marion," 1880-2; cruised from Montevideo to 
 Heard s Island, about seven thousand miles, and rescued thirty survivors of 
 shipwrecked bark " Trinity ; " inspector of steel for Advisory Board, at Chester 
 Rolling Mills, and at Standard Steel Works, Thurlow, Pa. (for Construction 
 Bureau also), at the Combination Iron Works, Lamokin, Pa., and at Roach 
 ship-building works, boiler-plates, ship-plates, shafting, rivets, for " Chicago," 
 " Boston," " Atlanta," and " Dolphin," and structural steel shapes, 1883-6 ; 
 Asiatic Station, Executive Officer, "Essex," 1886-9; assistant in equipment, 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1889, to May, 1891 ; "Atlanta," December, 1892, to 
 July, 1893 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," July, 1893 ; commanding " Fern," 
 October, 1894, to January 10, 1896. Promoted to Commander, January 6, 
 1896; Captain of the Yard, Port Royal Naval Station, February 1, 1896; 
 Inspector Fourteenth Light-House District, Cincinnati, Ohio, to date. 
 
 Charles T. Hutchins. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, June 1, 1862; graduated, 1866; Asiatic Squadron, 1867-70. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, April, 1868; to Master, March 26, 1869. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Observatory, 1871 ; "Wyoming," N. 
 A. Station, 1872-4; Coast Survey, 1875 ; commanding Coast Survey steamer 
 " Endeavor," 1875-6 ; commanding " Lehigh " (iron-c ad), 1876-7 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1877 ; " Supply," special service, 1877-9 ; Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 1879-80 ; Coast Survey Office, 1880-1 ; " Lancaster," European 
 Station, 1881-4 ; Naval Academy, 1884-6 ; " Marion," Asiatic Station, 
 1886-90. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1887; commanding 
 "Thetis," May, 1893-5 ; leave of absence, June, 1895; ordered to command 
 school-ship "Saratoga," December, 1895. Commissioned as Commander, 
 
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 February, 1896-8 ; in charge Fifth Light-House District, Baltimore, Md , 
 April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Seth Mitchell Ackley. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, October 4, 1862; graduated, 1866; " Guerriere," S. A. Station, 1867. 
 Promoted to Ensign in April, 1868 ; " Gettysburg," N. A. Station, 1868-9. 
 Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869; " Yantic." N. A. Station, 1870-1. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Observatory, 1872; 
 "Omaha," S. P. Station, 1872-3; S. S. "Onward," Callao, Peru, 1874-5; 
 ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1876; receiving-ship Wyoming," 
 1876-7 ; Coast Survey steamer " Blake," 1877 ; commanding C. S. S. " Eagre," 
 1878-80; " Palos," special service, 1881-3; Hydrographic Office, 1884-6; 
 " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1887-9. Promoted to Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, June, 1887; Coast Survey Office, 1889, to December, 1893; com 
 manding "Yantic," S. A Station, December, 1893-5. Commissioned as 
 Commander, June, 1896; Light-House Inspector, 1896-8; Naval Secretary 
 Light-House Board, 1898, to date. 
 
 Benjamin Franklin Tilley. Born in Rhode Island. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 22, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Franklin," flag-ship, 
 European Fleet, 1867-8 ; steamer "Frolic," 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1868 ; " Lancaster," flag-ship, S. A. Fleet, 1869-72. Promoted to Master, 
 1870, and commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Pensacola," flag-ship, South 
 Pacific Fleet, 1873-5 ; receiving ship, " New Hampshire," 1875 ; " Hartford," 
 flagship, N. A. Station, 1875-7; "Powhatan," flagship, N. A. Station, 
 1877-8; Naval Academy, 1879-81; practice-steamer "Staudish," 1881; 
 Naval Academy, 1882 ; " Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1882-5 ; Naval Academy, 
 1885-9. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, September, 1887; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889-90; U. S. S. "San Francisco," No 
 vember, 1890, to July, 1893; Naval Academy, July, 1893, to 1897. Com 
 missioned Commander, September, 1896 ; War College, July, 1897 ; com 
 manding U. S. S. " Newport," October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Harry Knox. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, March 2, 1863 ; 
 graduated, 1867; " Franklin," flag-ship, European Fleet, 1867-9. Promoted 
 to Ensign, 1868. Promoted to Master, 1870 ; Pacific Fleet, 1870-72. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Monongahela," S. A. Station, 1873-5 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1876-9; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-82; Naval 
 Academy, 1882-6 ; " Boston," special service, 1886-90. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, January, 1888; Naval Academy, June, 1890-4; com 
 manding the " Thetis," August, 1894-96 ; Naval Academy, September, 1896, 
 to present date. Commissioned Commander, October, 1896. 
 
 Clifford Hardy West. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, and resident of New York. Entered U. S. Naval Academy at New 
 port, R. I., September 21, 1863. Was graduated as Midshipman from the 
 Academy at Annapolis, Md., June, 1867-70; European Station, frigate 
 " Minnesota ; " store-ship " Supply ; " steam-sloop " Ticonderoga ; " frigate 
 "Franklin," Admiral Farragut ; steam-sloop "Plymouth." Promoted to 
 Ensign, December 18,1868; 1870-71, duty in Navy Department Office of 
 Chief Signal Officer. Promoted to Master, March 21, 1870 ; 1871-73, 
 steam-sloop " Wyoming," in West Indies during complications with Spain as 
 to steamers "Virginius" and "Edgar Stuart." Made running survey of 
 east coast of Mexico. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 21, 1871 ; 1873-75, 
 ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New York; 1875-77, Navigator of steamer 
 " Frolic." South Atlantic Station ; 1877-79, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New 
 York; 1879-83, steam-sloop "Alliance," North Atlantic Station; survey on 
 
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 Great Bank of Newfoundland, and Executive Officer during the search for 
 Lieutenant De Long on east coast of Greenland, Iceland and Spitzbergen ; 
 1883-85, Light-House duty, New York; 1885-86, commanding Light-House 
 steamer " Madrono," New York to California ; 1886-90, Asiatic Station ; on 
 staffs of Rear- Admirals Chandler and Belknap, frigate " Brooklyn;" steam- 
 sloops " Marion " and " Omaha," double-ender " Monocacy." Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, March 31, 1888 ; 1890, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, 
 New York ; 1890-92, Light-House duty, New York ; 1892-93, commanding 
 Light-House steamer " Columbine," New York to Oregon ; Light-House 
 duty, New York, 1893-95; ordered to command " Yantic," June, 1895; 
 sick leave, August, 1895 ; Naval War College, June, 1896. Commissioned 
 Commander, October, 1896 ; ordered to Navy Yard, New York, October, 
 1896 ; Chief of Staff N. A. Station, May, 1897-98 ; duty Camden, N. J. at 
 present date. 
 
 John Porter Merrell. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 20, 1863 ; graduated, 1867, "Ticonderoga" and "Franklin," European 
 Fleet, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868; "Plymouth," European Fleet, 
 December, 1868, to April 26, 1870 ; signal duty, Washington, May 16, 1870, 
 to July 22, 1870 ; " Guard," Fishing Banks, and Darien Expedition, July 
 22, 1870, to August, 1871 ; torpedo duty, January 25, 1872, to September 
 13, 1875 ; " Swatara," North Atlantic Fleet, September 13, 1875, to August 
 24, 1877 ; in charge of naval ordnance proving grounds, September 24, 1877, 
 to February 6, 1879 ; "Marion," North Atlantic and South Atlantic Fleets, 
 February 6, 1879, to October 18, 1881 ; " Shenandoah," South Atlantic Fleet, 
 October 18, 1881, to May 22, 1882 ; Naval Academy, September 1, 1882, to 
 August, 1887 ; flag-ships " Pensacola " and " Quiimebaug," arid " Lancaster," 
 European Station (staff of commander in-chief), August 24, 1887, to June 24, 
 1889; Naval Academy, August 12, 1889, to June, 1893. Promoted to 
 Master, March, 1870; Lieutenant. March, 1871; Lieutenant- Commander, 
 May, 1888; "Baltimore," Asiatic Station, June, 1893, to November, 17, 
 1895 ; October 1, 1895, to March 5, 1896, special duty as member of a com 
 mission sent by State Department to Chengtu, Province of Szechuan, China, 
 to investigate anti-foreign riots in that Province; "Olympia," Asiatic Station, 
 November 18, 1895, to March 20, 1896; special duty, staff of com mander- 
 in-chief, December 21, 1895, to March 20, 1896. Promoted to Commander, 
 November 1, 1896 ; Light-House Inspector, 1897 ; Naval War College, New 
 port, R. L, 1898. 
 
 Joseph G. Eaton. Born in Alabama. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 23, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; " Ticonderoga," European Fleet, 1867-8. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1868; "Richmond," European Fleet, 1869; Darien 
 Expedition, 1869-71. Promoted to Master, 1870 ; and commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1871 ; ordnance duty, Boston, 1872; "Dictator" (iron-clad), N. 
 A. Station, 1873-4 ; special duty, Darien Survey, 1874-5 ; " Marion," Euro 
 pean Station, 1876-7 ; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1877-81 ; Naval Academy, 
 1^81-4; " Ranger," Pacific Station, 1884-7 ; inspector of steel, new cruisers, 
 1887-8. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1888; Inspector of 
 Ordnance, South Boston Iron Works, 1888-90; inspector of steel at Nashua 
 Steel Works, October, 1890, to March, 1891 ; "Monongahela," March, 1891, 
 to June, 1893 ; member steel Inspection Board, June, 1893-95 ; command 
 ing Nautical school ship " Enterprise," November, 1895-98. Commissioned 
 Commander, November, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. " Solace," April, 1898. 
 
 William I. Moore Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Academy, 
 April 12, 1862; graduated, 1866; "Monongahela" (second-rate), N. A. 
 
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 Sianoc, 1 **>>-* Promoted to Ensign in April, !**>*. Promoted to J/oafer, 
 March 26, 1**> : Pacific Fleet. l**>9-72. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 21, 1*70 ; " Ajax " iron-clad), X. JL Station, 18734 ; Torpedo 
 Station, 1*756 ; Coast Surrey steamer ** Bacbe/* 1876-7 ; commanding C. 
 S. seivnr * R=ady.~ 1877-8 : ** Marion," North and South Atlantic, 
 1878-*! : Navy Yard, Norfolk, 18*1-2 : Naval Academy, 18^2-3 ; " Hart 
 ford," 7 Pacific Station, 18-85-6; "Adams/ Pacific Station, 18*6-8. Pro 
 moted to Z*rfa*/-G>i<fcr, October 31, 18*8 : Torpedo Station, 188-8-91 ; 
 Coast Sorvey Office. November 19. 1*91, to January, 1892 ; commanding 
 Coast Survey steamer ~ Patterson," January, 1892-5 ; ordered to Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, N. H. ? June, 1895 ; Torpedo Station, October, 1895. Commis 
 sioned Commander. November, 1896 ; Inspector Ordnance, South Bethle- 
 Lenx December, 1896 : Equipment Officer, Navy Yard, Boston, June, 1897, 
 to <late. 
 
 Charles Belknap. Born in New Jersey. Entered Naval Academy as 
 Ifidfhipmvn, fr*>m Second District, New York, July,. 1864: was graduated, 
 June. 1867 ; "* Minnesota," special service, July to September, 1867 ; " Ti- 
 coederoga," European Station, 1867-8; "Canandaigua," special service, 
 1*68-9. Promoted to Ensign, December, 1868: receiving ship " Vermont," 
 April to June. 1869 ; Pacific Fleet, "Cyane " and "Resaca," July, 1869, to 
 November, 1*72. Promoted to J/o4er. 1870, and to Lieutenant, 1871 ; Hy- 
 drographic Office, April to October, 1873 ; Naval Academy, 1873-6 ; Navi 
 gator. K^arsarsre," Asiatic Fleet, 1876-7 ; Executive ** Ashuelot," Asiatic 
 Fleet, 1*77-9: Naval Academy (Physics and Chemistry;, 1879-82; Navi 
 gator * Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, 1882-4 ; Naval Academy (Phy- 
 ics and Chemistry;, 18845 ; in charge of buildings and grounds and assist 
 ant to superintendent, 1885-8; torpedo instruction and in attendance Naval 
 War College, 18*8: ; Executi% e " Kearsarge," special service and North At 
 lantic Station, 18/5891. Promoted to Lievtenant- Commander, February, 
 18*9: Torpedo Station, 1*91-4; in charge manufacture gun-cotton and 
 sruokefess fx>wder, Naval Academy, 1894-6; head department Applied 
 Mathematics; commanding Bancroft, European Station, 1896-7. Promoted 
 to Commander t Deo^mber, 1^96 ; Naval Academy, 1897 to date. 
 
 Fernando P. Gilmore. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, 
 February 2-*, 1*63; graduated. 1867; "Canandaigua," Euro^an Fleet, 
 1*67-9." Promoted to Erwjn, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1869-72. Promoted to 
 J/<M*sr, 1870; and commwfiioned as Lieutenant, 1871; "Dictator" iron 
 clad;, N. A. Station. 1*73 ; " Franklin," flag-ship, European Fleet, 1874-6 ; 
 torpedo duty, summer of 1877; Hydrographic C>ffice, 1878-9; " S \vatara " 
 and " Monocacy," Asiatic Station. 1879-82 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 
 l##-4; " Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1884-5; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 
 1*^*5-6; if&f&f&rr %tf&\. new cnib^rs, 1886-90. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 fy/mmsmder, March, 1889 ; mernFjer J^ard Inspection, San Francisco, Feb 
 ruary, 1*93-5; Naval \V r ar College, June, 1895; commanding the Yantic," 
 O^o^r. 189597. Commwsioned a^ Commander, January, 1897; Navy 
 Yard, New York, April, 1897, to date. 
 
 Eugene Henry Cozzens Leutze. Born in Prusgia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, March 4, 1863 ; during gurnrner of 1864, while on leave of absence 
 from Academy, volunteered for active ^rvice, and wa employed on board 
 L . S. S. " Monticello," Lieutenant Williarrj B. Cuhing commanding, on the 
 North Atlantic Blockading Bouadron; graduated in June, 1807; " Minne- 
 ^/ta," "Canandaigua" and <; Ticonderoga," Eurof^ean Fleet, 1867 9. Pro 
 moted />>^n, 1868; receiving-fihip "Vermont," at New York, 1809; 
 
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 "Severn," fla,g-ship, North Atlantic Fleet, 1869-71; while attached to the 
 "Severn," was favorably mentioned in an official report of Captain Lowry 
 to Rear Admiral Poor, for coolness and efficiency on an emergency created 
 by the iron-clad " Terror " running into the " Severn." Promoted to Master, 
 1870, and commissioned Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Worcester," flag-ship, North 
 Atlantic Fleet, 1872 ; Nicaraguan Surveying Expeditions, 1872-3 ; had 
 charge of one of the surveying parties, and surveyed and examined the routes 
 on the west side of Lake Nicaragua, along the valleys of the rivers Sopoa, 
 Ochomoga and Gil Gonzales ; also surveyed from the river Serapequi to 
 Greytown, on the east side of the lake, and ran the first straight line of 
 twenty miles through the swamps and jungle back of Greytown to the Atlantic 
 at that town ; leave of absence and Hydrographic Office, 1873 ; Panama 
 Surveying Expedition, 1874-5 ; Executive Officer, and in charge of the 
 party surveying the upper part of the Chagres River, and the middle part of 
 the canal route ; " Tuscarora," North Pacific Fleet, 1875 ; on special duty in 
 charge of deep-sea sounding from Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, to Brisbane, 
 Australia; Coast Survey, 1876-80; commanding U. S. C S. " McArthur," 
 1877-80, on Pacific Coast; leave of absence, 1880-2; employed by Tehuan- 
 tepec Railroad Company to survey and explore for harbor on Pacific side of 
 Isthmus of Tehuantepec ; and engaged afterwards in starting the building of 
 a breakwater and railroad at proposed western terminus of road ; U. S. 
 monitor " Nantucket," 1882 ; Executive Officer U. S. S. Juniata," 1882-5 ; 
 Navigator, Persian Gulf, India, and Burmah, Asiatic Station, East Coast of 
 Africa, and Madagascar; U. S. Naval Academy, 1886-7; in Department of 
 Seamanship; practice-ship "Constellation," 1887; Executive Officer, Naval 
 Academy, 1887-90 ; head of Department of Modern Languages. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander in March, 1889 ; ordered as Executive of U. S. S. 
 " Philadelphia," 1890 to November, 1892 ; Navy Yard, Washington, Novem 
 ber, 1892, to April, 1896 ; ordered to command U. S. S. " Michigan," April, 
 1896, to April, 1897. Commissioned as Commander, January, 1897 ; Light 
 House Inspector, Ninth District, April, 1897 ; ordered to command U. S. S. 
 " Alert," December, 1897. 
 
 Uriel Sebree. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval Academy, July 23, 
 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; "Canandaigua," European Fleet, 1867-9. Promoted 
 to Ensign, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1867-72. Promoted to Master, 1870, and 
 commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; "Dictator" (iron-clad), North Atlantic 
 Station, 1873; "Franklin," flag-ship, European Station, 1873-6; torpedo 
 duty, summer of 1877 ; C. S. 8. " Bache," 1878 ; commanding C. S. S. " Silli- 
 man," 1879 ; commanding C. S. S. " Gedney," 1879-81 ; Texas Coast, U. S. S. 
 "Brooklyn," South Atlantic Station, 1882; Naval Academy, 1*82-3; com 
 manding U. S. S. "Pinta," 183 ; U. S. S. "Powhatan," 1884; U. S. S. 
 " Thetis," Greely Relief Expedition, 1884 ; Naval Academy, 1884-5. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, March, 1889 ; Light-House Inspector, Ore 
 gon and Washington Territory, 1885-9 ; U. S. S. " Baltimore," 1887, to July, 
 1893 ; Naval Academy, July, 1893, to August, 1896 ; commanding " Wheel 
 ing," August, 1896, to date. Commissioned as Commander, February, 1897. 
 Albert Reynolds Couden. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 Sept. 26, 1863; graduated, 1867 ; "Franklin," flag-ship European Squad 
 ron, 1867-9. Promoted to Ensign, 1868; " Plymouth," European Station, 
 1869-70. Promoted to Master, 1870 ; Darien Expedition, 1871. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, 1871; "Wyoming," North Atlantic Fleet, 1872-4; 
 Torpedo Station, 1874-8; "Palos," Asiatic Station, 1878; "Ashuelot," 
 Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 1882-8 ; "Atlanta," special 
 
110 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 service, 1888-90. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March, 1889 ; Bureau 
 of Ordnance, April, 1891, to September, 1894; commanding "Pinta," Sep 
 tember, 1894, to November, 1896 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Proving Ground, 
 November, 1896, to date. Commissioned as Commander, March, 1897. 
 
 Edwin C. Pendleton. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Academy, 
 October 12, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Minnesota," special service, 1867-8. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Onward," Pacific Fleet, 1869-70. Promoted 
 to Master, 1870; Hydrographic Office, 1871 Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, 1871; ordnance duty, Washington, 1872-3; "Congress," Euro 
 pean Station, 1874-6 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1876-7 ; Torpedo Station, 
 1877-8; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1877-9; "Swatara," 
 Asiatic Station, 1879-82; Naval Observatory, 1882-6; "Atlanta," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1886-8 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1888-93. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, August, 1889; U. S. S. "Monterey," 
 Pacific Station, 1893-5 ; Bureau of Ordnance, October, 1895-7. Commis 
 sioned as Commander, March, 1897 ; Superintendent Gun Factory, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, May, 1897, to present date. 
 
 William Swift. Born in Connecticut. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 23, 1863; graduated, June, 1867; flag-ship " Susquehanna," home 
 station, 1867. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Kearsarge," Pacific Fleet, 
 1868-70. Promoted to Master, 1870. Promoted to Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Iro- 
 quois,"1871; " Canandaigua," 1872; " Supply," 1873 ; " Colorado," North 
 Atlantic Fleet, 1874-5; "Colorado" (receiving-ship), 1875-6; equipment 
 duty, New York, 1876-7; torpedo service, 1877; "Plymouth," North 
 Atlantic, 1877-9; "Kearsarge, as Navigator, 1879-80 ; Navy Yard, Bos 
 ton, 1880; Navy Yard, New London, 1881-3; " Alert/ China, 1883-6; 
 last half of cruise as Executive ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 
 18S9-90. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander in October, 1889; waiting 
 orders, August, 1890; Naval War College, June, 1894; U. S. S New York, 
 September, 1894; "Indiana," 1895-7. Commissioned as Commander, April, 
 1897; Bureau of Ordnance, March, 1897; Ordnance Officer, New York 
 Navy Yard, July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Henry B. Mansfield. Born in New York ; sea in clipper-sloop 
 " Golden State," Master s Mate, 1861-2. Entered Naval Academy, Febru 
 ary 27, 1863; yacht "America," in search of Confederate privateers, 1863. 
 Graduated, 18(37, having served in "Marion," "Macedonian," " Winnepeg," 
 and "Minnesota;" special service, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868; 
 " Mohongo " and " Mohican," Pacific Fleet, 1869-70 ; " Eclipse," expedition 
 to Liberia in 1869; commanded second launch from "Mohican," in the ex 
 pedition which cut out and burned the piratical steamer " Forward," in 
 Tecupan River, Mexico. Promoted to Master, 1870, Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant, 1871 ; torpedo duty, 1871 ; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," Agassy 
 Expedition, through Straits of Magellan, 1872 ; survey of coast of Lower 
 California and Hydrography on California coast, 1873-4; "Michigan," 
 1874-5 ; Asiatic Squadron, " Yantic," " Saco," " Mohongo," and " Tennessee, 
 1875-7; Navy Yard, New York, 1877-81; "Constellation," to Ireland, 
 special service, 1880; commanding C. S. steamer " Endeavor," 1881; com 
 manding C. S. steamer " Gedney," 1882 ; commanding C. S. steamer " Bache," 
 1 882-4 ; Hydrography, " Jupiter Light," to Ferry Rocks and west coast of 
 Florida ; approaches to New York ; " Pensacola," European Station, 1885-8 ; 
 commanding C. S. S. " Hassler," hydrography, coast of California, 1888-9 ; 
 commanding C. S. S. "Patterson," general survey of S. E. Alaska, 1889-93. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, January 3, 1890; U. S. receiving-ship 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE TJ. S. NAVY. Ill 
 
 " Vermont," January, 1893-6 ; ordered to command the " Fern," January, 
 1896-7. Commissioned as Commander, May 1897 ; Light-house Inspector, 
 April, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frederick Martin Symonds. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 29, 1862 ; graduated, 1867 ; Asiatic Station, 1867-70. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; and to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 1871; "Tuscarora," surveying duty in the Pacific, 1872-5; "Minnesota" 
 (training-ship), 1876-8; "Jamestown," 1879-81; training-ship "New Hamp 
 shire," 1882-5; "Mohican," Pacific Station, 1885-9; "Michigan," on the 
 lakes, 1889 to November, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 
 31, 1890; leave of absence, November, 1892-4; Inspector Ordnance, Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, June, 1894-6 ; commanding the " Marietta," October, 
 1896, to date. Commissioned as Commander, June, 1897. 
 
 Edward Parker Wood. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 29, 1863 ; graduated. 1867; " Minnesota," special service, 1867-8. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Dacotah," Pacific Fleet, 1868-70. Promoted 
 to Master, 1870; Pacific Fleet, 1871. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871; 
 " Congress," special service, Europe, 1872-4; North Atlantic Station, 1875-7 ; 
 "Portsmouth," special service, 1877-8; "Trenton," European Station, 1878-9; 
 " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1879-81 ; Naval Academy, 1881-4 ; steam 
 ship " Monongahela," 1884-6 ; Naval Academy, 1886-90 ; special duty, con 
 nected with the "Concord," August, 1890, to February, 1891. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, September 20, 1890; U. S. S. "Concord," N. A. 
 Station, February, 1>91, to May, 1893 ; Bureau of Navigation, May, 1893-6 ; 
 commanding " Petrel," Asiatic Station, December, 1896, to date. Took part 
 in Battle of Manila, May 1. 1898. Commissioned as Commander, July, 1897. 
 
 Walton Goodwin. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 February 26, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Quinnebaug," S. A. Station, 1867- 
 70. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, 1871 ; torpedo service, 1870-1 ; "Terror " (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 
 1871-2 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," New York Navy Yard, 1872 ; " Benicia," 
 N. P. Station, 1872-5 ; " Passaic" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1876-7 ; in com 
 mand of "Passaic" from July 3, 1876, to November 20, 1876; "Enter 
 prise," 1877-8 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1878-9 ; 
 " Trenton," European Station, 1879-81 ; Naval Academy, 1881-5 ; " Adams," 
 Pacific Station, 1885-9 ; Naval Observatory, 1889 to September, 1892. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant Commander, October 1, 1890; IT. S. S. "Lancaster," 
 Asiatic Station, September, 1892, to 1894. Leave of absence June, 1894 ; 
 ordered to Naval Observatory August, 1894, to present date (May, 1898). 
 Commissioned as Commander, August, 1897. 
 
 Albert Ross. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 23, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Minnesota," special service, 1867-8. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1868; " Powhatan," Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to 
 Master, 1870 ; retired, 1871 ; " Wachusett," 1873 ; " Ossipee," 1874 ; restored 
 to active list, 1874. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; "Worcester," flag 
 ship, N. A. Station, 1874-5 ; special duty, Annapolis, 1876 ; " Passaic " (iron 
 clad), N. A. Station, 1876-7; commanding "Wyandotte," Washington, 
 1877-8; "Portsmouth," special service, 1878-82; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1882-3; " Miantonomah," 1883; torpedo instruction, Newport, R. I., 1883; 
 Naval Academy, 1883-6 ; "Alert," Pacific Station, 1887-9; torpedo instruc 
 tion, Newport, R. I., 1889; "Pensacola," 1889, to May, 1890; training-ship, 
 "Jamestown," May, 1890, to December, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, December 5, 1890 ; Naval Academy, December, 1892, to 1898. 
 
112 RECORDS OP LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Commissioned as Commander, August, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. " Alli 
 ance," February, 1898, to date. 
 
 Richardson Clover. Entered Naval Academy, July, 1863 ; graduated, 
 June, 186 i" ; frigate "Susquehanna," West Indies, June, 1867, to January, 
 1868. Promoted to Ensign, December 18, 1868 ; flag-ship " Albany," North 
 Atlantic Station, March, 1868, to October, 1869 ; Naval Observatory, Octo 
 ber, 1869, to March, 1870. Promoted to Master, March 21, 1870; instruction 
 in signal duty, at Fort Myer, from March to July, 1870 ; " Michigan," on 
 lakes, July, 1870, to January, 1871. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 21, 
 1871 ; " Ticonderoga," South Atlantic Station, January, 1871, to February, 
 1874 ; "Michigan," on lakes, April to May, 1874 ; " Hassler," Coast Survey, 
 Pacific Coast, June, 1874, to October, 1877 ; Hydrographic office, Washing 
 ton, January to February, 1878 ; " Wyoming," as Navigator, European 
 Station, February, 1878, to June, 1881 ; Coast Survey office, Washington, 
 1881-2; commanding Coast Survey schooner " Palinurus," 1882-3, survey 
 Long Island Sound ; special duty, 1882-3, superintending construction of 
 steamer "Patterson," at Brooklyn, N. Y. ; commanding Coast Survey steamer 
 "Patterson," March, 1884, to March, 1886, season of 1884 from New York 
 to San Francisco ; 1885-6, in charge of survey of Southeast Alaska ; March, 
 1886, granted one year s leave, with permission to go abroad; June to Sep 
 tember, 1887, Torpedo Station, Newport; September, 1887, to January, 1888, 
 in attendance at Naval War College ; U. S. S. " Pensacola," as Navigator, 
 North Atlantic Station, March 6, 1888 ; transferred to " Dolphin," as Execu 
 tive, December 1,1888 ; 1888, cruise round the world ; detached, December 1, 
 1889 ; Hydrographer, Bureau of Navigation, Washington, December, 1889, 
 to June, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, May 19, 1891 ; Member 
 of " Pythian Board " on reorganization of the Navy ; Executive, U. S. S. 
 " Chicago," European Station, from March 24, 1874, to May, 1895 ; on duty 
 at Navy Department, Board revising Naval Regulations, December 6, 1895 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Dolphin," from April 30, 1896, to May, 1897. Pro 
 moted to Commander, September 14, 1897 ; Chief of the office of Naval In 
 telligence, from November 15, 1897, to April 30, 1898 ; Member of War and 
 Strategy Board from March 15 to April 30, 1898; commanding U. S. S. 
 " Bancroft" from May 1, 1898, to date. 
 
 James M. Miller. Born in Missouri. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 21, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Minnesota," special cruise, 1867-8. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1868; "Jamestown," Pacific Fleet, 1868-70. Pro 
 moted to Master, 1870; "Kansas," T. and D. Expedition, 1870-2. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, 1871; special duty, Washington, 1873; " Monon- 
 gahela," S. A. Station, 1873-5 ; " Franklin," flag-ship, European Squadron, 
 1875-7; Naval Academy, 1876-80; training-ship "Constitution," 1880-81 ; 
 training-ship " Minnesota," 1881-2 ; " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1882-4 ; 
 " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1884-5 ; special torpedo service, 1885 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1885-8; "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1888-91; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, August, 1891, to August, 1892. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander, May 29, 1891 ; U. S. S. "Monocacy," Asiatic 
 Station, August 2, 1892, to June, 1895; ordered to U. S. receiving-ship, 
 " Vermont," January, 1896 ; ordered to command " Yantic," December, 1896 
 -7 ; Navy Yard, New York, July, 1897. Commissioned as Commander, Sep 
 tember, 1897 ; ordered to command U. S. S. " Merrimac," April, 1898. 
 
 Frederick May Wise. Born in Washington, D. C. Entered the ser 
 vice as Master s Mate, in the U. S. Gunboat Flotilla, Western Waters, Janu 
 ary 1, 1862. Staff duty on headquarters boat, Cairo, 111. Ordered to U. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 113 
 
 S. gunboat " Lexington," February 25, 1862, for the expedition up Tennes 
 see Rwr. In action at Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn., March 2, 1802, between 
 the gunboats and Confederate battery. In the demonstration by the Flotilla 
 under Flag-Officer Foote against the batteries at Columbus, Ky., March 4, 
 1862. In the "Lexington " at the battle of Pittsburgh Landing (or Shiloh), 
 April 6 and 7, 1862, and of Fort St. Charles, White River, Ark, June 17, 
 1862, between the Flotilla under Captain A. H. Kilty, U. S. N , and Con- 
 federates under Captain Jos. E. J&ry, C. S. N. (former Lieutenant, U S. N.), 
 and where the "Mound City " was struck by a shell, killing 125 out of crew 
 of 150. Detached from " Lexington," July, 1862, and to ordnance duty, 
 Cairo, and recruiting service, Chicago. En tend the U. S. Naval Academy 
 as Midshipman, September, 1862, resigning from the Volunteer Navy./! Grad 
 uated, June, 1867. Ordnance duty at Navy Yard, N. H. To flagship " Pis- 
 cataqua," October, 1867, and as Aide to Rear Admiral Rowan, commanding 
 Asiatic Station. Promoted to Ensign, January, 1869. Returned to the 
 United States in "Iroquois," April, 1870. Promoted to Master, April, 1870 ; 
 to "Sheiiandoah," European Squadron, July, 1870, and to " Guerriere," 
 September, 1870. Promoted to Lieutenant, March, 1872, and ordered to the 
 "Frolic," Port Admiral s flagship, New York Station, and as Flag- Lieuten 
 ant to Vice- Admiral Rowan ; to flagship " Worcester," North Atlantic 
 Squadron, August, 1875, and to flagship " Hartford," January, 1876 ; to 
 Naval Academy, August, 1877; to "Despatch" (special service), Septem 
 ber, 1880 ; to Naval Academy, August, 1883 ; to flagship " Lancaster," 
 South Atlantic and European Stations, September, 1887 ; to Navy Depart 
 ment, October, 1889, and as Superintendent Naval War Record Office, 
 March, 1890. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1891 ; to training 
 ships " Monongahe.a " and " Essex," June, 1893-6 ; to Steel Inspection 
 Board, Navy Yard, Washington, as member, February, 1896 ; to Naval 
 Academy, July, 1896, to date. Promoted to Commander, November 7, 1896. 
 
 John Van Benthuysen Bleecker. Born in New York. Entered 
 Naval Academy, October 9, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; " Minnesota," special 
 cruise, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensiyn, 1868 ; "Congress," N. A. Fleet, 1869- 
 72. Promoted to Matter, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; torpedo 
 service, 1873; "Colorado," N. A. Station, 1873-4; "Frolic," S. A. Station, 
 1875-7; Navy Yard, Washington, 1877-8; Naval Academy, 1878-81; 
 training-ship "Minnesota," 1881 ; training-ship "New Hampshire," 1881-2 ; 
 "Kearsarge," N A. Station, 1882-3; training-ship " Minnesota," 1888-4 ; 
 " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1884-7 ; inspector of steel, new cruisers, 1887-8 ; 
 receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 1888-9; Torpedo Station, 1889-90; 
 "Essex," S. A. Station, April, 1890, to August, 1893. Promoted Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, June 30, 1891; Navy Yard, Boston, August, 1893-94; 
 ordered to Naval War College, June, 1894-96 ; ordered to the " San Fran 
 cisco," June, 1896-97. Commissioned as Commander, December, 1897 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Bancroft," January, 1898, to April, 1898. 
 
 Dennis Walbach Mullan. Born in Maryland. Appointed from 
 Kentucky, September 21, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to 
 Ensign, October 1, 1863 ; attached to steam-sloop " Monongahela," AVest 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; attacks with various batteries on Texas 
 coast, 1863-4 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; two attacks on Fort 
 Morgan, August, 1864 ; present at surrender of Fort Morgan ; steamer 
 " Malvern," N. A. Station, 1865 ; steamer " Mohongo," Pacific Squadron, 
 1865-7. Promoted to Master, November 10, 1865 ; steam-sloop " De Soto," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 
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114 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 21, 1867. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March 12, 1868; while 
 attached to North Atlantic (" De Soto ") selected by Commodore Charles 8. 
 Boggs to command steamer " Glasgow," then at Fenscola Navy Yard, to co 
 operate with him in suppressing an expedition against Mexico, and then fit 
 ting out in New Orleans ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1868-71 ; present at 
 the two attacks with the batteries on the river in Corea, on June 1 and 10, 
 1871; receiving-ship "Independence," 1872-3; "Saco," Asiatic Station, 
 1873-6; navigation duty, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1877-8 ; attached to 
 the " Adams," Pacific Station, as Executive-Officer in 1879-81 ; while at 
 tached to the "Adams" was detailed to accompany the Staff of General 
 Baquedano, the Chilian Commauder-in-Chief, in his operations against Lima, 
 Peru ; was present in all the engagements at Chorillos, Miraflores, and other 
 places near Lima ; made a report of these operations to the Navy Depart 
 ment. Promoted to Commander, July 3, 1882 ; in command of the iron-clad 
 fleet of seven ships at City Point, James River, Virginia, 1884-7 ; ordered 
 to command the U. S. ship " Nipsic " on October 1, 1887, and took her via the 
 Straits of Magellan to the Pacific Fleet, in command of the U. S. S. " Nip- 
 sic " at Samoan Islands during the troublous times with the Germans, and 
 also during his stay there gave protection to Mr. John C. Klein, the corres 
 pondent of New York World and Associated Press (the Germans wished 
 him to be sent on board the German man-of-war "Adler," the flag-ship, 
 there to be tried by court-martial for an alleged offense, etc.) ; in command 
 of the U. S. S. " Nipsic " during the great Samoan hurricane of March 16, 
 1889 ; " Nipsic " only American man-of-war that was saved ; leave of ab 
 sence, fall of 1889 and winter of 1890; Light-House Inspector, January, 
 1891, to date. For the part he took in the Samoan complications and during 
 the hurricane, he received complimentary resolutions from the Annapolis 
 City Council.* In 1894, 1895 and 1896, in command of the "Mohican" 
 and "Marion," Pacific Station ; in command of the Penscola Navy Yard in 
 1896-97. 
 
 Andrew Dunlap. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 April 23, 1862 ; graduated, 1867 ; "Minnesota," special cruise, 1867-8. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Jamestown," Pacific Fleet, 186&-70. Promoted 
 to Master, 1870 ; and commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Worcester," flag 
 ship, N. A Fleet, 1871-4 ; receiving-ship "Sabine," 1874-6 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1877-8; " Powhattan," N. A. Station, 1877-81; Torpedo Station, 
 1881 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1881-2 ; Assistant to Light- 
 House Inspector, 1882-3 ; " Kearsarge," European Station, 1883-4 ; "Lan 
 caster," European Station, 1884-6 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, 1887-9; "Dolphin," N. A. Station, 1889 to June, 1891; U S. S. 
 " Bennington," S. A Station, June, 1891, to August, 1893. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, August 2, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Washington, August, 
 1893, to May, 1896 ; commanding Coast Survey steamer "Blake," May, 1896, 
 to April, 1898. Commissioned Commander, March, 1898. 
 
 Richard Rush. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 23, 1863 ; graduated, 1867; "Minnesota," special cruise, 1867-8. 
 Promoted to Entign, 1868 ; "Mohongo," Pacific Fleet, 1868-70. Promoted 
 to Master, 1870 ; and commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; Coast Survey, 
 1871-4; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1875-6 ; " Vandalia," European Squad 
 ron, 1876-8 ; Naval Academy, 1879-82 ; " Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1882-6 ; 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1886-9 ; training-ship " Portsmouth," 1889-92. Pro- 
 
 *The Legislature of Maryland, in its session of 1890, presented him with a gold 
 chronometer watch in appreciation of his conduct during the Samoan complications. 
 
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 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, September 27, 1891 ; Superintendent Naval 
 War Records, May, 1893, to April, 1897; commanding " Michigan," April 
 5, 1897; waiting orders, February, 1898 Promoted to Commander, April, 
 1898 ; commanding U. S S. " Armeria," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Edward Hickman Gheen. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 24, 1862; graduated, 1867; flag-ship "Delaware," 
 Asiatic Squadron, 1867-70. Promoted to Ensign, December 18, 1868; to 
 Master, March 21, 1870; signal duty, Washington, D. C., 1871. Promoted 
 
 receiving-ship " Potomac " and training-ship " Constitution," 1875-6 ; "Al 
 liance," European Station, 1877-9 ; League Island, 1880 ; Torpedo Sta 
 tion, 1881; flag-ship "Tennessee," 1882-^3; Naval Academy, 1883-7; 
 " Constellation," practice cruise, 1884; " Yantic." as Executive, 1887-90; 
 Inspector of Steel, Pittsburg, Pa., October, 1890, to May, 1891 ; charge 
 Branch Hydrographic Office, Philadelphia, May, 1891, to April, 1893 Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, October 2, 1891 ; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, April, 1893, to October, 1894; Executive of " Miantonomah," Octo 
 ber to December, and of " Minneapolis," December, 1894-6 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, December, 1896, to date. Commissioned Commander, April, 1898. 
 
 Wells Laflin Field. Born in Missouri. Entered Naval Academy, 
 November 26, 1862; graduated, 1867; Asiatic Squadron, 1867-70. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1868 ; to Master, 170. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; 
 next attached to the store-ship " Supply," and sailed in her when she took 
 provisions to France after the Franco-Prussia war, leaving New York in 
 March, 1871, and returning in July ; in September, joined the Coast Survey 
 steamer "A. D. Bache," and detached in February, 1872; in March, 1872, 
 went with a draft of men via Panama, to Mare Island ; joined the " Lacka- 
 wanna," and sailed in her for a second cruise in China, returning in Novem 
 ber, 1873 ; in March, 1874, joined the " Franklin " at Key West, and made 
 a cruise in Europe on her, returning in December, 1876 ; then on Light 
 house duty at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, until July, 1880 ; in November, 
 1879, was placed in command of the Light-house steamer " Manzanita," and 
 took her to San Francisco, returning to Light-house duty until the following 
 July, 1880; then went to China, as the Flag-Lieutenant of Admiral Clitz,, 
 remaining in the same position with Admiral Crosby ; returned in March, 
 1884 ; then to duty in the Branch Hydrographic Office, in New York, until 
 April, 1886; then to the "St. Mary s," until April, 1889; then the summer 
 at the Torpedo School, Newport, R. I. ; U. S. receiving-ship " Minnesota," 
 September 2o, 1893, to March, 1894 ; commanding Naval School-ship " St. 
 Mary s," March 10, 1894, to June, 1897 ; June 18, 1897, Recruiting Officer, 
 New York, and in charge third " Mosquito Fleet " District to date. Pro 
 moted to Commander, April, 1898. 
 
 Harrison Gray Otis Colby. Born in Massachusetts. Entered the 
 United States Naval Academy, December, 1862; while on leave from the 
 Naval Academy in 1865 was ordered to the U. S. S. "Dakota" as a Ward 
 room Officer, had charge of the forward nine-inch guns ; cruised for Confed 
 erate Privateers, who were burning vessels near the New England coast ; 
 made several practice cruises as a Midshipman during the war, in vessels pre 
 pared to engage Confederate vessels ; was graduated from the Naval Acad 
 emy in 1867, and ordered to the flagship " Piscataqua," Admiral Rowan, 
 Asiatic Squadron, and January, 1868, went to China; came home from 
 
116 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 China in the " Iroquois " and was promoted to Ensign in December, 1^68 ; 
 in 1870 was oidered to the yacht "America" as Executive Officer, when she 
 took part in the Intei national Eaces with the "Cambria;" was in command 
 of the "America" for a short time. On the 21st of March, 1870, \\as pro 
 moted to Master ; 1870-1 was on duty at the Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. ; in 
 1871 was ordered to the U. S. IS. "Worcester," taking provisions to the 
 French people from the citizens of Boston March 21, 1871, was promoted 
 to Lieutenant; was detached fiom duty on the "Worcester" and oidered to 
 the "Congress, - N. A Squadron; was detached from the "Congress" and 
 ordered to the "bhenandoah," European Squadron; detached from the 
 "Shenandoah" and ordered to the "Plymouth;" detached from the "Ply 
 mouth " and ordered to the " Wabash," flagship, European Squadron, Bear- 
 Admiral Alden ; torpedo duty, 1874 ; 1874-5 was in charge of one of the 
 parties on Surveying Expedition to Panama under Commander Lull ; was 
 ordered to the U. 8. S. " Tennessee," flagship, Asiatic Squadron, Bear-Ad 
 miral Beynolds, and went to China ; was Naval Attache United States Cen 
 tennial Commission in Philadelphia in 1876; 1876-7 was attached to the 
 Naval Observatory at Washington, D. C. ; was ordered to the U. S. S. 
 " Marion," and served in her until ordered to the U. S. S. flagship " Tren 
 ton," doing duty as Flag Lieutenant to Bear- Admiral Le Boy ; 1880-2 com- 
 mandtd the U. S Coast and Geodetic Survey schooner "Eagre;" was 
 ordered from the " Eagre " as Executive officer of the training-ship " Sara 
 toga " in 1882 ; served in her until 1885, when he was ordered for duty as 
 Assistant Inspector of the Second Lijrht-House District; in April, 1889, was 
 ordered as Executive Officer of the U. S. S. " Yorktown ; " commanded the 
 " Yorktown " during the last three months in the absence of the commanding 
 officer ; in August, 1891, was ordered to Washington in the office of the 
 Assistant Secretary of the Navy to organize the Naval Militia of the United 
 States. On November 20, 1891, was promoted to Lieutenant- Commander ; 
 in December, 1891, was ordered as Assistant to the Inspector of the Second 
 Light-House District; in June, 1895, was ordered to command of U. S. 
 Coast and Geodetic Survey steamer "Blake;" April, 1896, was appointed 
 Hydrographic Inspector U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey at Washington, 
 D. C. ; January, 1897, was ordered for duty as Inspector of the Second 
 Light-House District, in which duty he is at present engaged ; sea service to 
 date, eighteen years. Promoted to Commander, April, 1898. 
 
 Leavitt Curtis Logan Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, Feb 
 ruary 26, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; "Minnesota," special cruise, 1867-8. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-70. Promoted to Master, 1870 ; 
 and commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871; January to September, 1871, special 
 duty at Navy Department ; " Wabash," flag-ship, European Station, 1871-3 ; 
 torpedo duty, 1874; "Tennessee," Asiatic Squadron, 1875-7; Naval 
 Academy, 1877-80; "Powhatan," special service, 1880-1; training-ship 
 " Portsmouth," 1881-3 ; training-ship " New Hampshire," 1883-4 ; Naval 
 War College, 1884-7 ; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1887-9 ; Becorder Board 
 Inspection, 1889, to November, 1892 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 December 16, 1891 ; " Philadelphia," Pacific Station, November, 1892, to 
 November, 1894. January, 1895, to March, 1898, serving on board U. S. 
 Training-Ship " Constitution ; " March 2, 1898, ordered as Bepresentative 
 of the Navy Department at Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition 
 at Omaha. Promoted to Commander, May, 1898 ; ordered in May, 1898, to 
 command U. S. S. "Armeria." 
 
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 COMMANDERS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired on attaining the age of sixty-two. 
 
 Francis M. Green. Born in Massachusetts, February 23,1835; in 
 merchant service, 1854-61. Appointed from Massachusetts, June 18, 1861 
 entered the service as Acting Master, in the volunteer navy, June 18, 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 Lieutenant, April 21, 1864; steam-frigate "Niagara," special ser 
 vice, 1864 ; commanding steamer " Louisiana," Sounds of North Carolina, 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; commanding steamer " Boxer," 
 1865; capture of Fort Fisher; steamer "Florida," North Atlantic Squad 
 ron, 1866 ; special duty, Navy Department, 1867 ; steam-sloop " Guerriere," 
 flag-ship, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8. Commissioned as Lieutenont- 
 Commnnder, U. S. Navy, December 18, 1868 ; steamers " Wasp" and " Kan 
 sas," South Atlantic Squadron, 1869; receiving-ship "Ohio," 1869-70; 
 "Severn" (second-rate), flag-ship, North Atlantic Squadron, 1870-1 ; tor 
 pedo service, 1872 ; commanding "Fortune" (fourth-rate), North Atlantic 
 Station; special surveying service, 1873-4; Hydrographic Office, 1875; 
 commanding " Gettysburg" (fourth-rate), 18756; special astronomical ser 
 vice, Hydrographic Office, 1876-8 ; commanding " Guard," special astrono 
 mical service, 1877-9 ; Hydrographic Office, 1879-81 ; commanding " Palos," 
 Asiatic Station, special astronomical duty, 1881-3. Promoted to Commander, 
 July, 1883 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1883-5 ; commanding " Yantic," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1885-7 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1888-9 ; command 
 ing "Saratoga" school-ship, 1889, to February, 1893; Light-House Inspec 
 tor, September, 1893, to January, 1897. Retired February 23, 1897. 
 
 Edward Hooker. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Rhode Island, 
 July 19, 1861. Entered the service as Acting Master; attached to steamer 
 "Louisiana," North Atlantic Squadron; severely wounded, October 5, 1861 ; 
 the first Acting Master wounded in the war ; Burnside Expedition to Sounds 
 of North Carolina, 1862 ; while Executive Officer of the " Louisiana," in the 
 absence of the commanding officer, fought the ship at Washington, N. C , 
 September 5, 1862. Promoted to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant from Septem 
 ber 5, 1862, for "gallantry in action;" commanding steamer : Victoria," 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; commanding division of Po 
 tomac Flotilla upon Rappahannock River, 1863-5. Promoted to Acting 
 Volunteer Lieutenant- Commander, January 20,1865; Naval Store-keeper, 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1865-7; commanding store-ship "Idaho" and 
 steamer " Unadilla," Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9. Commissioned as Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, in regular naval service, December 18, 1868 ; Inspector 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1870-3 ; senior Line Officer, Naval Station, League 
 Island, 1873-5 ; Assistant Light-House Inspector, Third District, 1875-7 ; 
 Second Line Officer, Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1877-84. Commissioned 
 as ( ommander, February 9, 1884; Navy Yard, League Island, 1884; retired, 
 December 25, 1884. 
 
 Thomas Nelson. Born at Sea. Appointed from Pennsylvania, Janu 
 ary 1, 1862 ; entered the service as A cting Master s Mate; attached to the 
 steamer "Currituck," Potomac Flotilla, 1862-4, co-operating with the Army 
 of the Potomac. Promoted to Acting Ensign, November, 1862 ; tempo 
 rarily detached from the " Currituck," and ordered to duty as Signal Officer 
 
118 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 of the steamer " Wachusett," on a passage from Philadelphia to Port Royal, 
 S. C., having the iron-clad "Sangamon" in tow, January, 1864; on arrival 
 at Port Royal, returned to duty on board the "Currituck ; " steamer "Com 
 modore Read," February, 1864, to June, 1864 ; commanded the steamer 
 "Dragon," Potomac Flotilla, from June 1, 1864, to October 8, 1864; com 
 manded the steamer " Mercury," blockade duty at the Great Yeocomico 
 River and adjoining creeks of Virginia, from October 8, 1864, to January 
 27, 1865, keeping in check the Home Guards and Chesapeake Bay pirates. 
 Promoted to Acting Master, March 27, 1865 ; commanding the steamer 
 " Cceur de Lion"" 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. Commissioned Master, March 12, 1868. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 December 18, 1868; U. S. S. " New Hampshire," as Executive Officer, from 
 September, 1869, to August, 1870. Promoted to Lieutenant- Cowman dtr, 
 January 25, 1870 ; "Saco," 1870-3 ; commanding U. S. store-ship "Idaho," 
 Yokohama, 1873-4 ; leave, Europe, 1874 ; " Franklin," flag-ship, European 
 Squadron, 1875-6 ; Hydrographic Office, 1877-80; "Alaska," Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1881-3 ; Hydrographic Office, 1883-4; commanding " Palos," Asiatic 
 Station, 1884-7. Promoted to Commander, December, 1886; Mare Island 
 Navy Yard, 1888, to March, 1892; commanding "Adams," March, 1892, 
 to April, 1894; Inspector of Ordnance, Portsmouth Navy Yard, N. H., 
 1895-6 ; retired, December 5, 1896. 
 
 Charles A. Schetky. Native of Pennsylvania. Entered the naval 
 service, June, 1863, as Acting Ensign ; served as Executive-Officer on board 
 U. S gunboat " New Era " (No. 7), Mississippi Squadron, until close of the 
 war ; was present at, and took part in, defence of Fort Pillow, Tenn , when 
 that place was assaulted by rebel forces, commanded by General Forrest, and 
 after being taken, under cover of a flag of truce, the Union forces who fell 
 into the hands of the assailants were brutally massacred ; July, 1865, to De 
 cember, 1865, on duty at Jefferson Reserve, receiving and storing ordnance 
 and equipments from the Mississippi Squadron ; March, 1866, to April, 1867, 
 U. S. receiving-ship " Potomac," Pensacola, Florida, 1867, to September, 
 1868, U. S. S. " Nebraska," North Atlantic Station. March, 1868, com 
 missioned as Master in regular navy. December, 1868, commissioned as 
 Lieutenant; April, 1869, to February, 1879, U. S. monitor "Saugus," N. A. 
 Station; May, 1870, to August, 1871, U. S. receiving-ship "Vermont;" 
 September, 1871, to February, 1872, U. S. store-ship "Pawnee," Pensacola, 
 Florida; March to July, 1872, on survey for inter-oceanic canal, in Nicara 
 gua; November, 1872, to July, 1873, Navigator of U. S. S. "Wyoming," on 
 survey of east coast of Mexico ; November, 1873, to November, 1874, U. S. 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," New York ; November, 1874, to August, 1875, 
 Executive of U. S. S. " Tuscarora," North Pacific Station ; August, 1875, to 
 August, 1876, U. S. training ship "Portsmouth," as Executive ; November, 
 1876, to July, 1877, U. S. receiving-ship "Independence;" July, 1877, to 
 January, 1878, U. S. receiving-ship " Constitution," as Executive. Decem 
 ber, 1877, promoted to Lieutenant- Commander ; January, 1878, to November, 
 1885, Executive-Officer of U. S. receiving-ship "St Louis," League Island, 
 Pennsylvania ; November, 1885, to September, 1886, commanding IT. S. 
 receiving-ship "St. Louis;" leave of absence, October, 1886. September, 
 1887, promoted to Commander, and retired March, 1889. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 119 
 
 John K. Winn. Born in Massachusetts, August 31, 1833 ; educated in 
 public schools and left school at an early age ; some years later entered the 
 merchant service, engaged principally in the East India and Brazilian trades ; 
 at breaking out of war was chief mate. In August, 1861, enlisted for one year 
 in the U. S. Navy and served in various petty offices on board the U. S. S. 
 " Ino," then searching for the Confederate steamer " Sumter." In July, 1862, 
 was discharged and in September was appointed Acting Master a Mate, U. S. 
 N., and placed on temporary duty on the " Macedonian " at Boston ; assisted in 
 taking the " Santee " from Boston to Newport, R. I., for use at the Naval School 
 there ; was afterwards detailed and acted as watch and division officer on 
 board the " McDonough," which served in the inland waters near Charleston, 
 S. C. ; was present during the whole siege of that place, afid was on detached 1 
 duty as scout about the harbor, serving part of the time with army officers. 
 June, 1863, promoted to Acting Ensign. August, 1*64, promoted to Acting 
 Master, and in September was detached from " McDonough," and reported 
 for duty on board iron-clad "Nantucket; " in October was detached sick and 
 ordered North ; in November ordered to the U. S. S. " Bat," as Executive 
 Officer ; served in her in the North Atlantic Squadron ; while attached to 
 this vessel she was detailed as convoy to the steamer " Kiver Queen," which 
 took President Lincoln to City Point, Va., and Avas present with him when he 
 entered Richmond after the surrender, then convoyed him on his return to 
 Washington only two days previous to his assassination. The " Bat " also 
 had the honor of returning to Newberne, carrying back General Sherman 
 and his staff after the memorable midnight visit to General Grant. May, 
 1865, detached from " Bat," at Washington, and ordered to " Seneca," at 
 Norfolk, and later, in the month of June, was detached and granted leave 
 preparatory to honorable discharge, but, on June 28, was ordered to " Inde 
 pendence," at Mare Island. August, 1865, promoted to Acting Volunteer 
 Lieutenant , detached from "Independence," and ordered to duty on "Sara- 
 nac," and was returned to duty on " Independence," October, 1867 ; in 
 November ordered to the " Newberne," and in March, 1868, transferred, with 
 officers and crew, to the U. S. S. " Gettysburg ; " June 25, received com 
 mission as Master in Regular Navy, and immediately promoted to Lieutenant, 
 having fulfilled the requirements as to length of service. The " Gettysburg " 
 was attached to the West India Squadron, and detailed to make deep-sea 
 soundings from the south side of Cuba to Jamaica and Aspinwall for tele 
 graph cable, and also assisted in laying cable from Key West to Havana ; 
 was put out of commission at New York, November, 1&69, and granted leave 
 for two months ; January, 1870, ordered to " Yantic," at New York, and fitted 
 out for taking deep-sea soundings for the first cable connecting the West India 
 Islands and South America (Demerara) ; afterward employed mostly about 
 San Domingo during the prospect of the purchase of Samana Bay scheme ; 
 1871, detached, " Yantic " going out of commission ; in September, ordered 
 to receiving-ship " Ohio," at Boston ; 1873, detached, and ordered to "Wyo 
 ming," at Key West, surveying on Mexican coast; July, 1873, detached at 
 own request ; ordered to " Pawnee," at Key West ; in September, by death 
 of commanding officer was left in command, which he held until September, 
 1876 ; was then detached at own request and was waiting orders until July 
 24, 1877 ; telegraphic orders to join the iron-clad " Nahant," at Philadel 
 phia, for riot duty ; August 20, detached and ordered home ; August 25, 
 ordered to " Wabash," at Boston ; February 8, 1878, detached at own 
 request. June 18, received commission as Lieutenant- Commander; from 
 December 11, 1877, to July 24, 1878, Court Martial duty ; August I, ordered 
 
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 to duty at Navy Yard, Boston ; October, 1879, detached and ordered to com 
 mand Naval Station, Key West, Fla., and until November, 1881, was on 
 various special duties (additional) ; November 5, ordered to duty (addi 
 tional) as Light-House Inspector of Seventh District ; November, 1883, de 
 tached from Naval Station; December 31, detached as Light-House 
 Inspector, and ordered home ; February, 1884, special duty, Bureau of 
 Yards and Docks, Navy Department; July, 1884, ordered to receiving-ship 
 " Vermont," at New York ; August, 1885, detached, and ordered to com 
 mand Naval Station, Key West, FJa. ; 1887 (additional), temporary duty as 
 Light-House Inspector Seventh District ; was relieved from that duty 
 November 23, 1887 ; 1888, promoted to Commander, and orders to duty at 
 Key West were renewed up to 1895 ; detached from duty at Key West 
 August 25, 1895, and retired August 31, 1895. 
 
 William B. Newman. Appointed an Acting Master s Mat", October 
 19, 1861, and ordered to the " Brandywine," North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron. Promoted to Acting Master, February 3, 1862 ; transferred from 
 the " Brandywine " to the " Southfield, sounds of North Carolina, June, 
 1863 ; captured by the rebels at Plymouth, North Carolina, April, 1864, the 
 " Southfield" being sunk in action by the rebel ram "AlbemarJe; prisoner 
 of war until October, 1864; served on the Asiatic Station in the"Wachu- 
 sett," from November, 1864, to February, 1868 ; on duty, New York Navy 
 Yard. 1868. Commissioned an Ensign in the Navy, March 12, 1868. Pro 
 moted to Master, December 18, 1868 ; served on the Nortli Atlantic Station, 
 1869, in the "Galena," "New Hampshire," and "Vermont." Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; commanding steamer Pilgrim," North Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1870-1 ; served on the Brazil Station as Executive of the " Wasp," 
 1872-4; on the North Atlantic Station in the ironclad "Roanoke"and 
 training-ship " Minnesota, 1874-7 ; special service in "Constellation " 1878, 
 and " New Hampshire/ 1879-80 ; " Yantic," North Atlantic Station, 1880-1. ; 
 "Lancaster," European Station, 1881-3. Promoted to Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, 1882; " Ossipee," Asiatic Station, 1884-7; Navy Yard, New York, 
 188790 ; Light-House Inspector, May, 1892. Commissioned a Commander, 
 July, 1892, to November, 1896. Retired November, 1896 
 
 A. J. Iverson. Born in Norway. Entered the Navy as a volunteer 
 officer, March 19, 1863 ; transferred to the regular service in 1868 ; " Wasp," 
 (fourth-rate), S. A. Fleet, 1868-70 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1871-2 ; torpedo 
 service, 1872 ; "Saugus" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1873 ; "Boston," 1875; 
 training-ship "Minnesota," 1875-7; "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 1877-8; 
 Navv Yard, Boston, 187882. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 
 1882; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1882-3; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 
 1883-5 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1885-6 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1886-9 ; 
 commanding " Fortune," special service, 1889-90. Commissioned as Com 
 mander, December, 1892 ; Light-House Inspector, May, 1892, to July, 1896 ; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, August, 1896, to January, 1897. Retired, January, 
 1897. 
 
 Zera L. Tanner. Born in Warsaw, "Wyoming County, New York. 
 Entered the Navy as Acting Ensign, August 18, 1862 ; attached to the U. 
 S. S. " Midnight," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 Promoted 
 to Acting Master on September 29, 1864 ; TJ. S. S. " Khode Island," special 
 service, North Atlantic B ockading Squadron, 1864-5; U. S. receiving-ship 
 ; Vermont," Navy Yard, New York, 1865-6 ; U. S. S. "Augusta," convoy 
 ing monitor " Miantonomah " to Russia and the Mediterranean, 1866-7 ; U. 
 S. S. " Guard," 1867 ; U. S. S. " Onward," Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8. Trans- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 121 
 
 ferred to regular service, and commissioned Ensign, March 12, 1868. Pro 
 moted to Master, December 18, 1868 ; U. S. S. " Maumee," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1868-9 ; U. S. S. " Idaho," Asiatic Squadron, 1869-70. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant, March 21, 1870; U. S. receiving-ship "Vermont," Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1870-1 ; U. S. S. "Narragansett," Pacific Squadron, surveying expe 
 dition, 1871-3; recruiting duty, Buffalo, New York, 1873; Navy Yard, 
 Philadelphia, 1874 ; leave of absence ; commanding Pacific Mail steamer 
 " Colon," 1874-5 ; commanding Pacific Mail S S. " City of Pekin," 1876-8; 
 Hydrographic Office, Washington, D. C., 1878-9 ; commanding U. S. S. 
 "Speed-well," ^79; special duty, commanding U. S. Fish Commission 
 steamer " Fish-hawk," 1880-2 ; special duty, commanding U. S. Fish Com 
 mission steamer " Albatross," 1882-94. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 February 22, 1883 Promoted to Commander, February 7, 1893 ; special 
 duty U. S. Fish Commission, Washington, D. C., 1895-6; Hydrographic 
 Officer, Washington, D. C., 1896-7. Retired, December 5, 1897. 
 
 John C. Morong. Born in Maine. Appointed as an Acting Ensign, 
 April 1, 1863, and ordered to the Mississippi Squadron. Served in command 
 of the "Argosy," from May, 1863, until the close of the war; was in many 
 engagements on the Mississippi ; at siege of Yicksburg and in the Red River 
 Expedition. Was promoted, June 1, 1864, for "meritorious conduct," to 
 Acting Master ; stationed at Mound City, 111., 1865-6 ; League Island, 
 1867-8; was appointed an Ensign in the regular navy, March 12, 1868. 
 Promoted to Master, December 18,1868; steamer "Tallapoosa," and flag 
 ship "Contocook," North Atlantic Station, 1869-70. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 March 21, 1870 ; Pacific Station, in flag-ship " California," and steamer 
 " Saranac," 1871-3 ; Asiatic Station, in steamer " Kearsarge," 1874-6 ; 
 returned home from the Asiatic Station in the "Yantic," May 30, 1877 ; 
 was ordered to command the U. S. Naval Rendezvous at San Francisco, 
 Cal., August 28, 1877; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-82; receiving-ship 
 " Wabash," 1882-4. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1884; 
 training-ship "Portsmouth," 1884-5; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 1886 
 -9 ; receiving-ship " Independence," 1889 to May, 1890 ; U. S. S. " Iroquois," 
 May, 1890, to May, 1892 ; member Board of Inspection, July, 1892, to Feb 
 ruary, 1893 ; commanding Puget Sound Naval Station, February, 1893, to 
 August, 1896. Promoted Commander, June 27, 1893 ; Senior Member Board 
 of Inspection, Mare Island, 1897. Retired by age, August 28, 1897. 
 
 Samuel Belden. Appointed Acting Ensign, September 8, 1862, and 
 served duiing the war on U. S. steamers " Wachusett," " Vanderbilt," " Ban 
 shee," "Daylight," and "Pink." Promoted to Acting Master in February, 
 1864, and to Acting Volunteer Lieutenant, in May, 1865 ; honorably dis 
 charged in March, 1866. Reappointed Acting Matter, in April, 1867, and 
 went in command of store-ship "Relief," carrying a cargo of provisions to 
 Mobile for relief of people suffering for lack of food ; upon return of " Relief" 
 to New York, in July, 1867, detached and ordered to South Pacific, serving 
 on that station on " Wateree," until her loss by earthquake, and after on 
 "Nyack" until November, 1871. Commissioned Ensign, in March, 1868; 
 Master, in December, 1868 ; Lieutenant, in March, 1870 ; on duty in Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1871-3, and again, 1879-82, served in North Atlantic Fleet 
 on "Pawnee" and "Nipsic," 1873; special duty U. S. steamer "Fortune," 
 1873-5 ; " Gettysburg," 1875-6 ; and " Guard," 1877-8 , Naval Station, ftew 
 London, from August, 1876, to August, 1^77, and again, 1886-9 ; Torpedo 
 Station, June 1 to September 1,1879; U. S. steamer " Juniata," Asiatic 
 Station, 1882-5. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1883 ; U.S. 
 
122 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 steamer " Franklin," July, 1889, to August, 1891 ; commanding " Yautic," 
 S. A. Station, August. 1891, to May, 1893. Commissioned as Commander, 
 February, 1893 ; commandant Naval Station, New London, Conn , July, 
 1893, to October, 1896 ; Light-House Inspector Seventh District, October 
 30, IS 96, to February, 1898. Ketired April, 1898. 
 
 Retired on own application after forty years service. 
 
 James Duncan Graham. Born in District of Columbia, May 9, 1841. 
 Appointed from Illinois, September 25,1857; Naval Academy, 1857-61; 
 U. S. frigate "Roanoke," May, 1861, to October, 1861 ; engaged in boat 
 expeditions to cut out rebel schooners at Back River, Virginia, October, 
 1861, to January, 1862 ; Washington Navy Yard as Assistant Instructor 
 Howitzer Battery for Volunteer Officers, January, 1862 ; U. S. S. " Dela 
 ware," February, 1862, U. S. inortar flotilla ; commanding U. S. mortar 
 schooner " Sidney C. Jones," in attacks on Forts Jackson and St. Philip; 
 first attack on Vicksburg under Farragut. Commissioned Lieutenant, 
 August 1, 1862; U. S S. " Octorara," June, 1862, to October, 1862; U. S. 
 S. "Jamestown," October, 1862, to February, 1865; U. S. S. "Santee," at 
 Naval Academy, August, 1865, to December, 1865; U. S. S. "Dakota," 
 December, 1865 ; detached on sick leave, January, 1866 ; U. S. S. "Au 
 gusta," special service on trip to Russia with Assistant Secretary Fox, 
 1866-7. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866; steam-sloop 
 u Powhatan," flagship, South Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; receiving-ship 
 "Ohio," 1869; steam sloop " Juniata," European Squadron, 1869-71; 
 Naval Observatory, 1872; "Benicia" (third-rate), North Pacific Station, 
 1872-5. Received thanks in writing from Governor of Panama for service 
 on shore with 100 men during revolution of Corrioso. Commanding " Maho- 
 pac" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, January to July, 1876 ; commanding " Pas- 
 saic" (iron-clad), 1876-77. Commissioned Commander, September 9, 1876; 
 commanding receiving-ship " Passaic," 1878-82 ; was ordered to command 
 "Alliance" when in search of " Jeannette ; " orders revoked by a letter to 
 the Secretary of the Navy from Admiral Porter for which no redress has 
 ever been obtained ; commanding "Alert," Pacific Station, 1887-9 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, April, 1889, to Februarv, 1890 ; commanding monitors, 
 Richmond, Va., February. 1890, to April, 1892. Retired at his own request, 
 after forty years service, in accordance with Article 1443, Revised Statutes 
 U. S., on September 25, 1897. 
 
 Retired for incapacity resulting from incident of service. 
 
 Frederick Irvin Naile. Born in Pennsylvania, October 11, 1841. 
 Appointed from Pennsylvania, October 27, 1859 ; Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; 
 attached to frigate "St. Lawrence," blockading on Atlantic Coast, 1861; 
 sinking of privateer "Petrel," 1861; steam-sloop-of-war " Oneida," West 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron ; attack on and passage of Forts Jackson and St. 
 Philip, and Chalmette batteries ; capture of New Orleans ; bombardment 
 and passage of Vicksburg batteries twice ; performed Lieutenant s duty on 
 the "Oneida," and was twice slighty wounded while on board of her, 1862. 
 Promoted to Ensign, February 24,1863; frigate " Sabine," during cruise 
 after the Confederate cruiser "Alabama," 1863; Mississippi Squadron, 
 1863-5 ; Signal-Officer, flag-ship " Black Hawk," 1863-4 ; Red River Expe 
 dition, co-operation of the squadron on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, 
 with the army in the defeat of General Hood, 1864 ; commanding flag-ships 
 " Black Hawk " and " Tempest," 1864-5 ; also, Fleet Signal officer and 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 123 
 
 Fleet Detail officer, 1864-5 ; Kecruiting officer, 1864, in Pittsburjr, Pa. (for 
 about seven months). Promoted Lieutenant, February 22, 1864; steamer. 
 "Chattanooga," 1866. Promoted Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866; 
 steamer " Lenape," Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; steamer " Penobscot," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9 ; Assistant Signal Officer, Washington, 
 D. C., 1869-70. Retired, for physical disability caused by exposure on duty, 
 January, 1871. 
 
 Thomas L. Swann. Born in Marylard. Appointed from Maryland, 
 December 8, 1856 ; graduated, June, 1860, and ordered to steam-frigate 
 "Niagara;" engaged on special service, 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, 
 Barancas, 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 of Fort Morgan. Promoted to 
 Master, August, 1861 ; returned home in " Niagara," in June, 1862 ; attached 
 to Naval Academy, Newport, from June 14, 1862, to November, 1863. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1862; attached to steam-sloop "Brooklyn," 
 Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864 ; was present at the battle of 
 Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and bombardment of Fort Morgan, August 22, 
 1864 ; the " Brooklyn " was riddled in the action of the 8th August, and 
 returned North for repairs, September, 1864 ; joined the following month 
 Admiral 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, Rhode Island, and after making 
 practice-cruise with midshipmen, was ordered as Executive-Offic< r of steamer 
 "Algonquin;" detached from " Algonquin," March, 1866, and ordered to 
 Navy Yard, Boston. Commissioned as Lieutenant -Commander, May 2, 1866, 
 and in July ordered as Executive-Officer of steam-sloop " Mohican ; " de 
 tached for duty on the North Pacific Squadron ; detached from "Mohican," 
 October, 1868, and ordered to duty at Naval Academy, as Head of Depart 
 ment of Ethics and English Studies, where he remained until 1871 ; " Wabash," 
 flag-ship, European Fleet, 1871-3 ; special ordnance duty, 1873-4. Commis 
 sioned as Commander, January 6, 1874; sick leave, 1874-6. Retired, 1877. 
 
 Smith Woodward Nichols. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from 
 Massachusetts, September 27, 1858 ; Naval Academy, 1858-61 ; attached to 
 steam-frigate " Wabash," Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1862 ; school-ship " Macedonia," 1863 ; 
 attached to steam-sloop " Shenandoah," North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1863-5 ; bombardment of Fort Fisher, North Carolina, December, 
 1864 ; capture of Fort Fisher, January, 1865 ; in charge of a company, 
 naval land assault on Fort Fisher; attached to "Passaic," from January to 
 July, 1865, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Commissioned as Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, July 25, 1866 ; steam-sloop "Shenandoah," Asiatic Squad 
 ron, 1865-9 ; special duty, Boston, 1869 ; U. S. S. " Terror," 1869-70; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, 1871 2 ; " Omaha," South Pacific Station, 1872-5 ; ordnance 
 duty, Boston, 1876. Commissioned as Commander, April 26, 1876 ; Light- 
 House Inspector, 1876-9. Retired April, 1882. 
 
 Allan D. Brown. Born in New York. Appointed from New York, 
 September 26, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to Ensign, May 
 28, 1863 ; steam-sloop " Iroquois," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and 
 special service, 1863-5. Promoted to Master, November 10, 1865 ; flag-ship 
 
124 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 " Rhode Island," North Atlantic Squadron, 1865-6. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 November 10, 1866; Executive Officer, " Unadilla," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1866-8. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March 12, 1868 ; "Unadilla," 
 Asiatic Squadron, 1868-9; Naval Academy, 1869-70; practice-ship " Sa 
 vannah," 1870; Naval Academy, 1870-2; "Omaha," Pacific Squadron, 
 18723 ; " Pensacola," flag-ship, Pacific Squadron, 18735 ; commanding 
 detachment from Pensacola, protecting transit of Isthmus of Panama, Sep 
 tember, 1873 ; Naval Academy, 1876-8 ; commanding practice-steamer 
 " Mayflower," 1878 ; Naval Academy, 1878-9. Promoted to Commander, 
 January 22, 1880; Naval Academy, 1880; Torpedo Station, 1880-1 ; com 
 manding training-ship " Jamestown," 18824 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 
 1884 ; Assistant Superintendent Naval Observatory, 18848 ; commanding 
 " Kear-arge," special service, 1888-9. Retired and promoted to Commander, 
 June, 1894. 
 
 George T. Davis. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa 
 chusetts, September 20, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860-3. Promoted to En- 
 tig n, October 1, 1863 ; attached to ironclad steamer, " New Ironsides," South 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1864-5 ; both attacks on Fort Fisher, and final assault on the same ; 
 steam-sloop " Dacotah," Pacific Squadron, 18(55-8. Promoted to Master, 
 November 10, 1866. Commissioned as Lieutenant. February 21, 1867 ; 
 steam-ship "Plymouth," European Squadron, 1868. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, December 18, 1868 ; "Worcester," flagship N. A. Squad 
 ron, 1873-5 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1876-80 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 
 1881-2 ; Light-House Inspector, 1883-5. Promoted to Commander, Febru 
 ary, 1883; commanding " Juniata," Pacific Station, 1885-7. Retired, 
 October, 1889. 
 
 Joshua Bishop. Born in Missouri. Appointed Acting Midshipman 
 from Missouri, September 20, 1854 ; Naval Academy, 18548. Commis 
 sioned Lieutenant, April 19, 1861. Special duty fitting gunboat flotilla in 
 Cincinnati, June and July, 1861, and at St. Louis, August, 1861. Execu 
 tive-Officer gunboat "A. O.Taylor," 1861, and " Benton," 1861-2; com 
 manding gunboat " General Bragg," 1862-3 ; "Tuscarora," N. A. Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-4 ; Naval Academy, 1864-5. Commissioned Lieutenant- 
 Gwimander, March 3, 1865 ; " Wyoming," Asiatic Squadron, 1865-8 ; 
 declared to be out of naval service from February 8, 1868. By Act of Con 
 gress appointed Lieutenant- Commander, March 1, 1871 ; Pacific Station, 
 "Saranac," "Pensacola," and " Benicia," 1871-4; Torpedo Station, 1875; 
 N. A. Station, "Plymouth," 1875-6; receiving-ship " Franklin," 1877-80 ; 
 European and S. A. Stations ; " Galena," 1880-3 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 
 1884-6 Promoted Commander, August 25, 1887 ; ordnance duty, Norfolk 
 Navy Yard, 1887-9 ; commanding " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1889-91 ; 
 Naval Observatory, 1891 and 1894 ; Instructor in Ordnance at Navy Yard, 
 Washington, D. C. and Navy War College, 1895. Placed on retired list by 
 Retiring Board, physical disability incident to the service, December 31, 1896. 
 Participated in battles of Belmont, Fort Donaldson, Columbus, Island No. 
 10, Fort Pillow, and Memphis, in 1862 ; and in military operations along the 
 Mississippi River in 1862-3; was given command of captured gunboat 
 "General Bragg" at termination of battle of Memphis, June 6, 1862, for 
 highly meritorious and distinguished conduct in that and preceding actions. 
 The " General Bragg " had been boarded and seized by a party under his 
 command at the termination of the battle. The vessel was on fire and in a 
 sinking condition, with a lighted train to the magazine, which was cut off and 
 put out by Bishop. 
 
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 George R. Durand. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Rhode 
 Island, and rated Master s Mate, October 26, 1861 ; steamer "Mystic," N. A. 
 B. Squadron, part of 1861-2. Appointed Acting Master, April 14, 1^62 ; 
 Executive, steamer " Mohawk," S A. B. Squadron, part of 18623 and com 
 manding same vessel latter half of 1863 ; Executive, sloop " John Adams " 
 and steamer " Paul Jones," part of 1864, same squadron ; in July, 1864, 
 while on an expedition up the Ogeechee River, Georgia, with two men and a 
 guide, to endeavor to burn the steamer " Water-Witch," lately captured from 
 us by the enemy, was captured by a company of Confederates, thirty -four men ; 
 was confined in Savannah and Macon, Ga , Charleston, S. C., and Libbjr 
 Prison, Richmond, Va. ; Navigator, then Executive, steamer " Muscoota," 
 Gulf Squadron, 1865-6. Promoted to Acting Volunteer* Lieutenant, June 
 27, 1866 ; Executive, steamer " Penobscot," New York, latter part of 1866 ; 
 Navigator, then Executive, steamer " Osceola," West Indies, 1867 ; Execu 
 tive, steamer " Maumee," 1867-8. Commissioned as Master in regular navy 
 from March 12, 1868; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," Norfolk, 1868; 
 Navigator, steamer " Ashuelot," Asiatic Squadron, 1869. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, from December 18, 1868 ; receiving-ships " Vermont," at New 
 York, and " Vandalia," at Portsmouth, N. H., 1870 ; commanding steamer 
 "Speedwell," at Portsmouth, N. H., 1871; Executive, steamer " Nipsic," 
 Gulf and West Indies, 1871-2 ; receiving-ships " Vermont," at New York, 
 and "Ohio," at Boston, 1873; again commanding steamer "Speedwell," at 
 Portsmouth, N. H., part of 1873-4 ; receiving-ship " Ohio," 1874 ; command 
 ing iron-clad steamer " Mahopac," N. A. Station, 1874-6 ; iron-clad steamer 
 " Canonicus," New Orleans, part of 1874 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," Boston, 
 1877. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, from November 25, 1877; 
 commanding iron-clad steamer " Lehigh," N. A. Station, 1877-82 ; Execu 
 tive, "Alliance," N. A. Station, 1883-6 ; iron-clads, James River, 1886-9. 
 Promoted to Commander, March, 1889 ; Light- House Inspector, 1889 to 
 May, 1892; commanding "Alert," November, 1892, to April, 1893 ; sick 
 leave, April, 1893, to 1884 Retired June, 1894. 
 
 Francis M. Barber. Born in Ohio. Appointed an Acting Midshipman 
 at Naval Academy, December 27, 1861; graduated, 1865; "Swatara" 
 (third-rate), West India Squadron, 1866. Promoted to Ensign, December 
 1, 1866 ; frigate "Minnesota," special service, 1867-8. Promoted to Matter, 
 March 12, 1868, and commissioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; " Yan- 
 tic" (fourth-rate), N. A. Squadron, 1868-9 ; "Michigan" (fourth-rate), on 
 the lakes, 1870-1 ; torpedo duty, 1872-4 ; commanding "Alarm" (fourth- 
 rate), special service, 1875; "Vandalia," N. A. Fleet, 1875-6; "Alert" 
 (second-rate), Asiatic Station, 1877-9. Promoted to Lieufenant- Commander, 
 January, 1879 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1880-3 ; member Advis 
 ory Board, 1883-5 ; leave of absence, 1885-9. Promoted to Commander, 
 March, 1889 ; waiting orders, 1890 ; leave of absence, October, 1893 ; special 
 duty, October, 1894, to February, 1895 ; naval attache, Japan and China, 
 February, 1895. Returned August, 1895. 
 
 Timothy Augustine Lyons. Appointed Midshipman and entered the 
 Naval Academy, January 2, 1862 ; graduated September, 1865 ; attached to 
 the "Monongahela," of the West India Squadron, from 1865, until that 
 vessel was driven ashore on the Island of Santa Cruz, by a tidal wave follow 
 ing an earthquake ; then on the " De Soto," of the same squadron, until 
 1868 ; on the " Piscataqua," " Unadilla" and " Idaho," of the China Squad 
 ron, from 1868 until 1871 ; Instructor at the Nayal Academy and on board 
 the " Constellation," from 1871 to 1873 ; attached to the " Pensacola," flag- 
 
126 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ship of the Pacific Squadron, from 1873 until 1876 ; at the Hydrographic 
 Office, Washington, from 1876 to 1879 ; ordered to the " Constellation " in 
 1879, and upon her arrival at Gibraltar in the autumn of that year, was 
 transferred to the " Trenton," flag-ship of the European Squadron, to which 
 he remained attached until she came home and was put out of commission in 
 18"Sl ; from 1881 until 1885, Superintendent of Compasses in the Bureau of 
 Navigation, Washington ; from 1886 to 1888, was Executive Officer of the 
 " Galena " and of the " Tennessee " and Richmond," both successively flag 
 ships of the North Atlantic Squadron ; member of Board of Inspection of 
 Merchant vessels for Auxiliary Navy, 1889 to 1 V 92 ; commanding training- 
 ship " MonongsEhela," November, 1892, to August, 1893, when, upon Medi 
 cal Survey, was detached and granted sick leave ; commanding " Alliance," 
 of the Pacific Squadron, from October, 1893, until ship returned home and 
 was put out of commission at Norfolk, Va., on sick leave for six months, from 
 November, 1894 ; at Naval War College, June to November, 1895; special 
 duty, New York, January, 1896, to March, 1897 ;. retired May, 1897, on ac 
 count of physical disabilities incurred in the line of duty. Promotions: To 
 Ensign, in 1866 ; to Master, in 1868 ; to Lieutenant, in 1869 ; to Lieutenant- 
 Commandtr, in 1879, and to Commander, in 1889. 
 
 John J. Brice. Entered the navy as a volunteer officer in 1861 ; joined 
 the U. S. steamer " Freeborn," August, 1861, Potomac Flotilla; was in the 
 engagement with Cock-pit Point Batteries, Shipping Point Batteries, and 
 Potomac Creek Batteries ; in the attack upon Aquia Creek fortifications ; 
 cutting-out expedition in the Rappahannock River and engagements with field 
 battery and infantry near Gloucester Court-House, Va., for which promoted ; 
 landed inside the rebel lines with boats and men and captured a rebel colonel 
 of cavalry and carried him on board ; cutting-out expedition in Mattox Creek, 
 Va., for which recommended for gallantry and promoted to Acting Master ; 
 at Ai ken s Landing, Va., when the rebel rams attempted to pass down ; 
 attack upon Jones s Bluff, Rappahannock River, and at the capture of Fred- 
 ericksburg, Va. ; commanding U. S. steamer "Don" at the end of the war. 
 Commissioned an Ensign in the regular service, March, 1868 ; " Quinne- 
 baug," South Atlantic Station, 1868-9. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 
 21, 1870; Hydrographic Office, 1*70; " Saco " (fourth-rate), European 
 Station, 1870-2 ; torpedo service, 1873 ; " Saranac " (second-rate), North 
 Pacific Fleet, 1873-5 ; Naval Observatory, 1876 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 1877-8; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1878-81. Promoted to Lieuten 
 ant- Commander, April 15,1882; Mare Island Navy Yard, 1882-5; " Iro- 
 quois," Pacific Station, 1885-8 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1888-9 ; Fish 
 Commission, 1889-90; Light-House Inspector, December, 1892; command 
 ing "Adams," March, 1894 ; sick leave, October, 1894. Retired, February, 
 1895. 
 
 Benjamin Say re Richards. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, October 22, 1861; graduated, 1^66; " De Soto" (second-rate), 
 N. A. Station, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868; receiving-ship "New 
 Hampshire," 1869-70 ; retired, 1869 ; restored to active list, 1872. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1871 ; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 
 1873 ; " Portsmouth," Pacific Fleet, 1874-5 ; " Lackawanna," N. P. Station, 
 1875-7; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1881- 
 82 ; " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1885-6; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1886-9. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, August, 1887; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1889, 
 to November, 1892 ; Navy Yard, New York, November, 1892, to 1894 ; 
 
RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 127 
 
 commanding the " Michigan," December 1894-6 ; Naval War College, June 
 1896. Commissioned Command r, June, 1896; Light-House Inspector, 
 October, 1896, to 1897 ; Hospital Mare Island, December, 1897 ; sick leave, 
 January, 1898. Retired May 1, 1898. 
 
 Eetired under the first section of Ad of April 21, 1864. 
 
 Greenleaf Cilley. Appointed Midshipman from Maine, February 26, 
 1841 ; frigate " Cumberland " and sloop-of-war " Plymouth," Mediterranean 
 and Brazil Squadrons, 1843-46 ; Naval School, Annapolis, November, 1846 ; 
 line-of-battleship " Ohio," Gulf of Mexico, 1847 ; at Naval Battery, Vera 
 Cruz ; co-operated with the army at Medelliu River, on its march to and 
 from Alvarado ; at the attack and capture of Tuspan, where he received a 
 slight flesh wound in the leg. Naval School, and graduating as Paxsed 
 Midshipman, July 5, 1848; frigate "Raritan," Gulf of Mexico, 1848-50; 
 store-ship Lexington," Mediterranean, 1850-1 ; coast-survey steamer "Jef 
 ferson," 1851 ; dismasted and nearly foundered, May 25, 1851 ; was sur 
 veyed, condemned, and left at Port Desire River, Patagonia, August, 1851 ; 
 returned to Montevideo in French bark "Aristide," and to New York in 
 store-ship "Relief," November, 1851; coast-survey steamer "Legare," 
 Florida Reefs, till July, 1852 ; in store-ship " Fredonia," New York to 
 San Francisco, thence to Valparaiso, July, 1852, to March, 1854 ; frigate 
 "St. Lawrence," Pacific Station, as Acting Lieutenant, March, 1854, to April, 
 1855; sloop-of-war "Saratoga," West Indies, as Master and Lieutenant, 
 1855-8 ; at the capture of Walker and his filibusters, at Greytown, Decem 
 ber 8, 1857 ; coast-survey steamer " Hetzel," North Carolina Sounds and 
 Chesapeake Bay, 1858; steamer "Metacomet," Paraguay Expedition, 
 1858-9; brig "Do phin," Brazil Station, 1859; steamer "Pulaski," River 
 La Plata, 1859-63 ; in command of said steamer and Senior Officer on 
 Brazil Station, March, 1862-3; command of gunboat "Unadilla," South 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, August and September, 1863. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July 16, 1863; in command of monitor "Catskill," 
 off Charleston, S. C., September to November, 1863 ; blockading the harbor, 
 and at times commanding Fort Sumter; steamer "Fort Jackson," North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, March and April, 1864; line-of-battleships 
 " New Hampshire " and " Vermont," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 May to August, 1864; steam-frigate "Colorado," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 October to December, 1864; retired, March, 1865. Promoted to Com 
 mander, April 4, 1867. 
 
 Frederick Robinson Smith. Born in Wiscasset, Maine. Appointed 
 from Maine, September 24, 1858 ; Naval Academy, 1858-61 ; attached to 
 steam-frigate " Colorado," flag-ship, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861 ; 
 steamer " Flambeau," as Acting Master and Navigator, 1862 ; South Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, 1862-3. Promoted to Lieutenant and Executive Officer, 
 August 1, 1862 ; engagement with Fort McAllister ; boat Expedition, Bull s 
 Island, South Carolina ; present at Admiral Dupont s first fight at Charles 
 ton, 1864 ; U. S. steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," flag-ship of Flying Squadron, 
 West Indies, Admiral Lardner served as Flag-Lieutenant and Senior 
 Watch-Officer ; Executive Officer steamer " Rhode Island," North Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; both attacks on Fort Fisher; commanded 
 detachment of seamen in the land assault ; commanded landing party from 
 Rhode Island, which, together with the men, landed from H. B. M. gunboat 
 " Lilly," afforded protection to the foreign merchants at Cape Haytien City 
 during the Selnam revolution. Commissioned a Lieutenant- Commander, July 
 
128 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 25, 1866; U. S. S. "Ashuelot," 1865-9; Navigator while convoying the 
 iron-clad " Miantonomah " across the Atlantic to Queenstovvn, Ireland ; did 
 duty as Navigator until arrival in Hong-Kong, China, when made Executive 
 Officer, and finally commanded the " Ashuelot," until detached, 1*69 70; 
 equipment duty, Boston Navy Yard, 1871 ; Executive Officer U. S. flag-ship 
 "Severn," N. A. Squadron, 1871 ; commanded U. S. iron-clad " Ajax" on 
 voyage from Key West, Florida, to League Island Navy Yard, 1872 ; Execu 
 tive Officer U. S. S. "Iroquois," N. A. Station, reception-fleet Grand Duke 
 Alexis, of Russia, 1872; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Boston, 1878; Inspec 
 tor of Ordnance at Key West, 1874 ; Executive Officer U. S. S. " Lancaster," 
 flag-ship S. A. Squadron, 1875 ; Senior Aide to Commander Cooper, com 
 manding Navy Yard, Pensacola. Commissioned as Commander, April 6, 
 1875 ; commanding iron-clad " Saugus," on voyage from Pensacola to Port 
 Royal, S. C. Retired, June 18, 1892. 
 
 Retired for incompetency or d Sability proceeding from other causes not incident 
 
 to the service. 
 
 Augustus G. Kellogg. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Illinois, Sep 
 tember 21, 1860 ; Naval Academy, 1860. Promoted to Ensign, May 28, 
 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, No 
 vember 10, 1865; steam-sloop " Shenandoah," East India Squadron, 1865-8. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, November 10, 1866. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, March 12, 1868; steam-gunboat "Aroostook," Asiatic 
 Squadron, 1868-9 ; iron-clad duty, New Orleans, 1869 ; Naval Academy, 
 1870-1 ; Hvdrographic Office, 1872; in March, 1872, with ten officers and 
 one hundred and fifty men, rescued the steamer " Ocean Queen," with passen 
 gers, from shipwreck, on Island San Salvador ; in July received thanks of 
 Pacific Mail Company for services rendered in saving life, while the steamer 
 " America " was burning at Yokohama ; " Michigan " (fourth-rate), 1873-6 ; 
 training-ship " Monongahela," 1876-7 ; commanding " Speedwell " (fourth- 
 rate), 1877 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1877-80 ; commanding "Tallapoosa," 
 special service, 1880-3. Promoted Commander, July, 1880 ; Light-House 
 Inspector, 1883-5 ; equipment duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1885-8 ; com 
 manding " Ossipee," North Atlantic Station, 1888-9. Retired December 
 15, 1891. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COMMANDERS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Conway Hillyer Arnold. Born in New York City. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 30, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; " Minnesota," special cruise, 
 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Powhatan," Pacific Fleet, 1868-70 ; 
 flag-ship "Severn," N. A. Station, Aide to R. A. Poor, 1870-1. Promoted 
 to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; receiving-ship " Ver 
 mont," 1871 ; Aide to P. A. Stringham, 1871-2 ; " Wasp," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1872-4 ; Naval Observatory, 1^74-5 ; " Hartford," flag-ship, North 
 Atlantic Station, 1875-7 ; " Powhatan," N. A. Station, Flag-Lieutenant and 
 secretary to R. A. Trenchard, 1877-8 ; commanding " Wyandotte," Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1878-81 ; "Lancaster," European Station, secretary to 
 R, A. Nicholson, 1881-2; "Miantonomah," special service, 1882-3; "Nip- 
 sic," S. A. Station, 1883-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1886-9 ; secretary to 
 R. A. Gherardi, N. A. Station, 1889, to June, 1893 ; " Galena," Kearsarge," 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 129 
 
 "Dolphin," "Baltimore," "Philadelphia." Promoted to Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, January 10, l92 ; board for Inspection Merchant vessels, New 
 York, 1893 ; Aide to R. A. Gherardi, Navy Yard, New York, 1894 ; charge 
 Branch Hydrographic Office, New York, 189496 ; battle-ship " Massachu 
 setts," 1896 ; commanding " Bancroft," European Station, 1897 ; Light- 
 House Inspector, Sixth District, 1898. 
 
 William Sheffield Cowles. Born at Farmington, Connecticut. Ap 
 pointed to Naval Academy, July 21, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; "Minnesota," 
 in Mediterranean Squadron, 1867-8 ; " Pensacola" and "Saginaw," in North 
 Pacific Squadron, 1868-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1869, and Master in 1870 ; 
 Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C.,1870; Torpedo Station, Newport, 
 R. I., 1871. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1871 ; practice gu/mery-ship, "Con 
 stellation," 1872; "Alaska," Mediterranean, West Indies, 1873; "Alaska," 
 coast of Africa, 1874-5-6; "Tennessee" and " Monocacy," China Station, 
 1877-8-9 and 1880; Navy Yard, New York, 1881-2; Flag-Lieutenant, 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1882-3-4 ; Secretary Board of Inspection, mer 
 chant ships, New York City (during this detail served three weeks on 
 Isthmus of Panama guarding the transit across the Isthmus, and property of 
 Panama R. R. Co., and property of American citizens on the Isthmus), 
 1884-5-6 ; in command of " Despatch," 1887-8-9 and 1890-1 ; Naval 
 Aide to Secretary of Navy, and in charge of Naval militia, 1891-2. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, 1892; Naval Attache, U. S. Embassy, 
 London, 1893-7; commanding "Fern," North Atlantic Squadron, April, 
 1897, to April, 1898; commanding "Topeka," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Olden Allibone. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 23, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; Asiatic Station, 1867-70. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1868 ; to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; 
 " Ticonderoga," S. A. Fleet, 1870-3 ; receiving-ship " Independence," 1874 ; 
 " Tuscarora," N. P. Station, 1874-6 ; League Island Station, 1877 ; Torpedo 
 Station, 1877-8; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1878-81 ; "Lancaster," Euro 
 pean Station, 1881-2 ; " Galena," S. A. Station, 1882-3 ; Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, N. H., 1883-5 ; " Dolphin," N A. Station, 1885-9 ; Naval Station, 
 New London, 1889-90 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, Septem 
 ber, 1890, to November, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, May 
 28, 1892 ; Assistant Inspector of " Columbia," November, 1892-7 ; leave of 
 absence, May, 1897 ; Light-House Inspector, 1898 to date. 
 
 Edward David Taussig. Born in Missouri. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 23, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Minnesota," special cruise, July and 
 December, 1867. Ensign, December, 1868 ; " Wateree," " Powhatan," " On 
 ward," and " Resaca," South Pacific Station, January, 1868, to April, 1870 ; 
 commended by Commander Gillis, in his report to the Secretary of the Navy, 
 for services during earthquake at Arica, August 13, 1868. Master, March, 
 1870; Lieutenant, January 1,1872 ; " Narragansett," October, 1870, to Oc 
 tober, 1873, cruising and surveying in the Pacific under Commander R. W. 
 Meade, and surveying the coast of Lower California under Commander George 
 Dewey ; torpedo station, June and September, 1874 ; Hydrographic Office, 
 October-December, 1874; Panama Inter-oceanic Canal Survey, January- 
 August, 1875; commanding R. S. "Relief," September, 1875 ; in temporary 
 charge Department of Yards and Locks, Washington Navy Yard, October, 
 1875, to April, 1876 ; " Juniata," and " Monongahela," April, 1876, to Jan 
 uary, 1877 ; " Trenton," flag-ship, European Station, January, 1877, to Jan 
 uary, 1880 ; Naval Academy, June, 1880, to May, 1883 , commanding Coast 
 Survey steamer " McArthur " from May, 1883, to February, 1886 ; com- 
 
130 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 manding Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," February to August, 1886 ; en 
 gaged in hydrographic surveys near Cape Mendocino and Piedras Blancos, 
 California; training-ship "Jamestown," September 1, 1886, to December, 
 1887; duty in the Navy Department from December, 1887, to December, 
 1890 ; December, 1890, ordered to special duty as Assistant to Commodore 
 R. W. Meade, Representative of the Navy Department on the Board of 
 Management IT. S. Government Exhibit, and in May, 1893, ordered to relieve 
 Commodore Meade as the Representative of the Navy Department on the 
 Board of Management U. S. Government Exhibit. Lieutenant- Commander, 
 June 19, 1892.^ Executive Officer U. S. S. "Atlanta," April, 1894, to Sep 
 tember, 1895. * Executive Officer U. S. receiving-ship "Richmond " to Feb 
 ruary, 1896. Executive Officer U.S. S. "Monadnock," February, 1896, 
 to September, 1896 ; Hydrographic Office, September, 1896, to December, 
 1896 ; December, 1896, to present date Hydrographic Inspector U. S. Coast 
 and Geodetic Survey. 
 
 John Elliott Pillsbury. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September, 22, 1862 ; graduated, 1867 ; " Minnesota," special 
 cruise, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1869-70. 
 Promoted to Master, 1#70; "Colorado," flagship, Asiatic Fleet, 1870-2. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872; torpedo duty, 1873; "Swatara," special 
 service, 1875 ; Coast Survey, 1875-7 ; Hydrographic Office, 1878-9 ; " Kear- 
 sarge," N. A. Station, 1879-82 ; Coast Survey Office, 1882-4 ; commanding 
 
 C. S. S. "Blake," investigating Gulf Stream Currents, 1884-9; Coast Sur 
 vey Office, 1890, to February, 1891 ; "Newark," February, 1891, to July, 
 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 1, 1892; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, July. 1893, to June, 1894; Naval War College, to January, 1897 ; 
 commanding "Vesuvius" since June, 1897, to date. 
 
 William Herron Reeder. Entered Naval Academy, September 25, 
 1862; graduated, 1867 ; " Piscataqua," flag-ship Asiatic Squadron, 1867-8. 
 Commissioned as Ensign, 1868 ; " Unadilla," Asiatic Squadron, 1868 ; 
 " Delaware," flag-ship, Asiatic Squadron, 1869-70. Commissioned as Master, 
 1870 ; signal duty, Fort Myer, va , 1870 ; " Wabash," flag-ship, European 
 Squadron, 1871-2; " Shenandoah," European Squadron, 1873 ; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, Mass., 1874; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1874-6; " Powhatan," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1877-80 ; special duty, Naval Department, 1880-1 ; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1881-3; Torpedo Station, 1883; com 
 manding " Despatch," special service, 1884-5 ; Expedition to Isthmus of 
 Panama, 1885 ; special duty in the Navy Department, 1885-6; "Galena," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1886-9 ; Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 
 1889-90; Naval Academy, July, 1890, to June, 1893. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, December 4, 1892 ; "Charleston," Pacific Station, June, 
 1893 ; July, 1894, ordered to temporary duty under General Ruger, U. S. A., 
 commanding Department of Pacific ; in command of Naval Brigade at Oak 
 land Mole, California, during the railroad strikes of that period ; " Charles 
 ton," Asiatic Station, August, 1894, to July, 1896 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 
 D. C., August, 1896, to April, 1897 ; commanding N. Y. nautical school- 
 ship "St. Mary s," A.pril, 1897, to April, 1898; commanding Fourth Dis 
 trict Mosquito Fleet since April, 1898. 
 
 Daniel Delehanty. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 25, 1862 ; graduated, 1867 ; Asiatic Fleet, 1867-9 ; Pacific Fleet, 
 1870. Promoted to Ensign, 1867 ; to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, 1872; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1871; "Saranac," Pacific Fleet, 
 1872-4; receiving-ship "Independence," 1874; receiving-ship "Colorado," 
 
RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 131 
 
 1875; "Catskill" (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1875-6; " Lacka- 
 wanna," North Pacih c Station, 1876-8; Naval Academy, 1878-81 ; "Con 
 stellation," special service, 1881; Naval Academy, 1881-2; "Adams," 
 Pacific Station, 1882-4; Mare Island, Navy Yard, 1884-5; " Wachusett," 
 Pacific Station, 1885; receiving-ship, "Independence," 1885-8; member 
 Board of Inspection, San Francisco, 1888-9 ; commanding C. S S. " Hassler," 
 
 1889, to October, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, January 9, 
 1893 ; Supervisor New York Harbor, October 2, 1893, to 1897 ; ordered to 
 the " Texas May, 1897 ; Governor of Sailors Snug Harbor, February, 1898 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. "Suwanee," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Carpenter Cornwell. Born in New York. Appointed as 
 Acting Midshipman at Naval Academy, September, 2<L 1864 ; graduated, 
 1868 ; European Station, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, 1869 ; torpedo duty, 
 1870. Promoted to Master, 1879; " Tennessee " (second-rate), special ser 
 vice, 1880-1 ; " Wachusett," European Station, 1871-2 ; European Squad 
 ron, 1873-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872; North Atlantic Station, 
 1874-7 ; " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1877-8 ; S. S. " Blake," 1881-2 ; " Pow- 
 hatan," special service, 1882-4 ; Naval Observatory, 1884-5 ; Superintend- 
 dent of Compasses, 1885-7 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1887-9 ; 
 Nautical School-ship " St. Mary s," 1888-90 ; leave of absence, December, 
 
 1890, to July, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, February 7, 1893 ; 
 " Newark," S. A. Station, July, 1893-6 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," Octo 
 ber, 1896; sick-leave, October, 1897; Inspector of Light-House District 
 Peusacola, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 Royal Rodney Ingersoll. Born in Michigan. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, July 23, 1864; graduated, 1868; European Station, 1868-9. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869 ; " Miantonomah " (iron-clad), special service, 1869- 
 70. Promoted to Master, 1870 ; " Plymouth," European Squadron, 1870-2 ; 
 " Kansas," North Atlantic Station, 1872-3 ; " Juuiata," European Squadron, 
 1874. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; " Yantic," Asiatic Station, 1875 ; 
 and "Kearsarge," same station, 1875-6; Naval Academy, 1876-9; " Pensa- 
 cola," Pacific Station, 1879-80; Naval Observatory, 1882-3; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1883-5; practice-ship " Constellation, 1885; Naval Academy, 1885-7; 
 " Enterprise," European Station, 1887-90 ; Naval Academy, December, 
 1890-3. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, February 25, 1893-4; or 
 dered, to Philadelphia, November, 1894-7 ; leave of absence, June, 1897 ; 
 Naval Academy, September, 1897, to date. 
 
 Adolph Marix. Born in Saxony. Entered Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber 26, 1864; graduated 1868; European Station, 1868-9. Promoted to 
 Ensign, 1869; "Congress," special service, 1870-1. Promoted to Master, 
 1870 ; " Canandaigua," North Atlantic Station, 1871-2 ; commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1872 ; " Worcester," flag-ship, North Atlantic Station, 1872-4 ; 
 " Saco," Asiatic Station, 1874-6; and " Tennessee," same station, 1876-7; 
 "Trenton," European Station, 1878-9; Hydrographic Office, 1879-80; 
 training-ship "Minnesota," 1880-1; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1881-2; 
 " Brooklyn," South Atlantic Station, 1882-3 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 
 1883-4; "Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1884-5; "Enterprise," Asiatic Sta 
 tion, 1885-6; Judge Advocate General s Office, 1886; special duty, to 
 Australia, 1888-9; training-ship "Jamestown," 1889-90; Hydrographic 
 Office, New York, June, 1892; receiving-ship " Minnesota," June, 1894- 
 95; the "Maine," September, 1895-98; receiving-ship "Vermont," Janu 
 ary, 1898. Ordered to command U. S. S. " Scorpion," April, 1898. 
 
132 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Duncan Kennedy. Born in Albany, New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 20, 1864; graduated, 1868; "Delaware" and " Iroquois," 
 Asiatic Station, 1868-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1869; to Master, 1>70; 
 " Guerriere," European Station, 1870-2. Promoted to Lieutenant, 1872 ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1872-3; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1873-6; Naval 
 Academy, 1876-9 ; practice-steamer, " Mayflower," 1876-7 ; " Pensacola," 
 Pacific Station, 1879-82 ; Naval Academy, 1882-4 ; practice-ship " Dale," 
 1883; "Lancaster," European Station, 1884-5; "Lancaster," South 
 Atlantic Station, 1885-7; War College, Newport, 1887-9; Secretary to 
 Navy Yard Sife Commission, Gulf of Mexico and South Atlantic Coast, 
 1889 ; Board of Organization, 1889-90 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, June, 
 1893-5; "New York," October, 1895-8; January, 1898, Assistant Inspec 
 tor Eleventh Light-House district, to date. 
 
 Edward William Sturdy. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, February 26, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Minnesota," special 
 cruise, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Pensacola," Pacific Fleet, 
 1868-70 Promoted to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; 
 special duty, Washington, 1871 ; Hydrographic Office, 1872 ; " Wasp," 
 South Atlantic Fleet, 1872-6 ; Naval Observatory, 1876-8 ; " Ticonderoga," 
 special service, 1878-81 ; Nautical Almanac Office, 1881-4 ; temporary 
 Superintendent Nautical Almanac, 1882 ; Assistant Superintendent Nautical 
 Almanac Office, 1883-4 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1884 ; " Kear- 
 sarge," European Station, 18847 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 1887-9; "Baltimore," Pacific Station, 1889 to April, 1893. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, April 3, 1892; training-ship "Constella 
 tion," April, 1893-5 ; ordered to the " Olympia," February, 1895-6 ; under 
 suspension, May, 1896 ; ordered to the " Minneapolis," October, 1896-7 ; 
 receiving-ship " Wabash," December, 1897, to April, 1898 ; commanding 
 U. S. S. " Pompey," from April, 1898, to date. 
 
 James Douglas Jerrold Kelley. Born in New York City. Appointed 
 at large by President Lincoln and entered U. S. Naval Academy, October 5, 
 1864; was graduated in 1868; European Station, "Ticonderoga," "Frank 
 lin " (flag-ship), " Richmond," " Guard." Promoted to Ensign, 1869 ; equip 
 ment duty, Navy Yard, New York ; signal duty, Fort Whipple, Virginia, 
 1870 ; qualified as Signal Officer ; ordered as such to the Pacific Station ; 
 "Ossipee" (flag-ship), "Pensacola," "Saranac," "Resaca;" charge of a 
 party Darien Survey. Promoted to Master, 1870; to Lieutenant, 1872; 
 1873, " Frolic," Port Admiral s flag-ship, New York ; torpedo duty, Newport ; 
 " Congress," coast of Africa, 1874 ; invalided home ; Naval Rendezvous, 
 New York, 1876 ; " Minnesota," 1877 ; Executive of nautical school-ship 
 "St. Mary s," 1878; "Michigan," special duty on Great Lakes, 1879; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1880 ; " Nipsic," West Indies ; ordnance duty, command of 
 experimental battery, Annapolis, 1881 ; " Despatch ;" Secretary to Rear- 
 Admiral, " Tennessee," flag-ship North Atlantic Station, 1882 ; Board of In 
 spection of Foreign Ships, 1883 ; torpedo duty, Judge Advocate General s 
 Office, 1884; " Taliapoosa," South Atlantic Station, 1885; "Pensacola," 
 special duty, 1888; " Kearsarge," flag-ship North Atlantic Station, 1889; 
 " Yantic," North Atlantic Station, July, 1890, to November, 1891 ; waiting 
 orders, November, 1891, to March, 1892; member Board on Ships boats, 
 March, 1892, to July, 1893 ; receiving-ship "St. Louis," July, 1893, to June, 
 1894; "Cincinnati," June, 1894, to August, 1895; "Texas," August, 1895, 
 to February, 1896 ; "Richmond," February, 1896, to July, 1896; "Texas," 
 July, 1896, to May, 1897 ; Inspector of Merchant Steamers, May, 1897, to 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 133 
 
 March, 1898; member of Board Auxiliary Vessels, March, 1898. Com 
 mended by Secretary of the Navy for services in Hayti. Prize Essayist and 
 Gold Medallist U. S. Naval Institute, 1881; author of "The Question of 
 Ship?," 12mo. ; " American Yachts " (4to.), with folio plates ; " A Desperate 
 Chance," 12mo. ; " Typical Yachts," folio, and of " Armored Vessels," 12mo. 
 Co-author of " Modern Ships of War " (4to.) and of " The Barbary Corsairs," 
 12mo. Author of the "Monthly Pilot Chart," of "Proceedings of Courts- 
 Martial and Boards," of " The Story of Coast Defence," of " American Men 
 o -War," of a " History of the Naval Experimental Battery," of " Our Navy, 
 its Growth and Achievements," regal, 24 colored plates, a book of 300 pp., 
 of " The Ship s Company," octavo, 325 pp., and of numerous literary and 
 professional articles and pamphlets. * 
 
 J. F. Moser. Entered Academy at Newport, September, 1864; grad 
 uated, No. 7 in class of 80, June, 1868 ; European Squadron, on board 
 "S\vatara," "Roanoke" and "Guard" until October, 1869; Darien Inter- 
 oceanic Canal Expedition, November, 1869, to July, 1870 ; European 
 Squadron, " Guerriere," August, 1870, to February, 1872; Nicara<iuan 
 Inter-oceanic Canal Expedition, February, 1872, to November, 1873 ; 
 steamer "Despatch," November, 1873, to October, 1874; Panama Inter- 
 oceanic Canal Expedition, December, 1874, to September, 1875 ; Coast Sur 
 vey in charge of field-work, and command of steamer " Bache " and steamers 
 " Fathomer " and " Endeavor," November, 1875, to March, 1880 ; European 
 and South Atlantic Squadrons, on board "Galena" and "Brooklyn," 
 August, 1880, to September, 1883 ; Coast Survey Officer in charge of Hydro- 
 graphic Division, December, 1884, to November, 1886 ; Coast Survey in 
 charge of field-work, and in command of steamer " Bache," November, 
 1886-90. Lieutenant Moser has been largely employed on special duty, in 
 connection with survey ; on the Coast Survey and the Exploring Expedi 
 tion, in connection with the Interoceanic Canal Surveys ; he ran the line of 
 levels over the route adopted by De Lesseps, from Aspinwall to Panama, and 
 also over the route in Nicaragua, upon which work has commenced by the 
 Nicaraguan Canal Company. He is a Fellow of the American Association 
 for the Advancement of Science ; member of Ethnographical Society of 
 France, and a member of the Philosophical Society and the Biological 
 Society of Washington. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1894; 
 Hydrographic Inspector Coast Survey, October, 1893-6 ; commanding the 
 "Albatross," May, 1896, to date. 
 
 Raymond P. Rodgers. Born in District of Columbia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 25, 1864; graduated, 1868; "Guerriere," flag-ship, S. A. 
 Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, 1869 ; "Franklin," flag-ship, European 
 Fleet, 1869-71 ; " Juniata," same fleet, 1871-3. Promoted to Master, 1870. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; Naval Academy, 1873-6; " Pensacola," 
 flag-ship, Pacific Fleet, 1876-9; Naval Academy, 1879-82 ; "Tennessee," 
 N. A. Squadron, 1882-4; Bureau of Navigation, 1884; Chief Intelligence 
 Officer, 1884-9; "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1890. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1894; Naval attache Paris, St. Petersburg and 
 Madrid, October, 1892-7 ; Battleship " Iowa," June, 1897, to date. 
 
 Robert T. Jasper. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 21, 1864; graduated, 1868; "Nipsic," N. A. Fleet, 1868-70. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869; and to Master, 1870; T. and N. Surveying Expe 
 dition, 1870-1 ; " Wabash," flag-ship, European Fleet, 1871-3. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; S. A. Station, 1874-6; Naval Academy, 1876- 
 0; " Powhatan," special service, 1880-3; Naval Academy, 1883-6; train- 
 
134 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ing-ship " Jamestown," 1886 ; training-ship " Constellation," 1886-9 ; Coast 
 Survey Office, 1889-90. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1893 ; 
 U.S.S."Bennington," May, 1 893-5 ; receiving-ship "Franklin," July, 1895; 
 Naval Academy, June, 1896, to April, 1898. 
 
 Seaton Schroeder. Born in District of Columbia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 26, 1864 ; graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869; "Benicia," Asiatic Station, 1869-72 Promoted to 
 Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; " Pinta," N. A. Station, 
 1873; "SwataraJ 1874-5; Hydrographic Office, 1876; " Gettysburg," special 
 service in Mediterranean, 1876-8 ; Hydrographic Office, 1878-80 ; "Des 
 patch," special service, 1881-2; Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," 
 1882-6; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, 1885-6; office Naval Intelli 
 gence, 1886-8; special duty "Vesuvius," 1888-90. Commissioned Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, September, 1893; Ordnance Officer, Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, October, 1893 ; Recorder Inspection and Survey, April, 1894-96 ; 
 Battleship " Massachusetts," December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Franklin J. Drake. Born in Talis, Orleans County, N. Y. Entered 
 Naval Academy, July 24, 1863; graduated, 1868; " Getty sbury," West 
 Indies, 1868; gunboat " Penobscot," N. A. Fleet, 1868-9; "Frolic," N. A. 
 Station, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, 1869 ; signal duty, 1870. Promoted to 
 Master, 1870 : " Colorado," Asiatic Fleet, 1870-1 ; " Benicia," Asiatic Squad 
 ron, 1871 ; commanded Company B in the assault by land forces made on 
 the Corean forts at Seoul, 1871; "Monocacy," Asiatic Squadron, 1872; 
 " Colorado," Asiatic Fleet, 1872-3. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872. 
 Torpedo Station, 1873; " Terror," N. A. Station, 1873; " Portsmouth," N. 
 P. Fleet, 1874; " Pensacola," Pacific Squadron, 1874; Ordnance Depart 
 ment, Mare Island Navy Yard, 1875-6; Coast Survey, " Hassler," 1876-78 ; 
 "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 1878 ; " Ticonderoga," special service, 1878-81 ; 
 commanded Surveying Expedition into the interior of Africa, west coast, and 
 mapped out the head-waters of the St. John River, 1879 ; Navy Yard, N. 
 Y., 1881-3 ; special duty, Advisory Board, 1883-5 ; " Pensacola," European 
 Station, 1885 ; " Quinnebaug," European Squadron, 1886-7 ; " Pensacola," 
 European Squadron, 1887-8 ; inspector construction torpedo-boat No. 1, 
 "The Gushing," 1888; inspector construction of the Howell torpedo for new 
 navy, 1889-90; Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Md., June, 1893. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander, October, 1893 ; commanding Fish Commis 
 sion steamer "Albatross," May, 1894-6 ; ordered to "Oregon," June, 1896 ; 
 Ordnance Officer Navy Yard, Mare Island, January, 1898, to May, 1898 ; 
 commanding "Pensacola," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Thomas Chalmers McLean Born in New York. Appointed Mid 
 shipman, September 21, 1864 ; graduated from Naval Academy, June, 1868, 
 taking the prize flag for the best drilled company in the battalion ; * Tusca- 
 rora," South Pacific and West Indies, 1868-9 Promoted to Ensign^ April, 
 1869 ; " Benicia " and " Idaho," Asiatic Fleet, 1869-72. Promoted to 
 Master, July, 1870 ; commanded the sailor infantry of the "Benicia," in the 
 Corean Expedition, and was commended for gallant conduct in the assault 
 on Fort du Coude, having the left of the line next the company of Lieuten 
 ant McKee, in memory of whom the fort was re-named by the captors. Naval 
 Torpedo Station, Newport, 1872. Promoted to Lieutenant, 1872 ; Experi 
 mental Battery, Annapolis, 1873-4 ; flag-ship " Tennessee," 1875 ; Torpedo 
 Station, 1876-7 ; Washington Navy Yard, 1878 ; in charge Experimental 
 Battery, 1879 ; flag-ship " Trenton/ European Station, 1879-81 ; member of 
 the United States Government delegation to the International Electrical 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 135 
 
 Congress and of the Commission to the Electrical Exhibition, Paris, 1881 ; 
 elected secretary to a section f the Congress ; vice-president of jury of 
 awards, group V., instruments of precision, etc., at the Exhibition ; special 
 duty in Germany, France, Russia, and England ; Naval Attache, Vienna, 
 1883, and Government Representative at Vienna Electrical Exhibition ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1884 ; steamer " Brooklyn," 1885 ; " Dolphin," 1885-8 ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1889, to March, 1893 ; Assistant Inspector of " Detroit," 
 March, 1893, to July, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, October, 
 1893 ; San Francisco, July, 1893-96 ; Bureau of Navigation, December, 
 1896 ; charge of Torpedo Station, June, 1897 ; also Inspector of Equip 
 ment Herreshoff s, to date. 
 
 William Jay Barnette. Born in New York. Ent/red Naval Acad 
 emy, July 27, 1864; graduated, 1868; Asiatic Fleet, 1868-70. Promoted 
 to ^Ensign, 1869; and to Master, 1870; torpedo duty, 1871; "Wabash," 
 flagship, European Squadron, 1871-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; 
 Hydrographic Office and Navy Yard, Washington, 1874-5 ; " Pensacola," 
 flagship, North Pacific Station, Flag-Lieutenant, 1875-8 ; Naval Academy, 
 1878-81; training-ship "Saratoga," 1881-4; Naval Academy, 1884-6; 
 practice-ship "Constellation," 1886; Naval Academy, 1886-8; "Galena," 
 N. A. Squadron, 1888-90; school-ship "St. Mary s," December, 1890, to 
 December, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, April 16, 1894; 
 Raleigh, April, 1894, to March, 1897; commanding U. S. C. and I. S. S. 
 "Bache," July, 1897, to April, 1898. 
 
 Francis Henry Delano. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1863; graduated June, 1867; " Susquehanna," flag-ship, N. 
 A. Station, 1867 ; " Contocook," flag-ship, N. A. Station, 1868 ; " Yantic," 
 N. A Station, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, December, 1868 ; signal duty, 
 . Washington, D. C. , March, 1870, to June, 1870. Promoted to Master, March, 
 1870 ; " Mohican," Pacific Station, 1870-71 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 
 1871-3. Promoted to Lieutenant, February, 1873 ; " Portsmouth," North 
 Pacific Station, 1874-5 ; "Sabine," receiving-ship, Portsmouth, N. H., 1875- 
 76 ; " Shawmut," N. A. Station, September, 1876, to January, 1877 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, February, 17, 1877, to April 26, 1877; "Supply," training- 
 ship, May 1, 1877, to September 13, 1877 ; " Wyoming," R. S. Washington, 
 December, 1887, to January, 1878 ; " Supply," store-ship, 1878-9 ; com 
 manding " Intrepid," 1879-82 ; " Pensacola," F. S. Pacific Station, 1882-3 ; 
 " Richmond," F. S. Asiatic Station, 1883-4 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 
 1884-5 ; Torpedo Station, 1885 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1885-7 ; 
 " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1887-9, in command last month or so of ship s 
 commission ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, December, 1889, to June, 1892, to 
 1894 ; leave of absence May, 1894. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, 
 June, 1894; receiving-ship "Wabash," October, 1894, to 1896 ; " Olympia," 
 June, 1896, to 1898 f " Minneapolis," January, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles Thomas Forse. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, October 1, 1864; graduated, 1868 ; store-ship " Guard," European 
 Fleet, 1868; "Jamestown," Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1869 ; " Alaska," Asiatic Fleet, 1869-72. Promoted to Master, 1870, and 
 commissioned as Lieutenant, 1873 ; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1873-6 ; 
 " Tuscarora," Pacific Station, 1877-81 ; "Ranger," Pacific Station, 1881-4; 
 commanding C. S. S. " Earnest," 1884-7 ; Inspector of steel, new cruisers, 
 1887, to July, 1892; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, July, 1892, to April, 
 1894; Inspector of steel, April, 1894, to (commissioned Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, June, 1894) June, 1897 ; commanding C. S. steamer " Endeavor," 
 
136 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 June, 1897, to January, 1898 ; C. S. S. " Patterson," April, 1898 ; command 
 ing U. S. S. " Lebanon," to date. 
 
 Edwin King Moore. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, Octo 
 ber 1, 1864 ; graduated, 1868 ; store-ship " Guard," European Fleet, 1868-9. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1869; signal duty, 1870. Promoted to Matter, 1870; 
 "Colorado," " Benicia," and " Monocacy," Asiatic Fleet, 1870-3. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, 1873; "Portsmouth," surveying on Pacific, 1873-6; 
 Coast Survey steamer "McArthur," on Pacific Coast, 1876-80 ; Naval Ob 
 servatory, 1881-4; training-ship "Saratoga," 1884-7; Naval Academy, 
 1887-90 ; Bureau of Equipment, 1890 to January, 1891 ; " Boston," Squad 
 ron of Evolution, January to October, 1891 ; Pacific Station, October, 1891, 
 to April, 1893; "Mohican," Bearing Sea Fleet, May to December, 1893; 
 leave of absence, December, 1893, to January, 1894 ; Boston Navy Yard, 
 January, 1894, to 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1894; 
 commanding Coast Survey steamer " Patterson," surveying in Southeast 
 Alaska, March, 1895, to March, 1898 ; Naval Academy, April, 1898. 
 
 Albion Varette Wadhams. Entered the Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber 26, 1864; graduated, June, 1868. Promoted Ensign, April 19, 1869. 
 Master, July 12, 1870. Lieutenant, March 25, 1873 ; Pacific Station, 1868-9 ; 
 China Station, 1870-3 ; (Corean fights) " Powhatan " and "Alert, 1874-5 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1875-8; Coast Survey, 1878-80; "Nipsic," European 
 Station, 1880-3 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1884-6 ; China Station, 1886-9 ; 
 Assistant Light-House Inspector, member Board of Inspection, Merchant 
 Vessels and Inspection of Steel for New Vessels, 1889-92 ; leave of absence, 
 1893; "Mohican," Pacific Station, November, 1893-96. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1894; Light-House Inspector, Eighth District, 
 January, 1897, to date ; also in charge of Eighth Mosquito Fleet District. 
 
 James Dexter Adams. Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy September 27, 1864 ; graduated, 1868 ; " Albany," temporary duty, 
 September, 1868 ; " Yantic," October, 1868 ; " Gettysburg," November, 1868. 
 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1869 ; " Frolic," September, lcS69 ; " Jamestown," 
 Pacific Fleet, March, 1870. Promoted to Master, July, 1870; "Mohican," 
 October, 1871 ; receiving-ship " Independence," June, 1872 ; " Hassler," 
 Coast Survey, August, 1873. Promoted to Lieutenant, September, 1873 ; 
 Torpedo Station, May, 1876 ; Mare Island Navy Yard, August, 1876 ; re 
 ceiving-ship "Independence," July, 1877 ; " Pensacola," August, 1877; 
 Mare Island Navy Yard, December, 1880 ; Torpedo Station, May, 1883 ; 
 " Powhatan," August, 1883; "Lancaster," July, 1884 ; " Kearsarge," Au 
 gust, 1884 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," March, 1887 ; ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, December, 1888 ; "Dolphin," N. A. Station, November, 
 1889, to May, 1891 ; Compass Office, May, 1891 ; Hydrographic Office, Octo 
 ber, 1891, to March, 1892 ; Naval Academy, March, 1892, to April, 1895 ; 
 Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, September, 1894; ordered to " Am- 
 phitrite," April, 1895 ; Hydrographic Office, September, 1897, to May, 1898; 
 commanding " Yankton," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Richard Wainwright. Born in District of Columbia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 28, 1864; graduated, 1868; "Jamestown," Pacific 
 Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, 1869 ; Hydrographic Office, 1870. 
 Promoted to Master, 1870; "Colorado," flagship, Asiatic Fleet, 1870-2. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1873 ; Hydrographic Office, 1873-4 ; command 
 ing Coast Survey vessel " Arago," 1875-8 ; flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral 
 T. H. Patterson, commanding Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; special duty, 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1881-4 ; " Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1884- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE IT. S. NAVY. 137 
 
 85 ; Secretary to Rear- Admiral J. E. Jouett, commanding North Atlantic, 
 1885-6 ; "Galena," North Atlantic Station, 1886-7 ; Steel Inspection, 1887- 
 88; Naval Academy, 1888-90; "Alert," special service, October, 1890, to 
 October, 1893; Hydrographic Office, October, 1893, to 1896. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant- Commander, September, 1894; Chief Intelligence Officer, 
 April, 1896-7; U. S. S. "Maine," December, 1897-8; Judge Advocate 
 General s Office, March, 1898; commanding the U. S. S. "Gloucester," 
 May, 1898, to date. 
 
 James Russell Selfridge. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 21, 1864; graduated, 1868; Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869 ; " Colorado," flagship, Asiatic Fleet, 1870-2. Pro 
 moted to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, J873 ; " Franklin," 
 flagship, European Squadron, 1873; "Congress," same squadron, 1874-6 ; 
 training-ship " Monongahela," 1876-7 ; torpedo duty, 1877 ; ordnance duty, 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1878-80; training-ship, "Portsmouth," 1880-2; 
 Recorder Regulation Board, 1882-3 ; Hydrographic Office, 1883-5 ; 
 "Adams," Pacific Station, 1885-6; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1886-8; 
 ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 18b9 to June, 1891 ; flag-lieutenant 
 to Commander-in-Chief, Asiatic Station, June, 1891, to July, 1893; leave of 
 absence, July to September, 1893; Torpedo Station, September to October 
 5, 1893 ; ordnance duty, Washington Navy Yard, October 11, to December 
 30, 1893 ; ordered as Executive Officer, : St. Mary s," January 3, 1894, to 
 May, 1894; sick leave, May, 1894-5; Branch Hydrographic Office, May, 
 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, September, 1894; "Puritan," 
 December, 1896, to date 
 
 Charles Albert Adams Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, July 23,1863; graduated, June, 1868; " Kearsarge," 1868; Pacific 
 Fleet, 1868-70. Promoted Ensign, 1869 ; " Ossipee," Pacific Fleet, 1870-2. 
 Promoted to Master, 1870; "Shenandoah," European Station, 1873. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, 1873; "Congress," European Station, 1874-6; 
 "Alert," Asiatic Station, 1877-8; "Ranger," Asiatic Station, 1878-9; 
 " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1879-81 ; " Michigan," (N. W. Lakes), 1*82-5 ; 
 "Pensacola," European Station, 18*5-8; receiving-ship "Vermont," 1888 to 
 March, 1892 ; "Adams," Pacific Station, March, 1892 to April, 1893 ; 
 " Lancaster," Asiatic Station, May, 1893, to October, 1893 ; "Philadelphia," 
 Pacific Station, October, 1893, to April, 1894. Lieutenant- Commander, No 
 vember, 1894 ; New York Navy Yard, 1894-6 ; receiving-ship " Rich 
 mond," 1896 ; " Monterey," 1897-8. 
 
 William Henry Everett. Entered Naval Academy as a Midshipman, 
 July 23, 1863 ; U. S. S. " Pawnee," U. S. S. " Portsmouth," and U. S. flag 
 ship " Guerriere," on the South Atlantic Station, 1868-69. Promoted to 
 Ensign, April 19, 1869; U. S. S. "Nantasket," in the West Indies, 1869-71. 
 Promoted to Master, July 12, 1870 ; transferred from U- S. S. " Nantasket," 
 to IT. S. S. " Congress," in the spring of 1871, and served on her until April, 
 1874, in West Indies, Greenland (in connection with Polar Expedition, 
 undertaken by the S. S. "Polaris "), and on the European Station ; transferred 
 to U. S. S. " Wyoming," and served until it went out of commission, at 
 Washington, in the spring of 1874. Promoted to Lieutenant, December 12, 
 1873 ; equipment duty at Navy Yard, New York, 1874-5; U. S. S "Alert," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1875-6 ; U. S. S. flag-ship " Tennessee," Asiatic 
 Station, 1876-8 ; on duty at Nautical Almanac Office, Washington, D. C., 
 November, 1878, to November, 1879 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New 
 York, December 1, 1879-81 ; U. S. S. " Tallapoosa," North Atlantic Station, 
 
138 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1882-4; Flag-Lieutenant to Rear- Admiral James E. Jouett, on board U. S. 
 flag-ship "Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1884-6 ; ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1886-7 ; TJ. S. training-ship " Saratoga," 1887-8 ; 
 U. S. flag-ship " Richmond," South Atlantic Station, 1889-90 ; in charge of 
 Branch Hydrographic Office, Boston, Mass., September, 1890, to September, 
 1893 ; ordnance duty at Navy Yard, Washington, November, 1893, to Feb 
 ruary, 1894; U. S. receiving-ship "Minnesota," at New York, February to 
 May, 1894 ; U- S. S. " Montgomery," June, 1894, to August, 1894. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander, December 6, 1894 ; U S. S. " Cincinnati," August, 
 1895, to May, 18.96 ; Naval War College, June to October, 1896 ; member of 
 Steel Board, at Washington, D. C., November, 1896, to January, 1897 ; Hy 
 drographic Office, Navy Department, January, 1897, to March, 1898 ; took 
 command of the IT. S. S. "Michigan," March 1, 1898. 
 
 John M. Hawley. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 23, 1863 ; graduated, 1868 ; South Atlantic Station, 1868-9. Promo 
 ted to Ensign, 1869 ; store-ship " Guard," European Fleet, 1870-1. Promo 
 ted to Matter, 1870 ; " Wyoming," 1871-2 ; " Ticonderoga," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1873-4 ; torpedo duty, 1874. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874 ; 
 Coast Survey, 1874-7 ; commanding C. S. S. " Silliman," 1877-8 ; Coast 
 Survey Office, 1878-9 ; " Wachusett," South Atlantic Station, 1879-82 ; 
 Hydrographic Office, 1882-3 ; Branch Hydrographic Office, Baltimore, 
 1883-5 ; commanding C. S. S. " Bache," 1885-6 ; " Nipsic," Pacific Station, 
 1887-90. Received a vote of thanks from the Legislature of Massachusetts, 
 for rare courage and ability displayed during the Samoan hurricane in March, 
 1889 ; commended to the Navy Department by Rear- Admiral Kimberly, for 
 zeal and energy in getting the " Nipsic " afloat after she was beached. He 
 had entire charge of this work, and to his efforts, in a large measure, is due 
 the fact that the " Nipsic " is now afloat without more serious injury. 
 Ordered to duty at the Naval Academy, November, 1890 ; Executive Officer 
 of the practice-ship "Constellation," 1891-4; "Detroit," June, 1894-6. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, December, 1894 ; Bureau of Navi 
 gation, December, 1896, to date. 
 
 John A. Rodgers. Born in Maryland. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 29, 1863; graduated, 1868. Promoted to Ensign, 1869; Pacific Fleet, 
 1868-9; S. S. "Supply," 1870; "Nipsic," Darien Expedition, 1870-1. 
 Promoted to Master, 1870; torpedo service, 1871-2; "Hartford," Asiatic 
 Station, 1872-5; "Trenton," flag-ship, European Station, 1877-9. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, 1874 ; " Juniata," 1876-7 ; " Constellation," 1879-80 ; 
 Inspector of Ordnance, Pittsburg and Philadelphia, ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1880-3 ; " Ossipee," Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; Inspector 
 of Steel, new cruisers, 1886-7; member of Steel Board, 1888-90; " Pensa- 
 cola," S. A. Station, July, 1890, to April, 1891 ; sick leave, April, 1891, to 
 November, 1892; " Miantonomah," N. A. Station, November, 1892-4; 
 leave of absence, November, 1894 ; Inspector Steel, South Bethlehem, Pa., 
 March, 1895-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, March, 1895; 
 Battleship " Indiana," February, 1897, to date. 
 
 James W. Carlin. Born May 14, 1848. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July, 1864 ; graduated, June, 1868 ; " Nipsic," West Indian Station, 1868-9. 
 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1869. Promoted to Master, July, 1870 ; "Saco," 
 European Station, 1870-1; "Saco," Asiatic Station, 1872; " Monocacy," 
 Asiatic Station, 1872-3. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February, 1874 ; tor 
 pedo duty, Newport, R. I., 1874 ; " Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1875 ; " Brook 
 lyn," West Indian Station, 1876; "Adams," West Indian Station, 1876; 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 139 
 
 "Michigan," lakes, 1877; "Constitution" (training-ship), Philadelphia, 
 1877; "Constitution," European Station, 1878 ; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 
 1881-2 ; " Lackawauna," Pacific Station, 1882-4 ; receiving-ship " Independ 
 ence," 1884-6 ; "Alert," Pacific Station, 1886-7 ; " Vandalia," Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1887-9. Lieutenant Carlin was Executive Officer of "Vandalia" in 
 the memorable hurricane at Apia, Samoa, March 16, 1889, and after the loss 
 of Captain Schoonmaker, he was in command of ship ; Inspector of Steel, 
 Union Iron Works, San Francisco, May, 1896, to February, 1893 ; "Monte 
 rey," Pacific Station, February, 1893-5- Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 May, 1895 ; leave of absence, November, 1895 ; receiving-ship " Independ 
 ence," February, 1896-8 ; ordered to U. S. S- " Monterey," April, 1898. 
 
 Gottfried Blocklinger. Born in Ohio. Entered Na^al Academy, July 
 21, 1863 ; graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-72. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1869; to Master, 1870; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1873-6. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, 1874 ; torpedo duty, summer of 1877 ; " Enterprise " 
 (Survey Amazon Kiver), 1877-8; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-82; 
 Coast Survey, 1882-3 ; C. S. S. " Hassler," 1883-6 ; Hydrographic Office, 
 1886-7 ; Light-House Inspector, 1887-9 ; " Alliance," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1890 to December, 1891 ; training-ship " Richmond," December, 1891, to 
 April, 1892 ; " Yorktown," special service, Squadron, April, 1892, to Octo 
 ber, 1893 ; Ordnance Instructor, Navy Yard, Washington, October, 1893-5. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, May, 1895; ordered to the "Bos 
 ton," November, 1895-6 ; sick leave, November, 1896 ; ordered to Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, June, 1897-8 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Charleston," May, 
 1898. 
 
 Perry Garst. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, July 25, 1863 ; 
 graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-73. Promoted to "Ensign, 1869 ; to 
 Master, 1870; S. S. "Frolic," 1874; Asiatic Fleet, 1874-8. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, 1874; Coast S. S. " Gedney," 1879-80; commanding C. S. S. 
 "Earnest," 1880-2; " Passaic," 1882 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," 1882-3 ; 
 " Shenandoah," Pacific Station, 1883-6 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 1886-8 ; Judge-Advocate General s Office, 1888-90 ; training-ship 
 " Jamestown," June, 1890, to July, 1892 ; Naval Academy, September, 1892- 
 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1895 ; ordered to " New 
 ark," June, 1896 ; U. S. S. "Terror," July, 1896, to date. 
 
 James Kelsey Cogswell. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 23, 1863 ; graduated, 1868 ; " Powhatan," P. F- 1868-9. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1869; Pacific Fleet, 1870-2. Promoted to Master, 
 1870; " Ticonderoga," N. A. S., 1874. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874; 
 " Monongahela," S. A. S., 1875-6 ; " Essex," 1876, N. A. S. ; S. A. S., 1877- 
 79; Hydrographic Office, 1879-81 ; "Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1881-4; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1884-5 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1886 ; inspector 
 of ordnance, South Boston Iron Works, 1887-8 ; " Tallapoosa," S. A. Station, 
 1888-92; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, May, 1892-95. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant- Commander, June, 1 895 ; ordnance instruction, Washington Navy Yard, 
 April, 1895; "Marion," September, 1895-7 ; Battleship "Oregon," Decem 
 ber, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frederick Singer. Born in Germany. Entered Naval Academy, 
 1863; graduated, 1868; " Nipsic," North Atlantic Station, 1868-9. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869 ; " Terror," North Atlantic Station, 1869-70. Pro 
 moted to Master, 1870 ; signal and ordnance duty, Washington, 1871-2 ; 
 "Michigan," on lakes, 1872; " Benicia," North Pacific Station, 1872-5. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874; "Canonicus," North Atlantic Station, 
 
140 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1876-8 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1878-9 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 
 1879-80; "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1880; "Richmond," 1880-1; receiv 
 ing-ship "Independence," 1882-3; torpedo duty, Newport, Rhode Island, 
 1883; receiving-ships " Colorado," and " Vermont," 1883-4 ; "Powhatan," 
 1884; " Quinnebang," E. S., 1884-7; Office Naval Intelligence, 1887-90 ; 
 "Ranger," Pacific Station, 1890-1; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1891-2; 
 Office of Naval Intelligence, 1892 ; represented Navy Department on board 
 re vie wing-ship " George S. Blake," carrying the Diplomatic Corps at the 
 International Columbian Naval Review, at New York, April, 1893 ; Chief 
 Intelligence Officer and Member of Board on Construction, Navy Depart 
 ment, July, 1893, to 1896. Promoted to Lieut en ant- Commander, September, 
 1895; ordered to U. S. S "Terror," April, 1896, to 1898; U. S. S. "Ra 
 leigh," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Arthur Bayard Speyers. Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, June 23, 1863 ; graduated, 1868 ; North Atlantic Fleet, 1868-9. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869; "Benicia," Asiatic Station, 1869-72. Promoted to 
 Master, 1870 ; " Kansas," North Atlantic Station, 1873-4. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1874 ;" Richmond," S. P.S., 1874-7 ; Naval Academy, 1877-81 ; 
 training-ship " Saratoga," 1881-4; Navy Yard, New York, 1884-6; "Chi 
 cago," special service, 1886-7 ; "Galena," North Atlantic Station, 1887-90 ; 
 training-ship "Minnesota," October, 1890, to July, 1893; "Yorktown," 
 Pacific Station, July, 1893, to 1894; waiting orders, June 1894; receiving- 
 ship " Richmond," October, 1894 ; " Bennington," May, 1895. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant- Commander, December, 1895; "Monterey," January, 1897; 
 waiting orders, July, 1897 ; Navy Yard, New York, August, 1897, to May, 
 1898 ; ordered to the U. S. S. "Kingston," May, 1898. 
 
 Ebenezer Scudder Prime. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September, 21, 1863; graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1869; "Swatara," North Atlantic Station, 1870-1. 
 Promoted to Master, 1870 ; Asiatic Station, 1872-5. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1874 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1876; " Lackawanna," North 
 Pacific Station, 1876-8 ; C. S. S. " McArthur," 1877-8 ; training-ship "Min 
 nesota," 1879-80 ; "Yantic," North Atlantic Station, 1881-3 ; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1883-6; " Lancaster," South Atlantic Station, 1886-7; "Alli 
 ance," South Pacific Station, 1887-8; "Lancaster," European Station, 
 1888-9; training-ship "Richmond," 1889 to June, 1891; Navy Yard, New 
 York, June, 1891, to May, 1893; " Concord," Asiatic Station, May, 1893, to 
 1894. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, December, 1895; leave of 
 absence, June, 1896 ; Inspector of Ordnance, South Bethlehem, Pa., Novem 
 ber, 1896 ; Inspector of Steel, Harrisburg, Pa., January, 1897 ; Navy Yard, 
 Pensacola, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Nathan Eric Niles. Btlrn in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, July 28, 1864; graduated, 1868 ; " Nipsic," North Atlantic Fleet, 
 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1869; to Master, 1870; Pacific Station in 
 "Saranac," "Resaca" and "St. Mary s" from December, 1870, to May, 1873; 
 " St. Mary s " went out of commission in May or June, 1873, at Norfolk, Va , 
 after a passage around Cape Horn from San Francisco ; " Manhattan " (iron 
 clad), 1873 ; "Ossipee," North Atlantic Station, 1874-5. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1874; Torpedo Station, 1875; "Marion," European Station, 
 1875-8; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1879-82; "Iroquois," 
 Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; Hydrographic Office, 1885-8 ; "Atlanta," European 
 Station, for about four months only ; ship was attached to Admiral Walker s 
 Squadron of Evolution ; electric light duty, Norfolk, 1891-5 ; " Lancaster," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1895-7 ; Navy Department, 1898. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 141 
 
 Thomas H. Stevens. Born in Honolulu, Sandwich Islands. Ap 
 pointed to Naval Academy, 1863, by President Lincoln from among sons of 
 officers; graduated, 1868; 1868-9, Pacific Fleet, steamer " Resaca," Mexi 
 can and Lower California coasts ; " Mohican," on scientific expedition to 
 Siberia for observation of total eclipse of sun, August, 1869. Promoted to 
 Ensign, July 22, 1869; "Michigan" and "Colorado," 1869-70. Promoted 
 to Master, 1870; on duty in Pacific Squadron, 1870-3; flagship "Ossipee" 
 and sloop " Cyane ; " while attached to latter ship, participated in survey of 
 Isthmus of Tehuantepec for construction of Interoceanic Canal ; temporarily 
 attached to " Jamestown ; " flagship " Pensacola," 1872-3, in South Pacific ; 
 May, 1873, commanded a company of " blue jackets" during the temporary 
 occupation of Panama by armed forces from " Pensacola "-jlnd " Tuscarora," 
 for protection of American interests in time of a rebellion ; latter part of 
 1873, duty at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia; November, 1873, navigator of 
 torpedo-boat "Mayflower," at time of Spanish- American complications. 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, January 23, 1874 ; flagship " Franklin," Euro 
 pean Station, 1874-6; "Marion," same station, October, 1876, to April, 
 1877 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, summer of 1877 ; Execu 
 tive Officer, receiving-ship " Passaic," 1878 ; 1878, Torpedo Station, New 
 port ; 1879-80, flagship " Richmond," Asiatic Station ; 1881, Fleet Signal- 
 Officer, Pacific Station; 1882, duty at Navy Department (War Records); 
 same year, " Miantonomah " and "Galena;" 18846, Asiatic Station, 
 "Marion" and " Palos ; " August, 1888, receiving-ship "Vermont," Navy 
 Yard, New York ; waiting orders, November, 1890-1 ; " Ranger," Pacific 
 Station (Behring Sea), November, 1891, to June, 1893 ; " Yorktown," Behr- 
 ing Sea and Asiatic Station, May, 1894, to July, 1895. Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, February 2, 1896; "Cincinnati," North Atlantic and European 
 Stations, May 12, 1896, to August 2, 1897 ; Norfolk Navy Yard, September 
 2, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles Plummer Perkins. Born in New Hampshire. Appointed 
 from Fifth District, Massachusetts. Entered Naval Academy, July 21, 1865 ; 
 graduated, 1869 ; " Lancaster," flag-ship, South Atlantic Station, 1869-71. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; to Master, 1872 ; torpedo service, 1872 ; " Frolic," 
 flag-ship, 1872; "Richmond," flag-ship, 1872-5. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 1874; Naval Academy, 1875-6; "Swatara," 1877; Hydrographic Office, 
 1877; "Guard," 1878; "Minnesota," 1878; " Enterprise," survey of Ama 
 zon River, 1878 ; " Gettysburg " and " Wyoming," European Station, 1879 ; 
 "Alliance," " Jeannette," search expedition, 1881 ; Survey of Tampico River, 
 1883; Nautical School-ship "St. Mary s," 1883-6; commanding C. S. S. 
 "Eager," 1886-8; "Swatara," cruise around the world, 1888-90; leave of 
 absence, December, 1890, to June, 1891 ; electric light duty, Bath, Me., 
 1891-2 ; Bureau of Equipment, Superintendent of Compasses, 1892-5 ; 
 "Montgomery," North Atlantic, 1895-6. Promoted to Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, February, 1896; four months sick leave, 1896; "Wabash," receiv 
 ing-ship at Boston, 1896; "Monadnock," 1896-8. 
 
 B. H. Buckingham. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 22, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; " Sabine," special cruise, 1870. Promoted to 
 Ensign, 1870 ; Darien Expedition, 1870-1 ; special duty, 1872 ; Promoted 
 to Master, 1872; "Alaska," European Station, 1872-5. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1874 ; special ordnance duty, 1875-7 ; special duty, Paris Expo 
 sition, 1877-8; special duty, 1878-9 ; "Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1879- 
 82; Bureau of Ordnance, 1882-5; Naval Attache-, Paris, France, 1885-9; 
 " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889 to October, 1891 ; Aide to the 
 
142 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Secretary of the Navy, October, 1891, to March, 1892 ; " Dolphin," special 
 service from March, 1892, and has been in command since February, 1893-5 ; 
 Aide to the Secretary, December, 1895-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant- 
 Commander, February, 1896 ; sick leave, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles G. Bowman. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 29, 1865; graduated, 1869; "Richmond," European Fleet, 18.70-1. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; " Yantic," Asiatic Station, 1872-4 ; " Hartford," 
 same station, 1875. Promoted to Master, 1872. Commissioned as Lieuten 
 ant, 1874; Naval Academy, 1876-9; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-82; 
 Naval Observatory, 1882-6 ; " Boston," special service, 1886-9 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1889; to July, 1893 ; Assistant Inspector of the " Marblehead," 
 July, 1893-7. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, February, 1896; Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, June, 1897, to date. 
 
 William P. Potter. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 27, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; " Sabine," special cruise, 1870 ; 
 European Station, 1879-1; "Hartford," Asiatic Station, 1871-4. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1870, and to Master, 1872; Naval Academy, 1874-7; 
 Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874; "Powhattan," North Atlantic Station, 
 1878 ; " Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1878-81 ; Naval Academy, 
 1881-4; "Lancaster," European Station, 184-7 ; Naval Academy, 1887, 
 to June, 1891 ; " Chicago," European Station, 1891-5 ; Naval Academy, 
 January, 1895-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1896; 
 Cruiser "New York," September, 1897, to date. 
 
 W. H. Beehler. Born in Maryland. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 28, 1864; graduated, 1869 ; N. Atlantic Station, 1870. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870 ; S. S. " Frolic," 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; sick-leave, 1873 
 -4 ; " Worcester" flag-ship, N. Atlantic S., 1874-5. Commissioned as Lieu- 
 tenant,187; sick-leave, 1875-6; "Alliance," N. Atlantic Station, 1876-7; 
 "Powhatan," same station, 1877-9 ; Torpedo Station, 1880-1 ; "Brooklyn," 
 S. A. Station, 1881-4; Bureau of Navigation, 1884-6; Office of Naval In 
 telligence, 1886-9 ; " Adams," Pacific Station, 1889-90 ; " Ranger," 1890-1 ; 
 " Pensacola," 1891 to April, 1892 ; Naval Observatory, July to December, 
 1892; Hydrographic Office, Chief of Division of Marine Intelligence, De 
 cember, 1892 to 1895. Leave of absence, June, 1895. Office Naval In 
 telligence, January, 1895-6. Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, June, 
 1896. Ordered to U. S. S. " Montgomery," February, 1896, to date. 
 
 Giles B. Harbor. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, July 24, 
 1865; graduated, 1868 ; " Sabine," special cruise, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870; "Franklin," European Squadron, 1870-1 Promoted to Master, 
 1872; Asiatic Station, 1872-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874; "Oma 
 ha," S. P. S., 1875-8; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1878-9; 
 "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1870-81; "Alarm," special service, 1881; 
 commanding " Alarm," special service, 1881-2 ; special duty, Arctic 
 regions, 1882-4 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1884-5 ; training- 
 ship "Saratoga," 1885-6; " Tallapoosa," S. A. Station, 1886-8; Naval 
 Academy, 1889, to March, 1892 ; commanding Coast Survey steamer " Hass- 
 ler," March, 1892, to 1895 ; leave of absence April, 1895 ; Bureau of Equip 
 ment, July, 1895, to 1898. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, Sep 
 tember, 1896; Battleship "Texas," February, 1898, to date. 
 
 Sumner Cummings Paine. Born in Portland, Maine. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 22, 1865 ; graduated, June, 1869. Promoted to 
 Ensign, July, 1870 ; to Master, July, 1871 ; to Lieutenant, October, 1874. 
 Service : " Sabine " (special cruise), July, 1869, to August, 1870 ; Darien 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 143 
 
 Expedition, November, 1870, to June, 1871 ; " Wabash " and " Wachusett," 
 European Station, October, 1871, to July, 1874 ; Darien Expedition, Novem 
 ber, 1874, to June, 1875 ; " Frolic " and " Brooklyn," South Atlantic Station, 
 July, 1875, to May, 1876 ; Torpedo Station (under instruction), May to Octo 
 ber, 1876; Hydrographic Office, November, 1876, to March, 1877; "Sara 
 toga," March, 1877, to March, 1878 ; Naval Academy, May, 1878, to December, 
 1880; "New Hampshire," June, 1881, to May, 1882 ; "Vandalia," North 
 Atlantic Station, May, 1882, to November, 1884; "Dolphin," November, 
 1884, to May, 1885 ; commanding C. S. S. " Ready," May, 1885, to Decem 
 ber, 1885 ; Naval Observatory, December, 1885, to May, 1888 ; commanding 
 C. S S. "Eagre," May, 1888, to March, 1889; duty connected with "Vesu 
 vius," March and April, 1889; "Iroquois," Pacific Station, May, 1889, to 
 May, 1892; Naval Academy. June, 1892, to 1895; orderefl to "Monocacy," 
 June, 1895; U. S. S. "Boston," July, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, October, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Olympia," January, 1898, to April, 1898 ; 
 May, 1898, sick leave to date. 
 
 Arthur Patterson Osborn. Bom in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 31, 1865; graduated, 1869; "Lancaster," flag-ship, South Atlantic 
 Station, 1869-71. Promoted to Ensign, 1870 j.to Master, 1872; "Shawmut," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1873-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874; Naval 
 Academy, 1877; nautical school-ship "St. Mary s," 1877-81; " Quinne- 
 baug," European Station, 1881-4; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 1885-6; 
 school-ship "St. Mary s," 1886-9 ; "Thetis," N. A. Station, 1889 to Decem 
 ber, 1892 ; special duty, December, 1892, to January, 1893 ; school-ship 
 "Enterprise," January, 1893-4; Naval War-college, June, 1894; receiving- 
 ship "Franklin," November, 1894; commanding the C. S. S. " Gedney," 
 July, 18958. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, October, 1896; 
 commanding the C. S. S. " McArthur," February, 1898 ; ordered to the U. 
 S. S. "New Orleans," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 John Bradford Briggs. Bom in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 30, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; " Sabine," special cruise, 
 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; torpedo instruction, 1871 ; " Shaw 
 mut," North Atlantic Station, 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872; " Kan 
 sas," North Atlantic Station, 1873-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1874 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1875-8 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1878-81 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1881-4 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1884-6 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1887-90 ; Bureau of Equipment, December, 1890, to February, 
 1891 ; "Vesuvius," N. A. Station, February, 1891-4 ; Navy Yard, New 
 York, March, 1894-6. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, November, 
 1896 ; ordered to " Philadelphia," June, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Baltimore," Janu 
 ary, 1898, to date. 
 
 Newton Eliphalet Mason. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 24, 1865; graduated, 1869; "Sabine," special cruise, 1869- 
 70. Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; torpedo instruction, 1871 ; " Wabash," 
 European Squadron, 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; " Manhattan " 
 (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1873 ; " Kansas," same station, 1874-5. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, 1874 ; " Catskill" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1875- 
 76 ; "Ossipee," same station, 1876-7 ; receiving-ship " St. Louis," 1878-80 ; 
 "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1880-83 ; "Pensacola," Asiatic Station, 1883-4; 
 ordnance duty, Navy Yard, "Washington, 1884-5 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 
 1885-9; Petrel," N. A. Station, 1889 to October, 1891 ; " Miantonomah," 
 N. A. Station, October, 1891, to November, 1892 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 
 November, 1892, to June, 1893 ; Inspector of Ordnance, in charge of Naval 
 
144 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Ordnance Proving Grounds, June, 1893, to 1896. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, November, 1896; " Brooklyn," December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Arthur P. Nazro. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, December 3, 1850. 
 Appointed to the Naval Academy by Hon. Oakes Ames, from Second Con 
 gressional District of Massachusetts, in 1865 ; was graduated in 1869 ; cruised 
 in the Mediterranean aboard the "Sabine" and "Franklin." Promoted to 
 Ensign, July 12, 1870; and Master, October 14, 1871; joined the "Ports 
 mouth " and went to South Atlantic Station, where he was transferred to the 
 " Lancaster," and then to the " Ticonderoga ; " proceeded in the latter to Key 
 West at the tinfia of the " Virgiiiius " affair ; transferred to the " Colorado," 
 and then to the " Congress," in which cruised in the Mediterranean until 
 1875, when returned to the United States ; was examined for Lieutenant, to 
 which grade he was promoted on November 19, 1874 ; joined the " Hartford " 
 on the North Atlantic Station ; was transferred to the " Plymouth," and 
 from that vessel was ordered to the Naval Academy; in 1879 joined the 
 " Constitution," going from her to the " Minnesota," and from that vessel to 
 Washington as Recorder of the Board of Inspection ; joined the torpedo 
 class of 1884 at Newport, and from there went to ordnance duty at the 
 Washington Navy Yard ; from January, 1885, to September, 1888, served 
 on the North Atlantic Station aboard the " Powhatau," " Tennessee," and 
 "Richmond;" was again ordered to duty aboard the " Minnesota," from 
 which was ordered as member of Board of Inspection of merchant vessels, 
 and also placed in charge of the Branch Hydrographic Office, New York 
 Navy Yard ; ordered to the " Chicago," July, 1892-5 ; school-ship " Enter 
 prise," May, 1895-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, November, 
 1896; ordered to receiving ship "Vermont," December, 1896-7; "San 
 Francisco," December, 1897, to date. 
 
 William Wirt Kimball. Born in Maine. Entered Naval Academy 
 July 31, 1865 ; graduated 1869 ; " Sabine," special cruise, 1869-70. Com 
 missioned Enxign, 1870 ; torpedo instruction, 1870-71; " Shawmut," N. A. 
 Fleet, 1871-73. Commissioned Master, 1871 ; experimental battery, 1873-4. 
 " Intrepid " and " Alarm " (torpedo boats), 1874. Commissioned Lieutenant, 
 1874; experimental battery, 1874-75; " Alert," Asiatic Station, 1875-79; 
 special ordnance, duty, 1879-82; "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1882-86 ; Bu 
 reau of Ordnance, 1886-90 ; on furlough, 1890-91 ; " Monongahela," train 
 ing-ship, 1891-93; "San Francisco," N. A. and S. A. Stations, 1893-94 ; 
 "Detroit," S. A. Station, 1894 ; Office Naval Intelligence, 1894-97; com 
 manding Atlantic torpedo-boat flotilla, September, 1897, to date. 
 
 William P. Day. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 21, 1865; graduated, 1869; " Juniata," European Station, 1869-71. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869; "Wyoming" (third-rate), 1872. Promoted to 
 Master, 1872; "Dictator" (iron-clad), North Atlantic Fleet, 1873-4; 
 " Despatch," special service, 1875-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1875 ; 
 "Hartford," S. A. Station, 1877-9; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 
 1881-4; "Alliance," S. A. Station, 1886-7; "Lancaster," S. A. Station, 
 1887-8 ; " Alliance," S. A. Station, 1888-9 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Machias," 
 March, 1893-4 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," March 1894-6 ; leave of absence, 
 December, 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, January 1, 1897 ; 
 receiving-ship " Richmond," June, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Clark Wilson. Entered Naval Academy from Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 18b5 ; graduated, 1869. Promoted to Ensign, 1870; to Master, 1871; to 
 Lieutenant, 1875, and to Lieutenant Commander, 1898. Served on the fol 
 lowing named ships and stations, viz. : " Sabine," and " Franklin," European 
 
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 Station, 1869-71; " Iroquois," "Monocacy," "Saco," and "Ashuelot," 
 Asiatic Station, 1872-5 ; " Omaha," South Pacific Station, 1875-8; "Ten 
 nessee," North Atlantic Station, 1879-82; "Vandalia," Pacific Station, 
 1886-89; "Atlanta," " Monongahela," and "Vesuvius," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1892-95. Volunteered for a second cruise on the " Vandalia," in 
 1889 when difficulties with Germany over Samoan affairs were threatened. 
 Was wrecked on "Vandalia" in harbor of .Apia, Samoan Islands, in hurri 
 cane of March 15 and 16, 1889, when three United States and three German 
 men-of-war were wrecked and 150 lives lost. Was rescued from wreck of 
 "Vandalia" by Fuji Hochitara, Captain s Steward on U. S. S. "Trenton," 
 who was awarded a life-saving medal of first-class for heroism in making the 
 rescue. Was sent by the Commander-in-chief to Auckland, New Zealand and 
 Sydney, Australia, to cable news of disaster and to charter a steamer to bring 
 survivors to the United States. Chartered a steamer in Sydney and brought 
 500 survivors from the United States wrecked vessels to San Francisco. 
 Shore duty ; Ordnance Navy Yard, Washington, D. C. ; Naval Observa 
 tory, Washington, D. C. ; Board of Inspection, San Francisco, Cal. ; Navy 
 Yard, New York ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va ; Inspector Ordnance, Mid- 
 vale Steel Works, Phila., Pa. 
 
 Uriah Rose Harris. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 22, 1865; graduated, 1869; " Sabine," special cruise, 1869-70. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1869 ; Pacific Fleet, 1870-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; 
 " Narragansett," Pacific Fleet, 1873-5. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1875 ; 
 Coast Survey, 1875-6; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1876-7; Coast Survey, 
 1877-9; " Shenandoah," S. A. Station, 1879-82; Naval Observatory, 1882- 
 84 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1884-7 ; " Ranger," North Pacific Station, 
 1887-90 ; Naval Academy, November, 1890, to 1895 ; ordered to U. S. S. 
 " Adams," January, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, February, 
 1897. Boston Navy Yard, January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Richard Graham Davenport. Born in Washington City, D. C., 
 January 11, 1849. Appointed from Georgia to U. S. Naval Academy, New 
 port, R. I., September 29, 1864 ; graduated at Annapolis, Maryland, June 4, 
 1869, and wait orders; joined U. S. S. "Sabine," Boston, Mass., June 30, 
 1869; joined U. S. S. "Richmond," European Station, Lisbon, Portugal, 
 September 6, 1869 ; detached at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 
 1871. Promoted to Ensign, July 12, 1870 ; waiting orders November 10, 
 1871, to January 9, 1872 ; then to final examination at Naval Academy, 
 Annapolis, Maryland, to January 24, 1872 ; then waiting orders to February 
 24, 1872. Promoted to Master, January 20, 1872; joined U. S. S. "Iro 
 quois," at Navy Yard, New York, for Asiatic Station, February 24, 1872 ; 
 detached at Shanghai, China, October 21, 1872; joined U. S. S. "Saco," 
 Asiatic Station, at Shanghai, China, October 22, 1872 ; detached at Yoko 
 hama, Japan, March 27, 1874 ; joined U. S. S. " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 
 March 27, 1874; detached Li-Sze-Chan, Yangtsz River, May 12, 1874; 
 joined U. S. flagship, " Hartford," Asiatic Station, at Yokohama, Japan, 
 June 4, 1874; detached Hong Kong, March 1, 1875, and in charge of draft 
 of men aboard P. M. S. S. " Great Republic," to Yokohama, Japan, where, 
 on March 9, 1875, was granted one year s leave of absence with permission to 
 remain abroad. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 17, 1875 ; left Yokohama in 
 P. M. S. S. "City of Tokio " for the United States, May 23, 1875, leave of 
 absence being at own request revoked May 25, 1875 ; passed examination for 
 promotion to lieutenant at Washington City, D. C., June 25, 1875 ; Torpedo 
 Instruction, Newport, R. I., June, 29, to October, 9, 1875 ; duty as Aide to 
 
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146 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Rear-Admiral Thornton, A. J. Enkins, U. S. Navy, representing the Navy 
 Department at the Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
 October 15, 1875, to September 30, 1876 ; joined U. S. S. "Essex, North 
 Atlantic Squadron, at Boston, Mass., October 3, 1876 ; detached at Norfolk, 
 July 6, 1877, and wait orders to August 11, 1877 ; then to San Francisco, 
 California; thence in P. M. S. S. " City of Pekin," to Yokohama, Japan; 
 Aide to Commander-in-Chief and Fleet Signal Officer on the staff of Rear- 
 Admiral T. H. Patterson, U. S. Navy, commanding on Asiatic Station, 
 October 4, 1877, to July 5, 1880 ; during which time served on following 
 flagships: U. S. F. S. "Tennessee," October 4, 1877, to March 2, 1878; 
 U. S. F. S " Monocacy," March 2, 1878, to December 11, 1878 ; U. S. F. S. 
 " Monongahela," December 11, 1878, to July 12, 1879 ; U. S. F. S. " Rich 
 mond," July 12, 1879, to July 5, 1880 ; three months leave of absence with 
 permission to remain abroad, July 5, 1880, to October 8, 1880, when he left 
 Yokohama, Japan, in O. & O. S. S. " Gaelic" for the United States ; ord 
 nance duty at Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., November 20, 1880, to May 
 26, 1881 ; Torpedo Instruction, Newport, R. I., June 1, 1881, to September 
 
 5, 1881 ; then leave to October 1, 1881 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, D. C., October 1, 1881, to January 20, 1882; then to Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, California; joined U S. apprentice training ship "Jamestown" 
 at Mare Island, California, February 14, 1882 ; detached at Norfolk, Vir 
 ginia, November 15, 1884, having served as Navigating Officer the last 
 twenty-six months ; in charge of a division of the Hydrographic Office, Navy 
 Department, November 17, 1884, to August 31, 1887; War College, New 
 port, R. I., September 2, 1887, to October 31, 1887 ; joined U. S. S. " Nipsic," 
 for Pacific Station, at Navy Yard, New York, November 1, 1887 ; detached 
 Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands, July 26, 1890, having served the entire time as 
 navigator ; left Honolulu in S. S. " Zelandia " for the United States, July 
 26, 1890 ; leave of absence, August 11, to November 1, 1890 ; in charge of a 
 division of the Hydrograpbic Office, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., 
 November 1, 1890, to July 17, 1893, and in addition was a member of the 
 Board of Civil Service Examiners for Nautical Experts, June 1, 1892, to 
 July 17, 1893, also temporary duty at the World s Columbian Exposition, 
 Chicago, October, 1892 ; Assistant Inspector on U. S. S. " Castine," building 
 Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, July 20, 1893, to October 30, 1893, during 
 which time he was member of her Trial Board at New London, Conn., Sep 
 tember 12, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for duty as Exe 
 cutive Officer of the " Castine," which, however, was not commissioned, 
 October 31, 1893, to February, 1894; then proceeded in her to Navy Yard, 
 New York, where, March 3, 1894, he was detached and placed on waiting 
 orders ; leave of absence with permission to leave the United States, March 
 
 6, to August 1, 1894; waiting orders, August 1, 1894, to October 15, 1894 ; 
 joined U. S. S. " Castine " for South Atlantic Station at Navy Yard, New 
 York, October 22, 1894 ; was detached at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, 
 December 8, 1896, having served as her Executive Officer the entire cruise ; 
 leave December 8, to December 16, 1896 ; in charge of a division of the 
 Hydrographic Office, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., December 16, 
 1896, to May 17, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March 14, 
 1897 ; Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, May 17, 1897, to date. 
 
 Edward Buttevant Barry. Born in New York City. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 21, 1865 ; three practice cruises, "Macedonian" and "Savan 
 nah;" graduated, 1869; "Sabine," special cruise, 1869-70. Promoted to 
 Ensign, 1870 ; signal duty, 1870-1 ; "Worcester," special cruise with provi- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 147 
 
 sions for France, 1871; " Wabasli," flagship, European Station, 1871-2; 
 "Brooklyn," European Station, 1872-3. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; "Wa- 
 chusett," European and North Atlantic Stations, 1873-4; receiving- 
 ship " Vermont," 1874-5 ; " Roanoke," flagship of Vice- Admiral Rowan, 
 1875 ; transferred to " Minnesota," and member Board to Organize Training- 
 System, 1875-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1875 ; store-ship " New Hamp 
 shire," 1876-8 ; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1878-80 ; witnessed the Chilian 
 torpedo-boat attack on the Peruvian man-of-war "Union," at Callao, and 
 two of the bombardments of that place, also the blowing up of the Chilian 
 steamer " Loa ; " ** Richmond," Admiral s Secretary, Asiatic Station, 1880-1 ; 
 " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1881-2 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1882-3 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1883-6 ; summer practice cruises, "Constellation," 1884-5 ; 
 "Alliance," South Atlantic Station, 1886-7; "Lancaster," flagship, South 
 Atlantic Station, 1887-8; "Alliance," South Atlantic Station, 1888-9; 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1889, to March, 1891 ; "Lancaster," Asiatic Station, 
 March, 1891, to November, 1892; "Marion," Asiatic Station, November, 
 1892, to July, 1894; Office Naval Intelligence, October, 1894, to August, 
 1897 ; " Cincinnati," August, 1897, to date. 
 
 Herbert Winslow. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 21, 1865; graduated 1869; "Sabine," 18b9-70. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870; "Richmond," European fleet, 1870-1. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; 
 " Narragansett," North Pacific, 1873-4 ; " Benicia," 1875 ; " Lackawanna," 
 Pacific Fleet, 1875-6. Commissioned as Lieuttnant, 1876 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1876-7 ; "Portsmouth," training-ship, 1877-8 ; " Marion," , 
 
 1878-9 ; "Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 1879-80; Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, 1880-2 ; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1882-5 ; ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1885-9; "Adams," 1889-90; training-ship, "Ports 
 mouth," October, 1890, to September, 1892 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, September, 1892-5 ; War College, June, 1895 ; ordered to 
 " Monocacy," November, 1895-6 ; " Yorktown," January, 1897 ; commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant- Commander, April 1896; leave of absence, December, 
 1897; U. S. training-ship "Constellation," February, 1898; U. S. S. " St. 
 Louis," April, 1898 ; commanding U. S. S. " Fern," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Henry Turner. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 22, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; " Sabiue," 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870 ; " Tennessee," special service, 1870-1 ; " Wachusett," European Squad 
 ron, 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; " Saco," Asiatic Station, 1872-4 ; 
 " Omaha," S. P. Fleet, 1875-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876 ; signal 
 officer, 1877-8 ; " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, 1879-82 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1882-5 ; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1885-8 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 1889-92 ; Newark," S. A. Station, June, 1892, to May, 1895 ; leave of ab 
 sence, June, 1895 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," October, 1895-8. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant- Commander , May, 1897; May, 1898, ordered to U. S. S. 
 " Newark." 
 
 George P. Colvocoresses. Born in Vermont, 1847. Served nearly 
 two years as captain s clerk on board U. S. ships "Supply" and " Saratoga" 
 during the civil war. Entered the Naval Academy, September 2, 1864 ; 
 graduated, 1869; "Lancaster," flag-ship, South Atlantic Station, 1869-71. 
 Commissioned Ensign, 1870. Commissioned Master, 1872 ; " Hartford," 
 flag-ship, Asiatic Station, " Lackawanna," and "Ashuelot," 1872-5. Com 
 missioned Lieutenant, 1875 ; Hydrographic Office, 1875-6 ; U. S. ships 
 "Gettysburg" and "Enterprise, European Station, 1876-9 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1879-82 ; U. S. S. " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1882-4 ; U. S. train- 
 
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 ing-ship " Saratoga," 1884-6 ; U. S. Naval Academy, 1886-9 ; " Enterprise," 
 N. A. Station, July, 1890, to November, 1891 ; " Concord," S. A. Station, 
 November, 1891, to June, 1893 ; Naval Academy, June, 1893-7. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant- Commander, June, 1897; u Concord," May, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 C. E. Colahan. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 21, 1865; graduated, June 4, 1869; "Juniata" and "Franklin," 
 European Station, 1869-71. Promoted to Ensign, July 12, 1870 ; " Ports 
 mouth," "Lancaster," "Wasp," and " Ticonderoga," Brazil Station, 1872-5. 
 Promoted to Master, August 13, 1872, and to Lieutenant, July 20, 1875 ; 
 receiving-ship " Potomac," 1875-6 ; training-ship " Constitution," 1877 ; 
 "Tennessee" and "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1877-80; Navy Yard, 
 League Island, Pa., 1880-2; " Tallapoosa " and "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 
 1883-6; Naval Academy, 1886-9; "Constellation," 1887; Board of 
 Organization, 1889-90; " Bennington," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to August 
 18^3 ; Naval Academy, 1893-6. Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, 
 June, 1897 ; " Detroit," July, 1896, to date. 
 
 Wainwright Kellogg. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 29, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; "Sabine," 1869-70. Promoted 
 to Ensign, 1870 ; " Richmond," European Station, 1870-1 ; " Lancaster," 
 flagship, South Atlantic Station, 1872-4. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; 
 " Wasp," South Atlantic Station, 18746. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 1876; "Essex," South Atlantic Station, 1876-7; " Monongahela," Asiatic 
 Station, 1877-9; "Michigan," N. W. Lakes, 1879-81; "Essex," Pacific 
 Station, 1881-5 ; special duty, Navy Department, 1885-6 ; " Boston," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1886, to September, 1890 ; electric light duty, Philadelphia, 
 September, 1890, to August, 1893; "New York," South Atlantic Station, 
 August, 1893, to July, 1896; Bureau of Equipment, July, 1896, to April, 
 1898 ; commanding U. S. S. " Maple," April, 1898, to date. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant- Commander , July, 1897. 
 
 Albert Gleaves Berry. Born in Tennessee. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 28, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; " Sabine," 1869-70 Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870; "Franklin," flag-ship, European Station, 1870-1 ; "Lancaster," flag 
 ship, South Atlantic Station, 1872-4. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; " Wasp," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1874-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876 ; training- 
 ship " Monongahela," 1876-9 ; " Despatch " (dispatch-boat), 1881 ; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1881-2; Signal Office, 1882-3; "Trenton," 
 Asiatic Station, 1883 ; " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1883-5 ; " Trenton," Asiatic 
 Station, 1885-6 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1886-9 ; San 
 Francisco, unassigned, December 1, 1890, to July, 1893 ; leave of absence, 
 July, 1893, to 1894 ; receiving-ship " Minnesota," November, 1894 ; receiving- 
 ship " Vermont," October, 1895 ; U. S. S. " New York," July, 1896. Com 
 missioned Lieutenant- Commander, July, 1897; " Amphitrite," January, 
 1898 ; commanding " Castine " since April, 1898. 
 
 John A. N orris. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September, 28, 1865; graduated, 1869; " Sabine," 1869-70 ; signal duty, 
 1870-1. Promoted to Ensign, 1870; "Worcester," North Atlantic Fleet, 
 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; Torpedo, Station, 1873 ; " Mayflower," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1874 ; Hydrographic Office, 1874-5 ; " Gettysburg " 
 special service, 1875-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1876-7 ; " Guard," store-ship, 1877-8 ; Hydrographic Office, 1878-9 ; 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1879-81 ; " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1881-2 ; Bureau 
 of Navigation, 1882-5 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1885-8; special longi- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 149 
 
 tude duty, 1888 to April, 1891 ; " Lancaster," Asiatic Station, April, 1891, 
 to 1894 ; leave of absence, June, 1894 ; Naval Academy, 1894 to December, 
 
 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, August, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Boston," 
 January, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Hale Driggs. Born in Michigan. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 21, 1865; graduated, 1869; "Sabine," 1869. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870; "Franklin," 1870-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; Atlantic Fleet, 
 1873 ; " Worcester," flag ship. North Atlantic Station, 1874-5 ; " Hartford," 
 1875-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876; receiving-ship "Colorado," 
 1876-7 ; Coast Survey, 1877-8 ; receiving-ship " New Hampshire," 1879-80 ; 
 "Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1880-3 ; special duty, Navy Department, J883- 
 -6; office of Naval Intelligence, 1886-7; .training-ship ^Saratoga," 1887 
 -8 ; waiting orders, June, 1888, to 1894 ; " Columbia," April, 1894, to 1897 ; 
 leave of absence May, 1897; Office Naval Intelligence July, 1897, to 1898. 
 Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, September 16, 1887; U. S. S. "St. 
 Paul," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Nathaniel Jordan Knight Patch. Born in Maine. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 20, 1865 ; graduated, 1869 ; " Sabiue," 1869-70. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, 1*70 ; signal duty, 1870-71 ; " Worcester," North Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872; "Richmond," North Pacific 
 Fleet, 1873-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 
 1877-8 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1881- 
 3; "Powhatan," special duty, 1883-4; "Kearsarge," European Station, 
 1884-6; Navy Yard, Boston, 1887-90; "Charleston," Pacific Station, Feb 
 ruary, 1890, to June, 1893 ; leave of absence, June, 1893, to September, 
 1893; in charge of Branch Hydrographic Office, Boston, September, 1893, 
 to June, 1896. Ordered to training-ship "Alliance," June, 1896 to (pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander September, 1897,) March, 1898. April, 
 
 1898, Supervisor Harbor of New York to date. 
 
 Thomas Stowell Phelps, Jr. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 25,1865; graduated, 1869; " Juniata," European Station, 
 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; European Station, 1870-1. Promoted 
 to Master, 1872 ; sick-leave, 1873; "Richmond," North Pacific Fleet, 1874; 
 " Pensacola," Pacific Fleet, 1876-9. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876 ; Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, 1881-2; on furlough, 1883; "Brooklyn," South Atlan 
 tic Station, 1883-5; "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1885-6; "Palos," Asiatic 
 Station, 1887, to August, 1891; receiving-ship "Independence," August, 
 1891-5 ; ordered to the " Olympia," February, 1895 ; " Philadelphia," Jan 
 uary, 1896; "Alert," January, 1897; leave of absence, December, 1897. 
 Commissioned Lieutenant- Commander, November, 1897; charge of "Re 
 cruiting rendezvous," San Francisco, April, 1898 ; ordered to the " Raleigh," 
 May, 1898. 
 
 Karl Rohrer. Born in Germany. Appointed from Missouri. Entered 
 Naval Academy, July, 1865; graduated, June, 1869; frigate "Sabine," 
 1869-70, Mediterranean and South America. Promoted to Ensign, 1870; 
 " Pawnee," West Indies, 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872; "Constella 
 tion," West Indies, 1873 ; Torpedo Station, 1873 ; " Colorado," West Indies, 
 1873-4; " Juniata," Mediterranean, 1874-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 1876; Torpedo Station, 1876 ; Washington Navy Yard, 1876-81 ; "Consti 
 tution," 1878 ; " Essex," Pacific Station, 1881-5 ; Torpedo Station, 1885-9 ; 
 "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1888-90 ; Vesuvius," N. A. Station, 
 September, 1890, to September, 1892 ; Inspector of Steel, Bethlehem Iron 
 Works, 1892, to April, 1895 ; ordered to "Amphitrite," April, 1895, to De- 
 
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 cember, 1897 ; U. S. S- " Katahdin," January, 1897. Promoted to Lieuten 
 ant-Commander, December, 1897 ; Navy Yard, Washington, April, 1897, to 
 date. 
 
 John Augustine Heard Nickels. Born in Massachusetts. Entered 
 Naval Academy, October 8, 1864; graduated, 1869; " Sabine," special 
 cruise, 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1870; "Richmond," European 
 Squadron, 1869-71 ; Asiatic Station, 1872-5. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1875 ; " Montauk " (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 
 1875-6. Commissioned Lieutenant, 1876 ; " Adams," South Atlantic Station, 
 1876-9 ; Navy tard, Boston, 1879-80 ; coast survey, 1880-1 ; Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, 1881-2 ; " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1885-6 ; "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889 to August, 1891 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, August, 1891, to 1894; ordered to the "Newark," 
 Apnl, 1894 ; " Chicago," January, 1895 ; " San Francisco," July, 1895 ; 
 special duty, Navy Yard, New York, January, 1896 ; " Marblehead," April, 
 1897, to date. Commissioned Lieutenant Commander, April, 1898. 
 
 Clinton Kidd Curtis. Born in West Virginia. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 27, 1865; graduated, June, 1869; "Sabine," special cruise, 
 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; "Pawnee" and " Dictator," 1871 ; 
 " Powhatan," 1872. Promoted to Master, November, 1872 ; " Supply," 1873 ; 
 "Powhatan," 1874-6, during which time commanded temporarily the moni 
 tors * Montauk," " Catskill" and "Nantucket," in transferring these vessels 
 to various stations along the coast Promoted to Lieutenant, June, 1876 ; 
 receiving-ship "Worcester," 1876-7; "Essex," South Atlantic Station, 
 1877-9 ; " New Hampshire," 1880-1 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," 1881-3 ; 
 " Alert," China Station, 1883-6 ; receiving-ship " St. Louis" and "Frank 
 lin," 1887-90 ; " Essex," South Atlantic Station, April, 1890, to July, 1893 ; 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, July, 1893, to April, 1896 , order to U. S. S. "Terror," 
 April, 1896 ; May, 1896, U. S. S. " Bennington," to date. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant-Commander, April, 1898. 
 
 Theodoric Porter. Born in District of Columbia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 24, 1865; graduated, 1869 ; "Brooklyn," European Fleet, 
 1869-72. Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; to Master, 1872 ; special duty, Wash 
 ington, 1873-4; torpedo instruction, 1874; special duty, Washington, 1875 ; 
 torpedo-boat " Alarm," 1875-6. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876 ; "Swa- 
 tara," North Atlantic Fleet, 1876-9 ; Naval Academy, 1877-9 ; " Powhatan," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1879-83; Naval Academy, 1883-7; "Trenton," 
 1887-8 ; special duty, 1889, to June, 1891 ; " Alliance," Pacific Station, June, 
 1891-94; leave of absence, June, 1894; Naval Academy, September, 1894 ; 
 ordered to the "Marion/ June, 1897 ; receiving-ship "Independence," De 
 cember, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Mohican," April, 1898, to date. Commissioned 
 Lieutenant- Commander, May, 1898. 
 
 Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart. Born in New York. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 23, 1865; graduated, 1869; "Sabine," special 
 cruise, 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1870; "California (second-rate), 
 Pacific Fleet, 1870-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; "Pinta," N. A. Squad 
 ron, 1873 ; " Roanoke" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1874 ; "Ashuelot," Asiatic 
 Station, 1874-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1876 ; receiving ship " Colo 
 rado," 1877-80; "Galena," European Station, 1880-3; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1883-5; Coast Survey, 1885-7; "Enterprise," European Station, 
 1887-8; "Pensacola," special service, 1888-9; training-ship "Portsmouth," 
 1889-90; Naval Academy, November, 1890, to November, 1893; waiting 
 orders, November, 1893, to May, 1894; school-ship " St. Mary s," May, 
 
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 1894; ordered to U. S. S. "Newark," May, 1895; U. S. S. " Yantic," Jan 
 uary, 1897 ; ordered to " New York," July, 1897 ; leave of absence, December, 
 1897; Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., February, 1898; ordered to U. S. S. 
 "Lancaster," May, 1898. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, May, 1898. 
 John H. Moore. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 31,1865; graduated, 1869; "Sabine," special cruise, 1869-70. Promoted 
 to Ensign, 1870 ; " Franklin," flagship, European Fleet, 1870-1 ; Asiatic 
 Station, 1872-7. Promoted to Master, 1872. Commissioned to Lieutenant, 
 1876; Signal Office, Washington, 1877-9; training-ship "Constitution," 
 1879-81 ; Hydrographic Office, 18^1-5 ; " Marion," Asiatic Station, 1885-6 ; 
 "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1886-8; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1888-90; granted 
 furlough, March, 1890, to March, 1891; waiting orders/ March, 1891, to 
 March, 1892 ; " Thetis," special service, March, 1892-5 ; Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, May, 1895-8 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Columbia," March, 1898, to date. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, May, 1898. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COMMANDERS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired for incapacity resulting from incident of service. 
 
 Antoine R. McNair. Appointed from Missouri, September, 22, 1856; 
 Naval Academy, 1856-60 ; sloop-of-war " Plymouth," 1859. Midshipman, 
 June, 1860; sloop-of-war "Seminole," 1860-2; off Charleston, South Caro 
 lina, from August to September, 1861 ; in Potomac River, September and 
 October, 1861 ; engaged with batteries at Freestone Point, Virginia, Septem 
 ber, 1861, and with batteries at Evansport, Va., October, 1861. Promoted 
 to Master, August, 1861 ; battle of Port Royal, South Carolina, September 8, 
 1861 (slight splinter wound in hand) ; boat operations in the sounds of South 
 Carolina and Georgia, November and December, 1861 ; boat and other opera 
 tions incident to the cutting off of Port Pulaski, Georgia, in January, Feb 
 ruary, and March, 1862; expedition to Fernandina, Florida, March, 1862; 
 Skiddaway Battery, Georgia, March, 1862 ; in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 
 front of the ram " Merrimac " and consorts, April and until May 10, 1862 ; 
 engaged with battery at Sewell s Point, and capture of Norfolk, May, 1862. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, July, 1862 ; sloop-of-war " Powhatan ; " off Charles 
 ton, South Carolina, 1862-3 ; engaged in attack on Fort Sumter and defences 
 of Charleston, South Carolina, April, 1863 ; engaged in the capture of bat 
 teries on Morris Island, South Carolina, July, 1863 (slight wound in head) ; 
 engaged in the attack of September 8, 1863, on the defences of Charleston, 
 South Carolina ; "Powhatan," West India Squadron, from October, 1863, to 
 June, 1864 ; in command of S. S. " Gunsbok," West Indies, from June to 
 August, 1864; " Powhatan," August to October, 1864; frigate "New Iron 
 sides," 1864-65 ; engaged in attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, Decem 
 ber 24 and 25, 1864 ; also in capture of Fort Fisher and defences of Cape 
 Fear River, North Carolina, January 13-15, 1865 ; in front of rebel rams, 
 James River, Virginia, February 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 " Contocook," West India Squadron, 1868 ; Equip 
 ment-Officer and Inspector of Supplies, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 1871 ; 
 sick leave, 1872; retired, October 26, 1872. 
 
 Charles E. McKay. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, September 29, 1857 ; Naval Academy, 1857-61 ; graduated Midship 
 man, 1861. Promoted to Acting Master, September 4, 1861 ; April, 1861, 
 
152 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAYY. 
 
 ordered to Navy Yard, Washington ; May, 1861, " Wabash," N. A Station ; 
 "Pensacola," West Gulf Squadron, September, 1861 ; transferred to " Prin 
 cess Royal," July, 1863 ; to Fort Jackson, May, 1865, to June, 1865. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, July 16, 1862; ordered to U. S. S. " Brooklyn," 
 flag-ship, S. A. Station, October, 1865. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 July 25, 1866. Retired, June 25, 1869. 
 
 Francis O. Davenport. Born in Michigan, August 24, 1842. Ap 
 pointed from Michigan, September 26, 1856; Naval Academy, 1856-60; 
 attached to brig " Perry," 1861 ; capture of privateer "Savannah," 1861; 
 steam-gunboat "Scioto," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; bom 
 bardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 1862 ; engagement 
 with guerrillas, Galveston, Texas, July 9, 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 hundred bales of cotton, 
 and one sloop with thirty bales. Not being able to bring them out, on ac 
 count 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. Pro 
 moted to Passed Midshipman, Master, and Lieutenant, 1861. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866; steam-sloop " Tuscarora," South 
 Pacific Squadron, 1868 ; store-ship "Onward," South Pacific Squadron, 1869. 
 Retired at his own request, October 19, 1870, as Lieutenant- Commander. 
 
 Frederick I. Naile. Born in Pennsylvania, October 11, 1841. Ap 
 pointed from Pennsylvania, October 27, 1859 ; Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; 
 attached to frigate " St. Lawrence," blockading on Atlantic Coast, 18(51 ; 
 sinking of privateer " Petrel," 1861; steam-sloop-of-war "Oneida," West 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron ; attack on and passage of Forts Jackson and St. 
 Philip, and Chalmette batteries ; capture of New Orleans ; bombardment and 
 passage of Vicksburg batteries twice ; performed Lieutenant s duty on the 
 "Oneida," and was twice slightly wounded while on board of her, 1862. 
 Promoted to Ensign, February 24, 1863 ; frigate " Sabine," during cruise 
 after the Confederate cruiser "Alabama," 1863 ; Mississippi Squadron, 1863-5 ; 
 Signal Officer, flag-ship " Black Hawk," 1863-4 ; Red River Expedition, 
 co-operation of the squadron on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, with 
 army in the defeat of General Hood, 1864 ; commanded flag-ships " Black 
 Hawk " and " Tempest," 1864-5. Promoted Lieutenant, February 22, 1864 ; 
 steamer "Chattanooga," 1866. Promoted Lieutenant- Commander , July 25, 
 1866; steamer "Lenape," Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; steamer " Penobscot," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1868-9 ; Assistant Signal Officer, Washington, 
 D. C., 1869-70. Retired for physical disability caused by exposure on duty, 
 January, 1871. 
 
 Gouverneur K. Haswell. Born in New York. Appointed from 
 New York, November 25, 1859 ; Naval Academy, 1859-61 ; attached to 
 steam-frigate " Roanoke," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; 
 engagement with rebel ram " Merrimac" and SewelPs Point batteries, March, 
 1862 ; steam-sloop " Adirondack," West India Squadron, 1862. Promoted 
 to Ensign, October 7, 1862 ; steam-frigate " Colorado," West Gulf Block 
 ading Squadron, 1863-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22, 1864 ; 
 West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864; steamer " Vanderbilt," special cruise, 
 1866-7. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25, 1866; steam- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 153 
 
 sloop "Saranac," Pacific Squadron, 1868; receiving-ship "Portsmouth," 
 New Hampshire, 1869-71 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, 1872. Retired, 
 November 23, 1876. 
 
 E. M. Stedman. Born in Massachusetts (Boston), March 21, 1845 ; 
 September 27,1861, appointed Acting Midshipman; November 22, 1864, 
 graduated from Naval Academy and ordered to receiving-ship "North 
 Carolina." April 3, 1865, U. S. S. " Susquehanna " in search of rebel iron 
 clad " Stonewall," and afterwards attached to Brazil Squadron ; March 27, 
 1866, to September 9, 1867, U. S. S. " Juniata." November 1, 1866, pro 
 moted to Ensign; December 1, 1866, promoted to Master; October 1, 1867, 
 to December 10. 1868, U. S. sloop "Saratoga; " March 12, 1868, promoted 
 to Lieutenant; December 19, 1868, to March 31, 1869, "New Hampshire," 
 at Norfolk; April 15, 1869, U. S. S. "Galena;" Maafch 26, 1869, pro 
 moted to Lieutenant- Commander ; May 20, 1869, U. S. S " Seminole ; " 
 September 29, 1869, reported for duty at Naval Academy ; June, 1872, to 
 February 10, 1875, sick leave ; February 10, 1875, retired. In 1892 assisted in 
 organizing, and was first commander of Chicago ship s crew of Illinois Naval 
 Militia ; February, 1896, commissioned Commander of Naval Force of Illi 
 nois; February, 1898, applied for active duty in case of hostilities. 
 
 Retired for disability not incident to service. 
 
 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, 1856-90. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Com 
 mander, 1867. 
 
 Charles Wurtz Tracy. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from the 
 same State, October 27, 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 10, 1862 ; South Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; at Charleston, April, 1863, and other actions 
 during the siege. Commissioned as Lieutenant, February 22, 1864; Pacific 
 Squadron, 1866-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant- Commander, July 25,1866; 
 steam-sloop " Plymouth," European Squadron, 1869 ; Naval Academy, 
 1870-2; "Alaska" (second-rate), European Station, 1873-5; "Juniata," 
 European Station, 1876. Ketired, October 22, 1878. 
 
 David C. Woodrow. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, Septem 
 ber 21,1861; Naval Academy, 1861-4 ; receiving-ship "North Carolina," 
 1865; attached to S. S. " Hartford," flag-ship, Asiatic Squadron, 1865-7. 
 Promoted to Ensign and Master, 1867 ; steam-ship "Ashuelot," 1867-9. 
 Commissioned Lieutenant, 1 868. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, March, 
 1869 ; flag-ship " Severn," North Atlantic Station, 1869-70 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1870 ; U. S. S. " Worcester," special duty, carrying supplies, contri 
 buted by the citizens of Boston to the French, " Wyoming," 1871-2 ; 
 receiving-ship "Sabine," 1873; steamer " Ossipee," North Atlantic Station, 
 1873-4 ; in command of " Virgin ius " when lost in gale of wind off coast of 
 North Carolinia ; detached from " Ossipee," June, 1874, and ordered to 
 " Kansas ;" detached from " Kansas " and ordered to " Canandaigua ; " de 
 tached from " Canandaigua " and ordered to " Shawmut ;" ordered back to 
 " Canandaigua," all in the year 1874 ; detached from " Canandaigua," 1875 ; 
 " Manhattan," 1876; ordered to "New Hampshire" same year; detached 
 from "New Hampshire," 1878; "Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1880-3. 
 Retired, 1884. 
 
154 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Retired in conformity ivith the Fourth Section of the Act of April 21, 1864. 
 
 C. E. Hawley. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Connecticut, 
 December 3, 1849; Naval School, 1849-50; steam-frigate " Susquehanna," 
 East India Squadron, 1851-5. Promoted to Master, September 15, 1855 ; 
 Coast Survey, 1856-8. Commissioned as Lieutenant, June 26, 1856 ; receiv 
 ing-ship, Philadelphia, 1861 ; ordnance duty, Washington Navy Yard, 1862 ; 
 retired, 1862 ; receiving ship, New York, 1863 ; receiving-ship, Boston, 
 1864-5 ; special duty, Maiden, Massachusetts, 1866. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant- Commander, 1866; Light House Inspector, Key West, 1868; 
 receiving- ship, Philadelphia, 1869-70. 
 
 Francis H. Sheppard. Born in Missouri. Appointed from Missouri, 
 October 16, 1861, to the Naval Academy; graduated, 1863. Promoted to 
 Ensign, 1863. Promoted to Master, 1867. Served in Blockading Squadron 
 from date of graduation to the close of the Rebellion ; served as Executive 
 Officer in the West India Squadron, 1867-9. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, March 26, 1869. Retired March 26, 1869. 
 
 Socrates Hubbard. Born in New York. Appointed an Acting-Mid 
 shipman at Naval Academy, November 20, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; " Swa- 
 tara " (third-rate), West India Squadron, 1865-7. Promoted to Ensign, 
 December 1, 1866; " Guerriere " (second-rate), flag-ship, S. A. Squadron, 
 1867-8. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 29, 1869; "Nipsic" (fourth-rate), Darien Expedition, 1869-71; 
 "Omaha" (second rate), S. P. Station, 1873-5 ; Naval Academy, 1876-80. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, October, 1879; " Pensacola," Pacific 
 Station, 1879-82 ; Naval Observatory, 1882 ; torpedo instruction, 1883 ; 
 equipment duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1883-5 ; "Powhatan," special ser 
 vice, 1885-6. Retired, June 18, 1888. 
 
 Leonard Chenery. Entered United States Naval Academy, December 
 12,1861. Appointed from First California District ; graduated, September 
 25, 1865, taking the Fourth Star of the first class year ; attached to the U. 
 S. S. " Swatara," from October 9, 1865, to February 27, 1867, part of the 
 time in the West Indies, and part of the time on European Station. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, December 1, 1866 ; on ordnance duty, at Washington, 
 from March 9, 1867, to April 30, 1867 ; attached to U. S. S. " Guerriere," 
 flag-ship of Rear- Admiral Charles H. Davis, on Brazil Station, from May 
 20, 1867, until July 29, 1869. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, March 25, 1869; at Naval Rendezvous, San Francisco, 
 from October 10, 1870, to March 25, 1871 ; Flag -Lieutenant of the Pacific 
 Station, on staff of Commodore R. N. Stembel, from May 8, 1871, until 
 October 10, 1872 ; U. S. flag-ship " Pensacola," acting as chief of staff for 
 ten months ; attached to II S- S. " Saranac," from October 10, 1872, until 
 August 1, 1874, on Pacific Station ; at Hydrographic Office, Washington, 
 from October 15, 1874, until November 20, 1875 ; attached to U. S. moni 
 tor " Catskill," North Atlantic Station, from November 20, 1875, until March 
 20, 1877 ; eight months as Executive Officer and eight months as Command 
 ing Officer; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1879-81. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, November, 1879. Retired, December 20, 1881. 
 
 Edward L. Amory. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed as Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, September 30, 1861 ; graduated in 1865 ; 
 "Swatara" (third-rate), West India and European Stations, 1865-7. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, December 1, 1866. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868 ; 
 " Franklin," flag-ship, European Station, 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 155 
 
 March 29, 1869; " Severn," flag-ship, N. A. Squadron, 1869-70; navigation 
 duty, Navy Yard, Boston, 1871-2; torpedo service, 1872; "Richmond" 
 (second-rate), N. P. Station, 1873-4; "Hartford" (second-rate), Asiatic 
 Station, 1874-5; Navy Yard, Boston, 1875-6; Light-House duty, 1876-9; 
 "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1879-82. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, 
 January 22, 1881 ; equipment duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1885-7. Re 
 tired, June, 1887. 
 
 Holman Vail. Born in Indiana. Appointed an Acting Midshipman at 
 Naval Academy, December 1, 1865 ; graduated, 1865 ; school-ship " Sabiue," 
 1865-6. Promoted to Ensign, December 1, 1866; " Dacotah " (second-rate), 
 South Pacific Fleet, 1867; "Saginaw" (fourth-rate), N. P. Squadron, 1868. 
 Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868; "Severn," flag-sftip, N. A, Fleet, 
 1869-70. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869 ; " Hartford," flag 
 ship, Asiatic Station, 1872-5; Hydrographic Office, 1876-7; "Trenton," 
 European Station, 1877-9 ; " Constellation," special service, 1879-80; Naval 
 Observatory, 1880-2. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, October, 1881 ; 
 "Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1882-5; Light-House Inspector, 1886-90. 
 Retired, December 4, 1890. 
 
 Isaac Hazlett. Born in Ohio. Appointed as Acting Midshipman at 
 Naval Academy, September 27, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; " Monongahela " 
 (third-rate), West Indian Station, 1865-6. Promoted Ensign, December 1, 
 1866; " Susquehanna " (first-rate), flag-ship. N. A. Station, 1866-8; "Mich 
 igan," on the lakes, 1868-9. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868 ; " Lan 
 caster" (second-rate), flag-ship, S. A. Fleet, 1869-72; Naval Observatory, 
 1872-3. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 26, 1869; "Manhattan" 
 (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1873-4 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1875 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1876-7 ; "Trenton" (second rate), flag-ship, European Sta 
 tion, 1877-80 ; Hydrographic Office, 1880-2. Promoted to Lieutenant- 
 Commander, December, 1881 ; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, 1882-3 ; sick 
 leave, 1883-6. Retired, November, 1886. 
 
 Frederick Augustus Miller. Born in Maryland. Entered service as 
 Master s Mate, September 11, 1861 ; took part in fights at Donaldsonville ; 
 some small affairs on the Mississippi River ; in capture of Mobile, and in oper 
 ations in Mobile Bay. He was recommended for promotion by Lieutenant- 
 Commander Foxhall A. Parker, while on duty at Washington Navy Yard ; 
 by Commander T. A. M. Craven, after cruise in " Tuscarora," and by Com 
 mander M. B. Woolsey, after the fight in Donaldsonville ; Washington Navy 
 Yard, under instructions, in charge of one of the howitzers of Parker s Bat 
 tery, and in command of "A. C. Powell;" "Tuscarora," special service in 
 Europe; " Princess Royal," West Gulf Squadron ; "Arizona," and "Cincin 
 nati," while serving on the latter vessel saw five of our vessels destroyed by 
 torpedoes in Mobile Bay, West Gulf Squadron ; " Frolic," in Europe ; 
 " Quinnebaug," South Atlantic Station, 1868-69 ; " Vermont," receiving-ship, 
 New York, 1870. Commissioned Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; "Mohican," 
 South Pacific Station, 1870-1; Navy Yard, Boston, 1871-2; "Vermont," 
 receiving-ship, New York, 1872-4; "Terror," Key West, 1874; "Nipsic," 
 surveying duties West Indies, 1875 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1875-6 ; 
 " Richmond," flag-ship, South Pacific Station, 1876-7 ; Bureau Equipment 
 and Recruiting, 1877 ; " Portsmouth," San Francisco to Washington, then to 
 Havre, French Exposition, 1877-9 ; " Ticonderoga," special service around 
 the world under Admiral Shufeldt, 1879-81; "Colorado," receiving-ship, 
 New York, 1881-2. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, April, 1882; 
 torpedo instruction, Newport, 1882 ; " Lackawanna," South Pacific Station, 
 1883. Retired, November 30, 1885. 
 
156 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 William H. Webb. Born in Indiana. Served during the closing 
 years of the war as a volunteer officer ; transferred to the regular service in 
 1868; " Narragansett " (third-rate), West India Squadron, in 1869. Com 
 missioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 
 1870; "Ajax" (iron-clad), N. A. Fleet, 1871 ; Asiatic Fleet, 1872-5 ; S. S. 
 " Supply," 1875-6 ; commanding " Saugus " (iron-clad), 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, 
 Pensacola, 1877-81 ; receiving-ship " Passaic," 1881-2 ; commanding " Wyan- 
 dotte," 1882-3. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander, July 3, 1882 ; "Alert," 
 Asiatic Station, 1883-4; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 1886-90; " Tallapoosa," 
 S. A. Station, June, 1891, to December, 1892 ; sick leave, December, 1892, 
 to date of retirement, June 26, 1893. 
 
 William P. Randall. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1861 
 was about to sail in command of a whale-ship when the war commenced ; 
 was furnished with a certificate signed by the president of every insurance 
 office in the city, to the effect that their offices would insure any vessel under 
 his command at the lowest rates of insurance ; without further endorsement 
 was appointed an Acting Master in the U. S. Navy, July 24, 1861, and 
 ordered to the U. S. S. " Cumberland," serving on that ship at the capture 
 of Forts Clarke and Hatteras, and afterwards in the engagement with the 
 " Merrimac " at Newport News, March 8, 1862, at which time he had com 
 mand of the after-pivot gun (which was the last gun fired from that ship). 
 May 28, 1872, promoted to the rank of Volunteer- Lieutenant, and ordered to 
 the gunboat " Port Royal," Commander George W. Morris, which vessel 
 did good service on the James River through the summer of 1862, and 
 joined the Expedition in the fall of that year; January, 1863 (being at 
 that time the Executive Officer), detached from the " Port Royal," and 
 ordered to command the U. S- barque "Pursuit;" commanded this vessel 
 until August 12, 1864, when he was detached and ordered to command U. S. 
 barque "Restless ;" these vessels were engaged in blockading the coast of 
 Florida, and while commanded by Lieutenant Randall did much injury to 
 the enemy, for which he received two complimentary letters from the Admiral 
 commanding (Admiral Stribling), with orders to read them on the quarter 
 deck at muster ; February 23, 1865, took temporary command of the U. S. 
 steamer " Hendrick Hudson " (" Restless " undergoing repairs at Key West), 
 and went to St. Mark s for General Newton, U. S. Army, and staff, March 9, 
 
 1865. Promoted to the rank of Volunteer Lieutenant- Commander, March 17, 
 1865 ; detached from U. S. barque " Reckless," and ordered to take the prize 
 steamer " Ruby " to New York ; arrived in New York with the "Ruby," 
 April 14, 1865, and waited orders until August 17, 1865, when he was 
 granted four months leave of absence; on December 19, 1865, was honora 
 bly discharged from U. S. Navy with the rank of Lieutenant- Commander. 
 October 30, 1866, presented himself to the Examining Board at Hartford, 
 Connecticut, for admission to the regular service, and was rejected on account 
 of injuries received in the line of duty during the engagement between the 
 " Cumberland" and Merrimac," but obtaining permission from Washing- 
 ing for examination, he presented himself the second time, November 22, 
 
 1866, and on December 7, 1866, received an appointment as Acting Master 
 on temporary service, and was ordered to the U. S. steamer " Peoria," which 
 vessel went to the West Indies and returned with yellow fever on board ; 
 detached from her in Norfolk, Virginia, and went to the hospital, July 29, 
 1867 ; was on sick-leave until September, 1867, when he was ordered to 
 the U. S receiving-ship "Ohio," March 12, 1868 (three years and three days 
 after receiving his appointment as a Volunteer Lieutenant-Commander) ; he 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 157 
 
 received a commission as Ensign in the regular navy, October 12, 1868 ; 
 detached from the " Ohio " and ordered to command the U. S. steamer 
 " Leyden," December 18, 1868. Promoted to Master, January 27, 1869, and 
 detached from the " Leyden " and ordered to the U. S. steamer " Narragan- 
 set ; " joined the " Narraganset " in Havana, March 17, 1869; in July the 
 " Narraganset," went in quarantine at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with 
 yellow fever on board, when he was detached and ordered to the Boston 
 Navy Yard ; September 1, 1869, ordered to command the U. S. steamer 
 " Palos ; " in October, 1869, was detached from the " Palos," and took com 
 mand of the U. S. steamer " Leyden." Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 
 21, 1870; May 18, 1870, detached from the "Leyden" and ordered to the 
 monitor "Saugus;" joined the "Saugus" at Havana, Jwhe 4, 1870; Sep 
 tember 30, 1870, detached from the "Saugus" and ordered to command the 
 U. S. steamer "Mayflower;" detached from the "Mayflower," November 3, 
 1870, and ordered to the U. S. receiving-ship " Ohio," Navy Yard, Boston ; 
 May 5, 1871, temporarily detached from the "Ohio" and ordered to Key 
 West, Florida, as Executive Officer, to assist in bringing the " Saugus " to 
 Philadelphia; June 22, 1871, returned to the "Ohio;" September 15, 
 detached from the " Ohio " and ordered to the U. S. steamer " Iroquois ; " 
 January 15, 1872, detached from the "Iroquois" and ordered to the U. S. 
 steamer " Canaudaigua ; " August 4, 1874, detached from the " Canandaigua " 
 at Key West, and sent home by medical survey (with Chagres fever) on 
 sick-leave ; November, 1874, ordered to the Ordnance Department, Navy 
 Yard, Boston ; June 10, 1875, ordered to Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode 
 Island; October 10, 1875, detached from Torpedo Station and ordered to 
 the U. S. receiving-ship " Ohio," Navy Yard, Boston ; October 28, " Ohio s " 
 crew all transferred to the receiving-ship "Wabash;" April 16, 1877, 
 granted six months leave of absence; October 15, 1877, ordered back to the 
 U. S. receiving-ship "Wabash;" "Ranger," Asiatic Station, 1878-81; 
 special duty, 1881-2. Promoted to Lieutenant- Commander in 1886. Re 
 tired, February 15, 1882. 
 
 R. M. G. Brown. Born in Western Virginia. Appointed from that 
 section by his uncle, Hon. William G. Brown ; entered Naval School at 
 Newport, July, 1864 ; graduated, June, 1868, number three in a class of 
 eighty; served as Midshipman on North Pacific Station, on board of "Sara- 
 nac," " Lackawanna," and " Pensacola." Promoted to Ensign, 1869; to 
 Master, 1870; sailed from New York, on the "Alaska," in April, 1870, for 
 China ; made a three years cruise in that vessel ; took part in the Corean 
 Expedition ; commanding the sailors landed as infantry from that ship ; was 
 in the final charge at Fort McKee, and was mentioned in the official report 
 of that action as among those first in the fort ; ordered as Second Lieutenant, 
 to the " New Hampshire," at Norfolk, in October, 1873. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, April 13, 1872 ; served there until June, 1874, when he was 
 ordered to Torpedo School at Newport ; in October of same year was 
 ordered as First Lieutenant of the " Despatch ;" ordered to "Swatara," June, 
 1875 ; served on the West India Station until March, 1877, when he was 
 ordered to the Naval Academy as Instructor of Navigation and Surveying ; 
 ordered to command the torpedo-ram "Alarm," June 11, 1878; $20,000 
 having been appropriated to fit the Mallory propeller to this vessel, was 
 ordered to carry on an extensive series of experiments to fully test its value ; 
 having completed this experimental duty in a manner highly satisfactory to 
 the Navy Department, he was ordered to the flag-ship " Lancaster," in 
 August, 1881, and served on the European Station until the following June, 
 
158 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 when he was severely wounded in the line of duty ; when convalescent he was 
 invalided home, and again put on special duty. May, 1884, w r as ordered to 
 the " Lackawanna," on South Pacific Station. It was shortly after this, that 
 Lieutenant Brown made his well-known report on the Panama Canal ; all 
 previous reports had been favorable to the scheme, but none were after. 
 While on the Isthmus he contracted Chagres fever and had to return home 
 in 1885 ; served at Navy Yard, Norfolk, as Navigation-Officer, until May, 
 1889. In October of 1887 he was ordered as Navigating-Officer of the flag 
 ship " Trenton," .bound for the Pacific. He was specially commended to the 
 Navy Department by the senior officer for the manner in which he navigated 
 the "Trenton " through the Straits of Magellan and Smyth s Sound. During 
 the memorable gale at Samoa, Lieutenant Brown maintained his reputation 
 in a remarkable degree. Captain Farquhar, of the " Trenton," in his report 
 of the hurricane, which report was approved and forwarded by Rear- Admiral 
 Kirnberly, says, " Lieutenant R. M. G. Brown, the navigator, was by my 
 side the whole time, and to his excellent judgment, one time at least, the ship 
 was cleared of a reef. Had we struck it I fear few of the four hundred and 
 fifty people on board of the Trenton would be alive to-day." In a letter 
 to Rear-Admiral Kimberly, dated April 27, 1889, the Secretary of the Navy 
 says, " The flag-ship, now without steam or rudder, her anchors dragging, 
 drifted almost at the mercy of the gale along the edges of the eastern reef. 
 At times not more than twenty feet from total destruction. Every endeavor 
 was made to control her movements, and her commanding officer states in his 
 report that upon at least one occasion it was through the excellent judgment 
 of Lieutenant R. M. G. Brown, the Navigating-Officer, that the ship cleared 
 reef and the four hundred and fifty lives on board were saved." It was 
 while handling the ship on this occasion that Navigating-Officer Brown put 
 the ship s company in the rigging, thus making a living sail, which was as 
 effective as it was unprecedented. October 1, 1889, Lieutenant Brown was 
 ordered to duty in the office of the Judge- Advocate-General of the army. 
 
 Theodorus Bailey Myers Mason. Born in New York City, May 8, 
 1848. Appointed Midshipman from Florida to United States Naval Academy 
 at Newport, Rhode Island, September 20, 1864 ; served on board practice- 
 ships " Macedonian/ " Savannah," and " Dale ; " graduated number 21, June 
 6, 1868 ; ordered to flag-ship " Guerriere," South Atlantic Station, September 
 3, 1868 ; received letter of thanks from the Secretary of the Navy, gold medal 
 of New York Benevolent and Live-Saving Institution, and decoration of the 
 Order of the Rose from the Emperor of Brazil for saving two of the ship s 
 crew in the harbor of Rio Janeiro ; detached from steamer " Guerriere " at 
 New York, July 21, 1869. Commissioned an Ensign, April 19, 1869 ; ordered 
 to the flag-ship " Franklin," European Station ; reported at Marseilles, Octo 
 ber 23, 1869 ; detached from " Franklin " at Copenhagen, and granted leave, 
 June 30, 1871. Promoted to Master, July 12, 1870 ; ordered to Hydrographic 
 Office, December 1, 1871 ; detailed for duty as aide to the Secretary of Navy, 
 December 2, 1871 ; ordered to accompany President Grant to Boston, June 
 7, 1872; detached from Hydrographic Office, July 18, 1872; ordered to 
 steamer " Omaha," fitting out at Philadelphia for South Pacific. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, November 20, 1872 ; detached from " Omaha" at Valparaiso, 
 and ordered to flag-ship "Pensacola," February 15, 1873; took part in land 
 ing at Panama to protect American interests during the spring and fall of 
 1873 ; detailed as Flag-Lieutenant, December 22, 1873 ; received silver naval 
 medal from King of Italy for saving native bark "Detaide from fire in 
 harbor of Callao ; " Pensacola," transferred to North Pacific Station, April 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 159 
 
 15, 1874; admiral and staff temporarily transferred to "Saranac" while 
 " Pensacola " was undergoing repairs at Mare Island ; detached from staff 
 and ship at Honolulu, July 29, 1875 ; ordered to Naval Academy, November 
 15, 1875 ; detailed during term of 1875-6 in Department of Modern Lan 
 guages ; ordered to practice-steamer " Mayflower " as Executive-Officer at 
 Philadelphia, May 11, 1876; detailed as Instructor in Ordnance and Gun 
 nery, with special charge of Light-Artillery Instruction ; ordered to practice- 
 steamer " Mayflower " at New York as Executive-Officer, July 26, 1877 ; now 
 at Naval Academy. Department of Ordnance and Gunnery ; detached from 
 Naval Academy, November 30, 1878, and granted leave with permission to 
 leave United States ; traveled in Europe accredited to different legations for 
 facilities to make reports on naval matters ; made a Life Fellow of the Society 
 of Civil Engineers of France, November 22, 1878 ; acted as Aide to Marshal 
 McMahon, President of France, at the grand review and mano3iivres closing 
 the Exposition of 1878 ; December, 10, 1879, ordered as Assistant Inspector 
 of Ordnance at the West Point Foundry ; December 13, 1878, elected a Life 
 Fellow of the American Geographical Society ; April 9, 1878, ordered to 
 duty on board the " Pensacola," flag-ship of Pacific Station, and in charge of 
 a large draft of men for the station ; reported for duty on board the " Pensa 
 cola " at Callao, Peru, and detached as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear- Admiral C. 
 R. P. Rodgers; September 27, 1880, appointed Secretary to Rear- Admiral 
 T. H. Stevens, who relieved Admiral Rodgers. Whilst serving on the South 
 American coast made several important reports on the operations of the war 
 between Chili, Peru, and Bolivia; also compiled an historical sketch report 
 of the war, afterwards published as Volume II., War Series, Office of Home 
 Intelligence, and translated for use in Chili. September 5, 1881, ordered to 
 Naval Academy, and detailed as Instructor in Ordnance and in charge of 
 Artillery Drills ; June 7, 1882, ordered to duty at Navy Department, Wash 
 ington, as the First Chief Intelligence Officer ; organized Intelligence Staff, 
 Duty, and Office ; in addition performed duty as Aide to President Chester 
 A. Arthur ; September 14, 1883, was ordered by President to meet and accom 
 pany the first Embassy from Corea sent to the United States ; April 29, 1884, 
 ordered to similar duty with first Embassy from Siam to the United States ; 
 acted as Special Aide to Lieutenant-General Sheridan at the dedication of the 
 Washington Monument, February 22, 1885, and to Major-General Slocum, 
 inaugural ceremonies of President Grover Cleveland, March 4, 1885 ; April 
 1, 1885, detached from duty in Washington, and ordered to command light 
 artillery of the naval forces sent to the Isthmus of Panama to protect transit 
 and American interests ; whilst on the Isthmus nominally attached to the 
 flag-ship " Tennessee," Rear- Admiral James Jewett ; May 28, 1885, granted 
 leave of absence for one year with permission to go abroad, intending to 
 resign ; September 16, 1885, applied for sea duty, and ordered to Asiatic 
 Station ; reported for duty on board flag-ship "Trenton," at Shanghai, China, 
 November 24, 1885 ; detailed, at own request, as senior Watch-Officer of flag 
 ship, April 16, 1886 ; "Trenton" being ordered home, ordered as Secretary 
 to Rear-Admiral John Lee Davis, April 22; Admiral tranferred flag to 
 "Omaha," and August 9 to "Marion;" November 22, 1886, Rear- Admiral 
 Davis being relieved by Rear- Admiral Chandler, was transferred to his staff 
 as Flag- Lieutenant; April 4, 1887, the Admiral tranferred flag to " Brook 
 lyn ; " October 1, 1887, detached from duty on staff and ordered to "Essex " 
 as Navigator ; January 18, 1888, detached from " Essex " and ordered home ; 
 August 14, 1888, ordered to duty in Navy Department as Naval Secretary to 
 Mr. W. C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy ; February 26, 1889, ordered; in 
 
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 addition to other duty, as Adjutant-General of the naval force assembled in 
 Washington for duty in the inaugural ceremonies of President Benjamin 
 Harrison ; February 28, ordered to duty March 20 under Rear- Admiral S. 
 R. Franklin, senior member of American Delegation and President of the 
 International Maritime Congress and also to duty in Bureau of Navigation ; 
 March 6, 1889, ordered to duty in Navy Department as Naval Secretary to 
 General Benjamin F. Tracy, Secretary of the Navy; accompanied President 
 Harrison to New York, April 29, to attend Centennial Celebration of the 
 Inauguration of George Washington as President and on July 4 to Wood 
 stock, Connecticut; ordered to "New York," August, 1893; sick leave, Jan 
 uary, 1894. Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, January, 1894. Retired, 
 December, 1894 
 
 LIEUTENANTS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Kossuth Niles. Born in Illinois. Mustered into the military service of 
 the United States in the 142d Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, June, 1864; 
 mustered out, October, 1864 ; entered Naval Academy, September 23, 1865 ; 
 graduated, 1869; " Sabine," special service, 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870 ; North Atlantic Fleet " Pawnee," 1870-1 ; monitor "Terror," 1871-2 ; 
 Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1872 ; Nicaragua Canal Surveying Ex 
 pedition, 1872-3. Promoted to Master, 1873 ; Torpedo Station, 1873 ; North 
 Atlantic Station, " Frolic," 1874 ; Coast Survey, commanding schooner 
 " Silliman," 1874-6 ; steamer " Barataria," 1876-7. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, 1876; "Michigan," 1877-8; "Constellation" (American exhibit to 
 Paris Exposition), 1878 ; North Atlantic Squadron " Swatara," 1878 ; " Ti- 
 conderoga " (flag-ship), special cruise around the world, 1878-81 ; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1881-4; "Powhatan," 1884; Lancaster" 
 (flag-ship), European Station, 18845 ; and of the South Atlantic Station, 
 1885-7 ; " Trenton," 1887 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1887-8 ; 
 Inspector of Ordnance, Midvale Steel Works, Pa., 1888 ; Bureau of Ord 
 nance, 1887, to July, 1893; "Yantic," South Atlantic Station, July, 1893, 
 to December, 1896 ; torpedo station, December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Dennis Hart Mahan. Son of Officer. Naval Academy, July, 1865 ; 
 Ensign, July, 1870 ; Master, February, 1873 ; J.ieutenant, September, 1877 ; 
 " Sabine," 1869-70 ; " Tennessee," on special service, San Domingo Expedition, 
 1871; " Wachusett," " Shenandoah " and "Congress," on European Squad 
 ron, 1871-4 ; " Plymouth," N. A. Squadron, 1874-5 ; " Supply," special duty, 
 1876; again in 1877; training-ship "Minnesota," 1877-8; receiving-ship 
 "Independence," 1879-80; "Alert," "Ashuelot," and "Richmond," Asiatic 
 Squadron, 1880-83; " Pensacola," special service, 1883-4; training-ship 
 " Minnesota," 1885 ; Naval Academy, 1886-8; War College, 1888; Coast 
 Survey, 1888-90; "Alert," special service, October, 1890, to December, 
 1893; Hydrographic Office, December, 1893-6; ordered to the " Machias," 
 October, 1896-8; U. S. S. "Yumuri," March, 1898; U. S. S. " Badger," 
 May, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Franklin Low. Appointed from New Hampshire. Naval 
 Academy, July, 1865 ; Ensign, July, 1870 ; Master, April, 1873 ; Lieutenant, 
 November, 1877 ; " Sabine," 1869-70 ; " California," Pacific Station, 1870-3 ; 
 "Kansas," N. A. Station, 1873-6; Coast Survey, 1876-7; "Vandalia," 
 1877-9 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1879-81 ; " Minnesota," training-ship, 
 1881; "Despatch" (despatch-boat), 1881-3 ; " Powhattan," N. A. Station, 
 1884-6; training-ship "Saratoga," 1886-7; Naval Academy, 1887-91; 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 161 
 
 Coast Survey Office, July, 1871, to January, 1892; commanding Coast Sur 
 vey Schooner " Eagre," January, 1892-5 ; Navy Yard, Boston, January, 
 1895 ; nautical school-ship " Enterprise," January, 1897 ; Executive Officer 
 U. S. S. " Katahdiu," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Nelson T. Houston. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 July 28, 1865; graduated, 1869; "Sabine," 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, 
 1870 ; signal duty, Washington, 1870-1 ; Asiatic Fleet, 1871-4. Promoted 
 to Master, 1872 ; receiving-ship "Independence," 1874-6 Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1876 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1878-81 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1881-4 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1884-7 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1887-8 ; waiting orders, October, 1890, to February, 1891 ; " Petrel," 
 Asiatic Station, February, 1891-4 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," June, 1894- 
 96 ; " Castine," December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Clayton Scott Richman. Appointed from Iowa. N. A., July, 1865 ; 
 Ensign, July, 1870; Master, August, 1873; Lieutenant, February, 1878; 
 Pacific Fleet, 1871-4; " Canandaigua," North Atlantic Station, 1875-6; 
 " Adams," Pacific Station, 1876-9 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1879-83 ; 
 " Ranger," special service, 1883-5; receiving-ship "Independence," 1887; 
 Naval War College, 1888-9; " Yautic," North Atlantic Station, 1889, to 
 November, 1891 ; receiving-ship " St. Louis," November, 1891, to May, 1893 ; 
 waiting orders, May, 1893, to September, 1893 ; Navy Yard, League Island, 
 September, 1893-4 ; ordered to the " Raleigh," April, 1894-7 ; receiving- 
 ship " Vermont," May, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. " Nahant," April, 1898, 
 to date. 
 
 Samuel P. Comly. Appointed from New Jersey. N. A., July, 1865 ; 
 Ensign, July, 1871; Master, August, 1873; Lieutenant, April, 1878; " Ju- 
 niata," Arctic regions, 1873-5; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1876-9; receiving- 
 ship " St. Louis," 1880-3 ; training-ship " Portsmouth," 1883-5 ; Navy Yard, 
 League Island, 1885-8; ordnance duty, 1888-9; "Alliance," Asiatic and 
 Pacific Stations, January 1, 1890, to May, 1893; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 
 August, 1893; receiving-ship "Richmond," August, 1893 ; battleship "In 
 diana," November, 1895, to date. 
 
 H. O. Rittenhouse. Appointed from New Jersey. N. A., July, 1866; 
 Ensign, July, 1871; Master, September, 1873; Lieutenant, June, 1878; 
 Coast Survey, 1874-6; Naval Academy, 1876-80; "Galena," European 
 Station, 1880-3; Naval Academy, 1883-6; "Vandalia," Pacific Station, 
 1886-8; "Trenton," Pacific Station, 1888-9; "Mohican," Pacific Station, 
 1889-90 ; Naval Academy, July, 1890, to June, 1893 ; " Baltimore," Asiatic 
 Station, June, 1893, to 1896; Inspector of Ordnance, E. W. Bliss & Co., 
 May, 1896, to April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Miantonomah," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Robert G. Peck. Born in and appointed from Massachusetts. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 24, 1866 ; graduated, June 7, 1870 ; practice- 
 ship " Savannah," 1867; "Macedonian," 1868; "Savannah," 1869. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, July 12, 1871 ; Master, September 11, 1873; Lieutenant, 
 November 30, 1878 ; detached to " Guard," Darien Exploring Expedition, 
 1870-1 ; " Wyoming," N. A. Station, 1871-4 ; Torpedo Station, 1874 ; Coast 
 Survey steamer " Blake," deep-sea soundings, 1874-6 ; New York nautical 
 school-ship " St. Mary s," 1876-9 ; "Alert," Asiatic Station, 1879-82 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1882-5; practice-ship "Constellation," 1883; Navy Department, 
 Office of Compasses, 1885 ; " Ranger," N. T. Station, 1885-9 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1889 to June, 1893 ; commanding Coast Survey steamer " Bache," June, 
 1893, to 1897 ; Naval Academy, July, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. " Lehigh," 
 April, 1898, to date. 
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162 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 John Hubbard. Appointed from Arizona. N. A , July, 1866 ; Ensign, 
 July, 1871 ; Master, September, 1873 ; Lieutenant, December, 1878 ; "Brook 
 lyn," Europe, 1871-4 ; Coast Survey, 1874-7 ; " Supply," special service, 
 1877-9; "Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1879-83; Torpedo Station, 1883; 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1883-4 ; Light-House duty, 1884-6 ; special duty, 
 Navy Department, 1887-8; "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889 to 
 July, 1892 ; Inspector of Ordnance, July, 1892, to 1895 ; ordered to training- 
 ship "Essex," July, 1895 ; U S. S. "Yankee," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 Alexander McCrackin. Appointed as Midshipman from Iowa, on 
 July 27, 1866, and graduated from the Naval Academy, July 7, 1870. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, July 12, 1871 ; to Master, September 25, 1873 ; to Lieuten 
 ant, January 13, 1879 ; " Shenandoah " and " Brooklyn," European Station, 
 1870-3; "Franklin," N. A. Station, 1873-4; Coast Survey steamer - Baton 
 Rouge," 1874-7 ; " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1877-9 ; practice-ship " Dale," 
 1881 ; Naval Academy, 1881-2 ; practice-ship " Constellation," 1883 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1883-4 ; " Adams/ Pacific Station, 1885-6 ; " Pinta," special ser 
 vice, 188d-8 ; Naval Academy, 1888-9 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 1889, to 
 November, 1891; "Marion," Asiatic Station, November, 1891, to 1894; 
 Naval Academy, September, 1894-97 ; " Marietta," September, 1897, to date. 
 
 George Leland Dyer. Appointed from Maine to Naval Academy as 
 result of competitive examination, held in the Congressional District, July, 
 1866 ; was graduated with honors from Naval Academy, June, 1870 ; served 
 on U. S. S. " Plymouth," European Station, West Coast of Africa and West 
 Indies, 1870-3. Promoted to Ensign, July, 1871 ; served on "Minnesota" 
 and " Frolic," North Atlantic Station, 1873-4. Promoted to Master, Sep 
 tember, 1873 ; served on " Frolic," South Atlantic Station, 1875-7 ; served at 
 Naval Academy as Instructor of Mathematics, 1877-80. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant, February, 1879; served on training-ship "Constitution," 1880-1; 
 served on " Despatch, "during a special surveying cruise in the Gulf of Sa- 
 mana, West Indies, 1882 ; ordered to Hydrographic Office, June 1883 ; and 
 served as assistant to the Hydrographer until June, 1888, during which time 
 and subsequently the Hydrographic Office was thoroughly reorganized ; 
 ordered as Hydrographer, June, 1888, and served in that capacity until No 
 vember, 1889; ordered to the flag-ship "Charleston," January, 1890, for 
 duty as Flag-Lieutenant, Pacific Station, on the staff of Rear- Admiral George 
 Brown, U. S. Navy, until January, 1893 ; on board the " Charleston," 
 " San Francisco," " Thetis," and " Mohican," each being flag-ship in succes 
 sion. In April, 1893, ordered to the Naval Academy, and assigned to duty 
 as Head of Department of Modern Languages till 1896 Ordered to U. S. S. 
 "Massachusetts," June, 1896-97; special duty June, 1897; July, 1897, 
 Naval Attache, Madrid, Spain, to April, 1898 ; May, 1898, Navy Depart 
 ment, to date. 
 
 Lewis Cass Heilner. Appointed from Pennsylvania. N. A., July, 
 1866 ; Ensign, July, 1871 ; Master, September, 1873 ; Lieutenant, June, 
 1879; " Saco," Asiatic Fleet, 1871-4; " Brooklyn," 1874 ; " Ossipee," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1875-7 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1877-8 ; Coast Survey, 
 1878-83 ; training-ship " Portsmouth," 1883-5 ; Naval Observatory, 1885- 
 89 ; " Pensacola," special service, 1889, to August, 1892 ; Naval Observa 
 tory, August, 1892-5 ; battleship " Texas," August, 1895, to date. 
 
 M. E. Hall. Appointed from Iowa. Naval Academy, September, 
 1865 ; Ensign, July, 1870 ; Master, December, 1873 ; Lieutenant, November, 
 1879; "Richmond," Mediterranean, 1870-3; " Portsmouth," special duty, 
 1875-7 ; " Essex," South Atlantic Station, 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 163 
 
 1878-81 ; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1881-3 ; Torpedo Station, 1883 ; train 
 ing-ship " New Hampshire," 1884-5 ; " Pensacola," special service, 1889- 
 90 ; Torpedo Station, July, 1890, to June, 1893 ; " Machias," North Atlantic 
 Station, June, 1893-4 ; " Marblehead," April, 1894 ; Naval Proving Ground, 
 October, 1896 ; commanding C. S. S. " Eager," January, 1898 ; command 
 ing the "Katskill," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Edward M. Hughes. Appointed at large to Naval Academy, July 26, 
 1866 ; graduated, 1870 ; Ensign, July 13, 1871 ; Master, December 12, 1873 ; 
 Lieutenant, December 16, 1874; " Narragansett," Home Station, 1870-1 ; 
 "Supply," special service, 1871 ; " Wyoming," Home Station, 1871-2 ; Nica- 
 raguan Canal Survey, 1872 ; " Constellation," gunnery-ship, 1873 ; " Des 
 patch," special service, 1874 ; " Wachusett," Home Station, 1874 ; "Des 
 patch," special service, 1875-6 ; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1877 ; 
 "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1878-9; Coast Survey, 1880-3; " Shenan- 
 doah," Pacific Station, 1884-6 ; Light-House Inspector, 1887-9 ; U. S. 
 Naval Training Station, 1890 ; commanding C. S. steamer " Bache," June, 
 1890, to March, 1893; Nautical school-ship "Saratoga," March, 1893-6 ; 
 ordered to the Oregon," June, 1896 ; " Petrel," July, 1896.. to date. 
 
 H. F. Fichbohm. Naval apprentice. Naval Academy, July, 1866 ; 
 Ensign, July, 1871; Master, January, 1874; Lieutenant, February, 1880; 
 " Guerriere," Europe, 1870-2; "Richmond," Pacific Station, 1872-3; 
 "Saranac," Pacific Station, 1874; "Portsmouth," Pacific Station, 1874-5 ; 
 "Lehigh," N. A. Station, 1876; "Ranger," Asiatic Station, 1876-81 ; tor 
 pedo duty, 1881; " Lackawauna," Pacific Station, 1881-5; training-ship 
 "New Hampshire," 1885-7; " Enterprise," European Squadron, 1887-90; 
 Inspector of steel, Pittsburg, Pa., July, 1890, to July, 1893 ; " Yorktown," 
 Pacific Station, July, 1893-6 ; office Naval Intelligence, December, 1896, to 
 April, 1898 ; commanding U. S. S. "Jason," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Joseph Ballard Murdock. Midshipman, July 26, 1866, from Fourth 
 District of Massachusetts ; graduated, June 7, 1870 ; U. S. S. " Nipsic," North 
 Atlantic, July, 1870, to November, 1872. Commissioned Ensign, July 13, 
 1871 ; examination and on leave till March, 1873 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 
 March, 1873 ; U S. S. " Monongahela," ^outh Atlantic, September, 1873, to 
 July, 1874. Commissioned Master, February 2, 1874 ; U. S. S. " Lancaster," 
 July, 1874, to July, 1875 ; Coast Survey duty, October, 1875, to June, 1879 ; 
 U. S. S. " Constitution," Training Squadron, August, 1879, to September, 
 1880. Commissioned Lieutenant, March 10, 1880 ; Naval Academy, Octo 
 ber, 1880, to September, 1883 ; leave of absence, September, 1883, to August, 
 1884; special duty at Philadelphia, August, 1884, to December, 1885 ; U. 
 S. S. "Dolphin," December, 1885, to December, 1886; Torpedo Station, 
 December, 1886, to March, 1888; U. S. S. "Pensacola," North Atlantic, 
 March, 1888, to April, 1888; U. S. S. " Omaha," Asiatic Station, April, 
 1888, to March, 1891 ; special duty in Europe, May, 1891, to November, 
 1891 ; electrical duty, Navy Yard, New York, November 2, 1891 ; U. S. S. 
 "Atlanta," April to December, 1894, North Atlantic ; U. S. S. Minneapolis," 
 December, 1894, to March, 1897, North Atlantic and European ; Naval 
 War College, April, 1897, to May, 1898 ; U. S. S. "Venezuela," May, 1898, 
 to date. 
 
 Hugo Osterhaus. Appointed from Missouri. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1865 ; Ensign, July, 1871 ; Master, February, 1870 ; Lieutenant, 
 March, 1880 ; " Plymouth," Europe, 1871-3 ; North Atlantic Station, 1873- 
 77; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1877-9; Coast Survey, 1879-82; "Enterprise," 
 Asiatic Station, 1882-6; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1887-9; "Enterprise," 
 
164 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 European Station, 1889-90 ; " Atlanta," S. A. Station, August 1890, to 
 September, 1892 ; Naval Academy, September, 1892-5 ; ordered to the 
 "Cincinnati/ June, 1895; "New York," December, 1895; Naval War 
 College, June, 1898 ; Naval Academy, August, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Prairie," 
 May, lcS98, to date 
 
 John Bartholomew Collins. Appointed from Louisiana. Naval 
 Academy, July, 1866; Ensign, July, 1871 ; Master, March, 1874; Lieutenant, 
 March, 1880 ; " Worcester," North Atlantic Station, 1871-4 ; " Canonicus," 
 1874-7; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 1877-9; " Powhatan," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1879-81 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1831-2 ; " Tennessee," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1883-4 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1884-7 ; store- 
 ship Monongahela," 1887-8 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1889 to April, 1892 ; 
 "Mohican," Pacific Station, April, 1892-5; Branch Hydrographic Office, 
 New Orleans, June, 1895-7 ; U. S. S. " Wilmington," January, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles Edward Vreeland. Naval Apprentice. Naval Academy, 
 July, 1866 ; Enngn, July, 1871 ; Master, April, 1874 ; Lieutenant, March, 
 1880 ; " Congress," 1871-3 ; North Atlantic and Asiatic Stations, 1873-8 ; 
 " Ticonderoga," special service, 1878-81 ; Nautical Almanac Office, 1881-4; 
 " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1884-7 ; Office of Naval Intelligence, 1887-9 ; 
 commanding C. S. S. " Blake," 1889 to October, 1889 ; commanding Coast 
 Survey steamer "Blake," October, 1869, to June, 1893; naval attache at 
 Vienna and Rome, June, 1893, to December, 1896 ; ordered to U S. S. 
 "Massachusetts," January, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Helena," January 13, 1897-8 ; 
 U. S S. " Dolphin," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Corwin Pottenger Rees. Born in Reily, Butler County, Ohio, Sep 
 tember 4, 1848. February 27, 1864, enlisted in Company B, 54th O. V. V. 
 I., Second Brigade. Second Division, Fifteenth Army Corps. Participated 
 in the battles of Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain, the Siege of Atlanta, 
 the March to the Sea, the Storming of Fort McAllister, the Battle of Ben- 
 tonville, and minor engagements, receiving an honorable discharge after the 
 close of the war, August 15, 1865. Appointed Midshipman, U. S. Navy, 
 July 31, 1866; graduated, 1870; " Guerriere," 1870-2. Promoted Ensign, 
 July 13, 1871 ; "Portsmouth," December, 1872, to July, 1874; "Saranac," 
 July, 1874, to July, 1875. Promoted to Master, May 21, 1874 ; " Benicia," 
 July, 1875, to November, 1875; " Lackawanna," November, 1875, to 1877; 
 " Guard," as Navigation Officer, September, 1877, to December, 1878 ; Naval 
 Academy, as Instructor in Department of Drawing, January, 1879, to 
 August, 1881 ; "Essex," cruise around the world, November, 1881, to Janu 
 ary, 1885 ; training-ship "New Hampshire" and Arctic steamer " Alert," 
 during April, 1885 ; " Michigan," Northwestern Lakes, May, 1885, to April, 
 1888 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, R I., May, 1888, to August, 1888 ; War 
 College, August, 1888, to November, 1888 ; " Kearsarge," November, 1888, 
 to January, 1889 ; " Tallapocsa," January, 1889, to January, 1892; "Mich 
 igan," as" Executive Officer, May, 1892-5; on the " Monocacy," July, 
 1895-8 ; U. S. S. " Olympia," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Albert Caldwell Dillingham. Appointed from Pennsylvania. N. A., 
 July, 1865 ; Ensign, July, 1871 ; Master, June, 1874 ; Lieutenant, December 
 1880 ; " Plymouth," Europe, 1870-2 ; Torpedo Station, 1875-6 ; Coast Sur 
 vey, 1876-9; " Wachusett," S. A. Station, 1879-82; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1882-3; Naval Academy 1883-6; "Richmond," N. A. Station, 1886-8; 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," 1888-9 ; receiving-ship " Dale," 1889, to June, 
 1892 ; training-ship " Portsmouth," June, 1892, to July, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Cin 
 cinnati," July, 1894-5 ; leave of absence, June, 1895 ; Navy Yard, New 
 
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 York, August, 1895, and War College, to 1897; U. S. S. "Nashville," 
 August, 1897, to date. 
 
 George Frederick Warren Holman. Appointed to Naval Acad 
 emy from Second District, California. Midshipman, July 25, 1866. Commis 
 sioned Ensign, July 13, 1871 ; Master, June 14, 1*74 ; Lieutenant, January 
 1, 1881 ; Naval Academy, July, 1866, to June, 1870; waiting orders, June 
 to September, 1870; "California," September to October, 1870; "Severn," 
 October, 1870, to February, 1871 ; West Indies, Mediterranean and convoy 
 of Hall s Polar Expedition, "Congress," February, 1871, to May, 1873 ; 
 "Brooklyn," May to July, 1873 ; waiting orders, July to November, 1873 ; 
 " Powhatan," November, 1873, to January, 1874 ; " Colorado," January, 
 1874, to June, 1875 ; waiting orders, June to October, 18J5 ; "Gettysburg," 
 special longitude survey of West Indies, October, 1875, to June, 1876; 
 "Minnesota," for training Naval Apprentices, June, 1876, to August, 1877; 
 special cruise for State Department, on board " Ossipee," August, 1877, to 
 May, 1878; "Saratoga," training Naval Apprentices, June, 1878, to Jan 
 uary, 1881 ; Hydrographic Office, January to September, 1881 ; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, September, 1881, to October, 1882; "Saratoga," training Naval Ap 
 prentices, December, 1882, to May, 1886; Torpedo Station, Newport, June 
 to September, 1886 ; War College, Newport, September to November, 1886 ; 
 Torpedo Station, Newport, for advanced course of instruction, November, 
 1886, to May, 1887 ; Torpedo Station as Torpedo Officer, Instructor in Tor 
 pedoes, and Lecturer before War College, May, 1887, to April, 1890 ; 
 " Essex," April, 1890, to March, 1893 ; Naval Torpedo Station, Newport, as 
 Torpedo Officer and Instructor in Torpedoes, March, 1893-5 ; U. S. S. 
 " Maine," September, 1895, to February, 1898 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, 
 April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Nathan Sargent. Appointed from Montana Territory to Naval Acad 
 emy, July 25, 1866 ; graduated, 1870 ; Ensign, July 13, 1871 ; Master, July 
 10, 1874; Lieutenant, January 2, 1881 ; Naval Academy, 1^66-70; ordnance 
 duty, Washington, June, 1870, to August, 1870; " Guerriere," 1870; "Con 
 stellation," 1871; " Canandaigua," 1872; "Constellation," gunnery-ship, 
 1873; C. S. S " Bache," 1873 ; "Alaska," 1873, to 1876; ordnance duty, 
 Washington, 1876-79; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1879-82; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1883; "Lancaster" (Flag-Lieutenant), 1884-5; " Pensacola," 
 1886-7, European Station (Flag-Lieutenant); "Pensacola," "Quinnebaug" 
 and "Lancaster," August, 1887, to January, 1889; Naval Attache, Rome 
 and Vienna, January, 18*9-93 ; Bureau of Ordnance, October, 1893 ; " Pe 
 trel," 1894-6; "Newark," 1896-7; Board Inspection and Survey, 1896, to 
 April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Yosemite," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Lazarus Lowrey Reamey. Born in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, 
 February 15, 1849. Appointed from Pennsylvania (17th Congressional 
 District) ; entered the U. S. Naval Academy, as a Midshipman, July 25, 
 1866; graduated, June 7, 1870; Ensiyn, July 13, 1871 ; Master, July 23, 
 1874; Lieutenant, February 2, 1881 ; flag-ship " Worcester," North Atlantic 
 Station, September 25, 1872, to June 13, 1874 (Signal Officer); Asiatic 
 Station (" Monocacy " and Kearsarge "\ November 26, 1874, to January 
 14, 1878 ; " Constellation " (Paris Exhibition), March 13, 1878, to May 10, 
 1878 ; " Constitution " (Paris Exhibition), May 10, 1878, to August 2, 1879 ; 
 (stranded on Bollard Head, English Channel night of January 16, 1879) ; 
 Hydrographic Office, October 1, 1879, to August 9, 1881 ; flag-ship "Lan 
 caster," European Station, August 20, 1881, to February 6, 1884 (Flag 
 Lieutenant, July 5, 1882, to March 10, 1883); commanding "Thetis," for 
 
166 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Greely Relief Expedition, February 6, 1884, to March 27, 1884 (took her 
 after her purchase, from Dundee, Scotland, around the north of Scotland, to 
 New York) ; Torpedo School, May 1, 1884, to August 4, 1884 ; U. S. Naval 
 Observatory, September 1, 1884, to May 8, 1887 ; flag-ship " Trenton," May 
 20, 1887, to July 7, 1889 (shipwrecked in the harbor of Apia, Samoa, March 
 16, 1889); Asiatic Station (Flag Secretary), November 27, 1889, to Feb 
 ruary 2, 1892 ; Board of Inspection and Survey, September 1. 1892, to March 
 28, 1894 ; Aide to the Secretary of the Navy, March 28, 1894, to November 
 24, 1895 ; Asiatic Station (Flag Lieutenant), December 21, 1895, to January 
 3, 1898 ; Bureau of Yards and Docks, March 17, 1898, to date. 
 
 James Henry Bull. Born in West Chester, Chester county, Pennsyl 
 vania, June 13, 1852. Attended Wyers Military Academy ; appointed Mid 
 shipman to the Naval Academy by the Hon. Gideon Welles, on the recommen 
 dation of the Hon. J. R Broomall, from the seventh (at that time) District of 
 Pennsylvania, and entered the Academy, July 25, 1866. Graduated from the 
 Academy June 7, 1870 ; and placed on waiting orders ; on duty on board the 
 store-ship " Guard " from July, 1870, to August, 1871, in the Fishing Banks 
 Squadron, and as part of the Darien Inter-Oceanic Expedition, doing duty on 
 shore with the Expedition. Commissioned Ensign, July 13, 1871 ; on duty on 
 board the U. S. S " Wyoming " from October, 1871, to January, 1872 ; when 
 he was transferred to IT- S. flag-ship, "Worcester," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 where was on duty until October, 1872 ; a member of the Nicaraguan Canal 
 Surveying Expedition from December, 1872, to August, 1873 ; on duty on the 
 Asiatic Station from September, 1873, to August, 1876, in the U. S. ships 
 " Lackawanna," " Yantic " and " Saco." Commissioned Master, October 3, 
 1874 ; on duty on the Coast Survey from December, 1876, to January, 1879; 
 on duty at Newport Torpedo Station, from March, 1879, to May, 1879; on 
 board the U. S. S, ft Wachusett," special service, from May, 1879, to Septem 
 ber, 1879 ; on board the receiving-ship " Franklin," at Norfolk, Va., from Sep 
 tember, 1879, to April, 1880; on board the U. S. S "Powhatan," special 
 service, from April, 1880, to October, 1882. Commissioned Lieutenant, 
 April, 22, 1881 ; on duty at Naval Academy as Instructor of Ordnance and 
 Gunnery from October, 1882, to June, 1885 ; made practice cruise in U. S. S. 
 "Dale," June, 1883, to September, 1883; on duty on board the U. S. S. 
 "Mohican," June, 1885, to January, 1886; on leave February, 1886, to 
 December, 1886 ; on duty in Asiatic Station, on board the U. S. S. " Marion," 
 and " Monocacy," from January, 1887, to December, 1889 ; New London, 
 Naval Station, March, 1890, to April, 1893 ; attended Naval War College 
 Course, August, 1892, to October, 1892 ; "Alliance," Pacific Station, April, 
 1893, to June, 1894 ; U. S. S. "Montgomery," special service, June, 1894, 
 to April, 1895; Navy Yard, Pensacola, April, 1895, to September, 1897, 
 Executive Officer; attended Naval War College Course, June, 1896, to 
 October, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Newport," Executive Officer, Nicaraguan Canal 
 Expedition, September, 1897, to April, 1898; April, 1898, U. S. S. "New 
 port," North Atlantic Squadron. 
 
 Greenlief Augustus Merriam. Born in Baltimore, Maryland. Ap 
 pointed from Massachusetts Naval Academy, July, 1866 ; Ensign, July, 
 1871; Master, October, 1874; Lieutenant, May, 1881 ; U. S. S. "Saco" and 
 " Colorado," European and Asiatic Station, 1870-3; " Monongahela," S A. 
 Station, 1873-6 ; " Rio Bravo," special service, 1877-9 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1879-81 ; U. S. S. " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1881-4; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1884-7; Secretary to Commander-in- Chief, Pacific Station, 
 Rear- Admiral L. A. Kimberly, April, 1887, to February, 1890; flag-ships 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 167 
 
 "Vandalia," "Dolphin," "Trenton" (Samoa), "Mohican," "Charleston," 
 1887-90; Naval Academy, February, 1890, to June, 1893; Concord," 
 Asiatic Station, June, 1893-6 ; Naval Academy, July 1896, to April, 1898 ; 
 ordered to U. S. S. " Dixie," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 J. B. Milton. Appointed from Kentucky. Naval Academy, July, 1866. 
 Ensign, July, 1871. Master, November, 1874. Lieutenant, September, 1881 ; 
 "Worcester/ N. A. Station, 1870-3; "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 1873-7; 
 "Tuscarora," Pacific Station, 1877-81 ; "Ranger," Pacific Station, 1881-2; 
 Coast Survey, 1882-3 ; Branch Hydrographic Office, San Francisco, 1883-7 ; 
 "Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1887-9; training-ship "Jamestown," 1889-90; 
 Naval Academy, October, 1890, to December, 1893 ; training ship "Monon- 
 gahela," December, 1893-4; ordered to training-ship "Essex," 1894; the 
 " Monterey," January, 1896 ; Union Iron Works, December, 1896 ; Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, April, 1897 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Prairie," March, 1898 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Wyandotte," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Kilburn. Appointed from California. Naval Academy, De 
 cember, 1865. Ensign, July, 1871 ; " Benicia," N. P. Station, 1874-77 ; Master, 
 December, 1874. Lieutenant, October, 1881 ; Coast Survey, 1877-80 ; " Ten 
 nessee," N. A. Station, 1880-3 ; receiving ship " St. Louis," 1883-4 ; " Powha 
 tan, "special duty, 1884-6; "Richmond," N A. Station, 1886-8; ordnance duty, 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1888-90 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Midvale Steel 
 Works, 1889-90; training-ship "Richmond," October, 1890, to November, 
 1891 ; " San Francisco," S. A. Station, November, 1891-4 ; Naval War Col 
 lege, May, 1894; Hydrographic Office, October, 1894 ; ordered to the "San 
 Francisco," June, 1896, to April, 1898; commanding U. S. S. "Aileen," May, 
 1898, to date. 
 
 J. J. Hunker. Appointed from Ohio. Naval Academy, July, 1866; 
 Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, January, 1875 ; Lieutenant, October, 1881 ; 
 " Wyoming," North Atlantic Station, 1870-3 ; "Kansas," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1874-5; "Despatch" (despatch-boat), 1875-9; torpedo steamer 
 "Alarm," 1879-81; " Brooklyn," South Atlantic Station, 1881-5 ; Torpedo 
 Station, 1885 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1885-6 ; " Chicago," special service, 
 1886-8 ; Supervisor of Harbor, New York, 1888-9 ; " Charleston," special 
 service, 1890, to April, 1893 ; leave of absence, April, 1893, to August, 1893; 
 receiving-ship "Minnesota," August, 1893, to 1894; Naval War College, 
 May, 1894 ; Ord. Instr., Navy Yard, Washington, December, 1894. Office 
 Naval Intelligence, February, 1895 ; ordered to U. S. S. "San Francisco," 
 November, 1895, to 1897; February, 1898, on leave; April, 1898, Fish 
 Commission, Washington, D. C., to date. 
 
 George W. Mentz. Appointed from New Jersey. Naval Academy, 
 September, 1866; Ensign, July, 1872; Master, January, 1875; Lieutenant, 
 October, 1881 ; "Guerriere," 1870-3; " Canadaigua," N. A. Station, 1874- 
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 vey, 
 service, 
 
 -90 ; Office Naval Intelligence, January, 1890, to July, 1892 ; Coast Survey 
 steamer " Eagre," July, 1892, to April, 1893 ; Coast Survey steamer " Blake," 
 April, 1893, to 1895 ; Assistant Inspector Light-House District, July, 1895 ; 
 " Annapolis," July 20, 1897, to date. 
 
 S. A. Staunton. Appointed from West Virginia. Naval Academy, 
 September, 1867; Midshipman, June, 1872; Ensign, July, 1872; Master, 
 February, 1875 ; Lieutenant, November, 1881. Service: August, 1871, to 
 June, 1873, "Iroquois," N. A. Station, "Congress," " Wabash," and "Ply- 
 
168 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 mouth," European Station ; December, 1873, to April, 1874, " Franklin," N. 
 Station; August to September, 1874, receiving-ship " Sabine ;" October to 
 December, 1874, Hydrographic Office ; January, 1875, to October, 1877, 
 " Powhatan " (for passage), " Franklin," "Marion" and "Trenton," Euro 
 pean Station; December, 1877, to December, 1879, Naval Academy; De 
 cember, 1879, to December, 1882, " Swatara," China Station; February, 
 1883, to May, 1883, ordnance duty ; October, 1883, to March, 1885, Office 
 of Naval Intelligence; April, 1885, to August, 1887, Flag- Lieutenant 
 " Pensacola," European Station ; October, 1887, to October, 1889, Office of 
 Naval Intelligence and Secretary American Delegation to International 
 Maritime Conference, which prepared programme considered by Conference ; 
 October, 1889, to April, 1893, Flag- Lieutenant, "Chicago," Squadron of 
 Evolution (European, South Atlantic and North Atlantic Stations) ; ord 
 nance Instructor, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., October, 1893 ; ordered to 
 U. S. S. " Philadelphia," April, 1894 ; Recorder Board Inspection and Sur 
 vey, November, 1894-7; ordered to "Iowa," June, 1897; April, 1898, 
 battleship " New York," to date. 
 
 Aaron Ward. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1867; Midshipman, June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1871; Master, 
 February, 1875; Lieutenant, November, 1881 ; " California," Pacific Station, 
 1870-3; "Franklin," Europe, 1875-6; Naval Academy, 1876-9 ; training- 
 ship " Constitution," 1879-81 ; training-ship " New Hampshire," 1881-3 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1883-5; "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1885-6; 
 " Monongahela," Pacific Station, 1886-8 ; Naval Attache^ Paris and St. 
 Petersburg, 1889, to November, 1892 ; waiting orders, November, 1892, to 
 August, 1893; "New York," South Atlantic Station, August, 1893-4; 
 ordered to the " San Francisco," July, 1894 ; Navy Yard, New York, No 
 vember, 1896-8 ; commanding the " Wasp," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Ward Bartlett. Appointed from Massachusetts. Naval 
 Academy, June, 1867; Midshipman, June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1872; 
 Master, March, 1875 ; Lieutenant, February, 1882 ; " Wabash," Europe, 
 1870-3 ; Hydrographic Office, 1875-7 ; training-ship " Saratoga," 1877-8 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1878-81 ; practice ship " Constellation," 1881 ; training- 
 ship "Minnesota," 1881-2; "Adams," European Station, 1882-4; Naval 
 Academy, 1884-8 ; " Kanger," Pacific Station, 1888-91; Naval Academy, 
 October 31, 1891, to December, 1894; "Atlanta," "Cincinnati," "Minneap 
 olis," December, 1894, to July, 1897 ; Naval Academy, August 22, 1897, to 
 May, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Topeka," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Chauncey Thomas. Born April 27, 1850, in New York. Appointed 
 to Naval Academy from Pennsylvania, September 26,1867; Naval Acad 
 emy to June 6, 1871 ; frigate " Wabash," European Station, October 5, 1871 ; 
 store-ship "Supply," July 21, 1873; frigate "Colorado," North Atlantic 
 Station, December 1, 1873; frigate "Wabash," April 2, 1874; waiting 
 orders, April 28, 1874 ; ordered to examination for promotion, June 4, 1874 ; 
 waiting orders, June 17, 1874. Commissioned Ensign, July 14, 1872; 
 frigate "Colorado," North Atlantic Station, July 13, 1874; sloop "Canan- 
 daigua," September 21, 1874; flag-ship "Worcester" and to staff of Rear- 
 Admiral Mullany, September 27, 1874; flag-ship "Colorado," March 31, 
 1875; flag-ship "Worcester," May 10, 1875; sloop "Plymouth" (special 
 duty), June 24, 1875 ; ordered to examination for promotion, September 25, 
 1875, and commissioned Master from April 14, 1875 ; returning to duty on 
 board the " Plymouth ;" ordered to the flag-ship " Hartford " and to staff of 
 Rear AdmirafLeRoy, February 14, 1876 ; to staff of Rear-Admiral Trench- 
 
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 ard, August 31, 1876 ; flag-ship " Powhatan," July 4, 1877 ; waiting orders, 
 June 15,1878; Nautical Almanac Office, Navy Department, Washington, 
 D. C., July 8, 1878 ; waiting orders, July 8, 1881 ; ordered to sloop " Adams," 
 Pacific Station, September 10, 1881, and to examination for promotion, May 
 26, 1882. Commissioned Lieutenant from March 10, 1882 ; waiting orders, 
 September 9, 1884 ; Nautical Almanac Office, Navy Department, Washing 
 ton, D. C., November 15, 1884 ; appointed Assistant Superintendent Nauti 
 cal Almanac, November 25, 1884 ; detached and ordered to special duty as 
 Aide to Admiral Porter, March 10, 1886, which duty continued till after the 
 death of Admiral Porter; March 15, 1891, was ordered to U. S. training-ship 
 " Monongahela ;" detached July 10, 1893, and ordered to " Bennington ;" 
 Hydrographic Office, April, 1894-96; U.S. S. "Oregon," December, 1896- 
 98 ; February, 1898, U. S. S. " Wheeling," to date. ; 
 
 W. A. Marshall. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed to the Naval 
 Academy, from the Ninth District, represented by Thaddeus Stevens, in 
 June, 1867 ; Midshipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, April, 
 1875; Lieutenant, April, 1882. "Iroquois" and " Canandaigua," N. A. 
 Station, 1871-2; " Hartford," China Station, 1872-4 ; "Tennessee," China 
 Station, 1875-8 ; training-ship, "New Hampshire," 1879-80; " Vandalia," 
 N. A. Station, 1880-3; Branch Hydrographic Office, Boston, 1883-6; 
 " Dolphin," cruising, 1886-9 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, R. I., 1889-93 ; 
 " Charleston," South Atlantic Station, 1893-4; "Detroit," China Station, 
 1894-6 ; Naval Academy, 1896-7 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1898. 
 
 W. M. Irwin. Appointed from Ohio. Naval Academy, June, 1867 ; 
 Midshipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, May, 1875; Lieuten 
 ant, June, 1882 ; "California," Pacific, 1871-4 ; " Ossipee," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1874-76; "Gettysburg," 1876-7; Nautical Almanac Office, 1878-9 ; 
 " Michigan," N. W. Lakes, 1879-81 ; " Essex," Pacific Station, 1881-5 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1885; Bureau of Equipment, 1885-8; "Richmond," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1889-93; Navy Yard, Washington, July, 1893; 
 training-ship " Portsmouth," July, 1894 ; training-ship " Alliance," July, 
 1895 ; Steel Inspector, S. Bethlehem, June, 1897, to date. 
 
 G. C. Hanus. Appointed from Wisconsin. Naval Academy, July, 
 1865; Midshipman, June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, May, 1875; 
 Lieutenant, June, 1882; "Canandaigua," 1871-5; Coast Survey, 1875-8; 
 "Jamestown," North Pacific Station, 1879-81 ; while serving on the "James 
 town," was engaged in making extensive surveys in Alaska and in settling 
 intertribal disputes among the Chileat Indians ; Hydrographic, 1881-3 ; 
 Coast Survey duty, 1883-6, during which periods he commanded the steamers 
 "Arago," " Endeavor," " Gedney," and " Ready ; " "Ossipee," N. A. Station, 
 1886-7 ; appointed by Governor Hill as a Boundary Commissioner for New 
 York, in settling Raritan Bay Boundary, in 1887 ; Nipsic," Pacific Station, 
 1887-8; was recalled from "Nipsic," then at Callao, in consequence of a 
 joint resulution of both the Legislatures of New York and New Jersey, re 
 questing his services as an engineer in settling the boundary in the Arthur 
 Kill, Kill von Kull, New York Bay, and Hudson River ; served as a New 
 York Commissioner and Engineer of both commissions, to 1890 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, November, 1893-5 ; commanding C. S. S. " Eager," Feb 
 ruary, 1895-7; U. S. S. "Newport," January, 1898, to April, 1898; com 
 manding U. S. S. " Free Lance," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 J. E. Roller. Naval apprentice. Naval Academy, June, 1867 ; Midship 
 man, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, May, 1875 ; Lieutenant, July, 
 1882; "Wachusett," Europe, 1871-3; "Portsmouth," 1874-7; receiving- 
 
170 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ship "Colorado," 1878-80; training-ship "Saratoga," 1881-3; training-ship 
 "Minnesota," 1883; Branch Hydrographic Office, New York, 1883-5; 
 "Marion," Asiatic Station, 1885-6; "Palos," Asiatic Station, 1886-8; re 
 ceiving-ship "Minnesota," 1888; Navy Yard, New York, June, 1893, to 
 1896; ordered to the "Lancaster," May, 1896; battleship "New York," 
 January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Francis E. Greene. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1867 ; Midshipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, June, 
 1875; Lieutenant, July, 1882 ; "Congress," special service, 1871-3; "Shaw- 
 mut," N. A. Station, 1874-7; coast survey, 1877-80; "Yantic," N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1880-3; training-ship "New Hampshire," 1883-6; "Alert," Pacific 
 Station, 1886-90 ; ordered to the " Ranger," April, 1893 ; " Adams," January, 
 1896 ; leave of absence, May, 1896 ; Navy Yard, Washington, July, 1896, to 
 1898 ; " Alliance," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Carlos G. Calkins. Appointed from Ohio. Naval Academy, June, 
 1867. Midshipman, June, 1871. Ensign, July, 1872. Master, July. 1875 ; 
 Lieutenant, November, 1882 ; "" Wyoming," 1871-4; "Franklin," Europe, 
 1874-6 ; " Essex," S. A. Station, 1876-7 ; " Wyoming," European Station, 
 1877-81 ; Hydrographic Office, 1881-2 ; special duty, Bureau of Naviga 
 tion, 1882-3; " Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1883-6; Office of Naval Intelli 
 gence, 1886-7 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1887-8 ; member Board of In 
 spectors, 1888-9; steamer "Albatross," 1889; Hydrographic Office, Oregon, 
 April, 1893-5; the "Boston," December, 1895; the " Olympia," January, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 William Power Elliott. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1867. Midshipman, June, 1871. Ensign, July, 1872. Master, May, 
 1875. Lieutenant, June, 1882; California, "Mohican," 1871-2; " Lacka- 
 wanna," China, 1872-4; "Alert," North Atlantic, 1875-6; "Plymouth," 
 North Atlantic, 1877; "Tuscarora," Pacific, 1878; Coast Survey, 1879-83; 
 " Galena," North Atlantic, 1883-6 ; Naval Observatory, 1886-9 ; command 
 ing C. S. schooner "Eagre," 1889 ; ordered to the "Adams," March, 1892-4 ; 
 ordered to the "Bennington," May, 1895; the "Philadelphia," January, 
 1897; U. S. S. Baltimore," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry Harris Barroll. Born in New Madrid, Mo., May 22, 1850, and 
 was appointed to the United States Naval Academy, from Cape Girardeau 
 County, September, 1867 ; graduated in June, 1871, and was first attached 
 to the U. S. S. Iroquois," and later to the U. S. S. " Congress," serving on 
 the North Atlantic Station ; while attached to the "Congress," in 1872, that 
 vessel was ordered to proceed to Port au Prince, Hayti, to release and bring 
 to the United States the American steamer " Hornet," then blockaded in 
 that port by Spanish men-of-war ; the blockaded vessel was convoyed to Bal 
 timore ; served on board the U. S. S. "Congress " on the European Station, 
 until May, 1873, when he was transferred to the U. S. S " Wachusett," and 
 in the spring of 1874 returned to Key West in that vessel, the " Virginius 
 Affair " having caused the naval forces to assemble there ; took part in the 
 naval drill in Florida Bay. Promoted to Ensign in 1872 ; in June, 1874, 
 placed on waiting orders, and in October, 1874, ordered to the U. S. monitor 
 " Canonicus," at New Orleans, La.; detached from the " Canonicus" in Jan 
 uary, 1875, and ordered to take passage in the U. S. S. " Canandaigua," to 
 Aspinwall, U. S. of Colombia, and join the party under Lieutenant Frederick 
 Collins, U. S. Navy, to survey a line for an interoceanic canal across the 
 Isthmus of Darien ; was here engaged for five months, and upon return to 
 the United States, was ordered on duty at the Navy department, to assist in 
 
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 the computation of the cost of a ship-canal, by way of the Atrato-Napipi route. 
 Promoted to Master in 1875 ; in September, 1875, ordered to duty on board 
 the U. S. S. " Gettysburg," making determinations of longitude by means of 
 telegraphic cable, working from Key West, through the Antilles, as far south 
 as the Island of Trinidad ; on returning to the United States in June, 1876, 
 was assigned to duty on board of the training-ship " Minnesota ; " in Octo 
 ber, 1877, was detached and ordered to duty in the U. S. Coast Survey, 
 serving at first on board the U. S. Coast Survey schooner " Palinurus," and 
 engaged in making sailing directions for the east coast of the United States, 
 between Cape Henry and the Dry Tortugas ; and also for Albemarle and 
 Pamlico Sounds ; was also employed in locating the oysters-beds in Tangier 
 and Pocomoke Sounds, Chesapeake Bay ; in November, 1879, was ordered 
 to command the Coast Survey steamer " Hitchcock," theHf at Grand Gulf, 
 and engaged in triangulating the Mississippi River ; in 1880, received orders 
 to lay the vessel up at Baton Rouge, and report for duty on board the Coast 
 Survey schooner " Eagre," at Castine, Maine, and made surveys of French 
 men s Bay, Penobscot and Bagaduce Rivers; in August, 1881, was ordered 
 to take passage in the U. S. S. " Powhatan," to Aspinwall, and report for 
 duty on board the U. S S. " Richmond," at Panama ; served on the Asiatic 
 Station until August, 1884, being attached to the U. S. steamers " Rich 
 mond," " Monocacy," and "Palos;" in April, 1883, was ordered in com 
 mand of a naval party appointed to guard from pillage the wreck of the U. 
 S. S. "Ashuelot," which vessel had been lost on Lammock Island, near 
 Swatow; remained here for five months, and at the end of that time was 
 ordered to the U. S. S. " Palos," taking part in quelling the Chinese riots at 
 Canton, in 1883. when the European business-houses on the Island of Shamin 
 were burned ; title changed to Lieutenant (junior grade), in March, 1883 ; 
 was promoted to Lieutenant (senior grade), in May, 1883 ; from November, 
 1884, until Febrnary, 1886, on duty at the Branch Hydrographic Office, 
 Philadelphia; in February, 1886, granted six months leave; in August, 
 1886, ordered to duty on board the U. S. S. "Lancaster," South Atlantic 
 Station ; served for two years as Flag-Lieutenant of the South Atlantic 
 Squadron, returning to the United States in November, 1888 ; since Febru 
 ary, 1889, in charge of the Branch Hydrographic Office, Norfolk, Va.; U. 
 S S. "Marion," October, 1891-4; inspecting steel, June, 1894, and War 
 College ; ordered to " Yorktown," June, 1896-7 ; sick-leave, October, 1897 ; 
 U. S. S. " Helena," April, 1898 ; May, 1898, U. S. S. "Dolphin," to date. 
 
 Frederic Herbert Lefavor Appointed from Ohio. Entered Naval 
 Academy in June, 1866 ; graduated as Midshipman in June, 1891 ; U. S. S. 
 " Narragansett," from September, 1871, to April 4, 1873 ; U. S S. "Brook 
 lyn," and " Ticonderoga " from December 4, 1873, to April 27, 1874. Promoted 
 to Ensign, July, 1874, to date from July, 1872; ordered by telegraph to 
 Monitor duty at New Orleans, September 25, 1874; thence to U. S. S. 
 "Kansas;" U. S. S. "Wachusett," October, 1874, to December 11,1874; 
 and thence to duty on Coast Survey, on the U. S. C. S. steamer " Osage," in 
 North Carolina Sounds ; August 2 commissioned as Master to date from 
 March, 1876 ; U. S. S. " Tuscarora," from December, 1877, to May 31, 1880 ; 
 U. S. S. " Ranger" from January, 1881, to June, 1882 ; U. S. C. S. steamer 
 "McArthur" from October 15, 1882, to July 31, 1*84; June 1, commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, (junior grade), to date from March 3, 1883; commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, from July 8, 1883. Branch Hyd. Office, San Fran 
 cisco, August 9, 1884, to October 1, 1885; Branch Hyd. Office, New 
 Orleans, La., October 11, 1885, to May 16, 1886; Torpedo Station, Newport, 
 
172 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 June 1, 1886, to November 19, 1886 ; Hyd. Office, Washington, November 
 22, 1886, to February 5, 1887 ; U. S. S. " Yantic," from February 27, 1887, 
 to August 2, 188 -<; " Pensacola," from August 8, 1888, to February 22, 
 1889 ; " Yantic," from February 26, 1889, to July 1889 ; Navy Yard, Mare 
 Island, Cal., from October 31, 1889, to July 25, 1892; " Monocacy " (Ast. 
 Station), from August 23, 1892, to January 22, 1893 ; " Petrel," from Janu 
 ary 28, 1893, to April 16, 1893 ; Yokohama Hospital, from April 21, 1893, 
 to July 20, 1893 ; U. S. flag-ship " Lancaster," from July 20, 1893, to Sep 
 tember 28, 1893 ; " Monocacy," from October 20, 1893, to August 13, 1895 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal, from September 25, 1895, to August 16, 
 1897; "Wheeling," U. S. receiving-ship "Independence," "Adams," 
 from August 10, 1897, to March 2, 1898. 
 
 W. E. Sewell. Appointed from New York. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1867 ; Midshipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, April, 
 1876 ; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, October, 1883 ; served 
 on European and Home Stations in "Congress," " Wabash," "Plymouth," 
 and " Ticonderoga," 1871-4; Coast Survey, 1874-7; receiving-ship " Pas- 
 saic,"1878; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1878-80; "Alarm " (torpedo-boat) 
 (part of time in command), 1881-2 ; Naval Observatory, 1882-3 ; " Ossipee," 
 Asiatic Station, 1884-6 ; Naval Observatory, 1886-7 ; Navigator, Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, 1887-90; U. S. S. "Petrel," April, 1891, and U. S. S. 
 " Marion," Navy Yard, Mare Island, July, 1894-7 ; U. S. S. " Montgomery," 
 January, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Vesuvius," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry McCrea. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy, July, 
 1866; Midshipman, June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, June, 1876 ; 
 Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, November, 1883 ; " California," 
 Pacific, 1871-3 ; Coast Survey, 1875-7 ; Torpedo Station, 1877-8; "Rich 
 mond," Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1883 ; " Shen- 
 andoah," Pacific Station, 1883-6 ; Naval Academy, 1886-9 ; Bureau of 
 Navigation, 1889-90 ; Bureau of Ordnance, June, 1893 ; U. S. S. " Fern," 
 April, 1896, and U. S. S. " Brooklyn," to March, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Machias," 
 April, 1898, to date. 
 
 E. F. Qualtrough. Born in Rochester, N. Y., 1850. Appointed to 
 Naval Academy, from New York, September 21, 1867 ; Midshipman, June 
 6, 1871 ; Ensign, July 14, 1872; Master, July 1, 1876 ; Lieutenant, Novem 
 ber 24, 1883; flag-ship " Wabash," European Station, 1871-4 ; " Wachu- 
 sett," West Indies, in 1874, during the Cuban trouble; " Despatch," special 
 service in Europe, 1875-6 ; " Marion," European Station, 1877 ; flag-ship 
 " Trenton," European Station, 1877-8 ; Naval Observatory, 1879-82 ; " Hart 
 ford," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; during this cruise Lieutenant Qualtrough was 
 for three weeks on a small coral island in charge of the naval portion of an 
 astronomical expedition to make observations of the total solar eclipse in 
 May, 1883 ; while on this island he made an accurate survey of it, and sent 
 a chart to the Department ; the chart was afterwards issued by the Hydro- 
 graphic Office ; Mare Island Navy Yard, 1886-9 ; most of the time in charge 
 of the Ordnance Department, Charleston ; Pacific Station, 1890 ; Lieutenant 
 Qualtrough is the author of the Boat-Sailor s Manual, and the Sailor s 
 Handy Book ; office of Naval Intelligence, May, 1893-5 ; " Mohican," 
 March, 1895, to January, 1896 ; U. S. S. "Marion," January, 1898 ; U. S. S. 
 " Terror," to date. 
 
 James Cephas Cresap. Appointed from Ohio, June, 1867. Midship 
 man, June, 1871 ; European Station, on steamers " Wachusett," "Wabash," 
 "Brooklyn," and " Shenandoah," 1871-4. Ensign, July, 1872; flag-ship 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 173 
 
 " Richmond," S. P. Station, Aide to Flag-Officer N. Collins, 1874-5 ; store- 
 ship "Supply," 1875; iron-clad steamer "Manhattan," N. A. Station, 1876. 
 Master, September, 1876; steamers "Alliance" and "Enterprise," N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1877 ; flagship "Hartford," S. A. Station, Aide and Secretary to Flag- 
 Officer E. T. Nichols, 1877-9 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1880-1 ; receiving- 
 ship "Colorado," New York, 1881-2; Torpedo Station, 1882. Lieutenant, 
 December, 1883 ; Naval Experimental Battery, in charge, 1883 ; Naval 
 Academy (Dep t Mathematics), 1884-5 ; steamer " Mohican," Pacific Station, 
 1885-8 ; assistant to U. S. Commissioner Bates at Samoa and Tonga, 1886 ; 
 Naval Academy (Dep ts English and Mathematics), 1889-92 ; training-ship 
 "Jamestown," 1892; "Constellation," transporting European exhibits for 
 World s Fair, 1892-3 ; protected cruiser Baltimore," Naval Review Fleet, 
 1893 ; flag-ship " Chicago," European Station, 1893, and " Bennington," 
 Pacific Station, 1894 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Aide to Commandant, and 
 receiving-ship "Franklin," 1895-6; battleship "Massachusetts," 1897-8, to 
 date. 
 
 A. C. Baker. Appointed from Iowa. Naval Academy, September, 
 1867 ; Midshipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872; Master, December, 1876 ; 
 Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, January, 1884; "Wabash," 
 Europe, 1871-3; " Brooklyn," South Atlantic Station, 1874-6 ; " Despatch " 
 (despatch-boat), 1877-9 ; Hydrographic Office, 1880-82; "Albatross," special 
 service, 1882-5; <( Juniata," 1885-6 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1886-8 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1888-90 ; duty with World s Exposition, November, 1890 ; 
 U, S. S. " Alert," April, 1894-7; leave of absence, April, 1897; special 
 duty, Paris Exposition, August, 1897 ; February, 1898, special duty to date 
 s^ . H. H. Southerland. Naval Apprentice. Naval Academy, June, 
 1868; Midshipman, June, 1872; Ensign, July, 1873; Master, November, 
 1877; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, February, 1884; " Tus- 
 carora," Pacific Station, 1872-5; Naval Academy, 1875-6; "Plymouth," 
 N. A. Station, 1877-9; 4 Kearsarge, " N. A. Station, 1879-81; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, 1881-4; "Dolphin," special service, 1884-5; "Brooklyn," 
 N. A. Station, 1885-6 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1886-7 ; " Brooklyn," 
 N. A. Station, 1887-9 ; Bureau of Navigation, 1889-95 ; ordered to the 
 "Cincinnati," then to the " Dolphin," June 1895-7 ; Bureau of Equipment, 
 November, 1897 ; commanding U. S. S. " Eagle," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Lucien Young. Born in Lexington, Kentucky, March 31, 1852. Ap 
 pointed to the Naval Academy as Midshipman from that State, June 21, 
 1869 ; served on board the practice-ships " Dale," " Savannah " and " Constel 
 lation ;" graduated, May 31. 1873 ; July 23, 1873, ordered to the "Alaska," 
 fitting out at New York, and which soon joined the European Station ; 
 special orders from the commanding officer of the " Alaska," and the admiral 
 commanding the squadron, and a general order from the Secretajy of the 
 Navy were published, commendatory of extraordinary heroism in jumping 
 overboard while under way at sea, and saving the life of a seaman who had 
 been knocked overboard ; for this act, also, a gold medal of the first class was 
 awarded by the New York Benevolent and Life-Saving Institution, and a 
 framed certificate from the Humane Society of Massachusetts ; detached from 
 the "Alaska," August 5, 1875, at Lisbon, and ordered to the "Hartford/ 
 and on the 16th of October, 1875, detached from the "Hartford" at Fort 
 Monroe, and ordered to examination for promotion. Commissioned as En 
 sign, July 16, 1874 ; ordered to the " Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 
 December 10, 1875; detached from the "Powhatan," February 29, 1876, 
 and ordered to the " Huron;" shipwrecked in the "Huron," off Nag s Head, 
 
174 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 N. C., November 24, 1877. For conduct on this occasion received letter of 
 thanks from the Secretary of the Navy, a gold medal of the first class, under 
 an act of Congress, from the Life-Saving Service of the United States, a 
 sword from the State of Kentucky by special resolution, made an honorary 
 member of the Legislature of that State, was nominated by the President, 
 and advanced, under a special act of Congress, to the grade of Master. Com 
 missioned a Master, from November 24, 1877 ; ordered to the " Portsmouth," 
 March 17, 1878, and upon arrival at Havre, France, took charge of a squad 
 of men for duty at the Universal Exposition at Paris, upon the completion 
 of which rejoined the " Portsmouth," and served in her in the training squad 
 ron on return to the United States ; detached from the " Portsmouth," April 
 5, 1880, and ordered to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, Navy De 
 partment, acting for a while as Naval Aide to the Secretary of the Navy ; de 
 tached from the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, July 25, 1882, and 
 ordered to the monitor " Montauk ;" detached from monitor, December 5, 
 1882, and ordered to the training-ship " Minnesota." Commissioned Lieu 
 tenant (junior-grade), March 3, 1883 ; detached from the " Minnesota," Octo 
 ber 29, 1883, and ordered to duty in charge of men, and on arrival to duty 
 in the Pacific Squadron was assigned as Executive of the " Onward ; " trans 
 ferred from the " Onward " to the "Shenandoah," October 17, 1884 ; took part 
 in landing at Panama, to protect American interests, in the spring of 1885 ; 
 detached from the " Shenandoah," at San Francisco, October 8, 1886, and 
 ordered to Washington for examination for promotion. Commissioned Lieu 
 tenant, May 1, 1884; granted six months leave of absence, December 6, 
 1886; ordered to torpedo service at Newport, R. I., May 11, 1887, and to 
 the Naval War College, August 30, 1887 ; detached from War College, De 
 cember 19, 1887, and ordered to duty in the Bureau of Navigation, assigned 
 to the office of Naval War Records to July, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Detroit," July, 
 1896, to January, 1897; U. S. S. "Boston," January, 1897, to October, 
 1897 ; U. S. S. " Yorktown," October 22, 1897, to December, 1897. U. S. S. 
 " Alert," December, 1897, to February, 1 898 ; sick leave from February, 
 1898, to March 25, 1898 ; on leave to date. 
 
 J. M. Roper. Appointed from Missouri. N. A., June, 1868 ; Midship 
 man, June, 1872; Ensign, July, 1873; Master, November, 1877; Junior 
 Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, June, 1884; "Omaha," S. P. Station, 
 1872-5 ; Naval Academy, 1875-7 ; " Supply " (store-ship), 1877-9 ; train 
 ing-ship "Minnesota," 1879-82; " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1882-5; 
 special duty, Navy Department, 1885-6 ; Naval Academy, 1886-94; ordered 
 to the " New York," August, 1894; " Monadnock," 1896; Assistant Light- 
 House Inspector, Third District, September 16, 1897; U. S. S. "May 
 flower," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Eben Fox. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, June, 
 1868, to June, 1872; Ensign, July, 1873 ; Master, November, 1877 ; Junior 
 Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, August, 1884; U. S. S. "Hartford," 
 Asiatic Station, 1872-5; Hydrographic Office, 1875-6; U. S. S- "Adams," 
 1876-8 ; Coast Survey, 1878-9 ; U. S. S. " Nipsic," European Station, 1879- 
 82; Navy Department, 1883-4; Aide to The Admiral, 1884-6; U. S. S. 
 "Iroquois," 1886-7; U. S. S. " Vaudalia," 1887-9, Pacific Station; Navy 
 Department, 1889 ; Office Naval Intelligence, October, 1889, to December, 
 1892 ; Flag Lieutenant of the Asiatic and Pacific Squadrons, January, 1893, 
 to January, 1896 ; Navy Department and Naval Observatory, February 
 1896, to October, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Vicksburg," October, 1897, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE TJ. S. NAVY. 175 
 
 ]. C. Freemont, Jr. Appointed at large. N. A. June, 1868 ; Midship 
 man, June, 1872 ; Ensign, July, 1873 ; Master, November, 1877 ; Junior 
 Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, September, 1884; "Wabash," Europe, 
 1872-4; "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 1876-8; special Light-House duty, 
 1878-81; Coast Survey, 1881-4; "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1884-6; 
 Hydrographic Office, 1886-8; Recorder Board of Inspection, 1888-9 ; ord 
 nance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889-93 ; Assistant Superintendent of 
 Harbor of New York, September, 1893 ; ordered to the " Indiana," Novem 
 ber, 1895; commanding the "Gushing," November, 1895; commanding the 
 " Porter," 1897, to date. 
 
 Albert Mertz. Appointed from Wisconsin Naval Academy, June, 
 1867; Midshipman, June, 1872; Ensign, July, 1873; Master, November, 
 1877; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, September, 1884; 
 Asiatic Station, 1872-6 ; Coast Survey, 1876-80 ; " Wyoming," N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1880-3 ; Alliance," N. A. Station, 1883-5 ; "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 
 1885-6 ; " Marion," Asiatic Station, 1886-8 ; receiving-ship " Minnesota," 
 1888-93; receiving- ship "Minnesota," June, 1894-5; training-ships "Con 
 stellation," September, 1895, U. S. 8. " Michigan," March, 1896, and "Fern," 
 U. S. S. " Amphitrite," November, 1896, to date. 
 
 R. H. Gait. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, June, 1868. Mid 
 shipman, June, 1872. Ensign, July, 1873. Master, December, 1877. Junior 
 Lieutenant, March, 1883. Lieutenant, November, 1884; "Tuscarora," Pa 
 cific Station, 1872-5; "Huron," N. A. Station, 1876-7; Coast Survey, 
 1877-81 ; receiving-ship " Independence," 1881 ; " Pensacola," Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1881-3; "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1883-4; Midvale Steel Works, 
 1884-8 ; " Mohican," Pacific Station, 1888 ; Naval Academy, November, 
 1892; ordered to the "Minneapolis," December, 1894; leave of absence, 
 June, 1895; ordered to the "Maine," September, 1895; "Essex," 1896; 
 "Terror," 1896 ; Inspector Equipment, Newport News, June, 1897, to date. 
 
 Vincendon L. Cottman. Appointed by Hon. James Brooks, Seventh 
 District, New York City. Entered Naval Academy, September 21, 1868 ; 
 graduated, June 1, 1872. Ensign, July 15, 1873. Master, May 9, 1878. 
 Lieutenant, January 8, 1885; "Tuscarora," 1872-5; deep-sea sounding in 
 Pacific landing-party, Panama, 1873; landing-party, Honolulu, 1874; 
 Samoa with Steinberger, Latrobe, etc., 1875; "Colorado," receiving- ship, 
 New York, 1875-6 ; " Supply," training-squadron, 1876; "Alliance," Euro 
 pean Station, 1877-80; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1880-1; "Richmond," 
 Asiatic Station, 1881-2; "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1882-4; "Rich 
 mond," Asiatic Station, 1884; Branch Hydrographic Office, New York, 
 1885-9; in charge New York Nautical School-ship "St. Mary s," as Senior 
 Instructor and Navigator, 1889 ; Secretary International Marine Conference, 
 1889-90; ordered to the "Concord," February, 1891; to the " Marion," 
 1894; Navy lard, New York, October, 1894; ordered to the "Monterey," 
 December, 1896-8 ; U. S. S. "Alert," February, 1898, to date. 
 
 F E. Sawyer. Appointed from Massachusetts. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1868 ; Midshipman, June, 1872 ; Ensign, July, 1873 ; Master, July, 
 1878; Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 1883; Lieutenant, June, 1885; 
 "Hartford," Asiatic Station, 1872-5; "Richmond," South Pacific, 1876-7; 
 receiving-ship "Franklin," 1877-8; Coast Survey, 1878-80; "Ashuelot," 
 Asiatic Station, 1880-2; receiving-ship "Wabash," 1882-3; "Swatara," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1883-6 ; Hydrographic Office, 1886-8 ; " Swatara," 
 1888-9 ; "Richmond," South Atlantic Station, 1889-90; U. S. S. "Thetis," 
 October, 1892; "Philadelphia," October, 1892-5; Navy Yard, Boston, No- 
 
176 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 vember, 1895, and War College, to 1897 ; U. S. S. "Fern," December, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 W. H. Schuetz. Appointed from Missouri. Naval Academy, June, 
 1867; Midshipman, May, 1873; Ensign, July, 1874; Master, November, 
 1878 ; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, October, 1885 ; Atlantic 
 Station, 1874-5 ; " Moiiongahela, " 1876-7 ; " Michigan," Northwestern Lakes, 
 1877-8; "Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 1878-9; " Tennessee," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1879-81 ; special duty, Siberia, 1882-5 ; special duty, State 
 Department, 1885-6; Navy Department, 1886-7; Superintendent of Com 
 passes, 1888-9; "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90; special duty, 
 Navy Department, January, 1893-7; ordered to the " Marblehead," April, 
 1897 ; "Iowa," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 T. B. Howard. Born in Illinois. Appointed "at large;" Naval 
 Academy, June, 1869, to May 31, 1873; Ensign, July, 1874; Master, June, 
 1879 ; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, November, 1885 ; 
 "Alaska" and " Wabash," European Station, 1873-4; " Wabash," at Key 
 West, 1874; "Franklin," European Station, 1874-5; Naval Academy, 
 1876-8; "Plymouth," North Atlantic, 1878-9; " Kearsarge," North Atlan 
 tic, 1879-81; practice-ship "Dale," 1881; Naval Academy, 1881-4; prac 
 tice-ship "Dale," 1883; "Saratoga," training-squadron, 1884-7; Naval 
 Academy, 1887-90 ; " Constellation," 1887 and 1889 ; ordered to the " Mian- 
 tonomah," June, 1891-4; leave of absence, June, 1894 ; Naval Academy, 
 August, 1894-7 ; "Concord," May, 1897, to date. 
 
 W. C. Cowles. Appointed from Connecticut N. A., September, 1869 ; 
 Midshipman, May, 1873 ; En*ign, July, 1874 ; Master, August, 1879 ; Junior 
 Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, December, 1885; Atlantic Station, 
 1873-5 ; " Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1875-9 ; training-ship "Constellation," 
 1879-80; Hydrographic Office, 1880-2 ; "Kearsarge," European Station, 
 1882-5 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1885-6 ; Inspector of steel, new cruisers, 
 1886-7 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1887-9 ; " Kearsarge," N. A Station, 
 1889-90; waiting orders, November, 1893; ordered to the "Marblehead," 
 April, 1894-7 ; Bureau of Equipment, June, 1897, to date. 
 
 A M. Knight. Appointed from Florida. Naval Academy, June, 1869. 
 Midshipman, May, 1873. Ensign, July, 1874. Master, October, 1879. Junior 
 Lieutenant, March, 1883. Lieutenant, December, 1885 ; Pacific Station, 1872 
 -5; Naval Academy, 1876-8; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1878-9; 
 " Galena," European Station, 1880-3 ; Naval Academy,1883-5 ; ordnance 
 duty, Annapolis, 1885-9 ; " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90 ; 
 Naval Academy, June, 1892-5 ; ordered to the " Lancaster," September, 
 1895; "Castine," 1896; "Puritan," 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles Johnston Badger. Born August 6, 1853. Appointed "at 
 large" to Naval Academy, June, 1869. Graduated Midshipman, May, 1873. 
 Commissioned Ensign, July, 1874. Commissioned Master, November, 1879. 
 Commissioned Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 1883. Commissioned Lieu 
 tenant, January, 1886; September, 1873, to July, 1875, U.S.S. "Narragan- 
 sett," survey of Gulf of California ; October, 1875, to December, 1875, Navy 
 Yard, Washington ; January, 1876, to July, 1876, U. S. torpedo-steamer 
 " Alarm ; " September, 1876, to November, 1879, Asiatic Station, serving on 
 board " Ashuelot," " Alert," " Monocacy " and " Monongahela ; " December, 
 1879, to April, 1880, special duty, Bureau of Navigation ; April, 1880, to 
 August, 1881, Coast Survey steamers "Endeavor" and "A. D. Bache ; " 
 September, 1881, to September, 1882, U. S. S. " Yantic," North Atlantic Sta 
 tion ; October, 1882, to January, 1884, Navy Yard, Boston ; January, 1884, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 177 
 
 to March, 1884, Fish Commission steamer, " Fish Hawk ; " April, 1884, to 
 November, 1884, Executive of the U. S. S. " Alert," of the Greely Relief 
 Expedition of that year. For participation in this expedition, received, by 
 name, with the other officers and men from Maryland, the thanks of that 
 State as tendered in joint resolutions of the Senate and House of Delegates, 
 assembled at Annapolis; November, 1884, to April, 1885, ordnance duty, 
 Navy Yard, Washington ; April and May, 1885, attached to the U. S. S. 
 "Tennessee," while serving with the expeditionary force sent to the Isthmus 
 of Panama; October, 1885, to May, 1889, U. S S. "Brooklyn," Asiatic Sta 
 tion ; August, 1889, ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, to November, 
 1892; U. S. S. "Dolphin," November 16, 1892, to October, 1895; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, October 12, 1895, to July, 1897 ; Naval War College, 
 July, 1897, to August, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Cincinnati," August/ 28, 1897, to date. 
 
 S. W. B. Diehl. Appointed from Pennsylvania to Naval Academy, 
 September, 1869, as Midshipman ; Midshipman, May, 1873 ; Ensign, July, 
 1874 ; Master, November, 1879 ; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieuten 
 ant, January, 1886 ; European Station, "Alaska," " Wabash," and " Con 
 gress," 1873-5 ; North Atlantic Station, " Vandalia," and " Congress," 
 1876-8 ; Hydrographic Office, 1878-9 ; South, Atlantic Station, " Marion," 
 1879-82; Bureau of Navigation, 1883-4; Torpedo Station. 1884; Bureau 
 of Navigation, 1884-6 ; special service, U. S. S. Boston, 1887-9 ; Bureau of 
 Equipment and Recruiting as Superintendent of Compasses, 1889, to July, 
 1893 ; U. S. S. " Detroit," July 20, 1893, to April, 1894 ; Bureau of Navi 
 gation, April 24, 1894, to September, 1894; U. S. S. "Machias," September 
 18, 1894, to July, 1897 ; U S. S. " Cincinnati," July, 1897, to August, 1897 ; 
 Office Naval Intelligence, September 27, 1897, to February, 1898 ; Bureau of 
 Equipment, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 Reginald F. Nicholson. Appointed from District of Columbia to 
 Naval Academy, September, 1869 ; Midshipman, May, 1872 ; Ensign, July, 
 1874 ; Master, January, 1880 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 1883 ; 
 Lieutenant, January, 1886; signal office, 1873; "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 
 1875-7 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1877-8 ; " Portsmouth " 
 (training-ship), 1878-82; Hydrographic Office, 1882-5; "Mohican," Pacific 
 Station, 1885-8 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1888; ordered to 
 the "Monterey," February, 1893; "Thetis," January, 1895; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, December, 1895 ; "Oregon," December, 1897, to date. 
 
 S. C. Lemly. Appointed from North Carolina to Naval Academy, 
 June, 1869; Midshipman, May, 1872; Ensign, July, 1874; Master, Febru 
 ary, 1880; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, January, 1886; 
 Atlantic Station, 1872-6 ; " Essex," South Atlantic Station, 1876-9 ; "Palos," 
 Asiatic Station, 1881-3; special duty, Navy Department, 1883-6 ; "Tren 
 ton," Pacific Station, 1886-8 ; " Enterprise," European Squadron, 1888-90 ; 
 Judge- Advocate General, June 5, 1892, to date. 
 
 E. B. Underwood. Appointed "at large." Naval Academy, June, 
 1869; Midshipman, May, 1872; Ensign, July, 1874; Master, March, 1880; 
 Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, February, 1886; Atlantic 
 Station, 1872-6 ; " Monongahela," 1876-7 ; " Michigan," Northwestern 
 Lakes, 1877-9; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1881-4; Hydrographic Office, 
 1884-6; Training Squadron, 1886-7; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 
 1887-9; Naval Academy, 1889-92 ; U. S. S. "Yantic," June 28, 1*92, to 
 May, 1895 ; leave of absence, June 30, 1895, to August, 1895 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, August 20, 1895, to April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Miantouomah," April, 
 1898, to date. 
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178 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 W. F. Halsey. Appointed from Louisiana. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1869; Midshipman, May, 1872; Ensign, July, 1874 ; Master, March, 
 1880 ; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, March, 1886 ; Atlantic 
 Station, 1872-6 ; " Alert," Asiatic Station, 1876-9 ; receiving-ship " Inde 
 pendence," 1881-2 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; Branch Hydro- 
 graphic Office, New York, 1885-8; " Ranger," special service, 1888-90; 
 Naval Academy, September, 1891 ; ordered to the " Miantonomah," June, 
 1894 ; " Baltimore," January, 1895 ; ordered to the U. S. S. " New York," 
 January, 1896 ; " Montgomery," January, 1897 ; Naval War College, June, 
 1897 ; Naval Academy, September, 1897 ; commanding the U. S. S. 
 " Newark," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 F. A. Wilner. Appointed from New York, June 22, 1869 ; graduated, 
 May 31, 1873 ; Ensign, July 16, 1874 ; Master, March 25, 1880; Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Lieutenant, May 13, 1886; "Alaska," Euro 
 pean Station, August 5, 1873, to October 13, 1873; " Wabash," Key West, 
 October 13, 1873, to April 1, 1875 ; "Congress," European Station, April 1, 
 1874, to August 26, 1875 ; " Hartford," return to the United States, August 
 26, 1874, to October 16, 1875; "Vandalia," European Station, January 10, 
 1876, to February 5, 1879 ; Nautical Almanac Office, May 21, 1879, to 
 March 15, 1880; U. S. S. "Constellation," March 17, 1880, to June 12, 
 1880; Irish Relief Cruise, U. S. receiving-ship " Passaic," July 15, 1880, to 
 December 13, 1880 ; Washington Yard, Coast Survey, December 15, 1880, 
 to September 25, 1883 ; in charge Hydrographic party on schooner " Silli- 
 man," December 9, 1882, to July 1, 1883; Coast Survey Office, July 2, 
 1883, to September 25, 1883 ; U. S. S. "Alert," Asiatic Station, October 20, 
 1883, to September 25, 1886 ; Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, January 3, 
 1887 ; Inspector of Armor, June 8, 1893, to October, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Phila 
 delphia," October 25, 1895; U. S. S. "Adams," July, 1896, to January, 
 1898 ; U. S. S. " Monadnock," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry Morrell. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, June 
 29, 1869; graduated May 31, 1872. Promoted Ensign, July 16, 1874; 
 Master, October 11, 1880 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; Lieu 
 tenant, May 23,1886; "Alaska," European Station, 1875-6; "Adams," 
 N. A. Stat on, 1876-9 ; Coast Survey, 1879-83 ; " Alert," Asiatic Station, 
 1883-4 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1884-6 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1886-7 ; Bureau Ordnance, 1887-90 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 November 20, 1893. to June, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Massachusetts," June 10, 
 1896, to January, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Castine," January, 1897, to date. 
 
 William Winder. Born in Portsmouth, N. H., September, 1851. Ap 
 pointed from New Hampshire, and entered U. S. Naval Academy, September 
 16, 1869. Appointed Midshipman, May 31, 1872. Commissioned Ensign, 
 July 16,1874; Master, November 23, 1880; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Lieutenant, May 23, 1886. As Midshipman, served in flag 
 ship " Richmond," North and South Pacific Stations, 1873-5; as Ensign, in 
 "Marion," "Hartford," u Dictator," Torpedo Station (under instruction), 
 " Colorado," "Constellation," "Wabash," "Vandalia," and again in 
 "Marion," South Atlantic; during the latter cruise (September, 1879, to 
 December, 1882), ship took yellow fever at Rio, and crew were encamped 
 several weeks on Flores Island, Montevideo ; towards end of cruise the ship, 
 under command of Commodore Silas Terry, U. S. N., rescued the crew of 
 the bark " Trinity," wrecked at Heard s Island, South Indian Ocean, and 
 also rendered important service of hauling off a large British ship, ashore 
 near Capetown, South Africa ; as Master and Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 
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 served in " Wabash," at Torpedo Station; training-ship "New Hampshire," 
 "Omaha," and " Marion," Asiatic Station ; expiration of last cruise, No 
 vember, 1887, joined "Wabash," February 27, 1888; leave of absence, 
 September, 1893; ordered to the "Michigan," May, 1894; receiving-ship 
 "Wabash," October, 1894; ordered to the " Katahdin," December, 1896; 
 U. S. S. " Raleigh," July, 1897, te date. 
 
 Charles B. T. Moore. Born in Illinois. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 27, 1869 ; graduated May 31, 1872. Promoted Ensign, July 16, 
 1874 ; Master, December 14, 1880 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Lieutenant, August 5, 1886; "Alaska," European Station, 1873; " Pensa- 
 cola," North Pacific Station, 1874-6 ; training-ship " Monongahela," 1876 ; 
 " Essex," South Atlantic Station, 1877-9 ; " Onward," store-ship, 1881-3 ; 
 " Galena," North Atlantic Station, 1883-5 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1885 ; 
 " Alert," Asiatic Station, 1886-90; ordered to the " Newark," July, 1893 ; 
 Naval Academy, August, 1896 ; Naval War College, June, 1897 ; Port 
 Royal, S. C., November, 1897 ; U. S. S. "Nantucket," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Ten Eyck De Witt Veeder. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 24, 1868 ; graduated, May 31, 1873. Promoted Ensign, 
 July 16, 1874; Master, January 1, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883; Lieutenant, October 7, 1886; "Tuscarora," deep-sea sounding, 
 Pacific Station, 1873-5 ; " Vandalia," European Station, 1876-7 ; "Alliance," 
 European Station, 1877-80 ; Torpedo Station, 1880-1 ; " Richmond," "Palos," 
 and "Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1881-4 ; on board "Ashuelot " when wrecked 
 on Lamock Rocks, Formosa Channel ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1884; special 
 duty, Electric Lighting, Bureau of Navigation, 1885-9 ; Bureau of Equip 
 ment, Electric Lighting, 1890 ; " Enterprise," July 1, 1890 ; " Yorktown," 
 Squadron of Evolution, August, 1890, to May, 1893 ; Bureau of Equipment, 
 July, 1893, to August 31, 1896; joined U. S. S. " Bancroft," August 31, 
 1896, and went to European Station, returning to Boston, April 4, 1898, 
 where the " Bancroft " fitted out to join Admiral Sampson s Squadron ; ship 
 reported for duty at Key West, May 9, 1898. 
 
 Alfred Reynolds. Born in Virginia, Entered Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber 21, 1869 ; graduated, May 31, 1872. Promoted Ensign, July 16, 1874 ; 
 Master, January 1, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 1883 ; Lieuten 
 ant, November 9, 1886 ; " Narragansett," Pacific Station, 1873-6 ; "Ranger," 
 Asiatic Station, 1877-80 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1880-1 ; 
 "Alliance," N. A. Station, 1882-5; Navy Yard, Washington, 1885-7; 
 " Swatara," S. A. Station, 1888-90 ; Navy Yard, Washington, March, 1891 ; 
 Office of Naval Intelligence, May, 1894 ; ordered to the "San Francisco," 
 October, 1894; Bureau of Equipment, December, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Marshall Robinson. Born in New York. Appointed ( u at 
 large ") Midshipman, June 23, 1869 ; graduated, May 31, 1873. Promoted 
 Ensign, July 16, 1874 ; Master, January 2, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883; Lieutenant, December 13,1886. "Pensacola," "Omaha," 
 and "Saranac," South and North Pacific Stations, September, 1873, to 
 August, 1875; monitor " Passaic," N. A. Station, January to July, 1876; 
 " Yantic," " Palos " and "Alert," Asiatic Station, September, 1876, to April, 
 1879 ; " Michigan," N. W. Lakes, July, 1879, to November, 1881 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, November, 1881, to November, 1882; "Kearsarge," N. A. 
 and European Stations, November, 1882, to November, 1885 ; receiving-ship 
 "Minnesota," New York, February, 1886, to July, 1887; Inspector of Steel, 
 new cruisers, Pittsburg, July, 1887, to April, 1888 ; " Richmond," S. A. Sta 
 tion, December, 1888, to September, 1890; "Atlanta," Squadron of Evolu- 
 
180 RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 tion, September, 1890, to October, 1891 ; Hydrographic Office, December, 
 1891, to May, 1894; Naval War College, June 1 to October 1, 1894; 
 " Yorktown " and " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, November 1, 1894, to May 
 21, 1897; Navy Yard, Washington, August 14, 1897, to April, 1898; 
 "Minneapolis," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 George Henry Peters. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 23, 1870 ; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, 
 July 17, 1875 ; Master, January 10, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883; Lieutenant, December 14,1886; " Kichmond," S P. Station, 1874- 
 76; Coast Survey, 1877-80; training-ship "Constitution," 1881-2 " De 
 spatch," special surveying service, 1882 ; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, 
 1882-4 ; " Powhatan," special duty, 1884-5 ; Coast Survey Office, and com 
 manding different C. S. vessels, in immediate charge of the " Coast Pilot " 
 work on the Atlantic coast of U. S , 1885-8 ; Squadron of Evolution, 1888- 
 91 ; Office of Naval Intelligence, 1891-4 ; " Minneapolis," European Station, 
 1894-7 ; gunnery-ship " Amphitrite," 1897 ; ordered to Office of Naval In 
 telligence, January, 1898. 
 
 Bradley A. Fiske. Born at Lyons, New York, June 13, 1854. Ap 
 pointed to Naval Academy, September 21, 1870 ; graduated at Naval Acad 
 emy, second in class, May 30, 1874. Promoted to Ensign, July 17, 1875; 
 to Master, February 2, 1881 ; to Lieutenant, (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 to Lieutenant, January 26, 1887. In 1877 invented boat detaching and 
 attaching apparatus placed in boats of many ships of the Navy ; had charge 
 of Navy Exhibit at International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia in 
 the fall of 1884, and was member of the International Electrical Confer 
 ence. In 1883 wrote " Electricity and Electrical Engineering," which, in 
 1889, was in sixth edition. In 1888 invented electric ammunition first placed 
 onboard the U. S. S. " Atlantic." In 1888 invented electric gun-training 
 apparatus placed on board U. S. S. " Chicago," also electric steering-gear. 
 In 1889 invented range and position finders placed in U. S. S. " Chicago " 
 and U. S. S. "Baltimore;" "San Francisco," October 1891-5; Navy Yard, 
 New York, January, 1895; Bureau of Ordnance, April, 1895; War Col 
 lege, June, 1896; U. S. S. "Petrel," December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Frank H. Holmes Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 29, 1870 ; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, July 17, 1875 ; 
 Master, February 24, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; Lieu 
 tenant, January 29, 1887; "Pensacola," North Pacific Station, 1874-6; 
 receiving-ship <b Independence," 1876 ; nautical school-ship " Jamestown," 
 1877-8 ; receiving-ship " Independence," 1879 ; " Alert," Asiatic Station, 
 1879-82; Naval Academy, 1882-5; "Brooklyn," North Atlantic and 
 Asiatic Stations, 1885-9 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1890 ; ordered to the " Balti 
 more," May, 1893, to 1896 ; charge of Branch Hydrographic Office, Boston, 
 June, 1896; U. S. S. "Baltimore," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 John W. Stewart. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy Sep 
 tember 28, 1870; graduated, June 1, 1874; Ensign, July 17, 1875; Master, 
 March 12, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; Lieutenant, 
 March, 1887 ; "Plymouth," North Atlantic Station, 1874-5 ; "Tennessee," 
 Asiatic Station, 1875-7 ; C. S. S. " Drift," 1878-9 ; C. S. S. " Gedney," 
 1879-81 ; " Despatch," special service, 1881-3 ; " Pinta " (at Alaska), 1883- 
 87 ; Nautical Almanac Office, 1887-9 ; " Yantic," North Atlantic Station, 
 1889-90 ; Office Naval Intelligence, February 7, 1^93, to April, 1895 ; U. 
 S. S. "Amphitrite," April 23, 1895, to January, 1897; U. S. training-ship 
 "Essex," January, 1897, to April, 1898; U. S. S. "Solace," Executive 
 Officer, April, 1898, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 181 
 
 John F. Parker. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, September 
 29, 1870 ; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, July 17, 1875. Master, 
 May 17, 1881. Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883. Lieutenant, 
 April 21,1887; " Plymouth," North Atlantic Station, 1874; "Tennessee," 
 Asiatic Station, 1875-6 ; "Constellation," Paris Exposition, 1877-8 ; "En 
 terprise," European Station, 1&79-82 ; Naval Academy, 1882-5; "Adams," 
 Pacific Station, 1885-9 ; Secretary Berlin Samoan Commission, 1889 ; Re 
 corder Board of Organization, 1889 ; ordered to the New York," August, 
 1893-6 ; Branch Hydrographic Office, New York, September, 1896 ; ordered 
 to the " Monadnock," July, 1896 ; U. S. S. Columbia," April, 1898, to 
 date. 
 
 Hamilton Hutchins. Born in New Hampshire. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 23, 1870; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, 
 July 17, 1875 ; Master, May 22, 1881. Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883. Lieutenant, May 21, 1887 ; " Colorado," N. A. Station, 1874 ; " Wor 
 cester," N. A. Station, 1874; "Hartford," N. A Station, 1875-6; "Tren 
 ton," European Station, 1877-9 ; " Constellation," special service, 1879-80 ; 
 receiving-ship, " Passaic," 1880-1; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1881-2; "Hart 
 ford," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1886 ; Torpedo Sta 
 tion, 1886-8; "Boston," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90; Assistant to 
 Inspector of Electric Lights, October, 1890, to June, 1892 ; training-ship 
 "Portsmouth," June, 1892, to January, 1895; "Cincinnati," N. A. Station, 
 January, 1895, to June, 1895 ; Torpedo Station, July, 1895, to July, 1897 ; 
 "Montgomery," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Marshall Bowyer. Born in Indiana. Appointed from Iowa. 
 Entered Naval Academy, September 28, 1870 ; graduated, 1874. Promoted 
 Ensign, July 17, 1875; Master, May 28, 1881; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Lieutenant, May 26, 1887 ; "Powhatan," 1874 ; "Franklin," 
 
 " Tnnint-.n " nnrl " Alnskfl." "Flnrnnpfl.n Station. 1 K7f) fi t.rninincr-shin " Monon- 
 
 Juniata," and " Alaska," European Station, 1875-6 ; training-ship " Monon- 
 
 gan, 
 
 "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1888 to June, 1891 ; Naval Academy, September, 
 1891, to 1894 ; practice-ship " Constellation," summer cruise 1893 ; " Detroit," 
 " Raleigh," and the ill-fated " Maine," North Atlantic Station, July, 1894, to 
 July, 1897 ; Bureau of Ordnance and Ordnance duty at Washington Navy 
 Yard, July, 1897 until the beginning of the war with Spain, April, 1898, 
 then to the " Princeton " as Executive Officer. 
 
 John C. Colwell. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1870; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, July 17, 
 1875; Master, June 1, 1881; lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883; 
 Lieutenant, June 30, 1887; "Palos," Asiatic Station, 1874-5; training-ship 
 "Constitution," 1876; "Guard," special service, 1877-8; Coast Survey 
 schooner "Drift," 1878-9; C. S. S. "Gedney," 1879-80; "Yantic," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1880-3; special duty, Navy Department, 1883-4; Greeley 
 Relief steamer "Bear," 1884; Office Naval Intelligence, 1885; Torpedo 
 Station, 1886; Office Naval Intelligence, 1886-7; " Ossipee," North Atlan 
 tic Station, 1888; " Yorktown," Squadron of Evolution, 1888-90; Office of 
 Naval Intelligence, May 8, 1893, to June, 1894; " Cincinnati," June 16, 
 1894, to March, 1895 ; Assistant Inspector Sixth Light-House District, March 
 15. 1895, to August, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Texas," August 15, 1895 ; " Katahdin," 
 to October, 1896; Office Naval Intelligence, October, 1896, to April, 1897; 
 Naval Attache, London, April, 1897, to date. 
 
182 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 William R. A. Rooney. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 28, 1870; graduated, June 1,1874. Promoted Ensign, 
 July 17, 1875; Master, June 11, 1881 ; Lieutenant, (junior grade), March 
 3,1883; Lieutenant, June 30, 1887; "Colorado," North Atlantic Station, 
 1874; "Worcester," North Atlantic Station, 1874;" Hartford," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1875-6 ; receiving-ship " Passaic," 1877-9 ; " Peusacola," 
 Pacific Station, 1880; " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1881-4; training-ship 
 "New Hampshire," 1884-6; Naval War College, 1887 ; " Swatara," South 
 Atlantic Station, 1888-90; inspector of steel, June, 1891 ; U. S. S. "At 
 lanta," April, 1894; "Monterey," May, 1894; TJ. S. S. "Oregon," to 
 1897 ; leave of absence, April, 1897 ; U. S. receiving ship " Richmond," 
 September, 1897-8; April, 1898, U. S. S. "New Orleans," to date. 
 
 Edward J. Dorn. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 21, 1870; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted, July 18, 1875; 
 Master, August 30, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; Lieu 
 tenant, June 30, 1887 ; "Pensacola," North Pacific Station, 1874-6; "Guard," 
 special service, 1877-9 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1879-80 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1880-3 ; " Nipsic," South Atlantic Station, 1883-6 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, D. C., 1886-7 ; inspector steel, new cruisers, 1877-8 ; Coast 
 Survey steamer " Patterson," 1889-92 ; office of Naval Intelligence, June, 
 1892 ; Ordnance Instruction, Washington Navy Yard, November 3, 1894, 
 to February, 1895; " Olympia," February 22, 1895; " Boston," January, 
 1897 ; " Machias," July, 1897, to April, 1898 ; Naval Academy, April, 1898, 
 to date. 
 
 Bernard O. Scott. Born in Alabama. Entered Naval Academy, June 
 29,1870: graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, July 17, 1875; 
 Master, September 14, 1881; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883; 
 Lieutenant, July 1, 1887; "Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1875-6; "Ranger," 
 Asiatic Station, 1876-80; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1880-4; office of 
 Superintendent of Compasses, 1884-6; Fish Commissioners steamer "Alba 
 tross," 1886-7; "Trenton," Pacific Station, 1887-9; nautical school-ship 
 "Saratoga," 1889-91 ; " Bennington," January, 1892; ordered to the "Mo 
 hican," January, 1893; Fish Commissioners steamer "Albatross," nautical 
 school-ship Saratoga," June, 1896; "Boston," December, 1897, to date. 
 
 George T. Emmons. Born in Maryland. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 4, 1870; graduated, October 15, 1874. Promoted Ensign, July 17, 
 1875 ; Master, October 15, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Lieutenant, November 1, 1887 ; European Station, 1878-81 ; " Adams," 
 Pacific Station, 1882-4 ; " Pinta," special duty, 1884-7 ; duty with World s 
 Exposition, 1892 ; U. S. S. " Pinta," April, 1894-96 ; ordered to U. S. S. 
 "Michigan." December, 1896-97; special duty, " New York," May, 1897 ; 
 March, 1898, to April, 1898, U. S. S. "Minneapolis;" May, 1898, sick 
 leave, to date. 
 
 York Noel. Entered Naval Academy from Cumberland County, Penn 
 sylvania, September 20, 1870 ; graduated, May 30, 1874 ; served on North 
 Atlantic Station, on board flag-ships "Colorado," " Worcester" and " Hart 
 ford," from July 8, 1874, to August 31, 1876. Commissioned Ensign, July 
 17, 1876; served on board "Alliance," European Station, from January 1, 
 
 1877, to October 5, 1877 ; served on training ship " Minnesota," from May 7, 
 
 1878, to July 26, 1878 ; served on " Fortune," North Atlantic Station, from 
 September 11, 1878, to June 9, 1879; stationed at Norfolk Navy Yard, 
 from June 9, 1879, to October 1, 1879; served on flag-ship " Shenandoah," 
 South Atlantic Station, from October 1, 1879, to May 27, 1882. Commis- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 183 
 
 sioned Master, October 28, 1881 ; served on " Miantonomah," special cruise, 
 from October 2, 1882, to March 13, 1883 ; title changed from Master to 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; served on receiving-ship "Colo 
 rado," New York, from March 13, 1883, to September 18, 1883 ; served on 
 North Atlantic Station, on board "Galena" and "Swatara," from Septem 
 ber 18, 1883, to September 13, 1886 ; during which time was on duty ashore 
 with Naval Brigade when it occupied the Isthmus of Panama, during the 
 Kevolution of 1885; served on receiving-ship " Vermont," New York, from 
 October 15, 1886, to May 7, 1889. Commissioned Lieutenant, January 2, 
 1888; served on board "Despatch," May 7, 1889; training ship " Monon- 
 gahela," July 12, 1892, to February, 1894; "Newark," April, 1894, to Jan 
 uary, 1895 ; *" Chicago," January, 1895, to November, 18&5 ; leave of ab 
 sence, November 26, 1895, to February, 1896; Navy Yard, New York, 
 February, 1896, to August, 1896 ; Naval Academy, August, 1896, to April, 
 1898; U. S. S. " Marblehead," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Albon Chase Hodgson. Born in Georgia. Entered Naval Academy 
 June 5, 1871; graduated June 16, 1875; promoted Ensign, July, 1876; 
 Master, November 6, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Li&utenant,M.&Tch31, 1888; "Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1875-7; Naval 
 Academy, 1877-9 ; light-house duty, 1879-1881 ; " Kearsarge " and " Des 
 patch," 1881-82; "Jamestown," 1882-4; Naval Academy, 1884-8; 
 "Pinta," at Sitka, Alaska, 1888-90; Pensacola Navy Yard, December, 
 1890-1891 ; Naval Academy, 1891-4 ; " San Francisco," 1894, to December, 
 1896 ; sick leave to December, 1897 ; Naval Academy, December, 1897, to 
 April, 1898 ; "Brooklyn," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 James M. Helm Born in Illinois. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 29,1871; graduated June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 18, 
 1876 ; Master, November 25, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883; Lieutenant, June 1, 1888; "Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1875-7; 
 "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1877-9. " Tuscarora," surveying in Pacific, 
 1879-81 ; " Ranger," surveying in Pacific, 1881-5 ; Coast Survey, 1885-8 ; 
 commanding C. S. S. " Gedney," 1888 ; U. S. S. " Michigan," April, 1892 ; 
 ordered to the U. S. S. " Columbia," May, 1894 ; " Terror," 1896 ; sick leave 
 October, 1896 ; commanding U. S. steamer " McArthur," April, 1897 ; 
 C. S. S. " Gedney," February, 1898 ; commanding U. S. S. " Hornet," April, 
 1898, to date. 
 
 William G. Cutler. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 20, 1871; graduated, June 21, 1875; Ensign, July 18, 1876; 
 Master, December 1, 1881; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883; 
 Lieutenant, June 19,1888; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1876-7 ; Euro 
 pean Station, 1877-81 ; Coast Survey, 1883-5 : " Dolphin," special service, 
 1885-8 ; Naval Academy, 1889-90 ; U. S. S. Yorktown, July, 1892-5 ; U. S. 
 S. "Mohican," January, 1895; Assistant Inspector, Second Light-House 
 District, July, 1895-7; ordered to U. S. S. "Wilmington," May 1897-8; U. 
 S. S. "Yankee," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Cameron McR. Winslow. Born in District of Columbia. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 20, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875 ; Ensign, 
 July 18, 1876 ; Master, December 21, 1881 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March. 3, 1883; Lieutenant, July 1, 1888; "Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 
 
 1887-9 ; special duty, Torpedo Boat, No. 1, 1889-90 ; ordered to the " Alii- 
 
184 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ance," April 1893 ; leave of absence, June, 1894; Navy Yard, New York, 
 January, 1895 ; ordered to the "Terror," October, 1896; "Nashville," Jan 
 uary, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles Laird. Born and appointed from Ohio. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 22, 1870; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted En 
 sign, July, 1876; Master, February 1, 1882; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Lieutenant, September 28, 1888 ; " Hartford," N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1875-7 ; served as Adjutant of Naval Brigade assembled at Washing 
 ton during labor riots of July, 1877 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1877-8 ; 
 flag-ship " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1878-9 ; "Ashuelot," 1879 ; " Palos," 
 1879-81 ; in 1881 connected with expedition for the determination of tele 
 graphic longitudes in China, Japan, and East Indies ; " Michigan," Great 
 Lakes, 1882 ; expedition for determination of telegraphic longitudes on 
 East Coast of Mexico, 1883 ; same duty on West Coast of Central and 
 South America, 1884; training-ship "Jamestown," 1884-6; training-ship 
 "Portsmouth," 1886-7; in charge of Chart Construction, Hydrographic 
 Office, 1887-8; expedition for determining telegraphic, longitudes and mag 
 netic observations in Mexico and Central America, 1888-9 ; same duty in 
 West Indies and Coast of Spanish Main, 1889-90; leave of absence, Novem 
 ber 5, 1893, to January, 1894; Bureau of Equipment, January 25, 1894, to 
 July, 1896 ; U. S. S. " New York," July 15, 1896 ; January, 1898, U. S. S. 
 "Helena" to date. 
 
 Nathaniel R. Usher. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 21, 1871 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 18, 
 1876 ; Master. February 4, 1882 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Lieutenant, October 31, 1888 ; flag-ship " Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1875-7 ; 
 " Kearsarge," 1877-8 ; " Constellation," 1878 ; receiving-ship " Indepen 
 dence," 1878-9 ; "Jamestown," Alaska Station, 1879-81 ; gunnery training- 
 ships " Minnesota," " Alarm," and " Passaic," 1882-3 ; training-ship " Sara 
 toga," 1883-4 ; Greeley relief-ship " Bear," 1884 ; Bureau of Equipment and 
 Kecruiting, Navy Department, 1885 ; " Juniata," cruise around the world, 
 1886-9 ; U. S. R. S. " Vermont," 1890-2 ; "Dolphin," special service, April, 
 1892, to March, 1894; General Inspector "Ericsson," April 28, 1894, to 
 March, 1898; commanding "Ericsson," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 Walter Scott Hughes. Born in Iowa. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 24, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 18, 
 1876; Master, February 16, 1882; Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 3, 
 1883 ; Lieutenant^ January 15, 1889 ; " Richmond," South Pacific Station, 
 1875 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1877-8 ; " Ticonderoga," special service, 
 1878-82; training-ship "Jamestown," 1882-4; training-ship " New Hamp 
 shire," 1884-6; Hydrographic Office, 1886-7; Training Squadron, 1887; 
 " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1887-9 ; " Galena," North Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1889-90 ; Branch Hydrographic Office, New Orleans, November, 1890, 
 to September, 1893; "Thetis," special service, September, 1893, to 1896; 
 Branch Hydrographic Office, San Francisco, October, 1896, to April, 1898 ; 
 ordered to U. S. S. " Scorpion, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Fidelio S. Carter. Born in Kentucky. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 29, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 11, 
 1876; Master, March 10, 1882; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883; 
 Lieutenant, February 12, 1889 ; " Frolic," special service, 1875 ; " Marion," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1875-7; "Constitution" (training-ship), 1877-9; 
 "Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1879-80; Coast Survey, 1885-6; 
 training-ship "Jamestown," 1886-8; school-ship "St. Mary s," 1889-91; 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 185 
 
 " Adams," November 21, 1891 ; " Albatross," January, 1895, to May, 1895 ; 
 U. S. receiving-ship " Independence," May 18, 1895, to November, 1897 ; 
 training-ship "Vicksburg," November 23, 1897, to May, 1898; U. S. S. 
 "Vermont," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Frank Friday Fletcher. Born in Iowa. Graduated from Naval 
 Academy, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July, 1876 ; Master, April 1, 
 1882; Lieutenant, (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Lieutenant, February 19, 
 1889 ; " Tuscarora," deep-sea sounding in Pacific, 1875-6 ; " Lackawanna," 
 1877; "Constellation," special service to Paris Exposition, 1878 ; " Ticon- 
 deroga," special service with Admiral Schufeldt, 1878-81 ; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1882 ; expedition for telegraphic determination of longitudes in Cen 
 tral and South America, 18*3-4; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1884- 
 87 ; Bureau of Ordnance, 1887, to December, 1892 ; torpedo-boat " dishing," 
 December, 1892, to 1895; ordered to U. S. S. " Maine," September, 1895; 
 Torpedo Station, September, 1896-8; Bureau of Ordnance, April, 1898, to 
 date. 
 
 Alexander Sharp, Jr. Born in Missouri. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 18, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 18, 1876. 
 Master, April 8, 1882. Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883. Lieu 
 tenant, March 15, 1889 ; "Marion," North Atlantic Station, 1875-7 ; train 
 ing-ship "Constitution," 1877-9; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1880-5; 
 Bureau of Navigation, 1885 ; Office of Naval Intelligence, 1885-7 ; " Galena," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1887-90; U. S. S. "Philadelphia," June, 1893; 
 U. S. S. " Charleston," June, 1893-5; Bureau of Equipment, November, 
 1895-7 ; Office Assistant Secretary, March, 1897-8 ; commanding U. S. S. 
 " Vixen," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Harry H. Hosley. Born in New Hampshire. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 22, 1871 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, 
 July 17, 1875. Master, June 2, 1882. Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883. Lieutenant, March 17, 1889; "Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1875-7; 
 " Ticonderoga," special service, 1879-81 ; N. A. Station, 1883-4. "Tennes 
 see," N. A. Station, 1884-7; Inspector of Steel, new cruisers, 1887; Naval 
 Academy, 1887-90 ; U. S. receiving-ship " Vermont," July, 1893-5 ; U. S. S. 
 " Indiana," November, 1895, to January, 1898 ; sick leave, February, 1898 ; 
 April, 1898, U. S. receiving-ship "Vermont;" May, 1898, U.S. S. "San 
 Francisco," to date. 
 
 Frank E. Beatty. Born iu Missouri. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 21, 1871 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted to Ensign, July 18, 
 1876 ; Master, June 19, 1882 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Lieutenant, March 23, 1889; "Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1875-7; train- 
 
 April, 
 
 1894; ordered to the "Vesuvius," 1894 ; Naval Academy, February, 1895- 
 97 ; training ship " Adams," August, 1897 ; U. S. S. Monterey," April, 1898, 
 to date. 
 
 Moses Lindley Wood. Born in Missouri. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 21, 1871 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 18, 
 1876; Master, July 1, 1882; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883; 
 Lieutenant, March 26, 1889 ; " Hartford," " Wyandotte " and " Pinta," N. A. 
 Station, 1875-7 ; u Minnesota," February to May, 1878 ; torpedo instruction, 
 in 1878; Coast Survey, 1878-82; "Swatara," N. A. Station, 1883; "Tren- 
 
186 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ton," " Monocacy " and " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; ordnance instruc 
 tion, January to April, 1887 ; Coast Survey Office, April, 1887, to January, 
 1890; " Alliance" and "Palos," Asiatic Station, 1890, to April, 1893; 
 Naval Academy, July, 1893; " Newark," N. A. Station, 1896-7; at date, 
 U. S. training ship " Mohican." 
 
 John A. Shearman. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 7, 1871 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, September 8, 
 1876; Master, November 28, 1882; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883 ; Lieutenant, May 4, 1889 ; " Hartford," North Atlantic Station, 1875 
 -7 ; receiving-ship " Passaic," 1877-9 ; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1880- 
 5; Torpedo Station, 1885-7; "Nipsic," Pacific Station, 1887. Coast Sur 
 vey steamer, " Blake," 1893 to 1897 ; ordered to the U. S. receiving-ship 
 " Michigan," April, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Katahdin," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Robert M. Doyle. Born in Tennessee. Appointed to Naval Academy, 
 September 21,1870. Midshipman, June 21,1875; Ensign, September 9, 
 1876; Master, November 29* 1882; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883; Lieutenant, May 15, 1889; "Marion," N. A. Station, 1875-7; 
 training-ship " Minnesota," 1877-9 ; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1879-81 ; 
 Hydrographic Office, 1881-3 ; " Galena," N. A. Station, 1883-6 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1886-9 ; " Baltimore," special service, 1889-93 ; Naval Academy, 
 July 13, 1893, to July, 1896; U. S. S. " Texas," July 20, 1896 ; training-ship 
 " Alliance," July, 1897, to April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Dixie," April, 1898, to 
 date. 
 
 George M. Stoney. Born in South Carolina. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 20, 1870; graduated, September 23, 1875. Promoted 
 Ensign, October 9, 1876 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 25, 1883 ; Lieu 
 tenant, June 27, 1889 ; " Swatara," N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; " Alaska," Pacific 
 Station, 1877-9 ; "Tuscarora," surveying in Pacific, 1879-81; " Rodgers," 
 special service, 1881-3 ; special duty, 1883-5 ; commanding Alaska Expe 
 dition, 1885-6; Branch Hydrographic Office, San Francisco, 1887-8; 
 " Charleston." Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 September, 1892-5 ; U. S.S. "Philadelphia," June, 1895-7 ; Naval Rendez 
 vous, San Francisco, October, 1897, to April, 1898; U. S. S. "Prairie," 
 April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Frederick W. Coffin. Born in New Hampshire. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 15, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, 
 December 24, 1876 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 21, 1883 ; Lieutenant, 
 August 4, 1889; "Swatara," N. A. Station, 1875-7; "Adams," Pacific 
 Station, 1877-80 ; Coast Survey, 1880-3 ; training-ship "Minnesota," 1883 ; 
 " Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; inspector of steel, new cruisers, 1887- 
 8; "Lancaster," European Station, 1888-9; inspector of steel, Thurlow, 
 Pennsylvania, 1889-91 ; " Bennington," September 29, 1891, to September, 
 1894 ; training-ship " Constellation," November 1894, to March 15, 1895 ; 
 " Yantic," March 21, 1895 ; " New York," March, 1895, to date. 
 
 Harry M. Hodges. Born in Illinois. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 29, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, July 11, 
 1877 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), August 23, 1883 ; Lieutenant, September 
 9, 1889; "Richmond," South Pacific Station, 1S75-7; training-ship "Con 
 stellation," 1877-9; " Wyoming," Europe, 1879-81; " Enterprise," 1882-5 ; 
 " Michigan," N. W. Lakes, 1886-7; Training Squadron, 1887; Quinne- 
 baug," European Station, 1887-9; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1889-92; 
 "Chicago," November 1, 1892, to April, 1895; school-ship " St. Mary s," 
 April 25, 1895, to November, 1897 ; "Detroit," November 23, 1897, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 187 
 
 William B. Caperton. Born in Tennessee. Entered Naval Academy, 
 Jnne 5, 1871 ; graduated, September 17, 1<S75. Ensign, August 3, 1877 ; 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), October 13, 18K3 ; Lieutenant, October 24, 1889; 
 " Hartford," " Powhatan," and " Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; train 
 ing-ship " Constellation," 1877-9; Coast Survey, 1880-4; " Ossipee " and 
 "Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1^84-6; inspector of steel, new cruisers, 18^7- 
 90 ; U. S. S. " Vesuvius," October, 1891 ; U. S. S. " Essex," November, 
 1891-4 ; leave of absence, November, 1894 ; Office Naval Intelligence and 
 War College, February, 1895; U.S. S. "Brooklyn," December, 1896-7; 
 U S. S. " Marietta," September, 1897, to date. 
 
 James T. Smith. Appointed from North Carolina. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1871 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Projnoted to Ensign, 
 November 21, 1877 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), November 16, 18*3 ; " Hart 
 ford," North Atlantic Station, 1875-7; "Portsmouth," 1877-9; receiving- 
 ship "New Hampshire," 1879-81; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 
 1881-4 ; Naval Academy, 1884-8 ; " Pinta " .at Alaska), 1888 ; ordered to 
 the " Newark," August, 1893 ; " Detroit," 1894-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 November, 1896; U. S. S. " Yosemite," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry C. Gearing. Appointed from Louisiana. Naval Academy, 
 June 12,1872; graduated, June 20, 1876; Ensign, November 25, 1877; 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), December 11, 1883, " Pensacola," Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1876-7; " Tuscarora," Pacific Station, 1877-8; "Marion," Pacific 
 Station, 1879-82; Naval Academy, 1883-6; "Essex," Asiatic Station, 
 1886-7 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1887-9 ; Naval Academy, 1889 ; 
 ordered to U. S. S. " Newark," July, 1893-6 ; leave of absence, June, 1896 ; 
 Naval Academy, August, 1896 ; ordered to the U. S. S. " Yumuri," April, 
 1898. 
 
 Templin M. Potts. Born in District of Columbia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 6, 1872; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Constitution," 1877; 
 Washington, D. C., 1877. Promoted to Ensign, November 25, 1877 ; " Swa- 
 tara," 1879; " Palos," 1879-82; special duty, Navy Department, 1883-5. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), February 9, 1884; steamer "Pensa 
 cola," 1885-7 ; Naval Academy, 1888-90 ; leave of absence, October, 1893 ; 
 Navy Yard, Washington, May, 1894-6 ; U. S. S. " Massachusetts," June, 
 1896, to date. 
 
 William H. Allen. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 26, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 ; " Essex," 1876-9. Promoted 
 Ensign, November 25, 1877 ; C. S. steamer " Endeavor," 1879-83 ; Naval 
 Observatory, 1883-7. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), July 13, 1884; 
 " Trenton," 1887-9 ; " New Hampshire," 1889 ; Library and War Records 
 Office, 1889-90. Promoted Lieutenant, March 4, 1890; Naval Academy, 
 May, 1893-6 ; " Oregon," June, 1896, to date. 
 
 Burns Tracy Walling. Born in Ohio, February 4, 1855. Entered 
 Naval Academy, June 5, 1*72; graduated Midshipman, June 20, 1876; 
 " Vandalia," November, 1876, to January, 1879, examined and promoted 
 Ensign, in April, 1879, dating from November 26, 1877 ; u Powhatan," 
 June, 1879, to June, 1881; "Ranger," October, 1881, to September, 1884 ; 
 receiving- ship, " Vermont," February, 1885, to March, 1886 (one month 
 detached to ft Despatch ") ; C. S. schooner " Scoresby," April to August, 
 1886 ; " Essex," August, 1886, to June, 1887 ; " Brooklyn," June, 1887, to 
 August, 1888; "Essex," August, 1888, to May, 1889; "Vermont," July, 
 1889, to December, 1889 ; Naval Academy, December, 1889, to 1892 Pro 
 moted Lieutenant, April, 1890 ; Kearsarge, December 10, 1892, to March, 
 
188 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1894; "Atlanta," April 6, 1894, to September. 1895; U. S. receiving-ship, 
 " Vermont," November, 23, 1895, to October, 1896 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 October 15, 1896, to September, 1897 ; Wheeling," September 13, 1897, to 
 April, 1898 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Clifford J. Boush. Born in Virginia, August 13, 1854 Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1872 ; graduated as Midshipman June 20 1876. Com 
 missioned Ensign, December 1, 1877 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), November 
 3.1884; " Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1876-8 ; receiving-ship "Franklin," 
 1878-9; "Trenton," European Station, 1880-1; gunnery training-ship 
 " Minnesota." Torpedo School, and " Franklin," 1882 ; Fish Commission 
 steamer " Albatross," 18*3-5 ; Instructor Naval Academy, 1886-7 ; " Lan 
 caster," S. A. Station, 1887, and in same ship on European Station, 1888-9 ; 
 ordered to Bureau of Ordnance, September, 1889, to October, 1892. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, July 31, 1890 ; " Yorktown," Special Service Squadron, 
 October, 1892; the "Ranger," 1894; Naval Academy, September, 1895; 
 " Annapolis." July, 1897, to date. 
 
 James H. Sears. Appointed from New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 20, 1871 ; graduated, June 20, 1876. Ensign, December 11, 
 1877 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), December 2, 1884; Asiatic Station, 1875 ; 
 "Kearsarge," North Atlantic Station, 1879-80; Naval Academy, 1881; 
 training-ship " Portsmouth," 1882-4 ; Naval Observatory, 1885 ; nautical 
 school-ship " St. Mary s," 1886-8 ; steamer " Baltimore," 1889 to August, 
 1892. Promoted Lieutenant, September 20, 1890; War College, October, 
 1892, to November, 1893; leave of absence, November, 1893-4; C. S. S. 
 "Patterson," March, 1894; C. S. S. "McArthur," April, 1894-7; Naval 
 Home, May, 1897, to April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Brooklyn," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Edward D. Bostwick. Born in South Carolina. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 24, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875. Promoted Ensign, 
 September 21, 1876 ; Master, June 9, 1883 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Lieutenant, May 15, 1889 ; " Frolic," special service, 1875 ; " Hart 
 ford," North Atlantic Station, 1875-7 ; " Constitution," training-ship, 1877-9 ; 
 Asiatic Station, 1879-82 ; Hydrographic Office, 1882-4 ; Artillery School, 
 Fort Monroe, 1884-5; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1885-9; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1889 ; ordered to the " Ranger," April, 1892-4 ; waiting orders, 
 December, 1894; training-ship "Alliance," January, 1895; "Lancaster," 
 1896 ; " Newark," 1896 ; ordered U. S. R. S. " Franklin," December, 1896 ; 
 U. S. S. "Machias," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Abraham K. Culver. Appointed a Cadet Midshipman, June 6, 1872 ; 
 graduated, June 20, 1876 ; " Trenton," European Station, 1877-8 ; " Marion," 
 1879. Promoted Ensign, December 14, 1877 ; " Powhatan," N. A. Station, 
 1879-82 ; Naval Academy, 1882-5, making cruise in " Constellation," summer 
 of 1884 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), December 26, 1884-6, taking 
 course at the Sarbonne, Paris ; training-ship " Jamestown," September 1, 1886 ; 
 March, 1888, to September, 1888, " Monongahela ;" transferred to "Vanda- 
 lia," January, 1889 ; was on board her at time of wreck ; May 23, 1889, to 
 September 5, 1889, " Iroquois ; " January 10, 1890, ordnance duty, Navy 
 Yard, Washington. Promoted Lieutenant, October 15, 1890 ; April, 1893, 
 ordered to " Baltimore," Asiatic Station, to 1896 ; Bureau of Ordnance May, 
 1896-8; U. S. S. "Mayflower," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry T. Mayo. Born in Vermont. Entered Naval Academy, June 
 13, 1872; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Tennessee," 1877-8. Promoted to 
 Ensign, February 26, 1878; C. S. schooner "Earnest," 1879-82; C. S. 
 schooner "Eagre," 1882; "Yantic," 1882-5; Naval Observatory, 1885; C. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 189 
 
 S. schooner " Earnest," 1886-9 ; training-ship " Jamestown," 1889-92 ; B. 
 H. O., at Port Townsend, Washington, from December 1, 1892-5 ; U. S. S. 
 " Bennington," May, 1895, to date. 
 
 Charles Custis Rogers. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 7, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 ; " Plymouth," 1876-7 ; " Monon- 
 gahela," 1877-9. Promoted Ensign, April 26, 1878 ; " Vandalia," 1879-82 ; 
 special duty, Bureau Navigation, 1882-3; Fogg School, Nashville, Tenn., 
 1884-6. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), June 2, 1885; "Swatara," 
 1886 ; " Galena," 1886 ; "Pensacola, 1888 ; " Yantic," 1889 ; Office Naval 
 Intelligence, 1889 to April, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant, January 27, 
 1891 ; leave of absence on account of ill health, April, 1892, to July, 1893 ; 
 " Detroit," S. A. Station, July, 1893, to March, 1894 ; Asiatic Station thence 
 to August, 1896 ; Naval Academy, Sept., 1896-8 ; "Resolute," April, 1898. 
 
 John Thomas Newton. Born in Florida. Entered Naval Academy, 
 October 14, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876; " Kearsarge," 1876-7 ; "Ten 
 nessee," 1877-8. Promoted to Ensign, May 9, 1878 ; receiving-ship " Frank 
 lin," 1879; "Trenton," 1879-80; "Wyoming," 1880-1; Torpedo Station, 
 1881-2 ; Coast Survey steamer " Endeavor," 1882 ; " Blake," 1882-3 ; 
 " Yantic," 1883-5. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), June 16, 1885 ; 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," 1885-6 ; "Atlanta," 1886-7 ; inspector of steel, 
 new cruisers, 1887-8 ; Office Naval Intelligence, 1888-90 ; " Essex," S. A. 
 Station, April, 1890, to April, 1893 Promoted to Lieutenant, February 15, 
 1891; leave of absence, April, 1893, to July, 1893; training-ship " Rich- 
 mond," July, 1893, to August, 1894 ; " Texas," August 15, 1895 ; " Mont 
 gomery," December, 1895 ; " Newport," October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Waldemar d Arcy Rose. Born in New Jersey. Entered June 5, 
 1872; graduated, June, 1876; U. S. S. "Pensacola," July, 1876, to Febru 
 ary, 1877 ; transferred to " Omaha," February, 1877, to August, 1877 ; trans 
 ferred to " Pensacola," August, 1877, to November, 1877 ; U. S. S. " Ports 
 mouth," November, 1877, to February, 1879. Promoted Ensign, July 12, 
 1878 ; on Magnetic Survey of U. S. S. " Hassler," in Pacific Ocean, May, 
 1879, to October, 1881; U. S S "Colorado," November, 1881, to March, 
 1882; U. S S. "Pinta," March, 1882-3; U. S. S. "Alliance," 1883-6; 
 Marine Battalion at Panama under Colonel Hey wood, 1886 ; Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, 1886 ; Board of Inspection and Hydrographic Office, San Fran 
 cisco, 1887-8 ; U. S. S. " Monongahela," 1888-90; U. S. S. " Yantic," blow 
 ing up wrecks, 1890, to September, 1891 ; U. S. S. " Independence," 1892 ; 
 U. S. S. " Nipsic," 1893; U. S. S. " Independence," 1893, to June, 1894; 
 "Monterey," June 4, 1894; "Olympia," July, 1895, to October, 1895 ; sick 
 leave, October 25, 1895; " Yorktown," May 7,1896; " Monocacy," July, 
 1897, to October, 1897 ; Naval Proving Ground, December, 1897, to date. 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), August, 1885 ; Lieutenant^ May, 1891. 
 
 Charles Fremont Pond. Born in Connecticut. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 12, 1872; graduated, June 20, 1876; " Tuscarora," 1877-8. 
 Promoted to Ensign, Jul/22, 1878 ; C. S. steamer " Hassler," 1879-83 ; 
 Hydrographic Office, 1883-4; "Hartford," 1884; " Wachusett," 1884-5. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), October 2, 1885 ; Naval Department, 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1885 ; C. S. S. " Hassler," 1885 ; Naval Depart 
 ment, Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1886-7; "Ranger," 1887-90. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, May 19, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, December, 1890-4 ; 
 ordered to the " Alert," April, 1894 ; Navy Yard, New York, June, 1897 ; 
 ordered to the U. S. S. "Venezuela," April, 1898; U. S. S. " Panther," 
 May, 1898, to date. 
 
190 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Walter McLean. Born in New Jersey. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 6, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 ; New York, 1877. Promoted 
 Ensign, October 23, 1878 ; " Monocacy," 1879-82 ; Experimental Battery, 
 Annapolis, Md., 1883-4; C. S. steamer "Patterson," 1884-5. Promoted 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), December 1, 1885; receiving-ship "Vermont," 
 1885-6; "Despatch," 1886-9; "Yantic," South Atlantic Station, July, 
 
 1890, to March, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, May 20, 1891 ; leave of 
 absence, May, 1893, to August, 1893 ; Coast Survey Office, August, 1893, to 
 November, 1895 ; " Boston," November 18, 1895 ; " Monocacy," January, 
 1898, to date. . 
 
 Washington Irving Chambers. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1871; graduated, June 20, 1876; " Pensacola," 1876; 
 "Portsmouth," 1877. Promoted Ensign, November 30, 1878; "Marion," 
 1879-82 ; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, 1883-4 ; Greely Relief 
 steamers " Thetis " and " Loch Garry," 1884 ; special survey of Nicaragua 
 Canal, December, 1884, to June, 1885. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 December 31, 1885; Office Naval Intelligence, 1885-8; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1888-9 ; " Petrel," December, 1889, to July, 1891 ; "Atlanta," July, 
 
 1891, to November, 1892 ; War College, November, 1892, to November, 
 1893 ; leave of absence, November, 1893-4 ; inspector of armor, March, 
 18 .)4 ; ordered to the "Minneapolis," July, 1895; recorder of Armor Board, 
 August, 1897 ; torpedo station, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 James Clarkson Gillmore. Born in Pennsylvania (Phila.). Entered 
 U. S. Naval Academy, September 20, 1871 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 
 (Midshipman) ; U. S. flagship " Hartford," North Atlantic Station, 1876-77 ; 
 U. S. S. " Monongahela," Asiatic Station, 1877-79 Came home on 
 " Alert," 1879, for promotion to Ensign. Promoted Ensign, January 13, 
 1879 ; U. S. S. " Jamestown," Alaska, to protect population from Indians, 
 1879-81 ; U. S. S. " Iroquois," Pacific Station, and Australia, 1882-85, and 
 at the Isthmus of Panama during our occupation ; Library Navy Depart 
 ment, 1885-87. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), January 17, 1886 ; 
 Torpedo Station and War College, 1887 ; U. S. S " Marion," 1887-90, Asiatic 
 Station ; Compass Office, Navy Department, July, 1890, to March, 1893. 
 Promoted Lieutenant, June 30, 1891 ; March 3, 1893, to July, 1893, U. S.S. 
 " Bancroft," Review Fleet; July, 1883, to February, 1894, U S. S. " Ma- 
 chias," North Atlantic Station ; February, 1894, to September, 1894, U. S. S. 
 " Vesuvius," wrecking duty off coast. September, 1894, to February, 1897, 
 U. S. S. "Machias," Asiatic Station. Detached from " Machias " at Ban- 
 kok Siam, by telegraph, February, 1897, and home in U. S. S. " Detroit," 
 via Europe. June 1897, to present time, U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 
 Office. 
 
 Benjamin Tappan. Born in Louisiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 21, 1871 ; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Tennessee," 1877. Pro 
 moted Ensign, February 8, 1879 ; Master, 1879-81 ; receiving-ship " New 
 Hampshire," 1882. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), January, 1886-7 ; 
 Office Naval Intelligence, 1888 to February, 1891. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 August 2, 1891 ; " Miantonomah," N. A. Station, February 1891, to Novem 
 ber, 1894; leave of absence, November 24, 1894; Navy Yard, New York, 
 February 27, 1895, to November, 1896 ; " Amphitrite," November 23, 1896 ; 
 " Raleigh," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles Augustus Gove. Born in New Hampshire. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1871, "at large ;" graduated, June 20, 1876; " Pensa 
 cola," 1876-7 ; "Portsmouth," 1877-8; " Powhatan," 1878; "Plymouth," 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 191 
 
 1878 ; on the staff of Rear- Admiral Trenchard ; " Wabasli," 1878-9. Pro 
 moted Ensign, March 29, 1879 ; " Wachusett," 1897 ; " Lackawanna," 1880- 
 82 ; " Wabash," 1882 ; special duty, 1883 ; "Trenton," 1883-4 ; " Enterprise," 
 1884-5; "Trenton," 1885-6. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), March 
 4, 1886; Hydrographic Office, 1887; Branch Hydrographic Office, 1887; 
 C. S. S. "McArthur," 1888 ; C. S. S. " Hassler," 1888-91 ; Naval Academy, 
 1891, to 1894. Promoted Lieutenant, August 4, 1891 ; " Cincinnati," 1894 
 to 1897 ; Naval Academy, October 1897-8 ; U. S. S. " Topeka," May, 1898. 
 
 DeWitt Coffman. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Academy June 
 6, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 ; flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 
 November, 1876, until October, 1877 ; " Portsmouth " (around the Horn), 
 October, 1877, until March, 1879. Promoted to Ensign, July, 1879; U. S. 
 receiving-ship " Franklin," June until October, 1879 ; " Constellation," 1879 ; 
 flag-ship " Trenton," European Station, December, 1879, until November, 
 1881 ; U. S. receiving-ship "Colorado," December, 1881, until May, 1882; 
 Fish Commission, May until November, 1882 ; training-ship " New Hamp 
 shire," January until September. 1883 ; U. S receiving-ship " Franklin," 
 September, 1883, until January, 18^4 ; " Yantic," 1884-5. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), April 19, 1886; Coast Survey steamer "Carlisle 
 P. Patterson," S. E. Alaskan Survey ; member of party season of 1886 ; 
 Executive Officer of the " Patterson," season of 1887 ; Hydrographic Office, 
 1887-90 ; flag-ship " Pensacola," South Atlantic and South Pacific Stations 
 (during the Chilian war), September, 1890, until April, 1892. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant (senior grade), September 27, 1891; "Adams," Behring Sea, 
 during Seals Island patrol, 1892, until January, 1893 ; commanded (as 
 prize master) the sealing schooner " Mountain Chief," captured in Behring 
 Sea and taken into Unalaska, where she was turned over to the authorities ; 
 remained in Behring Sea until December, 1892; U. S. S. "Boston," at 
 Honolulu, January until July, 1893 ; commanded a company of the landing 
 party from the u Boston," when the Provisional Government took charge of 
 the Sandwich Islands; Naval Academy, 1893-6; U.S. S. "Texas," North 
 Atlantic, July until November, 1896; U. S. S. "Columbia," November, 
 1896, until July, 1897 ; U. S. monitor " Puritan," July, 1897, and now at 
 Key West. 
 
 William Gangmere Hannum. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 23, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 ; " Essex," 
 1877. Promoted to Ensign, August 2, 1879; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 
 1879-81; C. S. S. "Endeavor," 1881 ; " Enterprise," 1881-3 ; "Monocacy," 
 1883; "Enterprise," 1884; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1885; receiving- 
 ship "Vermont," 1885. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), May 6, 
 1886 ; C. S. schooner " Palinurus," 1886 ; receiving-ship " New Hampshire," 
 1887; "Ranger," 1887; "Adams," 1888; "Mohican," 1888-90; waiting 
 orders, December, 1890, to February, 1891 ; Inspector of Steel. February, 
 1891, to September, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant, October 2, 1891 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, September, 1892, to September 1893 ; "Adams," Pacific 
 Station, September, 1893, to 1895 ; U. S. S. " Yorktown," January, 1895-6 ; 
 leave of absence, November, 1896; New York Navy Yard, February, 1897-8 ; 
 April, 1898, U. S. S. " Wilmington," to date. 
 
 Richard Henderson. Bora in North Carolina. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 25, 1872; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Essex," 1877; 
 "Nipsic," 1879-82. Promoted Ensign, July 1, 1878; " Shenandoah," 
 1883-6. Promoted Lieutenant, (junior grade), May 13, 1886; Torpedo 
 Station, 1887 ; assistant to Light-House Inspector, 1888 ; Instructor Ord : 
 
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 nance, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889-90; "Alliance," Asiatic Station, 
 January, 1890, to April, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, November 5, 1891 ; 
 leave absence, April, 1893, to January, 1894; N. C. College, Raleigh, N.C., 
 January 6, 1894, to December, 1895 ; " Indiana," December 2, 1895, to date. 
 
 Thomas Dillard Griffin. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 20, 1872; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Essex," 1877-8. 
 Promoted Ensign, November 1, 1879; " Nipsic," 1879-82; C. S. schooner 
 " Palinurus," 1883 ; C. S. schooner " Eagre," 1883 ; C. S. steamer "Bache," 
 1884; C. S. schooner "Ready," 1884; C. S. S. "Blake," 1885-6. Promoted 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), May 19, 1886; "Galena," 1886-9; Bureau of 
 Navigation, 1889, to March, 1893. Promoted Lieutenant, November 20, 
 1891 ; " Charleston," Pacific Station, March, 1893, to January, 1896 ; U. S. 
 S. " Petrel," January, 1896, to May, 1896; leave of absence, May, 1896, to 
 September, 1896 ; Bureau of Equipment, September, 1896, to February, 
 1898 ; U. S. S. "Brooklyn," February, 1898, to date. 
 
 Henry Minett. Born in Kentucky. Entered Naval Academy, June 8, 
 1872; graduated June 20, 1876; "Swatara," 1877-8. Promoted Ensign, 
 November 1, 1870; "Jamestown," 1879-81; training-ship "New Hamp 
 shire," 1882; "Hartford," 1882-3; " Lacka wanna," 1883-4; Torpedo 
 Station, 1885-6. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), May 23, 1886; 
 receiving-ship "Minnesota," 1886-7; "Omaha," 1888, to September, 1891 ; 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," September, 1891. Promoted Lieutenant, Decem 
 ber 11, 1891; " Marblehead," April, 1894-7; U. S. receiving-ship " Wa- 
 bash," April, 1897, to April, 1898; commanding U. S. S. "Viking," May, 
 1898, to date. 
 
 Richard Thomas Mulligan. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1871 ; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Powhatan," 1877-8. 
 Promoted Ensign, January 2, 1880; "Trenton," 1879-81; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1881-2; "Tennessee," 1882-6. Promoted Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), May 23, 1886; Signal Office, 1886-7; "Enterprise," 1887-90; 
 "Despatch," special service, December, 1890, to November, 1891 ; Bureau 
 of Navigation, December, 1891-6; U. S. S. "New York," June, 1896, to 
 date. Promoted Lieutenant, December 16, 1891. 
 
 William Braunersreuther. Born in Illinois. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 23, 1871 ; graduated, September, 23, 1876 ; "Portsmouth," 
 1877-9; training-ship "Minnesota," 1879-80. Received thanks of Depart 
 ment and medal from American Humane Society for saving the life of a 
 citizen in Thames River, April 1, 1880. Promoted Ensign, January 22, 
 1880 ; C. S. S " Me Arthur," 1881 ; " Wyoming," 1882 ; commanding Naval 
 Station, Port Royal, S. C., 1883-6 ; special duty, Port Royal, S. C., 1883-6. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), June 26, 1886; "Alliance," 1886-9; 
 Linsly Institute, West Virginia, 1889, to July, 1893. Promoted Lieutenant, 
 January 10, 1892; "Thetis," special service, July, 1893, to May, 1896; 
 Recorder of Board of Labor, Navy Yard, Mare Island, May, 1896, to Sep 
 tember, 1897 ; " Baltimore," to January 4, 1898 ; then back to Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, to resume former duties; U S. S. " Charleston," May, 1898. 
 
 Francis Rowland Sherman. Born in Michigan. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 20, 1871; graduated, June 20, 1876; "Tennessee," 
 1876-9 ; " Passaic," 1879-80. Promoted Ensign, February 24, 1880 ; " Pen- 
 sacola," 1880-2; C. S. schooner "Silliman," 1882-3, "Palinurus," 1883; 
 "Eagre," 1884-5; commanded "Eagre," 1884-5. Promoted Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), July 1, 1886 ; " Tallapoosa," 1886-9 ; " Kearsarge," 1889 ; in 
 charge branch Hydrographic Office, Savannah, Ga., 1889, to August, 1892 ; 
 
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 "Monterey," Pacific Station, August, 1892, to 1894; U. S. S. "Ranger," 
 July, 1894-5; "Mohican," January, 1895; " Olympia," July, 1895-8; 
 " Machias," January, 1898 ; commanding U. S. S. " Passaic," to date. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, April 3, 1892, 
 
 William Stetson Hogg. Born in District of Columbia. Entered 
 Naval Academy, September 24, 1872 ; graduated, June 20, 1876 ; " Vanda- 
 lia," 1877-9 ; "Alarm," 1879. Promoted Ensign, March 10, 1880 ; receiving- 
 ship "Colorado," 1881; "Jamestown," 1882-3; " Alarm," 1883-4 ; Naval 
 Observatory, 1885 ; Fish Commission steamer " Albatross," 1886-7. Pro 
 moted Lieutenant (junior grade), August 5, 1886; "Marion," 1887-90; 
 Navy Yard, League Island, August, 1890, to December, 1892 ; receiving-ship 
 " St. Louis," December, 1892, to June, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, May 
 5, 1892 ; " Concord," Asiatic Station, June, 1893, to June, 1896 ; leave of 
 absence, June, 1896, to August, 1896 ; Office of Naval Intelligence, August, 
 1896, to April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Miantonomah," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Freeland Fullam. Born in New York State, 1855. En 
 tered Naval Academy, September 24, 1873 ; graduated No. 1 in his class, 
 June, 1877; "Marion" and "Trenton," European Station, 1877-79 ; final 
 graduation, June, 1879; Midshipman, 1879-80; "Swatara," China Station, 
 1879-82. Promoted Ensign, March 13, 1880 ; Naval Academy, Department 
 of Applied Mathematics, and in charge Battalion of Infantry, 1883-7 ; prac 
 tice-ship " Dale," 1883 ; practice-ship " Constellation," 1886. Promoted 
 Lieutenant, (junior grade), October 7, 1886 ; " Boston," 1887-9 ; " Vesuvius," 
 1889; " Yorktown," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90; "Chicago," Squadron 
 of Evolution, 1890 ; Naval Academy, Department of Ordnance and Gun 
 nery, and in charge Battalion of Infantry, 1891-4. Promoted Lieutenant, 
 May 28, 1892; " Kaleigh," North Atlantic Squadron of Evolution, 1894-7 ; 
 "Amphitrite," North Atlantic Station, 1897 ; Naval Academy, Departments 
 of Physics and Discipline, 1897-8 ; U. S. S. " New Orleans," May, 1898. 
 
 Horace Mark Witzel. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 5, 1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; "Hartford," 1877-9; "Tennes 
 see," 1879-82. Promoted Ensign, March 18, 1880 ; C. S. S. " Bache," 1882 ; 
 C. S. S. "Gedney," 1883; special duty, Smithsonian Institution, 1883-5; 
 " Vandalia," 1886-9. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), November 9, 
 1886 ; Hydrographic Office, 1889 to June, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 May 29, 1892. Training-ship " Portsmouth," June, 1892, to January, 1895 ; 
 Intelligence Office, March 1895, to December, 1896 ; Cramp s Ship Yard, 
 as Inspector of Ordnance, December, 1896, to June, 1897 ; " Iowa," June, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 Albert Gustav Winterhalter. Born in Detroit, Michigan, October 
 5, 1856. Appointed from First Congressional District of Michigan. Entered 
 Naval Academy as Cadet Midshipman, September 24, 1873. Midshipman, 
 June 18, 1879. Ensign, July 10, 1880. Lieutenant (junior grade), Decem 
 ber 14, 1886. Lieutenant, June 30, 1892. "Swatara" and "Powhatan," 
 North Atlantic Station, September, 1877, to May, 1879 ; " Constitution " 
 and " Jamestown," training service, July, 1881, to November, 1884 ; U. S. 
 Naval Observatory, January, 1885, to November, 1889 ; United States 
 delegate to the International Astrophotographic Congress at Paris, France, 
 April, 1887 ; visited, under orders of Navy Department, the principal obser 
 vatories of Europe, March to November, 1887, and rendered a report pub 
 lished as Appendix III. of the Naval Observatory volume for 1885 ; " York- 
 town," Squadron of Evolution, November, 1889, to October, 1891 ; Valpa 
 raiso, Chili, November, 1891, to January, 1892 ; and Behring Sea, April to 
 
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194 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 October, 1892 ; Naval Observatory, January to December, 1893 ; and in 
 charge of Naval Observatory Exhibit at World s Fair, Chicago, April to 
 November, 1893 ; Bureau of Equipment, December, 1893, to July, 1895 ; 
 organized present system of classification and regulation of ships libraries ; 
 "Bennington," August, 1895, "Philadelphia," May, 1896; "Baltimore," 
 October, 1897 ; " Bennington," March, 1898, all on Pacific Station. 
 
 John Madison Orchard. Appointed from Missouri. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 11, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; Ensign, July 11, 1880 ; 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), January 26, 1887 ; training-ship " Constitution," 
 1878 ; " Tennessee," N A. Station, 1879-81 ; C. S. steamer, " Bache," 1882- 
 84 ; " Yantic," N. A. Station, 18&5-7 ; Naval Academy, 1887, to August, 
 1891. Promoted to Lieutenant, July 1, 1892. "Petrel," Asiatic Station, 
 August, 1891 ; IT. S. S. " Monocacy " to 1894; Naval Academy, November, 
 1894-97 ; U. S. S. "Iowa," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Newell Jordan. Born in Maine. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 5, 1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; "Tennessee," 1879-81. Pro 
 moted Ensign, October 11, 1880; C. S. schooner " Earnest," 1881-3 ; C. S. 
 steamer " McArthur," 1884 ; C. S. schooner " Earnest," 1885 ; " Tallapoosa," 
 1886-7. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), March 1, 1887 ; " Kearsarge," 
 1888 ; C. S. schooner " Earnest," 1889, to October 1891. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant, July 1, 1892. Inspector of Steel, October, 1891, to February, 1895 ; 
 U. S. S. " Amphitrite," training-ship "Essex," February, 1895, to April, 
 1898; Torpedo Station, Newport, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Augustus Francis Fechteler. Born in Prussia. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; " Shenandoah," 
 1879-82 Promoted Ensign, November 23, 1880 ; C. S. schooner " Drift," 
 1882-3 ; commanding C. S. schooner " Ready," 1884 ; Executive Officer, C. 
 S. steamer "Blake," 1885; training-ship "Jamestown," 1885; "Essex," 
 1886-8. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), March 6, 1887 ; Bureau of 
 Navigation, 1889-90 ; Office of Naval Intelligence, November, 1890, to 
 February, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant, July 21, 1892 ; Fish Commission 
 steamer, " Albatross," February, 1892, to October, 1894 ; charge Branch 
 Hydrographic Office, San Francisco, October, 1894, to September, 1896 ; 
 U. S. S. " Monterey," September, 1896, to date. 
 
 Thomas Mason Brumby. Born in Georgia. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 25, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; " Tennessee," 1879-81. 
 Promoted Ensign, November 26, 1880 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," 1881 ; 
 "Jamestown," 1882; C. S. S. "Gedney," 1882-5; " Vandalia," 1886-9. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), April 21, 1887 ; receiving-ship " Ver 
 mont," December, 1890, to April, 1891; school-ship "St. Mary s," April, 
 1891, to January, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, August 24, 1892 ; waiting 
 orders, January, 1893, to August, 1893 ; " New York," S. A. Station, August, 
 1893, to 1896 ; leave of absence, July, 1896 ; U. S. receiving-ship " Vermont," 
 October, 1896; Naval Observatory and War College, September, 1897; 
 " Olympia," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Edward Everett Wright. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 20, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; " Swatara," 
 1879-82. Promoted Ensign, January 1, 1881 ; training-ship " New Hamp 
 shire," 1883-4; C. S. S. "Palinurus," 1885; C. S. S "Bache," 1885-7. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), May 21, 1887; training-ship "Sara 
 toga," 1887; "Swatara," 1887; "Yantic," 1887-90; Navy Yard, Boston, 
 August, 1890, to July, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, December 4, 1892 ; 
 " Newark," S. A. Station, July, 1893, to 1896 ; U. S. receiving-ship "jWabash," 
 
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 October, 1896 ; Navy Yard, Boston, and War College, April, 1897-8 ; April, 
 1898, U. 8. S. "Minneapolis," to date. 
 
 Albert Gleaves. Born in Tennessee, January 1, 1858. Appointed 
 from State at large, June 13, 1873, as Cadet Midshipman ; was graduated 
 from Naval Academy, June 20, 1877 ; ordered to U. S. S. "Hartford," flag 
 ship South Atlantic Squadron, August 23, 1877 ; detached from " Hartford " 
 at Rio de Janeiro, October 6, 1878, and permitted to return to United States, 
 on leave until March, 1879 ; U. S. S. " Plymouth," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 March to May, 1879. Appointed Midshipman, July, 1879 ; October, 1879, 
 to February, 1883, U. S. S. "Nipsic," European Squadron. Commissioned 
 Ensign, January 1, 1881 ; from September, 1883, to May, 1884, U. S. S. 
 " Trenton," en route to Asiatic Station ; May, 1884, to M$*y, 1886, U. S. S. 
 " Monocacy," coast of China ; May to September, 1886, U. S. S. " Trenton," 
 en route to United States ; November, 1886, to February, 1887, ordnance 
 duty, Washington Navy Yard; February, 1887, to October, 1889, Naval 
 Ordnance proving ground ; U. S. despatch vessel "Dolphin," coast of Hayti, 
 November, 1889, to May, 1891. Commissioned Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 May 26, 1887; "Boston," Pacific Station, May, 1891, to December, 1892. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, January 9, 1893 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, March, 1893, to August, 1895; U. S. battleship " Texas," 
 August, 1895, to January, 1896; U. S. monitor "Monadnock," Pacific 
 Station, February, 1896, to July, 1896 ; when the " Texas," was re-commis 
 sioned in July, 1896, rejoined her at Norfolk ; May, 1897, ordered to com 
 mand torpedo boat "Gushing," and until October, 1897, was engaged in 
 Experimental torpedo work in Narragansett Bay; October, 1897, "dishing," 
 joined Torpedo Boat Flotilla organized for the purpose of coast-cruising ; 
 February 11, 1897, was ordered to Havana in the "Gushing;" afterwards 
 with the Fleet at Key West. 
 
 James Philips Parker. Born in North Carolina, September 25, 1855. 
 Entered Naval Academy, June 5, 1873 ; graduated, June, 1877 ; served on 
 board flag-ship " Hartford," South Atlantic, 1877-9, graduating finally in 
 1879; served on U. S. S. "Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1879-82. Promoted 
 Ensign, January 10, 1881 ; surveying duty, Atlantic Coast, on C. S. S. 
 " Endeavor," 1883 ; on C. S. S. " Bache," 1883-4, and on U. S. S " Ranger," 
 Pacific Coast, 1884-7. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), June 30, 1887 ; 
 in charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Baltimore, 1887-90; "Alert," 
 Behring Sea and Asiatic Station, October, 1890, to October, 1893. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, January 25, 1893 ; Naval Academy, October, 1893-6 ; U. S. 
 S. " New York," July, 1896 ; " Monadnock," August, 1896-7 ; Superintend 
 ent New York Harbor, April, 1897-8 ; April, 1898, U. S. S. " Monadnock," 
 to date. 
 
 Benjamin Ward Hodges. Born in Mississippi. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September, 23, 1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; "Swatara," 
 1879-82. Promoted Ensign, February 24, 1881 ; " New Hampshire," 1883 ; 
 "Ossipee," 1884-7. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), June 30, 1887; 
 Naval Observatory, 1887-90; " Pinta," special service, October, 1890, to 
 October, 1892; receiving-ship "Dale," November, 1892-5. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, February 7, 1894 ; Naval Observatory, January, 1895 ; U. S. S. 
 " Boston," December, 1895-7 ; U. S. S. " Monocacy," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Herbert Omar Dunn. Born in Westerly, R. I. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, June 6, 1873, as Cadet Midshipman; graduated, June 18, 1879, as 
 Midshipman; from 1877-79, the part of the academic course at sea was on 
 the " Hartford," in the South Atlantic ; from 1879-81, on the " Minnesota," 
 
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 North Atlantic. Promoted to Ensign, March 12, 1881, and spent six months 
 on leave in Paris, studying the language ; " Iroquois," in 1882, North and 
 South Pacific ; " Essex," 1882, and " Palos," 1882-5, on the China Station ; 
 " Juniata," 1885-6, returning home by way of Africa ; while on the " Palos," 
 held the positions of Executive Officer and Navigator, also Acting Chief 
 Engineer ; Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting, 1886-9, as assistant to 
 Chief of Bureau. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), July 1, 1887 ; 
 invented the new cast-steel patent anchor known as the " Dunn Anchor," in 
 1889, now used in the service; Torpedo School, 1889; "Baltimore," 1889 to 
 August, 1892; charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Baltimore, December, 
 1892, to September, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, February 17, 1893; 
 served on " Lancaster," from 1895, to December, 1897, on South Atlantic 
 Station, and when that ship was put out of commission was transferred to the 
 double-turreted monitor "Terror" on the North, Atlantic Station. 
 
 Arthur Wright Dodd. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 6, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879; " Constitution," 1879-80. Pro 
 moted Ensign, March 29, 1881 ; R. S. " Passaic," 1881 ; " Ranger," 1881-4 ; 
 C. S. S. " Eagre," 1885 ; " C. S. S. " Bache," 1885 ; C. S. S. Gedney," 1886- 
 87. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), August 25, 1887 ; inspector steel, 
 new cruisers, 1887; " Tallapoosa," 1888 to January, 1892; training-ship 
 "Richmond," April, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant, February 25, 1893; 
 training-ship " Constellation," April, 1892 ; " Monterey," February 8, 1895 ; 
 "Alert," January, 1896; "Thetis," January, 1897 ; " Monadnock," Jan 
 uary, 1898, to February, 1898; leave of absence, February, 1898; April, 
 1898, Branch Hydrographic Office, Boston, Mass., commanding U. S. S. 
 "Restless," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 George William Denfeld. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 22, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; " Minnesota," 
 1879-81. Promoted Ensign, April 22, 1881 ; " Iroquois," 1882 ; " Pensacola," 
 1882; " Richmond," 1883 ; "Alert," 1883; "Enterprise," 1885; Torpedo 
 Station, 1886-7. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), September 4, 1887 ; 
 Bureau Navigation, 1887-9 ; " Charleston," 1889 ; " Thetis," special service, 
 January, 1890, to April, 1892 ; Electric Light duty, April, 1892, to May, 
 1893 ; Assistant Inspector Electric Lighting, May, 1893, to 1895. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, April 27, 1893; "Maine," September, 1895, to November, 
 1897 ; Navy Yard, New York, November, 9, 1897, to date. 
 
 Albert Weston Grant. Born in Maine. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 9, 1873, and graduated June 20, 1877; "Pensacola" and "Lacka- 
 wanna," 1877-9 ; graduated, after two years at sea, Midshipman, June 18, 
 1879 ; "Alliance," 1880; "Passaic" and "Speedwell," 1881-2. Promoted 
 to Ensign, May 17, 1881-, "Iroquois," 1882-5 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1885- 
 7 ; Torpedo Station and War College, 1886. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), November 1, 1887 ; "Trenton," 1887-8 ; " Saratoga," 1888 ; special 
 electric light duty, Norfolk, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, 1888-90 ; 
 electric lighting of vessels, December, 1890, to February, 1891 ; "San Fran 
 cisco," N. A. Station, February, 1891-4. Promoted to Lieutenant, May 9, 
 1893 ; Naval Academy, November, 1894-7 ; U. S. S. " Massachusetts," July, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 Philip Van Home Lansdale. Born in District of Columbia, Febru 
 ary 15, 1858. Entered Naval Academy, June 6, 1873. Finished course at 
 Naval Academy, June, 1877 ; "Plymouth," 1877; "Constellation," 1878; 
 " Powhatan," 1879 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; " Swatara," 1879-82. Pro 
 moted Ensign, June 1, 1881 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1882 ; 
 
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 Torpedo Station, 1883 ; " Galena," 1883 ; " Ossipee," 1884-7 ; inspector steel, 
 new cruisers, 1887-90. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), March 31, 
 1888 ; " Philadelphia," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to June, 1893 ; leave of 
 absence, June, 1893, to September 5, 1893 ; in charge of Caravels, World s 
 Fair, September, 1893, to December, 1893; Naval Intelligence, December, 
 1893-6. Promoted to Lieutenant, May 15, 1893 ; U.S. S. " Massachusetts," 
 June, 1896 ; " Alert," January, 1897, to date. 
 
 Horace Wellford Harrison. Born in Massachusetts. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 26, 1872 ; " Marion," 1877-8 ; " Trenton," 1878-9 ; 
 "Alliance," 1879-81. Promoted Ensign, June 11, 1881; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1881-2; " Nipsic," 1883-5; Hydrographic Office, 1886-7; C S. 
 schooner "Eagre," 1887; "Vermont," 1887-8; inspector of steel, new 
 cruisers, 1888-9. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade;, May 22, 1888 ; 
 "Iroquois," 1889-92; leave of absence, May, 1892, to January, 1893; 
 Hydrographic Office, January, 1893, to 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 June 10, 1893; U. S. S. "Ranger," May, 1895; U. S. S. "Adams," 
 January, 1896-7 ; U. S. S. " Oregon," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Valentine Sevier Nelson. Born in Tennessee. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 6, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879. Promoted Ensign, 
 December 14, 1880; "Galena," 1880-3; Naval Observatory, 1883; "Ossi 
 pee," 1884-7. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), May 21, 1887 ; Naval 
 Ordnance, proving ground, 1887-90 ; " Charleston," Special Service Squad 
 ron, September, 1890, to June, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, November, 
 18, 1892 ; waiting orders, November, 1893, to February, 1894 ; inspector of 
 steel, new vessels, February 12, 1894, to July, 1896 ; " Detroit," July, 1896 ; 
 "Machias," July, L<97 ; "Olympia," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Shepherd Benson. Native of and appointed from Georgia. 
 Left the United States Naval Academy, June, 1877, and ordered to the 
 "Hartford" (flag-ship), S. A. Station, in August of same year; remained 
 attached to her at S. A. Station until January 1, 1879, when ordered to the 
 " Essex " at same station ; detached from the " Essex " in May, 1879, and 
 ordered home via England for final examination ; ordered to the "Constitu 
 tion," at Norfolk, in October, 1879 ; she was then detailed as a training-ship, 
 and making her last cruise; detached from the "Constitution," in July, 
 1881, and ordered to duty at the Brooklyn Yard. Was promoted Ensign, 
 July 27, 1881 ; detached from Brooklyn Yard, January, 1882, and ordered 
 to "Alliance " on Home Station ; transferred to the " Yantic," Home Station, 
 in May, 1882, and remained attached to her till September, 1884 ; made the 
 cruise in the " Yantic " to Littleton Island, in the summer of 1883, as convoy 
 to the Greely relief-steamer "Proteus;" was on duty under the Naval 
 Advisory Board at South Boston until March, 1885, when detached and 
 ordered to the Branch Hydrographic Office at Baltimore, Md. ; detached 
 from this duty in January, 1886, and ordered to the Fish Commission 
 steamer "Albatross ; " remained on this duty until latter part of November, 
 1887 ; in January, 1888, ordered to the " Dolphin " at New York, and made 
 the cruise around the world in her ; Naval Academy, September, 1890, to 
 October, 1893; Navy Yard, Washington, October, 1893, to 1894. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, June 27, 1893 ; Coast Survey, January 2, 1894 ; Coast 
 Survey steamer " Bache," January, 1894, to 1896 ; U. S. S. " Dolphin," Jan 
 uary, 1896; Naval Academy, August, 1896, to 1898; May, 1898, U. S. S. 
 " Monongahela," to date. 
 
 William Venable Bronaugh. Born in Kentucky. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 5, 1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; "Tennessee," 1880; 
 
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 " Alaska," 1885. Promoted Ensign, August 30, 1881 ; C. S. S. " McArthur," 
 1881 ; C. S. S. " Blake," 1882 ; C. S. S. " Hassler," 1882-4 ; " Portsmouth," 
 1885-8. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), 1888 ; inspector steel, new 
 cruisers, 1888, to December, 1891; "Alliance," Pacific Station, January, 
 1892-4. Promoted to Lieutenant, June 27, 1893; "San Francisco," June, 
 1894, to September, 1894 ; leave of absence, December, 1894 ; Naval Obser 
 vatory, January 7,1895, to February, 1897; "Castine," February, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 Frank Matteson Bostwick. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 26, 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; "Lackawanna," 
 1880-1. Promoted Ensign, August 30, 1881 ; C. S. S. " McArthur," 1881 ; 
 C. S. S. " Hassler," 1881-5 ; Asiatic Station, 1886 ; " Palos," 1886-9. Pro 
 moted Lieutenant (junior grade), June 10, 1888 ; receiving-ship "Indepen 
 dence," March, 1890, to September, 1892 ; " Thetis," special service, Sep 
 tember, 1892-6 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, September, 1896-8 ; May, 1898, 
 U. S. S. " Charleston," to date. Promoted Lieutenant, June 27, 1893. 
 
 James Harrison Oliver. Born in Georgia. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 12, 1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; "Swatara," 1879-81 ; "Ashue- 
 lot," 1881-3. Promoted Ensign, October 1, 1881 ; Artillery School, Fortress 
 Monroe, 1883; "Lackawanna," 1884; "Shenandoah," 1884-6; "Mohican," 
 1886 ; C. S.S. " McArthur," 1887 ; C. S S. " Patterson," 1887-9. Promoted 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), September 28, 1888 ; " Kearsarge," 1889, to De 
 cember, 1892 ; leave of absence, December, 1892, to February, 1893 ; Inspec 
 tor of Ordnance, Providence, February, 1893-4. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 July 4, 1893; U. S. S. "Minneapolis," December, 1894, and U. S. S. "San 
 Francisco," to 1897 ; ordered to Torpedo Station, December, 1897. 
 
 Harry Mason Dombaugh. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 6, 1872 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; Irish relief cruise "Constellation," 
 1880; "Alaska," 1881-3. Promoted Ensign, October 12, 1881; " Pinta," 
 1883-6; "Fortune," 1887-8; "New Hampshire," 1888. Promoted Lieu 
 tenant (junior grade), January 15, 1889; Torpedo Station, 1889-90; 
 " Vesuvius," N. A. Station, June, 1890, to July, 1893 ; leave of absence, 
 July, 1893, to October, 1893 ; Assistant Inspector of Ordnance, October, 
 1893, to October, 1895. Promoted Lieutenant, July 4, 1893; Bureau of 
 Ordnance, October, 1895, to March, 1896; " Bennington," July, 1896, to 
 December, 1896 ; " Marion," December, 1896, to December, 1897 ; " Mohi 
 can," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Simon Cook. Born in Illinois. Entered Naval Academy, June 6, 
 1873 ; graduated, June 18, 1879 ; " Constitution," 1880 ; receiving-ship 
 "Franklin," 1881. Promoted Ensign, November 15, 1881; " Iroquois," 
 1882-5; C. S. S. "McArthur," 1885-6; Torpedo Station, 1887; "Omaha," 
 1888, to June, 1891. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), March 15, 1889. 
 Charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Norfolk, Va., October, 1891, to Octo 
 ber, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Castine," U. S. S. " Puritan," to October, 1897 ; branch 
 Hydrographic Office, Chicago, October, 1897, to May, 1898 ; Navy Yard, 
 League Island, with " Princeton," to date. Promoted to Lieutenant, Septem 
 ber 27, 1893. 
 
 Thomas Slidell Rodgers. Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, September 24, 1874; graduated, June 4, 1880; "Galena," 1880. 
 Promoted Ensign, December 1, 1881 , " Lancaster," 1880-3 ; " Juniata," 
 1886-9 ; Inspector Ordnance Department, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889, 
 to June, 1892. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), March 26, 1889 ; 
 " Chicago," N. A. Station, June, 1892, Promoted to Lieutenant, October 1, 
 
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 1893 ; June, 1892, U. S. S. " Bennington" U. S. S. ; " Kanger," to June, 1895 ; 
 leave of absence, June, 1895, to August, 1895 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 August, 1895, to May, 1897; U. S. S. "Baltimore" (staff), May, 1897, to 
 April, 1898 ; Flag Lieutenant, U. S. S. " Bennington," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 John Gardner Quinby. Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, June 12, 1874; graduated, June 4, 1880 ; "Minnesota," 1880 ; " Lan 
 caster," 1881-4. Promoted Ensign, February, 1882; Naval Academy, 
 1884; "Constellation," 1885; Naval Academy, 1885-6; training-ship 
 "Jamestown," 1886; "Constellation," 1886; Naval Academy, 1887-9. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), March 26, 1889; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1889-90; R. S. "Franklin," July, 1890, to March, 1891; "Lancaster," 
 Asiatic Station, March, 1891. Promoted to Lieutenant, November 5, 1893. 
 Leave of absence, June, 1894, to October, 1894; charge Branch Hydro- 
 graphic Office, Norfolk, October, 1894, to January, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Vesu 
 vius," January, 1897, to date. 
 
 James Henry Glennon. Entered Naval Academy, September 24, 
 1874; " Constellation," 1875 and 1877; " Lackawanna," 1878 ; "Alaska," 
 1879-80 ; " Pensacola," 1880 ; final graduation, June 4, 1880 ; " Ranger," 
 1881-5 ; last year in charge of main triangulation ; Naval Academy, 1885- 
 87, as Instructor in Department of Ordnance and Gunnery ; " Constellation," 
 1887, as Instructor to Cadets, in Navigation, afterwards Navigator ; Naval 
 Academy, 1887-9; in command of Artillery Battalion, Naval Academy, 
 1887 and 1888 ; author of two works on gunnery for cadets, Naval Academy. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), March 26, 1889 ; Mare Island, 1889- 
 90, in connection with electric-light plant of " Charleston ; " attached to 
 " Charleston," Pacific Station, 1890, to March, 1893 ; Naval Academy, April, 
 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, December 26, 1893; U. S. S. "Newark," 
 June 15, 1893 ; " Massachusetts," January 1, 1897, to date. 
 
 Percival Julius Werlich. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 6,1873; graduated, June 18, 1879; " Alliance," 1880-3. 
 Promoted Ensign, November 6, 1881 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1883 ; C. 
 S. steamer "Blake," 1884-5; Library Navy Department, 1885-6; "Enter 
 prise," 1887-90. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), February 19, 1889; 
 inspector of steel, July, 1890, to June, 1893 ; " Philadelphia," Pacific Station, 
 June, 1893, to December, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, September 15, 
 1893; April, 1896, U. S. S. "Terror," to November, 1896; Inspector Ord 
 nance, November, 1896, to date. 
 
 William Rees-Rush. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, June 6, 1872 ; 1877-9, flag-ship " Monongahela," China Station ; grad 
 uated, June 1, 1879; "Constellation," Irish Relief cruise, 1880; " Constitu 
 tion," flag-ship Training Squadron, 1880; "Passaic," 1881. Promoted to 
 Ensign, February 15, 1881 ; " Ranger," surveying duty west coast of Mexico 
 and Central America, 1881-7 ; Ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1887 ; Bureau of Navigation, Assistant to the Hydrographer, 1887-9 ; 
 "Boston," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-90. Promoted to Lieutenant 
 (junior prade), February 11, 1889 ; "Bennington," North Atlantic Station, 
 1891 ; " Boston," Pacific Station, July, 1891, to December, 1893. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, December, 26, 1893 ; Ordnance duty, Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, 1894; War College, 1894-96; flag-ship "Brooklyn," representative 
 ship at Spithead, Queen s Jubilee, 1897 ; "Brooklyn," to date. 
 
 Harry Shepard Knapp. Born in New Britain, Conn., June 27, 1856. 
 Entered Naval Academy, June 26, 1874, from First District, Conn., General 
 Hawley, representative ; graduated from Naval Academy, June, 1878 ; 
 
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 finally graduated and appointed Midshipman, June 4, 1880. Promoted 
 Ensign, from February 16, 1882. Promoted Lieutenant, (junior grade), 
 from March 31, 1889. Promoted Lieutenant, from January 23, 1894. From 
 October 1, 1878, to March 12, 1880, attached to flag-ship " Pensacola," on 
 Pacific Station ; from July 28, 1880, to January 9, 1882, attached to train 
 ing-ship "Minnesota;" attached to " Jamestown," from February 1, 1882, 
 to July 6, 1882, during her cruise from San Francisco to Newport, via Cape 
 Horn ; from July 13, 1882, to November 30, 1883, attached to Coast and 
 Gulf Survey steamer "Blake;" from December 1, 1883, to June 7, 1884, 
 on special duty at Smithsonian Institution ; from June 10, 1884, to Septem 
 ber 1, 1888, on duty at the Naval Academy, as Instructor in Department 
 Physics and Chemistry ; from September 4, 1888, to November 21, 1888, on 
 duty at Boston Branch Hydrographic Office ; "Atlanta," November 24, 
 1888, to August, 1891 ; Naval Academy, as Instructor in Department of 
 Applied Mathematics, August, 1891, to June, 1894; "Montgomery," June, 
 1894, to May, 1897; Naval Academy, May 28, 1897, to May, 1898; U. 8. 
 S. " Dorothea," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Ledyard Rodgers. Appointed from California. Cadet 
 Midshipman, June 11, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 4, 1880 ; Ensign, April 1, 
 1882 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 4, 1889 ; Naval Observatory, 1880-1 ; 
 " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1881-4 ; special duty, Naval Department, 
 1884-5; instruction torpedo service, 1886; Office of Naval Intelligence, 
 1886-8 ; " Atlanta," special service, 1889-92 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 December, 1892, to 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, February, 1894; Train 
 ing-ship " Alliance," October, 1895-7 ; Columbian Iron Works, May, 1897 ; 
 commanding U. S. S. " Foote," January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Roy Campbell Smith. Born in Texas. Appointed to Naval Acad 
 emy, from Virginia, October 3, 1874 ; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 1878-80. 
 Midshipman, June 4, 1880; Washington Navy Yard, 1881 ; Quinnebaug," 
 European Station, 1881-4. Ensign, April 8, 1882 ; Naval Academy, 
 1885-8; "Constellation," summer of 1885; Torpedo Station, Newport, 
 summer of 1887 ; electrical duty, Philadelphia and Norfolk, 1888-9 ; " York- 
 town," " Boston," " Bennington," and " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 
 1889-92 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 12, 1889 ; Torpedo Station, New 
 port, 1892-5. Lieutenant, February 22, 1894; Torpedo Boat "dishing," 
 1895 ; " Indiana," 1896, to date. 
 
 Albert Norton Wood. Born in Indiana. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 24,1873; graduated, June 4, 1880; "Alaska," 1881-3. Pro 
 moted Ensign, April 15, 1882 ; " Powhatan," 1884 ; " Nina," 1884 ; " Pow- 
 hatan," 1885-6. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), May 15, 1889; train 
 ing-ship " Richmond," February, 1887, to March, 1891; " Monongahela," 
 training-ship, March, 1891, to March, 1894. Promoted to Lieut enant, April, 
 1894; Secretary Steel Board, March, 1894, to December, 1896; U. S. S. 
 " Petrel," December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Edward Lloyd, Jr. Born in Maryland. Entered Naval Academy, 
 June 17, 1874; graduated, June 4, 1880; "Constitution," 1880; receiving- 
 ship "Franklin," 1881 ; "Enterprise," 1882-4. Promoted Ensign, May 11, 
 1882; ordnance proving ground, Annapolis, 1885-7 ; " Boston," Squadron 
 of Evolution, 1888-90. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), June 13, 
 1889; Naval Academy, September, 1890, to August, 1893; " Detroit," S. 
 A. Station, August, 1893-6. Promoted to Lieutenant, April, 1894 ; Naval 
 Academy, September, 1896; U. S S. "Solace," May, 1898, to date. 
 
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 Harry Pickney Huse. Naval Academy, 1874-8 ; flag-ship " Pensa- 
 cola " (staff), 1878-80. Promoted to Midshipman, June 4, 1880 ; U. S. 
 training-ship, " Minnesota," July 28, 1880 ; U. S. S. " Galena," November 
 1, 1880. Promoted Ensign, June 2, 1882; "Brooklyn," 1883-4; Proving 
 Grounds, Annapolis, 1884-5 ; Naval Academy, 1886 ; " Constellation," 1887 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1887-8; "Kearsarge," 1888; "Galena," "Dolphin," 
 "Baltimore," "Philadelphia," (staff), 1888-91. Promoted Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), June 27, 1889; furlough, October, 1891, to April, 1892; 
 Naval Academy, 1892-4; "Cincinnati," 1894-7; Naval Academy, 1897; 
 " Gloucester," May, 1898. 
 
 Richard Morris Hughes. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 25, 1874 ; graduated, June 4, 1880 /" Constitution," 
 1880 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1881. Promoted Ensign, June 19, 1882 ; 
 "Alliance," 1882-4 ; Coast Survey, 1885 ; C. S. S. " Blake," 1886-9 ; train 
 ing-ship " Portsmouth," 1889 to June, 1892. Promoted to Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), August 4, 1889 ; charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Phil 
 adelphia, June, 1892, to May, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, June, 1894 ; 
 U. S. S. "Concord," U. S. S. " Olympia," U. S. S. "Machias," May, 1895, 
 to date. 
 
 Charles Nelson Atwater. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 24, 1873; graduated, June 4, 1880; "Constitution," 
 1880 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1881. Promoted Ensign, June 20, 1882 ; 
 "Jamestown," 1882; special duty, Boston, November, 1882; "Trenton," 
 1883; "Enterprise," 1883; "Trenton," 1885; Naval Academy, 1886-9; 
 training-ship, " Portsmouth," 1889-92. Promoted Lieutenant ( junior grade), 
 September 9, 1889 ; Naval Academy, September, 1892, to 1895. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, June, 1894 ; U. S. S/" Mohican," U. S. S. " Marion," " Ben- 
 nington," " Amphitrite," July, 1895, to May, 1898, to date. 
 
 John Hite Lee Holcombe. Born in Virginia, 1856. Entered Naval 
 Academy, June 27, 1874; graduated, 1878; "Wyoming," 1878-9; "Tren 
 ton," 1879; "Enterprise," 1880 Midshipman, June 4, 1880; Nautical Al 
 manac Experimental Determination Velocity of Light, 1880-1 ; " Despatch," 
 survey of Samana, 1882. Promoted Ensign, July 1, 1882 ; Assistant Astron 
 omer, Transit of Venus, Cape Town, 1882-3; "Nipsic," 1883; "Trenton," 
 1883; "Monocacy," 1883-4; "Alert," 1885; "Trenton," 1885; Naval 
 Academy, 1886-88; special duty, Telegraphic Determination Longitude, 
 1888-9 ; C. S. S. " McArthur," 1889-91. Lieutenant (junior grade), October 
 24, 1889; Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," 1891; "Thetis," special 
 service, November, 1891, to September, 1892; Assistant Inspector of Ord 
 nance, Navy Yard, Washington, September, 1892, to 1895. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, July, 1894. Sick leave, May, 1895 ; " Philadelphia," December, 
 1895-6 ; U. S. S. " Castine ; " U. S. S. Adams," December, 1896, to May, 
 1898 ; en route to Asiatic Station, May, 1898. 
 
 William Leslie Burdick. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio. En 
 tered Naval Academy, September 26, 1873 ; cruise preliminary to final 
 graduation, U.S. S. "Swatara," September, 1877, to October, 1878; " Pow- 
 hatan," October, 1878, to April, 1879; graduated, June 18, 1879; "Tennes 
 see," N. A. Station, 1879-82 ; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1882-3 ; C. S. S. 
 "McArthur," 1884; " Adams," Pacific Station, 1885-9; inspector of steel, 
 Munhall, Pennsylvania, 1889-90. Promoted to Ensign, November 23, 1882. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), 1890 ; Coast Survey steamer " Bache," 
 July, 1890, to November, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Washington, November, 1893, 
 to 1894 ; U. S. S. " Columbia," April, 1894. Promoted to Lieutenant, July, 
 
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 1894 ; U. S. receiving-ship " Independence," June, 1897 ; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, July, 1897-8 ; May, 1898, U. S. S. " Lancaster," to date. 
 
 Harry Kimmell. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania. Entered Naval Academy, September 28, 1874; graduated, June 4, 
 1880 ; " Ranger," N. P. Station, 1880-3 ; " Alert," Asiatic Station, 1883 ; 
 " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1884-6; "Michigan," Northwestern Lakes, 
 1887-8 ; C. S. S. " Blake," 1889-92. Promoted Ensign, December 19, 1882. 
 Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), 1890; Hydrographic Office, March, 
 
 1892, to September, 1893 ; receiving-ship Franklin," January, 1894. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, July 81, 1894; "Alliance," training-ship, 1895; 
 " Monterey," Pacific Station, 1896-8. 
 
 George Ramsey Clark. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio. En 
 tered Naval Academy, June 9, 1874; graduated, June 4, 1880; "Wachu- 
 sett," Pacific Station, 1880-3 ; " Michigan," Northwestern Lakes, 1884-6 ; 
 "Alliance," S. A. Station, 1887-9; special duty, electric lights, Philadelphia, 
 1889-90. Promoted Ensign, August 24, 1883 Promoted Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), 1890; "Michigan," April, 1890, to December, 1892; "At 
 lanta " and " Machias," N. A. Station, December, 1892 ; training-ship 
 " Essex," to 1895 Promoted to Lieutenant, August, 1894 ; Naval Academy, 
 September, 1895-8 ; April, 1898, U. S. S. "Puritan," to date. 
 
 George Henry Stafford. Born in Illinois. Appointed from Iowa. 
 Entered Naval Academy, June 10, 1874; graduated, June 4, 1880; 
 " Ranger," N. P. Station, 1881-4 ; Bureau Navigation, Office Naval Intelli 
 gence, 1885-7 ; " Ranger," N. P. Station, 1887-90. Promoted Ensign, 
 October 13, 1883. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), February 28, 1890 ; 
 " Michigan," Great Lakes, December, 1890, to December, 1892 ; leave of 
 absence, December, 1892, to July, 1893 ; "Baltimore," Asiatic Station, July, 
 
 1893, to September, 1895; "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, September, 1895, 
 to May, 1896; " Charleston," May to July, 1896; charge Branch Hydro- 
 graphic Office, Cleveland, Ohio, October, 1896, to March, 1898. Promoted 
 Lieutenant, September 7, 1894 ; " Columbia," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 Allen Grey Rogers. Born in North Carolina. Appointed from North 
 Carolina. Entered Naval Academy, June 12, 1874; graduated. June 12, 
 1874; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1880-3; torpedo instruction, 1883; train 
 ing-ship "New Hampshire," 1883-4 ; C. S.S. " Blake," 1885-8 ; " Mononga- 
 hela," Pacific Station, 1889-90. Promoted Ensign, December 1, 1883. 
 Promoted Lieutenant ( junior grade), 1890; Coast Survey steamer, "Gedney," 
 March, 1890 to April, 1891; "Marion," Asiatic Station, April, 1891-4. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, September, 1894; C. S S. "Patterson," November, 
 1894 ; U. S. S. " Monadnock," November, 1894, to date. 
 
 William Porter White Appointed at large, Naval Academy, June 
 30,1874; "Wyoming," 1878-9; " Trenton," 1879. Midshipman, June 4, 
 1889; "Wyoming" and "Enterprise," 1880; "Alaska, April, 1881, to Jan 
 uary, 1883; "Hassler," February, 1883, to March, 1887. Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883. Ensign, February 9, 1884 ; " MacArthur," April, 
 1887, to July, 1887 ; waiting orders, August, 1887, to October, 1887 ; " Nip- 
 sio, November, 1887, to April, 1889. Lieutenant (junior grade), March 5, 
 1890; " Monongahela," May, 1889, to July, 1890; waiting orders, August, 
 1890, to February, 1891 ; U. S. receiving-ship "Vermont," February, 1891, 
 to June, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant, September 30, 1894; " Charleston," 
 July, 1893, to July, 1896 ; leave, August, 1896, to October, 1896 ; U. S. 
 receiving-ship "Vermont," November, 1896, to February, 1898; U. S. S. 
 "Annapolis," March, 1898, to date. 
 
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 John H. Shipley. Appointed from Missouri. Cadet- Midshipman, Sep 
 tember 30, 1874, to June 4, 1880; Midshipman, June 4, 1880; Ensign 
 (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, April 16, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), March 5, 1890. Service On the U. S. S. " Tuscarora," 1878-80; 
 U. S. S. "Saratoga," 1881-5; Coast Survey steamers "Hassler," " Mc- 
 Arthur," and "Patterson," 1886-7; U. S. S. " Swatara," 1888; U. S. receiv 
 ing-ship "Wabash," 1888-9; U. S. S. "Michigan," 1889-90; U. S. S. 
 " Kearsarge," 1890-92 ; Naval Academy, September, 1892, to date. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, November 11, 1894 ; service as Flag Lieutenant on 
 Asiatic Station during Chinese-Japanese War, U. S. S. flag-ship " Balti 
 more," 1894-5 ; service on U.S. S. " Maine," and U. SJS. " Newark," 1896- 
 7 ; service on U. S. S. " Marblehead," 1897 ; U. S. Naval Academy, October, 
 1897, to 1898 ; Naval Station, Key West, May, 1898. 
 
 John Eccleston Craven. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 24, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 4, 1890 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 31, 1890; 
 Coast Survey steamer " Bache," 1883-5; "Lancaster," European Station, 
 1888-9; Hydrographic Office, November, 1889, to October, 1892; "Pinta," 
 special service, October, 1892, to January, 1895 ; U. S. S " Bennington," 
 January, 1895, to April, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, December, 1894; 
 leave of absence, April, 1895 ; Naval Academy, July, 1895, to July, 1897 ; 
 U. S. S. " Cincinnati," January, 1897, to date. 
 
 James Henry Hetherington. Appointed from Iowa. Naval Acad 
 emy, June 6, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 4, 1880 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), September 20, 
 1890; Coast Survey steamer " Gedney," 1883-5; "Michigan," 1887-90; 
 "Marion," Asiatic Station, May, 1891, to December 1892; "Mohican," 
 Pacific Station, December, 1892, to January, 1893 ; U. S. S. "Pinto," Janu 
 ary, 1893, to November, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, December, 1894 ; 
 charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Port Townsend, March, 1896 ; Puget 
 Sound, Naval Station, August, 1896, to September, 1897; U. S. S. "Mari 
 etta," September, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Joseph Knapp. Appointed from Missouri. Naval Academy, 
 June 6, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 4, 1880 ; Ensign (junior grade) March 3, 
 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), October 15, 1890; 
 "Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1883-5; "Alert," Pacific Station, 1887 to 
 April, 1890 ; receiving-ship " Dale," April, 1890, to August, 1892 ; "Balti 
 more," Special Service Squadron, August, 1892, to April, 1893 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, April, 1893, to July, 1896 ; promoted to Lieutenant, February, 
 1895 ; Coast Survey steamer " Patterson," July 1, 1896 ; to December, 1897 ; 
 " San Francisco," December 29, 1897, to date. 
 
 Augustus Craven Almy. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, 
 June 7, 1872 ; Midshipman, June 4, 1880 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), October 28, 1890 ; 
 " Powhatan," special service, 1883-5; Coast Survey steamer "Patterson," 
 1887 to January, 1890; "Thetis," special service, May, 1890, to November, 
 1891; "Monterey," Pacific Station, February, 1893, to July, 1894; Coast 
 Survey steamers " Hassler " and " Gedney," July, 1894, to June, 1896. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, March, 1895 ; Naval War College, June, 1896, to Octo 
 ber, 1896 ; Navy Yard, Washington, October, 1896, to November, 1897 ; 
 U. S. S. " Wilmington," November, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Hood. Appointed from Alabama. Naval Academy, September 
 18, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 
 
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 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), December 5, 1890 ; 
 "Shenandoah," S. A. Station, 1879 ; " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1880-1 ; 
 "Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1881-4; Naval Academy, 1884-6; " Vandalia " 
 and "Mohican," Pacific Station, 1886-8 ; Naval Academy, 1888-92 ; " James 
 town," " Constellation," " Bancroft " and " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, June, 
 1892-4; U. S. S. "Minneapolis," December, 1894; U. S. S. "Atlanta," 
 April, 18945; leave of absence, June, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 April, 1895 ; charge of Branch Hydrographic Office, Baltimore, August, 
 1895-6 ; Naval Academy, June, 1896-7 ; U. S. S. " Maine," August, 1897-8 ; 
 April, 1898, commanding U. S. S. " Hawk," to date. 
 
 Leroy Mason Garrett. Appointed from New York. Naval Academy, 
 September 16, 1875 ; "Alert," Atlantic Station, 1879-81 ; Midshipman, June 
 10, 1881 ; "Constitution," Training Squadron, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), Febru 
 ary 18, 1891 ; Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," 1883-5 (winters on 
 "Albatross" and summers on Geological Survey) ; Smithsonian Institute and 
 Geological Survey of Yellowstone Park," 1882-4; "Iroquois" and "Adams," 
 Pacific Station, 1885-8; commanding Coast Survey steamer "Endeavor," 
 1888-9 ; special longitude duty, 1889-90 ; "San Francisco," Pacific Station, 
 December, 1890, to June, 1893 ; Coast Survey Office, June, 1893, to October, 
 1893; commanding Coast Survey steamer "Endeavor," October, 1893-6. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, May, 1895; commanding Fish Commission steamer 
 "Albatross," May, 1896-8; April, 1898, U. S. S. "Armeria" to date. 
 
 Charles Carlton Marsh. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy, 
 September 14. 1875; Midshipman, June 10, 1881; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 14, 
 1891 ; U. S. S. " Marion," July, 1879, to April, 1881 ; special duty Smith 
 sonian Institute, 1882-4; U. S. Coast Survey steamer "Patterson," April, 
 1884, to December, 1887; Naval Observatory, 1888-9; "Alliance," 1890, to 
 April, 1893 ; Naval Observatory, April, 1893, to June, 1895. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, June, 1895 ; U. S. S. " New York," June, 1895, to date. 
 
 John Bell Blish. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber 15, 1875; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign, (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant, ( junior grade), May 19, 1891 ; 
 Lieutenant, June 15, 1895. "Alaska," July, 1879, to March, 1881 ; Naval 
 Academy, April, 1881, to July, 1881 ; " Constitution," July, 1881, to Decem- 
 1881 ; "Alliance," December, 1881, to January, 1882 ; Smithsonian Insti 
 tute, January, 1882, to January, 1883; "Jamestown," January, 1883, to 
 October, 1885 ; Naval Academy, October, 1885, to October, 1887 ; " Ranger," 
 October, 1887, to September, 1888; "Independence," September, 1888, to 
 November, 1888; leave of absence, November, 1888, to November, 1889; 
 " Dolphin," December, 1889, to September, 1890 ; Coast Survey, September, 
 1890, to October, 1892; Office Naval Intelligence, December, 1892, to May, 
 1893; Assistant to the Inspector 13th Light-House District, May, 1893, to 
 February, 1895 ; " Mohican," February, 1895, to October, 1895 ; " Marion," 
 October, 1895, to March, 1896; " Bennington," June, 1896, to July, 1896; 
 "Philadelphia," July, 1896, to October, 1897 ; Marion," October, 1897, to 
 December, 1897; "Michigan," February, 1898, to April, 1898; U. S. S. 
 " Vicksburg," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Charles William Jungen. Appointed from Wisconsin. Naval Acad 
 emy, September 24, 1874; Cadet Midshipman, June 10, 1879; Midshipman, 
 June 10, 1881; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 24, 
 
 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 20, 1891 ; U. S. S. "Adams," Pacific 
 
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 Station, July 12, 1879, to March 5, 1881; U. S. school-ship " New Hamp 
 shire," July 20, 1881, to April 17, 1882; U.S. training-ship " Saratoga," 
 April 18, 1882, to August 26, 1883; U. S. Coast Survey schooner "Silliman," 
 steamers "Patterson " and " Hassler," August 27, 1883, to August 26, 1886 ; 
 U. S. S. "Ranger," Pacific Station, August 27, 1886, to August 1, 1889; 
 U. S. S. "Pinta," Pacific Station, August 20, 1889, to December 21, 1891 ; 
 Naval Intelligence Office, January 23, 1891, to March 15, 1892 ; U. S. Coast 
 Survey steamer "Patterson," April 1, 1892, to January 18, 1893; on leave, 
 January 19, 1893, to January 19, 1894 ; awaiting orders ; training-ship " Con 
 stellation," June, 1894, to August, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, Septem 
 ber, 1895 ; U. S. S, "Maine," to February, 1898 ; April? 1898, commanding 
 U. S. S. " Wompatuck " to date. 
 
 Charles Henry Harlow. Appointed from New York. Naval Acad 
 emy, September 15, 1875; Midshipman, June 10, 1881; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; Greely Relief Expedition on U. S. relief-ship 
 " Thetis," 1883. Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Cincinnati Exposition, August, 
 1884. Lieutenant (junior grade), May 29, 1891 ; special duty, Smithsonian 
 Institute, 1883-4 ; Inspector of Steel, new cruisers, 1888-9 ; Naval Academy, 
 July, 1889-80 ; World s Columbian Exposition, 1891, to May, 1892 ; training- 
 ship "Portsmouth," May, 1892; special duty, Washington, D. C., War 
 Records and establishing Naval Homing Pigeon Service, 1895-7. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, September, 1895; Flag Lieutenant, North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1897-8; "Vixen," 1898. 
 
 William Andrew Gill. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Acad 
 emy, June 21, 1875; Midshipman, June 10, 1881; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 25, 
 1891; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1883-5; "Ranger," Pacific Station, 
 1887-90; Naval Ordnance Proving Ground, May, 1890, to June, 1893; 
 " Yorkfcown," Pacific Station, June, 1893, to January, 1895 ; "Concord," to 
 June, 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant, October, 1895 ; leave of absence, June 
 13, 1896, to September, 1896 ; training-ship and station, Newport, September, 
 1896, to February, 1897 ; branch Hydrographic Office, Philadelphia, Feb 
 ruary, 1897, to April, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Miantonomah," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Thomas William Ryan. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval 
 Academy, June 13, 1873 ; Midshipman, June 4, 1880 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, May 19, 1884 ; Lieutenant ( junior grade), July 31, 
 1891 ; U. S. flag-ship "Richmond," China Station, 1878-80 ; U. S. training- 
 ship " Saratoga," 1881-3 ; U. S. S. " Ranger," 1883-6 ; Branch Hydrographic 
 Office, New York, 1887; Inspection of Steel, new cruisers, 1887-8 ; 011 leave, 
 1889; U. S. training-ship "Jamestown," 1889-91; coast survey steamer 
 "Endeavor," 1891-2; in charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Savannah, 
 November, 1892, to March, 1893; receiving-ship "Franklin," March, 1893, 
 to January, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Castine," U. S. S. " Lancaster," January, 1895, 
 to January, 1898. Promoted to Lieutenant, October, 1895 ; leave of absence, 
 January, 1898, to February, 1898 ; Navy Yard, New York, February, 1898, 
 to May, 1898 ; U. S. S. "Peoria," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Walter J. Sears. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Academy, 
 June 21, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), August 4, 1891 ; 
 " Marion," N. A. Station, 1879 ; S. A. Station, 1880-1 ; " Wabash," October 
 to December, 1881 ; " Enterprise," N. A. Station and Asiatic Station, 1882 
 to November, 1883 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, November, 1883, to April, 
 1884; " Trenton," Asiatic Station, April to July, 1884; "Essex," Asiatic 
 
206 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 and N. A. Stations, July, 1884, to January, 1885 ; Coast Survey, April, 1885, 
 to May, 1887 ; " Trenton," N. A. and S. A. Stations, May, 1887, to Septem 
 ber, 1887 ; " Alliance," S. A. Station, September, 1887, to January, 1888 ; 
 " Lancaster," European Station, February, 1888, to September, 1889 ; " New 
 Hampshire," Newport, October, 1889, to June, 1890; "Vesuvius," N. A. 
 Station, June, 1890, to April, 1891 ; " Fern," N. A. Station, April to Sep 
 tember, 1891 ; Inspector of Steel, Pittsburg, September, 1891, to January, 
 1892; receiving-ship "Minnesota," New York, April, 1892, to July, 1894; 
 " San Francisco," July, 1894, to August, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 November, 1895; Assistant Ordnance Inspector, Bliss & Co., November, 
 1897, to date 
 
 John Gibson Appointed from Kentucky. Naval Academy, June 9, 
 1874 ; graduated, June, 1879 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 September 27, 1891 ; U. S. S. "Adams," Pacific Station, August, 1879, to 
 March, 1881 ; receiving-ship " Independence," Mare Island, September, 1881, 
 to February, 1882 ; U. S. 8. " Jamestown," around Cape Horn, February, 
 1882, to July, 1882 ; U. S. S. " Minnesota," July, 1882, to September, 1882 ; 
 U. S. S. " Ranger," surveying Pacific Coast of Central America, September, 
 1882, to July, 1883; Hydrographic Office, October, 1883, to June, 1885; 
 U. S. S. "Galena," North Atlantic Station, June, 1885, to June, 1888 ; 
 Cincinnati Exposition, July, 1888, to December, 1888 ; Compass Office, 
 December, 1888, to March, 1891 ; Coast Survey steamers "Endeavor" and 
 "Blake," March, 1891, to December, 1893; Naval Academy, December, 
 1893, to June, 1896; promoted to Lieutenant, December, 1895; U.S. S. 
 " Detroit," June, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Boston," July, 1896, to date. 
 
 John Arthur Bell. Appointed from West Virginia. Naval Academy, 
 June 13, 1874; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Enxign, (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant, (junior grade), October 20, 
 1891 ; " Brooklyn," Asiatic Station, 1883-5 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 1888-9 ; " Thetis," special service, May, 1889, to July, 1892 ; Electric duty, 
 Navy Yard, New York, July, 1892, to 1894 ; U. S. S. " Minneapolis," De 
 cember, 1894-97 ; promoted to Lieutenant, December, 1898 ; Inspector of 
 Equipment, January, 1898 ; May, 1898, U. S. S. " Resolute," to date. 
 
 John Allen Dougherty. Born in Liberty, Clay Co., Missouri, Septem 
 ber 8, 1857. Appointed Cadet Midshipman from Eighth Congressional Dis 
 trict of Missouri by Hon. Abraham Consingo, M. C., June 12, 1874; de 
 tached from Naval Academy, June 10, 1879 ; ordered to " Constellation " 
 (on arrival in Europe, to duty on that station to duty on board the flag 
 ship "Trenton"), September 26,1879; graduated from Naval Academy, 
 May 31, 1881. Promoted to rank of Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; detached 
 from Naval Academy, and placed on waiting orders, June 15, 1881 ; ordered 
 on board U. S. S. " Constitution," June 30, 1881 ; detached from duty on 
 board U. S S. "Constitution " and placed on waiting orders, December 14, 
 1881 ; ordered to U. S. S. "Jamestown," February 1, 1882 ; ordered to duty 
 in the Coast Survey, September 27,1882. Commissioned Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; detached from Coast Survey and ordered to the 
 "Kearsarge," June 26, 1883. Commissioned as Ensign, June 26,1884; 
 detached from " Kearsarge " and placed on waiting orders, November 26, 
 1886 ; ordered for instruction in Torpedo Service, June 1, 1887 ; Naval War 
 College then to advanced course at Torpedo Station, September 2, 1887 ; 
 ordered to Torpedo Station, June 16, 1888; Bureau of Navigation, April 13, 
 1889 ; ordered to the U. S. S. " Pensacola," August 16, 1889 ; detached from 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 207 
 
 the " Pensacola " and ordered to the torpedo-boat " Gushing," May 26, 1890 ; 
 U. S. S. "Richmond," August 25, 1891 ; Bureau of Navigation, October 20, 
 1891-4. Commissioned as Lieutenant (junior grade), November 5, 1891 ; 
 U. S. S. " Columbia," June, 1894-7. Promoted to Lieutenant, January, 
 1896; Navy Yard, New York, September, 1897-8; U. S. S. "Sterling," 
 April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Daniel Preston Menefee. Appointed from California. Naval Acad 
 emy, September 25, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 December 11, 1891; Coast Survey steamer "Scoresby" 1883-5; "Adams" 
 and " Mohican," Pacific Station, 1887-90; waiting orders, December, 1890, 
 to March, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, March, 1891, to March, 1894; 
 "Monterey," "Yorktown," "Petrel," "Charleston," "Monocacy," March, 
 
 1894, to May, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, February, 1896 ; leave of 
 absence, May 23, 1897; Naval Academy, August, 1897, to May, 1898; U. 
 S, S. " Monongahela," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 John Henry Gibbons. Appointed from Michigan. Naval Academy, 
 September 15, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), Decem 
 ber 16, 1891; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-81; training-ship "James 
 town," 1882-5 ; Naval Academy, 1885-8 ; " Mohican," " Vandalia " and 
 "Adams," Pacific Station, 1888-90 ; was a watch-officer on board the " Van 
 dalia " when that vessel was wrecked at Apia, Samoa, March 16,1889; 
 Coast Survey steamer " Gedney," August, 1890, to September, 1891 ; Naval 
 Academy, September, 1891, to September, 1892 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 September, 1892, to July, 1894 ; " Chicago," European Station, to April, 
 
 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, February 28, 1896; "Kaleigh," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1895-7 ; aide to the Assistant-Secretary of the Navy, and 
 in charge of Naval Militia, April, 1897, to May, 1898 ; ordered to U. S. S. 
 "Newark," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Thomas Snowden. Appointed from New York. Naval Academy, 
 June 21, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), January 10, 
 1892; "Brooklyn," Asiatic Station, 1883-5; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 
 1887-9; Naval Observatory, 1889, to April, 1892; "Ranger," Pacific 
 Station, April, 1892, to 1895 ; U. S. S. " Monterey," January, 1895 ; Naval 
 Academy, April, 1895-7. Promoted to Lieutenant, March, 1896 ; Naval 
 War College, June, 1897 ; Navy Yard, Washington, December, 1897 ; 
 April, 1898, U. S. S. "Dolphin," to date. 
 
 Edwin Hord Tillman. Appointed from Tennessee Naval Acad 
 emy, September 18, 175 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 April 3, 1892 ; " Shenandoah," South Atlantic Station, September, 1879, to 
 April, 1881 ; "Trenton," Asiatic Station, September 18, 1883, to September 
 18, 1886; Coast Survey Office, 1886-89; "Petrel," unassigned, October, 
 1889, to September, 1891 ; Coast Survey Office, October, 1891, to February, 
 1893 ; Coast Survey Steamer " Endeavor," February, 1893, to November, 
 1893 ; Coast Survey Office, November, 1893, to 1894 ; U. S. S. " Montgom 
 ery," June, 1894; commanding C. S. S. " Bache," January, 1895-7. Pro 
 moted to Lieutenant, March, 1896 ; Naval Academy, September, 1897-8 ; 
 May, 1898, U. S. S. " Monongahela," to date. 
 
 Robert Files Lopez. Appointed from Tennessee. Naval Academy, 
 September 20, 1874; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 
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 March 4, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), April 
 16, 1892; "Enterprise," Asiatic Station, 1883-5; "Thetis," special service, 
 North Pacific, 1887-90; Nautical school-ship " St. Mary s," December, 1890, 
 to July, 1893 ; Coast Survey steamer " Gedney," July, 1893, to November. 
 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant, April, 1896 ; leave of absence, December, 
 1896 ; inspector ordnance, March, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frank Woodruff Kellogg. Appointed from Connecticut. Naval 
 Academy, June 21, 1875 ; Midshipman, March 3, 1883 ; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 May 5, 1892 ; Coast Survey steamer " Drift," 1883-5 ; " Yantic," N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1885-8; Naval Observatory, August, 1889, to October, 1890; "San 
 Francisco," June, 1893, to July, 1894 ; Naval Observatory, October 10, 1894, 
 to June, 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant, April, 1896 ; " Marion," June 3, 
 1896 ; " Baltimore," July, 18 1896, to date. 
 
 John Lewis Purcell. Entered the Naval Academy, September 29, 
 1873 ; Midshipman, June 16, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 28, 1892 ; served on 
 the " Constellation," " Trenton " and " Quinnebaug," October, 1879, to 
 March, 1881 ; " Minnesota" and "Jamestown," August, 1881, to November, 
 1882 ; coast survey and North Alaska exploring expedition, from August, 
 1883, to July, 1887; " Nipsic," October, 1887, to October, 1890; "Minne 
 sota," January, 1891 ; recognition by Navy Department of efficient services 
 on North Alaska exploring expedition ; commendation in special report of 
 Rear- Admiral L. A. Kimberly, U. S. N., for meritorious service in Apia, 
 Samoa, March 15 and 16, 1889, published in printed report of Samoan dis 
 aster; U. S. receiving-ship "Minnesota," 1891-94; training-ship "Essex," 
 February, 18 4 ; U. S. S. " Atlanta," July, 1895; U. S. S. " Amphitrite," 
 January, 1896-97. Promoted to Lieutenant, April, 1896; U. S. receiving- 
 ship " Vermont," March, 1897-98; commanding U. S. S. " Osceola," April, 
 1898, to date. 
 
 Reuben Oscar Bitler. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Acad 
 emy, June 19, 1875; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 29, 
 1892 ; " Essex," Asiatic Station, 1883-5 ; coast survey steamer " Gedney," 
 1885-90; "Yantic," August, 1890, to July, 1891; receiving-ship "Ver 
 mont," July, 1891, to April, 1894 ; " Marblehead," April 2, 1894, to Janu 
 ary, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, April, 1896; Branch Hydrographic 
 Office, New York, Feb. 1, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Lebanon," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Herman George Dresel. Appointed from Ohio. Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1876; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 2, 
 1892 ; special duty Smithsonian Institute, 1883-5 ; Naval Academy, 1888 to 
 June, 1892; training-ship "Portsmouth," June, 1892, to 1894; U. S. S. 
 "Raleigh," July, 1894; Naval Academy, June, 1895-8. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, May, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Puritan," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Harry Phelps. Appointed from New Jersey. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 15, 1876, to June, 1880 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1880-2 ; 
 Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Coast Survey, 1882-4 Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883. Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; " Ranger," North Pacific Survey, 
 1884-8; Naval Academy, 1888-91; "Yantic," South Atlantic Station, 
 1891-2. Lieutenant (junior grade), June 19, 1892; " Bennington," Euro 
 pean Station, 1892-4 ; Naval Academy, 1894-7; Lieutenant, May 10, 1896 ; 
 " Texas," North Atlantic Station, February, 1897, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 209 
 
 Patrick William Hourigan. Appointed from New York. Naval 
 Academy, June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign, (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant, (junior grade), 
 June 30, 1892; "Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1883-5; training-ship "Con 
 stellation," 1886-9 ; assistant to Light-House Inspector, 1889, to March, 
 1892; "Dolphin," special service, March, 1892, to April, 1895; Naval 
 Academy, April 10, 1895, to May, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, June 12, 
 1896 ; "Concord," May 22, 1897, to date. 
 
 John Baptiste Bernadou. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1876; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant, (junior grade), Julyl, 
 1892; special duty, Corea, 1883-5; office Naval Intelligence, December, 
 1887, to February, 1891 ; " Newark," special service, February, 1891, to 
 May, 1893 ; sick leave, May, 1893, to July, 1893 ; " Bennington," European 
 Station, July, 1893-4 ; Torpedo Station, September, 1894-7. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, June, 1896 ; commanding U. S. S. " Winslow," December, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 Homer Clarke Poundstone. Appointed from West Virginia. Naval 
 Academy, September 24, 1874; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign, (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant, (junior grade), 
 July 1, 1892 ; Asiatic Station, 1883-9 ; Coast Survey steamer " Patterson," 
 1890, to December, 1892 ; special duty World s Exposition, December, 1892, 
 to August, 1893 ; "New York," S. A. Station, August, 1893, to July, 1896 ; 
 promoted to Lieutenant, July 4, 1896 ; Bureau of Ordnance, October 14, 
 1896, to May, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Newark," May 1898, to date. 
 
 Albert Ammerman Ackerman. Appointed from New Jersey. 
 Naval Academy, June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign 
 (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), July 21, 1892 ; special duty, Smithsonian Institute, 1882-3 ; Second 
 Greely Relief Expedition, U. S. S. " Yantic," 1883 ; Fish Commission steamer 
 "Albatross." 1883-4; Greely Relief Expedition, U. S. relief steamer 
 "Alert," 1884; U. S. S. " Ranger," 1884-7; ordnance duty Navy Yard, 
 Washington, D. C., 1887-90 ; "Philadelphia," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to 
 June, 1893 ; leave of absence, June to August, 1893, Bureau of Ordnance, 
 August, 1893, to November, 1895 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Iron Works, 
 November, 1895 ; U. S. S. "Oregon," August, 1896, to date. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, October, 1896. 
 
 Albert Parker Niblack. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), August, 
 24, 1892; Pacific Squadron, 1880-1 ; North Atlantic Squadron, 1882; special 
 duty, Smithsonian Institute, 1883 ; survey of Alaska, 1884-8 ; Ordnance 
 Instruction, Torpedo Class and Smithsonian Institute, 1888 ; " Chicago," 
 Squadron of Evolution, 1889-92 ; sick leave and waiting orders, to March, 
 1893 ; Coast Survey steamer "Patterson," March, 1893, to November, 1893; 
 temporary duty, Revision of Signal Book, Bureau of Navigation, to Febru 
 ary, 1894; U. S. S." Dolphin," and Flag-Lieutenant North Atlantic Station, 
 to May, 1895 ; Inspector of Naval Militia, September, 1896. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, September 5, 1896 ; Naval Attache Berlin, Rome and Vienna, 
 1897-8 ; "Topeka," since April, 1898. 
 
 William Truxtun. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, June 24, 
 1876; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883; 
 Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), November 18, 1892; 
 
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210 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Coast Survey steamer " Blake," 1883-5 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 
 1886-9 ; Office Naval Intelligence, July, 1889, to December, 1890 ; sick 
 leave, December, 1890, for one month ; February, 1891, ordered to Bureau 
 of Equipment for Compass Instruction; "Lancaster," Asiatic Station, March, 
 
 1891, to June, 1894 ; leave of absence, June 30, 1894 ; Assistant to Inspector 
 Fifth Light-House District, October 13, 1894. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 September 5, 1896 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Bancroft," July 15, 1896, to date. 
 
 Stokeley Morgan. Appointed from Arkansas. Naval Academy, June 
 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign, (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), December 4, 
 1892; "Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1883-5; Naval Academy, 1886-9; 
 " Petrel," North Atlantic Station, 1889-91 ; " Thetis," special service, March, 
 
 1892, to July, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Washington, July, 1893-5 ; U. S. S. 
 "Texas," August, 1895 ; " Monocacy," July, 1896. Promoted to Lieuten 
 ant, October, 1896; U. S S. " Yorktown," July, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Olympia," 
 January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Francis Joy Haeseler. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval Acad 
 emy, September 22, 1876; Midshipman, June 22,1882; Ensign, (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant, (junior grade), 
 January 9, 1893; "Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1883-5; Naval Academy, 
 1886-9; "Boston," European Station, July, 1889, to September, 1892; 
 Naval Academy, September, 1892, to June, 1895 ; " Amphitrite," June 24, 
 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, October 11,1896; "Texas," July, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 Edward Simpson. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, June 24, 
 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), January ^5, 1893; 
 Lieutenant, November 1, 1896. " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1880-2 ; 
 Coast Survey sloop "Steadfast," 1882-3; Coast Survey steamer "Blake," 
 1883-5; "Despatch," special service, 1885-7; "Thetis," special service, 
 1887 to January, 1890 ; Office Naval Intelligence, February, 1890, to June, 
 1893 ; " Baltimore," Asiatic Station, June, 1893, to September, 1895 ; " Con 
 cord," Asiatic Station, September, 1895, to May, 1896 ; Baltimore Branch 
 Hydrographic Office, June, 1896, to February, 1898 ; Coast Survey steamer 
 " Endeavor," February to April, 1898 ; "Brooklyn," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Carpenter Pendleton Muir. Appointed from Kentucky. 
 Naval Academy, June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign 
 (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), February 7, 1893 ; "Essex," Asiatic Station, 1883-5 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1886-9; Yantic,"N. A. Station, September, 1889, to July, 1890; 
 Coast Survey steamer " Blake," July, 1890, to December, 1892 ; Bureau of 
 Equipment, December, 1892, to September, 1893; " Linsley Institute," 
 Wheeling. W. Va., September, 1893, to August, 1895 ; " Marion," August, 
 1, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, November 10, 1896 ; " Detroit," July, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 Edward Faysson Leiper. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval 
 Academy, June 25, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 February 25, 1893; Coast Survey steamer "Arago," 1883-4; "Dolphin," 
 special service, 1886-9 ; special duty Electric Lights, December, 1889, to 
 June, 1893; "Concord," Asiatic Station, June, 1893, to 1895; U. S. S. 
 " Monterey," January, 1895-6 ; leave of absence, June, 1896. Promoted to 
 Lieutenant, November, 1896 ; ordered to Naval Academy, August, 1896-8 ; 
 U. S. S. "New Orleans," April, 1898, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 211 
 
 Joseph Hamilton Rohrbacher. Appointed from Pennsylvania. 
 Naval Academy, June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 March 7, 1894 ; " Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1884-5 ; Inspector of Steel, new 
 cruisers, 1887-9 ; " Pensacola," special service, May, 1889, to July, 1890 ; 
 Coast Survey steamer " Blake," July, 1890, to June, 1892 ; Inspector of Steel, 
 Homestead, Pa, August, 1892, to September, 1894; " Machias," September 
 18, 1894, to November, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, December 6, 1897 ; 
 Inspector of Steel, December 23, 1897, to date. 
 
 William Lowden Sims. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Naval 
 Academy, June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1$2 ; Ensign (junior 
 grade), March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), 
 May 9, 1893; Lieutenant, January 1, 1897; "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 
 1880-2; -Colorado," 1882, New York Navy Yard ; " Swatara," 1883-85, N. 
 A. Station ; " Yantic," N. A. Station, 1885-7 ; leave of absence, Paris, 1888- 
 9 ; nautical school ship "Saratoga," December, 1889, to June, 1893 ; " Phila 
 delphia," Pacific Station, June, 1893, to August, 1894 ; Charleston," China 
 Station, August, 1894, to July, 1896 ; " Kichmond," League Island, Septem 
 ber, 1896, to February, 1897 ; naval attache, U. S. Embassies, Paris and 
 St. Petersburg, March, 1897, to date. 
 
 Miles Carpenter Gorgas. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, 
 September 18, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), May 15, 
 1893 ; coast survey steamer " Blake," 1883-5 ; " Thetis," special service, 1886 
 to January, 1890; Midvale Steel Works, March, 1890, to August, 1892; 
 training-ship " Kichmond," August, 1892, to April, 1893 ; " Detroit," S. A. 
 Station, April, 1893-95 ; U. S. S. " Philadelphia," January, 1895-6 ; leave 
 of absence, May, 1896; Naval Academy, August, 1896. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant, January, 1897 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Louis Sayre Van Duzer. Appointed from New York. Naval 
 Academy, September 22, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign 
 (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), June 10, 1893; on leave, 1884; Coast Survey schooner " Eagre," 
 1888-9; Hydrographic Office, August, 1889, to March, 1892; "Mianto- 
 nomah," N. A. Station, March, 1892, to September, 1893; "Yantic," S. A. 
 Station, September, 1893, to March, 1895 ; Officer of Naval Intelligence, 
 June 1 to September, 1895, Linsley Institute, Wheeling, W. Va., September 
 7, 1895, to June, 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, January 5, 1897; "Iowa," 
 June 28, 1897, to date. 
 
 Wilson Wildman Buchanan. Appointed from Ohio. Naval Acad 
 emy, June 25, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign, (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 27, 
 1893 ; " Alert," Asiatic Station, 1883-5 ; " Dolphin," special service, 1888 to 
 July, 1890; Coast Survey steamer " Bache," July, 1890, to October, 1892; 
 Bureau of Equipment, October, 1892, to February, 1895; "Olympia," Feb 
 ruary 5, 1895, to January, 1898. Promoted to Lieutenant, January 29, 1897 ; 
 Bureau of Naval Intelligence, February, 1898, to dale. 
 
 Augustus Newkirk Mayer. Appointed from Iowa. Naval Academy, 
 June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26,1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 27, 1893 ; 
 "Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1883-5; Naval Observatory, 1886-89 ; "Pensa 
 cola," special service, April, 1889, to July, 1890 ; Coast Survey steamer 
 " Gedney," July, 1890, to December, 1892 ; leave of absence, December, 
 
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 1892, to March, 1893; Naval Observatory, March, 1893, to 1894; U. S. S. 
 " Cincinnati," June, 1894, to 1897. Promoted to Lieutenant, June, 1897 ; 
 Naval Observatory, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frederic Rowland Brainard. Appointed from Illinois. Naval Acad 
 emy, June 24, 1876 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign, (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), June 27, 
 1893; Coast Survey steamer "Drift," 1883-5; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 
 1886, to 1889; waiting orders, March, 1889, to July, 1890; Inspector of 
 Steel, Bethlehem, Pa., July, 1890, to December, 1892 ; " Kearsarge," N. A. 
 Station, December, 1892, to 1894; school-ship "Enterprise," June, 1894, 
 to 1896; U S. S. "Brooklyn," December, 1896, to April, 1898; U. S. S. 
 " Uncas," April, 1898, to date. Promoted to Lieutenant, March, 1897. 
 
 William Edwin Safford. Appointed from Ohio. Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1876; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June, 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 4, 
 1893 ; special duty Smithsonian Institute, 1883-5 ; Naval Academy, 1888-90 ; 
 World s Columbian Exposition, December, 1890, to May, 1893; "Alliance," 
 Pacific Station, May, 1893, to August, 1893 ; waiting orders, August, 1893 ; 
 U. S. S. "Alert," April, 1894-7. Promoted to Lieutenant, March, 1897; 
 ordered to Naval Academy, June, 1897-8 ; April, 1898, U. S. S. " Saturn," 
 to date. 
 
 William John Maxwell. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, June 
 9, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 1883 ; 
 Ensign. June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 4, 1893; training- 
 ship " Jamestown," 1883-5 ; waiting orders, 1888, to April, 1889 ; " Galena," 
 N. A. Station, April, 1889, to May, 1890 ; " Dolphin," special service, July, 
 1890, to March, 1891 ; "Vesuvius," N. A. Station, March, 1891, to July, 
 1892 ; Assistant to Inspector 5th Light-House District, July, 1892, to 1894 ; 
 U. S. S. " Charlestown," July, 1894-5; U. S. S. "Newark," January, 
 1895^6; U. S. S. " Yantic," July, 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant, April, 
 1897 ; U. S. S. " Columbia," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Franklin Swift. Appointed from Massachusetts. Naval Academy, 
 June 9, 1874 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 4, 1893; 
 " Brooklyn," Asiatic Station, 1883-5 ; Coast Survey steamer " Bache," 1886- 
 89 ; " Petrel," unassigned, November, 1889, to August, 1891 ; leave of ab 
 sence, August, 1891, to July, 1892; Coast Survey steamer "Blake," July, 
 1892, to June, 1894; leave of absence, June 13, 1894; Coast Survey Office, 
 September 13, 1894; commanding F. C. steamer "Fish Hawk," June 27 ? 
 1895, to date, Promoted to Lieutenant, March 29, 1897. 
 
 John Frazer Luby. Appointed from New York. Naval Academy, 
 June 25, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), July 22, 1893 ; 
 training-ship " Jamestown," 1883-5 ; Coast Survey steamer "Bache," 1888, 
 to October, 1891 ; training-ship " Richmond," October, 1891, to June, 1892 ; 
 Nautical school-ship " Saratoga," June, 1892, to June, 1895 ; " Essex," June 
 20, 1895. Promoted to Lieutenant, May 16, 1897; "Iowa," July, 1897; 
 " Detroit," January, 1898 ; " Newport," February, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Yank- 
 ton," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Lewis Jacob Clark. Appointed from Alabama. Naval Academy, 
 September 22, 1876; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign (junior grade), 
 March 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant, (junior grade), Septem 
 ber 15, 1893; "Enterprise," Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; "Ranger," N. Pacific 
 
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 Station, 1887-90 ; training-ship " Richmond," October, 1890, to September, 
 1891 ; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," September, 1891, to February, 1895 ; 
 Naval War College June 1, 1895, to November, 1895; training-ship "Con 
 stellation," November 2, 1895, to June, 1897 ; " Detroit," June 8, 1897, to 
 date. Promoted to Lieutenant, June 4, 1897. 
 
 Theodore Gibbs Dewey. Appointed from South Carolina. Naval 
 Academy, June 25,1875; Midshipman, June 22, 1882; Ensign, (junior 
 grade) March 3, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1884; Lieutenant, ( junior grade), 
 September 27, 1893; Coast Survey sloop " Steadfast," 1883-6; "Thetis," 
 special service, 1887-9 ; receiving-ship "Independence," December, 1#89, to 
 December, 1891 ; "Chicago," S. A. Station, December^! 891, to 1894 ; U. S. 
 S. "Bennington," July, 1894; leave of absence, December, 1894; Library 
 of War Records, March, 1895-96; U. S. S. "Massachusetts," June, 1896 
 (commissioned Lieutenant, June 1897), to date. 
 
 Hugh Rodman. Appointed from Kentucky. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 18, 1875; Midshipman, June 22, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26. 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), October 1, 1893 ; 
 " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1883-5; "Essex," 1886-9; Hydrographic 
 Office, July, 1889, to October, 1890 ; Naval Observatory, October, 1890, to 
 November, 1891 ; Coast Survey steamer " Patterson," April, 1891, to Novem 
 ber, 1895 ; Coast Survey Office, December 20, 1895, to April, 1897 ; " Raleigh," 
 April 29, 1897, to date. Promoted to Lieutenant, June, 1897. 
 
 John Adrian Hoogewerff. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, 
 June 27, 1877 ; Naval Cadet, August 5, 1882 ; Ensign (junior grade), July 
 1, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant ( junior grade), November 5, 
 1893; Naval Observatory, 1883-5 ; "Brooklyn/ 1885-9; Naval Observa 
 tory, June, 1889, to July, 1892 ; "Charleston," Special Service Squadron, 
 July, 1892-5; U. S. S. "Philadelphia," January, 1895 ; leave of absence, 
 June, 1895 ; Naval Academy, July, 1895-7. Promoted to Lieutenant, July, 
 1897 ; U. S. S. "Cincinnati," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Edward Everett Capehart. Appointed from 16th District, Ohio. 
 Naval Academy, June 22, 1877 ; Naval Cadet, August 5, 1882 ; Ensign 
 (junior grade), July 1, 1883; Ensign, June 26, 1881; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), December 26, 1893 ; u Lancaster," European Station, 1881-3 ; pres 
 ent at bombardment of Alexandria and landed with American troops, July, 
 1882 ; "Galena," N. A. Station, 1883-6 ; ashore at Aspinwall during fight 
 and burning of that city, April, 1885 ; Naval Academy, 1886-90 ; u Enter 
 prise," " Atlanta and Chicago," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to June, 1893 ; 
 Torpedo Station, June, 1893, to date ; monitor " Terror," April 15, 1898, to 
 July 15, 1898; then transferred to flag-ship "New York," present duty. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant (senior grade), August 18, 1892. 
 
 Henry B. Wilson. Appointed from New Jersey. Cadet Midshipman, 
 September, 1876. Naval Cadet, August, 1882. Ensign, June, 1884. Lieu 
 tenant (junior grade), February, 1894; leave of absence, October, 1893; 
 Naval War College, March, 1894, to May, 1896 ; U. S. receiving-ship 
 "Michigan," May, 1896, to September, 1896; U. S. S. "Bancroft," Septem 
 ber, 1896, to date. Promoted to Lieutenant, September, 1897. 
 
 George P. Blow. Appointed from Virginia. Cadet, 1876. Naval 
 Cadet, August, 1882. Ensign, June, 1884 ; charge Branch Hydrographic 
 Office, Chicago, May, 1893. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), Feb 
 ruary, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Texas," December, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Katahdin ; " U. S. 
 S. " Maine," to February, 1898 ; commanding " Potomac " to date. 
 
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 Spencer Shepard Wood. Born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 
 7, 1861, but his parents soon removed to New York City, where he spent the 
 first eleven years of his life ; then he accompanied his grandparents to Flush 
 ing, N. Y., where he attended school at the Flushing Institute. In June, 
 1877, he applied to enter a competitive examination for appointment to West 
 Point, but was informed that he was too young ; the following year, however, 
 he was admitted to a competitive examination and was the successful candi 
 date for appointment to the vacancy from the First Congressional District of 
 New York at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. ; Hon. J. "W. Covert 
 gave him the appointment, and he successfully passed the entrance examina 
 tion and became a Cadet Midshipman in June, 1878. He was graduated No. 
 3 in his class after the course of four years at the Naval Academy, and went 
 directly from the Academy to the " Vandalia," then lying at Hampton Roads, 
 Va. ; serving on board this vessel for about a year, he was then transferred to 
 the "Tennessee," for duty as an Aide on the staff of Rear- Admiral G. H. 
 Cooper, U. S. N. ; while on this duty he accompanied the Admiral to Caracas, 
 Venezuela, on the occasion of the unveiling of the statute of General Wash 
 ington, in one of the plazas of that city. In May, 1884, Cadet Wood passed 
 his examination at Annapolis, Md., for final graduation, remaining No. 2 in 
 his class, and in July of that year he received his commission as an Ensign, 
 and was ordered to duty at the Naval Experimental Battery at Annapolis, 
 Md., in connection with the development of the new guns and powders for 
 the Navy. In May of the following year, he reported on board of the " Iro- 
 quois," at Panama, United States of Colombia, and cruised on the west coast 
 of South America until the fall of 1887, when the "Iroquois" proceeded to 
 San Francisco, Cal , and was put out of commission, early in 1888. Ensign 
 Wood then joined the Coast Survey steamer "Patterson," and performed 
 survey work in Southeastern Alaska until October, 1888 ; during this season 
 he took part in the survey of the Portland Canal. In November, 1888, he 
 was one of a party of four officers ordered to Mexico and Central America 
 for astronomical observations for the determination of the longitudes of Coat- 
 zacoalcoa, Salina Cruz, La Libertad and San Juan Del Sur. These observa 
 tions being completed, the party returned to Washington for the computation 
 of the data obtained. In September, 1889, Ensign Wood applied for sea 
 duty, and was ordered to the Asiatic Squadron ; there he served on the 
 " Omaha," " Monocacy," and on the "Palos," as Executive Officer and Navi 
 gator, spending one winter at Tientzin, China, when he had opporturity to 
 visit Pekin and the Great Wall of China. The last year of his cruise he 
 served on the staff of Rear- Admiral G. E. Belknap, U. S. N., as Flag Lieu 
 tenant, and accompanied the Admiral home, early in 1892. For about two 
 months Ensign Wood awaited orders at his home in Flushing, N. Y . and 
 then reported for duty in the office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. 
 In March, 1893, he was appointed Naval Aide to the Secretary of the Navy, 
 and performed this duty for over a year. During this period he had charge 
 of many of the details connected with the invited guests at the Naval Review 
 in New York, accompanying the Secretary on the " Dolphin " to the Naval 
 Review, and was the officer designated to meet the President at Jersey City 
 to accompany him to his hotel, and the following day to accompany him to 
 and from the " Dolphin " for the Review. At Ensign Wood s request he was 
 relieved from duty as Naval Aide to permit him to accompany Admiral 
 Walker, U. S N., as his Flag Secretary to Honolulu when he took command 
 of the Pacific Station in the spring of 1894. In April of this year he 
 received his commission as a Lieutenant (junior grade). He served on board 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 215 
 
 the "Philadelphia" in Honolulu, was present at the first meeting of the Con 
 stitutional Convention, and on July 4, 1894, was present when that Constitu 
 tion was proclaimed to be the law of the land. Lieutenant Wood returned 
 to the United States with Admiral Walker, in September, 1894, and was then 
 ordered as Flag Secretary to Rear-Admiral R. W. Meade, U. S. N. He 
 served on board the " New York," with Admiral Meade until the Admiral 
 retired from active service, when he joined the " Vermont " at the New York 
 Navy Yard. In June of this year he married Miss Mary Margaretta Fryer, 
 of New York. In September, he took the course in Torpedo Instruction at 
 the Torpedo Station at Newport, and in October was ordered to Bristol, R. I., 
 as Assistant Inspector of Torpedo Boats, Nos. 6 and 7^ the Porter" and 
 " Dupont ") to be built by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company at that 
 place. He was present during the entire construction of these boats and on 
 all of their trials. Upon the detachment of Commander Converse, U. S. N., 
 the General Inspector, from the duty in charge of the Torpedo Station, Lieu 
 tenant Wood remained in charge of the work on No. 7, and in September, 
 1897, was ordered to assume command of the " Dupont " at Newport, R. I. 
 In this month he received his commission as a, Lieutenant. Since taking 
 command of the " Dupont," this boat has visited most of the ports from 
 Newport to Mobile, where she is now lying (March, 1898). 
 
 Guy W. Brown. Appointed from Indiana. Cadet Midshipman, June, 
 1875; Midshipman, June, 1882; Ensign, June, 1884; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), April, 1894 ; August, 1892, U. S. S. " Monocacy," U. S. S. "Petrel," 
 to May, 1895 ; leave of absence, November, 1895 ; June, 1896, U. S. S. 
 " Philadelphia," Coast Survey steamer, " Patterson," to date. Promoted 
 Lieutenant, September, 1897. 
 
 William B. Fletcher. Appointed from Vermont. Cadet, 1877; 
 Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884; school-ship "Saratoga," 
 May, 1893-5. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), May, 1894 ; U. S. S. 
 " Alliance," U. S. S. Vicksburg," August, 1895-8. Promoted to Lieutenant, 
 October, 1897 ; U. S S. " Massachusetts," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Marbury Johnston. Appointed from New York. Cadet Midshipman, 
 June, 1878 ; Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884 ; Lieutenant, 
 (junior grade), June, 1894 ; April, 1892, U. S. S. "Concord," to June, 
 1895; leave of absence, June, 1895 ; Naval War College, November, 1895, to 
 August, 1897; "San Francisco," August, 1897, to date. Lieutenant, De 
 cember, 1897. 
 
 William B. Whittelsey. Appointed from New York. Cadet Mid 
 shipman, June, 1878 ; Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884 ; 
 Office Naval Intelligence, October, 1893-4. Commissioned Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), June, 1894 ; training-ship " Essex," December, 1894-7 ; 
 U. S. S. "Puritan," January, 1897; Inspector of Ordnance, Bridgeport, 
 Dec., 1897, to date (June, 1898). Commissioned Lieutenant, Dec., 1897. 
 
 Joseph L. Jayne. Appointed from Mississippi. Cadet Midshipman, 
 June, 1878 ; Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884 ; Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), 1894; Bureau of Equipment, September, 1893, to October, 
 1895 ; U. S. S " Lancaster," October, 1895, to November, 1896 ; sick leave, 
 November, 1896; Torpedo Station, Newport, June, 1897; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, September, 1897, to February, 1898 ; commanding U. S. tor 
 pedo-boat " Rogers," February, 1895, to date. Lieutenant, December, 1897. 
 James G. Doyle Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Midshipman, 
 June, 1877; Naval Cadet, August, 1882; Ensign, July, 1884; Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), July, 1894 ; Coast Survey steamer " Patterson," July, 1891, 
 
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 to June, 1894 ; Cramp s Shipyard, June, 1894, to December, 1896 ; U. S S. 
 " Brooklyn," December, 1896, to date. Lieutenant, April, 1898. 
 
 John J. Blandin. Appointed from Alabama. Cadet Midshipman, 
 June, 1877 ; Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884 ; Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), July, 1894 ; Coast Survey steamer " Endeavor," October, 
 1893, to June, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Maine," June, 1897, to February 15, 1898 ; 
 charge Branch Hydrographic Office, Baltimore, April, 1898, to date. Lieu 
 tenant, May, 1898 
 
 Albert L/Key Appointed from Tennessee. Cadet Midshipman, June, 
 1877; Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior 
 grade), August, 1894; Navy Yard, Washington, February, 1892, to July, 
 1894; U. S. S. " Dolphin," July, 1894, to August, 1897 ; Naval Academy, 
 August, 1897, to May, 1898. Promoted to Lieutenant, May, 1898 ; U. S. S. 
 " Yale," May, 1898. 
 
 William L. Howard. Appointed from Connecticut. Cadet Midship 
 man, September, 1877; Naval Cadet, August, 1882; Emign, July, 1884 ; 
 Lieutenant (junior grade), September, 1894; Inspector of Steel, Pittsburg, 
 July, 1893, to November, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Boston," November, 1895, to date. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 Wiley R. M Field. Appointed from Virginia. Cadet Midshipman, 
 June, 1878; Naval Cadet, August, 1882; Ensign, July, 1884; Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), September, 1894; Office of Judge-Advocate General, May, 
 1893; Office of Naval Intelligence, June, 1894, to April, 1895; U. S. S. 
 " Amphitrite " and U. S. S. "Montgomery," April, 1895, to date. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 Edwin A. Anderson. Appointed from North Carolina. Cadet Mid 
 shipman, June, 1878; Naval Cadet, August, 1882; Ensign, July, 1884; 
 Lieutenant, (junior grade), September, 1894; leave of absence, October, 
 1893; Naval War College, June, 1894; charge Branch Hydrographic 
 Office, New Orleans, February, 1894, to May, 1895 ; U. S. receiving-ship 
 " Michigan," May, 1895, to November, 1895 ; Hydrographic Office, Novem 
 ber, 1895, to April, 1896; U. S. S. "Columbia," U. S. S. " Marblehead," 
 April, 1896, to date ; Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 John M. Poyer. Appointed from Wisconsin. Cadet, October, 1879; 
 Naval Cadet, August, 1882; Ensign, February, 1884; promoted to Lieuten 
 ant, (junior grade), December, 1894 ; Navy Yard, Washington, January, 
 1892-94 ; U. S. S. " Montgomery," August, 1894-97 ; Naval War College, 
 June, 1897; Navy Yard, Washington, September, 1897-98; May, 1898 ; 
 U. S. S. "St. Paul," to date; Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 Charles P. Eaton. Appointed from Maryland. Cadet, October, 1879 ; 
 Naval Cadet August, 1882 ; Ensign, February, 1884 ; promoted to Lieuten 
 ant (junior grade), December, 1894; C. S. S. " Hassler," June, 1891-94; 
 leave of absence, December, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Bennington," May, 1895, to 
 date ; Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 John M. Ellicott. Appointed from Maryland. Cadet, June, 1879 ; 
 Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884. Promoted to Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), February, 1895; U. S. S. " Bennington," July, 1891, and 
 U. S. S. "Chicago," to 1894; Naval Academy, September, 1894; Naval 
 War College, June, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Marion," October, 1896 ; U. S. S. 
 "Baltimore," January, 1898, to date. lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 Harry George. Appointed from Michigan. Cadet, September, 1879; 
 Naval Cadet, August, 1 882 ; Ensign, July, 1884. Promoted to Lieutenant 
 (junior grade), March, 1895 ; Assistant Inspector, Electric-Lighting, Cramps , 
 
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 March, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, February, 1894-5 ; U. S. S. " Mon 
 terey," March, 1895; U. S. S. "Thetis," U. S. S. "Adams," to 1898 ; April, 
 1898, Naval Academy, to date. Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 Frederic L. Chapin. Appointed from Illinois. Cadet, September, 
 1879 ; Naval Cadet, August, 1882 ; Ensign, July, 1884. Promoted to Lieu 
 tenant (junior grade), March, 1895 ; Bureau of Ordnance, April, 1893-5 ; 
 U. S. S. "Indiana," November, 1895, to April, 1898; May, 1898, U. S. S. 
 " Lancaster," to date. Lieutenant, May, 1898. 
 
 LIEUTENANTS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired under Act of August 3, 1861. 
 
 Arthur Henry Fletcher. Born in England. Appointed an Acting 
 Midshipman at Naval Academy, November 28, 1861 ; graduated, 1865 ; 
 " Rhode Island," flagship, West India Squadron, 1865-6. Promoted to 
 Ensign, December 1, 1866; "Iroquois" (third-rate), Asiatic Station, 1867- 
 70. Promoted to Master, March 12, 1868. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 March 26, 1869 ; " Idaho," store ship, Asiatic Fleet, 1871 ; ordnance duty, 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1872 ; commanding receiving-ship " Relief," 1873 ; 
 "Intrepid" (fourth-rate), 1874; "Kansas" (third-rate), North Atlantic 
 Station, 1875; Asiatic Station, 1876; "Huron" (third-rate), 1876-7; under 
 suspension, 1878-9 ; waiting orders, 1880. Retired, October 11, 1881. 
 
 John C. Soley. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed to Naval Acad 
 emy, September 20, 1862, and graduated in 1866 ; N. A. Station, 1867. 
 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; ordnance duty, Boston, 1868; " Nipsic" 
 (fourth-rate), N. A Station, 1868-9. Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869 ; 
 "Severn" flag-ship, North Atlantic Station, 1869-70. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Naval Academy, 1871-2 ; " Wabash," flag-ship, 
 European Squadron, 1873, and "Franklin," flag-ship, same squadron, 1874-6; 
 " Marion," European Fleet, 1877 ; Naval Academy, 1875-80 ; training-ship 
 " Saratoga," 1880-2. Retired, February 24, 1885. 
 
 Jerome E. Morse. Appointed from Massachusetts. Midshipman, 
 October 11, 1862; Ensign, March 12, 1868; Master, March 26, 1869; 
 Lieutenant, March 21, 1871 Retired July 22, 1874. 
 
 H. R. Tyler. Appointed from Vermont. N. A., July, 1866; Ensign, 
 July, 1871 ; Master, September, 1874 ; Lieutenant, March, 1881 ; "Nipsic," 
 N. A. Station, 1870-3; " Monongahela," S. A. Station, 1873-6; receiving- 
 ship "Wabash," 1876-7 ; " Swatara," N. A. Station, 1877-8 ; receiving-ship 
 " Wabash," 1878-9 ; " Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1879-83 ; Torpedo Station, 
 1883 : receiving-ship" Wabash," 1883-6; " Alliance," S. A. Station, 1886-9 ; 
 "Adams," Pacific Station, 1889-90; R. S. "Independence," July, 1893-5 ; 
 waiting orders, December, 1895. Retired, April, 1896. 
 
 H. P. Mclntosh. Appointed from Indiana, June, 1867. Midshipman, 
 June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1872; "California" and " Mohican," Pacific 
 Squadron, 1871-2 ; " Lackawanna " and " Palos," Asiatic Squadron, 1872-4 ; 
 Master, June, 1875 ; " Monocacy " and " Kearsarge," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1875-8; Hydrographic Office, Washington, 1878-9; " Shenandoah," South 
 Atlantic, Flag-Lieutenant on staff of Rear- Admiral Andrew Bryson, 1879- 
 82. Lieutenant, October, 1882 ; Hydrographic Office, Washington, 1882-5 ; 
 "Pensacola," Europe, 1885-8; charge of Branch Hydrographic Office, 
 San Francisco, 1888, to April 25, 1891 ; U. S. S. " Marion," Behring Sea 
 and Asiatic Squadrons, April 27, 1891, to December 4, 1891 ; U. S. S. "Alii- 
 
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 ance," Asiatic Squadron, as Executive Officer and Navigator, December 4, 
 1891, to April 4, 1892 ; special service, Wagasaki, Japan, May 26, 1892, to 
 July 20, 1892; retired, June 30, 1892, on account of color blindness. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from incident of service. 
 
 Henry R. "Baker. Acting Ensign, August 11, 1862; Acting Master, 
 July 6, 1864 ; transferred to regular service, and retired as Lieutenant, De 
 cember 6, 1876. 
 
 William Watts. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 April 10, 1862; graduated, 1866; "Iroquois," Asiatic Station, 1866-9. 
 Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; practice-ship " Macedonian," 1869. Pro 
 moted to Master, March 26, 1869 ; " Congress " (second rate), North Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1870-1. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; torpedo 
 service, 1872-3 ; " Brooklyn," flag-ship, South Atlantic Fleet, 1874-5 ; 
 " Monongahela," South Atlantic Station, 1876 ; ordnance duty, New York 
 Navy Yard, 1877-8 ; " Alert," 1879-80. Retired, January, 31, 1883. 
 
 William McC. Little Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 March 11, 1863; graduated, 1866; North Atlantic Station, 1867. Promoted 
 to Ensign, April, 1868; "Franklin," flag-ship, European Fleet, 1868-71. 
 Promoted to Master, March 26, 1869. Commissioned as Lieutenant, March 
 21, 1870; leave in Europe, 1876; torpedo duty, 1873; " Swatara," North 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1874-7 ; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1878 ; 
 "Minnesota," 1878-80; " New Hampshire," 1881 ; "Adams," 1882; "Min 
 nesota," 1883. Retired, May 16, 1884. 
 
 Charles H. Judd. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 23, 1863; graduated, 1866; "Ossipee," North Pacific Fleet, 
 1867-9. Promoted to Ensign, April, 1868 ; and to Master, March 26, 1869 ; 
 "Miantonomah," special service, Europe, 1869-70. Commissioned as Lieu- 
 tenan*, March 21, 1870; "Michigan" (fourth- rate), 1871; "Nipsic," North 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1872; receiving-ship " Vermont," 1873-4; "Plymouth," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1875-8; Hydrographic Office, 1875-81; "Alaska," 
 1881-3; torpedo station, 1883 ; "Galena," 1883-5. Retired, December 18, 
 1885. 
 
 Douglas Roben. Born May 4, 1847, in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio; 
 entered Naval Academy as Midshipman, September 23, 1862 ; distinguished 
 for proficiency in mathematical studies; was graduated, June 12, 1866; 
 ordered to the " Ossipee," October, 1866, then at Philadelphia; made a two 
 years cruise in the Pacific via Strait of Magellan. Was commissioned as 
 Ensign, in March, 1868 ; served a short time on the " Cyane," while in the 
 Pacific. Commissioned as Master, March 26, 1869 ; in 1869 was assigned to 
 the " Supply," at Boston, as Navigator, being then only twenty-two years of 
 age ; made a cruise to the Mediterranean in that vessel on the occasion of 
 establishing the present naval store-house at Villafranche ; on return to the 
 United States, was ordered to join the " Severn," but a serious difficulty 
 having developed itself in his eyes, as a result of exposure on duty, requested 
 duty on shore ; was ordered to Naval Station, Mound City, Ills., as Execu 
 tive Officer ; ordered in 1871 to the " Shawmut," going to South Atlantic ; 
 while in West Indies, the trouble in his eyes became aggravated and he was 
 granted sick leave ; in November, 1872, was placed on retired list for disa 
 bility incurred in the line of duty. 
 
 Frank Turnbull. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from 
 New Mexico; Naval Academy, September 20, 1861- Commissioned as 
 Ensign, 1866; Master, 1869; Naval Observatory, 1869-70; Lieutenant, 
 
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 June 21, 1870; " Brooklyn," European Station, 1870-2; leave of absence 
 in Europe, 1876-7; retired July 10, 1877. 
 
 Richard Mason Lisle. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered the Naval 
 Academy, September 25, 1862 ; graduated, 1866; " Yantic," N. A. Station, 
 1866 ; " Rhode Island," N. A. Station, 1866 ; " Susquehanna," N. A. Station, 
 1866-7 ; " Guerriere," flag-ship, S. A. Squadron, 1867-8. Promoted to En 
 sign, April, 1868; "Wasp," S. A. Station, 1868-9. Promoted to Master, 
 March 26, 1869 ; " Terror " (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1869-70. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, March 21, 1870; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1871 ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1871-2 ; " Lackawanna," Asiatic Station, 1872-3 ; " Hart 
 ford," flag-ship, Asiatic Station, 1*73-5 ; Navy Yard, League Island, 1876 ; 
 " Alliance," European Station, 1877-9 ; Navy Yard, League Island, 1880-3 ; 
 Retired, January 24, 1883. 
 
 Charles P. Shaw. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 25, 1863; graduated, 1867; "Franklin," flagship, European Fleet, 
 1867-9. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; "Portsmouth," S. A. Fleet, 1869-71. 
 Promoted to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Pensa- 
 cola," flagship, South Pacific Station, 1873-6 ; "Hartford," flagship, North 
 Atlantic Station, 1876-8 ; Hydrographic Office, 1879-80. Retired, June 4, 
 1883. 
 
 John Thomas Sullivan. Born in New York. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, October, 1862; graduated, 1867; " Quinnebaug," July, 1867, to Sep 
 tember, 1868 ; flagship, " Guerriere," S. A. Station, September, 1868, to May, 
 1869. Promoted to Ensign, December 18, 1868 ; " Quinnebaug," May, 
 1869, to July, 1870. Promoted Master, March 21, 1870; receiving-ship 
 "Vermont," August and September, 1870; duty on staff of Admiral S. H. 
 Stringham, October to November, 1870; "Guard," Darien Expedition, No 
 vember, 1870, to July, 1871. Promoted to Lieutenant, March 21, 1871 ; 
 " Wyoming," West Indies, October, 1871, to October, 1872 ; duty on Darien 
 Expedition, December, 1872, to May, 1873; flagship "Frolic," August, 
 1873, to January, 1874 ; " Ticonderoga," January 10, 1874, to February 22, 
 1874 ; February 22, 1874, ordered to escort a commission of civil engineers 
 over the Napipi Inter-oceanic Canal route ; " Roanoke," May, 1874, to De 
 cember, 1874 ; Darien Expedition, December, 1874, to May, 1875 ; ordnance 
 duty, Navy Yard, New York, July, 1875, to September, 1876 ; " Essex," West 
 Indies, September, 1876, to April, 1877; ordered home from "Essex" and 
 placed on sick leave ; special duty, Bureau of Navigation, December, 1879, 
 to November, 1882 ; commanding Coast Survey steamer, " Endeavor," 
 November, 1882, to April, 1884 ; sick leave, July, 1884, to December, 1884 ; 
 "Minnesota," December, 1884, to October, 1885; "Brooklyn," October, 
 1885 ; sick leave, November, 1885, to April, 1886. Retired May 12, 1886. 
 
 John William Hagenman. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 21, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; " Susquehanna," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1867-8. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; " Portsmouth," South Atlantic 
 Fleet, 1869-71. Promoted to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 
 1871 ; Coast Survey, 1872-5 ; "Marion," European Fleet, 1876-8 ; " Marion," 
 1878; ordnance duty, Navy Yard, League Island, 1879-80; nautical 
 school-ship "St. Mary s," 1880-3; "Marion," 1885-8. Retired, May 3, 
 1889. 
 
 Edwin Samuel Jacob. Born in Virginia. Entered Naval Academy, 
 October 14, 1862 ; graduated, 1867 ; Asiatic Station, 1867-70. Promoted to 
 Ensign, 1868 ; to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; Coast 
 Survey, 1871-4 ; " Powhatan," special service, North Atlantic Station, 1875 
 
220 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 -7; Hydrographic Office, 1877-8; "Marion," South Atlantic Squadron, 
 1879-82; Hydrographic Office, 1883-4. Retired, January 7, 1885. 
 
 William Little. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Academy, September 
 29, 1863 ; graduated, 1867 ; " Minnesota," special cruise, 1867-8. Promoted 
 to Ensign, 1868 ; " Dictator," (iron-clad), North Atlantic Fleet, 1869-70. 
 Promoted to Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; " Narragan- 
 sett," special survey on Pacific, 1871-3 ; receiving-ship "Potomac," 1873-4 ; 
 "Ashuelot," Asiatic Fleet, 1875-8 ; " Minnesota," 1878-80 ; " Yantic," 1880 ; 
 " Miautonomah," 1882; " Wachusett," 1885; receiving-ship " Vermont," 
 1886-7 ; torpedo station, 1887 ; receiving-ship " New Hampshire," 1887 ; 
 " Richmond," 1888-9. Retired, June 26, 1889. 
 
 Frederick William Greenleaf. Born in Maine. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 29, 1863; graduated, 1867 ; " Quinnebaug," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1867-70. Promoted to Ensign, 1868 ; and to Master, 1870 ; Darien 
 Expedition, 1870-2. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1871 ; "Monocacy," Asi 
 atic Squadron, 1873-7; "Wyoming," 1878-81 ; "Michigan," 1881-3. Re 
 tired, April 30, 1884. 
 
 James M. Grimes. Born in Cadiz, Ohio, November 21, 1847. En 
 tered U. S. Naval Academy. July 23, 1863 ; graduated, June, 1867 ; joined 
 U. S. frigate "Minnesota," July, 1867, on special cruise; detached from 
 <l Minnesota," at Aspinwall, January, 1868, to join the Pacific Squadron ; 
 went by rail to Panama ; passenger on " Wateree " to Callao, Peru, where 
 joined the sloop-of-war " Dakota ; " served on the Pacific Station till Febru 
 ary, 1871, on the " Dakota " and "Resaca;" made the cruise of the South 
 Pacific Islands on the latter in 1869-70. Promoted to Ensign, December, 
 1868; to Master, March, 1870; ordered to Torpedo School, June, 1871; 
 attended a course of lectures at the school. Commissioned Lieutenant, 
 December, 1871; ordered to frigate "Powhatan," February, 1872, home 
 station ; detached and ordered to monitor " Saugus," Gulf Station, Decem 
 ber, 1873 ; detached from her at Pensacola, when vessel was laid up, July, 
 1874; ordered to Coast Survey steamer " Blake," September, 1874; engaged 
 in surveying and deep-sea soundings off the passes of the Mississippi, and 
 deep-sea soundings from mouth of Rio Grande to Dry Tortugas, Gulf of 
 Mexico, winter of 1874-5; July, 1875, ordered to command the Coast 
 Survey steamer " Fathomer ; " engaged in surveying portions of the Dela 
 ware River, summer season, 1875, and in Core Sound, North Carolina, the 
 winter season, 1875-6; detached from command of " Fathomer," August, 
 1876; joined the "Ranger," November, 1876, while fitting out at Philadel 
 phia for China ; went to China via Suez Canal and Red Sea ; detached from 
 China Station, November, 1878; ordered to New York Navy Yard, June, 
 1879; detached and joined "Powhatan," Home Station, September, 1880; 
 cruised on " Powhatan," thirty-one months, that commission being detached, 
 October, 1883. Retired, May 22, 1886. 
 
 Hobart L. Tremain. Born in New York. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 30, 1864 ; graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to 
 Ensign, 1869; "Terror" (iron-clad), N. A. Fleet, 1869-70. Promoted to 
 Master, 1870. Commissioned as Lieutenant, 1872 ; " Hartford." flag-ship, 
 Asiatic Station, 1873-5; "Minnesota" (training-ship), 1875-8; " Ticon- 
 deroga," special service, 1878-81 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1881-4 ; training- 
 ship " Jamestown," 1884 ; training-ship " Portsmouth," 1884-7 ; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1887-90 ; retired May 19, 1891. 
 
 Ambrose Barkley Wyckoff. Entered Naval Academy from Illinois, 
 September 29, 1864 ; detached, graduated, June 20,1868; "Portsmouth" 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 221 
 
 and " Guerriere," South Atlantic Station, 1868-9. Promoted to Ensign, 
 April 19, 1869 ; " Nantasket," West Indies, 1870. Promoted to Master, July 
 12,1870; sick-leave, 1871; "Brooklyn," "Wyoming" and a Wachusett," 
 West Indies, 1872-4. Promoted to Lieutenant, October 25, 1872 ; " Ports 
 mouth," Pacific Station, 1875-6 ; Coast Survey, 1877-9 ; surveyed waters 
 of Puget Sound; Torpedo School, 1880; "Swatara," " Ashuelot," " Rich 
 mond " and " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1881-4; when the "Ashuelot " 
 was sunk on a dark and foggy night, in 1883, he voluntarily left his own 
 boat and took all the sick and servants into a drifting steam-cutter without 
 any boiler or compass, and saved thirty men in a boat in which only twelve 
 were stationed at "abandon ship." The fog lifting for a few minutes the 
 next day, the helpless boat was rescued when almost in the heavy breakers 
 on a reef, where all would have been lost. In charge of the branch Hydro- 
 graphic Office at Philadelphia, 1885-6 ; was made a member of the American 
 Philosophical Society and honorary member of the Franklin Institute, for ser 
 vices in connection with the Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia ; "Lancas 
 ter," " Alliance " and " Tallapoosa," South Atlantic Station, 1887-8 ; Bureau 
 of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, 1889. Under the law of March 2, 
 1891, he was ordered by the Honorable Secretary of the Navy to proceed to 
 Puget h?ound and select and purchase the lands for the Puget Sound Naval 
 Station and locate the dry-dock authorized ; having performed this respon 
 sible duty to the satisfaction of the Honorable Secretary, he was ordered 
 September 15, 1891, as the first Commandant of the new station ; in Feb 
 ruary, 1893, he was sent before the Retiring Board, on account of rheuma 
 tism, caused by arduous duties and exposure, a six months sick leave was 
 given him, but his promotion falling due, he was ordered up for examina 
 tion, and July 3, 1893, was honorably placed on the retired list of the Navy 
 for disease incurred in the line of duty. 
 
 Nathan Hale Barnes. Born in Windham County, Conn., August 12, 
 1846. Entered the U. S. Naval Academy, July 27, 1863, from Illinois ; on 
 sick-leave, 1865-6 ; graduated, June 2, 1868 ; served on the " Tuscarora " 
 and "Albany," in 1868-9, in the Pacific and N. A. Fleets. Commissioned 
 Ensign, April 19, 1869; Master, July 12, 1870, and Lieutenant, December 
 12, 1872 ; served in the "Onward" and "St. Mary s," Pacific Fleet, 1870-3; 
 u Canandaigua," "Plymouth," and monitor " Mahopac," N. A. Fleet, 
 1873-6: training-ship "Minnesota," 1877-9; "Nipsic," European Fleet, 
 1879-82; Torpedo Station, 1883; special duty at Illinois College, 1883-6; 
 special cruise around the world in the " Juniata," 1886-89 ; Training Station, 
 Newport, R. I., 1889-90. Retired, February 18, 1891 ; received the de 
 grees of Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Illinois College, and 
 the commission of Lieutenant Colonel from the Governor of Florida ; Com 
 mandant and Professor of Natural Sciences at the Florida State Military 
 Institute, 1894-5 ; Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Military 
 Science and Tactics, at the Norfolk College of Agriculture and Mechanic 
 Arts, 1895-7 ; Professor of Hydraulic Engineering, Military Science and 
 Tactics, at the University of Arizona, and Meteorologist and Irrigation Engi 
 neer, at the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Tucson, A. T. 
 
 Webster Doty. Born in Wisconsin. Entered Naval Academy, July, 
 27, 1864 ; graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to fnsign, 
 1869 ; " Yantic," N. A. Fleet, 1870-1. Promoted to Master, 1870 ; "Michi 
 gan," 1872 ; " Tuscarora," surveying on Pacific, 1872-4. Commissioned as 
 Lieutenant, 1873; "Pensacola," Pacific Fleet, 1875; "Hartford," N. A. 
 Fleet, 1875-6 ; receiving-ship "Wyoming," 1877; " Monongahela," 1878-9; 
 
222 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 "Shenandoah," 1880-2; "Minnesota," 1882; "Kearsarge," 1883-4. Re 
 tired, February 28, 1887. 
 
 Andrew Charles McMechan. Born in Ohio. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, February 24, 1863 ; graduated, 1868 ; Pacific Fleet, 1868-74. Pro 
 moted to Ensign, April, 19, 1869 ; and to Master, July 12, 1870 ; Asiatic 
 Station, 187477. Commissioned as Lieutenant, January, 6, 1874 ; " Quinne- 
 baug," European Squadron, 1878-81 ; R. S. "Independence," 1881-2. Re 
 tired, October 29, 1883. 
 
 James Franklin. Born in Maryland. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 26, 1865; graduated, 1869; " Sabine," special cruise, 1869-70. 
 Promoted to Ensign, 1870 ; signal duty, 1870-1 ; Asiatic Fleet, 1871-4. 
 Promoted to Master, 1872; Coast Survey, 1874-6. Commissioned as Lieu 
 tenant, 1875 ; torpedo duty, 1877. Retired, March 9, 1880. 
 
 Charles Augustus Bradbury. Born in Vermont. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 27, 1865; graduated, 1869 ; "Sabine," 1869-70. Promoted 
 to Ensign, 1870; signal duty, 1871 ; "Worcester," North Atlantic Station, 
 1871-2. Promoted to Master, 1872 ; Coast Survey, 1873-6. Commissioned 
 as Lieutenant, 1875 ; "Despatch," special service in Europe, 1877-9 ; " Con 
 stellation" (training-ship), 1879-81; school-ship "St. Mary s," 1881-4; 
 Bureau of Ordnance, 1884-9; " Yorktown," Squadron of Evolution, 1889- 
 
 91 ; Bureau of Ordnance, October, 1891, to April, 1893 ; sick leave, April, 
 1893, to May, 1894; training-ship "Portsmouth," training-ship " Alliance," 
 May, 1894, to June, 1896 ; treatment Naval Hospital, New York, June, 
 1896. Retired, September, 1896. 
 
 William Couenhover Strong. Born in New York. Entered Naval 
 Academy, September 22, 1864; graduated, 1868; " Benicia," Asiatic Fleet, 
 1869-72. Promoted to Ensign, 1869 ; to Master, 1870 ; South Atlantic 
 Station, 1873 ; " Monongahela," South Atlantic Station, 1874-6. Commis 
 sioned as Lieutenant, 1874; Torpedo duty, summer of 1877; receiving-ship 
 " Independence," 1877-8 ; " Wyoming," European Station, 1878-81 ; Signal 
 Office, Washington, 1881-2 ; "Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1882-3; "Mar 
 ion," Asiatic Station, 1885 ; " Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1885-6; " Swatara," 
 S. A. Station, 1888-9 ; " Ranger," Pacific Station, March, 1892, to 1895 ; 
 Navy Yard, League Island, April, 1895 ; sick leave, April, 1896. Retired, 
 July, 1896. 
 
 Charles Ansyl Clarke. Appointed from Iowa. Entered Naval Acad 
 emy, July, 1864 ; Ensign, July, 1870 ; Master, March, 1873 ; Lieutenant, 
 July, 1877; "Sabine," 1869-70; "Colorado," Asiatic Fleet, 1871-4; while 
 attached to the " Colorado," took part in the attack on the Corean forts in 
 1872; "Saco," Asiatic Fleet, 1872-3; " Iroquois," 1874; "Michigan," 
 1875-6; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1876-7; "Portsmouth," training-ship, 
 1877-8 ; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1880-3 ; " Nipsic," S. A. Station, 1883-6 ; 
 receiving-ship "Independence," 1887-9; "Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1889- 
 
 92 ; receiving-ship " Independence," October, 1892, to 1895 ; ordered to the 
 "Thesis," May, 1895, to 1897 ; retired, September 15, 1870. 
 
 Harry Muhlenburg Jacoby. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered Naval 
 Academy, July 27, 1866; "Shenandoah" and "Wachusett," Europe 1870- 
 73; "Worcester," N. A. Station, 1873-4. Promoted Ensign, July 13, 1871. 
 Promoted Master, April 9, 1874; "Yantic," Asiatic Station, 1874-7; Coast 
 Survey, 1878-80. Promoted Lieutenant, July 11, 1880 ; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, 1881 ; " Lackawanna," 1881-2. Retired, November 16, 1883. 
 
 Samuel Lindsay Graham. Born at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Ap 
 pointed from Pennsylvania to Naval Academy, July, 1866 ; graduated, June, 
 
RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 223 
 
 1870 ; Ensign, July, 1871 ; Master, June, 1874 ; Lieutenant, November, 1880 ; 
 U. S. S. " Guerriere," European Station, 1870-2 ; ran on Vado Rock, near 
 Leghorn, Italy ; ship sent home, condemned and sold ; U. S. S. " Portsmouth " 
 (surveying), Pacific Station, 1872-4 ; landed forces at Honolulu during riots 
 attending election of King Kalakaua ; U. S. S. " Saranac," Pacific Station, 
 from 1874 until wrecked at Seymour Narrows, British Columbia, June, 1875 ; 
 transferred to U. S. S. " Tuscarora," Pacific Station (deep-sea sounding), 
 from September, 1875, to August, 1876 ; called at Apia, Samoa, to inquire 
 about deportment of Steinburger, by an English man-of-war ; U. S. S. " Ply 
 mouth," 1876-9 ; during which time had two epidemics of yellow fever on 
 board ; U. S. Hydrographic Office, 1879-80 ; U. S/S. " Constellation," 
 March to June, 1880 Irish Relief cruise; U. S. Hydrographic Office, 
 1880-1; U. S. S. "Lancaster," European Station, 1881-4; at bombard 
 ment of Alexandria, Egypt, and landed with forces to assist in restoring 
 order until arrival of English troops ; at Cronstadt, Russia, during the fes 
 tivities attending the coronation of the present Czar, Alexander III.; Branch 
 Hydrographic Office, Baltimore, 1884-7 ; U. S. S. " Trenton," Pacific Station, 
 1887, until her wr@ck at Apia, Samoa, March, 1889 ; at Apia, Samoa, in 
 charge of wrecking party, April, May and June, 1889 ; inspector of steel at 
 Linden Steel Works, September, 1889, to November, 1892 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, November, 1892, to March, 1893; U. S. S. "Bancroft," March, 
 1893, to July, 1893 ; taking part in Naval Review of 1893 ; condemned by 
 Medical Survey, July, 1893, and granted sick leave ; incapacitated for further 
 active duty by disease contracted at Apia, Samoa, while engaged in wrecking 
 "Trenton" and " Vandalia," and retired December 25, 1893. 
 
 Francis Winslow. Born in Italy. Entered Naval Academy, July 
 22, 1865 ; " Guerriere," 1869-72 ; R. S. " Sabine," 1873; " Alaska," 1874- 
 76; Coast Survey, 1876-9. Promoted Ensign, July, 13, 1871. Promoted 
 Master, October 7, 1874 ; " Saratoga," 1880 ; special duty, Fish Commission, 
 1882-4; "Yantic," 1884-5; commanding C. S. schooner " Scoresby," 1886- 
 9. Promoted Lieutenant, May 11, 1881. Retired, March 14, 1889. 
 
 T. G. C. S alter. Naval apprentice. Naval Academy, September, 1866 ; 
 Ensign, July, 1871; Master, November, 1871; Lieutenant, August, 18^1; 
 "Congress," special service, 1870-1 ; Coast survey, 1875-80; "Marion," S. 
 A. Station, 1880-3 ; Torpedo Station, 1883 ; Naval Station, New London, 
 1883-5; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1885-8 ; Inspector of Ordnance, Mid- 
 vale Steel Works, 1889, to June, 1892 ; " Chicago," N. A. Station, June, 
 1892, until date of retirement, June 26, 1893. Retired, June, 1893. 
 
 Albert Jonett Dabney. Entered Naval Academy, October 1, 1867 ; 
 graduated, June 6, 1871 ; served on European Station on board U. S ship 
 "Wachusett," flag ships " Wabash," and "Brooklyn," 1871-3. Promoted to 
 Ensign, July 15, 1872 ; served on North Atlantic Station on board the U S. 
 ships "Plymouth," " Shawmut," and "Dictator," 1874-7. Promoted to 
 Master, April 6, 1875 ; served on board U. S. S. " New Hampshire," 1878 ; 
 served on Asiatic Station, U. S. S. "Alert," 1879-82. Promoted Lieutenant, 
 February 16, 1882; served in Hydrographic Office, Washington, D. C., 
 1884. Retired, July 1, 1885. 
 
 John Dowries. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, 1867 ; Mid 
 shipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, April, 1875 ; Lieutenant, 
 May, 1882; "Franklin," Europe, 1875-6; "Alliance," European Station, 
 1877-9; receiving-ship "Wabash," 1880-3; "Tennessee," North Atlantic 
 Station 1883-5 ; Branch Hydrographic Office, Boston, 1885-91 ; retired the 
 26th of January, 1891. 
 
224 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 J. C. Burnett. Appointed from Indiana. Naval Academy, September, 
 1867; Midshipman, June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, July, 1875; 
 Lieutenant, November, 1882 ; " California," Pacific Station, 1871-3 ; " Ports 
 mouth," 1874-6 ; school-ship " Jamestown," 1876-8 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific 
 Station, 1878-81 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1881-3 ; receiving-ship 
 "Independence," 1884-6; commanding C. S. S. " McArthur," 1886-9; 
 " Iroquois/ Pacific Station, 1889-92; charge Branch Hydrographic Office, 
 San Francisco, October 3, 1892 ; sick leave, October, 1894 ; waiting orders, 
 May, 1895; "Lancaster," September 12, 1895. Retired, May, 1896. 
 
 Samuel Seabury. Entered the service, October 3, 18(55, at New York, 
 enlisting as a naval apprentice with a view to securing an appointment to 
 the Naval Academy ; served on board training-ship "Sabine" until June 26, 
 1867 ; at the Naval Academy from June 26, 1867, to June 6, 1871 ; served 
 on " Iroquois," from July, 1871, to July, 1874, making cruise to China on 
 the latter vessel. Promoted to Ensign, July 14, 1872 ; to Master, July 26, 
 
 1875 ; served on " Omaha," South Pacific Station, January, 1875, to July, 
 
 1876 ; at Navy Yard, New York, and receiving-ship "Colorado," November, 
 1876, to May, 1879, with interval of four months in summer of 1877 on train 
 ing-ship " Supply ; " from May, 1879, to May, 1881, on " Wachusett," attached 
 to South Atlantic and to Pacific Squadrons, as well as four months duty on 
 North Atlantic, during which an attempt was made to reach St. Louis by 
 the Mississippi, for the enlistment of naval apprentices; from June, 1881, to 
 October, 1882, on duty at New York Yard, and on special inspection duty at 
 New York ; during this time was engaged on plans for vessels of war, receiv 
 ing complimentary letter from Secretary of the Navy therefor; in the winter 
 of 1881-2 was nominated by President Arthur as Naval Constructor, but not 
 confirmed by Senate. Commissioned Lieutenant, January 9, 1883 ; from 
 January 1883, to March, 1884, on the staff of Commodore Luce, command 
 ing Training Squadron ; from March, 1884, to November, 1885, on special 
 duty with Admiral Porter, engaged in the preparation of designs for vessel 
 of war; November, 1886, to October, 1888, attached to flag-ships "Tennes 
 see" and "Richmond," of the North Atlantic Squadron, under Rear- 
 Admirals Jouett and Luce, taking part in all evolutions of that squadron, 
 and in the camps of the Naval Brigade at Pensacola ; on duty in New York 
 City, in connection with Board of Inspection of merchant vessels, from 
 October, 1888, to April, 1892 ; on furlough, April, 1892, to June, 1893. In 
 June, 1893, joined the " Philadelphia " at New York ; went round by the 
 Magellan Strait to Honolulu, was surveyed by Medical Board at latter place 
 and sent to Hospital at Mare Island, whence went to New York in June, 
 1894. In October, 1894, was ordered to the " Castine," and went around 
 Africa by way of Suez Canal and Cape of Good Hope ; from Cape Town, 
 stopping at St. Helena, to Montevideo, where second survey condemned him 
 from active service ; was sent to New York by way of Southampton, Eng., 
 and on April 28, 1896, was placed on retired list. 
 
 C. D. Galloway. Appointed from Maryland. Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember, 1866. Midshipman, June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, De 
 cember, 1875; Lieutenant (junior grade), March, 1883; Lieutenant, June, 
 1883; "California," Pacific, 1871-3; " Shawmut," N. A. Station, 1875-7; 
 " Monongahela," 1877; " Fortune," special service, 1877-8; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1878-9; "Saratoga," training-ship, 1879-83; practice-ship " Con 
 stellation," 1883; Naval Academy, 1883-6; "Essex," Asiatic Station, 
 1886-9 ; commanded a party of 25 marines and blue jackets for ten days in 
 Corea, as a protection to our Minister and foreigners, and for this service 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 225 
 
 was complimented by Admiral Chandler, in General Order No. 38, as 
 follows : 
 
 General Order, No. 38. 
 
 The Commander-in-Chief desires to express his appreciation of the commendable 
 conduct of the body of blue jackets and marines of the U. S. steamer "Essex," Com 
 mander Theo. F. Jewell, commanding, in their forced march of thirty miles in twelve 
 hours on June 19, 1888, under the immediate command of Lieutenant C. D. Galloway, 
 U. S. N., First Lieutenant K. D. Wainwright, U. S. M. C., and Ensign W. B. Hoggatt, 
 U. S. N., from Chemulpo to Seoul, Corea, over a rough road, half of the march being 
 made in the darkness of the night. The celerity of movement, combined with the 
 steadiness of the men while employed on shore, reflects great credit upon the discipline 
 and efficiency of the " Essex," as well as upon the U. S. Navy in general. This order 
 will be read on board all vessels of the Squadron at the first general muster after its 
 receipt. 
 
 RALPH CHANDLER, Rear- Admiral, U. S. N. 
 Commanding U. S. Naval Force on Asiatic Station. 
 
 Naval Academy, 1888-90; retired February, 1894. 
 
 C. A. Foster. Appointed from Minnesota. Naval Academy, August, 
 1866 ; Midshipman. June, 1871 ; Ensign, July, 1872 ; Master, March, 1876 ; 
 Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, August, 1883 ; " California," Pa 
 cific, 1871-3 ; Asiatic Station, 1875-7 ; " Tennessee," Asiatic Station, 1877-8 ; 
 " Canonicus," N. A. Station, 1878-9; Navy Yard, "Pensacola," 1879-83; 
 " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1883 ; " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1883-5 ; 
 Torpedo Station, 1885-6 ; receiving-ship "Minnesota," 1886-8; "Omaha," 
 Asiatic, 1888-9 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1889-90; school-ship "En 
 terprise," January, 1893-5. Ketired, April, 1895. 
 
 D. L. Wilson. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, July, 1867 ; 
 Midshipman, June, 1871; Ensign, July, 1872; Master, September, 1876; 
 Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883; Lieutenant, December, 1884; "Guard" 
 (store-ship), 1877-8; Hydrographic Office, 1878-81; training-ship "Ports 
 mouth," 1881-4 ; Hydrographic Office, 1884-6 ; Torpedo Station, 1886-7; 
 " Marion," Asiatic Squadron, 1887-90; ordered to the "Baltimore," Jan 
 uary, 1893; sick leave, December, 1894. Ketired in November, 1895. 
 
 David Peacock. Born in New Jersey. Entered Naval Academy, 
 September 28, 1869 ; graduated, May 31, 1874. Midshipman, June 1, 1874. 
 Promoted to Ensign, July 17, 1875. Promoted to Master, September 14, 
 1881. Promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883. Promoted 
 to Lieutenant, August 25, 1887 ; flag-ship " Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1874-6 ; 
 " Enterprise," Amazon Survey, 1877-80; " Quinnebaug," 1880-1 ; Hydro- 
 graphic Office, Washington, D. C., 1881 ; " Enterprise," 1882 ; " Swatara," 
 1882-3; receiving-ships "Colorado" and "Vermont," New York, 1884; 
 training-ship ^Jamestown," 1885; commanding C. S steamer " Hassler," 
 1886-8 ; training-ship " Saratoga," as Watch Officer and as Navigator, 1888 ; 
 training-ship " Constellation," 1888-9 ; " Jamestown, l w 89 ; duty at Ports 
 mouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, 1889-90; in charge branch Hydro- 
 Sraphic Office, Boston, Mass., 1889-90; in charge branch Hydrographic 
 nice, Port and, Oregon, September, 1890, to March, 1892 ; " Pinta/ special 
 service, March, 1892, to April, 1894; Naval War College, June to October, 
 1894; Pittsburg, Steel Inspector, October, 1894, to April, 1895; Naval 
 Observatory, Washington, D. C., in charge of Magnetic Observatory, April, 
 1895, to July, 1896 ; " Monterey," July, 1896, to September. 1896 ; Pinta," 
 September, 1896, to August, 1897 ; " Wheeling," August to September, 1897. 
 Ketired October 28, 1898. 
 
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226 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Milton Klinger Schwenk. Entered Naval Academy, June 1, 1872; 
 "Omaha," South Pacific, 1876-8; "Alliance," N. A. Station, 1878-81. 
 Promoted Ensign, July 15, 1872. Promoted Master, October 23, 1878; 
 " Tallapoosa," 1882-3; nautical school-ship " St. Mary s," 1884-6 ; "Alert," 
 1886-7. Promoted Lieutenant, July 31, 1885. Retired, May 14, 1889. 
 
 Charles Macklin McCarteney. Born in Philadelphia, August 16, 
 1854. Appointed from the Third Congressional District to the Naval 
 Academy, September 22, 1870; graduated, June 21, 1875 (lost one year 
 from accidenTreceived at Fire Quarters Drill). Commissioned Ensign, July 
 18, 1876; Master, June 20, 1882; Lieutenant, (junior grade), March 3, 
 1883; Lieutenant, March 26, 1889; served on the following vessels: 
 " Swatara," September, 1875, to September, 1877 ; u Passaic," February, 
 1878, to July, 1878 ; " Nipsic," November, 1879, to March, 1883 ; " Wyan- 
 dotte," October, 1883, to April, 1884; command of tug "Speedwell," 
 August, 1884, to March, 1885; "Omaha," March, 1885, to May, 1888; 
 intermediate shore duty, Torpedo Station, and various periods of service at 
 the Hydrographic Office. Retired, December 10, 1891. 
 
 Ridgely Hunt. Appointed from Louisiana. Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber 21, 1870 ; graduated, June 21, 1875 ; Ensign, November 25, 1871 ; Lieu 
 tenant (junior grade), December 1,1883; " Swatara," North Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1875-7 ; " Alaska," Pacific," Station, 1877-81 ; special duty, Navy 
 Department, 1881-2; " Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1882-4; Hydrographic 
 Office, 1884-6; special duty, 1886-7; "Boston," special duty, 1887-8; 
 special duty, Marine Conference, 1889-90; "San Francisco," August 3, 
 1893; "Atlanta," January, 1895, to September, 1895 ; Branch Hydrogra 
 phic Office, New York, September 30, 1895. Retired, September 15, 1897. 
 
 Nich. J. Lane Trowbridge Halpine. Born in New York. Entered 
 Naval Academy, June 9, 1871 ; graduated, Cadet Midshipman, June 10, 
 1877; "Alliance," 1877-9. Promoted Midshipman, June 18, 1879; Relief 
 Expedition, 1880. Promoted Ensign, October 1, 1880; receiving-ship " Pas 
 saic," 1880-81; "Enterprise," 1882; " Palos," 18^3-4 ; Essex," 1884-5 ; 
 Hydrographic Office, 1885-7 ; C. S. S. " Eagre," 1887 ; C. S. S. " Blake," 
 1887-8. Promoted Lieutenant (junior grade), October 31, 1888; "Talla 
 poosa," 1889, to January, 1892; receiving-ship "Wabash," May, 1892-95. 
 Promoted to Lieutenant, July 4, 1893 ; retired, November, 1895. 
 
 Roswell H. Lamson. Appointed from Oregon. Midshipman, Sep 
 tember, 1858 ; Lieutenant, August, 1862 ; resigned, 1866 ; reappoiuted, Janu 
 ary, 1895 ; retired, April, 1895. 
 
 Lucian Flynne. Born in Alabama. Entered Naval Academy, Sep 
 tember 22, 1870 ; graduated, June 1, 1874. Promoted Ensign, July 17, 
 1875 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), March 3, 1883; Lieutenant, January 29, 
 1887 ; Asiatic Station, 1874-6 ; " Canonicus," North Atlantic Station, 1877- 
 8 ; " Vandalia," 1879-80 ; Coast Survey, 1881-5 ; training-ship " Ports 
 mouth," 1885-8 ; special duty, electric lights, 1888-90 ; commanding C. S. S. 
 " Gedney," June, 1892-5; Cramps Ship Yard, September, 1895-7; sick 
 leave, September, 1897. Retired, February, 1898. 
 
 O. E. Lasher. Appointed from New York. Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber, 1868 ; Midshipman, June, 1872 ; Ensign, July, 1873 ; Master, July, 
 1878 ; Junior Lieutenant, March, 1883 ; Lieutenant, March, 1885 ; Asiatic 
 Station, 1872-5 ; " Vandalia," Europe, 1876-7 ; " Despatch " (despatch- 
 boat), 1877-9 ; "Alliance," special service, 1881-5 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 18856 ; commanding tug " Fortune," 1886-9 ; training-ship " Jamestown," 
 1889-92; waiting orders, April, 1893; U. S. S. "Petrel," May, 1894-96; 
 
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 leave of absence, June, 1896; U. S. S. " Bennington," January, 1897 : re 
 ceiving-ship " Independence," August, 1897-98 ; retired, April, 1898. 
 
 Charles Stedman Ripley. Appointed at large. Naval Academy, 
 June 17, 1875 ; Midshipman, June 10, 1881 ; Ensign (junior grade), March 
 3, 1883 ; Ensign, June 26, 1884 ; Lieutenant (junior grade), August 2, 1891 ; 
 "Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1883-4; "Mohican," Pacific Station, 1887-9; 
 on duty East Florida Seminary, 1889, to October, 1891 ; receiving-ship 
 " Wabash," October, 1891, to May, 1892 ; Coast Survey schooner " Eagre," 
 May, 1892, to 1896. Promoted to Lieutenant, November, 1895 ; charge of 
 Branch Hydrographic Office, Chicago, January, 18^6 ; ordered to the 
 " Marblehead," September, 1897; retired, April, 1898. 
 
 Transferred from volunteer service and placed on retired list. 
 
 Henry C. Keene. Entered the Navy as Acting Master, September 21, 
 1861, and was ordered to U. S. S. " Ottawa ; " lost right leg in the battle of 
 Port Royal, the same year ; 1862, ordered to command the U. S. store-ship 
 " Fredonia," at Callao, Peru, and served till 1863, and resigned, having in 
 the meantime been promoted to Volunteer-Lieutenant ; May, 1864, was re- 
 appointed with same rank, and ordered to command Naval Battery (eleven 
 guns), on Searey s Island, Portsmouth Harbor; was then on duty a short 
 time at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, and then transferred to the Naval 
 Rendezvous, at Portsmouth, as assistant, and shortly after assumed command 
 until April, 1864, and honorably discharged ; re-appointed (as Volunteer 
 Lieutenant) the following June, and ordered to duty as Naval Storekeeper, 
 at Navy Yard, Boston, until July, 1867 ; ordered to the rendezvous at the 
 same yard as assistant, until July 1, 1868, and ordered to the receiving-ship 
 " Ohio ; " ordered to duty at the rendezvous the following March, until 
 March, 1873 ; transferred from the volunteer service to the regular navy, 
 March 20, 1871, and placed on the retired list with the rank of Lieutenant. 
 
 Retired as not recommended for promotion. 
 
 George McCully McClure. Appointed from Pennsylvania, Entered 
 navy, September 29, 1859, as Acting Midshipman. Promoted to Midshipman, 
 July 16, 1862 ; Ensign, October 1, 1863 ; Master, May 10, 1866 ; Lieutenant, 
 February 21, 1867; special duty, Erie, Pa,, 1865; " Juniata," 1866; 
 " Shamokin," 1868. Retired, November 9, 1868. 
 
 MEDICAL CORPS. 
 
 MEDICAL DIRECTORS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 C. J. Cleborne. Born in Scotland, December 16, 1838. A graduate 
 of the University of Pennsylvania, March 15, 1860 ; elected a member of 
 Academy of Natural Sciences, July 31, 1860 ; appointed from Pennsylvania, 
 May 9, 1861, as an Assistant Surgeon with rank of Master ; and attached to 
 sloop-of-war " Jamestown," North Atlantic Squadron, from May, 1861, to 
 January, 1862 ; participated in the destruction of the " Alvarado " under bat 
 teries at Fernandina, August 5, 1861 ; ordered to sloop-of-war " Dale," South 
 Atlantic Squadron, expedition to Stone River ; engagements on South Edisto, 
 
228 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 and service with Forty-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment at Otter Island, S. C., 
 1862 ; ordered to gunboat " Aroostook," West Gulf Squadron, 1863 ; opera 
 tions off Mobile, 1863. Commissioned Surgeon, with rank of Lieutenant- 
 Commander, November 24, 1863 ; at Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1864 ; 
 ordered to U. S. S. " Ticonderoga," South Atlantic Squadron, and coast of 
 Brazil, 1864-5; present at both battles of Fort Fisher, December, 1864 
 (where the " Ticonderoga," soon after going into action, lost, by the bursting 
 of her Parrot-gun, twenty-one killed and wounded) ; present at bombardment 
 and capture of Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865 ; ordered as Judge Advocate 
 of Naval Retiring Board, Philadelphia, 1865 ; attached to Hag-ship 
 " Rhode Island," West India Squadron, 1866, and in charge of U. S. S. 
 " Bienville," during epidemic of yellow fever, 1866 ; Judge Advocate of 
 Naval Retiring Board, 1867 ; elected member of Conchological Society of 
 Philadelphia, March 7, 1867 ; on sloop-of-war " Saratoga," 1868-9 ; flag 
 ship "Powhatan," 1870; member of Naval Medical Examining Board, 
 1870 ; ordered to Naval Station, League Island, 1871 ; elected member of 
 Pennsylvania Historical Society, September 23, 1872 ; attached to sloops-of- 
 war "Juniata," "Plymouth," "Brooklyn," and "Congress," European 
 Squadron, 1872-4; ordered to Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1875-8; 
 delegate to American Medical Association, 1876. Commissioned as Medical 
 Inspector with rank of Commander, January 6, 1878; on special duty at 
 Portsmouth from November, 1878, to April, 1879 ; ordered to flag-ship 
 " Tennessee " as Fleet-Surgeon of North Atlantic Fleet, 1879-cSl ; attached 
 to Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1881-4 ; elected member of Historical Society 
 of Virginia, 1883 ; member of Medical Examining Board, Philadelphia, 
 1884-7 ; appointed one of the Vice-Presidents of the International Medical 
 Congress, June 4, 1886 ; Chairman of the Medical Committee of the Con 
 stitutional Centennial, 1887 ; organized Volunteer Medical Corps of the 
 Centennial, September, 1887. Commissioned Medical Director with rank of 
 Captain, September, 1887 ; elected President of Volunteer Medical Associa 
 tion of Philadelphia, 1887 ; Director of Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., Jan 
 uary, 1888, to April, 1891 ; Director of Naval Hospital, Chelsea Mass., 
 April, 1891, to August, 1894; Director of Naval Hospital, Norfolk, from 
 August, 1894, to date. 
 
 Walter K. Schofield. Born in Connecticut. Appointed from Con 
 necticut, 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," European Squadron, 1866-7. Com 
 missioned as Surgeon, June 19, 1866; Naval Rendezvous, Boston, 1868; 
 sloop "Saratoga," North Atlantic Squadron, 1869; iron-clad "Terror," 
 special service, 1870; receiving-ship " Vermont," 1871-2; " Lackawanna," 
 Asiatic Station, 1873-5 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1875-9 ; Fleet-Surgeon, 
 Pacific Station, 1881-2 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1882-6. Commissioned 
 as Medical Inspector, November, 1883 ; " Lancaster," European Station, 
 1887-9; special duty, New York, 1889-92. Commissioned as Medical 
 Director, February 8, 1889 ; leave of absence, April, 1892. to 1894 ; President 
 Medical Examining Board, League Island, October, 1894, to date. 
 
 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 Squadron, 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, 
 
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 1866; receiving-ship "Independence," San Francisco, 1868-9; "St. Mary s," 
 Pacific Fleet, 1870-3; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1873; Navy Yard, Boston, 
 1874-7; Navy Yard, New York, 1877-80; "Galena," European Station, 
 1880-4. Commissioned as Medical Inspector, April, 1884; "Brooklyn," 
 flag-ship, Asiatic Station, 1886-9 ; Navy Yard, Washington, May, 1890, to 
 June, 1893. Commissioned as Medical Director, January 22, 1891 ; member 
 Retiring Board, June, 1893, to date. 
 
 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, !861-4^Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, New Hampshire, 1865 ; steamer " Mohongo," Pacific Squadron, 
 1865-7. Commissioned as Surgeon, May 14, 1867 ; receiving-ship, Ports 
 mouth, New Hampshire, 1868-9 ; December 1, 1869, to February 27, 1873, 
 steamer "Alaska," Asiatic Station ; February 28, 1873, to March 31, 1873, 
 waiting orders at home (Amherst, New Hampshire) ; April 1, 1873, to June 
 
 14, 1873, Naval Rendezvous, New York City ; June 15, 1873, to November 
 
 15, 1875, Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts; November 16, 1875, to 
 January 17, 1876, steamer "Hartford," North Atlantic Station ; March 1, 
 1876, to October 1, 1878, U. S. S. "New Hampshire," N. A. Station ; Octo 
 ber, 1878, to April, 1883, receiving-ship "Wabash," Boston Navy Yard; 
 temporarily ordered as member of Naval Medical Examining Board in 
 1881-3; April, 1883, to November, 1884, U. S. S. " Lack a wanna," Pacific 
 Station; November, 1884, to April, 1886, Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Station; 
 January 8, 1885, commissioned as Medical Inspector ; May, 1886, to Septem 
 ber, 1886, waiting orders; September, 1886, to January, 1888, special duty, 
 Portsmouth, N. H. ; January, 1888, to January, 1890, member of Naval 
 Medical Examining Board ; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Station, January, 1890, 
 to October, 1892 ; waiting orders, October, 1892, to May, 1893 ; Medical 
 Director, March 4, 1893 ; President Board of Medical Examiners, New York, 
 May, 1893, to May, 1895; in charge of Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 
 May, 1895, to May, 1898. 
 
 William K. Van Reypen. Born in New Jersey Appointed from 
 New Jersey, December 25, 1861 ; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; 
 attached to Naval Hospital, New York, 1862 ; frigate "St Lawrence," East 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 May, 1865 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., March, 1865 ; steamer "Lena- 
 pee," Atlantic Squadron, 1866-7 ; steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," European 
 Squadron, 1868 ; steamer " Frolic," European Squadron, 1868-9. Promoted 
 to Surgeon, May, 1868 ; special duty, New Orleans, 1869 ; Naval Hospital, 
 Chelsea, Mass., 1870; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1871 ; Naval Hospital, An 
 napolis, 1872; " Iroquois," Asiatic Station, 1872-4; Naval Hospital, New 
 York, 1875-7; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1877-81 ; Naval Hospital, Brook 
 lyn, 1881-2; "Powhatan," special duty, 1883-4; Assistant Bureau of Medi 
 cine, 1884 to May, 1892. Promoted to Medical Inspector, August, 1887 ; 
 "San Francisco," Special Service Squadron, May, 1892-4. Promoted to 
 Medical Director, March 30, 1895 ; member of Board of Inspection and Sur 
 vey, 1894-6 ; Delegate to represent the Medical Department of the U. S. 
 Navy at the Twelfth International Congress of Medicine, held at Moscow, 
 Russia, August 19-26, 1897. Appointed Surgeon- General and Chief of the 
 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, with relative rank of Commodore, October 
 22, 1897. 
 
 Thomas Cameron Walton. Born in England. A graduate of the 
 University of the City of New York (1862) ; Associate Member of the Societe 
 
230 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Franchise d Hygiene (1887) ; one of the Vice-Presidents of Section on Clima 
 tology and Demography of the Ninth International Medical Congress ; Mem 
 ber of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Appointed from New York. 
 October 5, 1861, commissioned an Assistant-Surgeon; October, 1868, com 
 missioned Surgeon ; September, 1877, commissioned Medical Inspector; served 
 on sloop Jamestown," N. A. Blockading Squadron, 1862; East Indies, 
 1863-5 ; in charge of Small-pox Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, 1864 ; Exam 
 ining Board for Medical Officers, 1866; receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston, 
 1867 ; sloop "Cyane," at Panama, 1867; steamer "Suwanee," N. P Squad 
 ron, wrecked on July 9, 1868 ; steamers " Mohican " and " Resaca," Pacific 
 Squadron, 1868-70; receiving ship "New Hampshire," Norfolk, Va., 1872; 
 sloop " Juniata," searching for " Polaris " survivors in Greenland, 1873 ; later 
 in Cuba, rescuing prisoners from "Virginius;" European Squadron, 1874-5; 
 receiving ships " Worcester" and "Franklin," at Norfolk, 1876-9; steamer 
 "Powhatan," special service, 1880-3 ; Naval Academy, as Senior Medical 
 Officer and Head of Department of Physiology and Hygiene, 1883-9 ; cruiser 
 "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-91; Naval Academy, 1892-97; 
 promoted to Medical Director, May, 1895 ; Naval Laboratory, New York, 
 January, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles H. White. Born in New Hampshire. Entered the service as 
 Assistant Surgeon, December 26, 1861 ; Chelsea Naval Hospital, 1862 ; in 
 steam gunboat "Huron," 1862-3; monitor " Lehigh," 1864, S. A. Blockad 
 ing Squadron ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1864 ; Naval Academy, 
 Newport, R. I., 1864 ; " Roanoke " (iron-clad), 1864-5; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1865-6; " Ashuelot," 1866-9, Asiatic Station. Commissioned Sur 
 geon November 18, 1869 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1869 ; Naval Laboratory, 
 New York, 1869-72; "Benicia," 1872-3; Asiatic Fleet, 1872-3; "Idaho," 
 Asiatic Station, 1873-4; " Monocacy," Asiatic Fleet, 1874-5 ; Naval Labor 
 atory, New York, 1875-8 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Cal, 1879 ; " Lacka- 
 wanna," Pacific Squadron, 1880-8; Museum of Hygiene, Washington, D.C., 
 1883-8 ; " Trenton," Pacific Squadron, 1888-9 ; " Pensacola," 1889-90 ; San 
 Francisco Pacific Squadron, 1890-91 ; " Baltimore," Pacific Squadron, 1891 ; 
 " Pensacola," Pacific Squadron, 1891 ; " Charleston," Pacific Squadron, 1881 
 -2; waiting orders, January, 1892, to January, 1893; Smithsonian Institu 
 tion, 1893 ; Naval Medical Examining Board, 1893-97. Promoted to Medi 
 cal Director, June 8, 1895 ; at Museum of Hygiene, from October, 1897, to 
 date. 
 
 George Worth Woods. Born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, August 
 24, 1838. Steamers " Mohawk" and "Ottawa," S. A. B S., 1862-3; 
 "Roanoke," 1864; receiving-ships " Allegheny " and " Winooski," 1865; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1866-7; Pensacola" and "James 
 town," Pacific Squadron, 1867-70. Promoted to Surgeon, December 10, 
 1869 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California, 1871-3 ; Naval Rendezvous, 
 San Francisco, 1873; " Wachusett," 1873; North Atlantic Squadron, 
 " Benicia" and " Lackawanna," 1874-8 ; Pacific Station, Navy Yard, Mare 
 Island, California, 1878-82 ; " Juniata," special cruise, and Asiatic Station, 
 1882-5 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1886-90. Commissioned Medical In 
 spector, 1888; U. S. flagship "Charleston," as Fleet-Surgeon, and "Pensa 
 cola," Pacific and Asiatic Stations, 1890-2 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 
 California, in charge, April, 1892. During the war, participated in the 
 most prominent operations around Charleston including the bombardment of 
 the forts and fall of " Wagner ; " those in northern Florida, up to the battle 
 of Olustee, and including the capture of St. Mary s, Georgia ; and while 
 
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 attached to the " Roanoke," in many movements on the James River. 
 Member of the M. O. L. L. U. S. and Societe Francaise d Hygiene. Author 
 of exhaustive reports on countries visited in the special cruise of the " Juni- 
 ata," 1882-5, and of a special report on leprosy, after a prolonged residence 
 at the leper settlement of Molokai, H. I. Commissioned Medical Director, 
 June 15, 1895; Naval Delegate to "Pan-American" Medical Congress, 
 1896 ; Member of Association Military Surgeons, 1897 ; transferred from 
 charge of Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California, to Hospital Navy Yard, 
 New York, June 5, 1897. 
 
 George Henry Cooke. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ap 
 pointed from New Jersey. Entered the service as Acting Assistant Surgeon, 
 September 9, 1862, and ordered to duty at Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. 
 Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, September 22, 1862. Flag-ship " St. 
 Lawrence," bark "James L. Davis," and steamers "Somerset" and "Saga 
 more " of the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-4. Epidemic of yellow 
 fever having appeared on board U. S. S. " Tioga," at Key West, Florida, 
 and, her medical officer being stricken with the disease, volunteered services, 
 was detailed accordingly, and proceeded to Portsmouth, N. H., where the 
 ship was placed out of commission and officers and crew transferred to Sea- 
 vey s Island in quarantine. When released from quarantine granted two 
 weeks leave and then ordered to Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1864-5. Double- 
 ender " Mendota," Richmond and James River, Va., 1865. Ordered to 
 capes of the Delaware to search outward-bound ships for President Lincoln s 
 a*sassin and subsequently was placed out of commission at Philadelphia 
 Navy Yard. Naval Hospital, New York, and supply-ship " Massachusetts," 
 1865. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, January 20, 1866, and on 
 duty receiving-ship " Ohio," Boston, Mass. Thence, the same year, to the 
 Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md ., and senior medical officer during the prac 
 tice cruise of 1866, being attached to the flag-ship " Macedonia," six vessels 
 comprising the squadron, and cruising along North Atlantic Coast. Steam- 
 sloop " Resaca," commissioned Portsmouth, N. H., and assigned to Pacific 
 Squadron, 1866-8. A virulent epidemic of yellow fever, affecting quite one- 
 half the ship s company, appeared on board while anchored in the Bay of 
 Panama, summer of 1867. The ship having been previously detailed to rep 
 resent the Navy at the ceremonies incident to the transfer of the territory of 
 Alaska from Russia to the United States, accordingly proceeded to Sitka, 
 stopping en route for supplies at various ports, including San Francisco. 
 Wintered in Alaska, 1867-8, in order to disinfect the ship, and in the follow 
 ing spring returned to Mare Island, affording passage to the Princess Mak- 
 soutoff, wife of the late Russian Governor of Alaska, and family. Naval 
 Academy, Annapolis, 1868-70. Commissioned Surgeon February 20, 1870. 
 Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 1870-1. Gunnery Practice Ship 
 "Constellation," 1871-2. Monitor " Terror," North Atlantic Station, 1872 
 -3. Special duty, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1873. Marine Rendez 
 vous, Philadelphia, 1873. Special duty, Mound City Naval Station, Illinois, 
 1874. Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 1874-5. " Vandalia " (second rate) 
 and "Alliance" (third rate) European Station, 1876-9. General and Mrs. 
 Grant, and suite, were received on board the " Vandalia " at Villefranche, 
 France, and, after visiting the principal cities bordering on the Mediterranean, 
 including Jerusalem, Constantinople, etc., took their final departure from the 
 ship at Naples, Italy, en route to India. By personal invitation accompanied 
 them while in Egypt, on their tour of the Nile on the Khedive Ismail s steam 
 yacht " Zinnt-el-Bachreen " in charge of Sami Bey, aide-de-camp to the 
 
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 Khedive, and attended by Doctor Emil Brugsch, Egyptologist, of the Boulak 
 Museum, Cairo. The trip occupied about a month, and extended to Philse, 
 above the First Cataract. Was subsequently detailed as Aid to.the General 
 while visiting Greece. Navy Yard, League Island, 1879-82. Leave of ab 
 sence, 1883-4; Medical Examining Board, Naval Academy, 1884; " Lack- 
 awanna," Pacific Station, 1884, until ship was placed out of commission at 
 Mare Island, Cal., April, 1885, on account of yellow fever, contracted at 
 Panama, being epidemic on board, thus making the sixth ship in which he 
 served with that disease and the only occasion upon which he, personally, 
 was seized with the malady. On recovery was temporarily attached to the 
 Naval Hospital, Mare Island, Cal., until "Mohican " was ready for sea, and 
 served in her on Pacific Station, 1885-7. Having received on board U. S. 
 Special Commissioner, Geo. H. Bates, under orders from the State Depart 
 ment to negotiate treaties, etc ; made a year s cruise through Pacific Islands, 
 and on return to South Atlantic coast called at Easter Island, South Pacific ; 
 took on board one of the ancient stone images, crown, ttc., now in the 
 National Museum ; formed one of a party engaged thirteen days ashore ex 
 ploring the island, and transmitted extended report to the Smithsonian In 
 stitution. Navy Yard, League Island, 1888-90 ; commissioned Medical In 
 spector, September 15, 1888 ; flag-ship " Pensacola," and Fleet Surgeon, 
 South Atlantic and South Pacific Stations, Acting Rear-Admiral McCann, 
 1890-1 ; cruiser "Baltimore," Pacific Station and subsequently flag-ship 
 squadron for Special Service, Rear- Admiral Gherardi, July, 1891, to May, 
 1893 ; while attached to the two last-named ships, coast of Chile, the revolu 
 tion, culminating; in the subversion of the Balmaceda Government, and the 
 attacks on the liberty parties from the " Baltimore," in the city of Valpa 
 raiso, occurred ; subsequently Rear-Admiral Gherardi joined the "Baltimore" 
 at San Die go, Cal., making her his flag-ship, and, with the other ships, " San 
 Francisco " and " Charleston," of the Special Service Squadron, sailed on 
 return to the Atlantic coast, via Strait of Magellan, calling en route at the 
 principal ports to invite the various nationalities to take part in the projected 
 Columbian Naval Review at Hampton Roads and New York, in which all 
 the ships participated, April, 1893 ; leave of absence, June, 1M93 ; Navy Yard, 
 League Island, July to October, 1893; special duty, Philadelphia, November 
 1, 1893; commissioned Medical Director, September 29,1895; in charge 
 Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, August 1, 1890, to date. 
 
 Daniel McMurtrie. Commissioned an Amslant Sur^ton, August 22, 
 1862 ; attached to Naval Hospital, New York, from September 2, 1862, to 
 April 24, 1863 ; attached to flag-ship " Minnesota," North Atlantic Block 
 ading Squadron, from April 29, 1863, till October 24, 1863; attached to 
 iron-clad "Sangamon," N. A. B. Squadron, from October 24, 1863, to Sep 
 tember 14, 1864 ; service in this vessel was off Charleston, from early part of 
 January, 1864 until health impelled to request relief, which was granted in 
 September ; was frequently under fire from Fort Moultrie and the batteries 
 on shore, and the duty was rendered doubly hazardous at night, from the 
 torpedoes; waiting orders from September 20, 1864, to December 16, 1864; 
 attached to U. S. S. "Muscoota," from December 15, 1864, to April 28, 
 1865 ; attached to iron-clad "Monadnock," from April 30, 1865, to Septem 
 ber 28, 1865 ; this was one of the first iron-clads to enter a foreign port, 
 being one of a special squadron, under command of Rear-Admiral Godon, to 
 visit Havana that June for the purpose of intercepting the Confederate ram 
 " Stonewall ; " waiting orders from September 28, 1865, to March 13, 1866 ; 
 attached to receiving-ship " Vermont," Navy Yard, New York, from March 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 233 
 
 14, 1866, to June 14, 1866 ; while attached, promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Surgeon, May 11, 1866; attached to U. S. S. " Whmepeg," of the Naval 
 Academy Practice Squadron, from June 16, 1866, to October 12, 1866; 
 waiting orders from October 12, 1866, to November 1, 1866 ; attached to 
 U. S. S. "Susquehanna," from November 2,1866, to January 14, 1868; 
 during service on the vessel visited Mexico, carrying newly -appointed Min 
 ister Lewis D. Campbell and General Sherman, with his chief-of-staff, 
 Colonel Audenreid ; later was on flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Palmer, W. I. 
 Squadron ; at St. Thomas at the time of the earthquake in December, 1867 ; 
 contracted the yellow fever twice during the commission, and finally entered 
 the port of New York in midwinter, carrying North tne body of Admiral 
 Palmer, who succumbed to the disease on the date of sailing from St. 
 Thomas ; out of commission ; attached to U. S. S. " AVampanoag," from 
 January 22, 1868, to February 17, 1868 ; detached at own request ; waiting 
 orders from February 17, 1868, to June 1, 1868; attached to U. S S. 
 "Mabeaska," at New Orleans, from June 8, 1868, to September 15, 1868, 
 when she was put out of commission ; attached to Navy Yard, Boston, from 
 October 14, 1868, to May 6, 1869 ; attached to U. S. S" "Sabine," European 
 cruise, from May 23, 1869, to August 3, 1870 ; out of commission ; attached 
 to receiving-ship " Potomac," at Philadelphia, from August 12, 1870, to 
 November 8, 1870 ; detached at own request ; waiting orders till January 7, 
 1871 ; attached to Naval Academy, from January 14, 1871, to August 9, 
 
 1871 ; detached at own request ; attached to Navy Yard, New York, from 
 August 12, 1871, to October 28, 1871 ; attached to receiving-ship " Vermont," 
 at Navy Yard, New York, from October 20, 1871, to December 19, 1871; 
 attached to Navy Yard, New York, from December 19, 1871, to April 19, 
 
 1872 ; attached to receiving-ship " Vermont," at New York, from April 19, 
 1872, to April 27, 1872 ; detached and ordered to Asiatic Station, per mail 
 steamer ; attached to U. S S. "Ashuelot," from July 14, 1872, having joined 
 her at Kobe, Japan. Promoted to Surgeon, June 29, 1872 ; detached from 
 "Ashuelot," at Shanghai, China, and ordered home, June 23, 1875 ; reported 
 home. August 20, 1875 ; attached to Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., from 
 November 22, 1875, to April 22, 1876 ; detached at own request ; waiting 
 orders till May 31, 1875; attached to receiving-ship "St. Louis," at League 
 Island, Philadelphia, from June 1, 1876, to September 9, 1878 ; attached to 
 U. S. S. " Quinnebaug," European Station, from September 25, 1878, to 
 June 25, 1881; waiting orders until November, 1881, at own request; 
 attached to receiving-ship " Franklin," at Norfolk, Va., from November 7, 
 1881, till July 18, 1883 ; detached at own request ; waiting orders until 
 January 7, 1884 ; attached to Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, from Jan 
 uary 11, 1884, to April 10, 1884; attached to Navy Yard, Washington, 
 D. C., from April 24, 1884, to January 10, 1885 ; detached and ordered to 
 the charge of U. S. Naval Hospital, Yokohama ; attached to U. S. Naval 
 Hospital Yokohama, Japan, July 20, 1885, till July 21, 1888; relieved and 
 ordered home ; reported arrival home, September 10, 1888 ; waiting orders 
 till November, 1888 ; attached to receiving-ship " Vermont," from Novem 
 ber 27, 1888, till September 28, 1889 ; attached to Navy Yard, New York, 
 from September 28, 1889, to May, 1891. Promoted to Medical Inspector, 
 February 8, 1890 ; " Lancaster," Asiatic Station, May, 1891, to September, 
 1893; waiting orders, September, 1893 ; special duty Smithsonian Institute, 
 June, 1894; member of Medical Examining Board, May, 1895, to date; 
 Medical Director, September, 1896. 
 
234 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 J. Rufus Tryon. Born in New York. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, Sep 
 tember 22, 1863 ; West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; after the fight at Mobile Bay 
 had the wounded under his charge at Naval Hospital, Pensacola, Fla.; Naval 
 Hospital, Boston, 1865-6 ; detailed to make a special report for the Department 
 of the wounded treated there during the war; Assistant Bureau of Medicine and 
 Surgery, 1866-70. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1866 ; to Surgeon, 
 1873 ; Asiatic Station, 1870-3 ; had charge, during that time, of the temporary 
 Small Pox Hospital at Yokohama, during the epidemic of that disease in 1871, 
 and also appointed by Rear- Admiral John Rodgers, then in command of the 
 Station, to superintend the building of the present U. S. Naval Hospital at 
 Yokohama, Japan ; special duty, New York, and yellow fever epidemic, Navy 
 Yard, Pensacola, Fla., 1873-6*; N. A. Station, 1876-9 ; special duty, New 
 York, 1879-82 ; "Alaska," Pacific Station, South Pacific Coast and Sand 
 wich Islands, 1882-3 ; member Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1883-4 ; 
 delegate International Meolical Congress at Copenhagen, Denmark, 1884 ; 
 afterwards " Quinnebaug," European Station and African coast, until 1887 ; 
 Marine Rendezvous, New York, 1888 ; special duty and member of Medical 
 Examining Board, New York, 1888-91 ; received the honorary degree of 
 Ph.D., Union College, 1891. Promoted Medical Inspector, September, 22, 
 1891 ; 1891-3, flag-ship " Chicago," N. A. Station ; duty at Montevideo, 
 Uraguay, and La Guayra, Venezuela. Received the decoration of the 
 " Busto del Libertadon " for services rendered the wounded of both parties 
 at Macuto during the revolution in Venezuela. Promoted to Surgeon Gen 
 eral U. S. Navy, with rank of Commodore, and Chief of Bureau of Medicine 
 and Surgery, Navy Department, May 10, 1893-7 Promoted to Medical 
 Director, January, 1897 ; General Inspector of Hospitals, October, 1897, to 
 date. 
 
 James M. Flint. Born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, February 7, 
 1838. Graduated from the Medical Department of Harvard University, 
 March, 1860. Appointed an Acting Assistant Surgeon, April 14, 1862; 
 served on board the barque " Ethan Allen," East Gulf Squadron, from May, 
 1862, until September, 1863. Commission as Assistant Surgeon, dated Octo 
 ber 25, 1863 ; service from December, 1863, to July, 1865, on board gunboat 
 "Hastings" (No. 15), Mississippi Squadron; October, 1865, to July, 1866, 
 on receiving-ship "Alleghany," at Baltimore; August, 1866, ordered to 
 U. S. S. " Pensacola," making a cruise to the Pacific ; ordered home for 
 examination, August, 1867. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, to date 
 from December 13, 1866 ; December, 1867, to November, 1868, at the Naval 
 Hospitals, New York and Chelsea ; from November, 1868, to April, 1870, on 
 board the U. S. S. " Franklin," European Station ; after a brief term of ser 
 vice at Mound City, Illinois, and at the Naval Academy, was stationed at the 
 Navy Yard, Boston, until October, 1871, ordered to the Pacific Station ; was 
 one year on board the " Pensacola," the remainder of the cruise on the " Sara- 
 nac; " July, 1874, to May, 1876, at the Torpedo Station, Newport ; and from 
 the latter date until September, 1877, at the Naval Hospital, Chelsea; 
 " Enterprise," European Station, 1878-80 ; special duty, Bureau of Medicine, 
 1880-4; Fish Commission steamer " Albatros?," 1884-7; special duty. Fish 
 Commission, 1887; special duty, Smithsonian Institution, 1887-91 ; "Mian- 
 tonomah," N. A. Station, October, 1891, to May, 1893. Promoted to Medical 
 Inspector, March 4, 1893 ; " Baltimore," Asiatic Station, May, 1893, to Jan 
 uary, 1894 ; Smithsonian Institution, May, 1894, to date. Promoted to 
 Medical Director, June 6, 1897. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 235 
 
 George A. Bright. Appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon,May 16, 1861 ; 
 attached to U. S. S. "South Carolina," Gulf Squadron and North Atlantic 
 Squadron, from May, 1861, to March, 1864. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 August 8, 1864; "New Ironsides," 1864-5; Naval Academy, and practice- 
 ship "Marion," 1865-6; "Susquehanna," 1866-7, special duty. Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, September, 1867; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1867-8 ; 
 " Kenosha," European Squadron, l<H69-73 ; Naval Academy, 1873-6. Sur 
 geon, September 12, 1874; unemployed, 1876-8; " Tuscarora " (Mexican 
 Coast Survey), 1878-80 ; Naval Hospital. Mare Island, 1880-3 ; "Galena," 
 18*3-5 (N. A. Station); "Constellation," 1885; "Brooklyn," N. A. Station, 
 1885-6; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va,, 1886-9; special duty, December, 1890, 
 to June, 1891 ; " Newark," special service, June, 1891, to 1894. Promoted 
 to Medical Inspector, May 11, 1893; Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 1894-5; Naval 
 Hospital, Washington, 1895 to date. Promoted to Medical Director, October, 
 1897. 
 
 George F. Winslow. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon, July 26, 1862; 
 ordered to report to Rear-Admiral Charles Wilkes, commanding James 
 River Flotilla ; ordered to U. S. steamer " Morse," N. A. Blockading Squad 
 ron ; detached from U. S. steamer " Morse," January 8, 1864 ; different en 
 gagements on James River with the Army of the Pctomac, under command 
 of General McClellan ; White House Landing ; Brick House Point, General 
 Franklin ; West Point, York River, General Gordon ; Pamunky and Matta- 
 pony engagements ; Nansemond River against General Longstreet, C. S. 
 Army; ordered to "Osceola," February 24, 1864; detached, August 25, 
 1865 ; crossing of Grant s forces at Wilson s Landing ; James River ; both 
 fights at Fort Fisher; Fort Strong and Fort Buchanan ; Cape Fear River ; 
 taking of Wilmington and capture of Richmond ; capturing prizes block 
 ade-runners " Blenheim," " Charlotte " and "Stag;" frigate " Sabine," ap 
 prentice-system September 5, 1865 ; detached, June 25, 1867. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, May, 1867 ; South Pacific Squadron, " Wateree," 
 " Nyack " and " Powhatan," ordered, July 24, 1867 ; detached, December 
 23, 1869 ; wrecked by earthquake, August 13, 1868, at Arica, Peru ; received 
 thanks of Peruvian Congress for assistance rendered to the suffering people 
 of the Province of Moquega, after the earthquake; received the thanks of 
 Her Maiesty s government for taking care of wrecked and frozen seamen in 
 the Strait of Magellan ; Navy Yard, Boston, April 9, 1870, to January 5, 
 1871 ; U. S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Massachusetts, ordered, January 6, 
 1871 ; detached, April 10, 1871 ; practice-cruise U. S. S. " Saratoga," May 1 
 to September, 1871 ; flag-ship " W abash," European Squadron, ordered, Oc 
 tober 5, 1871 ; detached, April 17, 1874; Portsmouth Navy Yard, appren 
 tice-ship " Sabine," November 16, 1874, to November 13, 1875. Promoted 
 to Surgeon, April 2, 1875; U. S. Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, 
 1876-8 ; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1879-82 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1882-6 ; 
 "Atlanta," N. A. Station, 1886-8; Marine Rendezvous, Boston, 1889, to 
 August, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., August, 1891, to July, 1892 ; wait 
 ing orders, July, 1892, to February, 1893; " Monterey " and "Philadel 
 phia," Pacific Station, February, 1893-96. Promoted to Medical Inspector, 
 August 21, 1893; Naval Station, New London, May, 1896-98. Promoted 
 to Medical Director, April, 1898 ; member of Medical Examining Board, 
 May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Hosea J. Babin. Appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon, February 10, 
 1865. Commissioned as Assistant Surgeon, May 13, 1865 ; receiving-ship 
 "Ohio," 1865; practice-ship ," Marblehead," 1865; "Paul Jones," Gulf 
 
236 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Squadron, 1866-7 ; apprentice-ship " Sabine," 1867-8 ; receiving-ship " Poto 
 mac," 1868-9. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1869 ; " Severn," flag 
 ship, N. A. Fleet, 1869-71 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1871-2; - Hartford," flag 
 ship, Asiatic Station, 1872-5 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1875-6. Commis 
 sioned as Surgeon, March 17,1876; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1876-9 ; 
 " Marion," South Atlantic Station, 1879-82 ; Marine Rendezvous, New York, 
 1883-6 ; " Vandalia," flag ship, Pacific Station, 1886-9 ; receiving-ship "Ver 
 mont," 1889 to May, 1893 ; temporary duty, Naval Academy, May, 1893, to 
 September, 1&93; waiting orders, September, 1893-4; member Board of 
 Inspection and Survey, January, 1894. Promoted to Medical Inspector, 
 June, 1894; U. S. S. "San Francisco," July, 1894-7; leave of absence, 
 June, 1897 ; President of Board of Medical Examiners, October, 1897, to 
 date. Promoted to Medical Director, May, 1898. 
 
 Joseph B. Parker. Native of Pennsylvania. Entered volunteer ser 
 vice as Acting Assistant Surgeon, March, 1863, and served continuously in the 
 Mississippi Squadron until October, 1865, date of honorable discharge ; pre 
 vious duty during the war, at army hospitals, Camden and University (Bal 
 timore), Campbell (Washington), Lawson (St. Louis, Mo). Appointed 
 Assistant Surgeon, November 24, 1866 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, December 
 31, 1867; Surgeon August 13, 1876. Miscellaneous service in the following 
 order: Naval Academy, " De Sota," North Atlantic Squadron; Rendezvous, 
 New York; " Tallapoosa," "Nantasket," North Atlantic Squadron; receiv 
 ing-ship " Potomac ; " hospital, Chelsea ; hospital, Brooklyn ; " Yantic," 
 Asiatic Squadron ; special duty, Bureau Medicine and Surgery ; assistant to 
 Chief of Bureau Medicine and Surgery ; " Wachusett," Pacific Squadron ; 
 Torpedo Station ; " Swatara " and " Ossipee," North Atlantic Squadron ; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, August, 1888, to October, 1891 ; waiting orders, Octo 
 ber, 1891, to January, 1892 ; u Charleston," special service, squadron, Janu 
 ary, 1892, to October, 1894; Medical Inspector, November, 1894 ; special 
 duty with Senate Committee investigating Ford s Theatre disaster, March, 
 1895 ; in charge of hospital and navy-yard, Portsmouth, N. H. ; January, 
 1898, Member of Examining Board, Washington, D. C., which duty con 
 tinues to date. Promoted to Medical Director, June, 1898. 
 
 MEDICAL INSPECTORS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Joseph G. Ayers. Born in New Hampshire. Second and First Lieu 
 tenant, 15th Regiment New Hampshire Vols., November 3, 1862, to August 
 13, 1863; Acting Assistant Surgeon, U S. Army, June 28 to October 27, 
 1864; Acting Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, December 17, 1864, to Sep 
 tember 24, 1866. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, October 8, 1866 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1866-8; " Contocook," " Mononga hela " and "Penobscot," North 
 Atlantic Fleet, 1868-9. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1869 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Washington, 1869-70; " Resaca," Pacific Fleet, 1870-2 ; Bureau 
 Medicine and Surgery, 1872-3 ; " Saco," Naval Hospital, and " Ashuelot," 
 Asiatic Station, 1873-7. Promoted to Surgeon, January 7, 1878 ; Naval 
 Laboratory, New York, 1878-81 ; "Constellation," 1881 ; "Adams," Pacific 
 Station, 1882-4; Torpedo Station, 1885-7; "Galena," North Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1887-90; receiving-ship "Wabash," November, 1890, to September, 
 1891; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., September, 1891, to 1894; waiting 
 orders, November, 1894; U. S. S. " Olympia," February, 1895-7; Ports 
 mouth, N. H., December, 1897, to April, 1898; Medical Inspector, Naval 
 Hospital, Boston, Mass., May, 1898, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U S. NAVY. 237 
 
 Abel F. Price. Born in Pennsylvania Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 November 10, 1868 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1869-70 ; " Juniata," 
 European Fleet, 1871-3. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1872 ; 
 " Powhatan," North Atlantic Fleet, 1873-4 ; receiving-ship " Potomac," 
 1875 ; " Monacacy," Asiatic Station, 1877-81. Promoted to Surgeon, August, 
 1878 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1881 ; receiving-ship " St. Louis," 1881-4 ; 
 " Ossipee," Asiatic Station, 1884-7 ; Naval Dispensary, Washington, 1887- 
 90 ; special duty, December, 1890, to March, 1891 ; " Monongahela " (appren 
 tice-ship), March, 1891, to 1894 ; Torpedo Station, March, 1894. Promoted 
 to Medical Inspector, March, 1895 ; ordered to Navy Yard, New York, Sep 
 tember, 1895 ; Fleet Surgeon, "Olympia," September, 18$7, to date. 
 
 M. C. Drennan. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed as Acting Assistant 
 Surgeon in 1863 ; and served in Blockading Squadron during liebellion. 
 Appointed Assistant Surgeon in 1868 ; practice-ship " Macedonian," 1869 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1869-70 ; Naval Academy, 1871 ; " Nantasket," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1871-2. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 1872 ; " Pawnee," North Atlantic Station, 1874 ; u Ashuelot," Asiatic Fleet, 
 1875-7 ; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, 1877-8 ; Naval Station, New London, 
 January, 1879-82. Promoted to Surgeon, April, 1879; " Kearsarge," 
 European Station, 1882-5 ; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 1885-7 ; " At 
 lanta," special service, 1888-91 ; leave of absence, October, 1891, to July, 
 1892 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, July, 1892, to April, 1893 ; receiving-ship 
 " Vermont," April, 1893, to 1895. Promoted to Medical Inspector, May, 
 1895 ; ordered to the " New York," August, 1895, to February, 1898 ; wait 
 ing orders, March, 1898, to date. 
 
 James Albert Hawke. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon, June 24, 1866 ; Naval Academy, Philadelphia, 1867-8 ; " Dacotah," 
 Pacific Fleet, 1869-70; "St. Mary s," Pacific Fleet, 1870-2. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1872; " Wasp," South Atlantic Fleet, 1873-6; 
 Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1875-8. Promoted to Surgeon, May, 1879; 
 "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1880-2; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1883-5 ; 
 " Essex," Asiatic Station, 1886-9 ; Naval Hospital, Widow s Island, January, 
 1894; waiting orders, to April, 1894; U.S. receiving-ship "Independence," 
 April, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Baltimore," August, 1894-6. Promoted to Medical 
 Inspector, June, 1895 ; U. S S. " Philadelphia," January, 1896-7 ; leave of 
 absence, June, 1897 ; Navy Yard, New York, August, 1897, to date. 
 
 Robert Augustine Marmion. Born in Virginia. Appointed from 
 West Virginia, Assistant Surgeon, March 26, 1868 ; Naval Hospital, New 
 York, September, 1868, to April, 1869 ; U. S. S. " Galena," April to June, 
 1869 ; " Ossipee," Pacific Fleet, July to September, 1869 ; " Cyane," Pacific 
 Fleet, September, 1869, to August, 1871 ; " Pensacola," Pacific Fleet, August, 
 1871; " Saranac," Pacific Fleet, September, 1871, to April, 1872. Exam 
 ined, October, 1872. and promoted to be Passed Assistant Surgeon, to take 
 rank from March 26, 1871 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C ., July, 1872, 
 to August, 1873; "Alaska," European Fleet, August, 1873, to October, 
 1876 ; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass, June, 1877; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 
 California, September, 1878, to October, 1879. Promoted to Surgeon, June 
 3,1879; "Portsmouth," training ship, October, 1879, to November, 1882; 
 Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps, December, 1882, to December, 1885 ; 
 "Juniata," around the world, January, 1886, to March, 1889 ; receiving-ship 
 " Franklin," April to June, 1889 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., June, 1889, to 
 August, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., August 15, 1891, to February, 
 1894 ; special duty, Smithsonian Institution, February, 1894, to June, 1894 ; 
 
238 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Fleet Surgeon, South Atlantic Station, July, 1894, to June, 1896. Promoted 
 to Medical Inspector, June 15, 1895 ; member of Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, June, 1896, to July, 1896; Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., July, 
 1896, to date. 
 
 Dwight Dickinson. Bom in New York. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 April 21, 1869; " Yantic," N. A. Fleet, 1870-1; Naval Hospital, N. A., 
 1871-2. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1872 ; Naval Hospital, 
 Yokohama, 1872-6; S. S. "Jamestown," 1876-7; Navy Yard, Boston, 
 1877-8. Promoted to Surgeon, December, 1879; "Adams," Pacific Station, 
 1879-82 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 1883-5 ; training-ship " Ports 
 mouth," 1885-8; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 1888-9; Navy Yard, Mare 
 Island, 1890-92 ; waiting orders, March, 1892, to March, 1893 ; " Miantono- 
 mah," N. A. Station, March, 1893-4 ; ordered to the "Minneapolis," Decem 
 ber, 1894. Promoted to Medical Inspector, September, 1895 ; member of 
 Retiring Board, February, 1896, to date. 
 
 William G. Farwell. Born in Canada. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 November 10, 1868; Naval Hospital, New York, 1869; "Lancaster," S. A. 
 Station, 1869-72. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1872 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Philadelphia, 1873-4 ; " Pensacola," North Pacific Station, 1874- 
 76 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 1876-9; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," 
 1879-81. Promoted to Surgeon, January, 1881 ; Naval Station, New London, 
 1881 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 1882-5; U. S. S. "Kearsarge," Euro 
 pean Station, 1885-7; training-ship "Saratoga," 1887-8; receiving-ship 
 "Franklin," 1888-9; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1889, to December, 1892 ; 
 waiting orders, December, 1892, to June, 1893; receiving-ship "Franklin," 
 June, 1893-4; ordered to U. S. S. "Columbia," April, 1894-6. Promoted 
 to Medical Inspector, February, 1896 ; Marine Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 
 June, 1886 ; special duty in Philadelphia, August, 1896, to date. 
 
 John C. Wise. Born in Virginia. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, April 
 28, 1870 ; "Guerriere," European Station, 1870-72; Naval Hospital, 
 Philadelphia, 1873; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1874. Promoted to Passed Assist 
 ant Surgeon, 1874; S. S. "Despatch," 1875-9; training-ship "Minnesota," 
 1881 ; training-ship "New Hampshire," 1881-4. Promoted to Surgeon, Sep 
 tember, 1882; training-ship " Jamestown," 1884-7; Torpedo Station, 1887- 
 90 ; " Alliance," Asiatic Station, October, 1890, to July, 1893 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, D. C., July, 1893, to 1897. Promoted to Medical Inspector, 
 March, 1896 ; Fleet Surgeon on the " Baltimore," June, 1897, to date. 
 
 John L. Neilson. Born in Ohio. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, April 
 28, 1870; " Dictator" (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1870-71 ; Naval Hospital, 
 Philadelphia, 1872. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1873 ; " Tusca- 
 rora," Pacific Fleet, 1872-5 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1875-7 ; "Supply" 
 (store ship), Havre, 1877-9 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1879-81. Pro 
 moted to Surgeon, October, 1882 ; receiving-ship " New Hampshire," Naval 
 Academy and U. S. S. "Wyoming," 1881-83; U. S. S. "Ranger," Pacific 
 Station, 1883-6; receiving-ship "New Hampshire," 1886-9; training-ship 
 "Portsmouth," 1889 to April, 1892 ; member Board of Medical Examiners, 
 New York, April 1892, to 1894; Navy Yard, Boston, February, 1894-5; 
 U. S. receiving-ship " Wabash," July, 1895; U. S. S. "Maine," September, 
 1895-6 ; waiting orders, November, 1896. Promoted to Medical Inspector, 
 September, 1896; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., February, 1897; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 George P. Bradley. Born in Maine. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 September 7, 1870; "Severn," flag-ship, N. A. Station, 1870-1 ; Naval Hos- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 239 
 
 pital, Washington, 1872-3 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1874. Promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, 1874; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1876; "Hartford," N. A. 
 Station, 1876-7; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1880-2; "Alliance," N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1882-5. Promoted to Surgeon, August, 1883 ; Naval Hospital, Phila 
 delphia, 1885-7; "Mohican," Pacific Station, 1889, to October, 1891 ; re 
 ceiving-ship " Wabash," October, 1891, to 1894; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 August, 1894-5 ; U. S S. "Indiana," November, 1895, to 1897 ; Naval Hos 
 pital, Mare Island, May, 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles U. Gravatt. Born in Virginia. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 September 27, 1870; "Pawnee," N. A. Station, 1871 ; Na,val Hospital, Phil 
 adelphia, 1872 ; receiving-ship "Ohio," 1873, and receiving-ship "Indepen 
 dence," 1874. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1874; " Yantic," Asi 
 atic Station, 1875-7 ; receiving-ship " Wyoming," 1877 ; Naval Hospital, 
 Norfolk, 1877-80; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, 1880-2; Naval Hospital, 
 Chelsea, 1882-4. Promoted to Surgeon, November, 1883 ; "Michigan," 
 Northwestern lakes, 1884-8; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, 18^9 to 
 October, 1891; Naval Hospital, New York, October, 1891, to July, 1893 ; 
 special duty, Smithsonian Institute, July, 1893 ; receiving-ship " Dale," Jan 
 uary, 1894, to March, 1894; "Charleston," January, 1895, to July, 1896; 
 Naval Museum of Hygiene, January, 1897, to May, 1897 ; Fleet Surgeon, 
 European Station, June, 1897, to April, 1898 ; Fleet Surgeon, North At 
 lantic Squadron, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 Paul Fitzsimons. Born in Georgia. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, 
 December 19, 1871 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1872, two months; 1872, 
 " Saranac," Pacific Fleet, six months ; 1872-4, " Pensacola," same station, 
 and " Tuscarora," same fleet, 1875. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 1875 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1876 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1878- 
 79-80 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1880 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," 
 1881-2 ; " Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1882-3. Promoted to Sur 
 geon, March 4, 1884; R. S. "Franklin," 1884-86; receiving-ship "Minne 
 sota," New York, 1886; "Marion," Asiatic Station, 1887-90; Torpedo 
 Station, Newport, R. I., 1890-93 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, November, 
 1893, to June, 1894 ; in charge Naval Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, 1894-7. 
 Promoted to Medical Inspector, October 19, 1897 ; Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, November 8, 1897, to March 15, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Brooklyn," March 
 15, 1898. 
 
 SURGEONS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 William S. Dixon. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed Assist 
 ant Surgeon, January 27, 1871 ; " Wachusett," European Station, 1871-3 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, 1874-5 ; receiving-ship "Independence," 1875 
 -7. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1875 ; " Powhatan," North At 
 lantic Station, 1877-9 ; special duty, Washington, 1879-82 ; Coast S. S. 
 " Hassler," 1883-5. Promoted to Surgeon, June, 1884 ; Marine Rendezvous, 
 New York, 1886-7 ; special duty, Baltimore, 1887-9; " Boston," Squadron 
 of Evolution, 1889-91; waiting orders, December, 1891, to April, 1892; 
 special duty, Smithsonian Institute, April, 1892, to January, 1893 ; Naval 
 Dispensary, Washington, D. C., July, 1893-96 ; U. S. S. " Brooklyn," De 
 cember, 1896-98 ; May, 1898, Medical Inspector Naval Academy, May, 1898. 
 
 Charles A. Siegfried. Born in Northampton County, Pa. Appointed 
 Assistant Surgeon, June 8, 1872 ; " Richmond," West Indies and Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1872-5. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1875 ; Naval Hospital, 
 N. Y., 1876-7; receiving-ship "Wyoming," Washington, 1877; "Alert," 
 
240 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; James River iron-clads, 1881 ; receiving-ship 
 "Colorado," N. Y.,.1882; training-ship "Saratoga," 1882-4; Naval Hospi 
 tal, N. Y., 1884-6. Promoted to Surgeon, January, 1885 ; " Quinnebaug," 
 European Station, 1887-9 ; Naval Training Station, Newport, 1889 ; train 
 ing-ship " Richmond," December, 1889, to December, 1893 ; leave of absence, 
 December, 1893-94; U. S. S. "Cincinnati;" U. S. S. "Texas;" "Massa 
 chusetts," June, 1894-97; Torpedo Station, April, 1897, to date. 
 
 Remus C. Persons. Born in Alabama. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 March 5, 1872 ;. Naval Hospital, Mare Island, April, 1872-3 ; store-ship " On 
 ward," Callao, 1872-5. Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1875 ; receiving-ship 
 "Sabine," 1876; "Montauk," "Passaic" and "Wyandotte," 1877; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1877-9; Coast Survey steamer " Blake," 1879-82 ; re 
 ceiving-ship "Wyandotte," 1882-4; training-ship "Saratoga," 1884-7. Pro 
 moted to Surgeon, 1885 ; in charge of Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, 
 Ark., May to November, 1888 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1888-90 ; waiting 
 orders, October, 1890, to February, 1891 ; " Concord," N. A. Station, Feb 
 ruary, 1891, to June, 1893 ; leave of absence, June, 1893, to August, 1893 ; 
 R. S. " Minnesota," August, 1893, to 1895 ; special duty, Naval Hospital, N. 
 Y., October, 1895, to date. 
 
 Nelson McP. Ferebee. Born in North Carolina. Appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon, September 12, 1872 ; " Portsmouth" and " Pensacola," Pacific Fleet, 
 1872-5 ; especially commended in letter to the Navy Department by command 
 ing officer of " Pensacola " for attention and care of sick during prevalence 
 of fever on that ship, at Panama, in 1873. Promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Surgeon, 1875; receiving-ship " Worcester " and Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 
 1876-7; training-ship " Minnesota," 1878; "Jamestown," at Sitka, Alaska, 
 1879-81 ; established a hospital and free dispensary for Indians and poor 
 whites at Sitka; Hospital and Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1882-3; "Trenton," 
 Asiatic Station, 1884-6. Promoted to Surgeon, March 12, 1886; receiving- 
 ship " Franklin," 1887-9 ; " Essex," S. A. Station, April, 1890, to July, 1891 ; 
 "Atlanta," S. A. Station, and Naval Review Fleet, October, 1891, to July, 
 1893 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., July, 1893-7 ; " Indiana," March, 1897, 
 to date. 
 
 Franklin Rogers. Born in Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, March 
 29, 1872 ; " Tallapoosa," 1872 ; " Juniata," 1873 to 1876. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, in 1876 ; " Minnesota," 1876-7 ; receiving-ship 
 " Franklin," 1877-8 ; C. S. steamer " Gedney," 1878-9; receiving-ship "St. 
 Louis," 1879-81; "Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1881-4; Naval Academy, 
 1884-6; Marine Rendezvous, New York, 1887; "Alliance," S. A. Station, 
 1887-9; special duty, Norfolk, 1889 to July, 1891 ; Naval Hospital, Yoko 
 hama, Japan, July, 1891, to 1894; U. S receiving-ship " Wabash," Decem 
 ber, 1894; Navy Yard, Boston, July, 1895-7; waiting orders, October, 
 1897-8 ; May, 1898, U. S. S. " Monterey," to date. 
 
 James R. Waggener. Born in Kentucky. Appointed Assistant Sur 
 geon, July 29, 1872 ; " Vermont," 1872-3 ; " Worcester," N. A. Station, 
 1873-5 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1875-7. Promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Surgeon, 1875; to Surgeon, March, 1887; "Despatch," special service, 
 1878-9; receiving-ship "Wabash," 1879-80; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 
 1880-1; iron-clads, James River, 1881-2; school-ship "St. Mary s," 
 1882-4; "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1884-6; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 
 1886-7 ; recruiting-ship " Minnesota," 1887-9 ; Kearsarge," N. A. Station, 
 August, 1890, to December, 1892 ; waiting orders, December, 1892, to 
 March, 1893; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., March, 1893, to July, 1893; 
 
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 Nautical school-ship " St. Mary s," July, 1893, to 1894 ; training-ship " Ports 
 mouth," May, 1894-5 ; U. S. receiving-ship "Independence," April, 1895 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, November, 1895, to date. 
 
 Thomas H. Streets. Born in Delaware. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 April 12, 1872; "Portsmouth," Pacific Fleet, 1872-5. Promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, 1876 ; special duty, Smithsonian Institution, 1876-7 ; 
 "Speedwell" N. A. Station, 1877-8; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, 1878-80; 
 Asiatic Station, 1880-1 ; special duty, Washington, 1881-4; C. S. S. "Pat 
 terson," 1884-7. Promoted to Surgeon, May, 1887 ; member of Examining 
 Board, New York, 1888-91; " Benuington," S. A. Station, June, 1891, to 
 1894 ; leave of absence, June, 1894 ; member Medical Examining Board, 
 New York, November, 1894, to March, 1898 ; April, 1898, U. S. S. " Solace," 
 to date. 
 
 Manly H. Simons. Born in State of New York. Resident of State of 
 Ohio. Appointed. May 28, 1872. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 1876; Surgeon, August, 1887; N. A. Fleet "Powhatan" and "Congress," 
 July, 1872, to April, 1875; "Congress," while at Key West, January to 
 March, 1874, during Cuban trouble : U. S. receiving-ship " Ohio " and 
 Navy Yard, Boston, April, 1875, to May, 1877 ; U. S. receiving-ship "Col 
 orado," September, 1877, to April, 1878; C. S. steamer "Bache," April, 
 1878, to September, 1880 ; Navy Yard, Boston, January, 1881, to October, 
 1882; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, October, 1882, to April, 1883; Naval Hos 
 pital, Yokohama, June, 1883, to February, 1884; Asiatic Fleet, "Alert," 
 February, 1884, to September, 1886 ; Naval Academy, December, 1886, to 
 September, 1888; Naval Hospital, Widows Island, October, 1888-90; " En 
 terprise," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to November, 1891; "Mohican," Pa 
 cific Station, November, 1891, to December, 1893 ; Naval Hospital, Widows 
 Island, Maine, December, 1893 ; special duty, Portsmouth, December, 1893 ; 
 Torpedo Station, February, 1896; U. S. S. "Iowa," June, 1897, to date. 
 
 John C. Boyd. Born in South Carolina. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 April 3, 1873 ; " Fortune," N. A. Station, 1873-4 ; practice-ship " Constella 
 tion," 1875 ; receiving-ship " Potomac," 1876. Promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Surgeon, 1876; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1877; "Guard" (store-ship), 
 1877-80; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1880-1; "Lancaster," European 
 Station, 188 1-4;. Navy Yard, Washington, 1884-5; Bureau of Medicine 
 and Surgery, 1885-9. Promoted to Surgeon, September, 1887 ; " Yorktown," 
 Squadron of Evolution, 1889, to December, 1891 ; Bureau of Medicine and 
 Surgery, December, 1891, to April, 1892 ; Assistant Bureau of Medicine and 
 Surgery, April, 1892, to date. 
 
 George E. H. Harmon. Born in Maryland. Appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon, December 20, 1873 ; Naval Academy, 1874 ; " Franklin," flag-ship, 
 European Station, 1874-6 ; Naval Academy, 1877-9. Promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, 1877; training-ship "Minnesota," 1879-81; "Alert," 
 Asiatic Station, 1881-2 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1882-3 ; " Michigan " 
 (N. W. Lakes), 1883-4; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va , 1884; Naval Academy, 
 1884-5; " Pensacola," European Station, 1885-8. Promoted to Surgeon, 
 March, 1888; Naval Academy, 1888, to September, 1891; "Yorktown," 
 Pacific Station, September, 1891, to April, 1894; practice-ship " Mononga- 
 hela," to September, 1894 ; leave of absence, to March, 1895 ; Naval Dis 
 pensary, Washington, to April, 1896 ; Naval Academy, April. 1896, to date. 
 
 Howard Wells. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 December 12, 1873; "Colorado," N. A. Station, 1874; "Worcester," N. A. 
 Fleet, 1875 ; " Hartford," N. A. Fleet, 1875-7. Promoted to Passed Assist- 
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242 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ant Surgeon, 1876 ; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, 1877-8 ; training-ship " Con 
 stitution," 1879-81 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1882-4 ; " Monongahela," 
 store-ship, 1884-5; "Hartford," Pacific Station, 1885-6; January to May, 
 1887, U. S receiving-ship "Independence;" training-ship "Jamestown," 
 1887-8. Promoted to Surgeon, June, 1888; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1888 
 to September, 1891 ; special duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., Septem 
 ber, 1891, to May, 1892; training-ship "Portsmouth," May, 1892, to 1894; 
 " Montgomery," September, 1894 ; leave of absence, April, 1895 ; U. S. receiv 
 ing-ship " Vefmont," August, 1895 ; Member Medical Examining Board, 
 N. Y., January, 1897, to date. 
 
 Daniel N. Bertolette. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon, June 23, 1873 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 1873 ; "Worcester," 
 N. A. Station, 1873-6; "Constellation," practice-cruise, 1876. Promoted 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1877 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1877-8 ; Naval 
 Hospital, New York, 18T8-9 ; "Wyoming," European Station, 1879-80; 
 "Trenton," European Station, 1881; Naval Academy, 1881-4; "Dale," 
 practice-cruise, 1884; " Dolphin," 1884; "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1885- 
 87; " Thetis," Pacific Station, 1887-9. Surgeon, September, 1888; receiv 
 ing-ship " Franklin," 1889 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1889-90 ; World s 
 Columbian Exposition, December, 1890, to December, 1893; U. S. S. "At 
 lanta," N. A. Station, 1894-5; U. S. S. "Minneapolis," European Station, 
 1895-7 ; Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps, Washington, 1897 to date. 
 
 Ezra Z. Derr. Born in Maryland. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 March 3, 1873 ; Naval Academy, April, 1873 ; "Constellation," N. A. Station, 
 June, 1873; monitor " Manhattan," N. A. Station, 1873-4; "Hartford," 
 Asiatic Station, 1874; "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1875-6. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1877; training-ship "Constitution," N. A. and 
 European Stations, 1877-8; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1879; Naval Hos 
 pital, Norfolk, Va., 1879-80-81; coast-survey steamer " Bache," 1881-4; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1884-7 ; " Nipsic," Pacific Station, 1887-90. Pro 
 moted to Surgeon, September 15, 1888. On board " Nipsic " during hurricane 
 at Samoa, March 15, 1889 ; receiving-ship "Minnesota," New York, 1890-3; 
 Navy Yard, League Island, Pa., November 1, 1893 ; President Naval Ex 
 amining Board, League Island, December, 1893-94 ; " Raleigh," N. A. 
 Station, April 14, 1894-6. "Columbia," N. A. Station, July 6, 1896-7; 
 Naval Recruiting Office, New York, June 27, 1897, to date. 
 
 Franklin Bache Stephenson. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed 
 Assistant Surgeon, March 14, 1873; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1873-6. 
 Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1877 ; " Shenandoah," S. A. Station, 
 1879-82 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1882-3 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1883-4 ; 
 C. S. S. " Bache," 1884-7 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1887-8. Promoted to Sur 
 geon, September, 1888 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1888-90 ; waiting orders, 
 November, 1890, to April, 1891 ; " Marion," Asiatic Station, April, 1891, to 
 July 9, 1894 ; July, 1894, Marine Rendezvous, Boston ; August, 1894, to 
 September, 1895 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," September, 1895, to June, 1897 ; 
 Marine Rendezvous, Boston, June, 1897, to the present time. 
 
 Presley Marion Rixey, M. D. Born in Culpeper County, Va., July 
 14, 1852. Appointed Assistant Surgeon January 28, 1874 ; " Sabine," 1874 ; 
 "Congress," European Station, 1874-6; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 
 1876-7. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1877 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1877-9; " Tallapoosa," special service, 1879-81 ; special duty, Washington, 
 1882-4 ; " Lancaster," European and South Atlantic Station, 1884-7 ; spe 
 cial duty, Washington, 1887-93. Promoted to Surgeon, November, 1888 ; 
 
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 "Dolphin," special service, February, 1893, to December, 1895 ; special duty, 
 Washington, April, 1896, to date. Graduate University of Virginia, 1873. 
 
 W. A. McClurg. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, February 8, 1874, 
 Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, June 12 to November 18, 1874; U. S. F. S. 
 "Pensacola," N. P. Station, November 18, 1874, to February 16, 1875; 
 " Tuscarora," February 16, 1875, to September 14, 1876; U. S. S. "Ply 
 mouth," N. A. Station, January 26, 1877, to July 7, 1877; store-ship "New 
 Hampshire," Port Royal, S. C., December 10, 1877, to January 6, 1879 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, January 6, 1879, to December 2, 1879; 
 U. S. S. "Tennessee," N. A. Station, December 2, 187^, to December 2, 
 1882; Naval Academy, Annapolis, December 7, 1882, to May, 1883; 
 practice-ship "Dale," May to September 1, 1883; Naval Academy, Septem 
 ber 1,1883, to October 7,1884; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, October 7, 
 1884, to January 6, 1886; " Tallapoosa," S A. Station, January 6, 1886, to 
 March 7, 1889 ; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, June 1, 1889, to June, 
 1893. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, November 2, 1877 ; to Surgeon, 
 January 25, 1889; " Concord," Asiatic Station, June, 1893, to 1896; Member 
 of Medical Examining Board, July, 1896, to 1898; U. S. Receiving-ship, 
 " Richmond," April, 1898, to date. 
 
 C. G. Herndon. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, May 3, 
 
 1874. Passed Assistant Surgeon, March 26, 1878; " Canandaigua," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1874-7 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1877-8 ; Asiatic Station, 
 1878-81; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1881-3; Fish Commission steamer 
 "Albatross," 1883-4 ; special duty, Washington, 1884-7 ; " Enterprise," 
 European Station, 1887-90; Marine Rendezvous, New York, October 1890, 
 to June, 1893. Promoted to Surgeon, February 8, 1890 ; Bureau of Medi 
 cine and Surgery, June, 1893, to 1895 ; U. S. S. " Lancaster," September, 
 1895 ; sick leave, February, 1897 ; waiting orders, November, 1897 ; U. S. S. 
 " Columbia," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 L. G. Heneberger Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, 
 June 17, 1874. Passed Assistant Surgeon, November 9, 1877 ; Naval Hospi 
 tal, Mare Island, Cal, 1874-5 ; "Pansacola," North Pacific Station, 1875-7 ; 
 iron-clads, James River, 1878 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1878-9 ; " Tren 
 ton," European Station, 1879-81 ; Naval Hospital and Museum of Hygiene, 
 Washington, 1882 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1883-4; " Despatch," special 
 service, 1884-7; Naval Hospital, New York, 1887-8; special duty, New 
 York city (attending physician to officers families), 1888; "Minnesota," 
 recruiting and training-ship, New York Harbor, 1888-9 ; " Iroquois," Pacific 
 Station, 1889, to May, 1892. Promoted to Surgeon, May 5, 1890 ; leave of 
 absence, May, 1892, to May, 1893; special duty, New York, July, 1893, to 
 1896; U. S. S. "Maine," November, 1896; Bureau of Medicine and Sur 
 gery, March, 1898; U. S. S. "St. Paul," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 E. H. Green. Appointed from Indiana. Assistant Surgeon, March 11, 
 
 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, November 22, 1878; "Swatara," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1875-8; leave of absence, 1879; "Swatara," Asiatic Sta 
 tion, 1880-2; Museum of Hygiene, 1883-4; Greely Relief Expedition U. S. 
 S. " Thetis," April, 1 884, to November, 1884 ; Museum of Hygiene, 1885-6 ; 
 Naval Laboratory, New York, 1886-7; "Alert," Pacific Station, 1887-90; 
 receiving-ship " Dale," May, 1890, to 1894 ; promoted to Surgeon, November 
 11, 1890; U. S. S. " Marblehead," April, 1894; Naval Dispensary, January, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 S. H. Dickson. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
 March, 19, 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, April 30, 1880; S. A. Station, 
 
244 RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1875 ; " Gettysburg," special service, 1876-8 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1878- 
 80 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1881-2 ; Asiatic Station, 1882-5 ; practice 
 ship " Constellation," 1885-7 ; R. S. " Dale," 1887-9 ; " Atlanta," Squadron 
 of Evolution, 1889-90. Promoted to Surgeon, October 5, 1890; leave of 
 absence and waiting orders, December 17, 1890, to May 6, 1891 ; May 18, 
 
 1891, ordered as Surgeon on " Constellation ;" detached, September 1, 1891 ; 
 waiting orders to October 5, 1891 ; Marine Headquarters, Washington, Octo 
 ber 5, 1891, to 1894; waiting orders, December, 1894; member Medical 
 Examining Board, May, 1895; U. S. S. "Texas," July, 1896; U. S. S. 
 " Massachusetts," July, 1896, to date. 
 
 D. O. Lewis. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, April 
 8, 1874. Passed Assistant Surgeon, November 22, 1878 ; " Plymouth," N. A. 
 Station, 1874-7 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 1877-8 ; U. S. R. S. "In 
 dependence," 1879-80 ; U.. S. S. " Jamestown," Alaska, 1880-81 ; U. S. C. S. 
 steamer " G. McArthur," 1881-3; Recruiting Office, San Francisco, Cal., 
 1883-5; C. S. steamer " Hassler," 1885-8; U. S. Naval Academy, 1889; 
 U. S. Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., June, 1889, to April, 1892. Pro 
 moted to Surgeon, January 22, 1891 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, April, 
 
 1892, to June, 1893; Navy Yard, Mare Island, June, 1893, to November, 
 1893; "Mohigan," Pacific Station, November, 1893, to 1896; U. S. S. 
 " Marion," January, 1896 ; Marine Rendezvous, Philadelphia, June, 1897 ; 
 member of Examining Board, Philadelphia, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 H. E. Ames. Appointed from Maryland. Assistant Surgeon, April 10, 
 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, June 6, 1878; "Richmond," S. Pacific 
 Station, 1875-7; receiving-ship "Passaic," 1878-80; training ship "Sara 
 toga," 1880-3 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1883-4; special duty, Baltimore, 
 1885-6 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1886-9 ; Museum of Hygiene, March, 
 1890, to November, 1893. Promoted to Surgeon, March, 19,1891 ; Torpedo 
 Station, November, 1893-4 ; ordered to U. S. S " Montgomery," June, 1894; 
 " Detroit," January, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Cincinnati," 1897 ; Navy Yard, Nor 
 folk, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 L. B. Baldwin. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
 May 1, 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, May 6, 1879; Naval Hospital, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1875; U. 8. S. "Lehigh," 1876; " Palos," Asiatic Station, 
 1877-8 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1879 ; U. S. Naval Hospital, Wash 
 ington, D. C., 1879-80 ; U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., practice-ships 
 "Mayflower" and "Standish," 1881; U. S. flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific 
 Station, 1881-4; U. S. receiving-ship " Wabash," Boston, Mass.. 1884; U S. 
 Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., 1885 ; U. S. Naval Hospital. Mare Island, 
 Cal., 1885 and 1886; U. S. S. " Ranger/ North Pacific Survey, 1868-9 ; 
 U. S. S. "Michigan," on the lakes, 1890, to December, 1893. Promoted to, 
 Surgeon, September 22, 1891 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, December, 1893 ; U. 
 S. Navy Yard and Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, December, 1893, to April, 
 1895; U.S. S. "Montgomery," 1895; U. S. S. "Cincinnati," 1895-6; U. 
 S. S. Newark," 1896 ; U- S. S. " Puritan, 1897, to March 17, 1898. 
 
 Frank Anderson. Appointed from New York. Assistant Surgeon, 
 May 24, 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, November 22, 1878 ; Naval Hos 
 pital, Chelsea, 1875-6 ; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1876-8 ; receiving-ship 
 "Wabash," 1878-80; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1880-3; Navy 
 Yard, New York, 1884-6 ; " Richmond," N. A. Station, 1887-8 ; " Dolphin," 
 Squadron of Evolution, 1888-90; Naval Dispensary, Washington, D C., 
 October, 1890-95. Promoted to Surgeon, November 14, 1891 ; ordered to 
 the "Ampbitrite," April, 1895; "Dolphin," 1895; Naval Hospital, Yoko 
 hama, August, 1897, to date. 
 
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 P. A. Levering. Appointed from Massachusetts. Assistant Surgeon, 
 June 18, 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, December 10, 1878 ; receiving-ship 
 "Ohio," 1875; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1875; monitor " Nantasket," 
 1875-6; monitor "Ajax," 1876; " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1876-8; 
 Naval Hospital, New York, 1878 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1879-81 ; 
 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1881 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1881-2 ; 
 " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1883-4; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 
 1884-5; receiving-ship "Wabash," 1885; Navy Yard, New York, 1886; 
 ship "Brooklyn," Asiatic Station, 1886-9; receiving-ship "Wabash," 1889-90; 
 "Philadelphia," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to October, 192. Promoted to 
 Surgeon, December 4, 1891 ; Marine Rendezvous, Boston, October, 1892, to 
 March, 1893 ; Naval Hospital, New York, March, 1893-6 ; U. S. S " Oregon," 
 July, 1896, to date. 
 
 W. R. DuBose. Native of and appointed from Georgia. Assistant 
 Surgeon, October 16, 1875; Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., 1875-6; 
 "Trenton, European Station, 1877-9; receiving-ship "Wabash," Boston 
 Yard, 1879; Naval Hospital, New York, 1879-80. Promoted Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, February, 1879 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1880-2; 
 "Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1882-5; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1885-8 ; 
 "Jamestown," 1888-91; Naval Academy, 1891-6. Promoted Surgeon, 
 November 1, 1892; U. S. S. " Terror," April, 1896; "Texas," 1897, to date. 
 
 Charles T. Hibbett Born in Simmer County, Tennessee, November 
 20, 1851. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon, January 15, 1875 ; first duty at 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. ; first cruise on North Atlantic Station, 
 1875-7 ; on board store-ship " Pawnee," monitors and U. S. flag-ship " Hart 
 ford ; " attached to U. S. S. receiving-ship " Franklin," from November, 1878, 
 to June, 1880. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, April 30, 1880 ; 
 made practice cruise with midshipmen on board U. S. S. " Constellation," 
 during summer of 1880; on board U. S. S. "Onward," at Callao, Peru, 
 1881-3; U. S. S. Ajax," at City Point, Va., 1884-6; made last cruise on 
 board U. S. flag-ship " Lancaster," in S. A. and Mediterranean Stations ; 
 U. S. receiving-ship " Franklin," October, 1889, to July, 1893. Promoted 
 Surgeon, December 26, 1892 ; " Detroit," S. A. Station, July, 1893 ; ordered 
 to the " Bennington," July, 1894; Navy Yard, Norfolk, December, 1896; 
 U. S. receiving-ship " Independence," February, 1897, to date 
 
 N. H. Drake. Appointed from New Jersey. Assistant Surgeon, Feb 
 ruary 26, 1876. Panned Assistant Surgeon, July 6, 1880 ; " Hartford," S. A. 
 Station, 1877-80 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1880-2 ; " Tennessee," N. A. 
 Station, 1882-5; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, 1886-7; nautical school-ship 
 "St. Mary s," 1887-8; C. S. steamer "Hassler," 1888-90; Fish Commission 
 steamer "Albatross," September, 1890, to December, 1891. Promoted to 
 Surgeon, March 4, 1893; waiting orders, December, 1891, to July, 1892; 
 Navy Yard, New York, July, 1892, to April, 1893 ; Marine Rendezvous, 
 New York, April, 1893-4; U. S. receiving-ship "Franklin," August, 1894; 
 U. S. S. "Cincinnati," June, 1896; U. S. S. "Minneapolis," July, 1897, to 
 date. 
 
 H. G. Beyer. Appointed from New York. Assistant Surgeon, May 19, 
 1876. Passed Assistant Surgeon, April 30, 1880 ; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, 
 1876-7; monitor " Passaic," July to August, 1877; training-ship "Ports 
 mouth." 1877-9; U. S. receiving ship "Colorado," New York, 1879-80; 
 special duty, Washington, D. C. 1881-2; C. S. steamer " Blake," 1882-4; 
 special duty, Smithsonian Institute, 1884-7 ; U. S. flagship "Trenton," 1887- 
 88; training-ship "Portsmouth," 1889; "Yantic" (training-ship), 1889-91. 
 
246 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Promoted to Surgeon, May 19, 1893 ; Naval Academy, October, 1891 ; U. S. 
 S. " Raleigh," June 6, 1896, to December 23, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Newark," from 
 December 23, 1896, to March 17,1897; U. S- S. " Amphitrite," August 2, 
 
 1897, to date. 
 
 John M. Steele. Appointed June, 1875, as an Assistant Surgeon; first 
 duty at the Naval Hospital, New York ; detached in November, 1875 ; at 
 tached to the U. S. monitor " Catskill," until July, 1876 ; in July, 1877, 
 ordered to the U. S. steamer " Pensacola," at San Francisco ; remained on 
 this vessel until November, 1878 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1879. 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, April, 1880 ; shortly after promotion he was de 
 tached from the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, and ordered to the U. S. 
 monitor " Passaic," receiving-ship at Washington ; continued on this duty 
 until October, 1881 ; placed on waiting orders, preparatory for sea duty ; 
 joined the U. S. steamer " Brooklyn," in November, 1881, at New York, and 
 sailed shortly after for the South Atlantic Station ; remained on the " Brook 
 lyn " during her cruise in the South Atlantic, and was detached in October, 
 1884 ; in November, 1884, ordered to the Naval Hospital, New York, and 
 remained until March, 1885; detached and ordered to the Naval Academy, 
 Annapolis, Md. ; remained on duty at the Academy until November, 1886, 
 when detached and granted six months leave ; ordered to the Naval Hospi 
 tal, Philadelphia, in March, 1887, and in March, 1888, detached and ordered 
 to the U. S. Coast Survey steamer " Bache," where he remained until June, 
 1891; Nautical school-ship " Saratoga," June, 1891, to December, 1892; 
 receiving-ship "St. Louis," December, 1892-4- Promoted to Surgeon, May 
 11, 1893; Navy Yard, League Island, May, 1894; Marine Recruiting Ren 
 dezvous, New York, December, 1894; Torpedo Station, October, 1895; U. 
 S. S. " Monadnock," February, 1896, to date. 
 
 J. E. Gardner. Appointed from Kentucky. Assistant Surgeon, July 
 3, 1876. Passed Assistant Surgeon, July 6, 1880 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 
 1876-8 ; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1878-80 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1880-1 ; 
 "Lancaster," European Station, 1881-4; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1885-7; 
 Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," 1887-90; waiting orders, December, 
 1890, to October, 1891. Promoted to Surgeon, August 15, 1893; Naval 
 Station, New London, October, 1891, to 1895 ; U. S. S. "Amphitrite," Decem 
 ber, 1895; waiting orders, November, 1897; U. S. S. "Dolphin," March, 
 
 1898, to date. 
 
 Millard Henry Crawford. Born in Mt. Crawford, Va. Educated 
 at the University of New York. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, 
 November 1, 1876 Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, November 1, 
 1879. Promoted to Surgeon, August 20, 1893; served on U. S. S. " Tus- 
 carora," from 1877-9; cruising and surveying on the west coast of Mexico 
 and Central America ; attached to U. S. S. " Tallapoosa," and U. S. S. 
 " Shenandoah," from 1882-6 ; cruising in South Atlantic and South Pacific 
 Stations ; attached to U. S. S. " Vandalia " and U. S. S. " Monongahela," 
 from 1887-90; was attached to the U. S. S. "Monongahela " on her cruise 
 to the Samoan Islands, and thence from San Francisco to New York via 
 Cape Horn ; in charge of U. S. recruiting rendezvous at San Francisco, 
 CaL, from November, 1890, to November, 1894; training-ship " Constella 
 tion," October, 1894; U S. S. " Boston," November, 1895, to date. ^ 
 
 George Peebles Lumsden. Appointed from Virginia. Commissioned 
 Assistant Surgeon, November 2, 1876 ; served on the " Minnesota," at New 
 York, February, 1877, to December, 1877 ; "Fortune," December, 1877, to 
 April, 1879; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, April, 1879, to June, 1879 ; U. S. S. 
 
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 " Ajax," and monitors, James River, June, 1879, to December, 1879 ; Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, dates from November 2, 1879 ; Naval Academy, May, 
 1880, to January, 1882 ; flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific Station, February, 
 1882, to June, 1884 ; receiving-ship and Naval Hospital, Washington, July, 
 1884, to April, 1886; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, August, 1886, to 
 November, 1886 ; U. S. S. " Boston," August, 1887, to October, 1890 ; U. S. 
 monitors, Richmond, Va., 1891-93 ; "Kearsarge," N. A. Station, December, 
 1893 to 1894. Promoted to Surgeon, May, 1894; Ordered to the "York- 
 town," April, 1894; Naval Station, Port Royal, June, 1897; special duty, 
 Norfolk, October, 1897; U. S. R. S. " Franklin," to date. 
 
 E. H. Marsteller. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, 
 January 12, 1876. Passed Assistant Surgeon, October 11, 1880; "Talla- 
 poosa," special service, 1877-9 ; Naval Academy, 1879-80 ; Naval Hospital, 
 Philadelphia, 1880-3; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1884; " Iroquois," 
 Pacific Station, 1884-6 ; iron-clads, City Point, 1887-9 ; " Adams," Pacific 
 Station, 1889-90; "Petrel," N. A. Station, November, 1890, to October, 
 1891 ; special duty, Baltimore, Md., October, 1891, to March, 1892 ; Naval 
 Academy, March, 1892, to 1894. Promoted to Surgeon, June, 1894 ; ordered 
 to school-ship "St. Mary s," May, 1894; U. S. S. "Raleigh," December, 
 1896, to date. 
 
 William H. Rush. Appointed from Pennsylvania as Assistant Surgeon, 
 February 13, 1877 Passed Assistant Surgeon, April 28, 1881 ; " Constella 
 tion," special service, 1877-8 ; iron-clads, James River, 1878-9 ; receiving- 
 ship "St. Louis," 1879-80; gunnery training-ship "Minnesota," 1880-4; 
 special duty, 1885-8; school-ship "Saratoga," 1889-91; " Yantic," S. A. 
 Station, September, 1891-4; leave of absence, June, 1894 Promoted to 
 Surgeon, November, 1894; Navy Yard, League Island, December, 1894; 
 U. S. S. "Dixie," April, 1898; steamer "City of Pekin," May, 1898. 
 
 J. C. Byrnes. Appointed from District of Columbia. Assistant Surgeon, 
 November 2, 1876. Passed Assistant Surgeon, October 11, 1881 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Chelsea, 1877-8; "Plymouth," North Atlantic Station, 1878-81; 
 Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1881-2 ; Powhatan," special service, 1882-5 ; 
 special duty, Norfolk, Va , 1885-9 ; " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 
 1889-92; special duty, Norfolk, June, 1892-7. Promoted to Surgeon, Feb 
 ruary, 1895 ; U. S. S. "Cincinnati," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 S. H. Griffith. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, De 
 cember 15, 1877 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, December 15, 1880; "Alaska," 
 Pacific Station, 1878-80 ; special duty, Bureau of Medicine, July, 1881-3 ; 
 " Lancaster," European Station, 1884 5 ; "Lancaster," South Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1885-7 ; Museum of Hygiene, 1887-90 ; " Dolphin," Squadron of Evo 
 lution, April, 1890, to June, 1891 ; U. S. training-ship " Jamestown, June 1, 
 1891, to September 6,1892; "Constellation," September 6, 1892, to May, 
 1893; leave of absence, May, 1893, to November, 1893 ; Museum of Hy 
 giene, Washington, D. C., November, 1893, to March 26, 1898. Commis 
 sioned Surgeon, March 30, 1895 ; U. S. S. "Mayflower," March 29, 1898. 
 
 Averley Claude Holmes Russell. Assistant Surgeon, Ensign, June 3, 
 1879 ; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 30, 1879, to September 27, 
 1879 ; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California, October 10, 1879, to Decem 
 ber 3, 1879 ; U. S flag-ship "Pensacola," Pacific Station, January 3, 1880, 
 to February 7, 1882. Passed Assistant Burgeon (Junior Lieutenant), June 30, 
 1882 ; Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 15, 1882, to January 27,1883 ; 
 Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., January 30, 1883, to January 2, 1884 ; U. 
 S. S. "Ossipee," Asiatic Station, January 28, 1884, to March 11, 1887; 
 
248 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 went through cholera epidemic on that vessel, August and September of 
 1885 ; Naval Laboratory, Brooklyn, N. Y., May 2, 1887, to July 16, 1887 ; 
 Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., October 6, 1887, to January 15,1889; 
 summer cruise, U. S. S. " Constellation," with naval cadets, June 1, 1888, to 
 August 31, 1888; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass, January 21, 1889, to August 
 
 13, 1889; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, Japan, October 23, 1889, to Novem 
 ber 11,1892; Lieutenant^ May 28,1892; World s Columbian Exposition, 
 Chicago, 111., in charge of exhibit of Medical Department, U. S. Navy, model 
 battle-ship "Illinois," April 6, 1893, to December, 1893 ; member Medical 
 Examining Board and Instructor in Military and Operative Surgery and Re 
 cruiting, U. S. Naval Laboratory and Department of Instruction, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., January 27, 1894, to January 18, 1897 ; U. S. S. "Lancaster," South 
 Atlantic Station, February 27, 1897, to December 31, 1897 ; special duty, 
 Bureau Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, Washington, D. C , Feb 
 ruary 9, 1898, to April 15, 1898 ; U. S. flag-ship " San Francisco," Fleet Sur 
 geon, Northern Patrol Squadron, April 17, 1898, to date. 
 
 A. G. Cabell. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, February 
 
 14, 1876. Passed Assistant Surgeon, April 28, 1880-1 ; " Pensacola," North 
 Pacific Station, 1876-9; practice-ship "Constellation," 1881; " Palos," 
 Asiatic Station 1882-3; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1885-8; iron-clads, 
 Richmond, Va., 1889, to February, 1891 ; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, Feb 
 ruary, 1891, to November, 1893; leave of absence, November, 1893-4; U. 
 S. S. u Michigan," March, 1894. Promoted to Surgeon, June, 1895; leave 
 of absence, December, 1896; P. S. " Monongahela," May, 1897 ; sick-leave, 
 October, 1897 ; Puget Sound, Naval Station, March, 1898, to date. 
 
 Clement Biddle. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Entered service as 
 Assistant Surgeon, June, 1878. Promoted Passed Assistant Surgeon, June, 
 1882 ; served on the China Station in the following ships, making two 
 cruises there, viz : " Richmond," " Ashuelot," " Monocacy," " Palos " and 
 " Trenton," and at the Naval Hospital, Yokohama, Japan ; from March, 1889, 
 to January, 1892, served aboard the " Tallapoosa," in the River Platte, 
 South America. Shore Stations : Naval Hospital, Washington ; Naval Acad 
 emy; Navy Yard, League Island, Phila. ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, and 
 Marine Corps Recruiting Office, Philadelphia ; Marine Rendezvous, Phila 
 delphia, May, 1894; waiting orders, December, 1894; Naval Station, New 
 London, June, 1895. Promoted to Surgeon, July, 1895 ; practice-ship 
 "Monongahela," May, 1896 ; special duty, San Francisco, November, 1896; 
 U. S. S. " Newport, November, 1897-8 ; member of Board Naval Acad 
 emy, May, 1898, to date. 
 
 H. T. Percy. Born in Virginia. Appointed. Acting Assistant Surgeon, 
 May 31, 1873; " Canandaigua," 1873-4 ; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 1875-8. 
 Assistant Surgeon, June, 1879 ; Coast Survey steamer " McArthur," 1879-81 ; 
 Naval Hospital, New York, 1881-2. Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1882 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Norfolk, 1882-3; "Galena," N. A. Station, 1883-6; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1886-8 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., 1888-9 ; C. S. S. " Pat 
 terson," 1889-92 ; Naval Academy, Annapolis, member of Examining Board, 
 May 12, 1892, until June 20, 1892; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1892-5. 
 Surgeon, September, 1895 ; member of Examining Board, Washington, D. C. ; 
 1895-6 ; " Monterey," Pacific Station, 1896 to date. 
 
 James D. Gate wood. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, 
 July, 1880 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, July, 1883 ; Surgeon, February, 1896 ; 
 Museum of Hygiene, Washington, September, 1893 ; U. S. S. " Puritan," 
 March, 1898, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 249 
 
 Oliver Diehl. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, July, 
 1880 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, July, 1883 ; Surgeon, March, 1896 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Philadelphia, May, 1893-7; U. S. S. "Terror," April, 1897, to 
 date. 
 
 John M. Edgar. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
 July, 1881 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, July, 1884 ; Surgeon, November, 1896. 
 U. S. receiving ship -< St. Louis," October, 1893 ; U. S. receiving-ship " Rich 
 mond," 1894; school ship "Saratoga," May, 1895; U. S. receiving-ship 
 " Vermont," December, 1896; U. S. S. "Prairie," March, 1898; U. S. S. 
 " Panther," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Philip Leach. Appointed from Illinois. Assistant Sdrgeon, July, 1881 ; 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, July, 1884; Surgeon, November, 1896. IT. S. S. 
 "Monocacy," December, 1891 ; leave of absence, June, 1895; Naval Labora 
 tory, New York, November, 1895 ; Naval Hospital, New York, June 1896, 
 to date. 
 
 Lloyd Curtis. Appointed from New Jersey. Assistant Surgeon, July, 
 1882; Passed Assistant Surgeon, July, 1885; Surgeon, February, 1897. 
 Naval Academy, October, 1890; waiting orders, March, 1894; temporary 
 duty, Chelsea, October, 1894 ; waiting orders, January, 1895 ; Naval Ord 
 nance, Proving Ground, November, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Montgomery," Febru 
 ary, 1896, to date. 
 
 Henry B. Fitts. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, July, 
 1882 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, July, 1885 ; Surgeon, March, 1897 ; Hos 
 pital, Hot Springs, Ark., February, 1891 ; training ship " Essex," January, 
 1894 ; Hospital, Portsmouth, December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Victor C. B. Means. Appointed from North Carolina. Assistant 
 Surgeon, June, 1884 ; Passed Assistant Surgeon, June, 1887 ; Surgeon, June, 
 1897 ; nautical school-ship " Saratoga," December, 1892 ; Naval Hospital, 
 New York, May, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Maine," September, 1895 ; U. S. S. " New 
 York," January, 1897 ; " Detroit," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frederick J. B. Cordeiro. Appointed from Massachusetts. Assistant 
 Surgeon, June, 1884. Passed Assistant -Surgeon, June, 1887. Surgeon, Octo 
 ber, 1897 ; U. S. S. "Adams." March, 1892; leave of absence, November, 
 1894 ; training-ship " Constellation," November, 1895 ; U S. S. " Michigan," 
 December, 1896 ; U. S. S. "New Orleans," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 Francis W. F. Wieber. Appointed from New York. Assistant Sur 
 geon, November, 1884. Passed Assistant Surgeon, November, 1887. Surgeon, 
 November, 1897 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, June, 1893-8 ; U. S. S. " Mian- 
 tonomah," March, 1898, to date. 
 
 MEDICAL DIRECTORS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMODORE. 
 
 William Grier. Born in Ireland. Appointed from Maryland, March 
 7, 1838 ; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to sloop " Cyane," 
 Mediterranean Squadron, 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. Com 
 missioned 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, Connecticut, 1867 ; member Board of Ex- 
 
250 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 aminers, 1868-9 ; special duty, Baltimore, 1869-71 ; member of Examining 
 and Retiring Boards, 1871-2 ; Naval Hospital, Annapolis, 1872 ; member of 
 Naval Medical Board, 1872; President of Naval Medical Board, 1872-6; 
 Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Surgeon-General), 1877-8. Re 
 tired, October 5, 1878. 
 
 Samuel Jackson Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from North 
 Carolina, June 20, 1838, as Assistant Surgeon. Attached to frigate " Con 
 stitution." 1839-41 ; U. S. S. frigate "Mississippi," 1841-2; frigate " Con 
 gress," Mediterranean Squadron, 1842-3 ; sloop " Fairfield," frigate " Cum 
 berland," Mediterranean Squadron, 1843-5 ; razee " Independence," flag-ship, 
 Pacific Squadron, during Mexican War, 1846-9; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 
 1849-50 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," at Boston, 1851 ; sloop " John Adams," 
 1851 ; sloop " Decatur," 1851-2. Commissioned as Surgeon, September 2, 
 1852; Rendezvous, New York City, 1854-5; sloop "St. Louis," coast of 
 Africa, 1855-8 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1858-61 ; steam-frigate " Wabash," 
 1861; frigate "Cumberland," 1861; steam-sloop "Brooklyn," 1862-3. 
 While attached to the " Cumberland," was present at the bombardment and 
 capture of the Confederate forts, at Hatteras Inlet ; doing service on board 
 the " Brooklyn," was with Admiral Farragut in the passage and bombard 
 ment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the Chalmette batteries below 
 New Orleans, and in the destruction of the Confederate Fleet, and subse 
 quently in his operations before Vicbsburg and Galveston; Naval Academy, 
 at Newport, R. I., 1863-4; Navy Yard, Boston, 1864-5-6; Fleet Surgeon, 
 North and South Pacific Squadron, on board flag-ship " Pensacola," and 
 " Powhatan," 1867-9 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1869 ; Naval Hospital, 
 New York, 1869-72. Commissioned as Medical Director, March 3, 1871 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1873-5; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1875-6-7-8-9, 
 which completed his service on the "active list." Having attained the age 
 of sixty-two (62) years, April 1, 1879, he was placed on the retired list, in 
 accordance with the law of Congress on that subject. 
 
 Francis M. Gunnell. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from 
 District of Columbia, March 29, 1849 ; entered the service as Assistant Sur 
 geon; 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," Atlan 
 tic 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 28, 1861 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, 1863-5 ; steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," European 
 Squadron, 1866-8; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1869-72. Commissioned 
 as Medical Inspector, 1871 ; Fleet-Surgeon, N. A. Fleet, 1872-3 ; " Roanoke," 
 1874; member Board of Examiners, 1875-6. Commissioned as Medical 
 Director, 1875 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1875-9 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Asiatic 
 Station, 1879-81 ; member of Retiring Board, 1881-2 ; President Medical 
 Board, Washington, 1882-4 ; Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 
 1884-8 ; Surgeon General U. S. Navy. Retired, 1889. 
 
 Albert Leary Gihon. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 28, 1833. 
 Received degrees of A.B. (Philadelphia), 1850; M.D. (Philadelphia), 1852; 
 A.M. (Princeton), 1854, and Philadelphia, 1855; Professor of Chemistry 
 and Toxicology, in Philadelphia College of Medicine and Surgery, 1853-4 ; 
 entered Navy as Assistant Surgeon, May 1, 1855 ; first duty on board 
 receiving-ship "Union," Navy Yard, Philadelphia; attached to sloop-of-war 
 " Levant," East India Station, 1855-8 ; was with Commander (Admiral) 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 251 
 
 A. H. Foote, and Lieutenant (Commodore) W. H. Macomb, in the sloop- 
 of-war "Portsmouth s" boat, November 15, 1856, when fired upon by the 
 Chinese, while attempting to pass the Barrier Forts, on the Pearl River, 
 near Canton, and participated in the subsequent engagements, which resulted 
 in the capture of these forts, November 16, 20, 21 and 22, 1856; attached 
 to brig " Dolphin," 1858-9, during Paraguay Expedition ; and to sloop- 
 ofwar "Preble," 1859, on the coast of Central America and Panama. 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, May 1, 1869 ; U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., 1860-1 ; brig "Perry," 1861, on the blockade of Fernandina, Fla., 
 and cruising off the Atlantic coast of the Southern States, when the Rebel 
 privateer "Savannah" was captured, May 1, 1861. Promoted to Surgeon, 
 August 1, 1861 ; Naval Rendezvous, New York; sloop-of-war " St. Louis," 
 1862-5, on special service upon European Station, and cruising among the 
 Atlantic islands, after Confederate steamers "Alabama," " Florida," and 
 "Georgia;" and in the latter part of 1864, on b ockade of coast of South 
 Carolina; Senior Medical Officer, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1865-8; 
 attached to store-ship "Idaho," 1868-70, anchored off Nagasaki, Japan, as 
 hospital ship for Asiatic Station, and was on board during the memorable 
 typhoon of September 21, 1869, when ship was wrecked by passing through 
 centre of the cyclone with barometer at 27.62 ; for services rendered Portu 
 guese colony at Dilly, Island of Timor, and the Portuguese men-of-war 
 " Principe Dom Carlos " and " Sa da Bandeira," received from the King of 
 Portugal, with consent of Congress, the decoration of Knight of the Mil 
 itary Order of Christ ; for services to H. B M. ships " Flint " and " Dawn," 
 the thanks of the British Government ; and for similar services to the French 
 gunboat " Scorpion," those of the commander-in-chief of the French East 
 India Station; special duty at Brooklyn, New York, 1870; subsequently 
 Marine Rendezvous, Philadelphia ; and later, member of Naval Medical 
 Board of Examiners, at Philadelphia, 1870-2, and at Washington, 1872-3. 
 Promoted to Medical Inspector, November 7, 1872 ; special duty at Bureau 
 of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, 1873, and same year ordered to 
 flag-ship " Wabash," as surgeon of the fleet, on the European Station ; at 
 Key West, Fla., with Naval Expedition of 1874, and returned to European 
 Station as surgeon of the fleet, on board flag-ship " Franklin," 1874-5 ; head 
 of Medical Department, Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1875-80; at re 
 quest of Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, designed and superin 
 tended construction of model of hospital-ship for Centennial Exhibition, at 
 Philadelphia, 1876, and at same exhibition presented "Ambulance Cot," 
 bearing his name, which was approved by Board of Officers, July 5, 1877, 
 and adopted for use in the Navy ; appointed Inspector of Recruits and Re 
 cruiting Stations, November 20, 1878. Commissioned as Medical Director, 
 August 20, 1879, and ordered in charge of Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., 
 1880 ; member of Board of Inspection of the Navy, 1880-3 ; in charge of 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C., 1883-6; of Naval Hospital, Mare 
 Island, California., 1886-8 ; and of Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1888- 
 92; special duty, New York, 1892-3; in charge of NavafHospital, Wash 
 ington, July, 1893, to September 28, 1895, when, having reached the consti 
 tutional limitation of age, he was placed upon the retired list with the relative 
 rank of Commodore, having been forty years and five months upon the active 
 list, of which an aggregate of only one year and ten months was unem 
 ployed ; has represented the Medical Department of the Navy in the Ameri 
 can Medical Association, as delegate and permanent member, annually, since 
 1876 ; elected Chairman of Section on State Medicine, 1882, and Vice-Pres- 
 
252 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ident of the Association, 1884; Chairman of the Rush Monument Committee, 
 1885-98 ; delegate and permanent member of the American Public Health 
 Association, since 1876 ; elected Second Vice-President, 1881 ; First Vice- 
 President, 1882, and President, 1883 ; Fellow of the American Academy of 
 Medicine since 1883, and elected Vice-President, 1883, and President, 1884 ; 
 President of the Naval Medical Society, 1883-4; member of the American 
 Clirnatological Association since 1887 ; elected First Vice-President, 1889 ; 
 President of Section on Climatology and Demography of the Ninth Inter 
 national Medical Congress convened at AVashington, September 5, 1887 ; 
 appointed delegate to represent the Medical Department of the Navy, at the 
 annual meeting of the British Medical Association held at Birmingham, Eng 
 land, July 29, 1890 ; delegate to the Tenth International Medical Congress 
 convened at Berlin, August 2, 1890 ; and elected Honorary President of the 
 Section on Medical Geography and Climatology, and of Section on Military 
 and Naval Hygiene; member of Triennial Congress of American Physicians 
 and Surgeons, Washington, September, 1891 ; President of Section on Hy 
 giene, Climatology and Demography of the Pan-American Medical Congress 
 convened at Washington, September 5, 1893 ; member of The Association 
 of Military Surgeons of the United States since 1894 ; elected Second Vice- 
 President, 1895 ; First Vice-President, 1896 ; President, 1897 ; of the State 
 Medical Societies of New Hampshire, West Virginia, and California, and of 
 the Medical Society of the District of Columbia ; Fellow of the New York 
 Academy of Medicine ; member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 
 Philadelphia; of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, of the American Phil 
 osophical Society, of the Biological Society of Washington, of the Trinity 
 Historical Society of Dallas, Texas, of the Military Order of the Loyal 
 Legion of the United States, and of the National Academy of Medicine of 
 Mexico ; Honorary Member of the Societe Frangaise d Hvgiene ; and corres 
 ponding member of the Societe des Sciences Physiques, Naturelles et Clima- 
 tologiques de 1 Algerie; Associate Editor of the "Annual of the Universal 
 Medical Sciences," 1887-93; of "Wood s Handbook of the Medical 
 Sciences," 1894, and of "The Twentieth Century Practice of Medicine," 
 1895 ; author of "A Look at Lisbon," 18H6 ; "A Night in a Typhoon," 1870 ; 
 " Practical Suggestions in Naval Hygiene," 1871-2-3 ; "A Summer Cruise 
 among the Atlantic Islands," 1875 ; " Sanitary Reform in Ship Life," 1876 ; 
 " Sanitarv Commonplaces Applied to the Navy," 1877 ; " Statistics of Ado 
 lescent Growth," 1879; "Transportation of Sick and Wounded," 1879; 
 " The Prevention of Venereal for the Protection of the Innocent and Help 
 less," 1879-82; "Health the True Nobility," 1881; "State Medicine," 
 1882; "Medical Education the Fundamental Fact in Medical Ethics," 
 1883; "The Higher Plane in Medicine," 1883; "Vital Statistics as Sani 
 tary Monitors," 1883; " Thirty Years of Sanitary Progress in the Navy," 
 1884; "The Sanitary Responsibilities of the Citizen," 1884; "The Trade 
 Aspect of Medicine," 1884 ; "The Dignity and Importance of the Individ 
 ual," 1885; "Sanitary Ignorance among High and Low," 1885; "What is 
 Medicine ? " 1885 ; " Economic Sanitation," 1886 : " The Domain of Clima 
 tology and Demography." 1887 ; " The Therapy of Ocean Climate," 1889 ; 
 " The Place of Naval and Military Medicine in the Profession," 1890 ; " The 
 Hospital ; an Element and Exponent of Medical Education," 1892 ; " In 
 tellectual Progress in Medicine," 1892 ; " Sanitary Motes and Beams," 1893 ; 
 " On Doctors in General, and one in Particular, Surgeon-General Benjamin 
 Rush, of the Revolutionary Army." 1894; "The Status of the Medical 
 Officer in the Military and Naval Establishments/ and " Grade, Rank, and 
 Title," 1897. 
 
RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 253 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF CAPTAIN. 
 
 Phineas J. Horwitz. Born at Baltimore, Md., March 3, 1822; grad 
 uated as doctor at the University of Maryland, March, 1845. Appointed an 
 Assistant Surgeon in the Navy, November 8, 1847, and immediately there 
 after assigned to duty in the Gulf Squadron, then operating against Mexico. 
 Dr. Horwitz was at once placed in charge of the Naval Hospital at Tabasco, 
 and remained there until the close of the war. This duty was performed so 
 efficiently and energetically as to receive the personal commendation and 
 thanks of the commander-in-chief of squadron, Commodore M. C. Perry. 
 He was next detailed for the frigate " Constitution," bourfd for the Mediter 
 ranean Station ; at the termination of the cruise was ordered to the " Relief," 
 destined for Brazil ; he was examined and passed for promotion, January, 
 1853 ; he was then assigned to the steamer " Princeton," aboard which vessel 
 he served some two years ; after this he was ordered to the u Supply," belong 
 ing to the African and Brazilian Stations ; on reaching the United States, in 
 1859, he was offered the position of assistant to the Bureau of Medicine and 
 Surgery, which office he held until appointed Chief of the Bureau of Medi 
 cine and Surgery, July 1, 1865, a position which he held until his term of 
 service expired, July 1, 1869 ; on the nineteenth of April, 1861, Dr. Horwitz 
 was promoted to the grade of Surgeon, but his services in the bureau were 
 considered so important that he was not permitted to vacate his appointment 
 as assistant, and Congress, in acknowledgment of the immense amount of 
 work he was performing, voted to give him the highest shore-pay of his 
 grade; during the entire period of the war of the Rebellion the labor of the 
 bureau fell almost wholly upon the shoulders of Dr Horwitz, and his was 
 the only bureau in which the clerical force was not increased. The whole 
 system of tabulating the casualties of the war, of indexing the books of refer 
 ence, reports of survey, certificates of disability and of diseases, was designed 
 and carried forward by Dr. Horwitz, so that there was probably no case of 
 injury, disease or disability that occurred during the doctor s connection with 
 the bureau that will not be found in its appropriate place in the Surgeon- 
 General s office ; the immense number of pension cases accruing during the 
 war were all examined, adjusted and prepared by the doctor, and every official 
 letter that left the bureau was written by him. All this was done without 
 the aid of a single additional writer or clerk. On leaving the bureau in 1869, 
 Dr. Horwitz was placed in charge of the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, since 
 which time he has been assigned to various duties on that station. He was 
 promoted to the grade of Medical Inspector, March 3, 1871, and to the grade 
 of Medical Director, December 19, 1873 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1^77 
 83; President of Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1883-4. Retired, 1884. 
 
 Edward Shippen. Born in New Jersey. A.B. and A.M., Princeton; 
 M.D., University of Pennsylvania; Fellow of the College of Physicians, 
 Philadelphia ; Member Historical Society of Pennsylvania ; President of Gene 
 alogical Society of Pennsylvania ; Deputy Governor of the Society of Colo 
 nial Wars of Pennsylvania ; Companion of the Loyal Legion, etc., etc. ; 
 appointed from Pennsylvania, August 7, 1849 , entered the service as Assist 
 ant Surgeon; attached to sloop "Marion," East India Squadron, 1849-52; 
 receiving-ship " Ohio," Boston, 1852-3 ; steamer " Fulton," Fishing-Banks 
 Squadron, 1853 ; steamer " Hetzel," Coast Survey, 1854 ; brig " Dolphin," 
 coast of Africa, 1855-7 ; Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1857 ; Naval Asylum, 
 Philadelphia, 1858; steamer "Caledonia," Paraguay Expedition, 1859 ; flag 
 ship "Congress," Brazil Squadron, 1859-61. Commissioned as Surgeon, 
 
254 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 April 26, 1861 ; frigate " Congress," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 1861-62 ; 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, 1866-8 ; during which made the Rus 
 sian cruise, under Admiral Farragut ; member of Naval Retiring Board, 
 Philadelphia, 1868; surgeon of the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 1869- 
 71 ; Fleet-Surgeon, European Station, 1871-3 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 
 1873; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1874-9. Commissioned as Medical. 
 Director, 1876 ; president of the Naval Medical Examining Board, Philadel 
 phia, 1880-1 ; president Board of Examiners, March, 1881-83; Naval Hos 
 pital, Philadelphia, 1883-6; special duty, Philadelphia, 1886-8. Retired, 
 1888. 
 
 Samuel F. Coues. Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New 
 Hampshire, February 25, 1851. Entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; 
 Coast Survey, 1851 ; attached to sloop " Portsmouth," Pacific Squadron, 
 1851-5; Bureau Medicine and Surgery, 1855; hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 
 1857; laboratory, New York, 1858-9; steamer "Saginaw," 1861. Com 
 missioned as Surgeon, April 26, 1861; steam-sloop "Hartford," 1863; 
 receiving-ship " Ohio," Boston, 1863 ; steam-sloop " Housatonic," South 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863 ; steam-sloop "Saranac," Pacific Squad 
 ron, 1864-6; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 1866-8; steam-sloop " Rich 
 mond," European Squadron, 1868-71. Commissioned as Medical Inspector, 
 1871; leave, Europe, 1872; frigate "Colorado," North Atlantic Station, 
 1872-3 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1873-5 ; Fleet-Surgeon, North 
 Atlantic Station, 1875-6. Commissioned as Medical Director, 1876 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1876-9; special duty, Boston, 1879-80; Naval 
 Laboratory, New York, 1880-3; President Medical Examining Board, 
 1884-5 ; Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 1885-7. Retired, 1887. 
 
 Jacob S. Dungan. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, 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, 
 May 1, 1861 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1865; Naval Academy, 1866; 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1867-8 ; steamer " Ossipee," Pacific Squadron, 1869-71 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 1871-5. Commissioned as Medical Inspector, 
 1871, and as Medical Director, 1876; Fleet Surgeon, Pacific Station, 1876- 
 82 ; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, 1882-5 ; Recruiting Office, San Francisco, 
 1885-6. Retired, 1886. 
 
 George Peck. Born at Orange, New Jersey ; graduated at College of 
 Physicians and Surgeons, New York, March 6, 1847 ; received, June 27, 
 1857, honorary degree of A. M. from College of New Jersey; examined by 
 Board of Naval Medical Officers, and found qualified for appointment, Janu 
 ary 3, 1851. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, February 25, 1851 ; ordered 
 to the "Cyane," Home Squadron, August 23, 1851 ; cruised in the Gulf of 
 Mexico, Caribbean Sea and West Indies; crossed the Isthmus of Panama 
 before the construction of the railroad ; assisted the survivors of Strain s 
 Expedition to Darien ; journeyed to the Pacific, via the San Juan River and 
 Lake Nicaragua to San Juan del Sur ; carried despatches to the United 
 
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 States Minister at Leon, and visited the principal cities and towns of Nica 
 ragua ; participated in the bombardment of San Juan del Norte ; detached 
 from the " Cyane," September 1, 1854 ; ordered to the Naval Rendezvous, 
 New York, September 13, 1854; detached, October 15, 1855 ; examined and 
 recommended for promotion, April 10, 1856; ordered to frigate "St. Law 
 rence," Brazil Station, September 20, 1856 ; joined the Paraguay Expedition ; 
 detached from the "St. Lawrence," May 11, 1859; ordered to the receiving- 
 ship "North Carolina," New York, July 2, 1859; detached and ordered to 
 the steam sloop-of-war " Seminole," Brazil Station, March 9, 1860. Com 
 missioned Surgeon, May 30, 1861 ; returned to the United States in the 
 "Seminole," and joined the North Atlantic Blockading Fleet; served on the 
 Potomac River during the attempted blockade by rebel batteries, and took 
 part in the capture of Port Royal, Fernandina and Norfolk, and the batteries 
 at SewelFs Point ; witnessed the burning of the rebel ram " Merrimac " ; de 
 tached from the " Seminole," July 9, 1862 ; ordered to the Marine Rendez 
 vous, New York, August 18, 1862 ; detached, September 24, 1864, and 
 ordered to the " Dictator," North Atlantic Blockading Fleet ; detached, 
 September 2, 1865, and ordered to the "Vanderbilt," convoy of the "Monad- 
 nock," via Strait of Magellan, to San Francisco ; en route witnessed the bom 
 bardment of Valparaiso and Callao by the Spaniards ; volunteered to aid in 
 care of the wounded after the action at Callao, and assisted the medical officer 
 in charge aboard the " Villa de Madrid," of the Spanish fleet ; visited the 
 Peruvian Hospital ashore, and tendered service to the medical officer in 
 charge ; detached June 28, 1866, and accompanied Commodore John Rodgers 
 from San Francisco to the Atlantic coast before the completion of the railway, 
 escorted by a squadron of United States cavalry ; ordered to Navy Yard, 
 New York, April 1, 1867 ; detached May 20, 1869, and ordered to the fri 
 gate " Sabine," May 25, 1869 ; received aboard from the Naval Academy the 
 graduated class of midshipmen, and sailed on a practice-cruise to Europe and 
 Brazil ; detached, July 28, 1870 ; ordered to the Navy Yard, New York, Sep 
 tember 15, 1870. Commissioned Medical Inspector, May 28, 1871 ; detached 
 May 11, 1872, and ordered to the North Atlantic Fleet; reported on board 
 the flagship " Worcester," at Key West, for duty as surgeon of the fleet; de 
 tached, December 26, 1873 ; ordered as member of the Retiring Board and 
 for examination of officers for promotion, Washington, February 25, 1874 ; 
 detached, April 10, 1877, and appointed member of Naval Medical Examin 
 ing Board. December 1, 1877 ; ordered to examination for promotion, Janu 
 ary 14, 1878. Commissioned Medical Director, of the grade of Captain, from 
 January 7, 1878 ; detached and ordered, April 30, 1879, as member of Re 
 tiring Board and President of Medical Examining Board ; detached, and 
 ordered as President of Board of Physical Examination of officers for promo 
 tion, September 3, 1879 ; detached, February 29, 1880, and ordered as member 
 of Naval Medical Examining Board, Philadelphia, Pa., March 1, 1880 ; 
 ordered Medical Director of Naval Hospital, Mare Island, California, July 2, 
 1880 ; detached, October 8, 1883, and on leave ; ordered as member of Naval 
 Board of Inspection and Survey, December 15, 1883, and detached, June 3, 
 1885, and on waiting orders ; ordered as member of Court of Inquiry, 
 Washington, June 20, 1884; court dissolved, December 31,1884; ordered 
 as delegate from Medical Department of the Navy to annual meeting of 
 American Medical Association, April 9, 1884, Washington, and April 23, 
 1885, at New Orleans ; ordered as delegate to represent the Medical Depart 
 ment of the Navy at the Ninth International Medical Congress, Washington, 
 August 28, 1887 ; ordered as member of the Examining Board, Navy 
 
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 Department, Washington, November 5, 1887, and detached, July 9 1888 ; 
 and from length of service, in conformity with Chapter III., Section 1444, 
 Revised Statutes of the United States, transferred to the retired list of officers 
 of the navy. He is a member of the American Medical Association, Ameri 
 can Academy of Medicine, American Public Health Association, New York 
 Academy of Medicine, New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Or 
 phans of Medical Men, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United 
 States, New Jersey Historical Society, Washington Headquarters Association, 
 Morristown, New Jersey, and Sons of the American Revolution, Society of 
 New Jersey. 
 
 Thomas J. Turner. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Penn 
 sylvania, December 16, 1853. Entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; 
 attached to Pacific Squadron, 1854-5; frigate "Independence," Pacific 
 Squadron, 1856; sloop "John Adams," Pacific Squadron, 1857-8; rendez 
 vous, Philadelphia, 1859 ; Laboratory, New York, 1861-2. Commissioned 
 as Surgeon, June 10, 1861 ; steam sloop " Ossipee," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1863; Naval Hospital, Pensacola, 18645 ; special duty, Philadelphia, 1866 ; 
 member Board of Examiners, 1867 ; Recorder Board of Examiners, 1868-9 ; 
 attached to steam-sloop " Juniata," European Squadron, 1869-72. Com 
 missioned as Medical Inspector, April 26, 1872 ; special duty, Washington, 
 1872-5 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Asiatic Station, 1875-7 ; Secretary of National Board 
 of Health, 1878-82. Commissioned as Medical Director, April 2, 1879 ; 
 member of National Board of Health, 1882-3 ; member of Medical and 
 Retiring Board, 1884-6; in charge of Museum of Hygiene, 1886-9 ; wait 
 ing orders, February, 1889, to date of retirement, September 21, 1891. 
 
 John Y. Taylor. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Delaware, 
 September 26, 1853. Entered the service as Assistant burgeon; 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, Philadelphia, 1866 ; Naval Hospital New York, 1867-8; 
 steam-sloop " Plymouth," European Squadron, 1868-72. Commissioned as 
 Medical Inspector, June 29, 1872; member Board of Examiners, 1872-7. 
 Commissioned as Medical Director, April, 1879 ; Naval Hospital, Washing 
 ton, 1879-83 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, June, 1883-6 ; Naval Hospital, New 
 York, 1887-8 ; member of Medical Examining Board, 1888-9 ; President 
 Medical Examining Board, 1889, to date of retirement, January 21, 1891. 
 
 William T. Hord. Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Kentucky, 
 November 1, 1854 Entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; went to Medi 
 terranean in frigate " Congress," July, 1855 ; transferred to frigate " Saranac," 
 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, 1857 ; ordered to store-ship "Supply," Brazil Squad 
 ron, March, 1857 ; detached, August, 1857 ; ordered to Coast Survey steamer 
 " Walker," October 28, 1857 ; detached, June, 1858 ; ordered to Naval Hos 
 pital, Norfolk, June 14, 1858; detached, December 22, 1858. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, April, 1859; ordered to steam-sloop " Lancaster," 
 Pacific Squadron, April 9, 1859; transferred to sloop "Cyane," Pacific 
 Squadron, at Acapulco, July 16, 1861. Promoted to Surgeon, August 1, 
 1861 ; detached from " Cyane," at Panama, and ordered home, November 11, 
 
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 1861 ; volunteer aide on General Nelson s staff, from the battle of Pittsburg 
 Landing to the evacuation of Corinth, Mississippi, by General Beauregard ; 
 ordered, June 14, 1862, to receiving-ship " Ohio," at Boston ; detached, De 
 cember, 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 steam-frigate " Wabash," 
 off Charleston, South Carolina, August 10, 1863 ; detached, sick, December, 
 1863 ; ordered to recruiting service, June 15, 1864, at Jersey City, New Jer 
 sey ; detached and ordered to Mound City, Illinois, August 31, 1864 ; 
 detached and ordered to steam-sloop " Monongahela," November 8, 1865, 
 West India Squadron ; wrecked in an earthquake at Santa Croix, West 
 Indies, November 18, 1867 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, October, 12, 
 1868 ; detached, October, 1871. Commissioned as Medical Inspector, July 6, 
 1872; Fleet-Surgeon, South Atlantic Station, March 28, 1872, to April 1, 
 1874; member of Board of Examiners, 1874-6; Navy Yard, Boston, Sep 
 tember 1, 1876, to April 1, 1879. Commissioned as Medical Director, May 
 1, 1879; Naval Hospital, Chelsea/Mass., April 1, 1879, to April, 1882; 
 member of Medical Examining Board, Washington, D. C., April, 1882, to 
 October, 1886 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, October 6, 1886, to October 6, 
 1889; member of the Medical Examining Board, Washington, D. C., Novem 
 ber 27, 1889 ; President of Examining Board, January 22, 1891, until his 
 retirement for age, March 3, 1893. 
 
 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 ; assistant to Chief of Bureau of Medicine, 1870-4. Commissioned as 
 Medical Inspector, June 8, 1873 ; frigate " Congress," European Station, 1874- 
 6 ; member of Examining and Retiring Boards, 1877-8 ; member of Board of 
 Inspection, 1879. Commissioned as Medical Director, June, 1880 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Philadelphia, 1880-3 ; Naval Hospital, New York, March, 1883-6 ; 
 member of Examining and Retiring Boards, 1886-7 ; Naval Hospital, Chel 
 sea, 1887-91 ; member of Examining Board, January, 1891, to June, 1893 ; 
 special duty in Europe, June, 1893, to December, 1893; President Medical 
 Examining Board, December, 1893, to May, 1895. Retired May, 1895. 
 
 Delavan Bloodgood. Born in New York State. Commissioned Assist 
 ant Surgeon, March 13, 1857. Promoted to Passed Assistant burgeon, Decem 
 ber 24, 1861 ; to Surgeon, January 24, 1862; to Medical Inspector, February 
 3, 1875; to Medical Director, August 22, 1884; retired on 20th of August, 
 1893, in compliance with the statutory law. His first cruise was aboard the 
 flag-ship, " Merrimac," on the Pacific Station, 1857-60 ; his next aboard the 
 steamer " Mohawk," 1860-1, about Cuba and adjacent islands, for the sup 
 pression of the slave trade. Several vessels with their cargoes of slaves from 
 the coast of Africa were captured, In anticipation of the great impending 
 condict the " Mohawk " played an essential role in the strategic movements 
 which saved the " Keys of the Gulf," in which he was engaged, from seizure 
 by the secessionists. The next succeeding affairs were the evacuation of 
 the Pensacola Navy Yard, the convoying from Texas of the troops surrendered 
 by Twiggs, and the establishment off Santa Rosa Island of the first blockade 
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258 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S, NAVY. 
 
 of the war. After passing the summer of 1861 in the Gulf, Assistant Surgeon 
 Bloodgood was ordered North for examination preliminary to promotion, 
 and arriving off Port Koyal at the time of that battle was diverted to another 
 transport and put in charge of a lot of the wounded and sick for conveyance 
 to hospital. After promotion he was detailed to the sloop-of-war " Dacotah," 
 on which he served till near the close of the war ; participating in the various 
 operations about Hampton Roads, from the first appearance of the rebel ram 
 " Merrimac," till its felo-de-se; up the rivers in conjunction with the first 
 Peninsular campaign; for awhile with Farragut, in the Mississippi ; then in 
 the Flying Squadron ; but the most of the work was in blockading off the 
 Carolinas, and in minor engagements with shore batteries. During this ser 
 vice the " Dacotah " was visited by an epidemic of yellow fever and by 
 another of small-pox. En route homeward after this cruise Surgeon Blood- 
 good was captured by railroad raiders in Maryland, but effected his escape, 
 sine impedimenta, from the cavalcade of prisoners bound to Libby. In the 
 two years succeeding the war Surgeon Bloodgood made the lake cruise 
 aboard the steamer " Michigan," and next was attached to the receiving-ship 
 "Vermont," until the breaking out of yellow fever aboard the " Jamestown," 
 when he was ordered in mid-winter from New York to that infected ship in 
 the tropics, aboard which the mortality proved phenomenal, and he was one 
 of the few who survived an attack of the pestilence. From Panama Bay (for 
 disinfection) the " Jamestown," sailed to Sitka, and there participated in the 
 ceremonies of the transfer of Alaska from Russia to the United States. The 
 winter of 1867-8 was passed in Alaska, and in the spring following the 
 " Jamestown," was put out of commission at Mare Island Navy Yard, and 
 Dr. Bloodgood transferred to the " Lackawanna " on the Mexican coast, 
 there completed his second Pacific cruise. He was next on shore duty at 
 New York, until May, 1872, when he joined the " Plymouth " on the Euro 
 pean Station ; but after a few months again took passage and proceeded by 
 the India route to the Asiatic Station, where as Fleet-Surgeon he served, suc 
 cessively, aboard the flag-ships "Colorado," "Lackawanna" and "Hartford." 
 At the end of two years he exchanged to the Pacific Station as Fleet-Surgeon ; 
 but soon afterwards was ordered home; and so as a passenger, and on duty, 
 accomplished the circuit of the globe. After a tour of shore duty in New 
 York his next and last service afloat was as Fleet-Surgeon on the European 
 Station, aboard the flag-ship " Trenton," 1877-9. Returned from the Medi 
 terranean, he was placed in charge, first of the Naval Hospital, in Brooklyn, 
 and next of the Laboratory ; these duties continued till the autumn of 1886, 
 when he was sent in charge of the Naval Hospital at Norfolk ; but on the 
 1st of July following, he was recalled to the directorship of the Naval Labor 
 atory, which position, together with that of Head of the Department of Instruc 
 tion (when that establishment was instituted and joined to the Laboratory), 
 he retained until his retirement. Dr. Bloodgood s home is in the Borough 
 of Brooklyn, with a summer residence on an island in Lake George. He is 
 an alumnus of Colgate University, at Hamilton, N. Y., and of Jefferson 
 Medical College, in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion ; of the Holland Society ; of the Society of Colonial Wars ; 
 of the St. Nicholas Society of Nassau Island ; and of the University, and the 
 Yacht, and the St. Nicholas Clubs of New York, and of the Oxford Club of 
 Brooklyn. 
 
 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 10, to Decem- 
 
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 ber 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 
 Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; was in the actions of Port Hudson, Donald- 
 sonville, 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, May to July, 1869 ; receiving-ship "Inde 
 pendence," Mare Island, California, July to August, 1869 ; Naval Rendez 
 vous, San Francisco, California, 1869-71 ; " Wachusett," European Station, 
 1872-4; member Retiring and Examining Boards, 1874-7 ; Fleet Surgeon, 
 Asiatic Station, 1877-80. Commissioned as Medical Inspector, 1877 ; mem 
 ber of Examining and Retiring Board, March 2, 1880-4. Commissioned 
 Medical Director, August, 1884 ; Fleet-Surgeon, Pacific Station, 1884 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, 1886-8 ; member Medical Examining Board, 
 1888-91; special duty, Philadelphia, June, 1891, to May, 1893; Naval 
 Hospital, Philadelphia, May, 1893, to 1896. Retired, September, 1896. 
 
 Philip S. Wales. Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland 
 August 7, 1846 ; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; 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 ; steam-sloop " Guerriere," European 
 Station, 1870-2 ; member Board of Examiners, 1872-4. Commissioned as 
 Medical Inspector, June 30, 1873; special duty, Washington, 1874-8; 
 appointed Chief of Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, January 1880, and 
 remained in that position until his term expired in 1884 ; special duty 
 Washington, 1884-7. Commissioned as Medical Director, October, 1881. 
 Charge Museum of Hygiene, Washington, D. C., August, 1890, to June, 
 1893; member of Retiring Board, June, 1893-6. Retired, February, 1896. 
 
 Henry M. Wells. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa 
 chusetts, 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 Jackson and St. Philip, in April, -1862 ; batteries 
 at Donaldsonville, Grand Gulf, Port Hudson and Vicksburg, on the Missis 
 sippi River, in 1862-3 ; receiving-ship and hospital, Boston, 1864 ; frigate 
 " Sabine," 1864; iron-clad "OnondagOj" North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1865 ; batteries on James River, Virginia, 1865 ; Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, District of Columbia, and steamer " Shamokin," Brazil Squadron, 1865-8. 
 Commissioned as Surgeon, October 9, 1866; Naval Hospital, New York, 
 1869-71; " Canandaigua," 1872-5; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1876-8; 
 * Ticonderoga," special service, 1878-80 ; U. S Naval Laboratory and Hos 
 pital, New York, 1881-4. Promoted to Medical Inspector, August, 1884 ; 
 flagship "Lancaster," European and South Atlantic Stations, 1884-7; in 
 
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 charge of Museum of Hygiene, Washington, D. C., 1888-90 ; Naval Hospi 
 tal, Washington, July, 1890, to July, 1893. Commissioned Medical Directory 
 September 22, 1891 ; member Medical Examining Board, July, 1893, to 
 August, 1893 ; Naval Laboratory, New York, August, 1893-7. Retired, 
 January, 1897. 
 
 Thomas N. Penrose. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon, November 11, 1861; steamer "Harriet Lane," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1862-3 ; steamer " Massachusetts," 1863-4. Promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon, 1866 ; " Hartford," East India Squadron, 1866-7 ; 
 " Wachusett," North Atlantic Station, 1868 ; League Island Station, 1868-9 ; 
 "Swatara," North Atlantic Fleet, 1870-1. Promoted to Surgeon, May 28, 
 1871 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1873 ; " Ticonderoga," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1873-5 ; practice-ship " Constellation," 1875 ; " Marion," European 
 Station, 1876-8 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1878-80; "Michigan," North 
 western Lakes, 1881-2 ; " Swatara," North Atlantic Station, 1882-5 ; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, 1885-8 ; " Richmond," South Atlantic Station, 1888-90. 
 Commissioned as Medical Inspector, January, 1889 ; waiting orders, Septem 
 ber, 1890, to April, 1891 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., April, 1891, to 
 1894 ; special duty, New York, August, 1894; Naval Hospital, New York, 
 November, 1895-7. Promoted to Medical Director, February, 1896. Re 
 tired, June, 1897. 
 
 Benjamin H. Kidder. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Mas 
 sachusetts, September 20, 1861 ; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; 
 attached to steam-gunboat " Marblehead," South Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1862-4 ; steam frigate " Colorado " (flag-ship), North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1865; steamer " De Soto," special service, 1866, and North Atlantic Squad 
 ron, 1867. Commissioned as Surgeon, March 2, 1868 ; special duty, Boston, 
 1869-70 ; " Terror" (iron-clad), N. A. Squadron, 1870-1 ; " O^sipee," N. A. 
 Station, 1873-6; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1877-8; October, 1878, to 
 October, 1881, on store-ships " New Hampshire" and " Wyoming," at Port 
 Royal, S. C. ; April to November, 1882, on receiving-ship "Wabash," at 
 Boston ; November, 1882, to September, 1883, at Naval Station, Port Royal, 
 S C.; September, 1883, to March, 1885, at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. ; May, 
 18S5, to June, 1886, on u Powhatan," N. A. Station ; June, 1886, to June, 
 1888, Fleet-Surgeon, N. A. Station ; Naval Academy, June, 1889, to October, 
 1892 ; Naval Station, Port Royal, October, 1892, to September, 1893. Pro 
 moted Medical Director, August 21, 1893 ; waiting orders, September, 1893- 
 94 ; special duty, August, 1894 ; President Medical Examining Board, Jan 
 uary, 1895-8. Retired, February, 1898. 
 
 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 steam-gunboat "Cayuga," West Gulf Block 
 ading Squadron-, 1861-3 ; participated in the passage of the forts below New 
 Orleans, and action with rebel gunboats, and subsequent campaign in the 
 Mississippi River ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1864 ; steam-frigate " Nia 
 gara," special service, 1864 ; Naval Hospital, New York, 1866. Commis 
 sioned as Surgeon, April 7, 1866; Naval Laboratory, New York, 1867-70; 
 "Congress," special service, 1870-2; Recorder Board of Examiners, 1873; 
 Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1873-7; " Monongahela," Asiatic Squadron, 
 1877-9; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1879-82. Commissioned as Medical 
 Inspector, September, 1882 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, June, 1882-3 ; Fleet Sur 
 geon, Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1886-9 ; President 
 Medical Examining Board, New York, 1889 to April, 1892. Commissioned 
 
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 as Medical Director, November, 1889 ; Naval Hospital, New York, April, 
 1892, to November, 1895 ; special duty, New York City, to date. Retired, 
 May, 1898. 
 
 Michael Bradley. Born in Pennsylvania. Commissioned as Assistant 
 Surgeon, July 10, 1861 ; August following, ordered to the gunboat "Louisi 
 ana," North Atlantic Squadron ; present at the battle and capture of Roan- 
 oke Island, North Carolina, February 7, 1862 ; in the naval engagement, 
 Pasquotank River, that ended in the destruction of the Confederate fleet 
 under Commodore Lynch, February 11, 1862; battle and capture of Eliza 
 beth City, North Carolina, February 11, 1862 ; capture i)f Edenton, Albe- 
 marle Sound, North Carolina ; battle and capture of Newbern, North Carolina, 
 March 14, 1862; capture of Washington, on the Pamlico River, and at the 
 battle and capture of Winton, on the Chowan River, North Carolina. In 
 the fall of 1862 part of the Southern Army of Virginia made a furious 
 attack on Washington, North Carolina, and for a time held possession of the 
 town. In the engagement that followed, the army gunboat "Picket," before 
 firing a shot, blew up, killing thirty-nine of her crew (eighty men), including 
 the commanding officer, Captain Nicholls, of the Revenue service. The 
 " Louisiana " alone succeeded in driving the enemy out, with great loss. 
 April 1, 1863, the enemy held all the approaches to Washington, North 
 Carolina, and for twelve successive days the " Louisiana " was the target 
 for shifting swamp batteries. In the summer of 1863, detached from the 
 "Louisiana" and ordered to the flag-ship "Minnesota," on blockade duty off 
 Fort Fisher, North Carolina; December, 1863, detached from the "Minne 
 sota," and ordered to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; spring of 1864, promoted 
 to Passed Assistant Surgeon; July 4, 1864, reported for duty on the flag-ship 
 "Black Hawk," Mississippi Squadron; December, 1864, temporarily detached 
 and ordered to the iron-clad, " Reindeer," to engage the field batteries placed 
 on both sides of the Cumberland River by General Hood, to protect his 
 columns in crossing when pursued by General Thomas ; a few days afterward 
 transferred to the iron-clad, " Neosho," Admiral S. P. Lee in command, and 
 engaged the batteries on both sides of the Tennessee River, at Florence, 
 Alabama; detached from the "Black Hawk," February 14, 1865, and 
 ordered to the hospital ship " Red Rover," as aide to Fleet-Surgeon Ninian 
 Pinkney. Commissioned Surgeon, June 12, 1865 ; at the breaking up of the 
 Mississippi Squadron, July, 1865, detached, and waiting orders; January, 
 1866, ordered to the steamer "Michigan ;" detached, March, 1868, and the 
 following month ordered to San Francisco, California, by sea, to join the 
 steamer "Tuscarora," for duty in the South Pacific; ship remained on. the 
 station about one year, when she was ordered, via Strait of Magellan, to the 
 West India Station; detached from the " Tuscarora," January, 1871, and 
 waiting orders; November, 1871, ordered to Mound City Station, Illinois; 
 detached, December, 1872; January, 1873, reported for duty at the Navy 
 Yard, New York ; detached the following May, and waiting orders ; August, 
 1873, ordered to steamer "Alaska," European Station ; detached, September, 
 1876; January 21, 1878, ordered to the flag-ship " Powhatan," as Fleet- 
 Surgeon of the North Atlantic Fleet; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1878-9. Com 
 missioned Medical Inspector, December, 1884 ; Fleet-Surgeon, S. A. Squadron, 
 September, 1879-82 ; Navy Yard, League Island, June, 1882-6 ; Naval Hos 
 pital, Norfolk, 1886-8. Promoted to Medical Director, June, 1888 ; special 
 duty, Philadelphia, 1889-91 ; Member Medical Examining Board, June, 
 1891-95. Retired, March, 1895. 
 
262 RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 A. A. Hoehling. Appointed an Assistant Surgeon by Hon. Gideon 
 Wells, Secretary of Navy, August 14, 1861 ; became Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 April 24, 1865, and commissioned as such from January 24, 862, by the 
 President and Senate of the United States. Commissioned a Surgeon from 
 the 2d of October, 1867 ; Medical Inspector, from the 31st of January, 1885. 
 Promoted Medical Director, May 11, 1893 Reported for duty at the Navy 
 Yard, Washington, D. C., on October 22, 1861 ; on December 11, 1861, re 
 ported for duty in the Bomb Flotilla, under the command of Commander D. 
 D. Porter, and while therein served on board the U. S. schooners " T. A. 
 Ward " and " Dan Smith," which latter joined the Potomac Flotilla in 1862 ; 
 on January 26, 1863, reported for duty on the U. S. steamer "Jacob Bell;" 
 on July 21, 1863, reported for duty on board the U. S. iron-clad " Roanoke ; " 
 on July 26, 1864, reported for duty at the United States Naval Asylum, 
 Philadelphia; on May 10, 1865, reported for duty on board the U. S. S. 
 " Dacotah ; " on December 24, 1868, reported for duty as member of the 
 Retiring Board, sitting at the Navy Yard at Philadelphia ; on May 22, 1869, 
 reported on board the U. S. receiving-ship " New Hampshire," at Norfolk, 
 Va. ; on September 4, 1869, reported on board the U. S. S. " Frolic ; " on 
 November 17, 1870, reported at New York Navy Yard for duty in attending 
 officers unattached living in Brooklyn ; from this duty was detached on Feb 
 ruary 14, 1871 ; on May 1, 1871, reported on board the U. S. practice-ship 
 "Constellation;" on November 29, 1871, reported at the Naval Station, 
 League Island, Philadelphia; on February 5, 1873, reported on board the 
 U. S. S. " Juniata ; " on February 21, 1873, was placed on sick leave; on 
 June 21, 1873, reported for duty at the United States Naval Academy, 
 Annapolis, Md. ; on September, 3, 1873, reported for duty on board U. S. S. 
 " Monongahela ; " December 31, 1893, was appointed Fleet Surgeon on board 
 the flag-ship, which appointment terminated on July 11, 1874, by a relief ; on 
 the 19th April, 1876, reported for duty at the Navy Yard, League Island, 
 Philadelphia; on August 22, 1879, reported at Navy Yard, Washington, 
 D. C., for special duty in that city ; on February 12, 1884, reported for duty 
 on board the U S. S. "Powhatan ; " on March 20, 1885, reported on board 
 the U. S. steamer " Pensacola," as Medical Inspector; on March 7, 1888, was 
 detached from the U. S. S. " Pensacola," and arrived at home in Washington, 
 D. C., on the day after to await orders ; Navy Yard, League Island, July, 
 1890, to September, 1891 ; member Examining Board, New York, Septem 
 ber, 1891, to May, 1893; waiting orders, May, 1893, to 1894; temporary 
 duty, May, 1894; Naval Hospital, Boston, August, 1894. Retired, June, 1895. 
 
 MEDICAL INSPECTORS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMANDER. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from long and faithful service. 
 
 "William E. Taylor. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, July 
 3, 1859. Entered the service as Assistant Surgeon; attached to sloop "Sa 
 vannah," 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; ironclad 
 " Miantonomah," European Squadron, 1867 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 California, 1869-71; " Pensacola," N. Pacific Station, 1871-2; "Saranac," 
 same station, 1872-4 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1875-8. Commissioned as 
 Medical Inspector, 1877. Retired, 1881. 
 
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 John C. Spear. Born near Middletown, Delaware, March 12, 1839. 
 Was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania as Doctor of Medicine, 
 
 1861. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy. May 9, 1861 ; 
 joined U. S frigate " Roanoke," May, 1861 ; engaged blockading Charleston 
 and Wilmington ; participated in the engagement between the United States 
 vessel-of-war and the rebel ram Merrimac," Hampton Roads, March 8 and 
 9, 1862 ; was ordered on board the Monitor" directly after the fight to help 
 to dress wounds of Captain John L. Worden, aiding Acting Assistant Sur 
 geon Logue of the "Monitor;" joined the U. S. steamer " Mahaska," April, 
 
 1862, and was employed on the blockade of the Atlantic Coast for several 
 months ; present at the battle of Malvern Hill, and aided Jfhere in caring for 
 wounded soldiers, both on board ship and onshore ; present at the shelling of 
 Ruggle s Point and other minor engagements with rebel battedes on the 
 James and the York Rivers; served as Surgeon and Adjutant of a land ex 
 pedition under Commander Foxhall A. Parker, U. S. N., to Matthews 
 Court-House, Va. ; engaged with rebel batteries mouth of Cape Fear River, 
 N. C. ; ordered to U. S. flag-ship " Minnesota " in the autumn of 1862, and 
 served on board of her, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, till the sum 
 mer of 1863. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, October 26, 1863 ; on 
 duty at Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1863-4. Commissioned Surgeon, June 23, 
 1864; attached to U. S. S. " Seminole," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 
 1864 ; present at the bombardment and surrender of Fort Morgan, Mobile 
 Bay ; transferred to U. S. S. " Monongahela," November, 1864, and served 
 on blockade off the coast of Texas, until spring of 1865, when ship was 
 ordered home to New York at close of the war ; was Attending Surgeon in 
 the city of Washington, 1865, and also did duty as Assistant to the Chief of 
 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department at the same time ; 
 ordered to U. S. S. " Swatara," October, 1865 ; cruised in West Indies, 
 1865-6; in Europe and West Coast of Africa, 1866-8 ; "Swatara" captured 
 John H. Surratt in Alexandria, Egypt, and brought him to Washington ; 
 autumn of 1868, detached from " Swatara " and transferred to flag-ship 
 " Franklin," Admiral Farragut, and returned to United States ; on duty at 
 Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1869-70; in the winter of 1870-1, served 
 as geologist of the Tehuantepec Surveying Expedition, and wrote a report of 
 the geology and general resources of the Isthmus with reference to the con 
 struction of a ship-canal there; ordered to Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, 
 1871 ; served on the U. S. S. "Omaha," 1872-4. cruising on coast of Brazil, 
 and in the South Pacific ; went as one of the boat s crew of volunteers to 
 pick up an officer and man overboard at sea, off coast of Patagonia, heavy 
 sea running at the time ; attached to the U. S. receiving-ship " Potomac," 
 1874-5 ; served on the U, S monitor Dictator," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 for eighteen months from June 1875 ; had charge of quarantine measures to 
 protect U. S. vessels-of-war in Port Royal waters from yellow fever, during 
 an epidemic in the vicinity ; commander-in-chief of station officially com 
 mended services to Navy Department, under date of September 29, 1876 ; 
 on duty in Washington, 1877-8, as member of Examining Board for admis 
 sion and promotion of medical officers. Promoted to Medical Inspector, with 
 relative rank of Commander, October. 1878 ; ordered to U. S. flag-ship 
 " Trenton" as Fleet-Surgeon, European Station, September, 1879, serving till 
 1881 ; member of Medical Examining Board, Navy Department, 1881-2 ; 
 and member of Examining Board in Philadelphia, 1882-3, for admission and 
 promotion of medical officers; served as Surgeon of the Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1883-6 ; was ordered as Director of U. S. Naval Laboratory, Brook- 
 
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 lyn, N. Y., September, 1886, serving till July, 1887, when was granted leave for 
 one year on account of ill health. Placed on retired list, September 14, 1888. 
 Member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of U. S., No. 7353 ; mem 
 ber of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869). 
 
 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. Commissioned as Surgeon, March 19, 1865 ; 
 steamer " Bieaville," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865 ; steam-sloop 
 " Shenandoah," East India Squadron, 1866-9; Naval Hospital, Philadel 
 phia, 1870; member Board of Examiners, 1871 ; store-ship "Guard," 1873- 
 74 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," 1874-5 ; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, 1877- 
 81 ; Medical Inspector, August 20, 1879 ; member of Examining Board, 
 1881-2 ; Naval Academy, 1882-3 ; " Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1885 ; Fleet- 
 Surgeon, N. A. Station, 1885-6; special duty, New York, 1886-8. Retired, 
 September 14, 1888. 
 
 A. S. Oberly. Born in Pennsylvania, April 7, 1837. Appointed from 
 Connecticut; commissioned as Assistant Surgeon, July 30, 1861 ; attached to 
 receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston, and to frigate "Sabine," 1861; gunboat 
 " Kineo," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; present during the bom 
 bardment and passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 1862 ; at the attempted 
 passage of the batteries at Port Hudson by Farragut s fleet, March 14, 1863 ; 
 engagement with batteries at Grand Gulf, Donaldsonville, battle of Baton 
 Rouge, and siege of Port Hudson, 1862-3 ; at the request of the Medical 
 Director, on duty with the army during the siege of Port Hudson, and, owing 
 to want of army surgeons, assisted also in caring for the Union and Confed 
 erate wounded after the attack on Fort Butler, 1863 ; Naval Academy, 
 1863-4, including summer cruise of the " Macedonian ; " steamer "Santiago 
 de Cuba," 1864-5 ; present during both bombardments on Fort Fisher, in 
 December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; Naval Hospital, New York, and 
 steamer " Rhode Island," 165; Navy 1 ard, New York, 1866. Commis 
 sioned as Surgeon, June 19, 1866; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 
 1866-8; steam-sloop " Narragansett," West. Indies, 1869; sloop "Ports 
 mouth," South Atlantic Squadon, 1870-1 ; receiving-ship and Navy Yard at 
 Boston, 1871-3 ; iron-clad " Dictator," North Atlantic Fleet, 1874-5 ; Navy 
 Yard and Hospital, Pensacola, Florida, 1875-9; Torpedo Station, Newport, 
 R. I., 1879-80; U. S S. " Rhode Island," North Atlantic Station, 1880-1 ; 
 U. S. S. " Richmond," and as Fleet-Surgeon of the Asiatic Station, 1881-4. 
 Commissioned as Medical Inspector, March 4,1884; U. S. Navy Yard and 
 Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., 1884-8; U. S. S. " Richmond," 1888. Re 
 tired, January, 1889, from causes incident to exposure on Asiatic Station, 
 1881-4. 
 
 Theorem Woolverton. Born in Canada. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, July 17, 1862; entered the service as Assistant Surgeon ; attached to 
 steam-frigate " Wabash," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863; Naval 
 Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 1864; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1865; 
 Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1866 ; steamer " Monocacy," Asiatic Squad 
 ron, 1866-9. Commissioned as Surgeon, November 23, 1868; steamer 
 " Michigan," 1870-1 ; " Shenandoah," European Fleet, 1871-3 ; receiving- 
 ship "Ohio," 1874-5; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1875-7; "Plymouth," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, 1877-8 ; " Powhatan," N. A. Squadron, 1879-80 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, 1881-4; "Shenandoah," Pacific Station, 
 1884-6 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1887-90. Promoted to Medical Inspector, 
 
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 June, 1888; " Philadelphia," N. A., Station, September, 1890, to date of re 
 tirement, November 13, 1891. 
 
 William H. Jones. Born in Pennsylvania, December 15, 1840. 
 Appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon U. S. N., April. 1863; on duty, Naval 
 Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia, 1863. Appointed Assistant Surgeon U. S. N., 
 August 12, 1863; U. S. S. "Pensacola," W. G. B. Squadron, 1863-4; 
 U. S. S. "Marblehead" (practice-cruise), 1864; U. S. Naval Academy, 
 practice-ships, 1864; U. S. ram "Tennessee," W. G. B. Squadron, 1864-5; 
 Naval Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1865 ; Naval Hospital, Pensacola, 
 Florida, 1865-6; U S. S. " W. G. Anderson," W. G. B, Squadron, 1866; 
 Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, -1866-7. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, December 24, 1866; U. S S. "Maumee," Asiatic 
 Station, 1867-9; Navy Yard, Washington, District of Columbia, 1870-1 ; 
 U. S. S. " Jamestown," South Pacific Station, 1871; U. S. S. "Saranac," 
 North Pacific Station, 1871 ; U. S. S. " Peusacola," Pacific Fleet, ^1871-3; 
 U. S. S. " Portsmouth," survey of the Pacific, 1873-5. Commissioned as 
 Surgeon, July, 1873 ; U- S. training-ship " Portsmouth," San Francisco, Cali 
 fornia, 1875; U.S. receiving-ship "Potomac," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
 1875-7; IT. S. training-ship "Constitution," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 
 1877; U. S. S. "Constitution," European Station, 1878-9; Naval Hospital, 
 New York, 1879-80; "Michigan" (on the Lakes), 1881; " Wachusett," 
 Pacific Station, 1881-5; Navy Yard, League Island, 1885-9; " Swatara," 
 special service, March, 1890, to May, 1891. Promoted Medical Inspector, 
 November 14, 1891 ; Navy Yard, League Island, May, 1891, to July, 1893; 
 waiting orders, July, 1#93. Retired from active service and placed on the 
 retired list of the Navy, June 21, 1894. 
 
 SURGEONS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from long and faithful service. 
 
 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 " Swatara," European Squadron, 1868-9. Com 
 missioned as Surgeon, November 24, 1868 ; on duty at Quarantine Hospital, 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1870; "Wyoming." N. A. Station, 1872-4 ; 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1874; member Board of Examiners, 1874; Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk, 1879-81 ; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1881-2. Retired, 1884. 
 
 E. D. Payne. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsylvania, 
 Assistant Surgeon, September 20, 1861 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, Novem 
 ber 11, 1861, to December 17, 1861 ; U. S. frigate "Congress," N. A. B. 
 Squadron, December 28, 1861, to March 10, 1862, and participated in the 
 Hampton Roads fight with the " Merrimac ;" leave of absence till June 28, 
 1862 ; U. S. S. " Powhatan," S. A. B. Squadron, July 8, 1862, to May 4, 
 1863 ; attack on Fort Sumter, April, 1863 ; sick leave, May 20, to June 23, 
 1863; Naval Rendezvous, Chicago, 111., June 23 to September 2, 1863; U. 
 S. S. "Metacomet," W. G. B. Squadron, fiom September, 1863, to January 
 26, 1865 ; participated in battle of Mobile Bay and numerous small engage 
 ments ; special mention by commanding officer of " Metacomet " in his report 
 of the battles of Mobile Bay ; Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, March 6 to 
 July 9, 1865. Passed Assistant Surgeon, June 26, 1865 ; Pacific Squadron, 
 
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 U. 8. S. "Farrallones," August 31, 1865, to May 3, 1866; U.S. S. "St. 
 Mary s," May 3, to September 26, 1866 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, 
 December 6, 1866, to January 24, 1868 ; leave of absence, January 24, to 
 July 23, 1868; Pacific Squadron, U. S. S. "Saranac," August 27, 1868, to 
 January, 1869 ; U. S. S. " Jamestown," January, 1868, to April, 1871 ; leave 
 of absence, April 21, to September 4, 1871 ; Naval Hospital, New York, Sep 
 tember 10, to September 20, 1871 ; Naval Hospital, Boston, September 23, 
 1871, to June 9, 1873. Promoted to Surgeon, November 14,1871; sick 
 leave, June 9, J873, to April 13, 1876. Placed on list of retired officers on 
 account of sickness due to causes incident to the service, April 13, 1876. 
 
 Andrew Moses Moore. Born in Bedford County, Tennessee, Decem 
 ber 25, 1845 ; graduated from Medical Department of University of Penn 
 sylvania, March, 1869. Commissioned Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, April 
 19, 1869; attached to Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., from June to 
 December, 1869; to U. S. Coast Survey steamer "Bibb," from January to 
 July, 1870 ; to U. S. S. "Saco," European and Asiatic Stations, from July, 
 1870, to September, 1873. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, February 
 24, 1874; on duty at Naval Hospital, New York, from May, 1874, to July, 
 1875; practice-ship "Mayflower," from June to September, 1876; U. S. S. 
 " Essex," South Atlantic Station, from November, 1876, to October, 1879 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., May, 1880, to April, 1882. Promoted to 
 Surgeon,M?hh relative rank of Lieutenant, April 1, 1881 ; attached to Naval 
 Station, New London, Conn., from April to September, 1882; training-ship 
 " Portsmouth," from October, 1882, to October, 1885 ; Marine Headquarters, 
 Washington, D. C., from November, 1885, to February, 1887; Naval Sta 
 tion, New London, from July to November, 1888; U. S. S. "Kearsarge," 
 North Atlantic Station, from November, 1888, to November, 1890; Naval 
 Hospital , Mare Island, Cal.,from November, 1890, to March, 1892 ; attained 
 the relative rank of Lieutenant-Commander, April 3, 1892 ; Surgeon of the 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., from March, 1892, to June, 1893. Placed 
 on the retired list, on account of physical disability, August 14, 1893, in 
 conformity with Section 1453, Revised Statues. 
 
 John W. Ross. Born in Tennessee. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 March 21, 1870; " Tallapoosa," North Atlantic Station, 1870; flag-ship 
 "California," Pacific Station, 1871-3 ; Naval Hospital, Norfolk, 1874. Pro 
 moted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1875; flag-ship " Franklin," European 
 Station, 1875-6 ; flag-ship " Trenton," European Station, 1876-7 ; volun 
 teered and served in Memphis yellow-fever epidemic of 1878-9, for which 
 he was promoted eight numbers in rank by the President, by and with the 
 advice and consent of the Senate, in accordance with Section 1506, Revised 
 Statutes ; school-ship " St. Mary s," 1879-82. Promoted to Surgeon, 1881 ; 
 "Iroquois," " Onward," and " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1883-5 ; Navy 
 Yard, Pensacola, 1886-9 ; volunteered and served in East Florida yellow- 
 fever epidemic of 1888, during which he had charge at Fernandino ; Navy 
 Yard, Pensacola, 1890-3 ; " Independence," Mare Island, 1894. Retired, 
 May, 1894, for Retinitis originating in the line of duty. 
 
 Henry C. Eckstein. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Appointed 
 Assistant Surgeon, for duty aboard U S. army hospital transports, June 20, 
 1862 ; employed in conveying the sick and wounded to hospitals at Fortress 
 Monroe, Baltimore and Philadelphia; appointed Assistant Surgeon of Penn 
 sylvania Volunteers, August 2, 1862 ; afterwards honorably discharged, and 
 commissioned Assistant Surgeon in U. S. Navy, December 24, 1862 ; U. S. 
 Naval Hospital and Laboratory, January to March, 1863 ; frigate " Sabine," 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 267 
 
 special service, March to July, 1863; monitor " Passaic," July, 1863, to 
 January, 1864; while on "Passaic" was in following battles: attack on 
 Forts Wagner, Gregg, Sumter and Moultrie ; frigate " New Ironsides," Feb 
 ruary, 1864, to June, 1864; monitor " Nahant," June to July, 1864; moni 
 tor " Montauk," July, 1864 ; combined army and naval expedition up the 
 Stone River; the monitors " Passaic," " Montauk " and " Nahant " were fre 
 quently on advance and reserve picket near Forts Sumter and Moultrie ; 
 " Wissahickon," S. A. Squadron, July, 1864, to August, 1864 ; Naval Ren 
 dezvous, Philadelphia, August, 1864, to March, 1865 ; " General Lyon," 
 Mississippi Squadron, March, 1865, to August, 1865 ; "Memphis " (supply- 
 ship), September to November, 1865 ; receiving-ship " Princeton," November, 
 1865, to February, 1866; bark Purveyor," employed in conveying naval sup 
 plies to store-house at St. Paul de Loonda, South Africa, special service, March 
 to October, 1866 ; " Huron," " Kansas," and "Pawnee," S. A. Station, January, 
 1867, to July, 1869; " Guard," Darien Expedition, November, 1870, to July, 
 1871; Naval Hospital, Mare Island, November, 1871; " Narragansett," 
 Pacific Station, December, 1871, to April, 1873 ; visited the Hawaian, Phoenix, 
 Gilbert, Marshall and Samoan Islands, and Sidney, Australia; obtained 
 damages for the destruction of missionary property in Gilbert Islands ; Marine 
 Rendezvous, Richmond, May to September, 1873; recruiting duty, Baltimore, 
 November, 1873, to January, 1874; receiving-ship " St. Louis," September 
 to October, 1874; " Shawmut," N A. Station, December, 1874, to January, 
 1877 ; Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, April, 1877, to December, 1879; "Alli 
 ance," N. A. Station, January, 1880, to November, 1882 ; " Jeanette " Search 
 Expedition, June to November, 1881 ; steamed north to the ice pack, north 
 of Spitzbergen in 80 16 north latitude the furthest point north ever 
 reached by a man-of-war; left the coast of Spitzbergen September 25 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Philadelphia, January, 1883, to January, 1884 ; receiving-ship " St. 
 Louis," January, 1884, to March, 1886 ; "Adams," Pacific Station, May, 
 1886, to March, 1889 ; at Apia, Samoa, during war between two factions of 
 natives on duty at hospital on shore near the English Consulate ; Marine 
 Rendezvous, Philadelphia, May, 1889-92. Retired, May 10, 1893. 
 
 A. F. Magruder. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed Assistant 
 Surgeon, April 21, 1871 ; " Iroquois," Asiatic Station, 1872-4 ; Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, 1875. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon 1875 ; Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, 1875-6 ; " Saratoga," training-ship, 1877-9 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1880-1 ; charge medical stores, Villefranche, 1882-4. Promoted 
 to Surgeon, January, 1885 ; "Dolphin," special service, 1884-5 ; " Yantic," 
 N. A. Station, 1885-8 ; Marine Headquarters, Washington, 1888, to October, 
 1891 ; "Boston," Pacific Station, October, 1891, to November, 1893; sick 
 leave, November, 1893, to 1894 ; Headquarters Marine Corps, October, 1894, 
 to 1896. Retired, November, 1896. 
 
 Henry Stewart. Born in Louisiana. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 October, 22, 1868; receiving-ship "Vermont," 1868-9; " Sabine," special 
 cruise, 1869-70; "Severn," North Atlantic, 1871; "Canandaigua," North 
 Atlantic, 1872 ; Marine Rendezvous, New York, 1872-3. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1873 ; Naval Station, New Orleans, 1873-4 ; "Rich 
 mond," South Pacific, 1874-7; "Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1879-81. Pro 
 moted to Surgeon, October 6, 1878 ; " Michigan," Northwestern Lakes, 
 1882-3. Retired, 1884. 
 
 James H. Gaines. Born in Virginia. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 December 20, 1873; " Saranac," Pacific Fleet, 1874; N. P. Station, 1875; 
 " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1875-7. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 
268 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1876; Bureau of Medicine, 1877-8; "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1879-82 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Washington, 1883-5; "Dolphin," special service, 1885-9. 
 Promoted to Surgeon, July, 1888 ; Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, 
 Arkansas, 1889-91. Retired, March, 1891. 
 
 Howard Smith. Born in Ohio. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, July 
 13 1871 ; Naval Hospital, Washington, 1871-2 ; " Omaha." S. P. Station, 
 1872-5. Promoted to Passed Assistant Surgeon, 1875; Naval Hospital, New 
 York, 1876; "Portsmouth," special service, 1877-80; receiving-ship "Inde 
 pendence," 1880-3 ; " Nipsic," S. A. Station, March, 1883-6. Promoted to 
 Surgeon, December, 1883 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1886-90. Retired, 
 November, 1890. 
 
 Homer L. Law. Born in Connecticut. Appointed Assistant Surgeon, 
 July 9, 1870 ; " Congresss," North Atlantic Fleet and European Station, 
 1870-4; receiving-ship " Sabine," 1874-5 Promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Surgeon, June 19, 1875 ; receiving-ship " Sabine," 1875-6; "Ranger," 
 Asiatic Station, 1876-80; Navy Yard, League Island, 1881-3. Promoted 
 to Surgeon, August 22, 1884; "Yantic," North Atlantic Station, 1883-5; 
 receiving-ship "Wabash," 1886. Retired, Dec. 17, 1886 Service in the 
 Arctic: "Congress," 1871, with "Polaris;" "Yantic," 1883, with "Proteus." 
 
 William Martin. Appointed from Louisiana as Acting Assistant Sur 
 geon, January 10, 1874; Naval Station, New Orleans, La., 1874-6; " Ca- 
 nonicus," 1876-9 ; honorably discharged, June 30, 1879. Assistant Surgeon, 
 April 14, 1882. Surgeon, October 1, 1890; leave of absence, 1883-4; 
 Naval Rendezvous, San Francisco, July, 1888, to December, 1891 ; " Thetis," 
 special service, December, 1891, to December, 1892; waiting orders, Decem 
 ber, 1892, until date of retirement, December 25, 1893. 
 
 Ernest Norfleet. Native of North Carolina. Appointed from North 
 Carolina, Assistant Surgeon, May 21, 1874 ; June to December, 1874, Naval 
 Hospital, Washington, D. C. ; January to May, 1875, Darien Survey; June 
 to September, 1875, special duty, Washington, D. C. ; September, 1875, to 
 June, 1876, U. S. S. " Gettysburg ; " November, 1876, to July, 1877, U. S. S. 
 "Hartford;" July and August. 1877, U. S. S. " Powhatan ; " September, 
 1877, to February, 1878, Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. ; February to Octo 
 ber, 1878, Naval Hospital, Chelsea, Mass.; December 10, 1878, Passed 
 Assistant Surgeon; February to May, 1879, receiving-ship "Franklin;" 
 May, 1879, to April, 1882, U. S S. " Wachusett ; " June and July, 1882, 
 receiving-ship " Passaic ; " August, 1882, to November, 1883, Naval Hos 
 pital, Mare Island, Cal.; November, 1883, to February, 1884, U S. S. 
 "Alert;" March to July, 1884, Naval Hospital, Yokohama; July, 1884, 
 to January, 1885, U. S. S. " Monocacy ; " January, 1885, to July, 1886, 
 Naval Hospital, Yokohama; July to September, 1886, U S. S. "Alert;" 
 February, 1887, to November, 1888, IT. S Naval Hospital, Mare Island, 
 Cal.* December, 1888, to July, 1889, U. S. S. " Trenton ; " September, 1889, 
 to November, 1891, U. S. S. " Monocacy." Commissioned Surgeon, Septem 
 ber 26, 1891. Retired, October 31, 1892. 
 
 D. M. Guiteras. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Assistant Surgeon, 
 June 3, 1879; Naval Hospital, New York, 1879; U. S. S. "Powhatan," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1879-81. Passed Assistant Surgeon, June 27, 1882 ; 
 receiving-ship " Colorado," 1881-3 ; " Swatara," North Atlantic Station, 
 1883; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1883-6 ; "Despatch," 1887-9; Naval Hospi 
 tal, Philadelphia, 1890-93; Naval Laboratory, New York, July, 1893-5. 
 Promoted to Surgeon, May, 1895; U. S. S. "Montgomery," August, 1895; 
 sick leave, February, 1896. Retired, October, 1896. 
 
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 Thomas C. Craig. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania ; entered service as Assistant Surgeon, July 9, 1881 ; ordered to U. S. 
 receiving-ship "Colorado," at New York ; detached, 1882, and ordered to U. 
 
 5. steamer " Jamestown," at Mare Island, California ; detached, July, 1882, 
 and ordered to U. S. steamer "Nantucket;" detached, December, 1882, and 
 ordered to U. S. receiving-ship "Colorado;" detached, June, 1883, and 
 ordered to Naval Hospital, New York ; detached, September, 1883, and 
 ordered to U. S. steamer " Minnesota." Appointed Passed Assistant Surgeon, 
 May 1, 1884; detached and ordered to " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station ; 
 detached and ordered to "Marion," Asiatic Station, 1885: detached, 1887, 
 ordered to Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va. ; detached, 1886, and ordered to 
 Naval Hospital, New York, to 1896 ; Marine Rendezvous, New York, July, 
 1896-7 Commissioned as Surgeon, October, 1896. Retired, March, 1897. 
 
 J. W. Baker. Appointed from Massachusetts. Assistant Surgeon, July 
 
 6, 1882. Passed Assistant Surgeon, July 30, 1885 ; " Juniata," Asiatic Sta 
 tion, 1883-5 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1886-7 ; Naval Hospital, 1887-8 ; 
 " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1888-92; school-ship "Enterprise," December, 
 1892-95 ; Recorder Examining Board, New York, November, 1893-6 ; U. 
 S. S. " Bennington," June, 1896; Hospital, Mare Island, May, 1897. Re 
 tired, November, 1897. 
 
 Robert Whiting. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Surgeon, June 
 21, 1875. Passed Assistant Surgeon, December 17, 1878; receiving-ship 
 " Potomac," 1875-6 ; training-ship " Constitution," 1876-9 ; training-ship 
 "Constellation," 1879-80; "Alaska," Pacific Station, 1880-2; receiving-ship 
 "Wabash," 1883; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1883-4; Naval Hospital, 
 New York, 1884-6; Pacific Station, 1886-9; receiving-ship "Minnesota," 
 1889-90 ; school-ship " St. Mary s," May, 1890, to August, 1893. Promoted 
 to Surgeon, December 15, 1891; "Monterey," Pacific Station, August, 
 1893-6 ; waiting orders, December, 1896. Retired, February, 1897. 
 
 PAY CORPS. 
 
 PAY DIRECTORS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Charles H. Eldredge. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from New 
 York, July 10, 1861 ; entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to 
 store-ship "Supply," North Atlantic and Gulf Squadrons, 1861-2 ; attached 
 to steam sloop " Canandaigua," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862- 
 4. Promoted to Paymaster, February 6, 1862 ; special duty, Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1864-6 ; Navy Yard and Station, Pensacola, Florida, 1866-8 ; 
 Storekeeper, Asiatic Fleet, 1869-72. Promoted to Pay- Inspector, July 3, 
 1871 ; Pay-Office at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1872-5 ; Fleet-Paymaster, 
 South Pacific Station, 1875-6 ; and of South Atlantic Station, 1876-8. Pro 
 moted to Pay-Director, August 31. 1881 ; Inspector of Provisions, Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, 1879-82 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1884-6 ; Pay-Office, Philadel 
 phia, 1886-9 ; General Store-keeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1889-90 ; Navy 
 Pay-Office, Norfolk, Va., April, 1890, to May, 1893; Navy Pay-Office, Bal 
 timore, May, 1893, to June, 1896 ; Navy Pay-Office, Norfolk, November, 
 1896, to date. 
 
270 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 William W. Williams. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio, July 
 11, 1861, as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; and on August 29, 1861, as Assistant 
 Paymaster; attached to steamer "Louisiana," North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1862-4; at battles of Roanoke Island, Elizabeth City and New- 
 bern, in 1862 ; on the " Louisiana," and at the three weeks siege of Wash 
 ington, North Carolina ; in command of army gunboat l< Eagle," and on the 
 staff of General J. G. Foster for that time. Promoted to Paymaster, March 
 2, 1864; steam-sloop " Wachusett," Brazil Squadron, 1864; was attached to 
 " Wachusett" .at the time of capture of the "Florida," at Bahia, Brazil, in 
 October, 1864; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing to the Mississippi 
 Squadron, 1864-5; store-ship "Fredonia," at Callao, 1866-8 ; is one of the 
 three surviving officers of the " Fredonia," which ship was wrecked by tidal 
 wave at Arica, Peru, on August 13, 1868 ; special duty, South Pacific Squad 
 ron, 1869 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1870-3. Promoted 
 to Pay -Inspector, October, 1871 ; in 1871 Paymaster Williams was advanced 
 ten numbers in his corps for gallant and meritorious service at Wallop s 
 Island, Va., and Washington, North Carolina, in 1861-3; Fleet- Pay master, 
 N. A. Station, 1874-5 ; Pay-Office, Washington, 1875-8 ; Inspector of Pro 
 visions, Navy Yard, Washington, 1878-80; Fleet-Paymaster, European 
 Station, 1881-3. Pay-Director, December 26, 1882 ; Pay-Office, San Fran 
 cisco, 1884-7; General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1889-91; 
 General Storekeeper, Naval Station, New London, Conn., November, 1893- 
 97 ; Puget Sound Naval Station, April, 1897, to date. 
 
 Edward May. Born in Massachusetts Appointed from Massachusetts, 
 September 6, 1861 ; entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to 
 steam gun-boat "Unadilla," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862. 
 Promoted to Paymaster, April 14, 1862; Mississippi Squadron, 1862-4; 
 special duty, Washington, 18646 ; steam-sloop u Lackawanna," North Paci 
 fic Squadron, 1866-9 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1869-71 ; in charge of stores, 
 Honolulu, 1871-4 ; practice-ship " Constellation," 1875. Promoted to Pay- 
 Inspector, September 25, 1875 ; Fleet-Paymaster, N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; 
 Inspector of Provisions, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1877-81 ; 
 Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1883-4. Pro 
 moted to Pay -Director, December 24, 1883 ; special duty, 1885-6 ; Pay-Office, 
 Boston, 1886-9 ; General Store-keeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1890 ; Navy 
 Pay-Office, Washington, D. C., May, 1890-91 ; Navy Pay-Office, Boston, 
 October, 1891, to 1894; General Store-keeper, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. 
 H., 1895 ; General Store-keeper, Navy Yard, Boston, April, 1895, to 1896 ; 
 Navy Pay Office, Boston, April, 1896, to date. 
 
 Henry Martyn Dennison. Born in New York, June 13, 1840. 
 Entered the service as Assistant Paymaster, September 9, 1861. Promoted 
 to Paymaster, April 14, 1862 ; Pay -Inspector, August 19, 1876 ; Pay-Director, 
 July 31, 1884. Duty as follows: November, 1861, to September, 1862, gun 
 boat " Winona," AVest Gulf Squadron ; at bombardment of Forts Jackson 
 and St. Philip, and capture of New Orleans ; December, 1862, to January, 
 1863, supply steamer u Blackstoue ; " March, 1863, to May, 1865, steamer 
 " Ticonderoga ; " at both battles of Fort Fisher, August, 1865, to August, 
 1868 ; store ship "Onward," South Atlantic Squadron, and Naval Storekeeper, 
 Rio de Janeiro; October, 1868, to October, 187L steamer "Michigan," on 
 the lakes ; September, 1872, to September, 1874, Fleet Paymaster, North 
 Atlantic Squadron, flag-ship "Worcester;" September, 1875, to January, 
 1876, Navy Yard, Philadelphia ; January, 1876, to January, 1879, Navy 
 Yard, League Island ; February, 1880, to June, 1882, member of Board of 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 271 
 
 Inspection ; June, 1882, to July, 1884, Fleet-Paymaster, Pacific Squadron, 
 flag-ship " Hartford ;" October, 1884, to July, 1887, Inspector Provisions and 
 Clothing, Navy Yard, Mare Island; July, 1887, to June, 1888, Navy Pay- 
 Office, San Francisco ; March, 1889, to March, 1892, Naval Home, Philadel 
 phia; March, 1892, Navy Pay-Office, Philadelphia; May 1895, to April, 
 1896, General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, Portsmouth. 
 
 Rufus Parks. Born in Maine. Captain s Clerk, " Vandalia," Novem 
 ber, 1860, to June, 1861 ; Acting Paymaster, June 3, 1861, to September, 
 1861; Assistant Paymaster, September 12, 1861; "Vandalia," Blockading 
 Squadron, 1861-3 Paymaster, April 14, 1862 ; store-keeper, A spin wall, U. 
 S. S. "Falmouth," 1863; a San Jacinto," Gulf Squadron, 1^64-5; "Monad- 
 nock," iron-clad, voyage from Philadelphia to San Francisco, 1865-6 ; wait 
 ing orders, 1867-73 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1873-4 ; " Brooklyn," 
 and as Fleet-Paymaster, S. A. Station, 1874-6 ; Pay-Office, Norfolk, Va., 
 1876-80. Pay-Inspector, February, 1877 ; " Pensacola," 1880-4, and as Fleet- 
 Paymaster, Pacific Station ; Inspector Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, 1884-6, and as general store-keeper, 1887-8. Pay-Director, August 
 10, 1886 ; general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Boston, 1889-92 ; general store 
 keeper, League Island, December, 1892, to June, 1893 ; general store-keeper, 
 Navy Yard, New York, June, 1893-6; waiting orders, June, 1896; Navy 
 Pay Station, Philadelphia, July, 1896; general store-keeper at Navy Yard, 
 Washington, March, 1898, to date. 
 
 Frank Carvill Cosby. Born in Kentucky. Appointed from Ken 
 tucky. First entered the service as Captain s Clerk, flagship " Cumberland," 
 African Squadron, 1857-9 ; Captain s Clerk, flagship " Richmond," Mediter 
 ranean Squadron, 1860-1. Appointed as Assistant Paymaster, August 24, 
 1861 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Potomac Flotilla, 1862-3. Promoted to Paymaster, 
 April 14, 1862 ; store-ship Vermont," and in charge of stores South Atlan 
 tic Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; receiving-ship " Alleghany," Inspector 
 Provisions and Clothing, Baltimore, and Paymaster Naval Academy, Annap 
 olis, 1865-7 ; in charge of stores, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, 1868-9 ; 
 receiving-ship "Independence," San Francisco, 1869 ; flagships "Pensacola" 
 and " Saranac," Pacific Fleet, 1869-72 ; " Franklin " and Wabash," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1873-4; Bureau of Provisions, 1874; Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 1875-7. Promoted to Pay Inspector, April 12, 1877 ; special duty, 
 Navy Department, 1874-7 ; Fleet-Paymaster, flagship "Trenton," European 
 Station, 1877-81 ; Inspector of Provisions, Navy Yard, Washington, 1881-4 ; 
 special duty, Navy Department, 1884-5 ; Pay-Office, Baltimore, 1885 ; In 
 spector Provisions, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1886 ; general store 
 keeper, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1887-9. Promoted to Pay Director, 
 July 5, 1889 ; general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, August, 1891, to 
 July, 1892 ; duty at World s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1892, to 
 June 30, 1894; Navy Pay Office, Washington, October, 1894, to July 15, 1897 ; 
 Member Board of Inspection and Survey of Vessels, Navy Department, July 
 16, 1897, to March 16, 1898 ; President Naval Examining Board, December 
 1, 1897, and General Inspector Pay Corps, March 16, 1898, to date. 
 
 Edwin Stewart. Born in New York City. Appointed from New 
 York, September 9, 1861. Entered the service as Assistant Paymaster; 
 attached to steam-gunboat " Pembina," South Atlantic Station, 1861-2, 
 taking part in the bombardment and capture of Port Royal. Promoted to 
 Paymaster, April 14, 1862 ; attached to steamer " Richmond," West Gulf 
 Blockading Squadron, 1862-5, taking part in the engagement at Port Hud 
 son and the capture of the forts in Mobile Bay ; steamer %< Michigan," on the 
 
272 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 lakes, 1865-8 ; Navy Pay-Office at Washington, 1869-72 ; member Board 
 Visitors to Naval Academy, Annapolis, 1872 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Asiatic 
 Station, flag-ship " Hartford," 1872-5 ; special duty at New York, 1877-9. 
 Promoted Pay- Inspector, March 8, 1879 ; Inspector of Provisions and Cloth 
 ing, Navy Yard, League Island, 1880 ; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1880-3 ; Fleet-Paymaster, European Station, flag 
 ship "Lancaster," 1883-5; Navy Pay-Office, New York, 1886-90. Ap 
 pointed Paymaster- General of U. S Navy, and Chief of Bureau of Supplies 
 and Accounts of the Navy, May 16, 1890. Promoted Pay-Director, Septem 
 ber 12, 1891. ~Reappointed Paymaster- General of the Navy, May 16, 1894. 
 
 George Cochran. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania ; Assistant Paymaster, September 27,1861. Commissioned by Presi 
 dent Abraham Lincoln, February 7, 1862. Promoted Paymaster, June 12, 
 1863. Promoted Pay Inspector, December 6, 1880. Promoted Pay Director, 
 November 19, 1891; was attached to steam-sloop, "Wyoming," in the 
 Pacific and East Indies, engaged in the search for the rebel cruiser " Ala 
 bama ; " was present in the engagement of the " Wyoming" with the Japan 
 ese forts and vessels at Shimono, Seki, Japan, July 16, 1863 ; United States 
 frigate " Wabash," North Atlantic Squadron under Admiral Porter ; in both 
 engagements at Fort Fisher, mouth of the Cape Fear River, N. C., Decem 
 ber 24 and 25, 1864, and January 13, 14, 15, 1865; U. S. S. " De Soto," 
 1865-7, North Atlantic Squadron ; this ship carried Secretary of State 
 Seward, and his son, the Assistant Secretary, to the West Indies in 1866, 
 when the treaty for the acquisition of the Danish West India Islands was 
 said to have been made ; U. S. R. S. u Potomac," and Naval Asylum, Phila 
 delphia, 1868-70 ; U. S. steamer " Congress," North Atlantic and Mediter 
 ranean Squadrons, was sent in August, 1871, to Disco Island, Greenland, 
 
 Paymaster, North Pacific Station, 1875-8 ; Inspector of Provisions, Clothing, 
 etc., Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1878-80; U. S. flag-ship "Rich 
 mond," Asiatic Station, Fleet-Paymaster, 1881-3 ; Naval Asylum, Philadel 
 phia, 1886-9 ; Purchasing and Disbursing Paymaster Philadelphia, 1889- 
 92 ; leave of absence, April 1, 1892, to April 1, 1893 ; general store-keeper, 
 Navy Yard, League Island, Philadelphia, April 1 to October 1, 1893 ; wait 
 ing orders, December, 1893, to 1896 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, November, 1896, 
 to date. 
 
 Joseph Adams Smith. Born in Machias, Maine, September 1, 1837. 
 Appointed from Maine, October 8, 1861, as Assistant Paymaster ; steam sloop, 
 " Kearsarge," 1861-4 ; commanded powder division of that ship in her battle 
 with the rebel cruiser " Alabama." Promoted to Paymaster, August 23, 
 1862 ; receiving-ship " Constellation," Norfolk, February 6, 1865, to July 7, 
 1*66, having at same time charge of accounts of numbers of sea-going 
 vessels ; tk New Hampshire," 1866 ; Paymaster of Fleet, Gulf Squadron, 
 1866-7; receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston, September 30, 1867, to August 1, 
 1870; Judge Advocate General, Court Martial, March 4, 1870; Judge 
 Advocate General, Court Martial, February 8, 1871; U. S. S. flag-ship 
 California," through Straits of Magellan to California July 27, 1870, to 
 September 30, 1871 ; Navy Yard, Boston, October 7, 1^71, to December 4, 
 1873; "Minnesota," 1873; Navy Academy practice-ship "Constellation," 
 April 27, 1874, to October 8, 1874 ; Paymaster of the Fleet, Asiatic Station ; 
 < Tennessee," April 17, 1875, to July 23, 1878. Promoted to Pay Inspector, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 273 
 
 May 15, 1879 ; Navy Pay Office, Washington, D. C., November 7, 1878, to 
 December 1, 1881 ; Paymaster-General, U. S. N, June 27, 1882-6; Gen 
 eral Store, Portsmouth, N. H., June 30, 1889, to April 2, 1892. Promoted 
 to Pay Director, November 24, 1891 ; General Store, Washington, D. C., 
 April 2, 1892, to April 5, 1895 ; Naval Examining Board, Washington, D. C., 
 January 10, 1895 ; General Store, League Island, April 10, 1895 ; Wash 
 ington, D. C., temporary duty, May 20, 1896 ; Naval Examining Board, 
 New York, February 7, 1898. 
 
 Thomas T. Caswell. Born in Ehode Island. Appointed from Rhode 
 Island, September 9, 1861; entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; at 
 tached to steam-gunboat " Huron," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 1862 ; iron clad steamer " Sangamon," 1863 ; steam-sloop " Seminole," West 
 Gulf Squadron, 1863-4 ; steamer " Pawtuxent," N. A. Squadron, 1864. Pro 
 moted to Paymaster, September 17, 1863; store-ship Guard," European 
 Squadron, 1865-7 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1868-70 ; S. S. " Tennessee," 1871 ; 
 Fleet-Paymaster, Pacific Station, 1872-5 ; Inspector of Provisions, Norfolk, 
 1875-8 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1879-80 ; Pay-Office, New York, 1881-4 ; 
 "Hartford," 1884; Fleet- Paymaster, Pacific Station, 1884-6 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1887-90 ; sick leave, August, 1890, to September, 1891 ; Pay Director, 
 December 25, 1892 ; Navy Pay-Office, Washington, D. C., September, 1891-5; 
 Naval Academy, April, 1895, to date. 
 
 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 
 "Santiago de Cuba," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5; both 
 attacks on Fort Fisher. Promoted to Paymaster, March 9, 1865 ; in charge 
 of stores at Loan do, 1866 ; Navy Pay-Office, at San Francisco, California, 
 1868-71 ; U. S. S. "Plymouth," 1872-3 ; " Roanoke," iron-clad, N A Sta 
 tion, 1873-4 ; Naval Academy, 1875-80; special duty, 1881; Fleet-Pay 
 master, N. A. Station, 1881-4. Commissioned as Pay Inspector, July, 1884 ; 
 special duty, 1884 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1885-7 ; Bureau of Provisions 
 and Clothing, 1887-90 ; General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, New York, Octo 
 ber, 1890, to June, 1893; " Chicago," European Station, June, 1893-95; 
 leave of absence, May, 1895 ; Navy Pay-Office, New York, January, 1896 ; 
 General Storekeeper, New York Navy Yard, June, 1896, to date. 
 
 James E. Tolfree. Born in New York. Appointed from New York 
 as Acting Assistant Paymaster, September 13, 1862; ordered to U. S. S. 
 " Vanderbilt," special service, 1862-5. Appointed Assistant Paymaster, 
 March 3, 1865. Commissioned as Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; U. S. S. " Rich 
 mond," European Squadron, 1869-71 ; receiving-ship at New York, 1872-6. 
 Promoted ten (10) numbers in grade for meritorious service at Fort Fisher 
 in February, 1875 ; new commission, dated 22d January, 1866 ; Purchasing 
 Pay-Office, Philadelphia, Pa., 1876-7 ; Fleet-Paymaster, European Squadron, 
 1877-8; charge Naval Depot, Villefranche sur-Mer, 1878-9; Pay-Office, 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1879 ; Fleet-Paymaster, South Atlantic Station, 
 1879-82 ; receiving-ship at New York, 1882-5 ; Pay-Inspector, August, 
 10, 1886 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Asiatic Station, 1886-9 ; general store-keeper, 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1889-90 ; training-ship " Minnesota," December, 
 1890, to November, 1893 ; Navy Yard, New York, February, 1894, to date. 
 Pay Director, 1898. 
 
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274 RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 PAY-INSPECTORS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 George A. Lyon. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, June 11, 1862. Entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached 
 to the " Lexington " and " Tuscumbia," Mississippi Flotilla, 1862-3 ; partici 
 pated in the attack on Haines Bluff, December, 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 ; running 
 the Vicksburg batteries on the night of April 16,1863; battle of Grand 
 Gulf, April 29, 1863, and in all the engagements 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 engagements on Cape Fear River, which resulted in the sur 
 render of Wilmington, North Carolina; afterwards 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 Squadron. 1867-70; "Michigan," 1871-4; Inspector of 
 Provisions, Navy Yard, Washington, 1875-8 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1881-3 ; " Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1883 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Asiatic Station, 
 1883-6; Navy Pay-Office and Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1887-90. 
 Promoted to Pay-Inspector, September 15, 1888; Navy Pay-Office, San 
 Francisco, September, 1890, to September, 1893 ; waiting orders, September, 
 1893 ; Navy Pay Office, Boston, 1894 ; U. S. S. " New York," March, 1896 ; 
 settling accounts, July, 1897 ; waiting orders, July, 1897 ; Navy Pay Office, 
 Philadelphia, March, 1898, to date. Promoted to Pay Director, 1898. 
 
 Edward Bellows. Born April 28, 1840, Newport, R. L; private 8th 
 Regiment, N. Y. S. M., April 20, 1861 ; discharged, August 2, 1861. Assis 
 tant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, June 11, 1862. Paymaster, February 20, 1866. 
 Pay Inspector, July 5, 1889 ; with the 8th N. Y. S. M., under General Butler, 
 at Annapolis; Relay House and Baltimore, April to July, 1861; joined 
 McDowell s Army and at First Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861 ; served on 
 U. S. S. "Sonoma," with Admiral Wilkes Flying Squadron, 1862-3; on U. 
 S. S. " Osceola," North Atlantic Squadron, 1863-5; was in both attacks on 
 Fort Fisher, December, 1864, and January, 1865 ; served on the James 
 River and present at Fall of Richmond, 1865-9; U. S. S. u Shamokin," 
 South Atlantic Squadron ; on duty in San Francisco, California, 1869-80 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1880-81; U.S. S. "Alaska," 1881; U. S. S. 
 "Shenandoah," Pacific Squadron, 1883-5; U. S. S. Swatara," 1888-90; 
 U. S. S. " Marion " and Norfolk Navy Yard, 1890-2 ; Navy Pay-Office, San 
 Francisco, September, 1893-6; waiting orders, December, 1896 ; training- 
 ship and station, Newport, March, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Baltimore," October, 
 1897, to date. 
 
 George William Beaman. Born in Vermont. Appointed from Mis 
 souri, March 5, 1862 ; entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to 
 steam gun-boat " Seneca," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; sup 
 ply steamer " Union," for East and West Gulf Blockading Squadrons, 1863- 
 64; special duty, Mound City, Illinois, and Mississippi Flotilla, 1865 ; gunboat 
 "Algonquin," 1866. Promoted to Paymaster, March 28,1866; in charge 
 accounts of ships, Naval Academy, 1866-8 ; store-ship " Cyane," and Naval 
 Storehouse, Panama, 1869 ; steam-sloop " Osgipee," North and South Pacific 
 Stations, 1869-72 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1872-5 ; frigate " Franklin," 1876 ; 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1877; steamer " Monongahela," Asiatic Station, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 275 
 
 1878-9 ; Naval Home, Philadelphia, 1880-3 ; steamer " Shenandoah," Pacific 
 StatioD, 1885-6 ; general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Boston, 1887-9 ; cruiser 
 "Baltimore," 1890; general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 
 September, 1890, to December, 1892. Promoted to Pay- Injector, September 
 12, 1891; flag-ship " New York" and Fleet Paymaster, North Atlantic 
 Station, August, 1893, to April, 1896; Navy Yard, Boston, May, 1896. 
 
 Arthur Burtis. Born in New York. Appointed from New York, July 
 14, 1862 ; entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to steam-gun 
 boat "Sagamore," East Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862 ; steamer "Connec 
 ticut," special duty in Gulf and North Atlantic Blockading Squadrons, 1862- 
 64 ; engaged with Fort Fisher while chasing blockade-rumier the " Connec 
 ticut " captured several valuable prizes ; steamer " Muscoota/ Gulf Squadron, 
 1864-6. Promoted to Paymaster, May 4, 1866 ; League Island, Pennsylva 
 nia, 1867-9 ; member of Board of Examiners, 1867 ; Judge-Advocate of 
 Court-Martial, 1868 ; steamer " Brooklyn," European Fleet, 1870-3 ; Fleet- 
 Paymaster, European Station, 1871 ; member of General Court- Martial, 
 1871 ; member of Board of Examiners, 1873 ; Bureau of Provisions and 
 Clothing, Navy Department, 1873 ; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, 
 Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1874-5 ; steamer " St. Louis," 1875-6 ; leave of 
 absence, 1878 ; temporary duty, League Island, 1878-9 ; practice-ship "Con 
 stellation," 1880 ; detached from U. S. S. "Constellation, September, 1880; 
 on duty as Inspector of Flour, etc., New York, June, 1881 ; U. S. S. " Ga 
 lena," North Atlantic Squadron, September, 1883, to May 31, 1886; Pay 
 master, Navy Yard, New York, June 30, 1886, to May 15, 1889 ; U. S re 
 ceiving-ship "Vermont," May 15 to January 25, 1890 ; Fleet-Paymaster, 
 Pacific Station, January, 1890, to December, 1892. Promoted to Pay-In 
 spector, September 21, 1891 ; Navy Yard, New York, December, 1892-95 ; 
 settling accounts, member Board Inspection and Survey, January, 1896-97; 
 U. S. S. " New York " (Fleet-Paymaster), July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Edwin Putnam. Born in Maine. Appointed from Maine September 
 20,1862; entered the service as Assistant Paymaster ; attached to iron-clad 
 steamer " Nahant," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3; sloop 
 " Portsmouth," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; steamer " Macki 
 naw," North Atlantic Squadron, 1866. Promoted to Paymaster, May 4, 
 1866 ; in charge of stores at Loando, 1867-8 ; Paymaster at Portsmouth, 
 New Hampshire, 1869-72 ; " Benicia," N. P. Station, 1872-5 ; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1875-80; " Galena," Pacific Station, 1880-3 ; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H , 1884-7 ; " Atlanta," Squadron of Evolution, 
 1888, to November, 1891. Promoted to Pay-Inspector, November 19, 1891 ; 
 leave of absence, November, 1891, to June, 1892 ; Navy Yard, Boston, June, 
 1892-5; General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, Washington, April, 1895-8; 
 charge Navy Pay-Office, Baltimore, March, 1898 ; May, 1^98, General Store 
 keeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., to date. 
 
 Robert P. Lisle. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, November 2, 1863 ; entered the service as Acting Assistant Paymaster ; 
 special duty, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1863-4. Appointed Assist 
 ant Paymaster, July 2, 1864 ; iron-clad " Canonicus," South Atlantic Blockad 
 ing 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, 1870-2; "Alaska," European Squadron, 1873-6; 
 receiving-ship "St. Louis," 1877-8; "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 1881-3 ; 
 receiving-ship " St. Louis," 1884-7 ; "Trenton," special service, 1887 ; " Lan- 
 
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 caster," 1887-9; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 1889-92. Promoted to Pay- 
 Inspector, January 19, 1892 ; general storekeeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Vir 
 ginia, September, 1892-5 ; Navy Pay -Station, Philadelphia, May, 1895-6 ; 
 U. S. S. " San Francisco," September, 1896, to date. 
 
 Leonard A. Frailey. Born in the District of Columbia. Appointed 
 from District of Columbia, August 20, 1864. Entered the service as Acting 
 Assistant Paymaster; attached to steamer "Quaker City," North Atlantic 
 and West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1864-5 ; participated in the attack on 
 Fort Fisher; steamer "Nyack," Pacific Squadron, 1865-7. Commissioned 
 as Passed Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, July 23, 1866; special 
 duty, Navy Yard, Washington, 1867-8 ; Naval Station, Mound City, Illinois, 
 1868-71. Commissioned as Paymaster, January 29, 1869; " Wachusett," 
 European Fleet, 1871-4 ; Bureau of Provisions, 1875 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1876-9; special duty, Washington, D. C., 1880 ; practice-ship "Dale," 1880 ; 
 training-ship " Constitution," 1881 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk , Va., 1882-5 ; 
 "Marion," Asiatic Fleet, 1885-6; " Ossipee," 188H-7 ; special duty, Navy 
 Department, 1887-91 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Asiatic Station, March, 1891, to 
 1894 ; settling accounts, June, 1894. Promoted to Pay Inspector, May, 1894 ; 
 special duty, Washington, October, 1894 ; Bureau Supplies and Accounts, 
 December, 1894; Navy Yard, Washington, July, 1895, to date. 
 
 George E. Hendee. Appointed Paymaster s Clerk, October 10, 1861 ; 
 served as such on the U. S. S. u Brandy wine " and U. S. S. " Pinola," until 
 February, 1864. Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, March 25, 1864 ; 
 served on U. S. S. " Don," flag-ship of the Potomac Flotilla, until January, 
 1866. Appointed Passed Assistant Paymaster in the regular service, July 23, 
 1866; on U. S. S. "Ossipee," from October, 1866, to August 1869. 
 Appointed Paymaster, February 27, 1869 ; served on tj. S. S. " Independ 
 ence," from January, 1870, to October, 1871 ; on U.S. steamer "Pensacola," 
 from October, 1871, to February, 1872; on U. S. S. "Richmond," October, 
 1872, to December, 1873 ; on U. S S. " Saranac," from December, 1873, to 
 May, 1875 ; on duty in Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, November and 
 December, 1875 ; at Navy Pay-Office, Norfolk, Va., from January, 1876, to 
 October, 1876; on U. S. S. " Independence," from August, 1877, to May, 
 1878 ; at Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal, from May, 1878, to August, 1880 ; 
 on U. S. S. "Minnesota," from February, 1881, to February, 1884; on U. S. 
 S. " Powhatan," from August, 1884, to May, 1886 ; on U. S S. " Franklin," 
 from July, 1886, to January, 1888 ; ordered on duty as general store-keeper, 
 at the Navy Yard, League Island, Phila., February 1, 1888, to December 2, 
 1891 ; waiting orders, December 2, 1891, to September 30, 1892 ; " Philadel 
 phia," N. A. Station, September 30, 1892-5. Promoted to Pay Inspector, 
 January, 1895 ; general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, March, 1895 ; 
 general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Boston, March, 1896, to date. 
 
 William W. Woodhull. Born in New York. Appointed Acting 
 Assistant Paymaster, May 13, 1863 ; U. S. steamer " Delaware," North Atlan 
 tic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5. Commissioned Passed Assistant Paymaster, 
 July 23, 1866; Naval Academy, practice-cruise, 1866; "Yantic," special 
 service, 1867-8; Paymasters Examining Board, Philadelphia, 1868-9; 
 " Miantonomah." special cruise, 1869-70, Peabody funeral. Commissioned 
 Paymaster, February 10,1870; "Shenandoah," European Station, 1870-3 ; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1873-6 ; in charge of Naval Depot, Nagasaki, Japan, 
 1877-9 ; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, League Island Navy Yard, 
 1880-1 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1881-4 ; Inspector Provisions and 
 Clothing, League Island Navy Yard, 1884-6 ; General Storekeeper, League 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 277 
 
 Island Navy Yard, 1887-8; receiving-ship "Minnesota," N. Y., 1888-9; 
 Assistant to General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, New York, 1889-90 ; " Balti 
 more," European Station, August, 1890, to September, 1893 ; General Store 
 keeper, Navy Yard, League Island, September, 1893, to 1895. Commissioned 
 Pay -Inspect or, March 1895 ; General Storekeeper, Mare Island, May, 1895 ; 
 Naval Home, Philadelphia, Paymaster League Island and receiving-ship 
 (t Richmond," February, 1897, to date. 
 
 Henry T. Wright. Born in New York. Served one year, five months, 
 and twenty days in Volunteer Army. Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, 
 February 19, 1864 ; Mississippi Squadron, 1864-6. Commissioned Passed 
 Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 1866; flagship "Estrella," Gulf Squadron, 
 1866; "Peoria," North Atlantic Station, 1867 ; "Nantasket," North Atlan 
 tic Station, 1869-72. Commissioned Paymaster, March 10, 1870 ; "Ossipee," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1873-4 ; "Benicia," North Pacific Station, 1875-6 ; 
 " Lackawanna," North Pacific Station, 1876-8; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 
 New Hampshire, 1878-81 ; " Lancaster," European Station, 1881-2 ; "Nip- 
 sic," South Atlantic Station, 1883-6; Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., 1886- 
 89 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Navy Department, 1889-90 ; Coast 
 Survey Office, 1890-3. Commissioned Pay Inspector, April 10, 1895 ; "New 
 ark," Fleet Paymaster, South Atlantic Station, 1893-6 ; receiving ship " Ver 
 mont," 1896-7 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1897. 
 
 D. A. Smith. Born in Rhode Island. Appointed Acting Assistant Pay 
 master, August 31, 1863; monitor " Nahant," South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, September 23, 1863, to November 26, 1864; Naval Brigade, 
 under Captain G. H. Preble, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, November 
 27 to December 31, 1864 ; " Wyoming," Asiatic Station, February 16, 1865, 
 to March 31, 1868. Commissioned Passed Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 
 1866 ; Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida, September 11, 1869, to November 16, 
 1872. Commissioned as Paymaster, July 21, 1870; store-ship "Onward," 
 South Pacific Station, December 17, 1872 to July 1, 1874 ; flag-ship "Wor 
 cester," North Atlantic Station, August 5, 1874, to June 15, 1875 ; steamer 
 " Plymouth," North Atlantic Station. June 16, 1875, to August 30, 1877; 
 R S. "Franklin," Norfolk Navy Yard, September 1, 1877, to December 10, 
 1880 ; U. S. S. " Alaska," Pacific Station, April 27, 1881, to April 3, 1883 ; 
 U. S. R. S. " Franklin," July 16, 1883, to August 25, 1886 ; U. S. S. 
 " Boston," North Atlantic Station, May 7, 1887, to October 31, 1889 ; U. S. 
 R. S. " Franklin," November 11, 1^89, to June, 1893 ; " Baltimore," Asiatic 
 Station, August, 1893, to 1896; March, 1896, Navy Pay Office, Norfolk; 
 U. S. S. " Olympia" (Fleet Paymaster), December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Geo. H. Griffin. Born at Hartford, Connecticut, April 24, 1839. 
 Private 4th Connecticut Infantry (changed to 1st Connecticut Artillery by 
 Act| of Congress), May, 1861, to June, 1864. Appointed an Acting Assist 
 ant Paymaster, November 18, 1864; "Hibiscus," East Gulf Squadron, 
 November, 1864. to August, 1865 ; League Island Station, December, 1865, 
 to January, 1867. Commissioned as Passed Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 
 1866; "Frolic," European Station, 1867-9 ; " Narraganset," Pacific Fleet, 
 1870-3; receiving-ship "Sabine," 1874-6. Commissioned as Paymaster, 
 October 3. 1874; "Enterprise," N. A. Station, 1877-8; receiving-ship "St. 
 Louis," 1880-3 ; " Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1885 ; " Trenton," Asiatic Station 
 1886 ; special duty, Chester, Penna., 1886 ; Assistant to General Storekeeper, 
 New York, 1887 ; receiving-ship "Independence." 1888-90; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1890, to October, 1891; " Atlanta," October, 1891, to July, 
 1893; training-ship " Monongahela," July, 1893, to 1894; waiting orders, 
 
278 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 March, 1894 ; settling accounts, December, 1894 ; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, January, 1895 ; Navy Pay Station, San Francisco, November, 1896, 
 to date. 
 
 Albert "W. Bacon. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Captain s 
 Clerk in the Navy, 1861-3 ; attached to 3rd Division of Porter s Mortar 
 Fleet, Farragut s Squadron, and in the different engagements on the Missis 
 sippi River, from the capture of the forts below New Orleans to the attack 
 on Vicksburg. Appointed an Acting Assistant Paymaster, November 7, 
 1863 ; U. S. steamer " Galatea," 1863-5, West India Squadron ; U. S. 
 steamers " Marblehead " and " Yantic," 1866-7. Commissioned Assistant 
 Paymaster, July 23, 1866, and Passed Assistant Paymaster, August 1, 1866 ; 
 Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1868 ; on the U. S. S. " Portsmouth," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1869-72 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1872 ; 
 Naval Store-keeper at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1873-6. Commissioned as 
 Paymaster, October 25, 1874 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1876-7 ; 
 Paymaster, Navy Yard, Washington, 1877-8 ; Naval Store-keeper at Rio de 
 Janeiro, 1879-80; Bureau Provisions and Clothing, 1881; Naval Store 
 keeper, Nice, 1881-2 ; U. S. Steamer " Omaha," 1883 ; U. S. steamer "At 
 lanta," 1884-8 ; Paymaster, Navy Yard, Washington, 1889-93 ; general 
 store-keeper, Navy Yard, Mare Island, February 1, 1893, to February 28, 
 1895 ; Fleet-Paymaster, Asiatic Station, flag-ship " Olympia," March 1, 1895, 
 to January 11, 1897 ; general store-keeper, Mare Island Navy Yard, Feb 
 ruary 5, 1897, to date. Promoted to Pay- Inspector, February 12, 1898. 
 
 Charles W. Slamm. Born in New York. Appointed an Acting As 
 sistant Paymaster, November 4, 1862 ; Mississippi Squadron, 1862-5. Com 
 missioned as Past Assistant Paymaster, March 22, 1867; Bureau of Provis 
 ions, 1869 ; S. S. " Frolic," 1869-70; " Canandaigua," North Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1872; leave in Europe, 1873-4; "Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1876-8. 
 Commissioned as Paymaster, Ib77; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1878-81 ; " Kear- 
 sarge," European Station, 1884-6 ; special duty, New York, 1887; receiving- 
 ship "Minnesota," 1887; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1888, to November, 
 1891; waiting orders, November, 1891, to January, 1892; "Charleston," 
 special service squadron, January, 1892-95 ; leave of absence, April, 1895 ; 
 U. S receiving-ship " Wabash," October, 1895, to May, 1898; U. S. receiv 
 ing-ship "Franklin," May, 1898. 
 
 PAYMASTERS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 Joseph Foster. Born in Gloucester, Mass., June 17, 1841. Residence, 
 Portsmouth, N. H. Appointed from New Hampshire. Entered the service 
 as Captain s Clerk, October 3, 1862; attached to the steamer "Augusta," 
 Commander E. G. Parrott, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; 
 was present at the attack of the rebel iron-clads on the Blockading Squadron 
 at Charleston, S. C., January 31, 1863, and at Admiral Dupont s first attack 
 on Charleston, April 7, 1863. Apppointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, Octo 
 ber 19, 1863 ; attached to the steamer " Acacia," South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1863-5, which was stationed most of the time off Charleston, 
 S. C., was ashore under fire of Battery Marshall, Sullivan s Island, Septem 
 ber 14, 1864, and captured the British blockade-running steamer "Julia," 
 December 23, 1864 ; was present at the fall of Charleston, February 10, 
 1865, and at the re-raising of the United States flag on Fort Sumter, April 
 14, 1865 ; attached to the steamer " Commodore McDonough," South Atlan 
 tic Blockading Squadron, 1865, and the steamer " Tallapoosa," Gulf Squad- 
 
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 ron, 1865-6; while attached to the steamer "Commodore McDonough," he 
 saved his official books and papers from the wreck of that vessel, which 
 foundered at sea, August 23, 1865, on the passage from Port Royal, South 
 Carolina, to New York, nothing else being saved from the ship ; transferred 
 to the regular navy and commissioned as Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 1866. 
 Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, May 10 1867 ; attached to the 
 steamer " Aroostook," Asiatic Station, 1866-9; steamer "Shawmut," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1871-5 ; Torpedo Station, Newport, Rhode Island, 1876-9. 
 Commissioned as Paymaster, February 23, 1877 ; attached to the steamer 
 " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1879-82 ; acting as Fleet Paymaster for ten 
 months of that time, when he negotiated a large amount of exchange in a 
 satisfactory manner, for which he was specially mentioned in the Annual 
 Report of the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, for the year 1882 ; attached 
 to the Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1883-6 ; special duty and assistant to 
 General Storekeeper, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1887-8 ; attached to 
 the steamer " Pensacola," North Atlantic Station, 1888 ; General Store 
 keeper, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, 1889. Paymaster of the Navy Yard 
 and Purchasing Pay-Officer, Portsmouth, N. H., 1890-3 ; attached to the 
 cruiser " San Francisco," North Atlantic, South Atlantic and European Sta 
 tions, 1893-6, during which time the" San Francisco " bore the flags of Rear- 
 Admirals A. E K, JBenham, Oscar F. Stanton, William A. Kirkland, and 
 Thomas O. Selfridge ; was present at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, January 29, 1894, 
 when Admiral Beuham cleared his fleet for action in defence of American 
 interests endangered by the Brazilian men-of-war in revolt against the gov 
 ernment of that Republic ; Fleet-Paymaster of the European Station, 1895- 
 96 ; Paymaster of the Navy Yard and Purchasing Pay-Officer, Portsmouth, 
 N. H., 1896, to date. 
 
 Theodore S Thompson. Entered, October 9, 1863, as Acting Assist 
 ant Paymaster; same month, attached to steamer " Rachel Seaman," supply- 
 vessel, doing duty in all the blockading-squadrons ; detached, June, 1865; 
 discharged, August, 1865. Commissioned as Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 
 1866 ; attached to steamer " Tahoma," West Indies and Gulf Squadron, 
 August, 1866 ; detached duty, August, 1867. Promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Paymaster, February 1, 1868; waiting orders till he joined the " Narragan- 
 sett," at New York, January 15, 1869 ; served on her in the West Indies ; 
 vessel put out of commission, and he was detached in December, 1869; 
 relieved Paymaster Mead, in charge of stores, April 8, 1870, at Key West, 
 Florida, remaining on that duty until May, 1871, when he exchanged duties 
 with Paymaster Gerrard, of the Coast Survey steamer "Bibb;" detached, 
 from " Bibb," June 25, 1872 ; waiting orders till January 15, 1873, when he 
 was ordered to the steamer " Juniata," doing duty on the " Polaris " Search 
 Expedition, then at Santiago de Cuba, bringing home the " Virginius " pris 
 oners ; participated in Naval Drill at Key West, and sailed thence, April 8, 
 1874, to join European Station ; returned to the United States, and placed on 
 special duty at Baltimore, February 6, 1876, officers and crew being trans 
 ferred to the " Monongahela," September 1, 1876 ; detached after nearly four 
 years sea service, December 28,1877; "New Hampshire," Port Royal, South 
 Carolina, January 1, 1878-9. Promoted to Paymaster, January 25, 1878 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1880-3 ; practice-ship " Constellation," 1884 ; " Swa- 
 tara," North Atlantic Station, 1884-6; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 1887-90 ; 
 waiting orders, August, 1890, to February, 1891 ; "Newark," special service, 
 February, 1891, to July, 1893; Navy Yard, Boston, July, 1893, to 1896; 
 U. S. S. " Massachusetts," June, 1896, to date. 
 
280 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 William J. Thomson. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed an 
 Acting Assistant Paymaster, March 29, 1865. Commissioned as Assistant 
 Paymaster, July 23, 1866; Unadilla," Asiatic Squadron, 1867-9. Pro 
 moted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, March 20, 1868; S. S. " Pawnee," 
 1870-1; Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1871-4; Bureau of Provisions, 1875; 
 " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1876-8. Commissioned as Paymaster, March, 
 1878 ; " Ticonderoga," special service, 1878-80 ; special duty, Coast Survey, 
 1881-4 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, 1884 ; " Mohican," Pacific Station, 
 1885-7; Smithsonian Institute, 1887-8; receiving-ship "Dale," 1889-92; 
 Naval Station, Port Royal, September, 1892, to February, 1893 ; "Monterey," 
 Pacific Station, February, 1893-5; Philadelphia, July, 1895-7; settling 
 accounts, December, 1897 ; Coast Survey Office, Washington, March, 1898 ; 
 May, 1898, "Illinois," to date. 
 
 Henry G. Colby. Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, June 22, 1863. 
 Commissioned as Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 1866; Passed Assistant Pay 
 master, August 9, 1868 ; Paymaster, September, 6, 1878 ; ship " Gem of the 
 Seas," E. G. B. Squadron, July, 1863, to April, 1865 ; ironclad " Essex," 
 Mississippi Squadron, April, 1865, to September, 1865; steamer "Don," 
 Home Station, September, 1866, to April, 1868; sloop " Cyane," Pacific 
 Station, August, 1869, to September. 1871; receiving-ship "Independence," 
 Mare Island, September, 1871, to September, 1874; sloop "Portsmouth," 
 training-ship Mare Island, July, 1875, to September, 1876 ; Inspector of 
 Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Maie Island, March, 1878, to Decem 
 ber, 1878 ; steamer " Tuscarora," surveying duty, April, 1879, to July, 1880; 
 Paymaster of the Mare Island Navy Yard, August, 1880, to August, 1883; 
 store-ship " Monongahela," Pacific Station, March, 1884, to May, 1887 ; 
 General Storekeeper, Mare Island Navy Yard, July, 1887, to July, 1889; 
 Paymaster of the Mare Island Navy Yard, July, 1889-90; "Marion, 
 Asiatic Station, April, 1891, to March, 1893; receiving-ship " Wabash," 
 October, 1893, to 1895; "Indiana," November, 1895-8; Assistant Chief 
 Bureau S. and A. Navy Department, April, 1898, to date. 
 
 J. Bayard Redfield. Born at Sacket s Harbor, N. Y., 1842. Pay 
 master s Clerk, IT. S. S. "Circassian," 1862-64. Acting Assistant Paymaster, 
 January 16, 1865; Mound City Naval Station, 1865. Commissioned Assist 
 ant Paymaster, February 21, 1867 ; practice-ship "Dale," 1867. Promoted 
 Passed Assistant Paymaster, June 11, 1868 ; " Mohican," Pacific Fleet, 1869- 
 72 ; "Monocacy," Asiatic Fleet, 1873-75 ; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," 
 1875-78. Promoted Paymaster, March 8, 1879 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," 
 1880-83 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1883-86 ; " Monocacy," A. S., 1886-9 ; 
 receiving-ship "Independence," 1890-93 ; "Atlanta," North Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1894-95 ; " Minneapolis, European Station, 1^95-97 ; League Island 
 Navy Yard ; receiving-ship " Richmond " and Reserve Fleet, September, 
 1897. 
 
 I. Goodwin Hobbs. Born in Maine. Appointed Acting Assistant 
 Paymaster, August 31, 1864; "Unadilla," N. A. Station, 1864-5. Com 
 missioned as Assistant Paymaster, February 27, 1867 ; "Ascutney," special 
 service, 1867-8 ; and " Tallapoosa," special service, 1868-70. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Paymaster, September 16, 1868 ; Bureau of Provisions, 
 1871-2; "Tuscarora," Pacific Fleet, 1872-5; " Despatch," European Sta 
 tion, 1875-8. Commissioned as Paymaster, May 15, 1879 ; Torpedo Station, 
 1879-82; " Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1882-6; receiving-ship "New Hamp 
 shire," 1886-90; waiting orders, October, 1890, to January, 1891 ; "Bos 
 ton," Pacific Station, January, 1891, to December, 1893 ; Naval Station, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 281 
 
 Newport, R. I., March, 1894, to November, 1896 ; armored cruiser " Brook 
 lyn," December, 1896, to May, 1898. 
 
 J. Porter Loomis. Born in Pennsylvania. Paymaster s Yeoman, U- 
 S. S. " Brandy wine," from November 11, 1861, to April 10, 1862 ; Paymas 
 ter s Clerk, U. S. S. " Brandywine," from April 11, 1862, to October 26, 
 1863 ; Acting Assistant Paymaster, from October 27, 1863, to February 20, 
 1867 ; Assistant Paymaster, from February 21, 1867, to January 28, 1869 ; 
 Passed Assistant Paymaster, from January 29, 1869, to November 30, 1880 ; 
 Paymaster, December 1, 1880 ; N. A. Squadron, service on board " Brandy- 
 wine," November, 1861, to October, 1863; Potomac Flotilla, service on 
 board "Wyandank," " Western World" and "King Philip," December, 
 1863, to August, 1865; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N- H., September, 1865, 
 to May, 1868; North Atlantic Squadron, U. S. S. "Nipsic," October, 1868, 
 to December, 1870; Pacific Squadron, U. S. S. " Ossipee," February, 1872, 
 to December, 1872; Naval Station, New London, Conn., April, 1873, to 
 September, 1875 ; European Station, U. S. S. " Vandalia," and U. S. S. 
 11 Trenton," January, 1876, to February, 1879; Northwestern lakes, U.S. 
 S. Michigan," November, 1880, to December, 1883 ; Commissary, Naval 
 Academy, September, 1884, to May, 1888; General Storekeeper, Navy 
 Yard, New York, May, 1888, to August, 1889 ; "Pensacola," June, 1890, to 
 May, 1892; Constellation," October, 1892, to June, 1893; Special Court- 
 Martial duty, July, 1893, to December, 1893 ; U. S. receiving-e-hip " Minne 
 sota," December 10, 1893, to December 12,1894; U. S. S. "Minneapo 
 lis," December 13, 1894, to October 18, 1895 ; U. S receiving-ship "Ver 
 mont," November 15, 1895, to August 17, 1896 ; U. S. Naval- Academy, 
 Commissary and Cadet Storekeeper, September 15, 1896, to date. 
 
 Henry T. B. Harris. Born in Connecticut. Appointed Acting A ssist- 
 ant Paymaster, November 1, 1864. Commissioned Assistant Paymaster, Feb 
 ruary 27, 1867 ; " Nyack," South Pacific Station, 1867-9. Promoted Passed 
 Assistant Paymaster, February 17, 1869; "Supply," Europe and Brazil, 
 1870-1; "Frolic" and " Roanoke," 1873-5; charge of stores, Honolulu, 
 1875-7 ; charge of stores, Rio de Janeiro, 1878-9. Commissioned Paymaster, 
 January 18, 1881; "Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1880-3; training-ship 
 " Minnesota," 1884-6 ; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1886; "Ga 
 lena," N. A. Station, and Naval Academy, 1886-9 ; " Boston," Squadron of 
 Evolution, October, 1889, to January, 1891 ; Navy Yard, New York, Jan 
 uary, 1891, to December, 1892 ; " Miantonomah," N. A. Station, December, 
 1892-4; settling accounts, November, 1894; general store-keeper, Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk, May, 1895 ; U. S. receiving-ship "Vermont," August, 1897 ; 
 also has accounts of " Dolphin " and Torpedo Boats, to May, 1898. 
 
 Stephen Rand, Jr. Left Dartmouth College Sophomore year aged 
 seventeen years ; enrolled August 15, 1861, with Berdan United States Sharp 
 shooters ; honorably discharged April 5, 1863, and for meritorious and faith 
 ful service was graduated with his class, 1863. Participated in all the follow 
 ing engagements : Peninsula, landed in March ; evacuation of Yorktown, 
 April 5, 1862; battle of Williamsburg, Va., May 5, 1862 ; battle of Hanover 
 Court-House, Va., May 27, 1862 ; battle of Seven Pines and Fair Oaks, Va., 
 May 31 and June 1. Seven days battles in Virginia, June 26 to July 1 ; 
 Mechanicsville, June 26, 1862 ; Games Mills, June 27, 1862 ; Chickahominy, 
 June 28, 1862 ; Savage Station, June 29, 1862 ; White Oak Swamp, June 
 29 and 30, 1862; Glendale, June 30, 1862; Malvern Hill, July 1, 1862. 
 Pope s battles between Manassas and Washington, August 26 to September 
 1, 1862 ; Groventon, Bull s Run. In December, 1864, was appointed Third 
 
282 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Assistant Engineer, U. S. Navy ; ordered to duty on board U. S. S. " Merri- 
 mac," at Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., sailed for Charleston, S. C. ; was 
 wrecked at sea February 11, 1865, off Fenian dina, Fla., on way to blockade 
 the Port of Galveston immediately after the surrender of Charleston ; served 
 continuously in Engineer Corps until in August, 1869, transferred to Pay 
 Corps ; was appointed Assistant Paymaster, U. S. Navy, stationed at Navy 
 Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. Paymaster, in charge of accounts, etc., of the 
 Tehuantepec Surveying Expedition in Mexico for oceanic canal, 1870-2 ; 
 charge of iron-clad "New Orleans," 1872. In 1873 promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Paymaster and ordered to U. S. S. " Kearsarge," East Indies ; 
 ordered to act as Judge- Advocate of Asiatic Squadron and ordered to Japan ; 
 was at Vladivostock, Siberia, with Transit of Venus party, 1875 ; ordered on 
 special duty at Washington, D. C., 1878 to 1881 ; on European Station, 1881 
 to 1883; Navy Department, Washington, D. C., 1883 to 1885, at Torpedo 
 Station. Promoted to Paymaster, July, 1884 ; April, 1885, in charge of 
 accounts and stores of Naval and Marine force; ordered to Aspinwall, Sep 
 tember 21 ; 1885, afterwards ordered to take special course in Analytical 
 Chemistry, which duty continued till May, 1887 ; to U. S. S. u Mohican," 
 1887 to 1891 ; special duty, Navy Department, 1891 to 1893 ; Paymaster, 
 U. S Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., 1893, to 1895 ; ordered August, 1895, 
 to U. S. battle-ship "Texas;" put out of commission in January, 1896 ; 
 U. S. S. "Columbia," February. 1896, to June, 1897, when put in reserve at 
 League Island ; July 15, ordered in charge of Navy Pay-Office, Washing 
 ton, D. C., to date. 
 
 Lawrence G. Boggs. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed As 
 sistant Paymaster, September 24, 1869 ; temporary duty, Navy Department, 
 1869-70; "Tallapoosa" and " Frolic," special service, 1870-3 ; "Despatch," 
 special service, 1873-5. Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, October 
 25, 1874 ; " Marion," European Station, 1875-9 ; Bureau of Provisions, 1879 ; 
 Naval Station, New London, 1880 ; Bureau Provisions and Clothing, 1881 ; 
 training-ship "Saratoga," 1881. Promoted to Paymaster, January 28, 1886 ; 
 receiving-ship " Dale," 1886-9 ; training-ship " Richmond," July, 1889, to 
 January, 1891 ; "Benningtou," S. A. Station, January, 1891, to 1894; leave 
 of absence, November, 1894 ; Navy Yard, New York, December, 1895-7 ; 
 Torpedo Station, September, 1897-8; May, 1898, " Columbia," to date. 
 
 Samuel R. Colhoun. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Assistant 
 Paymaster, September 28, 1869 ; Assistant to Paymaster, Navy Yard, Phila 
 delphia, and Recorder to Board of Paymasters, 1869-71 ; " Canonicus " and 
 " Saugus " (iron-clads), North Atlantic Station, 1872-3 ; Assistant to Pay 
 master at Villefranche, France, 1874-6. Promoted to Passed Assistant Pay 
 master, January 15, 1875; leave in Europe, 1877; "Marion," North At 
 lantic and South Atlantic Stations, 1879-82 ; training-ship " New Hamp 
 shire," 1884-5 (service lasted less than one year). Promoted to Paymaster, 
 July 16, 1886 ; special duty in office of General Store-keeper, Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1887-8 ; " Ossipee," North Atlantic Station, 1889 ; special 
 duty in office of General Store-keeper, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., 
 1890-1; " Monongahela," Training Squadron, March, 1891, to August, 
 1893 ; Navy Yard, New York, August, 1893-6; " Monadnock," February, 
 1896 ; " Oregon," July, 1896, to date. 
 
 William W. Barry. Born in Fall River, Massachusetts. Acting 
 Assistant Paymaster, July 30, 1863, to September, 1865, Mississippi Squadron. 
 Appointed Assistant Paymaster, March 15, 1870 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 May, 1870, to December, 1872; U. S. S. "Supply," January, 1873, to De- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 283 
 
 cember, 1873, Vienna Exposition; U. S. S. " Mayflower," North Atlantic 
 Station, May, 1874, to October, 1874 ; U. S. S. " Canonicus," North Atlantic 
 Station, November, 1874, to April, 1875 ; U. S. S. " Alert," North Atlantic 
 Station, May, 1875, to August, 1875; store-ship "Onward," Callao, Peru, 
 September, 1875, to November, 1877; Navy Yard, Boston, July, 1878, to 
 October, 1878 ; Naval Depot, Nagasaki, Japan, February, 1879, to December, 
 1881 ; U. S. S. "Swatara," North Atlantic Station, December, 1882, to De 
 cember, 1884; U. S. receiving-ship "Independence," Mare Island, Califor 
 nia, October, 1885, to November, 1888 ; " Essex," S. A. Station, April, 1890, 
 to April, 1893 ; leave of absence, April, 1893, to July, 1893 ; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, July, 1893, to August, 1896; Navy Yard,^VIare Island, Cal., 
 October, 1896, to date. 
 
 J. R. Stanton. Appointed Assistant Paymaster, March 25, 1870. Pro 
 moted to Parsed Assistant Paymaster, November 24, 1878, and promoted to 
 Paymaster, March 26, 18*9 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, August 30. 1870, to 
 September 23, 1871 ; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," September 8, 1872, to 
 January 1, 1876; special service, April 17, 1876, to July 24, 1876; U. S. 
 S. " Dictator," N. A. Station, August 11, 1876, to June 5, 1877 ; " Canoni 
 cus," N. A. Station, November 24, 1877, to April 10, 1878 ; New York Navy 
 Yard, November 1, 1878, to May 9, 1879; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, 
 May 15, 1*79, to May 2, 1882 ; Coast Survey Office, November 1, 1883, to 
 December 31, ^86; " Juniata," Pacific Station, June 13, 1887, to March 
 26, 1889 ; training-ship " Minnesota," April 30, 1889, to December 22, 1890 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., December, 1890, to December, 1892; "Mo 
 hican," Pacific Station, February, 1893, to 1*95; U. S. S. "Monterey," 
 1^95; U. S. R S. Independence," December, 1895, to date. 
 
 James A. Ring. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed Assistant Pay 
 master, January 24, 1870 ; receiving.ship " Ohio," 1870-2 ; Darien Survey 
 ing Expedition, 1873 ; store-ship " Onward," Callao, 1874-5 ; " Wyandotte," 
 iron-clad, N. A. Station, 1876. Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, 
 February 23, 1877; " Fortune," special service, 1877-8; "Jamestown," 
 special service in Alaska, 1879-81; "Enterprise," N. A. Station, 1882-4; 
 training-ship "Portsmouth," 1886-7 ; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, 
 1887 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," 1888-9. Promoted to Paymaster, August 
 20, 1889 ; assistant to General Storekeeper, Norfolk, 1890 ; special duty, 
 New York, November, 1890, to February, 1891 ; " Concord," N. A. Station, 
 February, 1891, to June, 1893 ; " Kearsarge," N. A Station, June, 1893- 
 94; practice-ship " Monongahela," May, 1894 ; Naval Station, Port Royal, 
 November, 1894 ; U. S. S. "Iowa," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 James E. Cann. Born in Nova Scotia. Appointed from Pennsylvania, 
 July 14, 1870; Assistant to Inspector, New York, 1871-2; "Fortune," 
 1873-4; Paymaster-General s Office, 1875: "Tallapoosa," special service, 
 1875-8. Promoted to Passed Assistant, October 12, 1878 ; receiving-ship 
 "Passaic," 1879-82; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1882-5; general store 
 keeper, Key West, 1886-9; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, July, 1890, to 
 June, 1893. Promoted to Paymaster, September 21, 1891 ; receiving-ship 
 "Franklin," June, 1893, to 1896; settling accounts, July, 1896; U. S. S. 
 "Newark," July, 1896; U. S. S. "Marion," 1897; U. S. receiving-ship 
 " Independence," December, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Mohican," February, 1898. 
 
 John N. Speel. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Minnesota. 
 Rio Bravo," July, 1875, to April, 1877 ; Bureau Provisions and Clothing, 
 June to October, 1877; U.S. S. "Saratoga," October, 1877, to October, 
 1879; Naval Station, New London, October, 1879, to April, 1880; Bureau 
 
284 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Provisions and Clothing, 1880-1 ; " Kearsarge," 1882-4 ; Navy Department, 
 1884-6; Coast Survey/December, 1886, to November, 1889; " Petrel," 
 1889-91. Commissioned Paymaster, November, 1891 ; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, February, 1892, to January, 1893; receiving-ship "St. Louis," 
 January to September, 1893; Navy Yard, Norfolk, January, 1894; "Michi 
 gan," June, 1894 ; " Amphitrite," April, 1895-8 ; May, 1898, Naval Home, 
 Philadelphia, to date. 
 
 Reah Frazer. Born in Pennsylvania. Captain s Clerk, flag-ship 
 "Hartford" and " Lackawanna," Asiatic Station, 1872-5. Appointed from 
 Pennsylvania, July 15, 1875; "Intrepid," 1875; " Catskill," N. A. Station, 
 1876 ;* " Rio Bravo," 1877-9 Promoted Passed Assistant Paymaster, Octo 
 ber 27, 1879; Assistant to Paymaster, New York, 1879-80; "Alliance," 
 N. A. Station, and " Jeannette," Search Expedition, 1880-2 ; " Wachusett," 
 Pacific Station, 1882-5; " Alliance," S. A. Station, 1888-9; "Alliance," 
 Asiatic Station, January, 1890, to July, 1893 Promoted Paymaster, Janu 
 ary 19, 1892 ; receiving-ships " St. Louis " and " Richmond," September, 
 1893, to November, 1896; "Puritan." N. A. Station, 1897; "Indiana," N. 
 A. Station, from January 15, 1898, to date. 
 
 Hiram E. Drury. Born in Massachusetts Appointed from Massachu 
 setts, September 8, 1876 ; Assistant Navy Yard, Boston, 1876-8 ; Naval 
 Hospital, Yokohama, 1878-82 ; training-ship " Portsmouth, 1882-5 ; Gen 
 eral Storekeeper, Navy Yard, Pensacola. 1886-9 ; " Ranger," special service, 
 1889-91 ; waiting orders December, 1891, to March, 1892. Promoted Pay 
 master, February 25, 1892 ; charge of Naval Clothing Factory, New York, 
 March, 1892-95; "Cincinnati," July, 1895-98 ; Clothing Factory, January, 
 1898, Navy Yard, N. Y., to May, 1898. 
 
 Charles W. Littlefield. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from 
 Maine. " Wabash," Boston, October, 1876, to February, 1877; " Palos," 
 Asiatic Station, 1877-80; Assistant to Inspector, Boston, 1880-1 ; " Ajax," 
 and monitors, 1881-4 ; training-ship " Saratoga," 1884-6 ; Naval Station, 
 New London, 1887-9 ; Yorktown Squadron of Evolution, 1889, to October, 
 1891. Promoted to Paymaster, December 25, 1892 ; R. S. "Dale," Wash 
 ington, February, 1892, to December, 1894; " Charlestown," Asiatic Station, 
 February, 1895, to July, 1896 ; " Maine," September, 1896, to February, 
 1898; detached from "Maine" in Havana ten days before the explosion ; 
 U. S. S. "St. Paul," May, 1898. 
 
 Arthur Peterson. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, April 13, 1877 ; Office of Paymaster, League Island, 1877 ; " Canoni- 
 cua," N. A. Station, 1877-8 ; Palos," 1879-83 ; Inspector and Paymaster, 
 Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1883-6; "Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1887-8; 
 " Monongahela," store-ship, 1888-90 ; Assistant General Storekeeper, Navy 
 Yards, New York, October, 1890, to July, 1892; "Monocacy," Asiatic 
 Station, July, 1892, to 1894. Promoted to Paymaster, August 15, 1893. 
 Naval Home, Philadelphia, May, 1894, to 1897; U. S. S. "Monocacy," 
 April, 1897, to date. 
 
 A. K. Michler. Born in New York. Appointed Assistant Paymaster 
 from District of Columbia, October 31, 1877 ; Bureau of Provisions end 
 Clothing, 1877-9; Expedition for Determination of Longitudes, 1879-80; 
 training-ship "Portsmouth," 1880-3. Promoted Passed Assistant Paymaster, 
 September 1,1881; "Tallapoosa," S. A. Station, 1885-9; Bureau of Sup 
 plies and Accounts, 1889-94. Promoted to Paymaster, September 12, 1893 ; 
 Assistant Chief of Bureau, 1894-98. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 285 
 
 William W. Gait. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, 
 January 25, 1871; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1878-80. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Paymaster, October 15, 1881 ; " Despatch," special duty, 
 1881-4 ;special duty, Navy Department, 1885-6 ; " Michigan," Northwestern 
 Lakes, 1886-9; "Thetis," special service, February, 1890, to July, 1893 ; 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, July, 1893, to 1896. Promoted to Paymaster, Septem 
 ber 25, 1893 ; U. S. S. " Raleigh," November, 1896, to 1898 ; sick leave, 
 March, 1898, to date. 
 
 John R. Martin. Born in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. Appointed Assist 
 ant Paymaster, from Ohio, June, 1878; Bureau, of Provisions and Clothing, 
 1878; U. S. steamer "Rio Bravo," on the Rio Grange, 1879-80; U. S. 
 practice-ship " Dale," 1881 ; U. S. steamer " Alert," Asiatic Station, 1881-2 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1882-3; temporarily in charge Inspection of Pro 
 visions and Clothing, 1883 ; charge of stores at Rio de Janeiro, 1884; U. S. 
 steamer "Alliance," N. Atlantic and S. Atlantic Stations, 1885-8; detailed 
 as commissary ashore at Aspinwall, in Colombian Revolution, in summer of 
 1885 ; U. S. steamer " Galena," N. A. Station, 1888-90. Promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Paymaster, January, 1882; "Yorktowu," Pacific Station, October, 
 1891-4. Promoted to Paymaster, February, 1894 ; Puget Sound Naval Sta 
 tion, April, 1894-5 ; settling accounts, January, 1895 ; Naval Station, Key 
 West, May, 1895; "Boston," November, 1895, to date. 
 
 Charles M. Ray. Born in District of Columbia. Appoint- d from Dis 
 trict of Columbia, March 3, 1879 ; Bureau of Provisions, 1879-80 ; " Yantic," 
 N. A. Station, 1880-3 ; special duty, N. O. Exposition, 1884-5; " Ranger," 
 North Pacific Station, 1886-9. Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, 
 April 21, 1862 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1889-91 ; Naval Hos 
 pital, Yokohama, Japan, May, 1891, to 1894. Commissioned as Paymaster, 
 February, 1894 ; waiting orders, December, 1894 ; member of Naval Ex 
 change Board, February. 1895 ; U. S. S. "Lancaster," September, 1895; 
 settling accounts, January, 1898 ; Coast Survey and U. S. S. " Michigan ; " 
 also Chief of Pay-Office, Baltimore, Md., May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Mitchell C. McDonald. Bom in Pennsylvania. Appointed from 
 Pennsylvania, March 3, 1879 ; " Ranger," North Pacific, 1883-5 ; Assistant 
 Navy Pay-Office, San Francisco, 1886-7 ; Assistant to Government Store 
 keeper, Naval Academy, 1887-8 ; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, 1888-91, 
 Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, May 29, 1882; "Adams," Pacific 
 Station, Maich, 1892-94. Promoted to Paymaster, April 1894 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, December, 1894; U. S. S. " Monougahela," May, 1895; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, September, 1895-96; "Texas," July, 1896; Naval Hos 
 pital, Yokohama, October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Eustace B. Rogers. Born in California. Appointed from California, 
 March 3, 1879 ; Navy Department, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 
 1879; "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1879-81; Navy Yard, Boston, 1882; 
 Naval Academy, practice-ship "Dale," 1883-4; Naval Hospital, Yokohama, 
 Japan, 1885-7; Navy Yard, Boston, 1888; "Kearsarge," 1888-91. Pro 
 moted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, November 2, 1884; Bureau of Supplies 
 and Accounts, 1891-4. Promoted to Paymaster, May 24, 1894; "Cincin 
 nati," N. A. Station, 1894-5 ; in charge of Naval Clothing Factory, Navy 
 Yard, New York, 1895-7; "Minneapolis," European Station, 1897; "Mon 
 terey," Pacific Station, November, 1897, to date. 
 
 Leeds C. Kerr. Born in Baltimore, Md., July 21, 1855. Appointed 
 from Maryland, June 16, 1880; Bureau of Provision and Clothing, 1880; 
 "Wyoming," North Atlantic Station-, 1881-2; "Pawnee," store-ship North 
 
286 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Atlantic Station, at Port Royal, S. C., 1883-4; "Dolphin," special duty, 
 1884-5 ; Navy Yard, New York, Assistant to Inspector of Provisions and 
 Clothing, 1885; "Dolphin," special duty, North Atlantic and Pacific Sta 
 tions, 1885-8. Promoted Passed Assistant Paymaster, February 25, 1887 ; 
 Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pa., 1889; Naval Station, New London, Conn., 
 1889 ; " Yantic," North Atlantic Station, 1889-91 ; "Alert," Asiatic Station, 
 February, 1892, to October, 1893; receiving-ship "Independence," Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, California, October, 1893, to May, 1895, also on addi 
 tional duty as assistant general store-keeper, Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 
 from October, 1893, to May, 1895. Promoted to Paymaster, March 30, 1895 ; 
 U. S. S. " Concord," Asiatic Station, June, 1895, to April, 1896 ; U. S. S. 
 "Yorktown," Asiatic Station, April, 1896, to November, 1897; U. S. S. 
 "Alert," Pacific Station, December, 1897 ; U.S. Navy Pay Office, Baltimore, 
 Maryland, February, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Minneapolis," March 15, 1898. 
 
 R. T. Mason Ball. Born in Virginia, and appointed Assistant Pay 
 master, June 16, 1880; U. S. receiving-ship "Colorado," 1880-1; "May 
 flower," practice cruise from Naval Academy, summer of 1881 ; Monitor 
 Fleet, January, 1882, to January, 1884; U. S. S. " Nantucket," June, 1884, 
 special duty ; January, 1885, Naval Station, Key West ; U. S. S. " Yantic," 
 October 1, 1886 ; left her October 1, 1889. Promoted to Passed Assistant 
 Paymaster, June 19, 1888 ; ordered to Naval Station, New London, October, 
 1889, and detached February, 1891, with orders to duty on the Asiatic 
 Station ; attached to U. S S. " Palos," until her sale, and then to the U. S. S. 
 " Petrel," to 1894 ; leave of absence, October, 1894. Promoted to Paymaster, 
 April, 1895; "Michigan," April, 1895; U. S. receiving-ship " Franklin," 
 June, 1896; U.S. receiving-ship " Kichmond," November, 1896; "Detroit," 
 " Cincinnati," July, 1897, to date. 
 
 C. S. Williams. Cadet at Naval Academy, Annapolis, June, 1873 ; 
 resigned, May, 1876; Assistant Paymaster. June 16, 1880; Passed Assistant 
 Paymaster, August 20, 1889 ; Paymaster, June 13, 1895 ; U. S. receiving-ship 
 "Wabash," Boston, August, 1880, to September, 1881; U. S. store-ship 
 " Onward," west coast of South America, October, 1881, to December, 1884; 
 Fih Commission steamer " Albatross," North and South Atlantic, North 
 and South Pacific, Behring Sea, October, 1887, to July, 1891 ; Torpedo 
 Station, Newport, R. I., Purchasing Pay-Officer and General Storekeeper, 
 October, 1891, to April, 1894 ; same duties at New London Naval Station 
 in addition, from October, 1891, to November, 1893; U. S. S. " Detroit," 
 cruise to China Station and return, via Suez Canal, May, 1894, to July, 1897 ; 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., General Storekeeper, September, 1897, to date 
 
 Thomas J. Cowie. Appointed from Iowa. Assistant Paymaster, June 
 16, 1880 ; Passed Assistant Paymaster, March 26, 1889 ; Paymaster, Septem 
 ber 11, 1895 ; " Monocacy," February, 1894-97 ; waiting orders, June, 1897 ; 
 training-ship and station "Newport," August, 1897, to date. 
 
 John S. Carpenter. Appointed from Kentucky as Assistant Paymaster, 
 October 29, 1881 ; Passed Assistant Paymaster, November 19, 1891 ; Pay 
 master, August 14, 1896 ; Navy Yard, Washington, December, 1893 ; Bureau 
 Supplies and Accounts, June, 1894-98 ; Texas, January, 1898, to date. 
 
 Livingston Hunt. Appointed from New York as Assistant Paymaster, 
 October 29, 1881 ; Passed Assistant Paymaster, November, 24, 1891 ; Pay 
 master, October 10, 1896 ; Coast Survey Office, May, 1893, to 1895; " Dol 
 phin," February, 1895, to 1897 ; Recorder of Examining Board, December, 
 1897, to 1898 ; U. S. S. " New Orleans/ April, 1898, to date. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 287 
 
 John A. Mudd. Appointed from Missouri as Assistant Paymaster, Oc 
 tober 29, 1881 ; Passed Assistant Paymaster, January 19, 1892 ; Paymaster, 
 November 1, 1896; Navy Yard, New York, March, 1893-4; "Montgom 
 ery," June, 1894-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, April, 1896 to date. 
 
 Willis B. Wilcox. Appointed from Iowa as Assistant Paymaster, Octo 
 ber 29, 1881 ; Passed Assistant Paymaster, February 19, 1892 ; Paymaster, 
 July 9, 1897 ; Navy Yard, Pensacola, November, 1892-6 ; " Monadnock," 
 June, 1896, to date. 
 
 master 
 master, 
 
 May, 1894, to 1896 ; Navy Yard, New York, October, 1894; U. S. S. " Ter 
 ror," April, 1896, to date. 
 
 PAY-DIRECTORS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMODORE. 
 
 James H. Watmough. Born in Pennsylvania. Entered service as 
 Acting Midshipman, November, 1843. Appointed from Pennsylvania, De 
 cember 12, 1844 ; attached to sloop " Portsmouth," Pacific Squadron, 1844- 
 48 ; 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 "Michi 
 gan," 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 operations 
 on 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, 1868-70; Acting 
 Chief of Bureau Provisions and Clothing, 1873-4 ; Chief of Bureau Provi 
 sions and Clothing, 1874-7. Retired, July 30, 1884. 
 
 Thomas H. Looker. Born in Ohio. Now, and for many years, a 
 citizen and resident of the District of Columbia. Entered the Navy origi 
 nally as a Midshipman, November 6, 1846, and served through the Mexican 
 War, in actions and expeditions on shore, and in small vessels and boats up 
 the rivers ; resigned, November 24, 1852, because of protracted illness, 
 chronic disease, incident to line of duty, exposure, etc. ; was reappointed as 
 Purser in the Navy, August 31, 1853 ; served through the Civil War, and 
 was promoted to Pay-Director, March 3, 1871 ; service in Pay-Corps, as fol 
 lows: Brig " Bainbridge," Brazil Squadron, 1853-6 ; sloop-of-war "Ports 
 mouth," East India Squadron, 1857-8 ; steamer " Brooklyn," Home Squad 
 ron, 1858-60 ; steamer " Brooklyn," Atlantic and Gulf Squadrons, 1861 ; 
 conveyed troops and assisted in saving Fort Pickens, and instituting blockade 
 at mouth of Mississippi River ; Paymaster in charge of supplies, North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-3 ; was in the memorable action (as a 
 volunteer) between the "Merrimac" and squadron at Hampton Roads, 
 Virginia, May 18, 1862; duties at Baltimore, 1864; steamer " Powhatan," 
 South Pacific Station, 1865-6; Fleet-Paymaster, then, to 1868; Pay-Office 
 at Baltimore, 1869-72; Navy Yard, Washington, 1872-5; Pay-Office at 
 Baltimore, 1875-7 ; Assistant to Secretary of the Navy, 1877 ; General In- 
 
288 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 spector Pay-Corps, 1878-82; Pay-Office at Washington, 1883-8; General 
 Inspector Pay-Corps, 1889-91. Appointed, in March, 1890, as Chief of 
 Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, with the relative rank of Commodore. 
 Retired, November 23, 1891. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK ON CAPTAIN. 
 
 Charles W. Abbot. Bom in Rhode Island. Appointed from Rhode 
 Island, September 2, 1856 ; attached to sloop " Falmouth," Brazil Squadron, 
 1856-8; frigate "St. Lawrence," Brazil Squadron, 1859; steam-sloop 
 "Mohican," coast of Africa, 1859-60; steam-sloop "Pawnee," Atlantic 
 Coast, 1861, had several engagements with Acquia Creek and Mathias Point 
 Batteries in the Potomac River, and participated in the capture of the forts 
 at Hatteras Inlet; steam-sloop "Brooklyn," West Gulf Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1862-3 ; capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip and City of New Or 
 leans, and first attack on Vicksburg batteries; special duty, New York, 
 1864 ; Naval Academy, 1864-6 ; Board of Examiners at Philadelphia, 1866 ; 
 Fleet-Paymaster, North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; Pay-Office at Boston, 
 1869-71. Promoted to Pay-Ispector, May 23, 1871, and to Pay-Director. De 
 cember 19, 1871 ; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, New Hampshire, 1872-4 ; Pay-Office at Boston, 1875-6 ; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1878-9 ; Inspector of Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Boston, 
 1880-1 ; Navy Pay-Officer, Boston, 1883-6 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1888-91. 
 Retired, November 18, 1891, with relative rank of Captain. 
 
 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 Squad 
 ron, 1862; iron-clad "Roanoke," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 
 1863-4 ; receiving-ship and Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1865-7 ; Fleet- 
 Paymaster, North Atlantic Squadron/ 1868-9 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1870. Promoted to Pay -Inspector, March 3, 1871 ; Paymaster, Naval Acad 
 emy, 1871-4 Promoted to Pay-Director, September 25, 1875 ; Fleet-Pay 
 master, European Squadron, 1875-6 ; Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, 1877-8 ; 
 Naval Academy, 18*80-4 ; Pay-Office, Baltimore, 1885-9 ; special duty, 1889- 
 90; Naval Academy, August, 1890, to September 20. Retired, September 
 20, 1891, with relative rank of Captain. 
 
 Alexander W. Russell. Born in Maryland. Served in the sloop-of- 
 war " Saratoga," coast of Africa, 1842-4, as Captain s Clerk, and in the 
 operations against Bereby and the adjacent towns on that station, under 
 Commodore M. C. Perry, December, 1843 ; also served in Company C 
 (Captain Samuel H. Walker, Texas Ranger), Mounted Rifle Regiment, in 
 the Mexican War; was Clerk to the Committee of Naval Affairs, United 
 States Senate, 1858-61. Nominated Paymaster in the navy from the District 
 of Columbia on the 14th and confirmed 28th February, 1861 ; attached 
 to steamer " Pocohontas," Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, April and 
 May, 1861 ; to sloop " Savannah," N. and S. A. Blockading Squadron, and 
 in Savannah River at capture of Tybee Island, in command of the powder 
 division; April 1, to steam-frigate " Colorado," capture of the forts in the 
 Mississippi River and New Orleans ; to the iron-clad steamer " New Iron 
 sides," special service, 1862 ; South Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4, when he was 
 specially thanked by Commodore (Vice-Admiral) Rowan, commanding the 
 " New Ironsides," in his official dispatches, " for great zeal and ability in com 
 mand of the powder and shell division " during the various (27) engagements 
 with the forts and batteries of Charleston harbor, in which, as Rear- Admiral 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 289 
 
 Belknap, recently writes to Pay Director Russell : " Do you know that you 
 supplied to the guns of the Ironsides, in face of the enemy, 4,439 charges 
 of powder, together with a like number of shells? That the aggregate 
 weight of the shells was 258 2 tons ? The Cramps might build and equip a gun 
 boat with that amount of iron." To the receiving-ship " North Carolina," New 
 York, 1864-5 ; suggested, and under the orders of Admiral Paulding and 
 Captain McKinstry, inaugurated the lasting reform of issuing to all recruits 
 their needed outfit of clothing and small stores, and furnishing each with an 
 itemized bill of the cost of the same at the government rates, instead of the 
 scant and ununiform supplies furnished them by the shipper, at the most ex 
 orbitant cost ; to steamer " Chattanooga," special service, 18o6 ; to steam-sloop 
 " Sacramento," special service, 1866-7, till wrecked in the Bay of Bengal, 
 coast of India ; when it was found that the " Sacramento " was hard and fast 
 and sinking gradually, with the seas breaking over her starboard quarter, 
 two rafts were ordered to be constructed, as it was found that boats could 
 not live amid the breakers. On the smaller of them, on which the Pay 
 master was ordered to go to procure relief, he had secured his most important 
 books and vouchers carefully packed in a tarpaulin bag, and then inserted in 
 another to protect it as much as possible from water. The Paymaster then, 
 on his own motion, provided each of the officers, petty officers and leading 
 men of the crew with a liberal amount of money in the event of their being 
 separated after escaping from the wreck. The raft was then launched under 
 the lee bow, and he with others boarded and lashed themselves with 
 ropes to the logs composing it, when Lieutenant Frederick Rodgers, in the 
 whale boat, took it in tow, and after hours of hard and skillful towing, with 
 each sea breaking over the raft, succeeded in getting it safely through the 
 breakers and surf to the shore. After spreading his books in the sun to dry, 
 the Paymaster, taking with him a fireman and marine, started on foot for 
 relief their clothing drying upon their bodies. At the end of some four 
 miles the Paymaster fell from sun stroke, but after free applications of water, 
 revived sufficiently to enable him, with the aid of his two men, to reach a 
 small village a mile further on. Then, after a brief rest and drinking freely 
 of boiled goat s milk, the only food obtainable, he hired a large canoe, two 
 leading natives and four others to pole, row and sail the canoe (none speak 
 ing English) ; started on one of the branches of the Godavery River, for the 
 town of Coringa, arriving there after midnight, engaged three large wrecking 
 boats and sent them to the ship. Then proceeding to Cocanada, the head 
 quarters of the English officials, chartered a small steamer under Captain 
 Thompson, in the customs service ; proceeded at once to the wreck, leaving 
 orders at Cocanada for ample provision to be made for quartering and sub 
 sisting the officers and crew. Reaching the scene of the wreck and finding, 
 the sea having abated, that the officers and crew had gone to Yanaon 
 (French), he followed them aroused them after midnight and con 
 ducted them to Cocanada, where they found everything provided as ordered. 
 The safe with some $30,000 was saved, and the accounts settled without the 
 loss of a cent to either the Paymaster or the government. Inspector Pro 
 visions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Washington, 1868-70 ; Navy Pay-Office, 
 Philadelphia, 1870-3. Promoted to Pay Inspector, March 3, 1871 ; Inspector 
 Provisions and Clothing, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, October, 1873, to Janu 
 ary 15, 1874; Navy Pay-Office, Philadelphia, 1874; promoted to Pay- 
 Director, February 23, 1877; Navy Pay-Office, Baltimore, March, 1877, to 
 January, 1882 ; Navy Pay-Office, Philadelphia, May, 1882, to February, 
 1886 ; retired February 4, 1886. 
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290 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Caspar Schenck. Born at Nissequague, Smithtown, Suffolk County, 
 Long Island, September 26, 1835. 
 
 Army Record. On the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, enlisted 
 as a private in Company G, Ninth Indiana Volunteers, and served for three 
 months in Western Virginia, taking part in the battles of Philippi and Car- 
 nack s Ford. 
 
 Navy Record. Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster , July 9, 1861. Com 
 missioned Assistant Paymaster, September 14, 1861 ; served on U. S. steamer 
 " Portsmouth,*" West Gulf Squadron, 1861-4; taking part in the capture of 
 Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April, 1862. Promoted to Paymaster, Janu 
 ary 6, 1864 ; attached to U. S. steamer " Juniata," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 in 1864, and while serving on her as a volunteer on deck at the bombardment 
 of Fort Fisher, on December 24, 1864, was severely wounded, for which he 
 was promoted twelve numbers in his grade for eminent and conspicuous con 
 duct in battle ; attached to apprentice-ship " Savannah," 1865 ; U. S. receiv 
 ing-ship " Independence," Mare Island Navy Yard, 1866-9 ; U. S. steamer 
 " Congress," West Indies, 1870-1. Promoted to Pay-Inspector, March 3, 
 1871 ; attached to U. S. flag-ship " California," as Fleet-Paymaster of the 
 Pacific Station, 1872-3 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 1874-8 ; U. S. flag 
 ship " Pensacola, as Fleet-Paymaster of the Pacific Station, 1878-80. Pro 
 moted to Pay-Director, December 6, 1880 ; Navy Pay-Office, San Francisco, 
 Cal., 1881-4; special duty, 1885; Navy Pay-Office, Norfolk, Va., 1886-9; 
 Navy Pay-Office, Boston, Mass., December, 1889, to June, 1890 ; General 
 Storekeeper, Naval Academy, June, 1890, to December, 1893 ; settling ac 
 counts, December 1, 1893 ; General Inspector Pay Corps, July 31, 1894, to 
 September, 1897. Retired, September, 1897. 
 
 Arthur J. Pritchard. Entered the U. S. Navy, October 7, 1861, as an 
 Assistant Paymaster, regular service ; sailed from Philadelphia in December, 
 1861, in the gunboat " Itasca," commanded by C. H. B. Caldwell, and joined 
 the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, at that time under the command of 
 Flag-Officer McKean, but who was soon afterwards relieved by Rear- 
 Admiral Farragut ; was attached to the " Itasca " for two years, during 
 which time that vessel was engaged in all the lights on the Mississippi River, 
 prominent among which were those at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Vicks- 
 burg, Grand Gulf, Manshac Bend, etc., etc. ; previous to the first-named 
 engagement, the " Itasca " succeeded in cutting the chain extending across 
 the river, by means of a number of small vessels, for the purpose of obstruct 
 ing and preventing the passage of the Federal fleet on its way to the city of 
 New Orleans ; was wounded in the fall of 1862, and sent to a hospital in New 
 Orleans, where remained for about two months, but so serious was the injury, 
 and so tardy the recovery, that he was sent North for treatment, and was alto 
 gether incapacitated from duty for seven months; at the expiration of that 
 time, rejoined vessel, and remained with her until her return North for repairs, 
 in September, 1863, when was detached and ordered at once to the U. S. 
 steamer " Wyalusing ; " the " Wyalusing " proceeded to the Sounds of North 
 Carolina, for the purpose of attempting to capture or destroy the Confederate 
 ram " Albemarle," but engaging that vessel, after a few hours hot fighting, 
 the ram retreated up the Roanoke River, where she remained until destroyed 
 by Lieutenant Gushing ; the " Wyalusing" afterwards assisted at the capture 
 of Plymouth in 1864 ; in this same year was promoted to the full rank of 
 Paymaster ; in the summer of 1865 was detached, and after settling accounts, 
 was ordered to the U. S. steamer " Ticonderoga," Captain Charles Steadman, 
 and sailed the following autumn from Philadelphia, to join the European 
 
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 Squadron ; stopping for a few days at the Azores, the vessel arrived at Lisbon 
 in December, and during forty months that she remained on the station, vis 
 ited almost every sea-port town from Cronstadt, Russia, which place she 
 visited with Admiral Farragut, to St. Paul de Loando, on the coast of Africa, 
 including all the Mediterranean Ports, not excepting Constantinople; in the 
 autumn of 1869 joined the U. S. steamer "Benicia," Captain S. Nicholson, 
 and sailing from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, bound for China, touched at 
 Rio de Janeiro, the Cape of Good Hope, Anger Point, in Java, and Singa 
 pore, arriving at Hong Kong, China, in July or August of 1870 ; after visit 
 ing several Chinese and Japanese ports, arrived at Yokohama, Japan, in 1871 ; 
 there his health became so much impaired, that he was sent home, by recom 
 mendation of a medical board of survey ; after recovering his health in 1872, 
 joined the U. S. steamer "Saranac," Captain Thomas S. Phelps, at Panama, 
 which vessel, soon after he joined her, became the flag-ship of Rear- Admiral 
 A. M. Pennock, commanding the North Pacific Squadron ; in her visited all 
 the sea-ports from Panama northward to Sitka, Alaska Territory, the beautiful 
 sheet of water, Puget s Sound, and the Sandwich Islands ; after leaving the 
 " Saranac," and settling accounts, was ordered, January, 1875, to the U. S. 
 steamer " Powhatan," Captain James E. Jouett, and sailed that same month for 
 Europe, having on board Rear- Admiral John L. Worden, the relief of Rear- 
 Admiral Case, then commanding the European Squadron, the latter officer 
 returning to the United States in the " Powhatan," which touched at the West 
 India Islands on her homeward voyage ; was detached from the " Powhatan," 
 July 26, 1877, and joined the U. S. training-ship " Minnesota," at New York, 
 January 28, 1878 ; was detached, February 1, 1881 ; was ordered to the Navy 
 Pay-Office, Baltimore, Md., January 4, 1882 ; was promoted to Pay Inspector, 
 December 24, 1883; was detached from the Pay-Office, February 2, 1885, 
 and joined the U. S. steamer " Pensacola ; " became flag-ship of the European 
 Squadron, Rear- Admiral S. R. Franklin, commanding ; the " Pensacola " 
 arrived at home from Europe in February, 1888, and the following month 
 was detached ; in April, 1889, was ordered to the Baltimore Pay-Office, and 
 remained until April, 1893 ; Navy Pay-Office, Norfolk, Va,, April, 1893-6 ; 
 Navy Pay-Office, Baltimore, June, 1896. Retired, February, 1898. 
 
 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, Pocataligo, North Edisto and GeorgetoAvn, South 
 Carolina ; and Ossabaw Sound, Georgia ; on June 4, 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 officer by killing 
 the man who had cut him down, and while in the act of despatching 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 12, when, having incurred the displeasure of Commodore Hunter, was 
 sent to prison camp Oglethorpe, Macon, Georgia, before his wounds had healed. 
 On July 20, in company with fifteen hundred officers, was removed to Charles 
 ton, South Carolina ; shortly after crossed the North Edisto River with four 
 
292 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 comrades, jumping from the train while in rapid motion, and, aided by the 
 darkness, succeeded 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 July 25. 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 
 July 27 ; on September 1 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, among whom were four of the " Water- 
 Witch." Paymaster Billings received commendatory letters from Rear- 
 Admiral H. Paulding and Commander Austin Pendergrast for his meritori 
 ous conduct during the defence of the " Water-Witch ; " steamer " Connecti 
 cut," special cruise, 1864-5 ; visited all the forts in the West Indies and 
 Laguayra, Carthagena, Cumana, and Aspinwall on the mainland. Appointed 
 Assistant- Pay master, March 3, 1865 ; steamer " Wateree," South Pacific Squad 
 ron, 1866-8 ; witnessed the bombardment of Callao by the Spanish fleet, and 
 visited all the ports of the South Pacific Squadron, until August 14, 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 de 
 stroyed the town and the remaining ships in the harbor, and caused immense 
 loss of life ; Paymaster Billings received a commendatory letter from Com 
 mander Gillis for his cool and courageous bearing during the trying circum 
 stances in which the officers of that vessel were placed. Commissioned as 
 Paymaster, U. S. Navy, May 4, 1866 ; receiving-ship "Norfolk," Virginia, 
 1869-72 ; S. S. " Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 1872-5; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1876-8; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1878; special duty, New 
 York, 1879; Naval Academy, 1880; Constellation," 1881 ; Naval Academy, 
 1881 ; " Constellation." 1882 ; Naval Academy, 1882-3 ; practice-ship " Con 
 stellation," 1883 ; Naval Academy, 1883-4 ; special duty, Chester, Pennsyl 
 vania, 1885-6; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1887; " Pensacola," 
 1889-90; Fleet Paymaster, N. A. Station, July, 1890, to December, 1892; 
 Navy Pay Office, New York, January, 1893, to 1897 ; General Inspector, 
 Pay Corps, September, 1897. Retired, March, 1898. 
 
 PAY INSPECTORS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMANDER. 
 
 Worthington Goldsborough. Born in Maryland. Appointed from 
 Maryland, September 30, 1862 ; entered the service as Acting Assistant Pay 
 master ; attached to steamer " Southfield," North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 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), 1869-71 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1871-2; "Omaha," S. P. Station, 1872-5; Naval Academy, 
 1876; Coast Survey, 1876-8; "Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1881-3; Navy 
 Yard, League Island, 1885-8 ; Pay Office, San Francisco, 1888-90; Pacific 
 Station and Special Service Squadron, November, 1890, to December, 1893. 
 Promoted to Pay -Inspector, November 24, 1891 ; General Storekeeper, Naval 
 Academy, December, 1893, to October, 1896. Retired with relative rank of 
 Commander, October 9, 1896. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 293 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from incident of service. 
 
 James Hoy. Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New York, Octo 
 ber 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; steam-sloop " Monongahela," 
 West India Squadron, 1866, and North Atlantic Squadron, 1867-8 ; school- 
 ship " Constitution," 1869 ; Naval Storekeeper. Naval Academy, 1870-1 ; 
 Naval Storekeeper, Villefranche, 1871-4; receiving-ship " "VVabash," 1876- 
 79 ; Fleet-Paymaster, N. A. Station, 1880-2 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1883-6 ; " Richmond," 1887-90. Retired, January IS, i^92. 
 
 Francis H. Swan. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from Massa 
 chusetts, December 9, 1861 ; entered the service as Acting Assistant Pay 
 master, U. S. N. ; U. S. S " Potomska," South Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, December, 1861, to March, 1864; U. S. S. " Otsego," North Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, May to October, 1864 ; taken prisoner at the destruc 
 tion of the "Albemarle," October 27, 1864 ; prisoner of war (Salisbury, 
 N. C, Danville, Va., Richmond, Va.) until February, 1865. Promoted to 
 Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N , March 9, 1865; U. S. S "Frolic," European 
 Squadron, June, 1865, to August, 1867. Promoted to Passed Assistant Pay 
 master, U. S. N., May 4, 1866. Promoted to Paymaster, U. S. N., March 5, 
 1867; U. S. S. "Saranac," North Pacific Squadron, November, 1867, to 
 November, 1868 ; U. S. S. "Macedonian," practice cruise, April to Septem 
 ber, 1869; ships "Macedonian" and "Savannah," U. S Naval Academy, 
 October, 1869, to June, 1870; U. S receiving-ship "Ohio," Boston Navy 
 Yard, October, 1870, to October, 1873 ; U. S. S. " Plymouth," North Atlan 
 tic Station, October, 1874, to June, 1875 ; U. S. flag-ship " Worcester," 
 North Atlantic Station (Fleet-Paymaster), June to December, 1875 ; Pay 
 master of the Boston Navy Yard, September, 1876, to June, 1878; store 
 keeper, U. S. Naval Academy and IT. S. S. " Santee," August, 1878, to June, 
 1881 ; special duty, Washington, January to March, 1883 ; U. S. S. "Pow- 
 hatan," special service, December, 1883, to August, 1884. Promoted to 
 Pay-Inspector, U. S. N., February 6, 1881; U. S. flag-ship " Tennessee " 
 (Fleet-Paymaster), North Atlantic Station, March to May, 1886. Retired 
 from sickness incident to the service, July 15, 1886. 
 
 Retired under First Section of Act of April, 21, 1864. 
 
 John H. Stevenson. Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, September 
 19, 1862 ; attached to the U. S. S. " Satellite," 1862-3, and was in the first 
 battle of Fredericksburg (on land), with Hooker s division. 
 
 In December, 1862, it was observed, from the deck of the " Satellite," that 
 the enemy was making signals across the Rappahannock. The commanding 
 officer of the " Satellite " was about to shell the party, but refrained from 
 doing so at the earnest solicitation of Paymaster Stevenson, who stated he 
 would capture the whole party, apparatus, etc., on the succeeding night, which 
 was done as follows : Two boats crews left the vessel under command of 
 Paymaster Stevenson, went ashore, captured the party, and broke up the 
 station. While ashore, Paymaster Stevenson ascertained that Captain Charles 
 Lawson, of the 55th Virginia rebel Cavalry, had opened a recruiting station 
 about ten or twelve miles back from the river. The party, after anchoring 
 the boats a short distance from shore, and leaving two boat keepers in each, 
 started for the recruiting station. The enemy had cavalry pickets out, but 
 the party got safely through, broke up the station, captured Captain Lawson, 
 
294 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 and brought him safely on board the U. S. S. " Satellite," from whence he 
 was sent to the old Capitol Prison at Washington. 
 
 The commanding officer of the "Satellite" states as follows: "To the 
 bravery and energy of Acting Assistant Paymaster Stevenson the success of 
 the expedition was due. Mr. Stevenson frequently volunteered his services 
 for other hazardous duty, and always performed it to my entire satisfac 
 tion." 
 
 On the night of July 9, 1863, the IT. S. S. " New London " was sent down 
 the river by Captain Woolsey, U. S N., senior officer present, with important 
 dispatches for Admiral Farragut, at New Orleans, and orders to force her 
 way through, if possible. In regard to this case, Captain Woolsey states as 
 follows: "On the morning of the 10th July, 1863, I received a message that 
 the U. S. S New London which had been sent down the river during the 
 night, with important dispatches for Admiral Farragut, w r as aground near 
 College Point, some twelve miles below ; that she was disabled, and under the 
 enemy s fire, and her officers and crew behind the levee. I sent to the tele 
 graph station, but found that the wires had been cut ; then, before going down 
 to the assistance of the New London I landed Acting Assistant Paymaster 
 Stevenson, with orders to go down behind the levee to the New London, 
 get the dispatches from Lieutenant-Commander Perkins, fasten a bit of lead 
 around them, and, if possible, to proceed down to New Orleans with them, 
 to seize horses as he wanted them, and to dash through the enemy s pickets 
 and suspicious places with all speed ; but, if surrounded by the enemy, to 
 pitch the dispatches into the river. 
 
 " The cheerfulness with which Mr. Stevenson volunteered to perform this 
 hazardous duty, and the energetic and successful manner in which he per 
 formed it, would certainly have been noticed by the Government had my 
 report, in which the circumstances were stated, been received. The distance 
 performed by Acting Assistant Paymaster Stevenson was eighty-five miles, 
 and through the enemy s country." 
 
 Admiral D. G. Farragut, U. S. N., also testifies as follows : " I distinctly 
 remember that this officer was very active and energetic in conveying dis 
 patches on the Mississippi River in 1863, and I therefore cheerfully endorse 
 his conduct during that period, as set forth by his commanding officer, and 
 consider him well entitled to Government recognition." 
 
 Admiral David D. Porter testifies : " General Sherman had not heard of 
 the capture of Fort Fisher, and I supposed he might march down on Fort 
 Fisher and leave the main road, when he ought to connect with General 
 Grant s army. I called for volunteers to carry dispatches through the 
 enemy s country. Mr. Stevenson volunteered, and carried the dispatches 
 safely to General Sherman, through the enemy s country, at the risk of his 
 neck ; for, had they caught him, they would have hung him." 
 
 He was, also, in all the battles and skirmishes on the Potomac and Rap- 
 pahannock Rivers, from November, 1862, to April, 1863 ; on the Mississippi 
 River, from June, 1863, to September, 1863 ; all the fights on the James 
 River during the last year of the war, and at the capture of Petersburg and 
 Richmond. 
 
 In June, 1870, the President of the United States, by and with the advice 
 and consent of the Senate, advanced Paymaster John H. Stevenson fifteen 
 numbers in his grade, for " extraordinary heroism." 
 
 Not deeming him sufficiently rewarded for all his services, the President 
 of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on 
 April 30, 1879, again advanced Paymaster John H. Stevenson fifteen num- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 295 
 
 bers in his grade, for "gallant and conspicuous conduct in battle, and extra 
 ordinary heroism." 
 
 Paymaster Stevenson served on the "Pawnee," South Atlantic Squadron, 
 1866-9. He was commissioned as Paymaster in 1869 ; receiving-ship "Ver 
 mont," 1869-72 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific Fleet, 1872-5 ; special duty at the 
 Centennial Exhibition, 1876 ; in charge of stores, Nagasaki, Japan, 1876-7 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1877-80. Pay-Inspector, January 18, 1881 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, 1883-7; Naval Academy, 1889-90. Retired, September 
 25, 1893. 
 
 PAYMASTERS ON THE RETIREp LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. 
 
 Henry T. Skelding. Entered Volunteer Navy as Acting Assistant 
 Paymaster, December 31, 1862 ; engaged in the Yazoo Pass Expedition, 
 siege of Vicksburg, batteries at Liverpool Bluffs and Yazoo City, and Yazoo 
 River with General Dick Taylor ; vessel captured and destroyed April 22, 
 1863; attached to the " Pontiac," South Atlantic Squadron; engagements 
 with Battery Marshall, off Charleston, 6 killed and 7 wounded ; Honey Hill 
 fight, near Pocataligo ; entered regular service July 23, 1866 ; attached to 
 Coast Survey steamer " Corwin," February, 1867. Promoted Passed Assist 
 ant Paymaster, March 5, 1867 ; special duty State Department, 1866 ; bearer 
 dispatches to Asiatic Squadron, December 18, 1867 ; store-ship " Supply," 
 1869 ; U. S. S. "Swatara," December, 1869, to January, 1871 ; Samana Bay ; 
 Vienna Exposition, U. S. S. "Guard," 1873-4; store-keeper Nagasaki, 
 Japan, 1874-6. Promoted Paymaster, August 19, 1876; U. S. S. "Wy 
 oming," European Squadron, March, 1877, to June, 1881 ; Paymaster, 
 League Island Yard, 1882-4 ; U. S. S. " Galena," N. A. Squadron, 1886-7 ; 
 Navy Yard, Pensacola, 1889-92 ; Paymaster, Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 Cal., 1892-6. Retired with relative rank of Lieutenant- Commnder, Octo 
 ber 31, 1896. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from incident of service. 
 
 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 the rebel 
 steamer " Chattahoochee," in the Appalachicola 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. 
 Retired, June, 1869. 
 
 Charles P. Thompson. Born in Virginia. Appointed January 19, 
 1865, as an Actitig Assistant Paymaster. Appointed an Assistant Paymaster, 
 from New York, March 3, 1865 ; special duty, Navy Department, 1865-8. 
 Commissioned as Paymaster, August 1, 1866 ; attached to steam-sloop " Ply 
 mouth," European Squadron, 1869-72 ; Bureau of Provisions, 1872-4 ; 
 " Congress," European Squadron, 1874-6 ; Bureau of Provisions, 1876-84 ; 
 " Lancaster," European and South Atlantic Stations, 1884-7; "Trenton," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1887; Bureau of Provisions, 1888-9; waiting orders, 
 
296 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 November, 1889, to January, 1890 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 
 January, 1890, to date of retirement, February 24, 1892. 
 
 John Furey. Born in Brooklyn, New York. Appointed as Acting 
 Assistant Paymaster, October 6, 1863 ; on duty on IT. S. S. " Monticello, 
 from October, 1863, to July, 1865 ; Lieutenant W. B. Gushing was in com 
 mand of the " Monticello " most of the time, and while under his command 
 participated in several expeditions in boats passing inside the line of fortifi 
 cations at mouth of Cape Fear River (Fort Caswell and Smith s Island 
 battery) up as^far as Smithville, N. C. ; was in both engagements at Fort 
 Fisher, and after the capture of that fort, with Lieutenant Gushing, in his 
 gig, landed at Fort Caswell ; took possession of that place and Battery Gamp- 
 bell ; then went to Smithville ; sent to ship for reinforcements, and estab 
 lished a force of occupation, picket lines, etc. ; remained in possession till the 
 army took charge ; A. V. Lieutenant H. H. Gorringe afterwards was in 
 command, and ship was one of the squadron sent to cruise for the Confeder 
 ate ram " Stonewall," which was found in Havana in charge of the Spanish 
 authorities; the "Monticello" was provided with a spar torpedo on the bow, 
 and it was the duty of the commanding officer, in case of falling in with the 
 " Stonewall," to ram her and explode the torpedo ; many exciting incidents 
 occurred during the cruise of the " Monticello," and during a considerable 
 portion of the time A. A. Paymaster Furey was in charge of the powder 
 division, and during the two engagements at Fort Fisher he was Signal-Officer. 
 Commissioned as Passed Assistant Paymaster, July 23, 1866 ; U. S. S. 
 "Yucca," Gulf Squadron, 1866-7; U. S. S. " Quinnebaug," South Atlantic 
 Station, 1867-70 ; Naval Academy, 1871-4 ; originally ordered for duty in 
 charge of accounts, etc., of ships ; afterwards ordered, in addition to such 
 duties, as Naval Storekeeper. Commissioned as Paymaster, October 24, 
 1871 ; U. S. S. " Monongahela," South Atlantic Station, 1874-6 ; ordered to 
 take up accounts of " Shawmut," in addition to " Monongahela," at Pensa- 
 cola, Fla., March 10, 1876, until relieved of that duty, April 14, 1876; 
 special duty as inspector of flour and baking bread at New York, January 
 10, 1877 ; relieved, May 1, 1877 ; special duty at inspection of provisions 
 and clothing, Navy Yard, New York, July 2, 1877, to December 1, 1880 ; 
 training-ship " New Hampshire," 1881-4 ; U.S. S. "Quinnebaufr," European 
 Station, 1885-9 ; U. S. receiving-ship " Vermont," Navy Yard, New York, 
 December 16, 1889, to September, 1893; Navy Yard, New York, September, 
 1893, to July, 1894; sick leave, July 22, 1894. Retired, September 10, 1895. 
 
 John Randolph Carmody. Born in Mohawk, N. Y., June 9, 1843. 
 Enlisted as landsman, July, 1862, " North Carolina." Appointed Paymaster s 
 Writer and Cleric; "Com. Morris," North Atlantic Squadron in opera 
 tions and blockade on James and York Rivers. Resigned, February, 1863. 
 Appointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, August 27, 1864 ; " Cincinnati," 
 Mississippi and West Gulf Squadrons ; in operations and engagements on 
 Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers against Hood s forces, December, 1864 ; 
 at siege and capture of Mobile, and final surrender of Confederate fleet on 
 Tombigbee River, April, 1865; " Fearnot," Gulf Squadron, 1865-6. Com 
 missioned Assistant Paymaster, in regular service, July, 23, 1866 ; " Ghocura," 
 Gulf Squadron, 1866-7 ; " Yantic," West Indies, 1868-9. Promoted to 
 Passed Assistant Paymaster, June 5, 1868 ; store-ship " Relief," special cruise 
 to Europe, 1871 ; Naval Station, New London, 1872-3 ; Naval Station, New 
 Orleans, 1873-4 ; " Monocacy," Asiatic Fleet, 1874-6 ; in charge of naval 
 depot, Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, 1877-9. Promoted to Paymaster, with 
 relative rank of Lieutenant-Commander, October 22, 1878 ; receiving-ship 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 297 
 
 "Independence," Mare Island, Cal., 1879-82 ; special duty (Secretary and 
 Treasurer Navy Mutual Aid Association), Bureau Navigation, 1883-6 ; 
 " Vandalia," Pacific Fleet, 1886 ; special duty, Assistant to Paymaster-Gen 
 eral, Navy Department, 1886-7; " Galena," North Atlantic Fleet, 1887-8. 
 Retired, April 9, 1889, on account of physical disability, contracted in the 
 line of duty. Since his retirement Paymaster Carmody has resided in Wash 
 ington, D. C., where he has become extensively identified with the business 
 and social interests of that city. He is a director and the treasurer of the 
 Washington Loan and Trust Company ; vice-president and a director of the 
 West End National Bank ; member of the Board of Governors of the Army 
 and Navy Club ; a director of the Navy Mutual Aid Association ; treasurer 
 of the Naval Order of the U. S. Dis. Col. Comd ry ; treasurer of the Public 
 Art League of the United States, and is a member of the Military Order of 
 the Loyal Legion and the Grand Army of the Republic, and is connected 
 with various other business, social, and patriotic associations. 
 
 John F. Tarbell. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed A ding A ssistant 
 Paymaster, January 28, 1862; served onboard steamer "Kensington," in 
 West Gulf Squadron, 1862-4; steamer " Neptune," West India Squadron, 
 1864-5. Commissioned as Assistant Paymaster, February 27, 1867; " Mar- 
 blehead," N A. Station, 1867-9. Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, 
 September 16, 1868; Wasp," S. A. Station, 1869-72; Torpedo Station, 
 1874-6 ; " Gettysburg," special service, 1876-8. Commissioned as Paymaster, 
 April 3, 1879; "Gettysburg," special service, 1879-80; Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, N. H., 1881-2; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., 1882; " Juniata," 
 Asiatic Station, 1885-7 ; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., 1887 ; receiving-ship 
 " Wabash, 1888-90 ; sick leave, June, 1890, until date of retirement, Feb 
 ruary 18, 1892. 
 
 Henry C. Machette. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 
 1842. Entered the service, May, 1861 ; steamer " Flag/ 1861-3 ; steamer 
 " General Buckingham," North Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4, as Paymaster s 
 Clerk. Appointed, April 16, 1864, Acting Assistant Paymaster; steamer 
 "Undine," Mississippi Squadron, 1864; upon the destruction and capture of 
 the latter vessel, in the Tennessee River, by Hood s Army, October, 1864 ; 
 succeeded in effecting an escape and saving the public funds, the attention of 
 the Department being called to the circumstances by Rear-Admiral Lee ; 
 commissioned in the regular service in 1867 ; steamer " Wasp," Rio de la 
 Plata, 1867-70. Commissioned as Passed Assistant Paymaster, February 26, 
 1869 ; iron-clad duty, New Orleans, 1871-2 ; iron-clad Terror," 1873, North 
 Atlantic Station; steam-sloop " Canandaigua," 1873-4, West Indies; iron 
 clad " Canonicus," N. A. Station, 1875-6 ; in charge of stores, Key West 
 Naval Depot, 1877-8. Commissioned Paymaster, June 16, 1881 ; in charge 
 of stores, " New Hampshire," 1879-81 ; "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1882- 
 4; Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1885-8; receiving-ship "Wabash," 1888; 
 Navy Yard, League Island, 1889; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1889-92; 
 receiving-ship "St. Louis," August, 1892, to February, 1893 ; Naval Station, 
 Key West, February, 1893-95 ; receiving-ship " Independence," Mare Island, 
 1895-6. Retired from active service, August 13, 1896, for disability con 
 tracted in line of duty. 
 
 Henry Trumbull Stancliff. Appointed an Acting Assistant Paymaster, 
 January 20, 1865; attached to U. S. S. "Agawam," North Atlantic Squad 
 ron, service in James River, North Carolina Sounds, off Newbern, N. C., at 
 close of war (no important engagements). Commissioned Assistant Paymas 
 ter, February 21, 1867, Commissioned Passed Assistant Paymaster, May 19, 
 
298 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 1869. Commissioned Paymaster, April 2, 1882; duty at Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, N. H., 1867-9 ; Navy Department, winter, 1869-70 ; attached to IT . 
 S. S. " St. Mary s," Pacific Station, March, 1870, to June, 1873 ; " Narragan- 
 set" and " Tuscarora," Pacific Station, 1875-6 (the latter vessel ran line of 
 deep sea soundings from Honolulu, H. I., to Brisbane, Australia, touching at 
 Fiji Islands ; Navy Yard, New York, in 1877 ; attached to " Essex," South 
 Atlantic Station, 1877-9; attached to " Ticonderoga," special cruise, 1880-1 ; 
 attached to receiving-ship "Independence," Mare Island, California, Novem 
 ber, 1882, to November, 1885 ; Navy Department, December, 1885, to May, 
 1889 ; attached to " Marion " and " Swatara," June, 1889, to February, 1891 ; 
 duty at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., October, 1891, to date. From May 22, 
 1861, to September, 1861, served in Company A, 4th Regiment Connecticut 
 Volunteers. Retired, April 6, 1894. 
 
 Jonathan Q. Barton. Born in Maine. Appointed Acting Assistant 
 Paymaster, January 30, 1864 ; U. S. S. " Relief," East Indies, 1864-6. Com 
 missioned as Assistant Paymaster, March 2, 1867 ; U. S. S. " Saco," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1867-8; U. S. S. " Nipsic," Darien Expedition, 1870-2; 
 Promoted to Passed Assistant PaymaMer, February 10, 1870 ; U S. receiving- 
 ship "Relief," Washington Navy Yard, 1873-4; leave of absence (in ser 
 vice of Japanese Government), 1874-7; member of Board of Inspection, 
 1878-9; U. S. S. "Nipsic," European Station, 1879-83. Commissioned as 
 Paymaster, May 29, 1882 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, Navy De 
 partment, 1883-5 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1886-9 ; U. S. S. " Pensacola,". 
 North Atlantic Station, 1889-90; Navy Yard, New York, December, 1890, 
 to October, 1891 ; " Miantonomah," N. A. Station, October, 1891, to Novem 
 ber, 1892. Retired, August, 1893. 
 
 Robert Burton Rodney, U. S. N. ; of Delaware. At nearly 22, ap 
 pointed Acting Assistant Paymaster, United States Navy, October 25, 1862 ; 
 was Paymaster of ordnance-ship " Dale," Key West, 1862-3 ; blockader " J. 
 S. Chambers," 1863-4 ; " Donegal " and " Massachusetts," 1864-5 ; double- 
 ender " Conemaugh," 1865-6 ; training-frigates " Constitution " and " San- 
 tee," Annapolis, 1867 ; store-ship " Cyane," Panama Bay, 1868-9 ; iron-clad 
 " Terror," Cuban waters, 1870-1. Placed on retired list, 1871. His life, 
 during the War, was one of patient, humble suffering In August and Sep 
 tember, 1864, was on the aforesaid blockader while that gunboat was stricken 
 by the yellow fever with greater virulence and rate of mortality than ever 
 were known elsewhere in the Navy. Moored alone off Indian River Inlet, 
 Fla., almost all of the ship s complement of seventy lay ill simultaneously ; 
 and the deaths were about one-fourth of the crew and one-half of the officers, 
 and including the commander. The only medical officer, from severity of 
 strain upon him, became helpless, and had to be kept under close care. 
 The vessel resounded night and day with the delirious shrieks of the sick and 
 dying ; and an officer, although well, was so distracted by the incessant hor 
 rors that he sprang overboard and was drowned. All the burials, except the 
 first, were in the sea. Rodney, in addition to personally-performed duties in 
 charge of provisions, clothing and stores (both his clerk and steward being 
 among the dead), served as watch-officer, chaplain and nurse ; was the last 
 seized by the disease ; nearly dying therewith at the Philadelphia lazaretto, 
 to which the ship at length managed to sail. His frame never altogether 
 renewed its former exuberant vigor. July 23, 1866, was one of the few 
 selected (from some four hundred Acting Assistant Paymasters) as highly 
 meriting promotion to the regular navy, and that at the advanced grade of 
 Passed Assistant ; the Board recording in this sole instance, and in red ink 
 
RECORDS OF THE LIVING OFFICERS OF U. S. NAVY. 299 
 
 as emphasis, " Examination especially complimentary to Rodney." Again 
 promoted, viz., to Paymaster, having the relative rank of Lieutenant-Com 
 mander, June 30, 1869. When 24, and under surety bond for only $5,000, 
 he was entrusted with a Sub-Treasury account, and his checks were cashed 
 to the extent of $150,000 and $175,000 each. Commended by Navy De 
 partment, February 19, 1878, as " Of exemplary character, whose conduct, 
 in relation to Government funds and property entrusted to his custody, has 
 been irreproachably honest and accurate ; " and, by Treasury Department, 
 February 7, 1876, as "Always one of the most dutiful and efficient of Pay 
 masters." Never sought, nor suggested, a particular detail, nor to have one 
 changed, however disagreeable. Author of "Alboin and Rosamond," and 
 lesser poems, and " Pay-day at Babel." His family s name borne on the rolls 
 of former United States Senate and House ; Attorney-Generals United 
 States, and Governors of Delaware ; the Declaration of Independence ; and 
 English naval history and peerage. 
 
 Edward N. Whitehouse. Born in New York. Appointed as Acting 
 Assistant Paymaster, December 4, 1862 ; " Choctaw " (iron-clad), Mississippi 
 Squadron, 1862-4; steamer "James Adger," South Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1865-6. Commissioned as Assistant Paymaster in 1866, and pro 
 moted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, September 6, 1867 ; " Dale " (fourth- 
 rate), North Atlantic Station, 1867-8; "Sabine," special cruise, 1869-70 ; 
 " Portsmouth " (training-ship), Mare Island, 1872-5 ; S. S. " Supply," 1875-6 ; 
 "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1876-9. Commissioned as Paymaster, 1877 ; 
 special duty, New York, 1880 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1881-4 ; Inspector 
 Provisions, Navy Yard, New York, 1884 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," 1885-9; 
 " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889 to June, 1893 ; leave of absence, 
 June, 1893, to December, 1894 ; U. S. receiving-ship Minnesota," Decem 
 ber, 18&4-5; U. S. S. "Maine," September, 1895-6; leave of absence, De 
 cember, 1896. Retired, April, 1898. 
 
 George H. Read. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Acting Assistant 
 Paymaster, January 14, 1865. Commissioned as Assistant Paymaster, Feb 
 ruary 27,1867; "Nipsic" (fourth-rate), 1867; "Saginaw," Pacific Fleet, 
 1868-71. Promoted to Passed Assistant Paymaster, March 12,1869; Tor 
 pedo Station, 1871-4 ; "Intrepid" (torpedo-boat), 1874-5; " Swatara," N. 
 A. Station, 1875-7 ; Bureau of Provisions, 1877. Commissioned Paymaster, 
 August 31, 1881 ; Bureau of Provisions and Clothing, 1877-9 ; Fish Com 
 mission, steamers "Fishhawk" and "Albatross," 1880-3; Naval Clothing 
 Factory, 1883-7 ; detached, March, 1877 (not assistant to general store 
 keeper then) ; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1887-9 ; assistant to general store 
 keeper, New York, 1887-8 ; Paymaster of Navy Yard, New York, 1888-90 ; 
 charge of Naval Clothing Factory, New York, November, 1890, to Decem 
 ber, 1892 ; "Marion," Asiatic Station, December, 1892, to 1894; U. S. S. 
 "Columbia, December, 1894; Navy Yard, New York, June, 1896; sick 
 leave, December, 1897. Retired, March, 1898. 
 
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 ENGINEER CORPS. 
 
 CHIEF ENGINEERS ON THE ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF CAPTAIN. 
 
 Philip Inch. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from District 
 of Columbia, November 21, 1857 ; entered the service as Third Assistant 
 Engineer ; steam-frigate " Roauoke," Home Squadron, 1858-60. 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, 1869-72; 
 special duty, Hartford, Conn, 1873-5; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1875-6; 
 "Adams," South Atlantic Station, 1876-8 ; special duty, Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 187781 ; Fleet-Engineer, Asiatic Station, 1881-4 ; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, 1884-5; member Board of Inspection, 1885-9; Vulcan Iron- 
 Works, 1889-90 ; Fleet-Engineer, Pacific Station, April, 1890, to September, 
 1892; waiting orders, September, 1892, to January, 1893; Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, January, 1^93, to November, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 November, 1893, to May, 1898. On steam Frigates " Colorado" and " Roa- 
 noke." Promoted and ordered to Pensacola Navy Yard, and then to " Semi- 
 nole," 1858-60 ; from 1860-1, on the U. S. S. " Pawnee ; " was present when 
 the first gun was fired on Fort Sumter; saw Anderson surrender; took part 
 in destruction of Norfolk Navy Yard, detailed to destroy guns ; Matthias 
 Point when Captain Ward, U. S. N., was killed ; Aquia Creek, under fire of 
 batteries; at landing of Ellsworth, and when killed at Alexandria, Va. ; at 
 first Battle of Bull Run. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, and ordered 
 to " Wyoming ; " in this latter vessel had a fight with Japanese forces at 
 Samor Sakia Straits; chased the "Alabama" out of China seas to Cape of 
 Good Hope. 
 
 William G. Buehler. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third As 
 sistant Engineer in 1857 ; frigate " Niagara," special service, 1858-9 ; steamer 
 " Michigan," 1859-60. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer in 1861 ; and 
 to First Assistant Engineer, 1862 ; steamer " Aroostook," N. A. and W. G. 
 Squadron, 1861-3. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1863 ; steamer " Galena," 
 West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5; steamer "Suwanee," Pacific Fleet, 1865-7; 
 Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1868 ; League Island, 1869-70 ; " Terror," 
 (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1870-2; "Franklin," N. A. Station, 1873; 
 " Ticonderoga," N. A. Station, 1874; "Brooklyn," flag-ship, S. A. Station, 
 1874-5 ; special duty, New York, 18^5-6; President Board of Examiners, 
 1876-7 ; "Plymouth," N. A. Station, 1877-80; special duty, Philadelphia, 
 1880-5; "Pensacola," European Station, 1885-8; member Board of In 
 spection and Survey, 1888 to October, 1893 ; member Naval Examining 
 Board, October, 1893, to date. Was a member of the Naval Training Board 
 to December, 1894, and since then to date has been on duty as the Chief 
 Engineer of Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. 
 
 Louis J. Allen. Born in Maryland. Appointed Third Assistant En 
 gineer, 1859; steam-sloop " Dacotah," 1858-60. Promoted Second Assistant 
 Engineer, 1861 ; special duty at Novelty and Morgan Iron Works, 1861 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 301 
 
 steam-sloop " Adirondack," until wrecked ; South Atlantic Station, Senior 
 Engineer of double ender "Conemaugh;" participated in attacks of forts 
 around Charleston and other places. Promoted to first Assistant Engineer, 
 1863 ; special duty, New York, 1864 ; special duty, Baltimore, 1865-6 ; 
 double-ender " Monocacy," as Senior Engineer, en route to China, 1866 ; left 
 at hospital, Barbadoes, with yellow fever, 1866 ; Naval Rendezvous, Phila 
 delphia, 1867; Naval Academy, 1867-8; ironclad "Dictator," 1869-70. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1871 ; U. S. sloop " Resaca," Pacific Squadron, 
 1871-2 ; Inspector of Machinery Afloat, Mare Island Navy Yard, 1872 ; 
 steam-sloop " Tuscarora," Pacific Squadron, 1873-4 ; Navv Yard, Pensacola, 
 1875-7; steam-sloop "Marion," European, North American and South 
 American Squadrons, 1878-80 ; waiting orders and temporary duty, New 
 York and Bristol, Rhode Island, 1880-3 ; receiving-ship " Vermont," 1884 ; 
 steam-sloop " Quinnebaug," European and African Stations, 1884-7 ; waiting 
 orders and New York Navy Yard, 1887-8 ; League Island Navy Yard, 
 1889-90; "Chicago," S. A. Station, November, 1891-5 ; member of Experi 
 menting Board, New York, May, 1895-7 ; Continental Iron Works, August, 
 1897 ; Union Iron Works, San Francisco, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 George W. Melville. It is rare to find high professional ability and 
 the capacity to attend scrupulously to office-work and details combined in 
 the same individual with the daring spirit and dauntless courage which lead 
 to gallant deeds in the face of the most distressing conditions under which 
 men can be placed. The "sound body " enabled the "sound mind" to do 
 such things as Melville has accomplished, for his life has been one of strange 
 and stirring adventure. Although his name will ever be associated with the 
 " Jeaunette" Expedition, he was a volunteer for two other well known simi 
 lar ventures to the far North, each of which accomplishes its mission ft tuto, 
 cito, jucunde" owing, in great measure, to the knowledge which he had of 
 the things to be provided, a complete outfit being the necessary adjunct of 
 success in undertakings of this nature. De Long, in his journals, bears full 
 testimony to his cheerful and steady co-operation during that trying drift 
 through entirely unknown seas. When the supreme moment came, and 
 with their own resources cut down to the lowest amount, the party had to 
 make for un unknown shore, over a vast extent of ice and water, Melville 
 was equal to the occasion. He commanded one of the three boats engaged 
 in the retreat, and accomplished the feat of bringing that whole boat s crew 
 out alive, while the others perished, either in the icy waters of the Arctic or 
 the equally inhospitable waste about the Lena delta. Most men would have 
 thought that they had done enough ; but, after a few days of rest to recu 
 perate his forces, he again took his life in his hands and led a party which 
 discovered, far down in that lonely, wintry waste, the bodies of De Long, 
 Dr. Ambler, and their ill-starred companions. One boat, he rightly judged, 
 had been lost during a night of storm, as they were approaching the land. In 
 searching for the other boat s crew "he fought his perilous and painful way, 
 mile by mile, through the rigors of perpetual winter and floating archipela 
 goes of ice along the Arctic coast for over five hundred miles, surviving the 
 privations which had been fatal to so many, and persevered until his search 
 was rewarded by the recovery of all the records of the Jeannette Expedi 
 tion." In the face of obstacles presented by the worst season, he penetrated 
 to the mouth of the Lena in his search, and left no doubt that the unfortu 
 nate crew of the third boat had not succeeded in reaching the shore. As it 
 was, he contributed to the geography of the world a new and important 
 chart of that region. It was under his charge that the rude but massive 
 
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 tomb was built which sheltered the poor remains of the lost, and the rites 
 of Christian burial were performed over these martyrs to science and 
 humanity, where perpetual winter had embalmed them." They were, how 
 ever, subsequently exhumed by order of the United States government and 
 brought home, to be laid among the dust of their kin, with impressive cere 
 monies. The Russian government offered every assistance to the officers who 
 accomplished this pious mission, while our own government conferred sub 
 stantial rewards upon those who had aided Melville in his extremity. For 
 his Arctic services Engineer Melville afterwards received special promotion, 
 with the approbation of the whole navy and of the country at large. En- 
 gineer-iu-chief Melville was born in New York, of Scottish lineage, on Janu 
 ary 10, 1841, and his education was acquired in the public schools, the 
 school of the Christian Brothers, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic School, He 
 entered the navy at the outbreak of the Civil War, and served well and 
 faithfully, both during that trying period and afterwards, when peace 
 came, on our own coast, in the West Indies, in Brazil, and on the East 
 India Station ; besides duty at navy-yards. He was everywhere a favorite, 
 on account of his cheetful, modest and unostentatious deportment, as well as 
 for the zeal, bravery and endurance which he showed on all occasions which 
 were calculated to bring forth those qualities, and there are not few, even 
 in the ordinary course of service. Melville was made engineer-in-chief of 
 the navy and chief of the Bureau of Steam-Engineering in August, 1887, 
 and in January, 1892, was recommissioned in the same office, with the entire 
 approbation of the whole navy, as well as that of the great industrial estab 
 lishments with which he necessarily comes in contact in conducting a vast 
 business. As an instance of his ability to accomplish unusual feats, and his 
 capacity for extraordinary effort, we may mention the fact that in the sum 
 mer of 1887 he himself prepared the general designs of the machinery of 
 five vessels of the new navy. January, 1896, reappointed for the third term 
 as Chief of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, where he is still on duty. 
 
 Joseph Trilley. Born in Ireland. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, 
 August, 1860; ordered to the "Pawnee," September, 1860, and joined the 
 Gulf Squadron at Vera Cruz; returned to the United States in December, 
 and at the breaking out of the rebellion, the vessel joined the North Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadron, and took part in the following engagements while 
 attached to her : Fort Sumter, burning of the Norfolk Navy Yard, Aquia 
 Creek, and several other engagements on board, and in boat expedition on 
 the Potomac River ; capture of the forts at Hatteras Inlet ; capture of the 
 forts at Hilton Head ; capture of Fernandina, Fla., besides a number of 
 engagements in Stono Inlet and other places, from Charleston to Fernandina 
 Fla. ; detached from the " Pawnee," ordered home, and promoted to Second 
 Assistant Engineer, July, 1862, and ordered to the " Monongahela ; " joined 
 the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, and took part in the following engage 
 ments: Port Hudson, Donaldsonville, and constant fighting on the river, 
 keeping communication open between New Orleans and Port Hudson ; con 
 voyed Banks expedition to the Rio Grande ; capture of the forts on Mobile 
 Bay. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, July, 1864 ; detached from the 
 "Monongahela," April, 1865; steam trials of the "Algonquin," 1865-6; 
 steam trials of the "Idaho," 1866; Navy Yard, Boston, and Naval Rendez 
 vous, Boston, 1866-8; experimental duty, South Boston, 1868-9; " Semi- 
 nole," N. A. Station, 1869-70; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1871; "Shawmut," 
 N. A. Station, 1872-3. Promoted to* Chief Engineer, 1873, but to take rank 
 from 1871 ; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1873-4 ; " Vandalia," European and 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 303 
 
 N. A Station, 1876-9; receiving ship " Wabash," 1879-83; flag-ship 
 " Trenton," and as Fleet-Engineer of the Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; special 
 duty, New York, 1887 ; receiving-ship " Wabash," 1887-8 ; Chief Engineer 
 of the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1888-91; Inspector of Machinery of 
 " Monterey," December, 1891, to February, 1893; "Monterey," Pacific 
 Station, February, 1893-5; U. S. S. "Olympia" and U. S. S. " Philadel 
 phia," 1895 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, March, 1896 ; to present date, May, 
 1898. 
 
 P. A. Rearick. Born in Maryland. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, 
 1860 ; steamer " Crusader," North Atlantic Squadron, 1861 ; " Housatonic," 
 West Gulf Squadron, 1862, and South Atlantic Station, 1*63. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; " Britannia," North Atlantic Station, 1864. 
 Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1864 ; iron-clad " Dictator," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1865 ; special duty, Washington, 1866 ; flag-ship " Pow- 
 hatan," Pacific Squadron, 1867-9 ; " Saco," European Fleet, 1870-2 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1873 ; " Colorado," North Atlantic Station, 1873-4. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1874 ; " Ossipee," North Atlantic Station, 1875- 
 6 ; " Essex," North Atlantic Station, 1877, and South Atlantic Station, 1878- 
 81 ; R. S. " Franklin," 1881-2 ; Juniata," Asiatic Station, 1882-6 ; charge 
 of stores, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1886-9; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1889- 
 92 ; Inspector of Machinery of the " Texas," August, 1892, to November, 
 1893; member Steel Inspection Board, November, 1893, to 1894; Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk, June, 1894, to 1895 ; U. S. R. S. " Franklin," March, 1895 ; 
 U. S. S. " Indiana," November, 1895 ; Inspector of Machinery, Newport 
 News, May, 1896, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 A. H. Able. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third Assistant En 
 gineer, 1861 ; steamer " Water-Witch," S. A. Station, 1861 ; gunboat " Tioga," 
 West India Station, 1862-3. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1862 ; 
 "Pensacola," W. G. S., 1863-4. Promoted to first Assistant Engineer, 
 1864; "Powhatan," N. A. Station, 1864-5 ; special duty on board "Chat 
 tanooga," 1866 ; "Plymouth," European Station, 1868-70; "Terror," iron 
 clad, N. A. Station, 1871 ; Navy Yard, 1872-4. Promoted to Chief En 
 gineer, 1874 ; "Alert," Asiatic Station, 1875-8 ; rendezvous duty, 1879-81 ; 
 Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1881-3; "Shenandoah," Pacific Station, 
 1884_7 | Inspector of Machinery, new cruisers, Philadelphia, 1887-9 ; "Balti 
 more," special service, 1890; Inspector Machinery of the "Newark," 1890, 
 to February, 1891 ; " Newark," special service, February, 1891, to August, 
 1893 ; Navy Yard, League Island, September, 1893-4 ; Member of Naval 
 Engineer Examining Board, August, 1894 ; Navy Yard, League Island, 
 January, 1895 ; President of Engineer Examining Board, Philadelphia, Pa., 
 July, 1897, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 Alfred Adamson. Born in New York. Entered the Navy as Third 
 Assistant Engineer, May 13, 1861. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 
 December 17, 1862 ; joined the " Pawnee " about June 5, 1861, and partici 
 pated in numerous actions on the Potomac River during the summer of 1861 ; 
 also at the capture of Hatteras Inlet and Port Royal, besides a number of 
 engagements at Stono Inlet, South Carolina, and other places on the coast, 
 from Charleston, South Carolina, to Fernandiua, Florida ; was engineer in 
 charge of the ship from January 1, 1862, until ordered to the " Moutauk," 
 in August, 1864, also as engineer in charge ; was in numerous actions in 
 Charleston harbor, in the " Montauk," brought on usually by the attempt of 
 blockade-runners to enter the port ; on the capture of Fort Fisher the 
 " Montauk " was ordered to the Cape Fear River, and assisted in the capture 
 
304 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 of Fort Strong and other fortifications on that river ; on the capture of Wil 
 mington, the " Moutauk " was ordered to Washington, where he was detached 
 March 29, 1865. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, January 1, 1865; 
 on waiting orders until September, 1865, when he was ordered to the Euro 
 pean Squadron in the " Ticonderoga ; " returned in the " Franklin," Novem 
 ber, 1*68; waiting orders from that time until January 1, 1H69, when he 
 ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard ; detached, February, 1871, and on 
 waiting orders until April, 1872, when ordered to the Pacific Squadron in the 
 " Tuscarora ; 2 detached on arriving at San Francisco, in September, 1873, 
 and ordered to the " Monocacy," in the Asiatic Squadron ; ordered home in 
 May, 1875, and on waiting orders until October 12, of the same year, when 
 he was ordered to duty at League Island ; detached from League Island, 
 October 10, 1878. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May 17, 1879 ; " Swatara," 
 Asiatic Station, 1879-82; "Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1885-8; receiving- 
 ship " Wabash," 1888-91 ; " Yorktown," Pacific Station, September, 1891, 
 to October, 1892 ; " Miantonornah," N. A. Station, August, 1893, to 1894; 
 leave of absence, November, 1894 ; U- S. receiving-ship " Wabash," Febru 
 ary, 1895-7 ; Navy Yard, Boston, May, 1897, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 George J. Burnap. Born in New Hampshire. Appointed Third As 
 sistant Engineer in 1861 ; " Roanoke," N. A. Station, 1861 ; steam-gunboat 
 "Cimerone," N. A. Station, 1861-3. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 
 1863; steam-gunboat " Aroostook," W. G. S., 1863-4; "Quaker City," W. 
 G. S., 1864-5. Promoted to Find Assistant Engineer, 1865 ; Naval Acad 
 emy, 1867-8; " Miantonomah " (iron-clad), special cruise, 1869-70 ; iron 
 clad duty, New Orleans, 1871-2 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1872-5 ; 
 training-ship " Monongahela," 1876-7; special duty, Chester, Pa., 1877-9. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 1, 1879 ; "Alliance," N. A. Station, 
 1879-83 ; special duty, Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1884-6 ; " Vandalia," Paci 
 fic Station, 1886-9 ; special duty, Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1889-94 ; U. S. 
 S. " Baltimore," July, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Olympia," 1895 ; U. S. S. " New York," 
 1897 ; Cramp s Ship Yard, November, 1897, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 Cipriano Andrade. Born in Tampico, Mexico, September 1, 1840. 
 Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, July 1, 18(51 ; steam-sloop " Lan 
 caster," the flag-ship of the Pacific Squadron, 1861-2, engaged protecting 
 Isthmus of Panama and cruising for rebel commerce destroyers. Promoted 
 to Second Assistant Engineer, December 18, 1862 ; steam-gunboat " Pontiac," 
 North Atlantic Blockading Station, 1863-5 ; while attached to the Blockad 
 ing Squadron participated in the attack on Battery Marshall, at Charleston, 
 and in the Broad Kiver campaign at Honey Hill, to open communication 
 with General Sherman, resulting in the battles at Tulifiuny cross-roads ; on 
 General Sherman leaving Savannah, with much difficulty, the "Pontiac" 
 was taken up the Savannah River to Sisters Ferry, about forty-five miles 
 above the city and guarded the pontoon bridge from molestation by the 
 rebels, while General Slocum s wing passed into South Carolina ; while in the 
 Savannah River the blockade-runner "Amazon " was captured, which after 
 ward became a serviceable transport for the Union Army. Promoted to 
 First Assistant Engineer, January 30, 1865 ; naval title changed from First 
 Assistant Engineer to Pasted Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1874; steam- 
 sloop " Tuscarora," Pacific Squadron, August 28, 1865, to December 13, 
 1867 ; witnessed bombardment of Valparaiso, March 31, 1866, and attack 
 on Callao by the Spanish fleet under Admiral Nunez, May 2, 1866 ; special 
 duty connected with contract trials of machinery of the "Ammonoosuc " and 
 " Neshaminy," March 5, to November 27, 1868 ; monitor " Saugus" (Centaur), 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 305 
 
 North Atlantic Station, 1869-70 ; League Island, on duty in connection with 
 preservation of monitors, September 1870, to August, 1872; "Benicia," 
 Pacific Squadron, September, 1872, to April, 1873 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 Cal., May, 1873, to September, 1874; " Tuscarora," North Pacific Squadron, 
 October, 1874, to September, 1876; engaged in running aline of deep-sea 
 soundings from San Francisco to Honolulu, and from Honolulu to Brisbane, 
 Australia; the commanding officer (Commodore J. N. Miller, U. S. N.) in 
 formed the Department, under date of August 8, 1876, " that it was greatly 
 owing to the care and attention of Passed Assistant Engineer Cipriano 
 Andrade that enabled him to complete the line of soundings from Honolulu 
 to Australia, with boilers and engines which were not in go/)d condition, and 
 by an unusually economical use of coal in making long passages under steam, 
 being prompt in expedients to overcome difficulties, aod repairs were quickly 
 and economically made." Served as President of a Court of Inquiry con 
 vened at Apia, Island of Upola, Samoa, to investigate certain claims pending 
 between American citizens and native Samoans ; special duty, U- S. S. " Tren 
 ton," November, 1876, to February, 1877 ; special duty at Providence, R. I., 
 March, 1877, to May, 1878 ; experimental duty, Navy Yard, New York, 
 June to August, 1878 ; Senior Assistant Engineer, Navy Yard, New York, 
 September, 1878, to December, 1879; U. S. S. "Benicia," to the Asiatic 
 Station, January to July, 1880; U. S. S. "Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, August, 
 1880, to November, 1881. Promoted to Chief ^ Engineer, September 11, 
 1881 ; special duty, Inspector of coal, Philadelphia, Pa., 1882, to February, 
 1884; U. S. S. " Yantic," N. A. Station, March, 1884, to October 6, 1885 ; 
 U.S. S "Swatara," North Atlantic Station, October 7, 1885, to October, 
 1886; Superintendent Engineer " Yorktown," and " Vesuvius " building at 
 Cramps ship-yard, Philadelphia, Pa., 1887 to May, 1889; during this duty 
 served on various Boards, including dock trials of the " Terror " and "Amphi- 
 trite ; " U. S. S. " Yorktown," Squadron of Evolution, April, 1889, to Sep 
 tember, 1891 ; while in charge of the machinery of the "Yorktown " on the 
 measured mile trials at Newport, R. I , exceeded the contractors record of 
 the official acceptance trial by 262.75 I. H. P. ; as the premium offered was 
 $100 per unit in excess the Government was $26,175 in pocket. The con 
 tractors earned $39,825, but the trials at Newport under Government super 
 vision demonstrated that $66,000 could have been earned. Superintendent 
 Inspecting Engineer " Columbia," building at Cramps ship-yard, Philadel 
 phia, Pa., September 25, 1891, to April 8, 1894; in connection with this 
 duty inspected tubes for other ships building and was member of various 
 Boards. Promoted to Chief Engineer with relative rank of Commander, 
 September 12, 1894; U. S. S. "Columbia," N. A. Station, April 9, 1894, to 
 January 19, 1895 ; reported January 19, 1895, on board the flag-ship " New 
 York," as Engineer-of-the-Fleet, North Atlantic Station ; serving on the Gen 
 eral Staff of Admirals Mead and Bunce, U. S. N., until his detachment April 
 14, 1897 ; during this duty was on several Boards and Courts of Inquiry, 
 besides having the honor of assisting in conducting and explaining the details 
 of the machinery to Emperor William and Prince Henry of Germany, while 
 the " New York" was officiating at the Kiel celebration of the opening of the 
 North Sea Canal ; selected, by permission of the Secretary of the Navy, as 
 the Representative Engineer of the Wm. Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine 
 Building Works on the final acceptance Government trial of the "Minne 
 apolis ; " Naval Engineers Examining Board, May 28, 1897, to date Com 
 panion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ; 
 member American Society of Naval Engineers ; charter member Society of 
 
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306 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. Promoted to Chief Engineer with 
 relative rank of Captain, February 7, 1898. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMANDER. 
 
 John Lowe. Born in Liverpool, England, December 11, 1838. En 
 rolled in Second Ohio Regiment, United States Volunteers, April 17 to July 
 31, 1861 Wounded at the first battle of Bull Run. Appointed Third As 
 sistant Engineer, August 12, 1861, through the influence of the Hon. S. S. 
 Cox; gunboat Huron," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, October, 
 1861, to December, 1866 ; gunboat " Shawmut," North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, October, 1861, to December, 1866 ; and iron-clad duty, torpedo- 
 boat " Picket," scout, and such semi-detached duty, October, 1861, to Decem 
 ber, 1866. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, April 21, 1863 ; U. S. S. 
 " Madawaska," December 22, 1866, to February 1, 1867; special duty on 
 board " Richmond " and " Maumee," February 14, 1867, to December 19, 
 1867 ; Navy Yard, Washington, December 19, 1867, to November 24, 1868 ; 
 U. S. S. " Tallapoosa," November 24, 1868, to February 10, 1870; U. S. S. 
 " Palos," February 10, 1870, to October 21, 1872. Promoted to First Assist 
 ant Engineer, July 25, 1866; Navy Yard, Washington, March 15, 1873, to 
 November 11, 1873; monitor "Manhattan," November 11, 1873, to Febru 
 ary 11, 1874; torpedo-boat "Intrepid," February 10, 1874, to July 5, 1876; 
 U. S. S. " Despatch," special service in Europe, November 22, 1876, to July 
 2, 1879 ; monitor " Passaic," December 31, 1879, to October 22, 1880 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, October 22, 1880, to October 27, 1883. Promoted to 
 Chief Engineer, June 16, 1883 ; U. S. S. " Yantic," October 27, 1883, to 
 February 27, 1884 ; U. S. S. " Bear," Greely Relief Expedition, February 
 27 to November 17, 1884; Navy Yard, Washington, January 13, 1885, to 
 December 7, 1885; U. S. S. " Dolphin," December 7,1885, to February 
 8, 1887 ; U. S. S. "Thetis," January 7, 1887, to January 10, 1889 ; special 
 duty at Chicago, 111., May 1, 1889, to October 21, 1889 ; Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, December 27, 1889, to January, 1892 ; Inspector of Machinery of the 
 "New York," January 12, 1892, to August 1, 1893; "New York," S. A. 
 Station, August, 1893, to January 15, 1895 ; removal of the Monitor Fleet 
 from Richmond, Va., and upon the General Standardization Board, until 
 January 10, 1896 ; Fleet Engineer Pacific Station, January 10, 1896, to 
 December 18, 1897 ; Naval Inspector at the Continental Iron Works, Brook 
 lyn, February 5, 1898, to date. 
 
 Lewis Wood Robinson. Born near Haddonfield, New Jersey, March 
 7, 1840. Entered the Navy as Third Assistant Engineer, September 21, 1861 
 (from the profession of Civil Engineering), and was ordered to the " Kenne- 
 bec," October, 27, 1861, which vessel soon after joined the West Gulf Block 
 ading Squadron, under Commander Farragut ; participated in the capture of 
 Forts Jackson and St. Philip, and the city of New Orleans, in April, 1862, 
 and other minor engagements in the Mississippi River, including the attack 
 on Vicksburg, by Farragut s Fleet, June 28, of the same year, resulting in 
 forming a junction with the upper fleet ; left the Mississippi in August, 1862, 
 and after a short cruise down the coast of Texas, engaging on the way the 
 batteries at Valasco, returned, joined the Blockading Fleet off Mobile, and 
 participated in the capture of the schooners "Juniper," "Sea Lion," "Hun 
 ter," "Marshall J. Smith," and "John Scott," and steamers "Eugenia," 
 " William Bagaly," and " Gray Jacket." Promoted to the grade of /Second 
 Assistant Engineer (rank of Master), July 30, 1863 ; was Chief Engineer of 
 the "Kennebec," from July, 1864, to June 9, 1865, during which time par- 
 
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 ticipated in the engagement with Forts Morgan and Gaines, entering Mobile 
 Bay with Farragut s fleet, August 5, 1864 ; was present at the second surren 
 der of Galveston, Texas; was detached from the " Kennebec," June 9, 1865, 
 and ordered to the " R. S. Cuyler," for passage North ; from November, 
 1865, to December, 1869, was attached to the " Shamokin " on the east coast 
 of South America. Promoted to the grade of First Assistant Engineer (rank 
 of Lieutenant), October 11, 1866 (title changed to Passed Assistant Engineer, 
 February 24, 1874) ; after two years duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 
 made another cruise to the S. A. Station, from January, 1871, to February, 
 1874, on the <; Ticonderoga; " was then placed on special duty until August 
 1, 1875, when, obtaining leave of absence, occupied the position of General 
 Superintendent of the Bureau of Machinery, U. S. Centennial Exhibition, 
 under Chief Engineer John S. Albert, U. 8. N., Chief of Bureau, which 
 position he held until January 1, 1877, when he was ordered to duty at the 
 Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, as Senior Instructor in the Depart 
 ment of Steam-Engineering ; detached from the Naval Academy in June, 
 18bO, and ordered, August 24, 1880, to the U. S. S. " Minnesota," flag-ship of 
 the Training-Fleet; detached from the "Minnesota," in August, 1882, and 
 ordered to the U. S S. " Tennessee," flag-ship of the Home and North Atlan 
 tic Fleet ; detached from the "Tennessee " in August, 1883, and promoted to 
 Chief Engineer (rank of Lieutenant- Commander), from August 19, 1883 ; or 
 dered to special duty at the Navy Yard, League Island, Philadelphia, Pa., in 
 November, 1883, in connection with the fitting out of the U. S. S. " Ossipee; " 
 ordered to the " Ossipee," January, 1884 ; made a cruise on the Asiatic Sta 
 tion ; detached from the " Ossipee ; " at the Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard, March 
 12, 1887, and in April was ordered as member of the Naval Examining 
 Board, P. O. Building, Philadelphia, Pa., and served until September, 1891, 
 when he was detached and accepted the position of Chief of Department of 
 Machinery, World s Columbian Exposition ; on the completion of services in 
 connection with the World s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, in March, 
 1894, he was ordered to report April 1, at Norfolk, Va., as Chief Engineer 
 of the U. S. S. " Atlanta ; " detailed from the " Atlanta," October 25, 1894, 
 and ordered to the U. S. S. " Newark," flag-ship of the South Atlantic 
 Station, and on the arrival of Rear- Admiral Charles S. Norton, he was placed 
 on the staff of the Admiral as Engineer of the Fleet by orders dated Feb 
 ruary 11, 1895. Promoted to the grade of Commander, March 21, 1895. 
 Detached from the " Indiana," on the completion of a three years cruise, 
 April 2, 1897, and granted leave of absence; ordered to the Navy Yard, 
 League Island, Philadelphia, Pa., May 1, 1897, as Chief Engineer of the 
 Yard, which is his present duty. 
 
 Wm. H. Harris. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, in 1861 ; steam-gunboat "Sagamore," East Gulf Squadron, 1861- 
 3. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; steam frigate " Niagara," 
 special service, 1863-5 ; Naval Academy, 1865-6. Promoted to First Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1866 ; " Piscataqua," Asiatic Squadron, 1867-70 ; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1871-2 ; " Despatch," special service, North Atlantic Station, 1873- 
 6 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1878-9 ; special duty, 1879-80 ; " Galena," European 
 Station, 1881-3; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1884-9. Promoted to Chief 
 Engineer, December 27, 1883; steamer "Atlanta," Squadron of Evolution, 
 1889-91; receiving-ship "Wabash," November, 1891, to September, 1892 ; 
 Naval Examining Board, Philadelphia, September, 1892, to June, 1893 ; 
 receiving-ship "Wabash," June, 1893, to 1895; "Columbia," January, 1895 
 -97 ; San Francisco, July, 1897-98 ; Iron Works, Bath, Me., March, 1898, 
 to present date, May, 1898. 
 
808 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Charles J. MacConnell. Born in Pennsylvania, December 14, 1837. 
 Served an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer, studied and practised 
 civil engineering, graduate of State Normal School at Trenton, New Jersey. 
 Was a member of Company A, National Guard of that State. In 1861 
 volunteered for three months, was detailed for special service at the Arsenal 
 at Trenton during most of the time. Was appointed Third Assistant En 
 gineer in regular service on the 29th of October, 1861, ordered to gunboat 
 "Kineo" on November 2, 1861; joined the fleet of Admiral Farragut in 
 Gulf of Mexico in February, 1862, participated in the fighting which occurred 
 between the Passes and Fort Jackson, was present during the battle at this 
 place and its capture, and the capture of New Orleans ; was actively engaged 
 in all the various battles in the Mississippi at Donaldson ville, Plaquemine, 
 Baton Rouge, Port Hudson, and Vicksburg, the destruction of the ram 
 " Arkansas " and various skirmishes up and down the Mississippi and the 
 Texan coast; detached from "Kineo" at Baltimore, October 31, 1863. 
 Promoted to grade of Second Assistant Engineer in September, 1863 ; ordered 
 to "Pontusuc," March 31, 1864; was detached from this ship and reported 
 for duty on board the " Mattabesett," on blockade duty, and in the Sounds of 
 North Carolina ; fought . the ram "Albemarle" off Edenton, N. C. and did 
 guard duty at Plymouth in the Roanoke River ; remained on this ship until 
 after the surrender of General Johnson at Goldsboro ; was then ordered to 
 New York and detached on May 31, 1865 ; after a short leave was ordered 
 to duty at League Island, assisted in establishing the Navy Yard at that 
 place ; was detached from this duty and ordered to the " Lackawanna," 
 April 27, 1866, made a cruise on her in the Pacific ; was promoted to First 
 Assistant Engineer in October, 1866 ; returned from Pacific and ordered to 
 Boston Navy Yard in April, 1869 ; December 27, 1870, ordered to "Tennes 
 see ; " from January 9, 1872, to October 8, 1872, on duty on ironclad 
 " Canonicus ; " on November 4, 1872, joined the " Pensacola," flagship, in 
 South Pacific at Valparaiso, detached at Mare Island Navy Yard on October 
 12, 1874, and ordered to this Yard ; served here until April, 1876 ; waiting 
 orders until August 11, 1877, when was ordered to New York to serve on the 
 " Monongahela ; " cruised in the East Indies, went around the world in this 
 ship, and was detached in California and ordered East to duty in New York 
 Navy Yard in December, 1879 ; July, 1882, ordered to ironclad " Nantucket," 
 served in her six months, was then attached to the "Swatara" in January, 
 1883, cruising in West Indies and Home Squadron ; detached in August, 
 1885. Commissioned as Chief Engineer, December 5, 1885, and ordered to 
 " Vermont," receiving-ship, at New York. Detached March 9, 1888, and 
 went on leave, March, 1889, ordered to " Mohican," joined her at Panama, 
 cruised in the Pacific and Behring Sea ; detached at Port Townsend in April, 
 1892; August, 1892, ordered to training-ship "Richmond," Newport, R. L, 
 and to additional duty in charge of Station at Coaster s Harbor Island ; 
 February, 1893, transferred to " Minnesota " at New York ; July 8, 1895, 
 detached from "Minnesota," and ordered to San Francisco to "Olympia," 
 flagship of Asiatic Fleet; cruised to Yokohama, Japan, and was then trans 
 ferred to U. S. S. " Charleston " at Nagasaki ; this ship was disabled by broken 
 pistons. Promoted to grade of Commander, June 5, 1896 ; fitted up " Charles 
 ton," made a short cruise to China and Corea, after which returned to Naga 
 saki, docked ship, and sailed for San Francisco, where ship went out of com 
 mission July 27 ; same day received orders to join the " Lancaster " (flagship) 
 at Montevideo, Uraguay, South America, via New York and Rio Janeiro ; 
 brought the " Lancaster " to Boston, Massachusetts, and was detached No- 
 
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 vember 20, 1897, and ordered to the flagship " New York " as fleet engineer 
 of North Atlantic Station, where he is at present on duty. 
 
 George W. Stivers. Born in New York. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, 1861; steam-sloop " Oneida," W. G. S., 1861-3. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; steamer " Union," E. G. S., 1864-5 ; spec 
 ial duty. New York , 1865-6. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1866 ; 
 "Franklin," European Station, 1867-9; "Dictator," iron-clad, N. A. Sta 
 tion, 1869-70 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1871-4 ; " Palos," Asiatic Fleet, 
 1875-7 ; torpedo-boat " Intrepid," 1877-9 ; " Pensacola," Pacific Station, 
 1879-82 ; special duty, 1883-4 ; special duty, Experimental Board, 1884-6. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, December 18, 1888 ; "Esspx," Asiatic Station, 
 1886-9; Navy Yard, New York, 1889-93; "Baltimore," Asiatic Station, 
 May, 1893; U. S S "Concord," May, 1893-96; leave of absence, June, 
 1896 ; Board of Inspection and Survey, July, 1896 ; IT- S. receiving-ship 
 "Vermont," Apri , 1897, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 James Entwistle. Born in New Jersey. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, 1861 ; steam-gunboat "Aroostook," N. A. and W. G. Squadrons, 
 1861-5. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; " Mohongo," Pacific 
 Squadron, 1865-7. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1866 ; " Wam- 
 panoag" (second-rate), 1867-8; "Michigan," 1869-70; " Canonicus " (iron 
 clad), N. A S., 1871-2 ; " Powhatan," N. A. S., 1873 ; " Franklin," Euro 
 pean Station, 1873-6 ; Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1877-8 ; special duty, 
 New York, 1877-8; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1878-80; "Ashuelot," Asi 
 atic Station, 1881-3 ; special duty, Morgan Iron Works, 1885-7 Promoted 
 to Chief Engineer, July 1, 1887; "Enterprise," European Squadron, 1887- 
 90 ; Inspector of Machinery of Gunboats Nos. 5 and 6, June, 1890, to 1895 ; 
 " Boston," Dec., 1895-7 ; " Olympia," July, 1897, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 Ralph Aston. Born in Connecticut. Appointed Third Assistant Engi 
 neer, 1861 ; steam-gunboat " Cayuga," W. G. Station, 18(51-5 ; at the capture 
 of New Orleans the i( Cayuga," was the first vessel to pass the lower forts ; 
 she took part in many minor affairs on the Mississippi River, at the defences 
 of Mobile, and on the coast of Texas. Promoted to Second Assistant Engi 
 neer, 1863 ; to First Assistant Engineer, 1866 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 
 1867-9. Promoted to Passed Assistant Engineer, October, 1869 ; " Terror" 
 (iron-clad-, N. A. Station, 1870-1 ; "Omaha," Pacific Fleet, 1872-3; Naval 
 Rendezvous, New York, 1875-6 ; experimental duty, Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1877-9 ; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," 1880-3 ; inspection duty, 
 1883-5; "Pensacola" and " Kearsarge," European Station, 1885-6 ; " Os- 
 sipee," N. A. Station, 1886-7. Promoted to Chief Engineer, July 28, 1888 ; 
 special duty, 1888-90; " Bennington," S. A. Station, June, 1891, to 1894; 
 Continental Iron Works, November, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Cincinnati," February, 
 1898, to present date, May, 1898 
 
 James H. Chasmar. Born in New York. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, 1862; gunboat "Paul Jones," S. A. Station, 1862 to 1864. Pro- 
 moteed to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863; "Muscoota," Gulf Squadron, 1865 
 to 1866. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1866; " Suwanee," N. P. 
 Station, 1867-70; iron-clad duty, Key West, 1870-71, " Mahopac," iron 
 clad, N. A. Station, 1872-3; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Fleet, 1874-8 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, 1878-81; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1881-84; 
 Navy Yard, New York. 1884-9 ; promoted to Chief Engineer, January 27, 
 1889; Inspector of Machinery, 1889-94; "Cincinnati," N. A. Station and 
 European Station, 1894 to 1897 ; Wabash," 1897 to 1898; "Vulcan," 
 repair ship, 1898. 
 
310 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 William A. "Windsor. Born in Virginia. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, 1862 ; " Miami," North Atlantic Station, 1862-4 ; New York Navy 
 Yard, 1864. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1864 ; " Nyack," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1864-5; Rhode Island, North Atlantic Station, 1865-6 ; 
 League Island Navy Yard, 1867 ; " Franklin," European Squadron, 1867- 
 8 ; " Ticonderoga," European Squadron, 1868-9. Promoted to First Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1868 ; iron-clad " Dictator," North Atlantic Station, 1869-70 ; 
 waiting orders, 1871 ; sick leave, 1872-3 ; U. S. S. " Hartford " and " Mon- 
 ocacy," Asiatic. Station," 1873-4 ; sick leave, 1874 ; torpedo-boats "Intrepid " 
 and " Alarm," 1874-6 ; " Ranger," 1876-7 ; iron-clad duty up James River, 
 Va., 1877-8; Plymouth," North Atlantic Station, 1878-9; " Kearsarge," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1879-80 ; Naval Academy, 1880-3 ; " Tennessee," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1883-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1887-9. Promoted 
 to Chief Engineer, June 17, 1889 ; "Dolphin," special service, North Atlan 
 tic Station, 1889-91; Inspector of Machinery, 1892-94; U. S. S. "Min 
 neapolis," June, 1894; " San Francisco," July, 1896; U. S. S. "Minne 
 apolis," July, 1897-98 ; Navy Yard, New York, February, 1898, to present 
 date, May, 1898. 
 
 H. Schuyler Ross. Born in the city of Buffalo, N. Y. Appointed 
 Third Assistant Engineer in November, 1862 ; served in West Indian Flying 
 Squadron, U. S. S. " Tioga ; " sent home as one of the prize crew of cap 
 tured blockade-runner " Granite State," 1863 ; special experimental duty at 
 New York Navy Yard, 1863 ; U. S. S. " Mendota," James River Flotilla, 
 1864-5, in action with forts above " Hewlett s ; " took charge of captured 
 torpedo-boat and delivered her to Commodore Radford at City Point, return 
 ing with crew to ship at Dutch Gap ; several actions with shore batteries. 
 Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, March, 1864; " Tullahoma," and 
 special duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1865-6 ; U. S S. " Peoria," West India 
 Station, 1867 ; " Penobscot," West Indies, 1867-9 ; iron-clad " Terror," 
 North Atlantic Station, 1869-70. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 
 1868; " Wabash," flag-ship, European Station, 1872-4; Naval Station, New 
 London, 1874-5; iron-clad " Wyandotte," 1875; " Vandalia," European 
 Station, 1875-7; Coast Survey, " Gedney," 1878-9; Michigan Lakes, 
 1880-1 ; "Alert " and " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1883-6 ; special duty, 
 Board Merchant- Vessel Inspection, 1887-9 ; Cramp s ship-yard, " Balti 
 more," 1889. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1890; " Essex," S. A. Station, 
 April, 1890, to August, 1893 ; Navy Yard, New York, August, 1893, to 
 1896; U. S. S. "Massachusetts," June, 1896; U. S. S. "San Francisco," 
 February, 1898, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 Charles R. Roelker. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed Third 
 Assistant Engineer, 1862 ; "Sonoma," N. A. S., 1863-5. Promoted to Second 
 Assistant Engineer, 1864 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1865-70. Pro 
 moted to First Assistant Engineer, 1868; " Tallapoosa," special service, 
 1871-2; "Shenandoah," European Squadron, 1872-3; " Congress," European 
 Station, 1873-6 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1876-7; Advisory Board, 
 1882-6; Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," 1887-91 ; special duty in 
 connection with " Raleigh," July, 1891-7. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 
 November, 1890; member Board Inspection and Survey, April, 1897, to 
 present date, May, 1898. 
 
 John D. Ford. Born in Maryland. Entered the Maryland Institute 
 School of Design, class of 1857 ; graduated, June, 1861, receiving the first 
 Peabody prize. Entered the United States Navy as a Third Assistant Engi 
 neer, July 30, 1862; took passage on the naval transport "Rhode Island," 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 311 
 
 and joined the West Gulf Squadron, October 11, being assigned to duty on 
 board the " Richmond ; " in February, 1863, took part in the recapture of 
 Baton Rouge, La., and the passage of Port Hudson batteries in March ; 
 June, 1863, was detailed for duty with the left wing of the army at the 
 siege of Port Hudson ; after the surrender, was engaged on blockade duty 
 off the entrance to Mobile Bay. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 
 February 16, 1864 ; June 7, 1864, was ordered in charge of the prize-steamer 
 " Donegal " to Philadelphia ; rejoined the " Richmond," off Mobile Bay, 
 June 30 ; August 5, 1864, passed the forts at the entrance to Mobile Bay ; 
 after the engagement, was detailed as one of the prize-crew for the ram 
 " Tennessee ;" August 11, detached from the " Tennessee f and ordered in 
 charge of the machinery of the prize-steamer "Selma," on duty at the 
 obstructions below the city of Mobile ; February 5, 1865, detached from the 
 " Selma," and order to the "Arizona," which vessel was destroyed by fire off 
 Poverty Point, on the Mississippi River, February 27, 1865, when officers and 
 crew had to take to the water to save their lives ; March 9, 1865, ordered to 
 the flag-ship " Estrella," fitting out at New Orleans; afterwards on duty in 
 Mobile Bay ; July 1, 1865, detached from the " Estrella," and ordered to the 
 "Sebago ; " returned to New York, and was detached, July 25, 1865 ; Octo 
 ber 25, 1865, ordered to the " Pensacola," at Baltimore, for experimental 
 duty ; March 30, 1866, detached ; July 10, 1866, ordered to the " Guerriere," 
 at Boston, on experimental duty ; detached, October 2, 1866, and ordered to 
 the "Sacramento;" sailed down the West Coast of Africa, up the Indian 
 Ocean, and Avas wrecked on the Coramandel coast of India, June, 1867 ; 
 returned to the United States in the British bark "General Caulfield;" 
 detached, November 19, 1867 ; February 4, 1868, ordered to the Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk ; assigned to duty in charge of machinery afloat. Promoted 
 to First Assistant Engineer, June 6, 1868; December 11, 1868, detached 
 from the Navy Yard, and ordered to take passage to Europe in the " Frank 
 lin," for duty on board the " Swatara ; " assigned to duty on the " Franklin," 
 on the passage over; June 1, 1869, returned to the United States in the 
 "Swatara," was detached, and granted leave of absence; October 8, 1869, 
 ordered to the "Miantonomah ; " took part in the reception of H. B. M. S. 
 " Monarch," at Portland, Me., July 20, 1871 ; detached ; September 5, 1871, 
 ordered as Assistant to the Chief Engineer, at the Navy Yard, Norfolk ; 
 September 20, 1872, detached and ordered to the " Hartford ; " made a cruise 
 on the Asiatic Station; October 23, 1875, detached; January 17, 187(5, 
 ordered to the Naval Examining Board, Washington City; March 1, 1878, 
 detached and ordered to duty in the Bureau of Steam-Engineering ; Novem 
 ber 24, 1879, detached and ordered to the flag-ship "Tennessee;" made a 
 cruise on the North Atlantic Station ; April 23, 1883, detached ; May 17, 
 1883, ordered to duty in the Bureau of Steam-Engineering ; March 13, 1884, 
 detached and ordered to start the Baltimore Manual Training-School ; July, 
 1890, was ordered to duty in connection with the contract trial of the U. S. 
 S. "San Francisco;" October, 1890, ordered to the "Alert," cruised in 
 Behring Sea and the Asiatic Station ; October, 1893, detached and granted 
 leave of absence. Promoted to Chief Engineer, November, 1890 ; Mary 
 land Agricultural College, February, 1894-6; U. S. S. "Brooklyn," Decem 
 ber, 1896-8 ; U. S. S. " Baltimore," February, 1898, to present date, May, 
 1898. 
 
 John L. Hannum. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, April 21, 1863; "Pawnee," S. A. S., 1863-5. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, 1864; "Guerriere," S. A. S., 1867-9 ; "Terror" 
 
312 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1869-71. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 
 1872 ; " Worcester," N. A Station, 1873-5 ; special duty, Philadelphia, 1877 ; 
 " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1879-81 ; special duty, Philadelphia, 1881-2 ; 
 "Nipsic," S. A. Station, 1883-4; "Pinta," special duty, 1884-6; Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk, 1886-9 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1889-92 ; receiving- 
 ship " Vermont," July, 1892, to 1895. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May, 
 1891; U. S. S. " Amphitrite," July, 1895; U. S. S. "Indiana," 1897; 
 U. S. S. " Minneapolis," February, 1898 ; U. S.*S. " Brooklyn," March, 1898, 
 to present dafe, May, 1898. 
 
 Albert C. Engard. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, March 17, 
 1863 ; May 26, 1863, ordered to the monitor "Nahant," in the Edisto River, 
 South Carolina ; June 6, 1863, ordered to the " Powhatan," on blockade 
 duty off Charleston, South Carolina ; afterwards in the West Indies, as flag 
 ship of Admiral Lardner; thence to Hampton Roads, to join Admiral Por 
 ter s fleet for the attack on Fort Fisher ; remained on board the "jPow- 
 hatan " until after the surrender of the fort ; November 25, 1865, ordered 
 to the " Sagamore," Tampa Bay, Florida. Promoted to Second Assistant 
 Engineer, 1866; ordered to the " Saco," June, 1866; January 12, 1867, 
 ordered to the " Marblehead," at Washington ; cruised in the West Indies ; 
 December 5, 1867, ordered to the " Penobscot," at Washington ; cruised in 
 the West Indies; July 12, 1869, ordered to the Navy Yard, Norfolk ; July 
 12, 1872, ordered to the monitor "Canonicus," at Norfolk; November 8, 
 1872, transferred to the monitor " Saugus," at Philadelphia. Promoted to 
 First Assistant Engineer, 1873 ; May 29, 1873, ordered to the " Benicia," at 
 Panama ; November 16, 1875, was ordered to the Naval Rendezvous, at 
 Philadelphia; December 14, 1876, was ordered to the receiving-ship "St. 
 Louis;" March 1, 1879, was ordered to the "Alert," Asiatic Station; 
 November 19, 1879, was ordered to the " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station; May 
 25, 1881, ordered to the "Alert," Asiatic Station; September 28, 1882, 
 ordered to the Naval Rendezvous, Philadelphia ; April 15, 1884, ordered to 
 the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York; June 16, 1884, ordered to Chester, 
 Pennsylvania, on inspection duty in connection with the machinery of the 
 monitor "Puritan;" April 22, i 885, ordered to the " Shenandoah," South 
 Pacific Station; October 12, 1886, ordered to the " Ranger," on surveying 
 duty on the coast of Lower California; August 13, 1888, ordered to the 
 Navy Yard, League Island, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; October 18, 1888, 
 ordered to the Ship and Engine-Building Works of William Cramp & 
 Sons, on inspection duty in connection with the machinery of the cruiser 
 " Newark," and remained until October, 1891 ; "Mohican," Pacific Station, 
 April, 1892-5. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May, 1891 ; leave of absence, 
 April, 1895; U. S. receiving-ship "Richmond," August, 1895-8; Columbian 
 Iron Works, February, 1898; U. S. S. "Philadelphia," April, 1898, to 
 present date, May, 1898. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. 
 
 John A. B. Smith. Entered the service from civil life on the 21st of 
 April, 1863, as Third Assistant Engineer; was ordered to the L T . S. S. 
 " Housatonic," off Charleston, S. C., in June, and served on that vessel until 
 she was blown up by a torpedo on the night of February 17, 1864 ; was res 
 cued by boat from " Canandaigua; " on account of the crowded condition of 
 that vessel was sent to the U. S. S. " Wabash ; " served on that vessel until 
 May ; after going North for a new outfit, was ordered to the U. S. S. " Paul 
 Jones ; " served on that vessel in Stono Inlet and Ossibau Sound after the 
 
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 " Water- Witch " was captured ; came North in " Paul Jones ; " in August, 
 1864 was ordered to U. S. J3. " Mohongo," building at Jersey City. Pro 
 moted to Second Assistant Engineer, September 28, 1864; made the trip 
 from New York to San Francisco in " Mohongo," and was detached on the 
 7th of August, 1867; served on the trials of the " Contoocook," " Moshu- 
 lan," " Pushmataha " and " Miantonomah," in latter part of 1867-8 ; joined 
 U. S. S. " Saco," at Aspinwall, in September, 1868, and, on that vessel going 
 out of commission, was ordered to U. S S. " Seminole," sent out to capture 
 the pirate steamer " Telegraph," supposed to be at Samana Bay ; served 
 on " Seminole " until December, 1869 ; ordered as Chief Engineer of " May 
 flower," in August, 1870, and went in that vessel to Mexico, in connection 
 with the Shufeldt expedition to survey for canal (Tehuantepec Canal) ; 
 returned in 1871, and was detached in May; ordered to League Island 
 Station, and served until 1873; was ordered to "Saugus" in July, 1883; 
 was chief of that vessel during the " Virgin! us " excitement. Was promoted 
 to Passed Assistant Engineer, January, 1873 ; went to Pensacola on " Sau 
 gus," and was then ordered as chief of that yard, and served there during 
 the epidemic of yellow fever, 1874 ; was relieved in November of 1874, 
 when yard was reported healthy ; granted six months leave ; ordered to 
 "Hartford," flag-ship of North Atlantic Squadron, in December, 1875, and 
 served on that vessel until Aimust. 1877, part of the time as Chief Engineer ; 
 ordered to U. S. S. " Wyandotte," at Washington Yard, in December 1877 ; 
 was detached in May, 1880, and ordered to " Tallapoosa, and served on 
 her until June, 1883, the last year as Chief Engineer; in September, 1883, 
 was ordered in charge of stores at Norfolk Navy Yard, and Chief Engineer 
 of receiving-ship "Franklin;" served there until May, 1886; was then 
 ordered as Senior Assistant of the new cruiser " Atlanta;" served on her 
 during all of her trial trips, and until November, 1888 ; in December, 1888, 
 was ordered to duty under Naval Advisory Board, at Washington; on 
 April 1, 1889, was ordered to inspection duty at Cramps ship-yard in connec 
 tion with U. S S. " Philadelphia ; " served on trial trips of the " Baltimore ; " 
 was detached December 4, 1889, and ordered as inspector of cruiser No. 9, 
 at Baltimore. Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 16, 1892 ; ordered to 
 cruiser "Montgomery," March 8, 1894; U. S. S. "Texas," June, 1894, to 
 1896 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, February, 1896, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 Conrad J. Habighurst. Born in England. Appointed Third Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1863 ; West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863-4 ; " Dictator " 
 (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1864-5. Promoted to Second Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1865; " Monongahela," West Indies Squadron, 1866-7; 
 "Franklin," European Squadron, 1868-70; " Mahopac," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1872-3. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1873 ; " Franklin," 
 European Squadron, 1873-4 ; in charge of Machinery Afloat, New London, 
 Connecticut, 1874; "Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 1876-7; Navy 
 Yard, Philadelphia, 1879-81 ; "Enterprise," North Atlantic Station, 1881- 
 4 ; special duty, Chester, Pa., 1885-7 ; inspection duty, Philadelphia, 1887- 
 90; " Enterprise," N. A. Station, June, 1890, to March, 1891 ; iron-clads at 
 Vichmond, Va., March, 1891, to May, 1892 ; member Naval Examining 
 Board, Philadelphia, May, 1892, to 1894. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 
 February, 1892 ; training-ship Essex," January, 1894, to 1896 ; U. S. S. 
 " Terror," 1896 ; Inspector of Boiler-Tubes, February, 1897 ; U. S. R. S. 
 " Richmond," February, 1898 ; Columbia Iron Works, April, 1898 ; U. S. S. 
 "Puritan," May, 1898, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
314 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Alexander B. Bates. Born in New York. Appointed Third Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1863; "Sangamon," North Atlantic Station, February, 1863, 
 to September, 1863 ; " Mattahasset," North Atlantic Station, October, 1863, 
 to May, 1865. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May, 1864 ; " Ticon- 
 deroga," European Station, August, 1865, to October, 1868. Commissioned, 
 July 25, 1866 ; " Franklin," European Station, December, 1868 ; "Galena," 
 North Atlantic Station, April, 1869, to May, 1869 ; " Dictator," North At 
 lantic Station, June, 1869, to July, 1870 ; Mare Island, June, 1871, to April, 
 1873; League -Island, April, 1873, to November, 1873 ; "Dictator," North 
 Atlantic Station, November, 1873, to December, 1874. Promoted to First 
 Assistant Engineer, January, 1874; "Adams," June, 1875, to July, 1875 ; 
 "Montauk," North Atlantic Station, November, 1875, to July, 1876; Mare 
 Island, July, 1876, to August, 1878; " Lackawanna," Pacific Station, August, 
 1878, to September, 1881 ; Experimental Board, New York, March, 1882, 
 to October, 1882; " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, November, 1883, to 
 August, 1884 ; Portsmouth, N. H., Yard, April, 1885, to February, 1886 ; 
 " Vandalia," Pacific Station, February, 1886, to January, 1889 ; " Mohican," 
 Pacific Station, January, 1889, to April, 1889; " Minnesota," May, 1889-91 ; 
 special duty, November, 1*91, to October, 1892; " Yorktown," special ser 
 vice Squadron, October, 1892-5. Commissioned Chief Engineer, June, 1892; 
 U. S. .S. " Bennington," 1895 ; sick leave, June, 1895 ; U. S. receiving-ship 
 " Franklin," November, 1895-7 ; U. S. S. " Texas," September, 1897, to 
 present date, May, 1898. 
 
 Robert W. Milligan. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third As 
 sistant Engineer, 1863 ; " Mackinaw," North Atlantic Station, 1863-5 ; 
 " Powhatan," Pacific Fleet, 1866-9. Promoted to Second Assistant Engi 
 neer, 1864; "Wyoming," North Atlantic Station, 1871-2; Navy Yard, Nor 
 folk, 1874. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1874 ; " Brooklyn," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1875-6 ; Coast Survey steamer " Bache," 1877-9 ; 
 Naval Academy, 1879-82; "Tennessee," North Atlantic Station, 1882-5; 
 Naval Academy, 1885-9 ; "Ranger," North Pacific Station, 1889-91; re 
 ceiving-ship " Independence," 1891-92 ; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1892, to 
 October, 1893 ; member Board of Inspection and Survey, October, 1893, to 
 1896. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May, 1892; " Monterey," April, 1896 ; 
 " Oregon," January, 1897, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 George W. Baird. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed Third 
 Assistant Engineeer, 1862, serving on the steamers " Mississippi," " Calhoun," 
 " Kensington," and " Pensacola; " Bureau Steam-Engineering, 1864-5. Pro 
 moted to Second Assistant, 1866; "Shamrock," 1866-8; " Tallapoosa," 
 1868-9; Mare Island, 1869-71; "Saranac" and "Pensacola," 1871-3; 
 Bureau Steam-Engineering, 1873-7. Promoted to Passed Assistant, 1874 ; 
 "Trenton," 1877; "Vandalia," 1878-80; " Montauk," 1880-1; Superin 
 tendent for Fish Commission, 1881-2; "Albatross" (acting as Chief), 
 1882-7 ; Assistant Superintendent of State, War and Navy Building, 1887- 
 92. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1892 ; "Dolphin," 1892, to 1895 ; Super 
 intendent State, War, and Navy Building, August, 1895, to present date, 
 May, 1898. 
 
 Richard Inch. Born in District of Columbia Appointed Third Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1863 ; steam-sloop " Lancaster," Pacific, 1863-6. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, 1864 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1867-8 ; " Nyack," 
 Pacific Fleet, 1869-70; tug " Triana," 1871-3 ; " Gettysburg," special ser 
 vice, 1873-4. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1874; special duty, 
 Washington, 1875-7 ; " Wyoming," European Station, 1877-80 ; receiving- 
 
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 ship "Passaic," 1881-3 ; "Pinta," special service, 1883-4; " Yantic," N. A. 
 Station, 1884-6 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1887-91; "Lancaster," Asiatic 
 Station, 1891. Promoted to Chief Engineer, August, 1892 ; U. S. S. " Mar 
 ion," March, 1891-94 ; waiting orders, August, 1894 ; Bureau of Equipment, 
 April, 1895 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, October, 1895-97 ; U. S. S. "Con 
 cord," June, 1897; U. S. S. "Boston," February, 1898, to present date, 
 May, 1898. 
 
 Harrie Webster. Born in Farmington, Maine, February 12, 1843. 
 Appointed Acting Third Assistant Engineer, in the Volunteer Service Feb 
 ruary 8, 1862 ; Third Assistant Engineer in the Regular Service, May 20, 
 1864; Second Assistant Engineer, January, 1, 1868; Passed Assistant Engi 
 neer, October 29, 1874 ; Chief Engineer, October 7, 1892. Served on the 
 U. S. S. " Monticello," from February 11 to August 5, 1862, participating 
 in the numerous skirmishes with Confederate Blockade Runners and land 
 batteries ; served on the U. S. S " Ossipee," and on the U. S. S. " Genesee," 
 on the Wilmington blockade, and on the last-named vessel took part in the 
 battle of Port Hudson, March 13, 1863, During the Mississippi River 
 campaign, which ended with the surrender of Vicksburg, and the capture of 
 Port Hudson, in July, 1863; participated in many affairs between the 
 " Genesee" and Confederate batteries, and in July, 1864, was transferred to 
 the monitor " Manhattan " at his own request, and took part in the battle of 
 Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; following a leave of absence from the " Man 
 hattan," served on the U. S. S. " Winnepeg " as assistant instructor in steam 
 while attached to the Naval Academy, and made a cruise to Europe in the 
 U. S. S. "Shamrock ;" served on the U. S. S. Nipsic" (first of the name), 
 during Captain T. O. Selfridge s first surveys for an Isthmian Canal ; after 
 wards served on the IT. S. S. " Powhatan," and made a cruise in the Pacific 
 while attached to the U. S. S. " Iroquois ;" the various periods of shore duty 
 have been for the most part in Washington ; on the 10th of January, 1889, 
 was ordered to the U. S. S. " Vandalia," and was the Engineer Officer in 
 charge of the engine-room during the wreck of that vessel at Apia, Samoa, 
 March 15-16, 1889 ; was appointed Acting Pay master to continue the duties of 
 Paymaster Frank H. Arms, who was lost on that occasion, and continued to 
 act as Paymaster until July 18, 1889, when, the accounts of the " Vandalia" 
 having been satisfactorily settled, was ordered as Chief Engineer of the U. S. 
 S. " Nipsic " (the second of the name), at Honolulu, Hawaii ; after a year on 
 this vessel, was detached, ordered home and placed on duty at the Bureau of 
 Steam Engineering, December 31, 1890; July 31, 1894, detached from 
 Bureau Steam Engineering and ordered to U. S. S. " Bennington," Mare 
 Island, Cal. ; " October 15, 1894, transferred to U. S. S. " Yorktown," and 
 made cruise of forty months in this ship ; detached from " Yorktown," De 
 cember 8, 1879 ; ordered to Bureau Steam Engineering, December 20, 1897 : 
 March 11, 1898, ordered on temporary special duty in the Southern States 
 recriting men for the naval service ; visited New Orleans, La. ; Galveston, 
 Texas; St. Louis, Mo., and other points. 
 
 H. N. Stevenson. Appointed from New York. Acting Third Assist 
 ant Engineer, October 10, 1866 ; graduated from Naval Academy, 1868 ; 
 Third Assistant Engineer, June 2, 1868 ; Second Assistant Engineer, June 2, 
 1869; Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1874; Passed Assistant Engineer, 
 December 13, 1874; Chief Engineer, December 10, 1892; "Dakota," " Cy- 
 ane" "Saranac," on Pacific Station, 1868-71 ; Bureau of Steam Engineer 
 ing, 1871-72 ; Inspection duty, New York, 1872-74 ; " Swatara," with 
 Transit of Venus Expedition to Southern Hemisphere, 1874-5 ; Coast Sur- 
 
316 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 vey steamer " Gedney," 1875-78; Inspection duty New York, 1878-79 ; 
 " Trenton," European Station, 1879-81; "Wyoming" Atlantic Station, 
 1882 ; Coast Survey steamer "Patterson," New* York to Alaska, 1883-87 ; 
 Inspection duty, New York and Chester, Pa., 1888-91 ; " Alliance," China 
 Station to Norfolk, Va., 1891-94 ; Training Station, Newport, R. I., 1894- 
 o; Inspection duty, Bath, Me , 1895-97 ; "Monterey," Pacific Station to 
 date, May 10, 1898. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF LIEUTENANT. 
 
 Charles Whiteside Rae. Born in Hartford, Conn., June 30, 1847. 
 Graduated with the degree of Civil Engineer, from the Rensselaer Poly 
 technic Institute, Troy, N. Y., July, 1866. Appointed to the U. S. Naval 
 Academy, in the newly-formed class of engineer students, October 10, 1866, 
 and was graduated with the diploma of the institution, June 2, 1868 ; 
 member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and of the 
 American Society of Naval Engineers ; Third Assistant Engineer, June 2, 
 1868; waiting orders, June 2 to July 16, 1868; U. S. S. " Contoocook " 
 (afterwards called "Albany"), flag-ship of the North Atlantic Fleet, July 
 16, 1868, to September 30, 1869; assistant to the Inspector of Machinery 
 Afloat, Washington, September 30, 1869, to March 30, 1870. Second Assist 
 ant Engineer, October 15, 1869; commission to date from June 2, 1869. 
 U. S. S. "Terror, N. A. Fleet, March 30 to March 31, 1870; assistant to 
 Inspector of Machinery Afloat, Washington, March 31 to September 24, 
 
 1870 ; Tehuantepec and Nicaragua Canal Surveying Expedition, September 
 24, 1870. to August 16, 1871 ; in charge of line of levels in the field and 
 resultant work in the office; waiting orders, August 16 to September 9, 
 
 1871 ; U. S. S. " Wabash," flag-ship, European Fleet, September 9, 1871, to 
 January 14, 1872 ; U. S. S. " Juniata," European Fleet, January 14 to April 
 12, 1872; U. S. S. "Plymouth," European Fleet, April 12 to June 14, 
 1872; U. S. S. " Wabash," June 14, 1872, to January 20, 1874; Assistant 
 Engineer, February 24, 1874 ; title of grade changed from Second Assistant 
 Engineer to Assistant Engineer; U. S. Naval Academy, January 20, 1874, to 
 June 30. 1878 ; during tour of duty at Naval Academy, made two practice 
 cruises with cadet engineers; first, U.S. S. "Alert," June 21 to September 6, 
 1865 ; second, U. S. S. l< Mayflower," June 1 to September 18, 1877. Passed 
 Assistant Engineer, May 4, 1876, commission to date from December 28, 
 1875; U. S. S. "Pensacola," flag-ship, Pacific Fleet, June 30, 1868, to Feb 
 ruary 22, 1881 ; U. S. S. " Wachusett," Pacific Fleet, February 22 to June 
 30, 1881 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, Navy Department. June 30, 1881, 
 to June 16, 1884 ; member of the Uniform Board and of the Board for 
 Examination of Employes of the State, War, and Navy Departments 
 Buildings; U. S. S. " Powhatan," June 16 to July 16, 1884; U. S S. 
 " Lancaster," flag-ship of the European, and afterwards of the South Atlantic 
 Fleets, July 16, 1884, to September 12, 1887 ; U. S. S. " Trenton," Septem 
 ber 12 to November 17, 1887 ; waiting orders, November 17, 1887, to April 
 6, 1888; member of Board to Test Petroleum Burning Apparatus, and of 
 Board to Test HerreshofF s Improved Boiler, April 6 to June 1, 1888; 
 member of Board to Test the Steel Pumping-Engines, Washington ; Office 
 of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, June 1, 1888-90; "Atlanta," S. 
 A. Station, November, 1891, to March, 1893, to September, 1893; Naval 
 Academy, September, 1893-7 ; U. S. S. " Iowa," June, 1897, to date. Com 
 missioned Chief Engineer, February, 1893. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 317 
 
 George H. Kearny. Appointed from New York. Acting Third As 
 sistant Engineer, October 10, 1866; Third Assistant, June 2, 1868; Second 
 Assistant, June 2, 1869 ; Passed Assistant Engineer, January 1, 1876 ; Chief 
 Engineer, June 27, 1893 ; " Saranac," Pacific Station, 1868 ; Asiatic Station, 
 1868-71 ; Naval Academy, 1872-3 ; " Congress," European Station, 1873-6 ; 
 New York Navy Yard, 1877 ; Naval Academy, 1878-81 ; " Blake," Coast 
 Survey, 1881-5; New York Navy Yard, 1885-7; "Lancaster," and "Talla- 
 poosa," S. A. Station, 1887-90 ; receiving-ship Vermont," 1890 ; duty in 
 connection with new cruisers, 1891-3 ; Inspector of Machinery of "Marble- 
 head," August, 1893 ; " Marblehead " and Minneapolis," European Station, 
 1894-7 ; Naval Academy, June, 1897, to May, 1898. / 
 
 William S. Moore. Appointed from Massachusetts. Acting Third 
 Assistant Engineer, October 10, 1866 ; Third Assistant, June 2, 1868 ; Second 
 Assistant, June 2, 1869 ; Passed Assistant, June 11, 1876. " Frolic," special 
 service, 1871-3; "Brooklyn," European Station, 1873-5 ; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, 1875-7; Coast Survey steamer "Blake," 3877-9; Bureau of 
 Steam-Engineering, 1879-83 ; " Tallapoosa," special service, 1883-4 ; Asiatic 
 Station, 1884-7 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1887-91 ; " Vesuvius," N. 
 A. Station, 1891-4 ; member of Naval Engineer Examining Board, April, 
 1894; U. S. S. " Dolphin," July, 1895 ; U. S. S. " Texas," May, 1896 ; U. 
 S. S. "Columbia," 1897, to May, 1898. Promoted to Chief Engineer, August, 
 1893. 
 
 Julien S. Ogden. Appointed from New York. Acting Third Assistant 
 Engineer, October 10, 1866 ; Third Assistant, June 2, 1868 ; Second Assist 
 ant, June 2, 1869 ; Passed Assistant Engineer, October 20, 1875 ; " Iroquois," 
 Asiatic Station, 1869-71 ; " Wabash," European Station, 1873-4; " Frank 
 lin," European Station, 1874-6; Navy Yard, New York, 1876-9; C. S. S. 
 " Bache," 1879-81 ; Naval Academy, 1881 ; " Ranger," North Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1883-6 ; Naval Academy, 1886-9 ; " Despatch," special service, 1889- 
 90; special duty, War and Navy Buildings, 1891-94; U. S. S. " Atlanta," 
 November, 1894 ; U. S. S. "Montgomery," 1896 ; waiting orders, November, 
 1896 ; U. S. S. " Bennington," May, 1897-98 ; waiting orders, May, 1898. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, January, 1893. 
 
 George Cowie, Jr. Acting Third Assistant Engineer, May 23, 1864 ; 
 acting Second Assistant Engineer, April 22, 1865 ; " Mayflower," special ser 
 vice, 1873-5 ; Coast Survey steamer " Gedney," 1875-7 ; " Alliance," Euro 
 pean Station, 1877-^0; Experimental Board, 1881-2 ; " Hartford," Pacific 
 Station, 1882-4; C. S. S. "Blake," 1884-7; Navy Yard, New Yi rk, 1888- 
 90. Promoted to Chief Engineer, September, 1893 ; " Yantic," January, 
 1891-94; Navy Yard, New York, April, 1894-96 ; "Puritan," December, 
 1896, to 1898 fU. S. S. "Indiana," March, 1898, to May, 1898. 
 
 C. P. Howell. Appointed from New York as Cadet Engineer, October 
 7, 1867. Graduated from Naval Academy, June, 1868 ; Assistant Engineer, 
 August 15, 1870 ; Passed Assistant Engineer, December 3, 1876. Service 
 U. S. S. " Contoocook " (afterward " Albany "), North Atlantic Station, from 
 October, 1868, to January, 1870 ; " Tallapoosa," special service July, 1870, 
 to June, 1872; "Mayflower," June, 1872, to October, 1872; Navy Depart 
 ment, October, 1872, to May, 1873 ; <k Alaska," European Station, August 
 1873, to September, 1876;* Experimental Board, New York, September, 
 1877, to November, 1878; "Tuscarora," Pacific Station, November, 1878, to 
 June, 1880; " Ranger," Pacific Station, July, 1880, to June, 1882 ; "Alert," 
 Asiatic Station, October, 1883, to September, 1886 receiving-ship " Minne 
 sota," New York, July, 1887, to May, 1889; Board of Inspection of Mer- 
 
318 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 chant- Vessels, New York, June, 1889, to January, 1890; U. S. S. "Balti 
 more," January, 1890-92 ; Assistant Inspector of Machinery of " Monterey," 
 1893; Navy Yard, New York, May, 1893, to date. Promoted to Chief- 
 Engineer, November, 1893-95 ; " Maine," December, 1895, to February, 
 1898; U. S. S. "Newark," April, 1898, to present date, May, 1898. 
 
 J. H. Perry. Acting Second Assistant Engineer, January 29, 1867 ; 
 " Omaha," South Pacific Station, 1873-5 ; " Tennessee," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1877-8; special duty, New York, 1878-80; " Powhatan," special 
 service, 188Q-2; Navy Yard, New York, 1883-5; "Dolphin," special 
 service, 1885-7; "Chicago," special service, 1887-9; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, 1889, to 1896. Commissioned Chief Engineer, April, 1894 ; 
 "Monterey," June, 1896, to 1897; member Armor Board, July, 1897, to 
 1898 ; February, 1898, " Brooklyn ; " April, 1898, " Minneapolis," to present 
 date, May, 1898. 
 
 Warner B. Bayley. Acting Third Assistant Engineer, August 4, 1864; 
 " Lancaster," South Atlantic Station, 1873-4 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 
 1875-7; "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1877-8; " Palos," Asiatic Station, 
 1878-80 ; Bureau Steam-Engineering, 1880-1 ; special duty, Navy Depart 
 ment, 1881-5; "Pensacola," European Station, 1885-8; duty under Fish 
 Commission, 1888-92 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1892-3 ; " Machias," N. A. 
 Station, 1893-4; " Alert," May to April, 1894. Commissioned Chief En 
 gineer, May, 1894; "Monterey," July, 1895-6; Bureau Steam-Engineering, 
 June, 1896; Civil Service Commission, August, 18J6-8 ; February, 1898, 
 U. S. S. "Massachusetts," to date, May, 1898. 
 
 A. F. Dixon. Appointed from Massachusetts as Second Assistant En 
 gineer, October 29, 1870 ; Passed Assistant, November 4, 1877 ; "California," 
 Pacific Station, 1871-3; " Ajax," North Atlantic Station, 1873-4; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, 1875-7 ; > Tuscarora," Pacific Station, 1877-8 ; " Wachusett, " 
 Pacific Station, 1881-4; Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1884-5; " Michi- 
 
 ?m " (on the lakes), 1885-7 ; "Boston," special service, 1887-90; Navy 
 sml, New York, 1890, to 1894; "Vesuvius," March, 1894; "Machias," 
 July, 1894-0 ; " Detroit," July, 1896-7 ; leave of absence, June, 1897 ; Navy 
 Yard, New York, July, 1897, to date (May, 1898.) 
 
 Joseph P. Mickley. Appointed from Pennsylvania as Acting Third 
 Assistant Engineer, March 28, 1864 ; honorably discharged, January 11, 
 1*69. Commissioned Second Assistant Engineer, regular service, March 20, 
 1871. Commissioned Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1874. Commissioned 
 Passed Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1878; 1864-5, U. S. S. " Cour-de- 
 Leon," Potomac Flotilla, Commander Foxhall A. Parker; 1865-6, Gulf 
 Squadron, "Massachusetts" and " Muscoota," Commander George M. Ran 
 som ; "Yucca," in the relief of the " San Jacinto," and army transport con 
 veying mails from Havana to Key West; 1866-8, North Pacific Squadron, 
 " Resaca," Commander J. B. Bradford, at the transfer of Alaska to the 
 United States; January 11, 1869, honorably discharged. Second Assistant 
 Engineer, March 20, 1871 ; 1871-3, West India Squadron, monitor "Terror," 
 Captain S. P. Quackenbush, rebellion in Cuba ; 1873-6, Asiatic Squadron, 
 " Lackawanna " and "Ashuelot;" 1877-8, Washington Navy Yard, moni 
 tors " Wyandotte," " Passaic," and " Montauk," during labor riots ; 1878, 
 special duty, Philadelphia, Pa., Assistant to Inspector of Coal; 1878-81, 
 Commodore Shufeldt s expedition around the world, " Ticonderoga," Com 
 mander B. J. Cromwell ; 1881-4, Naval Station, League Island, Philadel 
 phia, Pa. ; 1884-6, North Atlantic Squadron, "Powhatan," special duty 
 during the insurrection in the United States of Colombia ; 1886-7, Delaware 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 319 
 
 River Iron-Works, Chester, Pa., special duty, U. S. S. "Boston;" 1887, 
 West India Squadron, "Yantic;" February 1, 1888-91, Naval Station, 
 League Island, Philadelphia, Pa ; 1891, " Fern," to 1894 ; Inspector of Steel, 
 Thurlow, Pa., April, 1894; U. S. receiving-ship "Richmond," November, 
 1894. Commissioned Chief Engineer, August, 1894; Inspector of Boiler 
 Tubes, Philadelphia, August, 1895 ; " Terror," February, 1897, to date (May, 
 1898). 
 
 William H. Nauman. Appointed from Pennsylvania as Second Assist 
 ant Engineer, April 24, 1872 ; Passed Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1878 ; 
 " Narraganset," Pacific Station, 1873-6; receiving-ship " Colorado," 1877- 
 79 ; C S. S. " McArthur," 1879-82 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1882- 
 84; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1884-7 ; "Philadelphia," N. A. Station, 
 November, 1889, to September, 1892; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., Sep 
 tember, 1892-5. Commissioned Chief Engineer, August, 1894; training- 
 ship "Alliance," February, 1895; "Marion," July, 1896; "Monadnock," 
 January, 1898 ; April, 1898, U. S. training-ship " Constellation," to date, 
 May, 1898. 
 
 Robert W. Gait. Entered the service as an Assistant Engineer, Octo 
 ber 12, 1871 ; Norfolk Navy Yard, January, 1872, to August 1, 1872 ; re 
 ported on board the "Yantic," August 1, 1872 ; served on board the " Yan 
 tic," " Palos " and " Hartford," in the Asiatic Squadron ; detached from the 
 " Hartford," in October, 1875, at New York ; ordered to the Norfolk Navy 
 Yard, in November, 1875 ; detached from Navy Yard, in June, 1878 ; or 
 dered to the " Speedwell," in the service of the Fish Commission, in July, 
 1878 ; placed on waiting orders in October, 1878 : served on board the "Ply 
 mouth," from December 16 to 30, 1878, and was then placed on waiting 
 orders. Promoted to Passed Assistant, February 24, 1879 ; reported for duty 
 on board the Coast Survey steamer " Gedney," Mississippi River and Gulf 
 Coast, 1879-84; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1884-6; "Trenton," Pacific Station, 
 1887-89 ; wrecked on " Trenton," at Apia, Samoa, March 16, 1889, during 
 hurricane; Navy Yard, Mare Islaud, California, 1889; "Marion," Asiatic 
 Station, 1889-90; Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1890 ; Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, 1891-93 ; served on board "Newark," " Yantic " and " Newark " 
 in South Atlantic Station ; detached from u Newark " in May, 1896, at New 
 York. Promoted to Chief Engineer, to date from December 26, 1894, and 
 was then placed on waiting orders ; on duty at the Wolff & Zwicker Iron 
 Works, Portland, Oregon, November 3, 1896, to March 31, 1898; reported 
 for duty at Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, April 3, 1&98, present duty. 
 
 John K. Barton. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. Entered the U. S. Naval 
 Academy, October 1, 1871 ; and was graduated in May, 1873. Ordered to 
 the U. S. S. " Saranac " and " Benicia," 1873-4. Promoted to Assistant- 
 Engineer^ January 23, 1874; special duty, Chester, Pa., construction U. S. 
 S. " Huron ; " " Marion," West Indies and European Stations, 1875-8 ; 
 special duty, Board of Examining Engineers, 1878-9. Promoted to Passed 
 Assistant Engineer, November 1, 1879 ; " Shenandoah," South Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1879-82 ; Naval Academy, 1882-6; " Essex," Asiatic Station, 1886-7 ; 
 " Palos," Asiatic Station, 1887-9 ; Naval Academy, 1889-93 ; Inspector of 
 Machinery, " Castine," Bath Iron Works, 1893 ; v lrial Board, " Castine," 
 1893 ; special duty, U. 8. S. " Columbia," Cramp s ship-yard, 1894 ; U. S. 
 S. " Columbia," North Atlantic Station, 1894-5. Promoted to Chief Engi 
 neer, January 15, 1895 ; U. S S. " Mohican," Pacific Station, 1895 ; U. S. 
 S. " Bennington," Pacific Station, 1895-7 ; member Trial Board, battleship 
 " Oregon," San Francisco, Cal., May, 1896 ; member and recorder Naval 
 
320 RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Engineer Examining Board, Philadelphia, Pa., and U. S. receiving-ship 
 " Richmond," Navy Yard, League Island, Pa., 1897, to date. 
 
 Robert G. Denig. Born in Ohio. Appointed from Ohio. Cadet En 
 gineer, October 1, 1871 ; Assistant Engineer, January 23, 1874; Passed As 
 sistant Engineer, March 25, 1880 ; Chief Engineer, January 29, 1895 ; 
 " Benicia," Pacific Slation, 1873-4, bringing Kalakaua on his first visit to 
 the United States, December, 1874 ; " Huron," 1875-7, one of the four 
 officers who survived the wreck of the " Huron," Nag s Head, N. C., Novem 
 ber 24, 1877 ;" Trenton," flag-ship European Station, 1878-81 ; Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, 1881-3 ; special duty, Hamilton College, New York. 1883-5 ; 
 " Brooklyn," flag-ship to Asiatic Station via Russia and India, return via Cape 
 Horn, 1885-8 ; U. 8. Naval Academy, 1889-92 ; u Philadelphia," flag-ship 
 N. A. Station, inspector at Bath, Me. ; gun-boat, " Machias," 1892-3 ; " Bal 
 timore," flag ship Asiatic Station, 1893-94 ; " Petrel," wintering in mud 
 dock. New Chong, Manchuria, during Chinese- Japanese war, 1894 6; New 
 port training-station, 1896, to date. Recruiting Officer for St. Paul, Duluth. 
 Chicago, Milwaukee and the Northwest at present. 
 
 George B. Ransom. Appointed from New York. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1871 ; Assistant Engineer, February 26,1875; Passed Assistant 
 Engineer, July 4, 1880; "Worcester," N. A. Station, 1875-7; "Essex," S. A. 
 Station, 1877-9; special duty, Chester, 1879-81 ; Naval Academy, 1882-4; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 1884-5; "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1885-8; special 
 duty, University of Wisconsin, 1888-91 ; " Pinta," special service, 1891-3; 
 special duty San Francisco, October, 1893-4; Navy Yard, New York, April, 
 1894. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May, 1895 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, 
 N. H., February, 1895; Inspector of Machinery, Elizabethport, November, 
 1895; U. S. S. " Boston," March, 1897; U. S. S. " Concord," March, 1898, 
 to date. 
 
 William C. Eaton. Appointed Cadet Engineer, from New York, 
 October 1, 1872. Graduated, IT. S. N, A., June, 1874. Assistant Engineer, 
 February 26, 1875 ; Passed Assistant Engineer, March 4, 1881 ; Chief Engi 
 neer, June 1, 1895 ; " Worcester," N. A. Station, June 25, 1874, to April 
 24, 1875; "Colorado," April 24, 1875, to June 9, 1875 ; "Benicia," Pacific 
 Station, August, 1875, to November 29, 1875 ; " Lackawanna," Pacific 
 Station, November 29, 1875, to January 23, 1878 ; " Minnesota," training- 
 ship, July 1, 1878, to September 4, 1878 ; " Quinnebaug," European Station, 
 September 20, 1878, to April 12, 1881; "Wyoming," for passage home, 
 April 12, 1881, to June 2, 1881 ; Experimental Board, New York, Septem 
 ber 17, 1881, to June 10, 1884 ; "Alliance," N. A. Station, and around East 
 Coast of Africa to South Atlantic Station, March 28, 1885, to April 2, 1888 ; 
 duty on U. S. S. "Terror" and "Amphitrite," trials, etc., August, 1888; 
 special duty as Professor of Engineering, at Madison University, Hamilton, 
 N. Y., from September 1, 1888, to August, 1891 ; " Palos," " Lancaster " and 
 " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, August, 1891, to July, 1894; Navy Yard, 
 New York, October, 1894, to July, 1895 ; receiving-ship "Vermont," New 
 York, July, 1895, to March, 1897 ; U. S. S. "Amphitrite," March, 1897, to 
 date. 
 
 Alfred B. Canaga. Entered the U. S. Naval Academy, as a Cadet 
 Engineer, October, 1872. Graduated May, 1874 ; was attached to the U. S. 
 flag-ship " Worcester," Home Station, from June, 1874, until April, 1875 ; 
 attached to U. S. S. "Colorado," from April, 1875, until June, 1875; 
 attached to U. S. flag-ship " Richmond," South Pacific and South Atlantic 
 Stations, from October, 1875, until September, 1877 ; attached to U. S. S. 
 
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 "Michigan," on the Lakes, from January, 1878, until February, 1879; 
 attached to U. S. S. " Vandalia," Home Station, from February, 1879, until 
 April, 1881 ; on duty at U. S Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., from June, 
 1881, until June, 1884; attached to U. S. flag-ship "Lancaster," cruising 
 in European waters, on the East Coast of South America, and on East and 
 West Coasts of Africa, from July, 1884, until September, 1887 ; attached to 
 U. S. S. " Trenton," on voyage home, from September until November, 
 1887 ; on special duty, in connection with the trials of boilers and engines, 
 February, April, May and August, 1888 ; on duty at the Cornell University, 
 Ithaca, N. Y., from September, 1888, to October, 1891 ^attached to the 
 U. S. flag-ship " Chicago," cruising on S. A., Home, and European Stations 
 from October, 1891, until April, 1895; on duty as Inspector of Machinery 
 for torpedo boats at Columbian Iron Works, Baltimore, Md., from July, 
 1895, until March, 1896; on duty in Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy 
 Department from March, 1896, to date. Appointed Cadet Engineer, from 
 Ohio, October 1, 1872. Promoted to Assistant Engineer, February 26, 
 1875. Promoted to Passed Assistant Engineer, March 10, 1881 ; Chief 
 Engineer, August 6, 1895. 
 
 Abraham V. Zane. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1,1871; Assistant Engineer, February 26,1875; Passed Assistant 
 Engineer, August 21, 1881 ; " Worcester," N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; "Wyom 
 ing," European Station, 1877-9; Naval Academy, 1879-81; "Kodgers," 
 special service, 1881-2; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1882-5; Northern 
 Alaska Expedition, 1885-7 ; special duty, new cruisers, Philadelphia, 1887-8 ; 
 " Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1888-91 ; Naval Observatory, 1891-4 ; " Mono- 
 cacy," June, 1894-6. Commissioned Chief Engineer, September, 1895 ; 
 "Machias," July, 1896-7; Civil Service Commission, December, 1897, to 
 date, May, 1898. 
 
 John R. Edwards. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1871 ; Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1875 ; Passed Assistant 
 Engineer, September 11, 1881 ; "Worcester," N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; "Pen- 
 sacola," Pacific Station, 1877-9 ; Experimental Board, New York, 1879-81 ; 
 " Despatch," special service, 1881-4; "Palos," Asiatic Station, 1885-6; 
 special duty, University of S. C., 1888-91 ; " Petrel," Asiatic Station, July, 
 1891, to 1894; leave of absence, November, 1894; Bureau of Steam En 
 gineering, May, 1895, to 1898. Promoted to Chief Engineer, November, 
 1895 ; waiting orders, January, 1898 ; U. S. S. " Puritan," February, 1898 ; 
 Naval Hospital, Philadelphia," May, 1898. 
 
 Stacy Potts. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Entered the 
 United States Naval Academy, October 1, 1871 ; graduated as Cadet Engi 
 neer, May 30, 1874 ; attached to the " Worcester," 1874-5, North Atlantic 
 Station. Promoted to grade of Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1875 ; 
 attached to the " Colorado," 1875, North Atlantic Station ; attached to the 
 torpedo-boat " Intrepid," 1875-7 ; attached to the " Adams," Pacific Station, 
 1878-81. Promoted to grade of Passed Assistant Engineer, October 12, 
 1881 ; attached to the training-ship "Minnesota," 1881-2 ; monitor " Mian- 
 tonomah," 1882-3 ; special duty, Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1883-5 ; 
 " Pensacola," European Station, 1885-8 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 
 1889-91 ; " Newark," special service, 1891-3 ; sick leave, July, 1893 ; 
 Bureau of Steam Engineering, January, 1894 ; sick leave, June, 1895 ; 
 training-ship " Essex," February, 1896 ; U. S. S. " Detroit," July, 1897, to 
 date, May, 1898. 
 
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322 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Henry T. Cleaver. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1871 ; Second Assistant, January 23, 1874 ; Passed Assistant, May 
 19, 1879; "Benicia," N. Pacific Station, 1873-4; "Trenton," European 
 Station, 1877-9; " Despatch," special service, 1881-3; "Trenton," Asiatic 
 Station, 1883-6; "Michigan" (N. W. Lakes), 1887-8; " Palos," Asiatic 
 Station, 1888-91 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1892-3 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 
 1893-4 ; waiting orders, May, 1894 ; ordered to the "Alert," June, 1895-8. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, February, 1896; U. S. S. "Bennington," May, 
 1898, to date." 
 
 Albert B. Willits. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1872. Graduated Naval Academy, May 30, 1874; Assistant 
 Engineer, February 26, 1875 ; Passed Assistant Engineer, October 12, 1881 ; 
 Chief Engineer, March 6, 1896 ; " Brooklyn," Brazil, 1875 ; monitors " Mon- 
 tauk," aiid Wyandotte," 1876-7 ; " Adams," Pacific Station, 1878-9 ; 
 " Powhatan," special duty, 1880-3; Norfolk Navy Yard, 1883-5; "Hart 
 ford," Pacific Station, 1885-7 ; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1887-8; " Pen- 
 sacola," N. A. Station, 1888 ; " Yorktown," Europe with White Squadron, 
 1889-90; "Boston," Brazil, 1890-1 ; Cramps ship-yard, Assistant Inspector 
 "Columbia" and " Minneapolis," 1891-5 ; " Minneapolis," N. A. Squadron 
 and Europe, special duty, 1895-6; " Marblehead," N. A. Station, 1897 ; 
 Inspector of Stee.1, Thurlow, Pa., October, 1897, to date. 
 
 James Peyton Stuart Lawrence. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsyl 
 vania, August (5, 1852. Went through the Episcopal Academy, and passed 
 the entrance examination to Classical Course of University of Pennsylvania, 
 in 1869; never attended at the University of Pennsylvania, but matriculated 
 at Lehigh University, from which was graduated with degree of Mechanical 
 Engineer, 1873 ; worked in the machine shop of John Roach, ship-builder, 
 at Chester, Pennsylvania; in January, 1875, passed the examination, and on 
 March 22, 1875, was commissioned as Assistant Engineer in the navy ; served 
 on the U. S. S. "Monocacy," China Station, from 1875 to 1878 ; worked at 
 qualitative and quantitative analysis and assaying and physical measure 
 ments in the laboratories of the University of Pennsylvania, from 1878 to 
 1879 ; served on the IT. S. flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific Station, from 1879 
 to 1882, wht-n ordered to duty at Washington Navy Yard, on the receiving- 
 ship ; in 1882, made a six months cruise in the Chesapeake Bay, on the 
 monitor " Passaic," which was left at the Naval Academy ; from 1883 to 
 1885, in the office of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department. In 1883, com 
 missioned as Passed Axxistunt Engineer; from 1*85 to 1889, on board the 
 U- S. S. " Juniata," on a cruise around the world via Strait of Magellan and 
 Suez Canal; from 1889 to 1890, on duty at Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. ; 
 "Monocacy," Asiatic Station, 1890, to 1894. A member of the American 
 Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Association for the 
 Advancement of Science ; has been twice completely around the world ; leave 
 of absence, June, 1894; Homestead Steel Works, October, 1894, to 1896. 
 Commissioned Chief Engineer, June, 1896 ; Newport News, July, 1896, to 
 1897 ; " Wilmington," May, 1897, to date, May, 1898. 
 
 Isaac S. K. Reeves. Appointed from Delaware. Assistant Engineer, 
 June 30, 1875; Passed Assistant, September 16, 1883; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, 1877-9; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1879-81; "Tallapoosa," 
 special service, 1881-3; Fish Commission steamer "Fishhawk," 1884-5; 
 special duty, Fish Commission, 1885-8 ; " Tallapoosa," S. A. Station, 1888-92 ; 
 duty under Fish Commission, April, 1892-5; "Texas," December, 1895-6. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, June, 1896; "Katahdin," July, 1896; "Col 
 umbia," July, 1897 ; "Montgomery," January, 1898, to date, May, 1898. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 323 
 
 Wythe M. Parks. Appointed from Virginia. Assistant Engineer, May 
 8, 1877; Passed Assistant, June 22, 1884; "Hartford," South Atlantic Sta 
 tion, 1877-9 ; "Alliance," North Atlantic Station, 1880-2 ; Naval Academy, 
 1882-5; "Tennessee" and "Richmond," North Atlantic Station, 1885-7; 
 "Atlanta," 1887-8; Chicago Manual Training School, 1888-91 ; "Atlanta," 
 S. A. Station, 1891-3 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1893-4 ; " Atlanta," April, 
 1894-5; leave of absence, June, 1895; Inspector of Machinery, Newport 
 News, September, 1895 ; Columbian Iron Works, February, 1896-7. (Pro 
 moted to Chief Engineer, June, 1896.) April, 1898, " Miantonomah," to 
 date May, 1898. ^ 
 
 Frank H. Bailey. Appointed from New York. Cadet Engineer, Oc 
 tober 1, 1873; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877; Passed Assistant, October 
 7, 1884; "Alert," Asiatic Station, 1877-8; "Trenton," European Station, 
 1879-81 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; special duty, Cornell Univer 
 sity, 1885-8 ; "Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-91 ; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, 1891-6. Promoted to Chief Engineer, June, 1896; "Newark," 
 " Raleigh," August, 1896, to date, May, 1898. 
 
 George S. Willits. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1873; Assistant, July 1, 1877 ; Passed Assistant, July 1, 1885; 
 "Enterprise," special service, 1877-80; special duty, Franklin Institute, 
 Philadelphia, 1882-4; "Marion," Asiatic Station, 1884-7; "Boston," special 
 service, 18b7-9 ; special duty, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1889-90; Naval 
 Academy, September, 1890-1; "Boston," Pacific Station, 1891-3; "Mon 
 terey," Pacific Station, 1893-4 ; Cramp s Shipyard, January, 1894 ; " Min 
 neapolis," December, 1894-6 ; Inspector of Steel, July, 1896; " Marblehead," 
 October, 1897, to date. 
 
 Walter Fitzhugh Worthington. Appointed from Maryland Cadet 
 Engineer, October 1, 1873 ; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877 ; Passed Assist 
 ant Engineer, July 19, 1885; Chief Engineer, October 4, 1896; "Alert," 
 N. A. and Asiatic Stations, 1875-8 ; special duty, Experimental Board, New 
 York, 1878-9, and Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, 1879-81 ; " Lancaster," 
 European Station, 1881-4 ; Morgan Iron Works, New York, 1884-5 ; Naval 
 Academy, 1885-8 ; "Atlanta," special service, 1888-91 ; Bureau Steam En 
 gineering, 1891-2 ; Naval Academy, 1892-94 ; " Vesuvius," N. A. Station, 
 1894; "Castine," S. A. Station, 1895-6; "Montgomery," N. A. Station, 
 1896-7 ; special duty, Clemson College, South Carolina, 1897, to date. 
 
 William N. Little. Born at Newburg, N. Y., December 31, 1852. 
 Appointed a Cadet Engineer, in the navy, October 1, 1872. Commissioned 
 as Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877. Commissioned a Passed Assistant Engi 
 neer, October 17, 1885. On board the "Swatara," on N. A. Station, from 
 August 5, 1875, to November 5, 1878, during which time served one week 
 aboard the iron-clad " Catskill," on passage from Port Royal to Norfolk ; on 
 shore duty at Navy Yard, Pensacola, Fla., from November 16, 1878, to 
 April 22, 1880 ; on board the " Monocacy," Asiatic Station, from June 27, 
 1880, to July 26, 1883, where he assisted as topographer in a survey of the 
 Saline River ; at the Navy Yard, New York, from January 10, 1884, to 
 August 27, 1884, when he was ordered to temporary duty aboard the " Nina," 
 to attend the wreck of the "Tallapoosa ; " resumed duty at Navy Yard, New 
 York, September 3, until November 8, 1884 ; on board Coast Survey steamer 
 " Gedney," from November 15, 1884, to January 17, 1885 ; at the Worcester 
 (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute, as Professor of Mechanical Engineering, from 
 January 17, 1885, to September 17, 1886; on board the "Galena," from 
 September 17, 1886, to August 15, 1889 ; Naval Academy, August 16, 1889, 
 
324 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 to August, 1890 ; Navy Yard, New York, August, 1890-2 ; " Philadelphia," 
 N. A. Station, 1892-5. Promoted to Chief Engineer, December, 1896 ; 
 leave of absence, November, 1895 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, March, 1896 ; U. 
 S. receiving-ship " Franklin," March, 1896-8 ; Naval Station, Key West, 
 March, 1898, to date, May, 1898. 
 
 Edward R. Freeman. Appointed from Mississippi. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1873; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877; Passed Assistant Engi 
 neer, January,, 26, 1886; "Hartford," N. A. Station, November and Decem 
 ber, 1875 ; " Vandalia," N. A. and European Stations, 1876-9 ; training-ship 
 " Minnesota," 1879-81 ; " Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1882 ; Bureau of Steam 
 Engineering, 1882-3 ; "Trenton," Asiatic Station, 1883-6; inspection duty, 
 new cruisers at Baltimore, 1887-9 ; inspection duty, "Concord," at Quintard 
 Iron-Works, New York City, 1890-1 ; "Concord," N. A. Station, 1891-3; 
 "New York," S. A. Station, 1893, to 1894 ; member of Steel Board, August, 
 1894-7. Promoted to Chief Engineer, February, 1897; Bureau of Steam 
 Engineering, March, 1897 ; U. S. S. " Nashville," August, 1897 ; U. S. S. 
 " Cincinnati," May, 1898, to date. 
 
 Theodore F. Burgdorff. Appointed from New Jersey. Cadet Engi 
 neer, October 1, 1873; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877 ; Passed Assistant 
 Engineer, June 22, 1886 ; Chief Engineer, February 26, 1897 ; " Swatara," 
 North Atlantic Station, October, 1875, to October, 1878; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, October, 1878, to October, 1879; " Nipsic," European Station, 
 October, 1879, to February, 1883; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, March, 
 1883, to April, 18*5; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, May, 1885, to March, 
 1888; University of Tennessee, September, 1888, to July, 1892; "Thetis," 
 special service, December, 1892, to June, 1896; "Oregon," July, 1896, to 
 April, 1897; Mare Island Navy Yard, July, 1897, to date. 
 
 Frank H. Eldridge. Appointed from Ohio. Cadet Engineer, October 
 1, 1872; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1877; Passed Assistant Engineer, April 
 5, 1887 ; " Marion," N. A. and European Stations, 1875-9 ; the " Marion " 
 did not leave the N. A. Station until June, 1876; her officers reported 
 December 1 (or about that date), 1875; "Tennessee," N. A. Station, 1879- 
 82 ; special duty, Ohio University, 1882-5 ; " Ranger," North Pacific Station, 
 1885-8 ; Naval Academy, 1888-90 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1890-91 ; 
 " Chicago," S. A. Station, 1891-4. Promoted Chief Engineer, May 9, 1897 ; 
 duty Naval Academy, 1894-7; U. S. S. "Helena," N. A. and European 
 Stations, 1897, to date. 
 
 Edgar T. Warburton. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engi 
 neer, at Naval Academy, October 1, 1872 ; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 
 1878; Passed Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1887; " Huron," North Atlantic 
 Station, November, 1875, to November, 1877 ; wrecked off Nag s Head, 
 North Carolina, November 24, 1877; "Richmond," to Asiatic Station, 
 October, 1878, to June, 1879 ; " Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, June, 1879, to 
 June, 1881 ; " Richmond," return to U, S., June, 1881, to September, 1881 ; 
 " Powhatan," September, to October, 1881 ; Delaware River Iron Works, 
 Chester, Pa., inspection of "Puritan," January to October, 1882 ; " Alaska," 
 Pacific Station, January to February, 1883 ; Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal., 
 in charge of stores, February, 1883 ; Coast Survey steamer " Hassler," as 
 Chief Engineer, Pacific Coast and Alaska, February, 1883, to September, 
 1886 ; Secretary Examining Board of Naval Engineers, Philadelphia, Pa., 
 November, 1886, to September, 1887 ; Union Iron Works, San Francisco, 
 Cal., inspection of "Charleston" and "San Francisco," November, 1887, to 
 1890 ; " San Francisco," Pacific Station, November, 1890-3 ; leave of absence, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 325 
 
 October, 1893 ; Cramps Ship Yard, December, 1893, to 1896 ; U. S. S. " Ban 
 croft," September, 1896. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May, 1897; U. S. S. 
 Orleans," March, 1898, to date, May, 1898. 
 
 William B. Dunning. Appointed from New York. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1873; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1878 ; Passed Assistant Engi 
 neer, July 3, 1887; "Ranger," Asiatic Station, 1877-9; European Station, 
 1880-3 ; special duty, Wilmington, 1884-7 ; Coast Survey steamer "McAr- 
 thur," 1887-8; "Thetis," North Pacific Station, 1889-91; Union Iron- 
 Works, San Francisco, 1891 ; U. S. S. " Olympia," February, 1895, to 1897. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, July, 1897 ; sick leave, December, 1897 ; U. 
 S. S. "Monadnock," March, 1898, to date, May, 1898. 
 
 Robert I. Reid. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Engineer, 
 October 1, 1872 ; Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1878 ; Passed Assistant Engi 
 neer, June 19, 1888. " Ranger," Asiatic Station, 1877-9 ; "Adams," Pacific 
 Station, 1880-2; C. S. S. "McArthur," 1882-6; "Michigan," N. W. Lakes, 
 1889-90; duty in connection with the "Newark," November, 1890-91; 
 Newark," special service, 1391-3; " Miantonomah," N. A. Station, 1893, 
 to 1894; Navy Yard, New York, April, 1894; U. S. S. " Michigan," April, 
 1895 ; U. S. S. " Castine," December, 1896, to May, 1898. Promoted to 
 Chief Engineer, December, 1897. 
 
 CHIEF ENGINEERS ON THE RETIRED LIST. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMODORE. 
 
 Retired after forty -Jive years service, or on reaching the age of sixty -two years. 
 
 Benjamin F. Isherwood. Born in New York. Appointed from New 
 York, May 23, 1844; entered the service as First Assistant Engineer; sta 
 tioned 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 Department, 1852-3 ; steam- 
 frigate " San Jacinto," East India Squadron, 1854-8 ; special duty, 1859-60 ; 
 appointed Engineer-in-Chief, 1861, which position he retained until 1869 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1870-1 ; sick leave, 1873 ; special duty, 
 1874. Retired, June 6, 1884. 
 
 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 steamers " General Taylor," 
 " Princeton," " Spitfire," and the frigate " Mississippi," in which vessels, at 
 different periods, he participated in the capture of Tampico, under Commo 
 dore Connor, and Alvarado, Tuspan, Tlacotalpan, and Vera Cruz, under 
 Commodore Perry. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, July 10, 1847 ; 
 ordered to the steamer "Engineer," Home Squadron. Promoted to First 
 Assistant Engineer, October 31, 1848 ; 1849, was Senior Engineer steamer 
 " Legare," Coast Survey ; 1850-1, special duty at Philadelphia, superintend 
 ing construction of machinery of steam-frigate " Susquehanna." Promoted 
 to Chief Engineer, March, 1851 ; 1851-2, special duty, Boston, Massachu 
 setts, superintending construction of machinery of steamer " Princeton ;" 
 1853-4, Inspecting Engineer of ocean steamers for United States mail ser 
 vice, and Chief Engineer of steamer "Princeton," Home Squadron ; 1854-5, 
 West Point, superintending construction of machinery for United States 
 steam-frigate "Merrimac;" 1855-6, Chief Engineer, steam-frigate " Mer- 
 rimac," Home Squadron; 1857-60, Chief Engineer, steam-frigate " Pow- 
 
326 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 hatan," East India Squadron ; 1860-2, President of Examinaing Beard of 
 Engineers ; 1862-3, special duty at St. Louis, superintending construction of 
 river monitors ; 1863-5, Fleet Engineer, West Gulf Squadron, participating 
 in the capture of Forts Gaines and Morgan, under Admiral Farragut, and 
 the Spanish Fort and city of Mobile, under Admiral Thatcher; 1865-6, 
 Chief Engineer of Boston Navy Yard ; 1867-8, Chief Engineer of Washing 
 ton Navy Yard ; 1868-9, Fleet Engineer of European Squadron ; 1869-70, 
 Inspector of Machinery Afloat, and member of Board of Visitors to Naval 
 Academy at Annapolis, Maryland ; in the summer of 1870, was appointed 
 Acting Chief of Bureau of Steam Engineering, retiring from the office with 
 the written thanks of the Department for the efficient manner in which the 
 duties of the Bureau were discharged; in 1871, was again called to take 
 temporary charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering, and on retiring from 
 the position was actively employed on other duty in the United States until 
 1873, when he was ordered to Europe on a tour of inspection of public and 
 private dock-yards, and to represent the Bureau of Steam Engineering at 
 the International Exhibition at Vienna, and by direction of the President 
 was appointed one of the American Judges of Awards ; returning from 
 Europe, was detailed to other duty until March 3, 1877, when he was ap 
 pointed and confirmed Engineer-in- Chief of the United States Navy, and 
 served until he was retired, June 15, 1883. 
 
 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 termi 
 nated at Gibraltar, September 26, 1843, by the loss of the ship by fire ; July 
 20, 1844, ordered to duty on board steamer " Colonel Harney," stationed in 
 the Gulf of Mexico and in the rivers of Florida and Louisiana, for the pro 
 tection of live-oak timber, until February 21, 1846; 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 Washing 
 ton, and detached, May 25, 1847, as the vessel was condemned as unfit for 
 service; October 20, 1847, ordered to the steamer "Iris," as Senior Assist 
 ant Engineer, and after three months as Acting Chief Engineer until the 
 termination of the war with Mexico ; detached, December 18, 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 rendered it impossible to obtain white 
 seamen for the wages then allowed, and natives of the Sandwich Islands and 
 Chinese, none of whom could speak English, 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 Eirst Assistant Engineer, November 6, 1849, while 
 on the last-mentioned cruise ; detached, March 25, 1853 ; October 18, 1853, 
 ordered as Senior Assistant Engineer of the frigate u Saranac ;" made the 
 cruise with this vessel, and returned to the United States from the Mediterra 
 nean, July 26, 1856. Examined and promoted to the grade of Chief En 
 gineer ) August 15, 1856, with date of June 27, 1855; August 12, 1857, 
 ordered to the frigate " Saranac" for duty in the Pacific Ocean; detached, 
 November 19, 1859, and returned to the United States; December 31, 1859, 
 
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 ordered to Erie, Pennsylvania, to superintend repairs to the steamer " Mich 
 igan ;" November 19, 1860, appointed member of a Board on the "Mich 
 igan," to make a series of important experiments with steam ; after the com 
 pletion of these, was ordered again to the " Michigan," for duty on the 
 Lakes ; June 3, 1861, detached from the " Michigan," and ordered to New 
 York, to superintend the building of machinery for gunboats, 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 with rank of Captain, and remained upon the staff 
 of Rear- Admiral Theodore Bailey, until September 1, 1864, when the De 
 partment 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- Admiral Bailey, then in command of the Eastern Gulf Block 
 ading Squadron, speaks in very complimentary terms of the services of Mr. 
 Zeller as Fleet Engineer, 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 Fleet Engineer ; 
 August 9, 1865, ordered to the Philadelphia Navy Yard as Chief Engineer ; 
 detached from that station, March 10, 1869 ; ordered to special duty at New 
 York, July 8, 1869 ; and detached on April 11, 1874, when he was ordered 
 to report to Chief Engineer B. F. Isherwood, U. S. Navy, for duty connected 
 with preparing reports on performances of vessels during the war ; Novem 
 ber, 1875, ordered in conjunction with Chief Engineer Isherwood to proceed 
 to Europe and examine the dock-yards, vessels, and professional methods of 
 the British, French, and Italian navies, also the large private engineering 
 establishments of Western Europe ; early in the year of 1877, ordered as 
 member of the Experimental Board, which was permanently employed in 
 experimenting with and reporting upon a great variety of steam-engines, 
 boilers, propellers, and vessels, including all new inventions and improve 
 ments in machinery, and in investigating the economic laws of steam and 
 other fluids used in the production of power, various methods of forced 
 draught for boilers, etc., etc. ; October 6, 1884, became President of the 
 Board, and made important experiments and reports on the laws of steering 
 by rudder and by propeller, and on completing this service, having attained 
 the age of 62 years, he was, according to law, transferred to the list of 
 retired officers of the navy with the rank of Commodore, on Dec. 1, 1885. 
 
 Montgomery Fletcher. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, June 25, 1850. Entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; 
 Coast Survey, 1850-1. Promoted Second Assistant Engineer, February 
 21, 1851 ; special duty, Norfolk, 1852-3 ; steam frigate "Saranac," Mediter 
 ranean 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 " Saranac," Pacific Squadron, 1861-5 ; special duty, New York, 1866; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, California, 1867-71 ; Fleet-Engineer, Pacific 
 Squadron, 1871-3 ; Inspector Machinery Afloat, Mare Island, 1873-6 ; Navy 
 Yard, Mare Island, 1877-8; member Board of Inspection, California, 
 188490; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1890, until date of retirement, 
 February 15, 1892. 
 
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 David B. Macomb. Born in Tallahassee, Fla. Appointed from Penn 
 sylvania, 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 "Saranac," Pacific Squadron, 1858-9. Promoted to 
 C hief Engineer, September 21, 1860 ; steam-frigate " Niagara," sent to con 
 vey the Japanese Ambassadors to Yeddo, Japan, 1860; returned to the 
 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 " Nahant " and " Canon- 
 icus," James River Fleet and North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; 
 iron-clad monitor " Canonicus," at the reduction of Howlett s House battery, 
 James River, June 21, 1864 ; at the battles of Dutch Gap, and Deep Bottom, 
 August 13, 1864 ; in the " Canonicus," at Fort Fisher, December 24 and 25, 
 1864 ; at the final reduction and occupation of that place by the combined 
 army and naval forces, January 14, 15, 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 "Canouicus" 
 throwing the last hostile shot at the defences of that place; Canonicus" 
 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, 
 1868-70 ; steam-sloop " Tennessee," special service, 1870-1 ; Fleet-Engineer, 
 N. A. Fleet, 1871-3 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1873-7 ; Fleet-Engi 
 neer, N. A. Station, 1877-9 ; President of the Statutory Board of Appraisal 
 and Survey, and in charge of stores, Portsmouth, N H., 1880-3; Navy 
 Yard, Boston, Mass., 1884-9. Retired, February 27, 1889, with relative rank 
 of Commodore, according to Paragraph 1481, Revised Statutes of the United 
 States, having arrived at the age of sixty-two years, and served forty years 
 and over in active service. 
 
 Alexander Henderson. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed 
 from Virginia, February, 26, 1851. Entered the service as Third Assistant 
 Engineer; steam frigate " Susquehanna," East Indian Squadron, 1852-5. 
 Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1853 ; office of Engiueer-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 " Iro- 
 quois," Mediterranean 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, 18645 ; special duty, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1866 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1867-8 ; special duty, 1869 ; Fleet- 
 Engineer, Asiatic Fleet, 1869-72 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1873-7 ; special 
 duty, 1877-9 ; Fleet Engineer, European Station, 1879-81 ; special duty, 
 Washington, 1882-4; member of Advisory Board, 1884-8; Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1889-93 ; leave of absence, July, 1893, to October, 1893 ; Continental 
 Iron Works, Brooklyn, October, 1893, to date of retirement, July 12, 1894. 
 
 Edward Dunham Robie. Born in Burlington, Vermont. Appointed 
 Third Assistant Engineer in the Navy, from Binghamton, N. Y., February 
 
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 16, 1852 ; from March 4, 1852, until April 28, 1855, served in the steam-frigate 
 " Mississippi," which was the flag-ship of Commodore M. C. Perry, in the 
 Japan Expedition ; erected and operated the first line of telegraph, and took 
 the first daguerreotypes at Napha, Lew Chew, and assisted in building the 
 first steam railroad and in running the first locomotive in Japan ; circumna 
 vigated the globe in the "Mississippi;" in June, 1855, was promoted, and 
 served on board U. S. S. " Michigan," on the lakes, from September, 1855, 
 until March, 1856, when transferred to the steam-frigate " Susquehanna," 
 which was employed on the European Station, and as convoy for the " Niagara," 
 while laying the first ocean telegraph cable across the Atlantic ; after the 
 failure of that attempt, in 1857, the " Susquehanna " was sent to Greytown, 
 Nicaragua, to capture Walker s Filibusters, and remained there until a yel 
 low fever epidemic compelled return to New York, in April, 1858 ; in July, 
 1858, was promoted to First Assistant Engineer, and in September went to 
 Liberia, Africa, in the U. S. S. frigate "Niagara," to return captured slaves ; 
 in March, 1859, joined the flag-ship "Lancaster" at Philadelphia, and doubled 
 Cape Horn in that vessel ; was transferred at Panama to the U. S. S. frigate 
 " Saranac," as Senior Engineer, during the search for the lost sloop-of-war 
 " Levant," in 1860 ; returned to New York in September, 1861, and was com 
 missioned as Chief Engineer, with date of July 30, 1861 ; in October, 1861, 
 joined the U. S. S. " Mohican," and served in that vessel during the capture 
 of the forts at Port Royal, S. C , Brunswick, Ga., Fernandina, Fla., and on 
 blockading duty ; returned to New York in July, 1862, and was employed 
 there on special duty, as inspector of the construction of the ocean monitor 
 "Dictator s" hull and machinery, until the winter of 1863-4, when took 
 charge of Ericsson torpedoes in steamship " Ericsson," for removing obstruc 
 tions in the harbor of Charleston, S. C. ; was Chief Engineer of the " Dicta 
 tor " in 1864-5, and also member of many Boards of Inspection, Courts 
 Martial, etc., in various places ; was Member of Board of Examiners for 
 Naval Engineers, from December, 1865, until October, 1866, and then went 
 to Pacific Station via Strait of Magellan in U. S. S. " Ossipee, " and joined 
 the flag-ship " Pensacola " as Fleet Engineer of the North Pacific Station ; 
 returned to New York, via Panama, in March, 1869, and served as Senior 
 Engineer Member of Board to examine and report the condition of vessels at 
 the Navy Yards on Atlantic Coast ; was Inspector of Machinery afloat at 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1869-71 ; Fleet Engineer, European Station, in flag-ship 
 " Wabash," 1871-4 ; Fleet Engineer of the North Atlantic Station, and of 
 the combined fleets at Key West and in the Gulf of Mexico, in 1874 ; in charge 
 of Steam Engineering Department of Navy Yard at Norfolk, Va., 1874-7; 
 special duty at Pittsburg, Pa., Cold Spring, N. Y., and President of the Board 
 to determine best Steam Steering Gear for use in the Naval Service, from 
 1877-79; Fleet Engineer of the Pacific Station, 1879-81, in U. S. F. S. 
 " Pensacola ; " in charge of the Steam Engineering Department of the Navy 
 Yards at Boston, Mass., 1881-4; Brooklyn, N. Y., 1884-7, and Norfolk, 
 Va., 1887-91 ; special inspecting duty and duty at the Bureau of Steam 
 Engineering, Navy Department, Washington, D. C, 1891-3, and until placed 
 on the retired list on account of age, with the relative rank of Commodore, 
 from September 11, 1893. 
 
 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 " Saranac," Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-6. Promoted to /Second 
 Assistant Engineer, June 27, 1855 ; steam-frigate " Niagara," Atlantic Cable 
 
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 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 ; participated in engagement at head of passes of Mississippi River with 
 rebel batteries and ram " Manassas," October 12, 1861 ; attack on rebel 
 defences at Pensacola, November 22, 1861 ; Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 
 April 24, 1862 ; capture of New Orleans, April 25, 1862 ; passage of Vicks- 
 burg batteries, June 27, 1862 ; passage of Vicksburg batteries and rebel ram 
 " Arkansas," July 15, 1862 ; Port Hudson, March 15, 1863 ; capture of Port 
 Hudson, July 8, 1863 ; was the originator of the plan adopted by the vessels 
 composing Farragut s Fleet for protecting the sides of the ships with their 
 chain cable, and also of covering the ships with a paint composed of the mud 
 of the Mississippi River, to screen them from view, both of which devices 
 were afterwards used, the cable by the " Kearsarge " in her memorable fight 
 with the "Alabama," and the painting of the ships that color by general 
 order of the Navy Department ; when the " Richmond " returned North for 
 repairs, in August, 1863, was detached and assigned duty in New York, 
 under Admiral Gregory, superintendent iron clads, in Philadelphia ; as 
 member of Board of Examiners, and afterwards at Boston to superintend 
 government work building at Atlantic and other works in that vicinity; 
 May 15, 1867, ordered to frigate "Franklin," as Fleet-Engineer on staif of 
 Admiral Farragut ; detached, December 21, 1868, and ordered Board duty 
 New York Yard ; to Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire ; member of 
 Board of which Admiral Goldsborough was President, for examination into 
 condition of all vessels at different Navy Yards, after which returned to duty 
 at Kittery Navy Yard ; September 3, 1872, was ordered to " Hartford " as 
 Fleet-Engineer of Asiatic Station ; detached, December 19, 1875, and 
 ordered as Chief Engineer of the Washington Navy Yard, February 8, 
 1876-9; member Board of Inspection, 1879-82; "Hartford," Pacific Sta 
 tion, 1882-4 ; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, 1886-8 ; Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, 1888-93 ; Inspector Machinery for new cruisers, May, 1893, to 
 date of retirement. May, 1894. 
 
 Thomas Williamson. Born in North Carolina. Appointed from 
 Virginia, May 24, 1853. Entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer ; 
 steam-frigate " Saranac," Mediterranean Squadron, 1853-6. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, June 22, 1855 ; special duty, connected with 
 steam-frigate " Powhatan," 1857 ; steam-frigate " Wabash," flag-ship, Home 
 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, 1870-1 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 
 1872-4; Fleet-Engineer, South Atlantic Station, 1874-6 ; charge of stores, 
 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1877-8 ; Fleet-Engineer, North Atlantic 
 Station, 1879-81 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1881-5 ; Fleet Engineer, Pacific 
 Station, 1885-7 ; Superintendent State, War and Navy Department Build 
 ing, 1887, to date of retirement, August, 1895. 
 
 Jackson McElmell. Born in Philadelphia, Pa., June 4, 1834. Ap 
 pointed a Third Assistant Engineer in the Navy, from Pennsylvania, August 
 2, 1855 ; attached to Coast Survey steamer " Hetzel," 1856 ; " Niagara," At 
 lantic Cable Expedition, in 1857-8. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 
 
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 1858; steamer "Memphis" Brazil Squadron, and Paraguay Expedition, 
 1858-9. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, in 1860 ; attached to steam- 
 sloop " Powhatan," West Gulf Squadron, 1860-1 ; steam-gunboat " Octorara," 
 mortar flotilla, Wilmington, North Carolina, blockade ; engagement at Vicks- 
 burg, June 28, 1862 Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 2, 1862 ; U. S. 
 S. " Richmond," West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; battle of Mobile Bay, August 
 5, 1864; special duty, League Island, 1865-8; U. S. S. "Plymouth," Euro 
 pean Station, 1869-71; special duty, Chester, Pa., 1872-5; "Powhatan," 
 North Atlantic Squadron, from 1875 to 1878 ; special duty at League Island 
 Navy Yard, 1879-82 ; detached from League Island Navy Yard, and ordered 
 to "Tennessee," as Fleet-Engineer of North Atlantic Scfuadron, August 7, 
 1882; detached from "Tennessee," December 7, 1882; ordered to "Tennes 
 see" again as Fleet-Engineer, North Atlantic Squadron, December 3, 1884; 
 after which was transferred from the " Tennessee " to the U. S. flag-ship 
 " Richmond," North Atlantic Station ; detached from the " Richmond," De 
 cember 5, 1887 ; ordered to present duty as President of the Naval Exam 
 ining Board in session at Philadelphia, March 6, 1888, to date of retirement, 
 June, 1896. 
 
 William W. Dungan. Born in Maryland. Appointed from Mary 
 land, June 26, 1856; entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; 
 attached to steam-frigate " Powhatan, "East India Squadron, 1858-60. Pro 
 moted to First Assistant Engineer, 1860 ; steam-frigate " Minnesota," 1861 ; 
 steam-gunboat " Ottawa," South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 1, 1861 ; steam-sloop " Dacotah," 
 North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-4 ; special duty, Philadelphia, 
 1865 ; steam-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, Washington, 1870 ; Inspector of Machinery Afloat, Washington, 
 1871-2; "Powhatan," North Atlantic Station, 1872-5; charge of stores, 
 Philadelphia, 1875-8 ; training-ship "Minnesota," 1878-81 ; " Brooklyn," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1881-4; member Board of Examiners, 1884-5 ; spe 
 cial duty, Chester, 1885-7; Navy Yard, New York, 1888-91; President 
 Experimental Board, New York, September, 1891, to November, 1893 ; Navy 
 Yard, Norfolk, Va. November, 1893, to 1896; Cramp s ship-yard, March, 
 1896, to date of retirement, December, 1897. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF CAPTAIN. 
 
 James W. King. Born in Maryland, and appointed from that State, 
 September 2, 1844, as Third Assistant Engineer ; served in all the first small 
 steamers owned by the navy, the " Fulton," original steamer, excepted ; he 
 was attached to the " Mississippi " in 1846-7, during the war with Mexico, 
 and participated in the capture of all the towns on the Mexican coast, taken 
 by the navy, except one. In 1847, he was transferred to the " Princeton," 
 sent in search of Mexican privateers, that ship being then the first screw- 
 ship of war of any nation to cross the Atlantic; returning home in 1849, he 
 was, in 1850-2, attached to the " Saranac," Home Squadron, and the 
 " Michigan," Northern Lakes. Having passed the three succeeding exami 
 nations, and served through the three grades of Assistant, he was, in 1852, 
 promoted to Chief Engineer, and soon thereafter appointed, under a law of 
 Congress, Inspector of Ocean Steamers at the port of New York, hulls, 
 machinery, boats, and equipments of the Collins & Law Lines, carrying the 
 United States Mails. In 1855 he was transferred to Philadelphia to super- 
 
332 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 intend the construction of the machinery for the " Wabash," one of the 
 largest ships then in the navy, and served in her the first cruise. April, 
 185H, he was appointed the Chief Engineer of the Navy Yard, New York, 
 in charge of all the machinery in the yard, and served until April, 1861 ; 
 during that time he organized the Engineer Department, and introduced 
 many improvements and labor-saving machines in all departments. From 
 the latter date until June, 1862, he was Chief Engineer of the Atlantic fleet, 
 and participated in the capture of the forts at Hatteras, under Admiral 
 Stringham, and the forts at Port Royal, under Admiral DuPont. In 1863 
 he was appointed superintendent of the hulls of all iron vessels and their 
 machinery, building west of the Alleghanies. In leaving the fleet for this 
 duty, Admiral DuPont wrote to him: "Your services have been of great 
 value to the squadron, and I part with you reluctantly." The Captain of 
 the fleet, C. R. P. Rodgers, wrote : " Chief Engineer King impressed me with 
 the conviction of his thorough professional knowledge, fertile in resource, 
 always clear and intelligible, always ready for service." The duties on the 
 Western rivers covered the construction of vessels and their machinery, 
 costing in the aggregate, when completed, about seven millions of dollars, 
 spread over some nine hundred miles, thus involving the necessity of travel 
 ing from place to place by night, and working by day. January, 1865, he 
 was ordered to examine and report on the condition of all contracts for iron 
 naval vessels and machinery under construction. The order issued by the 
 Secretary of the Navy, assigning him to this duty, contained the following 
 paragraph : " It is deemed best that an engineer of approved integrity, and 
 rigid and critical ability, should visit in detail every place outside the navy 
 yards, where contract work is being executed for the navy, and after a per 
 sonal and careful examination, report the condition of all such work, and 
 whether it is equal in every respect to the specifications of the contracts. 
 You are hereby selected for this important duty, on which you will enter the 
 second proximo. You .will make separate reports for every contract, and 
 address them to the Secretary of the Navy." Under this order he examined 
 and reported on the condition of the hulls of thirty-two monitors and their 
 machinery, nine iron-screw tugs and machinery, thirty-one pairs of marine 
 screw-engines, boilers, etc., in different localities, from Portland, Maine, to 
 St Louis, Mo. In 1866-7 he was again the Chief Engineer of the Navy 
 Yard, New York. During this term a great number of steamers that had 
 been employed on the blockade were sent to that yard for repairs, or to be 
 sold, there being as many as seventy-seven vessels entered on the books, and 
 eight hundred men employed under his orders. The duties connected with 
 these ships, together with those of fitting up a new foundry, smithery, and 
 other appliances, were greater than the work at the yard during the war. 
 In retiring from this navy vard, after the second term, to enter on special 
 duty, Rear- Admiral C. H. Bell, the Commandant of the Station, wrote : 
 " Chief Engineer King cannot be surpassed as an engineer. His deport 
 ment to those under his command is decided and firm, causing respect 
 and esteem. I regret the loss of an intelligent companion and officer." 
 March 15, 1869, President Grant appointed him Chief of the Bureau of 
 Steam Engineering, in the Navy Department. On the confirmation of this 
 nomination by the Senate Ex- Assistant Secretary of the Navy, G. V. Fox, 
 wrote : " I congratulate you upon an appointment that will add to your 
 reputation, and give to the government capacity and honesty." Soon after 
 entering upon the duties of this office, the system of propulsion by double 
 expansion or compound engines, was being introduced into European ships, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 333 
 
 and in order to be thoroughly informed of the types employed, and to take 
 advantage of the vast experience of the British constructing engineers under 
 whose direction the machinery for immense fleets is put afloat yearly, he. pro 
 ceeded to Europe and made a careful invest gation of the progress underway, 
 and the results obtained ; in his report he recommended the compound sys 
 tem for all naval vessels (since superseded by the triple- expansion engine), 
 and he introduced the system into the ships then building. He also suc 
 ceeded in getting the Naval Academy opened for the education of cadet 
 engineers two measures of importance for the navy. 
 
 On retiring from this office, March, 1873, the Secretary of the Navy 
 wrote : " I embrace the opportunity to thank you for you f able and efficient 
 administration of the Bureau during the four years just past, and, in sever 
 ing our official connection, to assure you of my continued personal esteem, 
 and my wish for your continuing health and prosperity." March, 1873, he 
 was appointed General Inspector of Engineering Works, and sent to Europe 
 to collect information of useful appliances for the Navy ; also to visit and 
 report on machinery at the Vienna Exposition. In 1874 he was employed 
 on duties in the United States. In 1875-6, he was again in Europe, under 
 orders to examine and report on ships of war and the mercantile marine. 
 The result of this tour was published, by order of the U. S. Senate, in a 
 report called "European Ships of War," two editions, 1877 and 1878, and 
 it was re-printed in England with advantage to the appropriator. In 1880 he 
 published an illustrated volume entitled The War Ships and Navies of the 
 World." This book was favorably criticised in the papers, attracted much 
 notice in England, and was quoted from in the House of Commons as the 
 best authority at that date. His last station was four years of service at the 
 Navy Yard, Boston. In summing up the duties of this officer it will be 
 seen that he filled with satisfaction to the Navy Department, every position 
 to which an engineer officer of the navy can be called. In addition to the 
 regular assigned duties, he was a member of the Army, Navy and Coast 
 Survey Board of Officers, in 1867, to examine and decide on League Island 
 as a site for a navy yard. Before serving as a member of this Board, he 
 had, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, visited the dock-yards of Eng 
 land and France, and furnished a report with maps (printed by order of Con 
 gress), showing the location and extent of each yard, also the position of the 
 docks and buildings, with descriptions of the more important machinery and 
 appliances. After the leport of the Board was submitted to the Department, 
 and before the site had been accepted, he was selected to see that the 
 boundary line between the government land and the city was correctly 
 located, and a drawing furnished. The same year was a member of a 
 Board of Officers to decide on the claims of contractors for increased cost oc 
 casioned by action of the government, on forty-five naval vessels, built during 
 the war, and, in 1868, he was a member of a Board to appraise for sale ves 
 sels at New Orleans, Cairo, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. In 1866 
 he was a member of the Army and Navy Board of Officers to examine the 
 harbor and adjacent waters of Portland, Maine, to ascertain if the construc 
 tion of a fresh-water basin for use of iron vessels was feasible, and he wrote 
 the report ; in 1876 he was a member of the Board of Naval Officers to ex 
 amine the navy yards, to ascertain if any one of them could be dispensed 
 with all authorized by Congress. Besides the above-named, he served on 
 many other Boards of Officers, as president or member, to decide upon ques 
 tions of interest and importance to the naval service. Chief Engineer King 
 was one of, if not the first officer of the navy, to advocate and take a decided 
 
334 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 stand in favor of iron and steel for the hulls of U. S. naval vessels, in oppo 
 sition to the views of the senior constructors and many other officers. As 
 may be seen by reference to his various official reports, embracing facts and 
 figures, showing the advantage of iron and steel over wood as materials for 
 ship-building, special attention of the Navy Department was called to the 
 subject in his reports as Chief of Bureau, 1871-2, and overwhelming proof 
 was produced in his report on " European Ships of War," 1878, pages 160, 
 161 and 162 ; m also in his work, The War Ships and Navies of the World," 
 pages 516 to 522. These publications, together with his descriptions of the 
 various new types of foreign war ships, and comments on our obsolete types 
 of wooden vessels, had influence in showing the necessity of building a new 
 fleet of modern ships commensurate with the wealth, extent and dignity of 
 the country, and of types having no superiors in speed or power of offence 
 and defence. 
 
 Edwin Fithian. Born in New Jersey. Appointed from Pennsylvania, 
 October 31, 1848. Entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; special 
 duty, Boston, 1849-50, in connection with the machinery for the U. S. S. 
 " Saranac." Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; 
 steam-frigate "Susquehanna," East India Squadron, and attached to the 
 Commodore Perry Expedition for opening the ports of Japan to commerce, 
 1851-5. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 21, 1855 ; special duty, 
 Richmond, Va., in connection with the machinery for the U. S. frigates 
 " Roanoke " and " Colorado," 1856 ; steam-frigate " Susquehanna," European 
 Squadron, and escort to the U. S. frigate " Niagara," during the first attempt 
 to lay the Atlantic cable, 1857-8 ; special duty at Philadelphia in connection 
 with the machinery for the U. S. S. " Lancaster," and fitting out and super 
 intending the trial trip of the U.S. steam-sloop "Wyoming." Promoted to 
 Chief Engineer, October 23, 1859; steam-sloop "Narragansett," 1859-61, 
 Pacific Squadron ; ordered home at the breaking out of the Civil War and 
 was superintending the construction of machinery in New York, 1861-3 ; 
 iron-clad, " Roanoke," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-5 ; special 
 duty, New York, 1866-8 ; Fleet-Engineer, European Fleet, 1869-71 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1871-6 ; special duty, Bureau of Steam Engineering in 
 connection with the exhibits for the Centennial Exhibition, 1^76-7 ; Fleet- 
 Engineer, European Fleet, 1877-9 ; special duty, New York, 1880-2 ; re 
 tired, December 13, 1882. 
 
 Charles Harding Loring. Entered the service as a Third Assistant 
 Engineer, December 26, 1851 ; made a Second Assistant Engineer, May 21, 
 1853 ; a First Assistant Engineer, May 9, 1857, and a Chief Engineer, March 
 25, 1861 ; served as Engineer of the fleet in the North Atlantic Squadron 
 from May, 1861, to October, 1862, during which time he took part in the 
 capture of Forts Hatteras and Clark, and in the battle with the iron-clad 
 " Merrimac " in Hampton Roads, on the 8th and 9th of March, 1862 ; was 
 engaged during the remainder of the war period in the construction of moni 
 tors on Western rivers ; for two years General Inspector of iron-clad vessels 
 building West of the Alleghanies ; appointed Chief of the Bureau of Steam 
 Engineering by President Arthur in 1884; after retiring from this position, 
 completed term of active service as President of the Experimental Board at 
 the New York Navy Yard ; on December 26, 1890, retired, having reached 
 the limit of age for the active list. 
 
 George R. Johnson. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia. 
 Entered service as Third Assistant Engineer, February 16, 1852; steamer 
 "Princeton," Home Squadron, 1852-4; special duty, Norfolk, 1855-6. 
 
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 Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 27, 1855 ; frigate " Merri- 
 mac," special cruise, 1856; frigate " Roanoke," 1857; frigate "Niagara," 
 1858. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858 ; special duty, 
 Bureau of Construction, 1860. Promoted Chief Engineer, July ,?1, 1861 ; 
 steam-sloop " Lancaster," Pacific Squadron, 1^61 to 1864; special duty at 
 Chester, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Del., 1864 to 1867 ; Inspector 
 Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1867-9; iron-clad "Dictator," 1869-70; League 
 Island Navy Yard, 1870-2 ; Fleet-Engineer of South Pacific Station, 1872-4 ; 
 on board the flag-ship " Pensacola," flag-ship " Richmond " South Pacific 
 Station, 1874 ; special duty at Wilmington, Del., building (iron clad) 
 " Amphitrite," 1884-7; Fleet-Engineer, South Atlantic Station, on board 
 "Hartford," 1877-9; special duty, Wilmington, Del, 1879-84 ; Fleet- 
 Engineer, European Station, on board "Lancaster," 1884-6 (part of the 
 cruise was made on South Atlantic Station); Inspector of new cruisers 
 building in Baltimore, Md., 1887-90. Retired, November 9, 1890. 
 
 Andrew J. Kiersted. Born in Virginia, Matthews County, December 
 25, 1832. Admitted into the Engineer Corps, U. S. N., as Third Assistant 
 Engineer, from Maryland, June 26, 1856; was ordered to the "Minnesota," 
 at Washington, D. C., July 14, 1856 ; "Minnesota" went to Philadelphia, 
 Pa. ; was retained on duty on board of her until May 4, 1857 ; detached 
 that day and reordered to same ship for duty, the ship having been selected 
 to take Hon. William B. Reed to China, as Minister, etc., to negotiate a 
 treaty ; the minister resided on board the ship during his mission to China ; 
 landed the minister at Bombay, India. On outward voyage, encountered 
 typhoon in China Sea, etc ; was detached from the "Minnesota," on May 
 4, 1859, at Boston ; was warranted First Assistant Engineer, on August 2, 
 1859 ; first promotion, October 13, 1859 ; ordered to the " Mohican," at 
 Portsmouth, N. H. ; " Mohican " served on West Coast of Africa, and cap 
 tured the ship " Erin/ of New York, filled with Africans bound to Cuba to 
 be sold as slaves ; was detached from the "Mohican," September 30, 1861, 
 at Boston, and ordered to Philadelphia for examination for promotion ; 
 passed successfully. Appointed as Chief Engineer, October 21, 1861 ; 
 ordered to the " Tuscarora," at Philadelphia, October 23, 1861 ; ship went 
 to England, Southampton, to look after the " Nashville ; " then at Gibraltar, 
 to look after the " Sumter ; " to the Madeiras, Azores, etc., and to England 
 again to look after the " 290-Alabama ; " " Tuscarora " returned to Philadel 
 phia in April, 1863 ; ordered to blockade duty off Cape Fear River, N. C., 
 October, 1863 ; to Baltimore for repairs in May, 1864; returned to Cape 
 Fear River, November, 1864 ; in Fort Fisher fights of December, 1864, 
 and January, 1865 ; after capture of Fort Fisher, went to Charleston, S. C., 
 and towed a monitor to Cape Fear River, N. C. ; returned at Charleston, S. 
 C. ; was ordered to raise an iron-clad which was sunk in the river above 
 Charleston ; succeded ; fixed up machinery of iron-clad, and she was sent to 
 Norfolk, Va. ; detached from the "Tuscarora," at Boston, on June 7, 1865; 
 ordered to the Port Richmond Iron- Works, and the Penn Works, Philadel 
 phia, Pa., as Inspector of Machinery buildiug there, on September 12, 1865 ; 
 detached from Port Richmond Iron-Works and Penn Works, Philadelphia, 
 Pa., on July 17, 1868 ; ordered to the "Ossipee," at San Francisco, Cal., on 
 June 2, 1869 ; detached from the " Ossipee," at New York, on November 30, 
 1872 ; member of Board to Examine Midshipmen for Promotion, at Annap 
 olis, Md., from March 18, till April 16, 1873; ordered to Norfolk, Va., as 
 Inspector of Machinery Afloat, on August 28, 1873 ; detached from Norfolk, 
 Va., as Inspector Afloat and ordered to Philadelphia, Pa., in charge of engi- 
 
336 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ueers stores, on September 25, 1873 ; detached from Philadelphia, Pa., and 
 ordered to the "Franklin," at Boston, on November 20, 1873, Cuban war; 
 detached from the "Franklin," at Boston, on December 17, 1873; ordered 
 to Philadelphia, Pa., in charge of engineers stores, on December 29, 1873 ; 
 ordered President of Examining Board of Engineers, at Philadelphia, Pa., 
 on February 8, 1875 ; additional duty ; detached from duty in charge of 
 stores at Philadelphia, Pa., on May 20, 1875 ; the Examining Board ordered 
 from Philadelphia to New York, on November 30, 1875 ; detached from the 
 Examining Board of Engineers, at New York, and ordered to the " Van 
 dalia," at Boston, on December 27, 1875, North Atlantic Squadron ; 
 detached from the " Vandalia," at New York, and ordered to the " Hart 
 ford," at Philadelphia, Pa., on August 16, 1876; Fleet-Engineer, North 
 Atlantic Squadron ; detached from the " Hartford," off Fort Monroe, Va., 
 and from fleet duty, and ordered to Boston, in charge of engineers stores, on 
 March 20, 1877 ; also to inspect steam boilers building at the South Boston 
 Iron-Works, additional duty ; detached from duty at Boston, on May 11, 
 1877 ; from October 10 to 25, 1877, member of a board for steam trial of the 
 " Quinnebaug," at Philadelphia, Pa ; from January 2 to 30, 1878, member 
 of the Board for Examining Midshipmen for Promotion, at Annapolis, Md ; 
 from February 4 to March 4, 1878, member of a board for steam trial of 
 the " Quinnebaug," at Philadelphia, Pa.; from April 18 to November 19, 
 1878, member of the Board of Examination for Engineers at Philadelphia, 
 Pa. ; ordered to the "Vandalia," at Chester, Pa., on July 21, 1879, North 
 Atlantic Squadron, towed a section of an iron-lifting dock to Pensacola, 
 Fla. ; detached from the " Vandalia," and ordered to the " Tennessee," at 
 New York, on September 19, 1881 ; Fleet-Engineer, North Atlantic Squad 
 ron ; detached from the "Tennessee," August 7, 1882; and ordered to Mil- 
 ford, Conn., to witness trial of Lay torpedo-boat, and make a report to the 
 Navy Department on February 21, 1884; ordered to Navy Yard, League 
 Island, Philadelphia, Pa., head of Department of Steem-Engineering, on 
 May 27, 1884; was connected with the steam trials of the "Dolphin," at 
 New York, and May 9 to June 9, 1885, additional duty ; Navy Yard, 
 League Island, Philadelphia, Pa., on January 21, 1887; detached from 
 Navy Yard, League Island, Philadelphia, Pa., on May 31, 1888, and ordered 
 to the " Trenton," at Callao, Peru, on June 19, 1888, Pacific Squadron, Fleet- 
 Engineer ; the " Trenton " was cast away at Apia, Samoa, on March 16, 
 1889, eastern time, and abandoned ; volunteered to assist work the " Nipsic " 
 to Auckland, N. Z., on April 15, 1889; the "Nipsic" was brought to 
 Honolulu, S. I. ; was repaired there under personal supervision, and 
 remains attached to the fleet doing duty ; detached from the fleet at Hono 
 lulu, S. I., and ordered to San Francisco, Cal., on October 12, 1889 ; ordered 
 from San Francisco, Cal., to Philadelphia, Pa., on November 12, 1889; and 
 ordered to the Southwark Foundry and Machine Company, Philadelphia, 
 Pa., on December 11, 1889, as Inspector of Machinery being manufactured 
 there ; July 3, 1893, ordered to Navy Yard, Portsmouth. Retired, Decem 
 ber 25, 1894. 
 
 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 " Saranac," 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 Squad- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 337 
 
 ron, 1863 ; steam-gunboat " Chicopee," North Atlantic Blockading Squad 
 ron, 1863-4. Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 10, 1863 ; steam-sloop 
 " Lancaster," flag-ship, Pacific Squadron, 1864-7 ; Inspector, Navy Yard, 
 Boston, 1867-9; steam-sloop " Benicia," Asiatic Fleet, 1870-2; member 
 Board of Examiners, 1872-5; training-ship "Minnesota," 1875-8; "Enter 
 prise" and " Quinnebaug," European Station, 1879-81 ; Examining Board, 
 1881-3 ; Inspector of Machinery, new cruisers, 1883-7 ; " Trenton," Pacific 
 Station, 1887-8; special duty, 1888-90 ; " Baltimore," special service, 1890 ; 
 flag-ship "Lancaster," and Fleet-Engineer, Asiatic Squadron, 1890 to March, 
 1893 ; member Experimental Board, Navy Yard, New York, May, 1893, to 
 date of retirement, January, 1895. 
 
 S. L. P. Ayres. Born in Connecticut. Entered the service from Con 
 necticut as Third Assistant Engineer, July 21, 1858; frigate "Roanoke," 
 flag-ship, Home Squadron, 1858-60 ; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, 
 1860-1. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, January I 1 ?, 1861 ; steamer 
 " Michigan," Lake service, 1861 ; steam-sloop " Pensacola," West Gulf 
 Squadron, 1861-3 ; participated in the engagement with the batteries on the 
 passage down the Potomac, the bombardment and passage of Forts Jackson 
 and St. Philip, Chalmette batteries, and the capture of New Orleans. Pro 
 moted to First Assistant Engineer, April 21, 1863; gunboat "Nipsic," 
 South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1863-6; "Juniata," Brazil Station, 
 1866-7; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1867-70. Promoted to Chief 
 Engineer, March 21, 1870 ; " Shenandoah," European Station, 1870-3 ; 
 Inspector of Machinery, Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va., 1873-4 ; member of 
 Examining Board of Engineers, 1874-6 ; " Brooklyn," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1876 ; " Alliance," European Station, 1877-9 ; member of Examin 
 ing Board of Engineers, 1880-4; Inspector of Machinery for the new 
 cruisers, Chester, Pa., 1885 ; Fleet Engineer, Asiatic Station, 1886-9 ; senior 
 member of Board of Engineers for trial of cruiser " Baltimore," 1889 ; mem 
 ber of Board of Examining Engineers, 1889-91 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 191 to 1895 ; member Naval Engineer Examining Board, August, 4895 ; 
 President Naval Engineer Examining Board, June, 1896, to date of 
 retirement, July, 1897. 
 
 Elijah Laws. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1858 appointed a Third 
 Assistant Engineer, March 19, 1858 ; and ordered to the frigate " Saranac," 
 June, 1858, Pacific Squadron. During the revolution of 1859 at Panama 
 was senior officer of one of the boats crews sent to protect the foreign in 
 terests in that city ; 1860, was ordered to the frigate " Powhatan," and sent 
 to Vera Cruz, Mexico, returning to New York early in 1861 ; April 1 of that 
 year left for Fort Pickens amid great excitement, the " Powhatan " being 
 the first ship sent South to suppress the Rebellion ; on sighting the fort all 
 hands were beat to quarters, and he was ordered in charge of a battery of 
 howitzers, the intention being to run up to the Navy Yard ; afterward, went 
 in search of the rebel steamer " Sumter ; " 1862, ordered to the U. S. S. 
 " Dacotah," and participated in the clearing out of the rebel batteries in the 
 Elizabeth River ; then steamed up the James River to protect General Mc- 
 Clellan s headquarters, and shell out more rebel batteries; 1863, ordered to 
 U. S. S. " Housatonic," and was part of the squadron under Admiral Du 
 Pont that attacked the rebel works in Charleston Harbor; 1864, ordered to 
 the U. S. S. " Itasca," and participated in both attacks on Fort Fisher and 
 its capture, and volunteered for powder-ship that was blown up in the har 
 bor ; 1865, ordered to the U. S. S. " Chickopee," and visited the sounds and 
 rivers of North and South Carolina, and was then transferred to the " Mar. 
 
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338 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 blehead," West Indian Squadron ; 1867-8, special duty connected with the 
 " Contocook," " Mosholu," and "Ammonoosuc ; " 1869, ordered to the U. S. 
 S. " Galena," and the same year transferred to the U. S S. " Resaca," Pacific 
 Squadron ; 1872, special duty at Key West, and on monitor " Terror; " 1873, 
 special duty at Norfolk Navy Yard and on monitor " Terror ; " 1874, or 
 dered to iron-clad " Roanoke," and afterwards transferred to U. S. S. " Min 
 nesota ; " 1876, duty at Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. ; 1877, ordered to U. 
 8. S. " Enterprise ; " surveyed the Mississippi River at New Orleans ; then 
 went to Brazil and made a survey of the Amazon and Madeira Rivers ; 
 1879, Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida ; 1884, ordered to U. S. S. " Lacka- 
 wanna," at Callao, Peru, and, in consequence of yellow fever on board ship, 
 was transferred to U. S. S. " Mohican," Pacific Squadron ; 1888, ordered to 
 Navy Yard, League Island, Philadelphia ; " Pensacola," S. A. Station, 
 August, 1890, to June, 1892 ; Iron Works, South Brooklyn, June, 1892, to 
 May, 1893 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," May, 1893, to date. 
 
 David Smith. Born in Scotland. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, 
 1859 ; steam-sloop " Lancaster," Pacific Fleet, 1860-4. Promoted to Second 
 Assistant Engineer, 1861. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; 
 " Tallapoosa," N. A. Station, 1865-6; " Wampanoag," second-rate, 1867-8 ; 
 Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1868-72. Commissioned as Chief Engineer, 
 1871; " Shenandoah," European Station, 1873-4; special duty, 1874-8; 
 " Nipsic," special duty, 1879-83 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1884-5 ; special 
 duty, Chester, Pa., 1885-7 ; Boston, special service, 1887-9 ; special duty, 
 New York, 1889-90 ; member Steel Inspection Board, November, 1890, to 
 November, 1<S93 ; " Philadelphia," Pacific Station, November, 1893, to 1895 ; 
 Bureau of Steam Engineering, September, 1895, to date of retirement, 
 December, 1896. 
 
 Robert Potts. Born in Ireland. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, 
 
 1861 ; frigate "Niagara," N. A. Station, 1861; special duty, New York, 
 
 1862 ; " Montauk," iron-clad, S. A. Station, 1862-3. Promoted to Second 
 Assistant Engineer, 1862; steamer "Kansas," N. A. Station, 1864-5. Pro 
 moted to First Assistant Engineer, 1864 ; steamer " Chicopee," Atlantic 
 Station, 1866 ; "Guerriere," S. A. Station, 1868-9 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 1870; " Nipsic," Darien Expedition, 1871-2 Promoted to Chief Engineer, 
 1873 ; "Alaska," European Station, 1873-5 ; Inspector of Coal, Philadelphia, 
 1875-7; special duty, League Island, 1877-9; "Michigan" N. W. Lakes, 
 1879-82; "Adams," Pacific Station, 1882-4; Inspector of Machinery, new 
 cruiser, " Philadelphia," 1885-90 ; " Baltimore," Pacific Station, February, 
 1891, to August, 1893; Inspector of Boiler Tubes at New Castle, Del., 
 September, 1893, to 1895; Navy Yard, Boston, August, 1895, to date of 
 retirement, May, 1897. 
 
 Edward Farmer. Born in Vermont. Appointed Third^Assistant En 
 gineer, 1859 ; Home Squadron, 1859-60. Promoted to Second Assistant 
 Engineer, 1861 ; steamer " Mohican," S. A. S., 1861 ; gunboat " Kanawha," 
 W. G. S., 1862-4. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; steamer 
 "Alabama," N. A. S., 1864-5 ; " Shenandoah," East India Station, 1866-8; 
 Navy Yard, Boston, 1868-71. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1870 ; " Ticon- 
 deroga," S. A. Station, 1871-4; charge of stores, Boston, 1874-7 ; "Alert," 
 Asiatic Station, 1877-81 ; Naval Academy, 1881-8 ; " Chicago," Squadron 
 of Evolution, 1888-91 ; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., December, 1891, to 
 July, 1893 ; Navy Yard, Boston, July, 1893-5 ; Navy Yard, New York, 
 August, 1895-8. Retired, February, 1898. 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 339 
 
 Fletcher A. Wilson. Born iii England. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer ,1859-, "Saranac," Pacific Fleet, 1861. Promoted to Second As 
 sistant Engineer, 1861 ; flag-ship "Hartford," West Gulf Squadron, 1861-5 ; 
 and same ship in East India Squadron, 1865-8 ; " Richmond," European 
 Fleet, 1868-71. Commissioned as Chief Engineer, 1871; "Michigan," 
 fourth-rate, 1872-4 ; " Swatara," N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; special duty, Boston, 
 1877-80 ; " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1881-3 ; Inspector of Machinery, new 
 cruisers, San Francisco, 1887-90 ; " San Francisco," special service squadron, 
 November, 1890, to October, 1893; Navy Yard, New York, December, 1893, 
 to 1894 ; Inspector of Machinery, Union Iron Works, M*y, 1894, to 1898. 
 Retired, February, 1898. 
 
 Retired on his own application after forty years service. 
 
 Francis C. Dade. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, Jan 
 uary 20, 1849; entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; steamer 
 " Water- Witch," Home Squadron, 1849-50 ; steam-frigate "Saranac," Home 
 Squadron, 1851-2. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, February 26, 
 1851 ; Coast Survey, 1852-3. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, May 
 21, 1853 ; steam-frigate "Saranac," 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 tf Canandaigua," European Squad 
 ron, 1866-7 ; member Board of Examiners, 1866-8 ; Inspector of Machinery, 
 Afloat, Norfolk, 1869-72; steam-sloop "Lancaster," North Atlantic Station, 
 1873-4; charge of stores, Norfolk, 1874-7 ; Fleet-Engineer, Pacific Station, 
 1877-9; special duty, Delaware Iron Works, 1883. Retired, January 26, 
 1889. 
 
 William B. Brooks. Born in Virginia. Appointed from Virginia, 
 February 16, 1852, a Third Assistant Engineer, and in April was ordered to 
 the U. S S. "Michigan," the only U. S. vessel on the lakes of the North. 
 Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer in May, 1855, and ordered to the 
 U. S. S. " San Jacinto," the flag-ship of Commodore James Armstrong, for 
 duty in the Asiatic Squadron ; at Pulo Penang took on board Hon. Town- 
 send Harris, the first appointee as Minister from the U. S. to Japan, and in 
 June, 1856, landed him at the port of Simota, Japan ; in August, 1858, 
 returned to New York in the "San Jacinto," after a three years cruise. 
 Examined and promoted to First Assistant Engineer, and ordered to the 
 steamer " America," chartered for duty on Paraguayan Expedition ; October 
 1, 1858, ordered to the "New York," the "America" having been con 
 demned as unfit for the cruise to Paraguay, and on January 1, 1859, re 
 ported for duty on the U. S. S. " Brooklyn," which sailed for Vera Cruz, 
 Mexico, with United States Minister Robert McLane on board ; remained 
 attached to the Gulf Squadron until August, 1861. The "Brooklyn" 
 returned to Philadelphia, when he was examined and promoted to Chief 
 Engineer,a,ud. was ordered to rejoin the "Brooklyn/ and in December sailed 
 for the Mississippi River, where the " Brooklyn," remained on blockade duty 
 until, on April 14, with the rest of the fleet under Admiral Farragut, that 
 vessel passed Forts Jackson and St. Philip and the Chalmette batteries ; pro 
 ceeded up the Mississippi as far as Vicksburg, and then on blockade duty on 
 the coast of Texas until August, 1863, when the ship was obliged to return 
 
340 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 North for repairs ; was detached and ordered to special duty in New York ; in 
 August, 1866, was ordered to the sloop "Sacramento," and in June, 1.867, 
 was wrecked in this vessel off the coast of Hindoostan; in March, 1868, 
 returned to the United States; in October, 1868, was ordered to the Ports 
 mouth, New Hampshire, Navy Yard; in March, 1869, was detached, and 
 awaited orders until January, 1870, when he was ordered to the " Michigan ; " 
 in January, 1872, was ordered to Norfolk Navy Yard; in March, 1874, was 
 ordered to the " Franklin," and as Fleet-Engineer on the European Station ; 
 April, 1877, was detached from duty as Fleet-Engineer and ordered to 
 return to the United States ; special duty, 1877-8 ; Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, 1879-82; Board of Examining Engineers, 1882; Fleet-Engineer, 
 North Atlantic Station, 1883-4; Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H., 1885-8; 
 West Point Foundry, Cold Springs, N. Y., 1889 ; Inspector of Machinery 
 for battle-ship "Texas," Richmond, Va., 1889-92. Retired, March 1, 1892. 
 George F. Kutz. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania, June 26, 1856 ; entered the service as Third Assistant Engineer; 
 " Niagara," Atlantic Cable Expedition, in 1857-8 ; steamer " Atlanta," 
 Brazil Squadron and Paraguay Expedition, 1859. Promoted to First Assist 
 ant 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, 1863-5; steam -sloop " Ticonderoga," 
 European Squadron, 1866-9 ; Inspector of Machinery Afloat, League Island, 
 1869-72; " Benicia," North Pacific Station, 1872-5; Naval Rendezvous, 
 San Francisco, 1875-7 ; charge of stores, Mare Island, California, 1877-80 ; 
 Fleet-Engineer, Pacific Station, 1881-3; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1883-8; 
 Inspector of Machinery, new cruisers, 1889, to May, 1893 ; Navy Yard, 
 Mare Island, May, 1893, to date of retirement, June 26, 1896. 
 
 James W. Thomson. 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 ; special 
 duty, 1871 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1871-2 ; " Omaha," South Pacific 
 Fleet, 1873-5 ; member Board of Inspection, 1875-7 ; "Alaska," Pacific 
 Station, 1877-81; Board of Examination, 1881-2; Board of Inspection, 
 1882-5; special duty, 1885-8; " Pensacola," special service, 1888-90; In 
 spector of Machinery for cruiser " Minneapolis," at Cramps ship yard, Decem 
 ber, 1890, to date of retirement, June 26, 1896. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMANDER. 
 
 Retired on reaching the age of 62 years. 
 
 Henry Beauchamp Nones. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed 
 Third Assistant Engineer, U. S. Navy, September 23, 1853 ; ordered to U. S. 
 Coast Survey steamer " Legare ; " detached and ordered to special duty in 
 connection with building machinery of U. S. S. frigate " Merrimac," Decem 
 ber 13, 1854; Navy Yard, Boston, Mass., December 3, 1855 ; reported for 
 duty on board U. S. S. frigate " Merrimac," December 12, 1855 ; resigned 
 from Navy, August 19, 1856 ; employed in U. S. Coast Survey until break 
 ing out of Rebellion. Appointed Second Assistant Engineer, U. S. Navy, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 341 
 
 May 28, 1861. Examined and promoted First Assistant Engineer, July 1, 
 1861 ; U. S. frigate "Koanoke," June 1, 1861 ; ordered to take passage in 
 U. S. S. " Brooklyn " for duty on board IT. S. 8. frigate " Niagara," January 
 22, 1862; II S. S. " Powhatan," June, 1862; detached May 16, 1863, and 
 ordered temporarily to U. S. S. frigate " Wabash," as Fleet-Engineer, 8. A. 
 Squadron; U. S. S. " Ascutney," 1863-5. Commissioned as Chief Engineer, 
 December 14, 1864; U. S. S. " Connecticut," 1865 ; special duty, " Wilming 
 ton," 1866; "Iroquois," Asiatic Fleet, 1867-70; special duty, "Philadel 
 phia," 1871; U. S. S. "Juniata," European Station, 1872-5; member of 
 Board of Examiners, 1876-80; U. S. S. "Galena," European Station, 
 1880-3; member Board of Examiners, 1884-6; President Board of Ex 
 aminers, 1886-7; U. S. S. "Richmond," N. A. Station, 1887-90; Fleet 
 Engineer, 1880-90, S. A. Station ; Navy Yard, League Island, December, 
 1890-91 ; Examining Board, 1891-2. Retired, May 15, 1892. 
 
 Albert W. Morley. Born in Hartford, Connecticut. Appointed Third 
 Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1861 ; U. S. S. "Richmond," West Gulf Squad 
 ron, July 1, 1861, to July 2, 1863. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 
 December 2, 1862; U. S. S. "Nipsic," South Atlantic Squadron, September 
 2, 1863, to October 21, 1864 ; special duty, Naval Machine Shop, Port Royal, 
 S. C., from October 21, 1864, to June 7, 1865 ; U, S. S. "Pawnee," South 
 Atlantic Squadron, June 8, 1865, to July 27, 1865 ; special duty, iron-clads, 
 at Philadelphia, Pa., from November 8, 1865, to March 15, 1866 ; special 
 duty, U. S. S. " Madawaska," New York, March 19, 1866, to October 11, 
 1866. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, July 25, 1866 ; U. S. S. " Ossi- 
 pee," North Pacific Squadron, October 18, 1866, to October 12, 1868 ; " Pen- 
 sacola," North Pacific Squadron, October 12, 1868, to September 27, 1869 ; 
 special duty, Navy Yard, New York, February 23, 1870, to February 6, 
 1872 ; U. S. S. " Powhatan," North Atlantic Squadron, February 13, 1872, 
 to June 5, 1873 ; U. S. S. " Wasp," South Atlantic Squadron, June 5, 1873, 
 to December 25, 1874; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, June 30, 1875, 
 to March 23, 1878; U. S. S. "Alaska," Pacific Squadron, March 23, 1878, 
 to April 7, 1881 ; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, June 21, 1881, to 
 October 3, 1882. Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 17, 1882 ; special 
 duty, Naval Advisory Board, new cruisers, from September 6, 1883, to 
 August 7, 1886; special duty, Navy Yard, New York, August 7, 1886, to 
 January 6, 1887; U. S. S. "Dolphin," special service, January 12, 1887, to 
 November 7, 1889 ; Inspector Machinery, U. S. S. " Maine," November 9, 
 1889, to 1895 ; Navy Yard, New York, December, 1895, to date of retire 
 ment, March, 1896. 
 
 Absalom Kirby. Born in Washington, D. C. Joined the Potomac 
 Flotilla at the first call, April, 1861, on steamboats running dispatches; was 
 an engineer on board of the steamboat " Mount Vernon," when she took 
 Colonel Ellsworth and his regiment to Alexandria, Va., May 24 1861, the 
 morning he was killed by Marshall. This vessel is said to have fired the 
 first gun of any vessel in the war. On dispatch steamer " James Guy," just 
 arrived at Mathias Point with dispatches for Commander Ward, when he 
 was killed on board of the "Thomas Freeborn" by a sharp-shooter from a 
 rebel battery, June 27, 1861 ; continued on the dispatch-boats " Baltimore " 
 and " Powhatan," running the rebel batteries till he entered the regular ser 
 vice, October 3, 1861, as a Third Assistant Engineer; joined the " Pocahon- 
 tas" in Dupont s Expedition in the battle of Port Royal, November 7, 1861 ; 
 was stationed at the " Bell Pull," on deck, which was attached to the main 
 mast, when a shot from a rebel battery carried the mast away ; attached to 
 
342 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 the " Mohican " on the blockade off Charleston, capture of Fernandina, 
 Florida, also Saint Simond, and Warsaw Sounds, Georgia. In Farragut s 
 Squadron from July, 1862, to July, 1865 ; blockade off Mobile Bay in the 
 " Pembina," when she chased the " Florida" the morning she ran out of 
 Mobile Bay, January 16, 1863. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 
 August 3, 1863 ; Richmond," W. G. S., 1863-5 ; was on board her in the 
 battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864 ; also when she captured rebel ram 
 "Webb," belpw New Orleans, April, 1865. Promoted to First Assistant 
 Engineer, 1866; special duty, Philadelphia, 1866-8; "Nina," 1868-70; 
 " Tallapoosa," special service, 1871-3; "Manhattan," iron-clad, N. A. S., 
 1873 ; Asiatic Station, 1874-7; Navy Yard, Washington, 1878-81 ; " Pow- 
 hatan," special duty, 1881-4; receiving-ship "Wyaudotte," 1884-6. Pro 
 moted to Chief Engineer, December 2,. 1886 ; " Adams," Pacific Station, 
 1887-90; receiving-ship "Franklin," 1891-2; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1892-3; Navy Yard, Norfolk, November, 1893-4; Inspector Machinery, 
 U. S. armored battleship " Texas ; " detached from " Texas." September, 1895 ; 
 double-turreted monitor "Monadnock," February 20, 1896, to September 27, 
 1897 ; flag-ship " Baltimore," September 27, 1897, to January 6, 1898 ; Fleet 
 Engineer, Pacific Station. Retired, February 15, 1898. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. 
 
 Daniel P. McCartney. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, July 1, 
 1861 ; steamer < k Louisiana," North Atlantic Station, 1861-2; "Montauk" 
 (iron-clad), South Atlantic Station. Promoted Second Assistant Engineer, 
 December 18, 1862; steam-sloop " Shenandoah," North Atlantic Station, 
 1862-5. Promoted First Assistant Engineer, January 30, 1865 ; " Shamokin," 
 Brazil Squadron, and " Monocacy," China Squadron, 1865-8; Navy Yard, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1868-9; "Frolic," special service, 1869-70; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, 1870-1; flagship " W abash," European Squadron, 1871-2; 
 " Plymouth," European Squadron, 1872-3 ; Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1873- 
 74. Passed Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1874; "Gettysburg," special 
 service, 1874-5 ; "Tallapoosa," special service, 1875-6; Navy Yard, Wash 
 ington, 1876-80 ; " Despatch," special service, 1881. Promoted Chief Engi 
 neer, August 22, 1881 ; " Essex," Pacific and China Squadron, 1881-5 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, 1885-7 ; " Nipsic," Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 1887 ; 
 " Galena," North Atlantic Station, 1888-90; special duty, 1890 to date of 
 retirement, November, 1892. 
 
 Benjamin F. "Wood. Born in the State of New York. Appointed a 
 Third Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1861 ; U. S. S. "Lancaster," Pacific Squad 
 ron, 1861-2 ; special duty, New York, 1862 ; U. S. monitor " Lehigh," 1863 ; 
 U. S. S. " Sassacus," North Atlantic Squadron, 1863-4 ; U. S. S. " Mahongo," 
 Pacific Squadron, 1864-7; Mound City Station, 111., 1867-8. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, April, 1863. Promoted to a Passed Assistant En 
 gineer, October, 1866 ; U. S. monitor " Dictator," North Atlantic Squadron, 
 1869-70 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1871-2 ; U. S. S. " Juniata," 1873 ; China 
 Station, 1873-6 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1877-80 ; U. S. S. " Trenton," Eu 
 ropean Squadron, 1880-1 ; Morgan Iron-Works, New York, 1882-4. Pro 
 moted to Chief Engineer, December, 1883; special duty, Chester, Pennsyl 
 vania, 1884-5 ; U. S. S. " Kearsarge," European Squadron, 1885-6 ; U. S."S. 
 " Ossipee," North Atlantic Squadron, 1887-8 ; Continental Iron Works, 
 Brooklyn, 1888-92. Retired, October 6, 1892. 
 
 George W. Roche. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1862 ; " Lackawanna," North Atlantic Station, 1862^-5. Pro- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 343 
 
 moted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1864 ; " Dacotah," Pacific Squadron, 
 1866-8. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1868 ; Naval Academy, 
 1869-72; " Ticonderoga," South Atlantic Station, 1872-4; iron-clad u Sau- 
 gus," North Atlantic Station, 1874-6 ; Navy Yard, League Island, 1877-9 ; 
 " Shenandoah," South Atlantic Station, 1879-82; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 1882-4 ; " Despatch," special service, 1885-9. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 
 August 25, 1889 ; member Board to Test Boilers, 1889-90 ; Inspector 
 cruiser No. 10, October, 1890, to July, 1893 ; " Detroit," S. A. Station, July, 
 1893, to May, 1896 ; waiting orders until date of retirement, July 3, 1896. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF COMMANDER/ 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from incident of service. 
 
 Henry W. Fitch. Native of Massachusetts. May 3, 1859, appointed 
 Third Assistant Engineer ; May 12, special duty, Boston ; September, 1859, 
 to October, 1861, steam-sloop " Narragansett," Pacific Station. October 16, 
 1861, promoted to Second Assistant Engineer ; October, 1861, to May, 1864, 
 
 funboat " Kennebec " and steam-sloop " Pensacola," W. G. B. Squadron. 
 lay 20, 1863, promoted to First Assistant Engineer; May, 1864, special 
 duty, Novelty Iron Works, N. Y. ; April, 1865, to May, 1869, steamer 
 " Frolic," European Station ; June, 1869, to June, 1871, special duty, Eod s 
 Gun-Carriage, Fort Hamilton, N. Y. March 4, 1871, promoted to Chief 
 Engineer; June 1, 1871, one year s leave; May, 1872, to May, 1875, steam- 
 sloop " Lackawanna," Asiatic Station ; June, 1875, Coal Inspector, Philadel 
 phia ; September, 1875, member Examining Board, U. S. Naval Engineers, 
 Philadelphia; October, 1877, to August, 1882, special duty, Bureau of 
 Steam-Engineering; July 1 to August 15, 1881, Acting Chief of Bureau; 
 August, 1882, to August, 1885, steam-sloop " Powhatan," North Atlantic 
 Station ; September, 1885, member Examining Board, U. S. Naval Engi 
 neers, Philadelphia; November, 1886, to March, 1888, President of Board; 
 March, 1888, special duty, Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia ; August, 1888, head 
 of Department of Steam-Engineering, U. S. Naval Academy; October, 1893, 
 "San Francisco," S. A. Station, to 1894; sick leave, February, 1894. Re 
 tired, September, 1894. 
 
 Frederick G. McKean. Born in East Indies. Appointed Third Assist 
 ant Engineer, 1861 ; steam-sloop "Mississippi," West Gulf Squadron, 1861-3. 
 Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 
 1864 ; " Canonicus " (iron-clad), S A. S., 1864-5 ; " Ticonderoga," European 
 Station, 1865-7. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1865 ; Bureau of 
 Steam-Engineering, 1868-71 ; "Ashuelot," Asiatic Station, 1871-3; Bureau 
 of Steam-Engineering, 1873-9. Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 25, 
 1877 ; " Ticonderoga," special service, 1879-81 ; Bureau of Steam -Engineer 
 ing, 1881-4 ; " Marion," Asiatic Station, 1885-8 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineer 
 ing, 1889-91; "Boston," Pacific Station, October, 1891, to date of retire 
 ment, November, 9, 1893. 
 
 Isaac R. McNary. Born in New York. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, 1861 ; " Colorado," N. A. S., 1861 ; steam-sloop "Housatonic," S. 
 A S., 1862-63. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863; "Nan- 
 tucket" (iron-clad), S. A. Fleet, 1863-5. Promoted to First Assistant En 
 gineer, 1865 ; " Monongahela," W. G. Squadron, 1865-6 ; and same ship, W. 
 I. Station, 1866-8 ; " Beuicia," Asiatic Station, 1869-71 ; " Monocacy " and 
 " Ashuelot," same station, 1871-2 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1873-4 ; " Michi 
 gan," on the lakes, 1874; " Ajax " (iron-clad), N. A. S., 1875-7 ; Examin- 
 
344 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ing Board, Washington, 1877-9. Promoted to Chief Engineer, November 
 14, 1878; " Kearsarge," N. A. Station, 1879-82; training-ship "Minnesota," 
 1882-4 ; special duty, 1884-6 ; l< Atlanta," special service, 1886-7 ; "Juniata," 
 Pacific Station, 1887-9 ; special duty connected with monitors, 1889-90 ; 
 Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N- H., 1890, to September, 1892 ; member Experi 
 mental Board, New York, September, 1892, to June, 1893 ; " Philadelphia," 
 Pacific Station, June, 1893, to November, 1893; Navy Yard, Mare Island, 
 November, 1893, to date of retirement, September, 1894. 
 
 Gilbert. M, L. Maccarty. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed Third 
 Assistant Engineer in 1861 ; steam-sloop " Narragansett," Pacific Squadron, 
 1861-3. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; special duty, New 
 York, 1865-6. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1865 ; " Saco," North 
 Atlantic Fleet, 1867-8; special duty, Norfolk, 1869-70; "Tennessee," 
 special service, 1871 ; "Mahopac" (iron-clad), North Atlantic Fleet, 1872; 
 special duty, Chester, 1873 ; South Atlantic Station, 1873-4 ; " Canonicus " 
 (iron-clad), North Atlantic Station, 1874-7 ; Navy Yard, Boston, 1877-80. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, September 16, 1881 ; " Wyoming," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1881-2 ; " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; Navy Yard, 
 Portsmouth, 1886-9 ; " Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1889-91 ; Inspector of 
 Machinery, 1891-2; special duty, Thurlow, Pa., 1892, to date of retirement, 
 November, 1892. 
 
 John A. Scot. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed Third Assistant En 
 gineer, 1861 ; gunboat " Owasco," West Gulf Squadron, 1861-3. Promoted 
 to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; " Galena," West Gulf Squadron, 1863-5 ; 
 participated in the engagements with Forts Jackson and St. Philip ; the cap 
 ture of New Orleans; passage of Vicksburg; capture of Galveston ; passage 
 and capture of Forts Morgan, Gaines and Powell ; capture of the ram "Ten 
 nessee," and destruction of the "Gaines." Promoted to First Assistant En 
 gineer, 1866 ; "Tuscarora," Pacific Squadron, 1866-8 ; " Terror" (iron-clad), 
 North Atlantic Station, 1870-1 ; rendezvous, San Francisco, 1872-5 ; Asiatic 
 Station, 1875-6 ; " Hartford," South Atlantic Station, 1878-80 ; Navy Yard, 
 League Island, 1880-2 ; " Hartford," Pacific Station, 1883-4 ; " Lackawanna," 
 Pacific Station, 1884-5. Promoted to Chief Engineer, July 6, 1885 ; special 
 duty, Pittsburg, 1886-7 ; inspection duty, Philadelphia, 1887-8; "Alliance," 
 South Atlantic Station, 1888-9 ; special duty, 1889-90; Navy Yard, League 
 Island, January, 1891, to October, 1892 ; " Concord," N. A Station, October, 
 1892-4 ; " Baltimore," July, 1894 ; " Charleston," January, 1895 ; Member and 
 Recorder Engineers Examining Board, June, 1896, to date of retirement, 
 May, 1897. 
 
 John Livingston Dinwiddie Borthwick. Born in Philadelphia, 
 August 11, 1840 ; educated in that city and received the Degree of M A. ; 
 is a member of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, and with it served 
 in the First Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1861 ; was present at the 
 engagement of Falling Waters, Virginia ; on being mustered out of the 
 United States service was offered and declined a commission as Captain in the 
 Pennsylvania, and a Lieutenancy in the Regular Cavalry ; entered the Navy 
 as a Third Assistant Engineer October 8, 1861, and was ordered to the U S. 
 S. " Itasca ; " in that vessel participated in the preliminary engagements below 
 Forts Jackson and St. Philip ; the removal of the obstructions below those 
 forts ; the passage of the forts and the capture of New Orleans ; also in the 
 engagements at Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, East Feliciaua, Port Hudson, Baton 
 Rouge, Pass Manchac, Donaldsonville, College Point and Red Church, all 
 on the Mississippi River, at Velasco, Coast of Texas, and in the preliminary 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 345 
 
 engagements and passage of Forts Morgan and Gaines, Mobile Bay ; detached 
 from the " Itasca," and ordered to the " Arizona," flag ship of the West Gulf 
 Squadron, as Engineer in charge, the same position as held on board the 
 "Itasca," January, 1865; detached and ordered to the "Lackawanna," on 
 the destruction of the " Arizona," by fire ; detached from the " Lackawanna," 
 and ordered to the " Kineo," March, 1865, as Engineer in charge ; detached 
 and placed on waiting orders, May, 1865 ; served on board of the "Shamo- 
 kin," " Kansas," and " Huron," in the West Indies, South Atlantic Squadron 
 and West Coast of Africa from June, 1865, till October, 1868; at the Naval 
 Academy as instructor, and in charge of machinery afloat from April, 1869, 
 till July, 1871 ; on board of the "Michigan" from Juty, 1871, till July, 
 1873 ; on board the " Alaska," European Squadron, from August, 1873, till 
 January, 1874; at the Naval Academy as Instructor and in charge of 
 machinery afloat from January, 1874, till January, 1877 ; on board of the 
 "Alliance," " Vandalia," and "Trenton," European Squadron, from March, 
 1877, till July, 1880; on board of the "Michigan," from December, 1880, 
 till July, 1883; on board of the "Trenton" and "Alert," East India Squad 
 ron, from August, 1883, till September, 1886 ; at the New York Navy Yard, 
 from April, 1887, to January, 1888, as Chairman of the Experimental Board, 
 Member of the Board of Inspection and Statutory Board ; on board of the 
 "Swatara," flag-ship of the S. A. Squadron, and in the East India Squadron, 
 from January, 1888, till February, 1891 ; ordered to the New York Navy 
 Yard, May, 1891, as a member of the Experimental Board ; July 2, 1892, 
 detailed for special duty in the inspection of the tubes for the U. S. S. " Chi 
 cago," at the Syracuse Tube Co., Syracuse, N. Y., and as Inspector of the 
 construction of the boilers of the U. S. S. " Michigan," at the Lake Erie 
 Boiler Works, Buffalo, N. Y. ; ordered to duty on board of that vessel, No 
 vember 19, 1892 ; while in Chicago, attached to the Naval Exhibit, served as 
 a delegate to the Boiler Makers Convention of the United States and Canada, 
 and to the Boiler Inspectors Convention of the same. Promoted to Second 
 Assistant Engineer, August 3, 1863 ; to a First Assistant Engineer, October 
 11, 1866; to a Passed Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1874; to Chief 
 Engineer, with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, September 7, 1885 ; 
 " Michigan," November, 1892 ; " Amphitrite," April, 1895-6 ; Navy Yard, 
 New York, June, 1896, to date of retirement, October, 1896. 
 
 George E. Tower. Born in Ohio. Appointed Third Assistant Engi 
 neer, January, 1862 ; joined "Sebago," February, 1862 ; detached, November, 
 1863. Appointed Second Assistant Engineer, October, 1863 ; joined " Brook 
 lyn," November, 1863 ; detached, January, 1865 ; joined " Galena," March, 
 1865; detached, June, 1865; joined " Tacony," September, 1865; detached, 
 November, 1866 ; joined " Osceola," November, 1866 ; detached, September, 
 1867; joined " Mahaska," January, 1868 ; detached, September, 1868. Com 
 missioned a First Assistant Engineer, January, 1868 ; reported for iron-clad 
 duty, September, 1868; detached, October, 1870 ; joined "California," De 
 cember, 1870 ; detached, July, 1873 ; reported for duty at Naval Academy, 
 September, 1873 ; detached, September, 1877 ; reported for duty at Washing 
 ton Navy Yard, September, 1877; detached, June, 1879; joined "Talla- 
 poosa," June, 1879; detached, June, 1882; joined "LackaAvanna," July, 
 1882; detached, March, 1883 ; reported for duty with Advisory Board, May, 
 1885 ; detached, May, 1887; joined "Boston," May, 1887; detached, Novem 
 ber, 1887. Commissioned Chief Engineer, June, 1887; joined " Kearsarge," 
 October, 1889 ; detached, May, 1893 ; reported for duty at New York Navy 
 Yard, July, 1893, to 1896; "Indiana," May, 1896; Treatment Hospital 
 Chelsea, August, 1896, to date of retirement, February, 1897. 
 
346 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 WITH RELATIVE RANK OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER. 
 
 William H. Rutherford. Born January 1, 1828, at Philadelphia, 
 Pennsylvania. Appointed a Third Assistant Engineer in the U. S. Navy, 
 September 22, 1849. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer on February 
 16, 1852. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer on June 26, 1856. Com 
 missioned Chief Engineer, December 1, 1861 ; attached to U. S Coast Sur 
 vey steamers "Legare" and "Jefferson," May 17, 1850, to November 4, 
 1851; while -attached to U. S. Coast Survey steamer " Jefferson," in 1851, 
 and en route to California, was overtaken by tornado off the eastern coast 
 of Patagonia, on the night of May 24, 1851 ; on the night of May 25, 1851, 
 at 8 P. M., ship broached to, and were compelled to cut away fore and main 
 masts, and throw overboard all heavy material in order to lighten ship, 
 managed to get into Watchman s Bay, on the eastern coast of Patagonia, on 
 the afternoon of May 28 ; after lying there for two days ran up the coast 
 about four miles to what is called Port Desire, a short distance from the 
 mouth of the river bearing the same name ; were compelled to remain there 
 for three months, and then taken to Montevideo, Uruguay, in the French 
 barque "Aristede," from Montevideo went to New York on the store-ship 
 "Relief;" attached to U, S. steamer "Mississippi" on the Japan Expe 
 dition, from 1852 to 1856, under Commander M. C. Perry; special duty, 
 Norfolk Navy Yard, August 29, 1856, to April 7, 1857 ; U. S. S Roanoke," 
 Home Station, April 7 to September 5, 1857; U. S. ship " Powhatan " 
 (East India Station), flag-ship of Flag Officer Josiah Tut nail, September 17, 
 1857, to August 16, 1860; U. S. steamer " Michigan," November 10, I860, 
 to May 22, 1861, assisting Chief Engineer B. F. Isherwood to conduct a 
 series of experiments on the expansion of steam ; attached to the U. S. 
 steamer "Pawnee," South Atlantic Blockade Squadron, May 22, 1861, to 
 May 9, 1862, during which time employed in keeping the Potomac River 
 open and the Confederates from erecting batteries along the river front ; was 
 also at the battles of Forts Clark and Fisher at Hatteras Inlet, North Caro 
 lina, Hilton Head and Bay Point, South Carolina ; protected General Gil- 
 more, U. S. Army, during the erection of masked batteries on Tybee Island, 
 to bombard Fort Pulaski, Savannah River, Georgia, and in the capture of 
 Fort Clinch, Fernandina, Florida, the " Pawnee " going through Cumberland 
 Sound attacking the fort in the rear; special duty, Philadelphia, Pennsyl 
 vania, July 17 to October 21, 1862; U. S. steamer " Mississippi," West 
 Gulf Blockade, October 21, 1862, to June 29, 1863, battle of Port Pludson, 
 Louisiana, where the u Mississippi " was lost, being set on fire by order of 
 Capt. Melancton Smith, her commander ; attached to U- S. S. "Wachusett," 
 Brazil Station, August 4, 1863, to January 4, 1865, during which cruise the 
 " Wachusett," on October 4, 1864, ran into the Confederate privateer 
 " Florida," lying at Bahia, Brazil, cut her out and brought her to the United 
 States ; from the time the u Wachusett s " engines were started ahead to run 
 into the " Florida," take her surrender, by paroling her officers and crew, 
 transferring one-half of her crew to the "Wachusett" and one-half of our 
 crew to the " Florida," getting up hawsers from the hole and sending them 
 to the " Florida," securing them around her bits, and starting ahead to tow 
 her out of the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, just took us 35 minutes; attached 
 to U. S. Steamer" Monongahela," West Indies, November 15, 1865, to Feb 
 ruary 5, 1867 ; attached to U. S. S " Canandaigua," European Station, June 
 13, 1867, to February 12, 1869 ; special shore duty Providence, Rhode Island, 
 May 11 to November 11, 1869; Navy Yard, Pensacola, Florida, December 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 347 
 
 20, 1869, to February 24, 1872 ; sick leave, February 24, 1872, to October 
 26, 1874. Retired from active list for disability incurred in the line of duty, 
 October 26, 1874. 
 
 Henry Mason. Entered the Navy as Third Assistant Engineer, March 
 23, 1848, and served in the Mexican War, on the " Saratoga " and " Iris ; " 
 ordered to the Navy Department, March, 1849. Promoted to Second Assist 
 ant Engineer, September 13, 1849 ; ordered to the " Michigan," October 12, 
 1849; to the "Hetzel," as Acting Chief Engineer, December, 1850. Pro 
 moted to First Assistant Engineer, February 26, 1851 ; ordered to the Navy 
 Department, June, 1851 ; to the " Saranac," July, 1852 ; to^he " Princeton, " 
 November, 1853, and resigned. Reinstated without any examination, May 
 31, 1861, and ordered to the " Michigan," to relieve Chief Engineer Zeller ; 
 ordered to relieve Chief Engineer Fithian, on the "Narragansett," and take 
 charge of fifteen youngsters. Promoted to Chief Engineer, May 21, 1863; 
 ordered to " Passaic," July 3, 1863 ; to Corliss Steam-Engine Works, June, 
 1864; to the "Mohican," August, 1866 ; home (sick), December, 1867; leave, 
 January 8, 1868. Retired for wounds and disease incurred in the line of 
 duty, October 16, 1868. 
 
 Edward Biddle Latch. Born in Pennsylvania, November 15, 1833. 
 Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, 1858 ; "Atlanta," Paraguay Expedition, 
 1858-9; steamer "Sumter," West Coast of Africa, 1860-1. Promoted to 
 Second Assistant Engineer, 1861 ; " Hartford," West Gulf Squadron, 1862-4; 
 while on the " Hartford," as second assistant, upon the detachment of chief- 
 engineer Turnbull, was placed in charge of her machinery before Port Hud 
 son fell, retaining charge of the same until the " Hartford " steamed into 
 New York Harbor, August 10, 1863, bearing the broad pennant of, at the 
 time, Rear-Admiral Farragut ; during attachment to the flagship " Hartford " 
 participated in the following engagements : Forts Jackson, St. Philip, and the 
 Confederate fleet, Mississippi River, April 24, 1862 ; first passage of Vicksburg 
 batteries, June 28, 1862 ; second passage of Vicksburg batteries, July 
 15, 1862; passage of Port Hudson s terrible batteries, March 15, 
 1863; Grand Gulf, March 19, 1863; Warrenton, March 28, 1863; 
 Grand Gulf, March 31, 1863 ; Forts Morgan, Gaines, and Powell, also Con 
 federate fleet, including, ram "Tennessee," "Selma," "Gaines," torpedoes, 
 etc., Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 
 1863 ; " Wachusett," East India Station, 1865-8 ; Naval Academy, 1869-70. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1870 ; " Congress," special service, 1870-2 ; 
 member of Board of Inspection, 1873-5 ; receiving-ship "Colorado," 1876; 
 sick leave, 1876-7 ; retired, November 22, 1878. 
 
 George W. Sensner. Born in Baltimore, Md. Appointed Third 
 Assistant Engineer, from Washington, D. C , October 22,1860; Novembers, 
 to April 4, 1861, attached to the " Anacostia." Promoted to Second Assistant 
 Engineer, November 1, 1861 ; April 10, 1861, to February 8, 1862, attached 
 to the flag-ship " Minnesota ; " August, 1861, participated in the engagement 
 and capture of Forts Clark and Hatteras, N. C., gunboat "Port Royal," 
 April 1, 1862, till September 17, 1862, participated in the engagements 
 on James River, including Fort Darling, below Richmond, Virginia, and 
 on more than one occasion he was one of those who volunteered to 
 perform what was considered unusually hazardous service ; flag-ship " Min 
 nesota," November 13, 1862, till February 10, 1864. Promoted to First 
 Assistant Engineer, August 24, 1864; special duty, Baltimore, April, 1864, 
 to January, 1865 ; " Wyoming," East India Squadron, 1865-8 ; Navy Yard, 
 Washington, December, 1868, till July, 1870; "Worcester," cruise to Eng- 
 
348 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 land and return, 1871 ; " Worcester," cruise in West Indies, 1872-3 ; Navy 
 Yard, Washington, January, 1874, to January, 1875. Promoted to Chief 
 Engineer, June, 1874; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1885-8 ; April, 1879, 
 to January 24, 1880, attached to "Franklin;" several months attached to 
 the " Colorado," at New York ; " Lackawanna " and " Adams," Pacific Sta 
 tion, September, 1881, to January, 1882 ; " Alliance," July, 1884, to October, 
 1884. Retired, January 25, 188(5. 
 
 George W. Magee. Born in New York. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer, 1861; special duty, Washington, 1861; u Pensacola," West Gulf 
 Squadron, 1861-3. Promoted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; Bureau 
 of Steam-Engineering, 1863-4. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1864; 
 " Juniata," European Fleet, 1869-72; " Wachusett," European Fleet, 1873 ; 
 "Minnesota," training-ship, 1875-6. Promoted to Chief Engineer, 1876; 
 receiving-ship "Colorado," 1877 ; special duty, 1877-8 ; " Ttiscarora," Pacific 
 Station, 1877-80; special duty, New York, 1881-6 ; Continental Iron Works, 
 Brooklyn, 1887-9; special duty, New York, 1889-91 ; " Miantonomah," N. 
 A. Station, October, 1891. to date of retirement, June 26, 1*93. 
 
 Hugh H. Cline. Born in Maryland, September 3, 1837. Appointed 
 from Maryland as Third Assistant Engineer, July 1, 1861 ; ordered, July 30, 
 1861, to report on U. S. flag-ship "Lancaster," Pacific Station, for duty on 
 U. S. S. " Wyoming;" reported on U. S. S. "Lancaster," August 22, 1861 ; 
 on board U. S. S. "Wyoming" from September 6, 1861, to July 23, 1864; 
 was on the " Wyoming " when she had the engagement with three ships and six 
 shore batteries, in the Straits of Simona Seki. Inland Sea, Japan, July 1 6, 1863 ; 
 experimental duty Navy Yard, New York, from August 18, 1864, to July 10, 
 1865; on U. S. iron-clad "Dictator," from July 10, 1865, to September 5, 
 1865 ; on U. S. S. Pensacola," from October 26, 1865, to April 19, 1869. 
 Commissioned Eirst Assistant Engineer, January 1, 1868; on U. S monitor 
 " Miantonomah," from November 11, 1869, to May 27, 1870 ; on U. S. moni 
 tor "Terror," from December 2, 1870, to January 21, 1871 ; on U. S. iron 
 clad "Dictator," from January 21, 1871, to June 28, 1871; on U. S. S. 
 " Canandaigua," from October 2,1872, to November 23, 1873. Commis 
 sioned Passed Assistant Engineer, February 24, 1874; ordered to IT. S. flag 
 ship "Hartford," October 2, 1874; on U. S. S. " Hartford," November 20, 
 1874; on U. S. S. " Saco," from November 20 to December 2, 1874; on U. 
 S. S. " Yantic," from December 2, 1874 to January 25, 1876 ; on U. S. S. 
 "Saco," from January 28, 1876, to July 13, 1876 ; on U. S. monitor Wyan- 
 dotte," July 24 to 28^ 1877 ; on U. S. monitor" Passaic," from July 28, 1877, 
 to January 2, 1880; on U. S. S. " Swatara," January 6, 1880, to December 
 15, 1882 ; on duty at Mare Island Navy Yard, from September 17, 1883, to 
 May 25, 1885 ; on U. S. S. " Hartford," May 25 to June 3, 1885 ; on U S. S. 
 " Mohican," from June 4, 1885, to August 21, 1888. Commissioned Chief 
 Engineer, December 2, 1887; on U. S. receiving-ship "Franklin," from 
 April 17, lcS89, to November 13, 1891 ; on U. S S. " Atlanta," from Novem 
 ber 13, 1891, to July 18, 1893 ; on U S. S. " Charleston," from July 20, 
 1893, to June 17, 1894; on recommendation of Medical Board of Survey, 
 June 4, 1874, ordered, June 17, 1894, to proceed home from Callao, Peru, 
 and report to Navy Department ; ordered, July 24, 1894, before the U. S. 
 Naval Retiring Board, at Washington, D. C. ; was examined and recom 
 mended to be retired for physical disability. Was placed on the retired list 
 August 27, 1894. 
 
 B. C. Gowing. Born in New York. Graduated, July, 11, 1861, from the 
 Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute, of Troy, New York ; September, 21, 1861, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 349 
 
 received a warrant as Third Assistant Engineer; October, 1861, was ordered to 
 the gunboat " Kennebec," then building at Thomaston, Maine ; February 12, 
 1862, sailed from Boston, Mass., for Key West, Fla., thence to Ship Island, 
 Mississippi, where he joined Admiral Farragut s West Gulf Squadron, ; par 
 ticipated in taking of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, also New Orleans ; the 
 "Oneida" and "Kennebec" were the first Union vessels that went up the 
 Mississippi River, hoisting the flag at the several cities and villages as they 
 proceeded ; was with Farragut at the passing and repassing of the batteries at 
 Vicksburg, Mississippi ; in three skirmishes with guerillas at Grand Gulf, 
 and one at Baton Rouge, Louisiana; in the fight off Brazos/ Texas; August 
 17, 1862, the " Kennebec joined Admiral Farragut s Blockading Squadron, 
 off Mobile, Alabama, where he remained two years, then returned home. 
 May, 1863, was promoted to Second Assistant .Engineer; November, 1864, 
 was ordered to the " Hibiscus," and joined Rear- Admiral Bailey s East Gulf 
 Squadron, cruising between Key West and St. Andrew s Bay, Florida ; was 
 with Commodore Shufeldt in the skirmishes and engagement up the St. Mark s 
 River, Florida; August, 1865, returned with the "Hibiscus" to New York, 
 thence home ; November, 1865, on special duty at Boston, Mass., fitting out 
 the " Ashuelot ; " from January, 1886, to January, 1867, on duty at the U. S. 
 Naval Academy as instructor of Steam-Engineering; December, 1867, ordered 
 to the "Kearsarge," and made a two and one-half years cruise in the South 
 Pacific Station, visiting the South Sea Islands and Australia ; at Callao, 
 Peru, joined the flag-ship "Saranac" (Rear Admiral Turner); left her at 
 San Francisco, California, October, 1870, and came home ; was examined for 
 promotion, and was commissioned as First Assistant Engineer, dating from 
 October 11, 1866; on the monitor " Mahopac," January, February and 
 March, 1872 ; then ordered to the flag-ship "Lancaster," at Rio de Janeiro, 
 Brazil; September, 1872, joined the "Wasp," at Montevideo, Uraguay ; 
 returned home, August, 1874; December, 1874, ordered to the " Yautic," at 
 Hong Kong, China; served on the Asiatic Station during 1875 and 1876; 
 then started for home in the ship, reaching the United States, May, 18, 1877 ; 
 Navy Yard, New York, 1878-81; "Brooklyn," S. A. Station, 1881-4. 
 Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 15, 1886 ; " Alert," Pacific Station, 
 1886-90; "Kearsarge, " N. A. Station, May, 1893, to date of total wreck of 
 that ship on Roncador reef, Caribbean Sea, February 2, 1894 ; " Machias," 
 September, 1894; U. S. Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., September 24, 
 1894, to February 2, 1895; placed on retired list, January 28, 1895, for 
 physical disability received in line of duty. 
 
 David Phillips Jones. Member American Society Mechanical Engi 
 neers, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Born in 
 Philadelphia, 1841. Educated at Central High School in 1859 ; appointed 
 one of the principal Examiners of the Utah Government Surveys, and was 
 also Resident Engineer of the Surveyor-General s Office, Utah Territory ; 
 entered the naval service in March, 1862, as Third Assistant Engineer, and 
 attached to the U. S. steamer " Cimerone," North and South Atlantic 
 Blockading Squadrons, while on that vessel participated in various actions 
 on James River, following McClellan s Peninsula campaign ; also in engage 
 ments on St. Johu s River, Florida, resulting in the second capture of Jack 
 sonville, Florida; in 1863, attached to U. S. iron-clad " Sangamon," partici 
 pating in many engagements up the James River, Va. ; the " Sangamon " was 
 the vessel that received the Confederate Peace Commissioners Stevens, Camp 
 bell and others who came to Hampton Roads to meet President Lincoln ; 
 in the fall of 1863, detached from the " Sangamon," being condemned by 
 
350 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 medical survey ; in 1864, ordered to IT. S. steamer " Mendota," at New York, 
 and promoted to Second Assistant Engineer ; the " Mendota " was assigned 
 to the James River Division of the North Atlantic Squadron, and participated 
 in the battle of Bermuda Hundred, where General Butler was driven back ; 
 the " Mendota " was engaged in many serious actions up the James River 
 during the trying campaign of 18645, and at the fall of Richmond was 
 guard-ship off that city ; while attached to this vessel, lying at Hampton 
 Roads, was blearer of dispatches to General Grant announcing the fall of Fort 
 Fisher; Grant at that time was at City Point, and the river was infested 
 with guerrilla parties; the trip from Fortress Monroe to army headquarters 
 was made at night, on the little steamer " Martha Washington ; " after the 
 fall of Richmond, the " Mendota " was stationed off Brandy wine Shoals, 
 searching all passing vessels for the assassin Booth ; from July, 1865, to Sep 
 tember, 18(57, attached to U. S steamer " Powhatau," in South Pacific Sta 
 tion ; the " Powhatan " was one of the convoys of the iron-clad " Monadnock," 
 on her memorable voyage to the Pacific ; while attached to this vessel, wit 
 nessed the bombardment of Valparaiso and Callao by the Spanish fleet; in 
 1867, promoted to Pwssed A#ri*tant Engineer, and attached to U. S. steamer 
 "Gettysburg," which vessel was engaged in sounding between Key West, 
 Havana and Asp in wall, preparatory to laying the first telegraph cable be 
 tween these points; in 1869-70, attached to U.S. steamer "Michigan;" 
 afterwards, while on an extended leave, was Constructing Engineer of the 
 St. Louis and Southeastern Railway, and while holding that position designed 
 and built the great railway transfers on the Ohio River, at Evansville, Ind., 
 and Henderson, Ivy.; in 1873, attached to Bureau of Steam Engineering; 
 and from 1874-5) was instructor in steam-engineering at the Naval Acad 
 emy ; while on that duty, organized the department of Mechanical Drawing 
 for the Cadet Engineers; in 1879, attached temporarily to torpedo-boat 
 "Alarm ; " and afterwards assigned to the U. S. S. " Nipsic," cruising in the 
 Mediterranean ; while attached to the " Nipsic," witnessed the second day ;? 
 bombardment of Alexandria. Egypt, by the English flee* ; in 1888-4, at 
 tached to Bureau of Steam-Engineering; afterwards, while on leave, was 
 President of the West Kansas Construction Company; from 1885-8, on 
 duty as Professor Mechanical Engineering Kansas Normal College ; after 
 wards ordered to the U. S. S. " Ranger," on the Pacific Coast ; December, 
 188 , until retirement, June 21, 1892. U. S N. training-station, Newport, R. I. 
 
 Edward A. Magee. Born in New York. Appointed Third Assistant 
 Engineer in 1862 ; " Itasoa," West Gulf Squadron, 1862; steamer " Rhode 
 Island," N. A, Station, 1863 ; Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1863-4. Pro 
 moted to Second Assistant Engineer, 1863 ; " Shenandoah," S. A. Station, 
 1864-5; "Towanda" (third-rate \ 1866; "Swatara," West India Station, 
 1867-9. Promoted to First Assistant Engineer, 1868; Navy Yard, New 
 York, 1869-70; " Canonicus " (iron-clad), N. A. Station, 1871-2; " Wasp," 
 S. A. Station, 1872-6 ; " training-ship " Minnesota," 1876-9 ; Experimental 
 Board, New York, 1879-81 ; " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, 1881-3 ; 
 training-ship " Minnesota," 1884-6 ; " Richmond," North Atlantic Station, 
 1886-9. Promoted to Chief Engineer, February 28, 1889; Navy Yard, 
 New York, 1889-90; member Board of Inspection, New York, 1890-2; 
 "Adams," Pacific Station, 1893 to November, 1894; receiving-ship "Inde 
 pendence," November 16, 1894, to May, 1895 ; treatment Naval Hospital, 
 New York, May, 1895. Retired, November 4, 1895. 
 
 Jefferson Brown. Appointed to Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy, Decem 
 ber 17, 1862 ; ordered to U. S. S. " Mississippi," January. 1863, and, under 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 351 
 
 Admiral Farragut, participated in the battle of Port Hudson ; was made 
 prisoner there, together with captain of marines, a mate, and forty men, after 
 the vessel had been destroyed and the officers and crew landed opposite the 
 Confederate works ; taken to Jackson, Miss. ; paroled in May, 1863, and 
 ordered to iron-clad " Canonicus," after having been exchanged for an officer 
 by the same name, who was captured on the "Atlanta ; " was in several en 
 gagements on James River, in 1864 ; Hewlett s Battery, Dutch Gap, etc. ; 
 January, 1865, ordered to the " Wacbusett," as Assistant Engineer, and 
 made cruise in China, Japan, and the East ; in 1868, to the " Yantic," in 
 West Indies ; during the cruise the vessel became infected tfith yellow fever, 
 and Commander Abbot, his clerk, and three seamen died and were buried at 
 sea ; in January, 1871, ordered to the " Terror," at Havana ; afterwards to 
 the New York Navy Yard, as assistant to Chief Engineers Wood and Hen 
 derson. Promoted to Passed Assistant Engineer, January 1, 1868 ; in 1873, 
 ordered to the " Manhattan," Key West ; in 1876, to the iron-clad " Man 
 hattan," in charge of machinery, and during the next five years served on the 
 following-named iron-clads: "Dictator," "Catskill," "Mahopac," "Nahant," 
 and "Lehigh;" "Alliance," N. A. Station, 1881-3; on the "Alliance," in 
 1881, made the Arctic cruise in search of the " Jeannette," reaching North 
 Latitude 80 10 north of Spitsbergen, within 90 miles of the highest 
 record by this route, and farthest north of any American war-ship ; the "Al 
 liance " advanced to the permanent ice-pack, and while in the ice narrowly 
 escaped wreck ; remained until November of same year ; special duty, New 
 York, 1883-6; "Yantic," N. A. Station, 1887-90; receiving-ship "" Ver 
 mont," January, 1891 ; detached from " Vermont " and retired, from physi 
 cal disability, August 2, 1892. 
 
 Herschell Main. Appointed from District of Columbia. Acting Third 
 Assistant Engineer, October 10, 1866. Appointed Third Assistant Engineer, 
 June 3, 1868 ; Second Assistant Engineer, June 6, 1869 ; Passed Assistant 
 Engineer, November 20, 1874; "Pensacola," 1869-71; Bureau of Steam- 
 Engineering, 1871-3 ; " Michigan," Northwestern lakes, 1873-4; " Maho- 
 pac," proved Boiler, April 6, to June 1, 1888 ; member of Board to Test the 
 U Street Pumping-Engines, Washington ; Office of Naval Intelligence, Navy 
 Department, June 1, 1888, to 1890 ; " Vesuvius," June, 1890, to 1892 ; U. S. 
 receiving-ship "Minnesota," May, 1892-94; Inspector of Machinery, New 
 port News, Va., February, 1894, to date of retirement, September, 1895. 
 
 Robert R. L/eitch. Appointed Cadet Engineer, October, 1, 1871 ; Second 
 Assistant, January 23, 1874 ; Passed Assistant, January 15, 1879 ; " Ajax," 
 N. A Station, 1873-4 ; " Ossipee," N. A. Station, 1874-6 ; " Fortune," special 
 service, 1877-9 ; Asiatic Station, 1881-4 ; Navy Yard, Washington, 1885-7 ; 
 " Chicago," special service, 1887-91 ; Navy Yard, New York, 1891-4 ; 
 " Cincinnati," June, 1894; leave of absence, December, 1894; "Mohican," 
 January, 1894. Commissioned Chief Engineer, March, 1895 ; waiting orders, 
 December, 1895. Retired, February, 1896. 
 
 Henry Herwig. Appointed from Indiana. Assistant Engineer, Sep 
 tember 9, 1874 ; Passed Assistant, May 22, 1880 ; " Canandaigua," N. A. 
 Station, 1874-6 ; Bureau of Steam-Engineering, 1877-80 ; " Galena," Euro- 
 
 July, 1895. Retired, January, 1896. 
 
352 RECORDS OF UVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 MARINE CORPS-ACTIVE LIST. 
 
 COLONEL-COMMANDANT: 
 
 Charles Heywood. Born in Maine, 1839. Appointed from New 
 York. Commissoned as Second Lieutenant, April 5, 1858; Marine Bar 
 racks, Washington; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, September 1, 1858; on 
 duty at Staten Island during quarantine riots, September 2 to 11, 1858 ; 
 frigate " Niagara," special service, employed to take captured Africans back 
 to Africa, September 12, 1858; steamer "St. Louis," Home Squadron, 
 stationed at Greytown, looking after the filibuster Walker, December, 1858 ; 
 invalided, and sent to Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., from Aspinwall, 
 January, 1860 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, April, 1860 ; steamer " Cumber 
 land," flag-ship of Squadron of Observation, Vera Cruz, Mexico, September, 
 1860; March, 1861, " Cumberland " returned to Hampton Roads; was 
 present at the destruction of Norfolk Navy Yard. Promoted to First Lieu 
 tenant, May, 1861 ; landed with marines at Hatteras Inlet, and was present 
 at the capture of Forts Clark and Hatteras, August, 1861. Promoted to 
 Captain, November, 1861 ; was on a number of boat expeditions in the 
 James River during the winter of 1861-2 ; was on board the "Cumberland " 
 during the fight with the ram " Merrimac " and consorts, March 8, 1862, and 
 was favorably mentioned by Lieutenant Morris, commanding officer, at the 
 time, as follows : 
 
 " WASHINGTON, April 12, 1862. 
 
 " SIR. Owing to the hurried manner in which my official report to Captain Kadford 
 was made, I omitted to mention to you the gallant conduct of Lieutenant Charles Hey 
 wood, U. S. Marine Corps, whose bravery upon the occasion of the fight with the 
 Merrimac won my highest applause. May I respectfully ask that this be appended to 
 my former report ? " Very respectfully, 
 
 " Your obedient servant, 
 (Signed) " GEO. E. MORRIS, 
 
 "HoN. GIDEON WELLS." "Lieutenant-Commander." 
 
 Marine Barricks, Brooklyn. 1862 ; Recruiting Rendezvous, New York, 
 July, 1862; frigate " Sabine," special service, after the "Alabama," Sep 
 tember 5, 1862; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, April, 1863; " Ticonderoga," 
 flag-ship, West India Flying Squadron, special service, after <; Alabama," 
 June, 1863 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, October, 1863 ; applied for duty 
 on board flag-ship " Hartford," and was ordered to command the guard of 
 that vessel as Fleet Marine-Officer, West Gulf Squadron, November, 1863; 
 landed with marines of the squadron at the Pensacola Navy Yard to protect 
 government property against an apprehended attack ; was on board the flag 
 ship " Hartford " at the battle of Mobile Bay, and the capture of Forts 
 Morgan, Gaines, and Powell, ram " Tennessee," steamers " Gaines " and 
 " Selma ; " August, 1864, had command of two 9-inch guns, and was favorably 
 mentioned by Captain Drayton ; was ordered to take charge of Fort Powell 
 after its capture, and remained in command, guarding Grant s Pass, thirty 
 days; "Hartford" returned home, December, 1864; ordered to Marine 
 Barracks, Brooklyn, January, 1865 ; Recruiting Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 
 July, 1865; received brevets of Major and Lieutenant- Colonel for dis 
 tinguished gallantry in the presence of the enemy; ordered to command 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 353 
 
 marines at- Navy Yard, Washington, November, 1865 ; frigate " Franklin," 
 Admiral Farragut, European Station, as Fleet Marine-Officer, May, 1867 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Washington, January, 1869 ; ordered to command Marine 
 Barracks, Washington, April, 1869 ; ordered to command Marine Barracks, 
 Norfolk, May, 1871 ; ordered to frigate "Franklin," as Fleet Marine-Officer, 
 North Atlantic Station, December, 1873 ; January, 1874, was transferred to 
 frigate " Wabasli ; " was attached to the " Wabash " during the naval drill at 
 Key West, and had command of the Marine Battalion at all the drills on 
 shore of the men attached to the squadron ; detached from " Wabash," May, 
 1874 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, June, 1874 ; ordered to New Orleans to 
 report to Admiral Mullany as Fleet Marine-Officer, North Atlantic Station, 
 December, 1874 ; was attached to Admiral Mullany s staff during the troubles 
 in New Orleans, and in June, 1875, was ordered to command the guard of 
 the " Worcester," in addition to fleet duties; transferred to " Hartford," Jan 
 uary, 1876; detached, July, 1876; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, September, 
 1876. Promoted Major, November 1, 1876 ; ordered to command Marine 
 Barracks, Washington, December, 1876 ; July and August, 1877, had com 
 mand of a battalion of marines at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Reading, 
 Pennsylvania, during the labor riots, and was honorably mentioned by Major- 
 General Hancock, commanding division of the Atlantic. The following are 
 the copies of orders received from Major-General Hancock : 
 
 " HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE ATLANTIC, 
 
 " NEW YORK CITY, August 13, 1877. 
 " General Orders No. 46. 
 
 "The marines now at Reading, Pennsylvania, under command of Colonel Heywood, 
 when relieved by the detachment of United States artillery, ordered there for that pur 
 pose, will proceed to the Marine Barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, reporting 
 to the proper naval authorities. The Major-General Commanding desires to express his 
 high appreciation of the excellent conduct and soldierly qualities of the marines during 
 the entire period of the recent disorders. Citizens and soldiers are united in admiration 
 of the soldierly bearing, excellent discipline and devotion to duty displayed by them 
 while at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Heading. A copy of this order will be forwarded 
 to the Honorable Secretary of the Navy, that he may be informed of the valuable services 
 and arduous duties rendered by the marines while serving in the Military Division of 
 the Atlantic. 
 
 "By command of Major-General Hancock. 
 
 (Signed) "JOHN S. WHARTON, 
 Official. Captain 19th Infantry, Act g Ass t Adf t General. 
 
 (Signed) " JOHN S. WHARTON, 
 
 " Captain 19th Infantry, Aide-de-Camp. 
 
 "COLONEL HEYWOOD, U. S. Marines." 
 
 11 HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE ATLANTIC, 
 
 NEW YORK, October 26, 1877. 
 " To MAJOR CHARLES HEYWOOD, 
 
 " U. S. Marines, Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C. : 
 
 " SIR, I am directed by Major-General Hancock to furnish you with the following 
 extract from a special report made by him on the 24th inst., to the Adjutant-General of 
 the army : 
 
 " HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE ATLANTIC, 
 
 " NEW YORK CITY, October 24, 1877. 
 " To the Adjutant- General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C. : 
 
 " SIR, 
 
 * -x- * *.* * * * * * * 
 
 " While all the officers are entitled to commendation in their respective spheres, I 
 
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354 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 deem it incumbent upon me to mention the names of the following, who held com 
 mands at important points during the disturbances, and certain staff officers as well, 
 whose services were especially valuable. 
 
 " MAJOR CHARLES HEYWOOD, U. S. Marines, 
 **#******** 
 
 " Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) " WINFIELD S. HANCOCK, 
 
 11 Major-General Commanding Division. 
 
 I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
 
 (Signed) " JAMES B. FRY, 
 
 " Assistant Adjutant General." 
 
 The following is an extract from a letter from the Hon. Secretary of the 
 Navy to the Colonel Commandant, U. S. M. C., dated August 17, 1877 : 
 #*##*##*### 
 
 "This was to be expected from the well-established character of the marines, but is 
 none the less gratifying to the Department, and it desires to express through you, to both 
 officers and men, its high appreciation of them, and to assure them of its readiness to 
 co-operate in the adoption of any measures necessary to their comfort and an increase of 
 their efficiency. They are a most important arm of the national defence, and the readi 
 ness with which they have responded to the recent summons of the Department to aid 
 in the suppression of unlawful combinations of men, no less than their proficiency in 
 discipline, proves that they may be confidently relied upon whenever the public exigency 
 shall call them into active service. " Respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) " B. W. THOMPSON, 
 
 Secretary of the Navy. 
 11 COLONEL CHARLES G. MCCAWLEY, 
 
 " Commanding Marine Corps, Headquarters, D. C." 
 
 May, 1880, ordered to command Marine Barracks, Mare Island, Cal. ; 
 detached, February, 1883, and ordered to command Marine Barracks, 
 Brooklyn, N. Y. Colonel Heywood, in obedience to the following telegram, 
 organized and equipped a battalion of two hundred and fifty marines for 
 duty on the Isthmus of Panama, to open the transit and protect American 
 lives and property. 
 
 " NAVY DEPARTMENT, April 1, 1885. 
 (Telegram.) 
 
 COMMANDANT, NAVY YARD, NEW YORK : 
 
 " Every available officer and man from all the stations are ordered to report without 
 delay at Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, for service on the Isthmus of Panama. 
 
 " Detail Major Heywood, four officers, and every available man from the Colorado, 
 Minnesota, and Barracks, to join the Pacific Mail steamer in a few days, fully equipped. 
 
 " Retain guard of Omaha. Major Heywood will command the whole force. Letter 
 to-morrow. (Signed) " C. G. McCAWLEY, 
 
 " Colonel-Commandant." 
 
 Reported with battalion of two hundred and fifty men at the expiration of 
 twenty-four hours from the date of the order, and sailed for the Isthmus. 
 Arrived at Aspinwall on the night of the llth of April, 1885, and at six 
 o clock the next morning disembarked. At six o clock the same night, 
 occupied, with the entire command, the railroad company s buildings at the 
 Panama end of the line, forty-seven and a half miles distant, situated outside 
 the walls of the city of Panama, and the transit was opened. The transit 
 was kept open by a detachment on every train. Subsequently, Colonel Hey 
 wood, reinforced by the second battalion, and during the remainder of the 
 occupation by our forces, had under his command nearly eight hundred 
 marines, besides a strong detachment of sailors and artillery. Colonel Hey- 
 
RECORDS OK LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 355 
 
 wood and his command were the first to arrive and the last to leave the 
 Isthmus, which was only done when the rebel forces had surrendered and the 
 Federal authority was reinstated. 
 
 The following is a copy of a letter received from Rear- Admiral James E. 
 Jouett, commanding naval force, North Atlantic Station : 
 
 " ASPINWALL, U. S. C., May 22, 1885. 
 " COLONEL CHARLES HEYWOOD, U. S. M. C., 
 
 " Commanding Marine Battalion, Isthmus of Panama. 
 "SiR, 
 x-*-*****-**** 
 
 " Your departure from the Isthmus with your command gives m/t occasion to express 
 my Ingl) estimation of the Marine Battalion. You and your battalion came from home 
 at the first sound of alarm, and you have done hard and honest work. The Marine 
 Battalion has been constantly at the front, where danger and disease were sure to come, 
 first and always. When a conflict has seemed imminent, I have relied with most implicit 
 confidence on that body of tried soldiers. No conflict has come, but I am well aware how 
 nobly and steadily through weary and anxious nights, exposed to a deadly climate, the 
 marines have guarded our country s interest. 
 
 " Please communicate to your command my grateful acknowledgment of their faithful 
 service on the Isthmus of Panama, and accept my sincere thanks for your earnest and 
 valuable assistance. (Signed) " J. E. JOUETT, 
 
 Rear- Admiral Commanding. 
 
 Commanding Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C., March, 1888, to Jan 
 uary, 1891. Promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel, March 9, 1888. Appointed 
 Colonel- Commandant of U. S. Marine Corps, January 30, 1891. 
 
 GENERAL STAFF. 
 
 Green Clay Goodloe. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, April 21, 
 1869 ; First Lieutenant, January 12, 1876 ; Major and Paymaster, March 17, 
 1877. Ordered to Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C., April, 1869; to 
 Fort Myer, October, 1869, for instructions in Army Code of Signals. After 
 finishing course, ordered to Brooklyn, N. Y., as instructor; March 7, 1871, 
 attached to Post ; detached March 24, 1871, and ordered to Annapolis, Md. ; 
 detached May 15, 1871, and joined U. S. S. " Wachusett," June 1, 1871; 
 detached after full cruise of three years, and ordered to Barracks, Headquar 
 ters ; ordered Navy Yard, January 2, 1875; March 15, to U. S. S. "Michi 
 gan ; " detached December 18, 1876, and ordered to Barracks, Headquarters. 
 Stationed at Washington, D. C., to present date, 1898. 
 
 George C. Reid. Born in Ohio. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, 
 July 2, 1864; Headquarters, 1864-6; steam-sloop " Monongahela," W.I. 
 Squadron, 1867. Appointed Aide-de camp to Commandant, 1867 ; Head 
 quarters, 1867-76. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 1869 ; flag-ship 
 "Trenton," European Station, 1877-8 ; steamer "Marion," 1878-9; Marine 
 Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1881 ; k Vandalia," 1882-4 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Boston. 1884-5; Panama Expedition, April and May, 1885 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Boston, 1885-7. Promoted Captain, April 2, 1884; Marine Barracks, 
 Washington, 1888-9 ; " Chicago," Squadron of Evolution, 1889-92 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, 1892-94. Promoted to Adjutant and In 
 spector with the rank of Major May, 1894; Headquarters Marine Barracks, 
 Washington, May, 1894, to date, June, 1898. 
 
 Frank Lee Denny. Born in and appointed from Indiana. Commis 
 sioned as Second Lieutenant, June 16, 1880 ; Marine Barracks, New York 
 and Annapolis, 1880-1 ; U. S. steamer, " Quinnebaug," European Station, 
 1881-4 ; with detachment United States forces on shore at Alexandria, Egypt, 
 
356 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 July 14 to 24, 1882 ; commanded marines of detachment, July 15 to 24; 
 special mention for services with detachment in communication from Govern 
 ment of Norway and Sweden to U. S. State and Navy Departments; Marine 
 Barracks, Portsmouth, 1884-5. Promoted to First Lieutenant, December 23, 
 1884; with United States forces on Isthmus of Panama, 1885; commanded 
 Post San Pablo, Isthmus, five days ; special mention in report of commanding 
 officer of Expedition ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, 1886-7 ; 
 U. S. steamer u Boston," 1887-9 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1890 ; special 
 duty, Judge-Advocate General s Office, 1890-2. Commissioned Assistant 
 Quartermaster, with rank of Captain, February 26, 1892 ; Office Assistant 
 Quartermaster, Headquarters Marine Corps, March 23, 1892-8. Commis 
 sioned Major, June, 1897. 
 
 Thomas C. Prince. Cadet Midshipman, June, 1878, to August, 1882 ; 
 Naval Cadet, August, 1882, to June, 1883 ; Second Lieutenant, July, 1884 ; 
 First Lieutenant, February, 1891 ; Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, 
 June, 1897. 
 
 Charles L. McCawley. Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, June, 
 1897. Captain McCawley is a son of the late Colonel Charles McCawley, 
 former Commandant of the Marine Corps. Captain McCawley had served 
 for many years as chief clerk in the Commandant s office, and his appoint 
 ment was a graceful recognition by President McKinley of his distinguished 
 father s services to the country. Upon the declaration of war against Spain 
 Captain McCawley requested active service, and is at this date serving as 
 Quartermaster with the marines under Lieutenant-Colonel Huntington, at 
 Camp McCalla, Cuba. 
 
 COLONEL. 
 
 James Forney. Born in Pennsylvania. Commissioned Second Lieuten 
 ant, March 1, 1861; flag-ship Roanoke," Atlantic Squadron, 1861. First 
 Lieutenant, September, 1861. October, 1861, commanding Marine Barracks, 
 Washington, D. C. ; November, 1861, commanding Marine Barracks, Ports 
 mouth, N. H. ; steam-sloop "Brooklyn," West Gulf Squadron, 1861-2, and 
 part of 1863 ; participated in the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 
 and the city of New Orleans ; official reports of that time state that Lieuten 
 ant James Forney, commanding marines, had two guns assigned him, and, 
 with his men, fought most gallantly. He was brevetted a Captain for gallant 
 and meritorious service at the attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 
 24, 1862 ; while attached to the West Gulf Squadron he was in the battles of 
 Chalmette, Port Hudson, Grand Gulf, first and second attacks on Vicksburg, 
 Donaldsonville, Bayou Sara, Galveston, Texas, February 24, 1863 ; at Brazos 
 de Santiago cut out and captured four vessels laden with valuable drugs 
 from under the rebel batteries. Commissioned Captain, April 23, 1864; July, 
 1864, commanded troops, both regular and volunteer, at Havre de Grace, 
 Md. In this connection, General French reports as follows : 
 
 ..." The army of the Confederates, under Jubal Early, was at the gates of Washing 
 ton ; communication with the Northern cities was cut off; Gilmore s cavalry had captured 
 a passenger train (made prisoner of General Franklin), and then destroyed it, and burned 
 the bridge over Gunpowder Eiver. The city of Philadelphia was full of the gloomiest 
 reports, and a feeling of depression which culminated when a rumor prevailed that 
 Washington had fallen. The War Department shared in these fears, and, by telegraph, 
 all the available troops at the West were ordered to assemble at Havre de Grace, Md. 
 At the same time a dispatch requested me to assume command of them. In less than 
 eight hours time three thousand men had reported of all arms of the service. Captain 
 F. was the first on the ground, with a splendid battalion of troops of the Marine Corps, 
 and eight field-howitzers. These troops were at once advanced ; a part covered the recon- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 357 
 
 structions of the bridges, aiid others were made to demonstrate upon the rebel rear and 
 flanks preparatory to an advance. The same day the travel through to Baltimore was 
 opened. Early, threatened in every direction, fell back. . . . For this duty received the 
 brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel, for meritorious services in defeating a rebel raid at Gunpow 
 der River in July, 18t>4; flag-ship Hartford, Fleet Marine Officer, Asiatic Squadron, 
 1865-8 ; while attached to the Hartford/ commanded marines in the attack on the Island 
 of Formosa; this tight was an unusually severe and exhausting one, owing to the climate 
 and the nature of the ground. For this engagement he was brevetted a Major for gallant 
 and meritorious services in the action with the savages at Formosa, June 13, 1867 ; Octo 
 ber 11, 1870 commanded the marines in the colored riots at Philadelphia, in enforcing 
 the Fifteenth Amendment, being the first vote of the colored people." 
 
 In 1869, commanded the troops while aiding the reven/ue officers in break 
 ing up the whiskey distilleries in the city of Philadelphia ; from June 10, 
 1872, and part of 1878, in Europe on special duty; September, 1873, U. S. 
 frigate "Minnesota;" from December, 1874-6, Fleet Marine Officer, North 
 Pacific Squadron ; August, 1876, commanding marines, League Island ; Feb 
 ruary 11, 1877-8, commanding marines, Norfolk, Va. ; during summer of 
 1877, commanded Second Battalion Marines during the labor riots; on his 
 return he and his command were complimented in general orders by the 
 Honorable Secretary of the Navy and General Hancock ; while at Norfolk, 
 in 1887, was the first officer commanding regular troops to participate in the 
 Southern Memorial Day and decorate the graves of men of the South who 
 fell in the War of the Rebellion ; in 1879, graduated at Torpedo School, New 
 port, R. I.; in 1879-81, commanded Recruiting Rendezvous at Philadelphia ; 
 September, 1882, commanded marines while in camp at Mount Vernon Bar 
 racks, Alabama, and afterwards at Pensacola Navy Yard ; in 1883, com 
 manded marines for a short time on receiving-ship " Colorado." February 
 24, 1884, commissioned Major. In 1885-87, commanded marines at Nor 
 folk, Va. ; during the Panama Expedition of this period conveyed marines 
 of the barracks and training-ships in the U. S. S. " Despatch," from Norfolk 
 to New York ; part of 1887-8 commanded marines at League Island, Phila. ; 
 commanded marines at Mare Island Navy Yard, June, 1888, to November, 
 1892 Commissioned Lieutenant- Colonel, January 30. 1891. Commissioned 
 Colonel, July 11, 1892; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, New York, Novem 
 ber, 1892-96 ; commanding Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., in 1896-7 ; 
 commanding Marine Barracks. League Island, Phila., 1897, to present date, 
 June, 1898. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 Robert W. Huntington. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, 1861 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Washington, 1861 ; attached to Marine Battalion at bat 
 tle of Bull Run ; served in Marine Battalion, co-operating with South 
 Atlantic Squadron, 1861-2; sloop "Jamestown," East India Squadron, 
 1862-5. Commissioned as Captain, June 21, 1864; Marine Barracks, 
 Brooklyn, 1866; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1866-7; Marine Barracks, 
 Gosport, 1867; Headquarters, 1867-8; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1868-9 ; 
 "Lancaster," flag-ship. South Atlantic Squadron, 1870-2 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Portsmouth, 1873-4 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1875 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Portsmouth, 1875-6 ; commanding marines at League Island, 1876; 
 Fleet Marine-Officer, North Pacific Station, 1876-9 ; Marine Barracks, An 
 napolis, 1879-83; Marine Barracks, Boston, Mass., 1883; commanding 
 Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Va., 1884; Panama Expedition, April and 
 May, 1885; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Va,, 1885; commanding Marine 
 Barracks, Annapolis, 1885-7; "Trenton," special service, 1887-9. Pro- 
 
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 moted Major, October 24, 1889 ; commanding Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 
 1889-92. Promoted to Lieutenant- Colonel, February, 1897 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Navy Yard, Norfolk, 1892-7 ; commanding Marine Barracks, Navy 
 Yard, New York, February, 1898 ; in April, 1898, designated to command 
 the battalion of marines ordered to sail in the " Panther " for Key West, 
 for duty in connection with the N. A, Squadron. At this date (June, 1898) 
 the marines under Lieutenant-Colonel Huntington, are at Camp McCalla, 
 Cuba, having had the honor of making the first landing in Cuba some days 
 in advance of the army. For a week after the landing this little force of 
 marines were almost constantly engaged with the Spaniards, the men show 
 ing the coolness and nerve of veterans, and winning for Col. Huntington 
 and their distinguished corps, the applause of the whole country. 
 
 P. C. Pope. Born in Massachusetts. Appointed from New Hamp 
 shire, Captain s Clerk, United States Navy ; attached to steam-sloop " Rich- 
 mond," 1861 ; in the engagements at the Passes of the Mississippi River, 
 October 12 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 Bar 
 racks, Charlestown, Mass., 1862; Marine Battalion, South Carolina, 1862; 
 Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1862 ; steam-frigate " Powhatan," 
 1862-4 ; South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, and West India Squadron, 
 with a battalion of marines on Morris Island, July, 1863 ; in the engage 
 ments with and capture of Forts Moultrie and Bee, August, 1863, with 
 Captain Steedman, U. S. N., on the monitor fleet. Brevetted Captain for 
 gallant and meritorious services in action, September 8, 1863 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Charlestown, Mass., 1864-7 ; steam sloop " Monongahela " West India 
 Squadron, 1867; steam-frigate "Susquehanna," flag-ship, West India, 
 Squadron, 1867-8 ; steam-sloop " Monongahela," West India Squadron, 
 1868; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1868; Marine Barracks, Charles- 
 town, Mass., 1868-70. Commissioned as Captain, April 12, 1870 ; Pacific 
 Fleet, 1870-3 ; while attached to the Pacific Fleet, volunteered and took 
 charge of a boat s crew, and went on board of an Italian ship (which was 
 on fire) loaded with a cargo of petroleum, and the crew deserted, fearing an 
 explosion ; received a letter of thanks from the Italian government for ser 
 vices rendered on the occasion, and the following letter from the admiral 
 commanding the squadron : "It affords me much gratification to transmit to 
 you a copy of a letter from the Italian minister, at Washington, to the 
 Department of State, conveying the thanks of the Italian government to 
 yourself and other officers, for gallant and skillful services rendered on the 
 occasion of a fire on board of the Italian bark Delaide, in the port of 
 Callao, on June 25, 1873. I will take this occasion to add, that no more 
 agreeable duty can ever fall to the lot of a true naval or marine officer 
 than that of relieving those who may be in imminent danger of shipwreck 
 and destruction, to whatever nation they may belong ; under such circum 
 stances, the genuine man, of whatever profession he may be, knows no nation 
 ality ; to him, all belong to the same family. These sentiments seem to have 
 actuated you, in your spirited behavior upon the occasion of the fire on board 
 of the Italian bark Delaide. " Recruiting Rendezvous, Boston, Mass., 
 1874-5 ; Marine Barracks, Plymouth, N. H., 1875 ; Marine Barracks, Charles- 
 town, Mass., 1875-9 ; U. S. flag-ship " Trenton," European Fleet, 1878-81 ; 
 member of Board of Inspection, 1882 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 
 1883-6 ; command of Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., 
 1886-90. While in command of the marines at said Navy Yard received 
 
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 several letters of commendation from the commandant of the station for the 
 efficiency of the Marine Guard, etc. ; recruiting service, Boston, 1890-1. 
 Commissioned Major, February 2, 1891 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, 
 Boston, July, 1892-94; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Mare Island, June 
 1894-98; Marine Barracks, Boston, March, 1898, to present date, June, 
 1898. Commissioned Lieutenant- Colonel, June, 1898. 
 
 Robert L. Meade. Born in District of Columbia. Appointed from 
 Tennessee. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, June 14, 1862; Marine 
 Barracks, Gosport, 1862 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1862-3 ; had com 
 mand of a Company of Marines on duty in the city of New York during the 
 eight days riot in that city in July, 1863 ; S. A. Blockadyng Squadron, 1863 ; 
 taken prisoner, September 7, 1863, in the night attack on Fort Sumter ; bre- 
 vetted First Lieutenant for gallant and meritorious services. Commissioned 
 as First Lieutenant, April 2, 1864; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1864-5; 
 steam-sloop " Shenandoah," Asiatic Squadron, 1865-69 ; Navy Yard, Phila 
 delphia, 1869-72 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1873 ; " Michigan," on the 
 lakes, 1873-4; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1875-8. Commissioned as Cap 
 tain, 1876 ; Fleet-Marine-Officer, S. A. Station, 1877-9 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Brooklyn, 1879-82 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1883-5 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Brooklyn, 1885 ; Marine Barracks, Pensacola, 1885 ; Expedition to Panama, 
 April and May, 1885 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1886-7 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Boston, Mass., 1887-8; "Richmond," S. A. Station, 1888-90 ; Com 
 manding Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, 1890-2. Commissioned 
 Major, September 6, 1892 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, League Island, 
 Pa., 1892 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1894, to 1897 ; Marine Barracks, Navy 
 Yard, Portsmouth, December, 1897, to 1898; April, 1898, U. S. S. "New 
 York," to date, June, 1898. 
 
 Charles F. Williams Born in Connecticut. Commissioned as Second 
 Lieutenant, June 14, 1862 ; steam-frigate " Minnesota," flag-ship, North 
 Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862-3. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 
 June 10, 1864; steam-sloop " Ticonderoga," North Atlantic Blockading 
 Squadron, 1864-5, cruising in search of the "Florida" during the greater 
 portion of 1864, and then joining the N. A. Squadron until after the capture 
 of Fort Fisher, then to the South Atlantic, operating against Charleston, S. 
 C., capturing Georgetown, S. C., and garrisoning Fort White on Winyah 
 Bay, the marines of the " Ticonderoga " forming part of the battalion on 
 shore ; detached from the " Ticonderoga," April, 1865 ; battle of Fort Fisher 
 etc. ; brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious service ; Marine Bar- 
 
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 1876-7; Navy Yard, Norfolk. 1878 ; Fleet Marine-Officer, Pacific Station, 
 1878-81; Marine H arracks, Washington, 1881-3 ; Marine Barracks, Mare 
 Island, California, 1883-8; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1888-90; Phila 
 delphia, N. A. Station, 1890-2 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, New York, 
 1892-4 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, League Island, January, 1894-5 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Naval Station, Newport, March, 1895-6; Marine Bar 
 racks, Navy Yard, League Island, February, 1896-7. Commissioned Major, 
 February, 1897 ; Marine Barracks, Naval Academy, March, 1897-8 ; April, 
 1898, Marine Barracks, Mare Island, California, to date, May, 1898. 
 
 Henry Clay Cochrane. Born in Chester, Pa. Appointed from Penn 
 sylvania ; examined for Marine Corps, August 29, 1861 ; appointed Second 
 Lieutenant, accepted, and sworn in, August 30 ; but lacking the required 
 
360 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 age, could not be commissioned ; volunteered for duty in the navy until of 
 age, and served as an Acting Master s Mate from September 7, 1861 ; joined 
 receiving-ship " North Carolina," New York, for instruction in gunnery ; 
 transferred to steam-gunboat " Pembina," October, 1861, and was in Dupont. 
 Expedition and battle of Port Royal, November 7, 1861 ; at capture of 
 Beaufort, S. C., November 10 ; St. Helena Sound, November 1 ; Tybee 
 Island, December 10 ; battle of Port Royal Ferry, January 1, 1862 ; in ac 
 tion with Thunderbolt Battery, Warsaw Sound ; in expedition to Cumber 
 land Sound, Ga., and St. John s River, Fla., and capture of Fernandina and 
 Jacksonville, March, 1862; in operations on Stono River, S C., June, 1862; 
 and on blockade of Charleston and Savannah, 1861-2 ; served on the 
 " Pembina" in West Gulf Squadron, Admiral Farragut, winter, 1862-3 ; in 
 the pursuit of the rebel steamer, " Oreto " (" Florida "), January 15, 1863 ; 
 commended by his commanding officer for " coolness and courage " in action 
 with rebel shore batteries near Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay. Appointed 
 Second Lieutenant, confirmed, March 10, 1863, while on blockade oft 1 Mobile ; 
 ordered to Headquarters of Marine Corps, and joined, May, 1863 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Cairo and Mound City, 111., 1864 ; sent by Admiral Porter on 
 expedition to suppress smuggling of contraband goods into Kentucky ; 
 commended by commanding officer (Col. Broome) for " remarkable service " 
 and "great courage and energy" in recapturing escaped desperadoes under 
 sentence of court-martial; special duty, Chattanooga, Term., Milwaukee, 
 Wis., and New Orleans, La ; command of marines, Mississippi Squadron, 
 and Judge- Advocate duty, flag-ships " Black Hawk " and " Tempest," 1865 ; 
 total loss of his effects by destruction of " Black Hawk " by fire, April 22, 
 1865; commended by Admiral Lee "for arduous and special duty" while 
 under his command. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, August 20, 1865; Head 
 quarters, Marine Corps, 1865-6 ; in charge of rebel Admiral Raphael Semmes, 
 prisoner of war, January to April 4, 1866 ; recruiting duty, Chicago, May, 
 1866 ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1866-7 ; took fifty marines six miles 
 at midnight, December 16, 1866, to the burning "New Ironsides," and led 
 the firemen over the side twice in efforts to save the ship ; receiving-ships 
 "Potomac" and Constellation," Philadelphia, 1867-8, during which time, 
 for fidelity to duty during a terrible epidemic of Asiatic cholera (October, 
 1867), was commended by General Zeilin commandant of the Marine Corps: 
 " The moral courage displayed by yourself and command is as praiseworthy as 
 the most conspicuous gallantry on the field of battle : " steamer " Saranac," 
 North Pacific Squadron, 1868-9 ; recruiting duty, San Francisco, December- 
 January; sloop "Jamestown," Pacific Fleet, cruising in Polynesia, 1869-71 ; 
 counsel for Geo. R. Burt, citizen of United States, in a suit for $50,000 (gold), 
 indemnity from Thakombau, king of the Fijii Islands, Nov., 1869 ; by order 
 of superior authority, took an armed force on shore, assailed the United States 
 Consulate at Honolulu, and half-masted the flag on the occasion of Queen 
 Kalama s death, September 21, 1870, a proceeding much deplored ; returned 
 to the United States from Valparaiso, July, 1871; Marine Barracks, Phila 
 delphia, 1871-2 ; recruiting duty, Patterson and Newark, N. J., Wilmington, 
 Del., and Philadelphia, 1872 ; placed at head of grade of First Lieutenants 
 of Marine Corps by Secretary of the Navy, March 11, 1873 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Brooklyn, and Recruiting Rendezvous, Richmond, Va. (first after the 
 Rebellion), and Baltimore, Md., 1873 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 1874-5 ; 
 Judge- Advocate first general court-martial of naval cadets under the "haz 
 ing law," October, 1875 ; steam-sloop " Plymouth," North Atlantic, West 
 Indies, and Centennial Exposition 1875-8 ; memorable cruise of " Ply- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 361 
 
 mouth," five hundred miles up the Mississippi River to Vicksburg, spring of 
 1877 ; command of United States Arsenal, Washington, D. C., July, 1877, 
 during " the labor riots ; " League Island Navy Yard, 1878-9. Commissioned 
 as Captain, March 16, 1879 ; historian of " The Navy and Marine Corps in 
 the Labor Riots of 1877 " (see United Service Quarterly, 1879) ; Judge Ad 
 vocate Court of Inquiry to investigate grounding of " Constitution " on 
 English Coast, while returning from the Paris Exposition ; Marine Barracks, 
 Brooklyn, 1879 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1880 ; Companion Military 
 Order Loyal Legion, United States, 1867; Fellow American Geographical 
 Society, 1874 ; commanding Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1880 ; flag-ship 
 "Lancaster" and Fleet Marine-Officer, European Station^ 1881-4; at bom 
 bardment of Alexandria, Egypt, by British fleet, July, 1882, and landed 
 with seventy marines to assist in suppressing arson and pillage and to re 
 establish the United States Consulate. At coronation of Alexander III., at 
 Moscow, May, 1883 ; commanded company in expedition from New York to 
 restore order on Isthmus of Panama, and protect transit, 1885; rebuilt and 
 commanded Marine Barracks, Pensacola, 1886-9 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 
 and command detachment sent to Universal Exposition, Paris, with United 
 States Commission, 1889 ; accompanied by American Minister Reid, Commis 
 sioner-General Franklin, the United States Consul-General, the French Sen 
 ator Lafayette, last of his line, and a large delegation of French and American 
 citizens, decorated with flowers and saluted with rifles the grave of the Marquis 
 de Lafayette, July 4, introducing the custom of the Grand Army of the Re 
 public into France ; received gold medal and letter of thanks from American 
 exhibitors, diploma of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor from the President 
 of France, and complimented in general order upon return : 
 
 " HEADQUARTERS U. S. MARINE CORPS, 
 
 " WASHINGTON, D. C., January 10, 1890. 
 
 " It is with great pleasure that the following letters of General W. B. Franklin, Com 
 missioner-General of the United States to the Universal Exposition of 1889, at Paris, 
 and the Hon. Secretary of the Navy, referring to the soldierly bearing and excellent 
 conduct of the detachment of marines lately on duty at that Exposition, are published to 
 the officers and enlisted men of U. S. Marine Corps. 
 
 "C. G. McCAWLEY, Colonel Commandant" 
 
 " NAVY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, 
 
 1 January 9, 1890. 
 
 "SiR, The Department takes pleasure in enclosing a copy of a communication, ad 
 dressed to it under date of the 3d instant, by the Secretary of State, accompanied by 
 copy of a letter from General W. B. Franklin, Commissioner-General to the Paris Ex 
 position, commendatory of the detachment of marines at the Paris Exposition. 
 
 "Very respectfully, 
 
 " (Signed) B. F. TRACY, 
 
 " Secretary of Narry. 
 " Colonel C. G. MCCAWLEY, 
 
 " Commandant Marine Corps, Headquarters. 1 
 
 "OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER-GENERAL, 
 " PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1889, 
 
 "HARTFORD, CONN., December 28, 1889. 
 
 " SIR, I have been officially informed that the detachment of United States Marines 
 under the command of Captain Henry Clay Coclirane, U. S. Marine Corps, assisted by 
 Lieutenant P. St. C. Murphy, of the same corps, which you were so kind as to detail for 
 service at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, has returned to the United States ar 
 riving at New York on the 24th instant. I make the following statement concerning 
 them: 
 
 " Their behavior during the Exposition and after its close was in all respects what it 
 
362 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 ought to have been ; they were admirable in discipline ; their conduct was irreproach 
 able ; their performance of duty was excellent. 
 
 " Their soldierly bearing and military appearance were far ahead in these qualities 
 of any troops which I saw at the Exposition or in Paris. When they appeared as a body 
 they were enthusiastically received, and it was the unanimous opinion, not only of those 
 connected with the U. S. Commission, but of the citizens of the United States who visited 
 the Exposition, that their presence added dignity to the United States exhibit, and that 
 they did honor to their country and their flag. 
 
 " Captain Cochrane and Lieutenant Murphy not only performed their duties admira 
 bly as the officers of the detachment, but were of great assistance to me in various other 
 duties that theywere kind enough to undertake. 
 
 The French autho ities of the War Department were very kind in their reception of 
 them, and in transporting them and in furnishing their quarters in the barracks of the 
 Ecole Militaire with French troops. In fact all French troops treated them as com 
 rades, and the relations between these soldiers and them were of the pleasantest kind. 
 
 "Dr. J. A. Toner, a citizen of the United States, resident in Paris, and medical at 
 tach^ of the U. S. Commission attended the detachment professionally without compen 
 sation. It gives me pleasure to acknowledge his efficient and patriotic service. 
 
 "I thank you for having given me the opportunity of close acquaintance with such 
 excellent troops. 
 
 " Respectfully yours, 
 " (Signed) W. B. FRANKLIN, 
 
 " U. S- Commissioner-General. 
 
 "HoN. B. F. TRACY, 
 
 "Secretary of the Navy, 
 
 " Washington, D. C. 
 
 " Through Department of State. " 
 
 Marine Barracks, League Island, 1890 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, 
 Cal., 1890-1 ; command of detachment of marines on steamer " Al-ki," at 
 Onnalaska and Sitka for maintenance of morbus vivendi with Great Britain, 
 and suppression of pelagic sealing in Behring Sea, 1891 ; returned to Mare 
 Island, flagship " Philadelphia," and Fleet Marine-Officer Pacific Station, 
 1894-6 ; orator at joint celebration of the Independence of the United States 
 and proclamation of the Republic of Hawaii, at Honolulu, July 4, 1894 ; 
 letter of thanks from President Dole the following year for services to the 
 Hawaiian people, and particularly to the lepers of Molokai ; commanding 
 Marine Barracks, Newport, R. I., and at Naval War College, 1896-8. 
 Promoted Major, February 1, 1898 ; at this date Major Cochrane is serving 
 with the Marine Battalion in Cuba, where he is ably seconding his gallant 
 commander, Lieutenant-Colonel Huntington, winning new renown for his 
 corps. 
 
 William S. Muse. Appointed Second Lieutenant, March 18, 1864; 
 sloop "St. Mary s," Pacific Fleet, 1864-6; Marine Barracks, Washington, 
 1866-9 Commissioned as First Lieutenant, April 27, 1867 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Annapolis, 1870 ; " Brooklyn," European Fleet, 1870-2; Marine Bar 
 racks, Washington, 1873 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 1876-8 ; special duty, 
 Fort Monroe, Va., 1878-80. Promoted to Captain, December 21, 1880 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 1881 ; Fleet Marine-Officer, N. A. Station, 
 1881-4; Marine Barracks, Washington, D. C., 1884-5; Marine Barracks, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1885; Panama Expedition, April and May, 1885; Marine 
 Barracks, Norfolk, 1885-7 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1887-8 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Mare Island, 1888-9 ; "San Francisco," Special Service Squadron, 
 1890-93 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, lcS93; Naval Station, Newport, March, 
 1894; Marine Barracks, League Island, March, 1895; Marine Barracks, 
 Norfolk, June, 1896, to June, 1898. Promoted to Major, June, 1898. 
 
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 CAPTAINS. 
 
 James M. T. Young. Born in New York. Appointed from Maryland. 
 Commissioned Second Lieutenant, July 2, 1864; Headquarters, 1864-5 ; Ma 
 rine Barracks, Pensacola, Fla., 1865-6 ; Headquarters, 1866 ; steam-sloop 
 " Pawnee," 1867-9. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, August 8, 1868 ; sig 
 nal duty at Fort Whipple, Va., 1869 ; instruction of signals, Navy Yard, 
 Boston, Mass., and Portsmouth, N. H., 1870 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 
 1870-3; " Powhatan," special duty, 1873-5; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 
 1875-8; steamer " Wyoming," 1878-81 ; Marine Barrack^ Annapolis, 1881 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Mare Island, 1882-3, in temporary command four months; 
 Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa., 1883-4. Commissioned Captain, Feb 
 ruary 24, 1884 ; " Tennessee," Fleet Marine-Officer, N. A. Squadron, 1884-7, 
 and commanded squadron battalion of marines during trouble on Isthmus of 
 Panama, 1885 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 1887 to 1896 ; in command 
 three months in 1888 ; Marine Barracks, Sitka, Alaska, August, 1896, to 
 date, June, 1898. 
 
 Erastus R. Robinson. Born in New York. Enlisted as a private in 
 First Michigan Volunteer Infantry, 1861 ; Sergeant, January, 1862; Second 
 Lieutenant, April 28, 1862; First Lieutenant, August 30, 1862; Aide-de 
 camp to Major-General John C. Robinson, Army of the Potomac, 1862-4. 
 Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, in Marine Corps, July 2, 1864 ; Head 
 quarters, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, 1865 ; " Saranac," Pacific 
 Squadron, 1866-7 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1868 ; steamer " Seminole," 
 N. A. Station, 1869-70. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, September 28, 
 1869 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1870-1 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 
 1871-3 ; U. S. S. " Franklin," N. A. Station, 1873; U. S. S. " Brooklyn," 
 N. A. and S. A. Stations, 1874-5 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1875-8 ; 
 steamer " Vandalia," N. A. Station, 1879-82 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 
 1882-5. Commissioned as Captain, December 23, 1884 ; U. S S. " Pensa 
 cola," European Station, 1885-8 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1888-92 ; 
 Recruiting Rendezvous, New York, 1892-4 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, 
 Washington, June, 1894, to 1898; May, 1898, U. S. S. "San Francisco," to 
 date, June, 1898. 
 
 Francis H. Harrington. Born in District of Columbia. Commis 
 sioned as Second Lieutenant, December 8, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Washing 
 ton, 1864-5 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, 1865-7 ; " Kearsarge," Pacific 
 Fleet, 1867-70. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 1869 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Washington, 1871 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1872 ; " Juniata," European 
 Station, 1873-6; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1876-80; Marine Barracks, 
 Navy Yard, D. C., 1881 ; training-ship "Saratoga," 1881-3 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Washington, D. C., 1883-5 ; Panama Expedition, April and May, 
 1885 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1885-7. Promoted Captain, May 4, 
 1885; "Pinta," 1889-92; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Boston, 1892 to 
 1896 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1). C., 1896, to June, 1898. 
 
 Mancil C. Goodrell. Born in Ohio. Enlisted in " B." Co., 15th Iowa 
 Volunteer Infantry, January 29, 1862 ; served in Army of Tennessee from 
 March 1, 1862, until March 26, 1865 ; participated in the following battles, 
 sieges, campaigns and expeditions: battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862; 
 siege of Corinth ; battle of luka, September 19, 1862 ; battle of Corinth, 
 October 3 and 4, 1862 ; General Grant s campaign through central Missis 
 sippi, November and December, 1862 ; siege of Vicksburg ; expedition to 
 
364 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Monroe, La., August 1863 ; General Sherman s raid to Meridian, Miss., Jan 
 uary and February, 1864; re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer, January 30, 
 1864; Atlanta campaign, skirmishing almost daily from May until Septem 
 ber ; assault on enemy s works, July 21 ; battles of July 22 and 28, in front 
 of Atlanta; engagements at Jonesborough and Lovejoy Stations, August, 
 1864 ; pursuit of Hood s Army through Georgia and Northern Alabama, 
 September and October, 1864 ; from thence on the march to the sea, from 
 Savannah, Georgia, to Port Royal and Pocataligo, S C , the 15th Iowa cap 
 turing the latter place in skirmish line, losing a number of officers and men ; 
 thence through the Carolinas to Goldsboro, engaging in a number of unim 
 portant skirmishes, and the battle of Bentonville. Appointed Second Lieu 
 tenant in Marine Corps, to date from March 9, 1865 ; accepted April 23 ; 
 Marine Barracks, D. C., 1865-7 ; steamers " Franklin " and " Ticonderoga," 
 European Station, 1867-69 ; Marine Barracks, D. C., 1869 ; Darien Expe 
 dition under Commander Selfridge, 1870; Navv Yard, D. C., 1870-73; 
 steamer "Frolic" and monitor "Roanoke," 1873-5; Navy Yard, D. C., 
 1875-8; training-ship " Saratoga," 1878-81 ; Navy Yard, D. C., 1881-83 ; 
 steamer "Swatara," 1883-5; Navy Yards, Annapolis, Md., Portsmouth, N. 
 H., New York and Norfolk, Va., 1886-9 ; ship " Pensacola," Eclipse Expe 
 dition, coast of Africa ; S. A. S. and Pacific Station, 1889-92 ; recruiting, 
 New York, 1894-5 ; Inspector of Rifle Practice, Headquarters, Marine Corps, 
 1895-8; Major Goodrell is at this date performing gallant service as Fleet- 
 Marine Officer of the North Atlantic Squadron. 
 
 Carlile P. Porter. Born in District of Columbia. Commissioned as 
 Second Lieutenant, December 20, 1866 ; Naval Barracks, Washington, 1867- 
 71; "Plymouth," European Station, 1871-2; Naval Barracks, Washing 
 ton, 1872-5. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 1873 ; steam-sloop " Swatara," 
 N. A. Station, 1875-8 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, D. C., 1875-81 ; 
 training-ship " Portsmouth," 1881-4 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1884-6 ; 
 steamer " Lancaster," 1887-9. Promoted Captain, August 16, 1889 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Navy Yard, D. C., 1889-90; member Board of Inspection and 
 Survey, 1890-93 ; waiting orders, December, 1893 ; Marine Barracks, Nor 
 folk, March, 1894; waiting orders, November, 1894; U. S. S. " Newark," 
 May, 1895 ; U. S. S. "Lancaster," July, 1895 ; leave of absence, December, 
 1897 ; Marine Barracks, New York, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 Allen C. Kelton. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 31,1869; Marine Bar 
 racks, Boston, 1869-70 ; European Fleet, 1870-3 ; Marine Barracks, Phila 
 delphia, 1873-5. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 187 4 ; " Powhatan," 
 N. A. Station, 1875-7 ; Naval Academy, 1877-8 ; Marine Barracks, League 
 Island, 1879-81 ; steamer " Alaska," 1881-3 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 
 1884-5; Panama Expedition, April and May, 1885; steamer "Alliance," 
 1886-9 ; Marine Barracks, League Island, 1889-90 ; Marine Barracks, Navy 
 Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1890-3. Commissioned Captain, June 18, 1890 ; 
 "San Francisco," S. A. Station, 1893-6; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, 
 Boston, December, 1896, to April, 1898 ; at this date serving with Marine 
 Battalion in Cuba. 
 
 Richard Wallach. Born in the District of Columbia. Appointed from 
 Pennsylvania. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, April 24, 1869 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Norfolk, 1869-70 ; " Narragansett," Pacific Fleet, 1870-1 ; " Sara- 
 nac," Pacific Fleet, 1871-3 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1874-8. Commis 
 sioned as First Lieutenant, 1876 ; training-ship " Constitution," 1878 ; steamer 
 " Trenton," 1879-81 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Va., 1882-4 ; training-ship 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 365 
 
 "Portsmouth," 1884-6; Panama Expedition, April and May, 1885; Marine 
 Barracks, Brooklyn, 1887-90; "Lancaster," Asiatic Station, November, 
 1890-92. Commissioned Captain, January 30, 1891 ; Marine Barracks, New 
 York, 1 893-4 ; Naval War College, May, 1894 ; U. S. S. " Indiana," Novem 
 ber, 1895 ; U. S. S. " New York," 1895-8 ; Naval Hospital, New York, Feb 
 ruary, 1898, to date. 
 
 Benjamin R. Russell. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Penn 
 sylvania. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, October 16, 1869 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Washington, 1869-70 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1870-1 ; 
 frigate " Wabash," European Station, 1871-2; "Shenandoah," European 
 Fleet, 1871-3; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1874-6. .Commissioned as 
 First Lieutenant, 1876; receiving-ship "Worcester," 187^-7; Marine Bar 
 racks, Washington, 1877-8; Adjutant of Marine Battalion during the labor 
 riots of 1877 ; special duty at Paris Exposition, 1877-8 ; commanding marine 
 guard, 1878 ; steamer " Minnesota," 1879 ; steamer " Galena," North Atlantic 
 Station, 1880-3 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, District of Columbia, 1883 ; 
 Navy Yard, Washington, 1883-5 ; Marine Barracks, League Island, 1885-6 ; 
 " Galena," 1886 ; " Richmond," 1886 ; " Galena," 1886-9 ; Marine Barracks, 
 League Island, 1889-93. Commissioned Captain, February 2, 1891; New 
 York," S. A. Station, 1893-96; Marine Barracks League Island, Septem 
 ber, 1896, to April, 1898, at this date serving with Marine Battalion in Cuba. 
 
 George F. Elliott. Born in Alabama. Appointed from New York. 
 Commissioned Second Lieutenant, October 12, 1870; Marine Barracks, Wash 
 ington, 1870; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1871; steamer "Frolic," 
 1872 ; steamer " Monongahela," South Atlantic Station, 1873-5 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Norfolk, 1876-9. Promoted First Lieutenant, March 30, 1878 ; 
 "Alliance," North Atlantic Station, 1879-82; Marine Barracks, Boston, 
 1882-4; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1885; Panama Expedition, April and 
 May, 1885 ; " Vandalia," North Atlantic Station, 1885-8 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 1889-92. Commissioned Captain, June 15, 1892 ; 
 " Baltimore," Asiatic Station, 1892-5 ; under orders to U. S., April, 1895 ; 
 Marine Barracks, New York, September, 1895, to April, 1898 ; at this date 
 serving with Marine Battalion in Cuba. 
 
 Otway C. Berryman. Born in Virginia. Appointed from District of 
 Columbia. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, January 24, 1870 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Norfolk, 1870; Marine Barracks, Pensacola, 1871-2; Marine 
 Barracks, Mare Island, Cal., 1873-5 ; " Lackawanna," North Pacific Station, 
 1876 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, Cal., 1877-8. Promoted First Lieu 
 tenant, November 16, 1877 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, District of Colum 
 bia, 1879-81 ; " Essex," Pacific Station, 1881-4 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 
 1885-6 ; Panama Expedition, April and May, 1885 ; Marine Barracks, Brook 
 lyn, 1885-6; "Enterprise," 1887-8; "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1890-1; 
 " Mohican," Pacific Station, 1891-2. Commissioned Captain, July 11, 1892 ; 
 Navy Yard, Mare Island, 1892 to 1896; under orders to the "Oregon," 
 June, 1896; U. S. S. " O/egon," July, 1896 ; U. S. S. "Philadelphia," 1897 ; 
 U. S. S. "Baltimore," 1897 to date (May, 1898). 
 
 William F. Spicer. Born in St. Thomas, West Indies. Appointed 
 from Massachusetts. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, March 13, 1872 ; 
 Headquarters of the Corps, till July 22, 1872 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 
 July to October 23, 1872; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1872-3; Marine 
 Barracks, Mare Island, Cal., 1873 ; " Kearsarge," Asiatic Station, 1874-6 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Boston, 1877-9. Promoted to First Lieutenant, January 
 4, 1880 ; " Swatara," Asiatic Station, 1880-2 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, 
 
366 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 Washington, January to October, 1883 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, October, 
 
 1883, to May, 1886 ; Panama Expedition, April and May, 1885 ; Atlanta," 
 North Atlantic Station, July, 1886, to December, 1888 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Boston, 1889 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1889-93. Commissioned Cap 
 tain, September 6, 1892 ; " Chicago," European Station, 1893 to May, 1895 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., May 10, 1895, to April, 1898 ; at this 
 date serving with Marine Battalion in Cuba. 
 
 Paul St. C..Murphy. Born in New York. Appointed from New York. 
 Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, January 27, 1873 ; Headquarters Marine 
 Corps, Washington, 1873 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, New York, 1873 ; 
 frigate " Colorado," Noith Atlantic Station, 1873-5 ; Marine Barracks, Navy 
 Yard, Boston, 1875 ; receiving-ship "Ohio," Navy Yard, Boston, 1875; re 
 ceiving-ship "Wabash," Navy Yard, Boston, 18758; Marine Barracks, 
 Headquarters, Washington, 1878; training-ship "Minnesota," 1878-9 ; U.S. 
 corvette " Wachusett," special cruise Mississippi River, South Atlantic and 
 Pacific Stations, 1879-82. Promoted First Lieutenant, April 18, 1880 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1882-3; flag-ship "Hartford," 
 Pacific Station, 183 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1883-5 ; 
 U. S. S. "Omaha," Asiatic Station, 1885-8; U. S. S. " Pensacola," North 
 Atlantic Station, 1888 ; Marine ^Barracks, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1888-9 ; 
 special duty, Universal Exhibition, Paris, France, 1889 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1889-90 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, Ports 
 mouth, N. H., 1890 ; receiving ship " Vermont," 1890-1 ; "Atlanta," Squad 
 ron of Evolution, 1891-3 ; commanding Marine Detachment, Camp Herbert, 
 Naval Exhibit, World s Columbian Exposition, August 4 to November 30, 
 1893; commanding Marine Barracks, Washington. Commissioned Captain, 
 March 16, 1893 ; leave of absence, December, 1893 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Washington, March, 1894; U. S. S. " Brooklyn," December, 1896, to date. 
 
 Leroy C. Webster. Born in Delaware. Appointed from Delaware. 
 Commissioned Second Lieutenant, July 1, 1874 ; Marine Barracks, Washing 
 ton, 1874; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1874-5; "Ossipee," N. A. Station, 
 1876 ; Marine Barracks, Washington, 1877 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 
 1878-80 ; receiving-ship " Franklin," 1880. Promoted First Lieutenant, 
 December 21, 1880; Marine Barracks, Pensacola, 1881; "Hartford," Pa 
 cific Station, 1882-3; " Wachusett," Pacific Station, 1883-5; Marine Bar 
 racks, Mare Island, Cal., 1885-6; " Marion," 1887-90 ; Marine Barracks, 
 League Island, Pa., 1890-92; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1892-93. Com 
 missioned Captain, April 18, 1893; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 
 1893-4; Marine Barracks, Sitka, Alaska, June, 1894, to 1896 ; under orders 
 to Headquarters, June, 1896 ; Marine Barracks, New York, September, 
 1896 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, February, 1898, to date. 
 
 William Biddle. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Commissioned Second 
 Lieutenant U. S. M. C., June, 1875. Promoted to First Lieutenant, February, 
 
 1884. Promoted to Captain, February, 1894; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, 
 League Island, February, 1891-5; U. S. S. "Baltimore," April, 1895; 
 "Olympia," June, 1895, to date, June, 1898. 
 
 Randolph Dickins. Appointed from Virginia. Commissioned Second 
 Lieutenant U. S. M. C., May, 1876. Promoted to First Lieutenant, March, 
 1884. Promoted to Captain, May, 1894 ; training-ship " Richmond," Jan 
 uary, 1890-4 ; Marine Barracks, Navy Yard, New York, April, 1894-5 ; 
 "Philadelphia," Dec., 1895-97; "Oregon," July, 1897, to date, June, 1898. 
 
 Thomas L. Wood. Appointed from District of Columbia. Commis 
 sioned Second Lieutenant, U. S. M. C. 3 July, 1876. Promoted to First Lieu- 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 367 
 
 tenant, April, 1884. Promoted to Captain, January, 1896 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, Navy Yard, New York, August, 1892, to 1895 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Washington, September, 1895, to 1896; "Massachusetts," June, 1896, to 
 date, June, 1898. 
 
 Littleton W. T. Waller. Appointed from Virginia. Commissioned 
 Second Lieutenant, U. S. M. C., June, 1880. Promoted to First Lieutenant, 
 September, 1885. Promoted to Captain, June, 1896 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Navy Yard, Norfolk, March, 1891-5; "Lancaster," September, 1895; 
 " Newark," July, 1896 ; " Indiana/ January, 1897, to date, June, 1898. 
 
 Harry K. White. Appointed from Dakota. Commissioned Second 
 Lieutenant, U. S. M. C., July, 1883. Promoted to First Lieutenant, March, 
 1889. Promoted to Captain, February, 1897. Marine Barracks, Wash 
 ington, April, 1892-4; "Minneapolis," December, 1894-7; "San Fran 
 cisco," January, 1897-8 ; Navy Yard, Norfolk, January, 1898, to April, 
 1898 ; May, 1898, Marine battalion, Key West, to date, June, 1898. 
 
 Lincoln Karmany. Appointed from Pennsylvania. Cadet Midshipman, 
 September, 1877. Naval Cadet, August, 1882. Second Lieutenant, July, 
 1883. First Lieutenant, August, 1889. Promoted to Captain, February, 
 1898. At present serving on the U. S. S. "Iowa," North Atlantic Squadron. 
 Charles Doyen. Appointed from New Hampshire. Cadet Midshipman, 
 June, 1876. Naval Cadet, August, 1882. Second Lieutenant, July, 1883. 
 First Lieutenant, October, 1889. Promoted to Captain, June, 1889. At 
 present serving on the " St. Paul," N. A. Squadron. 
 
 MARINE CORPS-RETIRED LIST. 
 
 Retired on attaining the age of sixty-four years, in conformity with the act 
 of Congress, June 30, 1882. 
 
 COLONEL. 
 
 Thomas Y. Field. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 3, 1847 ; with the army 
 in Mexico during the war ; bre vetted First Lieutenant for gallant and meri 
 torious conduct ; frigate " Raritan," Pacific Squadron, 1850-3; Marine Bar 
 racks, Philadelphia, 1854-5. Promoted to First Lieutenant, October 15, 
 1854; sloop Constellation," Mediterranean Squadron, 1854-5; Marine 
 Barracks, Charlestown, Mass., 1856-7 ; sloop " St. Mary s," Pacific Squadron, 
 1858-9 ; steam sloop " Saranac," Pacific Squadron, 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, Washington, D. C., 1865; Marine Barracks, 
 Philadelphia, 1866-7 ; Marine Barracks, Gosport, Va., 1868-9 ; Recruiting 
 Rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1870-4; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 
 1875-8. Commissioned Lieutenant- Colonel, November!, 1876 ; Marine Bar 
 racks, League Island, Pa., 1878-9 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1879. Com 
 missioned Colonel, April 18, 1880 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 
 1880-1 ; Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa., 1881-6 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1886-8 ; Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa., 1889. Retired, 
 August 17, 1889. 
 
368 RECORDS OF DIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 MAJOR. 
 
 Augustus S. Nicholson. Born November 5, 1830. Commissioned 
 Second Lieutenant, II. S. M. C., March 16, 1847 ; reported at headquarters, 
 March 20, 1847 ; detached from Washington, D, C , and ordered to the 
 Marine Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Watson, for 
 duty with the army in Mexico, May 21, 1847 ; landed at Vera Cruz, Mexico, 
 July 3, 1847, (ind joined the army under General Scott, at Pueblo, in August, 
 1847. Commissioned a First Lieutenant (by brevet), for gallant and meri 
 torious services in the storming of Chapultepec, and capture of the City of 
 Mexico, September 13, 1847; aide-de-camp to General Quitman, September 
 13, 1847 ; on duty with provost-guard under Colonel Charles F. Smith, in 
 the City of Mexico ; on duty on board the razee " Independence," from July 
 12, 1849, to February 23,. 1850 ; on duty on board of the frigate " Cumber 
 land," from October 1, 1850, to July 4, 1851 ; on duty on board of the U. S. 
 S. " Germantown," from November 12, 1853, to January 1, 1856. Commis 
 sioned First Lieutenant, March 14, 1856 ; on duty on board of the receiving- 
 ship " Pennsylvania," from March 23, 1857, to June 5,1858; on duty on 
 board of the U. S. S. " Saranac," from July 2, 1858, to November 27, 1859 ; 
 on special service (per telegraphic orders from the Navy Department) at 
 Fort Washington, Md., from January 9 to 20, 1861 ; in April, 1861, placed 
 in command of one hundred marines for escort duty, with Admiral Paulding 
 commanding expedition, which destroyed the Navy Yard, Norfolk, Va. 
 Appointed Adjutant and Inspector, with the rank of Major, May 6, 1861 ; 
 on duty with the Marine Battalion operating with the army under General 
 McDowell, in July, 1861 ; Headquarters Marine Corps, 1862 to 1894. Re 
 tired, May, 1894. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-COLONELS. 
 
 McLane Tilton. Born in Maryland. Appointed from Maryland. 
 Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 2, 1861 ; steam-frigate Colo 
 rado," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861. Commissioned as First Lieu 
 tenant, September 1, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Pensacola, Fla., 1862-3; Ma 
 rine Barracks, Washington, D.C., 1864-5 Commissioned as Captain, June 
 10, 1864; commanding marine guard at Naval Academy, 1866-9; frigate 
 " Colorado," Asiatic Station, 1869-72 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 1873-7; 
 Fleet-Marine Officer, European Fleet, 1877-8 ; " Constellation," 1879 ; Ma 
 rine Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, 1880-2; Marine Barracks, An 
 napolis, Md., 1883-5; receiving-ship "Vermont," 1886-8. Commissioned 
 Major, March 9, 1888 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1888-92. Commissioned 
 Lieutenant- Colonel, February 2, 1891; Marine Barracks, Naval Academy, 
 1892-7. Retired, February, 1897. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from sickness originating in service. 
 
 John Henley Higbee. Born in New York City. Appointed from 
 New York. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, March 9, 1861 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Headquarters. Washington, D. C., 1861 ; sloop " Vincennes," West 
 Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1861-2. Commissioned as First Lieutenantj 
 September 1, 1861; Blackwater River Expedition, 1861; flag-ship " Hart 
 ford," West Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1862-3 ; battles of Vicksburg, War- 
 renton, Port Hudson, and Grand Gulf, March 14, 19, 21, 23, 25 and 28, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 369 
 
 1863 ; bombardment of Port Hudson, May 27, 1863. Breveted Captain for 
 gallantry in battle, May 25, 1863 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1864. 
 Commissioned as Captain, June 10, 1864; receivingrship "North Carolina," 
 1864; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Va., 1865 ; flag-ship " New Hampshire," 
 1865-6 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1866 ; Marine Recruiting Ren 
 dezvous, New York, 1866-8 ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, Pa., 1869 ; 
 Fleet Marine-Officer, Pacific Station, 1870-3 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, 
 Cal., 1871 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1873-8 ; Fleet Marine- 
 Officer, Asiatic Station, 1878-81 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1881-2 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Navy Yard, Washington, D. C., 1883-6 ; commanded Second Bat 
 talion of Marines on Isthmus of Panama, April, 1885^ Marine Barracks, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1886; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1888-90. Com 
 missioned as Major, August 18, 1889. Commissioned Lieutenant- Colonel, 
 July 11, 1891 ; commanding Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1889-95 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Navy Yard, New York, October, 1895-8. Retired, June 1, 1898. 
 
 Horatio B. Lowry. Born in Vermont. Appointed from South Caro 
 lina. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant,, September 17, 1861. Commis 
 sioned as First Lieutenant, November 26, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Washing 
 ton, D. C., 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1861-2 ; attached to 
 Marine Battalion, Port Royal, S. C, 1862 ; steam-frigate " Wabash," flag 
 ship, South Atlantic Squadron, 1862-3 ; commanded one hundred marines 
 serving ashore, on Morris Island, S. C., with the same number of sailors, 
 engaged in placing heavy guns in battery to be used against Fort Sumter, 
 1862 ; commanded the marines of the U. S. ships " James Adger," " Keystone 
 State," " Alabama," and " Albatross," organized as a battalion, upon special 
 duty off Georgetown, S. C., and neighboring waters ; engaged the enemy near 
 Blake s plantation, 1862; served with the Marine Battalion on Morris and 
 Folly Islands, S. C., 1863. Brevetted Captain for gallant and meritorious 
 services, in the night attack upon Fort Sumter, made by the marines and 
 sailors, September 8, 1863 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, Mass., 1864-5 ; U. S. 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," off Navy Yard, New York, 1865 ; commanded 
 guard aboard U. S. flag-ship " New Hampshire," and the marines ashore at 
 Bay Point, S. C., 1865; Marine Barracks, Boston, Mass., 1866 ; U. S. receiv 
 ing-ship " Vermont," off Navy Yard, New York, 1867 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Philadelphia, Pa, 1867-9 ; attached to U.S. frigate "Sabine," special cruise, 
 1869-70. Commissioned as Captain, October 16, 1869 ; Marine Barracks, 
 Philadelphia, Pa., 1870-2. Appointed Assistant Quartermaster, with the 
 rank of Captain, June 21, 1872 ; Headquarters Marine Corps, 1872 ; Brook 
 lyn, N. Y., 1873 ; Assistant Quartermaster s Office, New York, 1877 ; Assist 
 ant Quartermaster s Office, Philadelphia, Pa., 1877 ; attached to the Marine 
 Battalion as Acting Quartermaster during labor strike, Philadelphia and 
 Reading, Pa., 1877 ; Headquarters Marine Corps, as Acting Quartermaster, 
 1881 Appointed Quartermaster, with the rank of Major, May, 1885 ; on 
 duty at Headquarters U. S. Marine Corps, until date of voluntary retire 
 ment, June 19, 1897. 
 
 Richard S. Collum. Born in Indiana Appointed from Indiana, 
 Acting Midshipman, U. S. Navy, September 20, 1854. Resigned, May 7, 
 1857. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, September 7, 1861 ; frigate "St. 
 Lawrence," September 30, 1861, to May 30, 1863 ; during that period served 
 in the South Atlantic Squadron, at St. Simons, Ga.; Port Royal, South Caro 
 lina ; engagement with Sewell s Point Battery and Confederate ram " Merri- 
 mac," Potomac River ; bombardment of Sewell s Point and capture of Nor 
 folk, Va. ; East Gulf Squadron and three boat expeditions on the Florida 
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370 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 coast and Indian River. Commissioned First Lieutenant, December 30, 
 1862 ; while on leave of absence in July, 1863, volunteered his services to 
 Governor Morton, of Indiana, during the raid of the Confederate General 
 Morgan ; tender of services accepted, and was placed in command of a bat 
 talion of provisional troops, Cairo and Mound City, 111.; Mississippi Squadron, 
 August, 1863, to August, 1864 ; during that period, engaged in several expe 
 ditions into Kentucky, in pursuit of guerrillas ; member of a commission 
 appointed by Admiral Porter to investigate charges against certain active 
 rebel sympathizers, at Louisville, Ky. ; frigate " New Ironsides," August, 
 1864, to April, 1865 ; two attacks on Fort Fisher ; Navy Yard, Washington, 
 April, 1865, to November, 1867; in temporary command at the Barracks, 
 Navy Yard, during the confinement at the yard of Paine and his associate 
 conspirators; in command of Marine Barracks, Mound City, 111., November, 
 1867, to December, 1868; U. S. S. "Richmond," Mediterranean Squadron, 
 January, 1869, to November, 1871 ; Naval Academy, January, 1872. Com 
 missioned Captain, March 13, 1872 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, April, 1872, 
 to January, 1875 ; commanded detachment of marines at the great fire in 
 Boston, November, 1872 ; in command of two companies which successfully 
 guarded the removal of the treasure from the Sub-treasury to the Custom 
 House, on that occasion ; Headquarters, February, 1875, to June, 1875 ; 
 Fleet Marine Officer of the Asiatic Station, and by special appointment of 
 the Navy Department, Judge Advocate of the fleet ; flag-ship " Tennessee," 
 June, 1875, to July, 1878 ; member of the Board of Inspection, August, 1878, 
 to November, 1881 ; Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa., December, 1881, 
 to April, 1885 ; expedition to Panama, April and May, 1885 ; on the night 
 of the withdrawal of our forces from the city of Panama, and the occupation 
 of our original lines, representations were made to the commanding officers, 
 "that the insurgents were much excited, that drunkenness prevailed to an 
 alarming extent, and that a violation of the armistice was in contemplation." 
 At 10 P.M., Captain Collum was ordered to enter the city alone, and endeavor 
 to ascertain the truth of the report ; this duty was successfully peformed. 
 Commissioned Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, May 4, 1885 ; in charge 
 of the Depot of Supplies, Philadelphia, Pa., May, 1885, to February, 1890; 
 Headquarters of Marine Corps, February, 1890, to October, 1891 ; Assistant 
 Quartermaster s Office, Philadelphia, October, 1891, to 1897. Retired with 
 the rank of Major, June, 1897. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from sickness originating in the line of duty. 
 
 Henry Anthony Bartlett. Born in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, August 
 19, 1838. Appointed from Rhode Island; served in the First Regiment 
 Rhode Island Volunteers ; September 8, 1861, appointed as Second Lieuten 
 ant, Marine Corps; October 16, 1861, Port Royal Marine Battalion; on 
 board the transport " Governor," which foundered at sea, November 3, 1861 ; 
 crew rescued by frigate " Sabine ; " Fernandina and Fort Clinch Expedi 
 tion, February, 1862 ; St. Augustine Expedition, March, 1862. Commis 
 sioned as First Lieutenant, November 26, 1861 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 
 April, 1862, to July, 1862; iron-clad frigate "New Ironsides," July, 1862, 
 to August, 1864 ; Forts Moultrie and Sumter, April 7, 1863 ; twenty-six 
 engagements with Forts Wagner, Gregg, Sumter, Moultrie, Bee and others, 
 having charge of two eleven-inch guns manned by the Marine Guards ; 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, 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 371 
 
 1865; receiving-ship " North Carolina," March, 1865, to September, 1865; 
 Boston Barracks, September, 1865, to March, 1866 ; steam-frigate " Chatta 
 nooga," special cruise, March, 1866, to September, 1866 ; steam-sloop " Sacra 
 mento," special cruise, September, 1866, to June 19, 1867, on board at the time 
 she was wrecked on the Coromandel Coast, Bay of Bengal, India. Commis 
 sioned as Captain, November 29, 1867 ; Boston Barracks, December, 1867, to 
 September, 1868 ; flag-ship " Contoocook," September, 1868, to October, 1869 ; 
 Boston Barracks, December 6, 1869, to February 4, 1870 ; receiving-ship 
 " Vermont," February 10, 1870, to September 23, 1870 ; special duty, 
 Tehuautepec Surveying Expedition, September, 1870, t(/ September, 1871 ; 
 receiving-ship " Vermont," October, 1871, to June, 1872 ; recruiting service, 
 June, 1872, to October, 1872; "Hartford," flag-ship, Asiatic Station, Octo 
 ber, 1872, to November, 1875 ; Judge- Advocate Navy and Marine Corps, 
 from November, 1875, to August 16, 1879 ; Headquarters, August 16, 1879, 
 to February 26, 1880 ; " Minnesota," March 1, 1880, to August 8, 1881 ; 
 commanding Headquarters, from August 12, 1881, to November 21, 1881 ; 
 special duty, Navy Department, November 21, 1881, to March 1, 18b2 ; 
 receiving-ship "Colorado," March 2, 1882, to September 1, 1883 ; "Tren 
 ton," flag-ship, Asiatic Station, September 1, 1883, to September 20, 1886; 
 commanding Marine Barracks, Norfolk, January 1, 1887, to April 16, 1887 ; 
 commanding Marine Barracks, Annapolis, Md., April 20, 1887, to April 1, 
 1891. Commissioned Major, January 30, 1891 ; commanding Marine Bar 
 racks, League Island, Pa., April and May, 1891 ; commanding Marine 
 Barracks, Navy Yard, Mare Island, CaL, July 30, 1891, to December 16, 
 1893 ; on waiting orders from March 15, 1894, to March 1, 1895 ; command 
 ing Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa., from March 1, 1895, to December 
 1, 1895 ; on waiting orders until March 8, 1897 ; commanding Marine Bar 
 racks, League Island, Pa., until December 16, 1897 ; granted leave from 
 that date to February 1, 1898 ; placed on the retired list by permission of 
 the President, having served thirty-six years and ten months. 
 
 CAPTAINS. 
 
 Retired on his own application, after thirty years consecutive service. 
 
 E. P. Meeker. Entered service, August 5, 1859, as, Captain s Clerk-, 
 U. S. frigate " Congress," Brazil Squadron, 1859-61 ; Flag Officer s Clerk, 
 U. S. flag-ship " Minnesota," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1861-2 ; 
 commanded section of howitzers, McCook s batteries, battles of Roanoke 
 Island, Fort Thompson and Newbern, N. C. ; specially commended on the 
 field by General Burnside for gallant conduct at Fort Thompson. Ap 
 pointed Second Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps, June 14, 1862 ; Battalion 
 Marines, Morris and Folly Islands, S. C., 1863, attack and capture of Fort 
 Wagner. Promoted First Lieutenant, November 17, 1864 ; U. S. flag-ship 
 "Colorado," North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864-5. Brevetted 
 Captain, January 14, 1865, for gallant and meritorious conduct at capture 
 of Fort Fisher ; flag-ship "Colorado," European Squadron, 1865-7; Fleet 
 Marine Officer, flag-ship " Richmond," Pacific Station, 1872-6. Promoted 
 Captain, November, 17, 1877 ; Fleet Marine Officer, flag-ship " Shenandoah," 
 South Atlantic Squadron, 1879-82; Panama Expedition, 1884; receiving- 
 ship " Vermont," 1888-90 ; Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1890-91 ; Recruit 
 ing rendezvous, New York, 1891-2 ; flag-ship " Chicago," N, A. Station, 
 1892, until date of retirement, March 15, 1893. Received the order of Busto 
 del Libertador from Venezuelan Government for services rendered while com- 
 
372 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 manding troops for protection of U. S. Consulate in 1892. Retired March 
 15, 1893, on his own application, after thirty years consecutive service, in 
 conformity with section 4, act of Congress, approved July 15, 1870. 
 
 Retired from incapacity resulting from sickness originating in the line of duty. 
 
 Charles A. Stillman. Appointed from Connecticut. Served with the 
 Marine Battalion under command of Major Reynolds at the capture of Port 
 Royal, S. C., in 1861, by Admiral Dupont; July 1, 1862, Marine Barracks, 
 Portsmouth, N? H., December, 1862, ordered to U.S. S. " Colorado," on 
 Blockading Squadron ; July, 1863, at Navy Yard, New York, and served 
 in the Marine Battalion during the draft riots in New York City ; October, 
 1863, was with Admiral Porter on the Mississippi River; July, 1864, ordered 
 to U. S. S. "Juniata," on Blockading Squadron; 1865-6, in command of 
 Marine Guard, U. S. S. " Cyane," Pacific Squadron ; July, 1866, ordered to 
 command Guard, U. S. S. Lancaster," and served on her until put out of 
 commission in March, 1867 ; 1867-9, Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y ; 
 
 1870, in command of Marines, U. S. S. " Vermont," Navy Yard, New York ; 
 
 1871, ordered as Fleet Marine Officer of North Pacific Squadron, U. S. S. 
 " Ossipee," flag-ship of Rear- Admiral Taylor. Retired by reason of sickness, 
 incurred in line of duty, March 12, 1872. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 
 November 25, 1861 ; First Lieutenant, November 26, 1861 ; Captain, Decem 
 ber 5, 1867. 
 
 F. H. Corrie. Appointed Second Lieutenant, November 26, 1861 ; served 
 in Marine Battalion at Port Royal in 1861-2, and took part in the Naval 
 assault on Fernandina, Florida, 1862 ; November, 1862, was ordered to and 
 proceeded with battalion of marines, under command of Major Addison 
 Garland, to Navy Yard at Mare Island, California, taking passage on board 
 the Pacific mail steamer " Ariel." This steamer was overhauled on the high 
 seas by the Confederate cruiser " Alabama," and the officers and men com 
 prising the battalion of marines were made prisoners of war, and paroled by 
 the commanding officer of the " Alabama " for three months each. Arrived 
 at Mare Island and went on duty at the Navy Yard -as soon as exchanged, 
 being of the first prisoners exchanged during the war; remained on duty on 
 Mare Island until July 22, 1864, and then ordered to proceed to Marine 
 Barracks, Brooklyn, for duty at that port, serving there until October 11, 
 1864 ; ordered from Brooklyn in command of marine guard on board of the 
 steamer " Juniata," North Atlantic Station; November 29,1864, detached 
 from " Juniata " and ordered to command the marine guard on board of the 
 " Powhatan," flag-ship, Third Division, in preparation for the attack on Fort 
 Fisher; December, 1864, and January, 1865, at Fort Fisher; commanded 
 the marine guard of the " Powhatan," and marines, in both engagements, 
 manning a battery of 9-inch guns ; landed on the beach below Fort Fisher, 
 January 16, 1865, and commanded a company of marines in the assault of 
 that date ; was favorably mentioned by Commodore Schenck, division com 
 mander, in his report of that engagement. Promoted Brevet- Captain, Janu 
 ary 14, 1865 ; March, 1865, while the " Powhatan " was ft repairing damages " 
 sustained at Fort Fisher, obtained a short leave of absence ; went to the 
 front at Petersburg and Richmond, and volunteered as aide-de-camp to 
 General Miles, commanding First Division, Second Army Corps ; for his 
 services in the severe battle of March 25, he was publicly thanked on the 
 field by General Miles, who next day wrote as follows : 
 
 "SiR, Permit me to acknowledge the service rendered by you in the battle of the 
 25th. Acting entirely in a volunteer capacity upon my staff, your coolness and gallant 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 373 
 
 bearing under the severest fire were calculated to give encouragement to the troops, while 
 your prompt transruittal of orders proved you to be a most efficient aide-de-camp. Please 
 accept my thanks for the valuable assistance you afforded me yesterday in an engage 
 ment which, being in an entirely different arm of the service from your own, was 
 marked by unusual spirit and severity. 
 
 Reported for duty on the steamer " Powhatan," flag-ship, South Atlantic 
 Squadron, and proceeded to Key West, thence to Cuba, where the " Pow 
 hatan " performed the duty of watching the rebel ram " Stonewall Jackson," 
 then lying in the port of Cuba ; May 10, 1865, detached from the " Pow- 
 hatau " and ordered to the Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia ; in Decem 
 ber, 1866, detached from the barracks and ordered to the command of the 
 marine guard on board of the receiving-ship " New Hampshire," at Norfolk, 
 Virginia ; October 28, 1867, detached from the " New Hampshire " and 
 ordered to command the marine guard on board the receiving-ship " Ver 
 mont," at New York ; June 14, 1868, detached from the receiving-ship 
 " Vermont," and ordered to command the marine guard on board of the 
 " Juniata," preparing for service in the European Squadron. Promoted 
 Captain Marine Corps, February 12, 1870 ; served on board of the " Juniata," 
 attached to the Mediterranean Squadron, until April 10, 1872, and then 
 detached and ordered to command the marine guard on board the " Ply 
 mouth," in the same squadron ; returned to the United States on board the 
 " Plymouth " ma South African coast, and detached from her June 30, 1873, 
 and ordered to Marine Barracks, Mare Island; June 17, 1874, detached 
 from Mare Island, and ordered on board of the " Pensacola," flag-ship of the 
 North Pacific Squadron, as Fleet Marine-Officer ; relieved December 30, 
 1874, and ordered to Marine Barracks, Mare Island, for duty at that post ; 
 detached from Mare Island, September 15, 1876, and ordered to Marine 
 Barracks, Brooklyn ; detached from Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, and ordered 
 to flag-ship " Pensacola," Pacific Station, as Fleet Marine Officer, July, 1880 ; 
 detached from "Pensacola" and ordered to proceed to China for duty on 
 board the flag-ship " Richmond," as Fleet Marine-Officer of that station, 
 1884 ; detached from u Richmond " and ordered to Marine Barracks, Brook 
 lyn, N. Y. ; in July, 1885, commanded the Battalion of Marines in the escort 
 to the funeral of General U. S. Grant. Retired, September, 1885, in conse 
 quence of disabilities received in the service. During the labor riots of July 
 and August, 1877, was ordered on the 24th of July to command the marine 
 guard of the "Colorado," of fifty men, and proceed to Watervliet Arsenal, 
 Troy, New York, for the purpose of guarding and protecting government 
 property at that place ; served there until August 20, 1877, being relieved by 
 general order No. 30, issued by Brevet Brigadier-General P. V. Hagner, 
 commanding, in which order " the detachment of marines under command of 
 Captain F. A. Corrie, U. S. Marine Corps," receives his hearty thanks, and 
 " both officers and men are commended for their cheerful assistance and 
 soldier-like conduct in the discharge of the duties assigned to them." Marine 
 Barracks, Brooklyn, 1878-80 ; " Richmond," Asiatic Station, 1880-2 ; R. S. 
 "Vermont," 1882-5. Retired, 1885. 
 
 George B. Haycock. Born in Maine. Commissioned us Second Lieu 
 tenant, March 10, 1863 ; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1863-5 ; " Canan- 
 daigua," European Squadron, 1865-8. Commissioned as First Lieutenant, 
 June 20, 1866; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1868-9 ; Marine Barracks, Ports 
 mouth, 1869-70; brevetted Captain, June 7, 1870; Navy Yard, Washing 
 ton, 1871 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1872 ; " Congress," European 
 Station, 1872-3 ; Quartermaster s Office, Washington, 1874-5 ; ordnance 
 
374 RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 
 
 duty, Washington, 1875-6; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1876-7; 
 " Swatara," 1878 ; Marine Barracks, Annapolis, 1878-81. Commissioned 
 Captain, April 18, 1880. Retired, March 19, 1883. 
 
 Frank D. Webster. Born in New Hampshire. Appointed from New 
 Hampshire. Served in the War of the Rebellion, U. S. Army, as first 
 Lieutenant, Seventeenth Regiment, N. H. Volunteers, 1862 ; recruited a com 
 pany for the same; honorably mustered out, 1863. Commissioned as Second 
 Lieutenant, U. 13. Marine Corps, March 18, 1864 ; Marine Barracks, Charles- 
 town, Massachusetts, 1864 ; steam-sloop " Lancaster," flag-ship, Pacific 
 Squadron, 1864-7 ; was present at the capture of the Salvador pirates in 
 Panama Bay, 1864; during the insurrection on the Isthmus, 1865, com 
 manded the troops ordered on shore at Panama, to protect the American 
 Consulate ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 1867. Commissioned as First Lieu 
 tenant, December 5, 1867 ; receiving-ship " Ohio," 1868 ; Naval Station, 
 Pensacola, 1869-70; recruiting service, New Orleans, 1870; Marine Bar 
 racks, Portsmouth, N. H., 1870; commanded marines, frigate "Tennessee," 
 special service, to take the U. S. Commissioners and their suite out to the 
 Island of San Domingo, 1870-1 ; Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, 1871 ; 
 "Congress," European Station, 1871-2; Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 
 1873-6; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1877; receiving-ship "Franklin," 
 Norfolk, 1877 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1878-9 ; frigate "Constitution," 
 1879-81 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1881-3. Commissioned Captain, 
 October 8, 1883. Retired, April 1, 1884. 
 
 A. S. Taylor. Born in New Jersey. Appointed from New Jersey. 
 Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, July 2, 1864 ; Headquarters, 1864 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Mare Island, Cal., 1864-8. Commissioned as first Lieu 
 tenant, July 30, 1868 ; steam-sloop " Tuscarora," Pacific Fleet, 1868-71 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Washington, 1871-2 ; Marine Barracks, Mare Island, 
 1872-4 ; training-ship " Minnesota," 1875-8 ; steamer " Quinnebaug," 
 European Station, 1878-81 ; Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa., 1881 ; 
 Marine Barracks, Pensacola, 1882-4 ; steamer " Lancaster," 1884-7. Pro 
 moted Captain, December 12, 1883; Marine Barracks, League Island, Pa, 
 1887-90. Retired, June 17, 1890. 
 
 Robert Dewar Wainwright. Born in Maine. Appointed from Mas 
 sachusetts. Commissioned Second Lieutenant, U. S. Marine Corps, December 
 4, 1869 ; Headquarters of the Corps, 1869-70 ; Marine Barracks, Boston, 
 Mass , 1870-2 ; was in command of this poet for two weeks, in the absence of 
 its commanding officer; U- S. flag-ship "Lancaster," 1872-4; during the 
 cruise, personally assisted three officers and fifty men in rescuing officers, 
 crew, and passengers of the " Cotopaxi," Pacific Mail Steamship Co., also 
 helped save that steamer, she being on a reef off the coast of Brazil ; August 
 13, 1872, appointed by the Hon. Sec. of the Navy, Judge- Advocate of all 
 General Courts-Martial and Courts of Inquiry, and in all matters appertain 
 ing to that office which shall concern the naval forces, South Atlantic Sta 
 tion ; in 1874, participated in all the naval drills at Key West and Florida 
 Bay, and commanded the Eighth Company of the Marine Battalion, under 
 Colonel Heywood, U. S. M. C., in drills ashore ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., 1874 ; U. S. S. " Plymouth," 1874-5 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Va., 
 1875-7. Commissioned first Lieutenant, U. S. M. C., March 17, 1877 ; July, 
 1877, on duty with a battalion of marines at Philadelphia and Baltimore, 
 called to those cities to suppress railroad strikes ; acted as Acting Assistant 
 Quartermaster to the battalion, and afterwards as Captain of one of its com- 
 paniesj Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1877-9; U. S. S. "Marion," 
 
RECORDS OF LIVING OFFICERS OF THE U. S. NAVY. 375 
 
 1879-82 ; Marine Barracks, Naval Academy, 1883 ; Marine Barracks, Nor 
 folk, Va., 1883-5 ; commanded that post during the absence of the officers of 
 command, who were on duty on the Isthmus of Panama; U. S. S. Essex," 
 ] 886-9 ; while on this cruise, in company of two officers and twenty-five men, 
 made a quick march from Chemulpo to Seoul, Corea, twenty-eight miles, 
 being called by the American Minister to protect the Legation, etc. The 
 admiral, in orders, commended the detachment for its very quick night march 
 on a hard road and in a strange country, its good conduct and military pro 
 ficiency ; during the latter part of the cruise, being the senior marine officer, 
 he commanded the marine battalion while on shore duty ; Marine Barracks, 
 Norfolk, Va., 1889, to date of retirement, April 17, 1893. 
 
 Retired under the provision of " An Act to provide for the examination of 
 certain officers of the Marine Corps and to regulate promotions therein" 
 
 Henry C. Fisher. Born in Pennsylvania. Appointed from Pennsyl 
 vania. Commissioned as Second Lieutenant, September 7, 1871 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Washington, 1871-2 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1873 ; Marine 
 Barracks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1873; " Ticonderoga," N. A. Station, 1874; 
 Marine Barracks, Philadelphia, 1874-5; "Adams," N. A. Station, 1875-7; 
 Marine Barracks, Norfolk, 1878. Promoted to First Lieutenant, September 
 27, 1879 ; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn, 1879-80 ; receiving-ship, " W abash," 
 1880-2 ; steamer " Iroquois," Pacific Station, 1882-5 ; Marine Barracks, 
 League Island, 1885-7 ; Marine Barracks, Norfolk, Va., 1889-91 ; "Balti 
 more," Pacific Station, 1891, to date of retirement, March 16, 1893. Pro 
 moted Captain, March 16, 1893. 
 
 George T. Bates. Appointed from District of Columbia. Commis- 
 missioned Second Lieutenant U. S. M. C., February, 1873. Promoted to 
 First Lieutenant, May, 1880 ; Marine Barracks, Naval Academy, July, 1892. 
 Retired as a Captain, May, 1894. 
 
 ADDENDA. 
 
 Richmond Pearson Hobson. To those not of the service who, in 
 scanning the pages of this volume, look in vain for the record of the gallant 
 Hobson, the editor deems it fitting to explain that this book of Records stops 
 at the rank of Lieutenant, and as, at this date, Mr. Hobson holds the relative 
 rank of Junior Lieutenant, no sketch of his services appears. It is a loss to 
 the volume, as no true account of his magnificent achievement could be 
 written that would fail to stir the blood and excite the admiration of every 
 sailor, no matter what his nationality. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 A BBOT, Charles W., Pay Director 288 
 
 -** Able, A. H., Chief Engineer 303 
 
 Ackerman, Albert Ammerman., Lieutenant 209 
 
 Ackley, Seth Mitchell Commander 106 
 
 Adamson, Alfred, Chief Engineer 303 
 
 Adams, Charles Albert, Lieutenant-Commander 137 
 Adams, James Dexter, Lieutenant-Commander... 136 
 
 Allen, Louis J., Chief Engineer 300 
 
 Allen, William H., Lieutenant 187 
 
 Allibone, Charles Olden, Lieut.-Commander 129 
 
 Almy, Augustus Craven, Lieutenant 203 
 
 Ames, H. E., Surgeon 244 
 
 Ammen, Daniel, Rear-Admiral 7 
 
 Amory, Edward L., Lieutenant-Commander 154 
 
 Anderson, Edwin A., Lieutenant 216 
 
 Anderson, Frank, Surgeon 244 
 
 Arnold, Conway Hillyer, Lieut.-Commander 128 
 
 Andrade, Cipriano, Chief Engineer 304 
 
 Atwater, Charles Nelson, Lieutenant 201 
 
 Ayers, Joseph G., Medical Inspector. 236 
 
 Ayres, S. L. P., Chief Engineer 337 
 
 BABIN, Hosea J., Medical Inspector 235 
 Bacon, Albert W., Pay Inspector 278 
 
 Badger, Charles Johnston, Lieutenant 176 
 
 Bainbridge-Hoff, William, Captain 80 
 
 Bailey, Frank H., Chief Engineer 323 
 
 Baird, George W., Chief Engineer 314 
 
 Baker, J. W., Surgeon 269 
 
 Baker, A. C., Lieutenant 173 
 
 Baker, Henry R., Lieutenant 218 
 
 Balch, George B,, Rear- Admiral 8 
 
 Baldwin, L. B., Surgeon 244 
 
 Ball, R.T. Mason, Paymaster 286 
 
 Barber, Francis M., Commander 125 
 
 Barclay, Charles James, Captain 69 
 
 Barker, Albert S., Captain 57 
 
 Barnette, William J., Lieutenant-Commander.... 135 
 
 Barnes, Nathan Hale, Lieutenant 221 
 
 Barroll, Henry Harris, Lieutenant 170 
 
 Barry, William W., Paymaster 282 
 
 Bartlett, John R., Captain 79 
 
 Barry, Edward Buttevant, Lieutenant-Comman 
 der 146 
 
 Bartlett, Henry Anthony, Lieut.-Colonel Marine 
 
 Corps 370 
 
 Bartlett, Charles Ward. Lieutenant 168 
 
 Barton, John K., Chief Engineer 319 
 
 Barton, Jonathan Q., Paymaster 298 
 
 Bates, George T., Captain Marine Corps 375 
 
 Bates, Alexander B., Chief Engineer 314 
 
 Bayley, Warner B., Chief Engineer 318 
 
 Beaman, George William Pay Inspector 274 
 
 Beards ee, Lester A., Rear-Admiral 24 
 
 Beardsley, Grove S., Medical Director 228 
 
 Bea ty, Frank E., Lieutenant 185 
 
 Beehler, W. H., Lieutenant-Commander 142 
 
 Belden, Samuel, Commander 121 
 
 Belknap, Charles, Commander 108 
 
 Belknap, George E., Rear-Admiral 24 
 
 Bell, John Arthur, Lieutenant 206 
 
 Bellows, Edward, Pay Inspector 274 
 
 Benham, A. E. K., Rear-Admiral 25 
 
 Benson, William Shepherd, Lieutenant 197 
 
 Bertolette, Daniel N., Surgeon 242 
 
 Bernadou, John Baptiste, Lieutenant 209 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Berry, Robert M., Commander 102 
 
 Berry, Albert Gleaves, Lieutenant-Commander... 148 
 
 Berryman, Otway C., Captain Marine Corps 365 
 
 Beyer, Henry G., Surgeon 245 
 
 Bicknell, Ge >rge Augustus, Commander 105 
 
 Biddle, Clement, Surgeon 248 
 
 Bidddle, William, Captain, Marine Corps 366 
 
 Billings, Luther G., Pay Director 291 
 
 Bishop, Joshua, Commander 124 
 
 Bitler, Reuben Oscar, Lieutenant 208 
 
 Blandin, John J., Lieutenant 216 
 
 Bleecker, John Van Benthuyseu, Commander.... 113 
 
 Blish, John Bell, Lieutenant 204 
 
 Blocklinger, Gottfried, Lieutenant-Commander.. 139 
 
 Bloodgood, Delavan, Medical Director 257 
 
 Blow, George P., Lieutenant 213 
 
 Bogert, Edward S., Medical Director 260 
 
 Boggs, Lawrence C., Paymaster 282 
 
 Book, George Milton, Commander 95 
 
 Borthwick, John Livingston Dinwiddie, Chief 
 
 Engineer 344 
 
 Bostwick, Frank Matteson, Lieutenant 198 
 
 Bostwick, Edward D., Lieutenant 188 
 
 Boush, Clifford J., Lieutenant 188 
 
 Bowyer, John Marshall, Lieutenant 181 
 
 Bowman, Charles G., Lieutenant-Commander.... 142 
 
 Boyd, J oh n C., Surgeon 241 
 
 Bradford, Royal Bird, Commander 91 
 
 Bradbury, Charles Augustus, Lieutenant 222 
 
 Bradley, Michael, Medical Director 261 
 
 Bradley, George P., Medical Inspector 238 
 
 Braiuard, Frederic Rowland, Lieutenant 212 
 
 Braunersreuther, William, Lieutenant 192 
 
 Breese, S. Livingston, Captain 76 
 
 Brice, John J., Commander 126 
 
 Briggs, John Bradford, Lieutenant-Commander. 143 
 
 Bright, George A., Medical Director 235 
 
 Brooks, William B., Chief Engineer 339 
 
 Bronaugh, William Venable, Lieutenant 197 
 
 Brown, Allan D , Commander 123 
 
 Brown, George, Rear-Admiral 31 
 
 Brown, Jefferson, Chief Engineer 350 
 
 Brown, Guy W., Lieutenant 215 
 
 Brown, R. M. G., Lieutenant-Commander 157 
 
 Brovvnson, Willard Herbert, Commander 93 
 
 Brumby, Thomas Mason, Lieutenant 194 
 
 Buckingham, B. H., Lieutenant-Commander 141 
 
 Bunce, Francis M., Rear-Admiral 4 
 
 Bull, James Henry, Lieutenant 166 
 
 Buchanan, Wilson Wildman, Lieutenant 211 
 
 Buehler, William G., Chief Engineer 300 
 
 Burdick, William Leslie, Lieutenant 201 
 
 Bnrgdorfl, Theodore F., Chief Engineer 324 
 
 Burnap, George J., Chief Engineer 304 
 
 Burnett, J. C., Lieutenant 224 
 
 Burtis, Arthur, Pay Inspector 275 
 
 Burwell, William furnbull, Commander 101 
 
 Byrnes, J. C., Surgeon 247 
 
 pABELL, A. G., Surgeon 248 
 
 ^ Calkins, Carlos G., Lieutenant 170 
 
 Canaga, AlfredB., Chief Engineer 320 
 
 Cann, James E., Paymaster 283 
 
 Caperton, William B., Lieutenant 187 
 
 Capehart, Edward Everett, Lieutenant 213 
 
 Carlin, James W., Lieutenant-Commander 138 
 
 376 
 
INDEX. 
 
 377 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Carmody, John Randolph. Paymaster 29G 
 
 Carpenter, Charles C., Rear-Admiral 31 
 
 Carpenter, John S., Paymaster 286 
 
 Carter, Fidelio S., Lieutenant 184 
 
 Casey, Silas, Captain 50 
 
 Caswell, Thomas T., Pay Director 273 
 
 Chadwick, French Ensor, Captain 74 
 
 Chapin, Frederic L., Lieutenant 217 
 
 Chambers, Washington Irving, Lieutenant 190 
 
 Chenery, Leonard, Lieutenant-Commander 154 
 
 Chester, C. M., Captain 68 
 
 Cilley, Green leaf, Commander 127 
 
 Clark, Charles Edgar, Captain 69 
 
 Clark, George Ramsey, Lieutenant 202 
 
 Clark, Lewis Jacob, Lieutenant 212 
 
 Clark, John H., Medical Director 229 
 
 Clarke, Charles A nsyl, Lieutenant 222 
 
 Clary, A bert G.. Commod re 43 
 
 Cleaver, Henry T., Chief Engineer 322 
 
 Cleborne, C. J., Medical Director 227 
 
 Cline. Hugh H, Chief Engineer 348 
 
 Clover, Richardson, Commander 112 
 
 Coffin, Ge> rge W., Captain 79 
 
 Cochran, George, Pay Director 272 
 
 Cochrane, Henry Clay, Lieutenant-Colonel Ma 
 rine Corps 359 
 
 Coffin, Frederick W., Lieutenant 186 
 
 Coffman, De Witt, Lieutenant 191 
 
 Coghlan, Joieph Bullock, Captain 69 
 
 Cogswell, James Kelsey, Lieutenant-Commander 139 
 
 Colby, Harrison Gray Otis, Commander 115 
 
 Colby, Henry G., Paymaster 280 
 
 Colhoun, Samuel R., Paymaster 282 
 
 Collins, John Bartholomew, Lieutenant 164 
 
 Collum, Richard S., Lieut.-Col., Marin- Corps... 369 
 Colvocoresses, George P., Lieutenant-Commander 146 
 
 Colwell, John C., Lieutenant 181 
 
 Cook, Francis A., Captain 67 
 
 Cook, Simon, Lieutenant 198 
 
 Cooke, Geo-ge Henry, Medical Director 231 
 
 Colahan, C. E., Lieutenant-Commander 148 
 
 Cooper, Philip Henry, Captain 63 
 
 Comly, Samuel P., Lieutenant 161 
 
 Converse, George A., Commander 91 
 
 Corbin, Thomas G , Captain 80 
 
 Cordeiro,F ederick J. B., Surgeon 249 
 
 Cornwall, Charles Carpenter, Lieutenant-Com 
 mander 131 
 
 Corrie, F. H., Captain, Marine Corps 372 
 
 Cosby, Frank Carvi II, Pay Director 271 
 
 Cottman, Vincendon L., Lieutenant 175 
 
 Cotton, Charles Stanhope, Captain 58 
 
 Cones, Samuel F., Medical Director 254 
 
 Couitis, Frank, Commander 100 
 
 Cowie, George, Jr., Chief Engineer 317 
 
 Covvie, Thomas J., Paymaster 286 
 
 Cowles. William Sheffield, Lieutenant-Com 
 mander 129 
 
 Cowles, W. C., Lieutenant ...."..... 176 
 
 Cromwell, Barlett J., Captain 51 
 
 Couden, Albert Reynolds, Commander 109 
 
 Craig, Joseph Edgar, Commander 92 
 
 Craig, Thomas C., Surgeon 269 
 
 Craven John Eccleston, Lieutenant 203 
 
 Crawford, Millard Henry, Surgeon 246 
 
 Cresap, .fumes Cephas. Lieutenant 172 
 
 Crosby, Pierce, Rear-Admiral 9 
 
 Crowuinshield, Arent Schuyler, Captain 64 
 
 Culver, Abraham E., Lieutenant 18g 
 
 Curti", Clinton Kidd, Lieutenant-Commander 150 
 
 Curtis, Lloyd, Surgeon 249 
 
 Cutler, William G., Lieutenant 183 
 
 DABNEY, Albert Jouett, Lieutenant 223 
 Dade, Francis C., Chief Engineer 339 
 
 Davenport, Francis O., Lieut-Commander 152 
 
 Davenport, Richard Graham, Lieutenant-Com 
 mander 145 
 
 Davis, Charles Henry, Commander 85 
 
 Davis, George T., Commander 124 
 
 Day, Benjamin F., Captain 56 
 
 Day. William P., Lieutenant-Commander 144 
 
 Payton, James H., Commander 99 
 
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 Dean, Richard C., Medical Director 257 
 
 Delano, Francis Henry, Lieutenant-Commander 135 
 
 Delehanty, Daniel, Lieutenant-Commander 130 
 
 Denfeld, George William, Lieutenant 196 
 
 Denig, Robert G., Chief Engineer 320 
 
 Dennison, Henry Martyn, Pay Director 270 
 
 Denny, Frank Lee, Major Marine Corps (Gene 
 ral Staff) 355 
 
 Derr, Ezra Z., Surgeon 242 
 
 Dewey, George, Rear-Admiral 6 
 
 Dewey, Theodore Gibbs, Lieutenant 213 
 
 Di kins, Francis W T illiam, Commander 83 
 
 Dickins, Randolph, Captain, Marine Corps 366 
 
 Dickinson, Dwight, Medical Inspector 238 
 
 Dickson, S. H., Surgeon 243 
 
 Diehl, S. W. B., Lieutenant 177 
 
 Diehl, Oliver, Surgeon 249 
 
 Dixon, William S., Surgeon 239 
 
 Dixon, A. F., Chief Engineer 318 
 
 Dillingham, Albert Caldwell, Lieutenant 164 
 
 Dodd. Arthur Wright, Lieutenant 196 
 
 Dombaugh, Harry Mason, Lieutenant 198 
 
 Dorn, Edward J., Lieutenant 182 
 
 Doty, Webster, Lieutenant 221 
 
 Dougherty, John Allen, Lieutenant 206 
 
 Dowues, John, Lieutenant 223 
 
 Doyen, Charles, Captain, Marine Corps 367 
 
 Doyle, Robert M., Lieutenant 186 
 
 Doyle, James G., Lieutenant 215 
 
 Drake, Franklin J., Lieutenant-Commander 134 
 
 Drake, N. H., Surgeon 245 
 
 Dresel, Herman Georgp, Lieutenant 208 
 
 Drennan, M. C., Mc-dical Inspector 237 
 
 Origgs, William Hale, Lieutenant-Commander... 149 
 
 Drury, Hiram E., Paymaster 284 
 
 Du Bose, W. R., Surgeon 245 
 
 Dungan, William W., Chief Engineer 331 
 
 Duncan, Jacob S., Medical Director 254 
 
 Dunlap, Andrew, Commander 114 
 
 Dunn, Herbert Omar, Lieutenant 195 
 
 Dunning, William B., Chief Engineer 325 
 
 Durand, George R., Commander 125 
 
 Dyer, George Leland, Lieutenant 162 
 
 Dyer, N. Mayo, Captain 72 
 
 Tj^ATON, Charles P., Lieutenant 216 
 
 -" Eaton, Joseph G., Commander 107 
 
 Eaton, William C., Chief Engineer 320 
 
 Eckstein, Henry C., Surgeon 266 
 
 Edgar, John M., Surgeon 249 
 
 Edwards, John R., Chief Engineer 321 
 
 Eldredge, Charles II., Pay Director 209 
 
 Eldridge, Frank H., Chief Engineer 324 
 
 Ellicott, John M.. Lieutenant 216 
 
 Elliott, William Power, Lieutenant 170 
 
 Elliott, George F., Captain Marine Corps 365 
 
 Emmons, George F., Lieutenant 182 
 
 Engard, Albert C., Chief Engineer 312 
 
 Erben, Henry, Rear-Admiral 29 
 
 Emory, William Hemsley, Commander 104 
 
 Everett, William Henry, Lieut-Commander 137 
 
 Evans, Robley D., Captain 62 
 
 PARENHOLT, Oscar Walter. Commander, 
 
 Farmer, Edward, Chief Engineer 
 
 96 
 338 
 
 Farquhar, Norman H., Commodore 40 
 
 Farwell, William G., Medical Inspector ... 238 
 
 Febiger, John C., Rear-Admiral 9 
 
 Fechteler, Augustus Francis, Lieutenant 194 
 
 Ferebee, Nelson McP., Surgeon 240 
 
 Fichbohm, H. F.. Lieutenant 163 
 
 Field, Wells Laflin, Commander 115 
 
 Field, Wiley R. M., Lieutenant 216 
 
 Field, Th omae Y., Captain, Marine Corps 367 
 
 Fiske, Bradley A , Lieutenant 180 
 
 Fisher, Henry C., Captain, Marine Corps 375 
 
 Fitch, Henry W., Chief Engineer 343 
 
 Fithia", Edwin, Chief Engineer 334 
 
 Fitts, Henry B., Surgeon 249 
 
 Fitzsimons, Paul, Medical Inspector 239 
 
 Fletcher, Frank Friday. Lieutenant 185 
 
 Fletcher, Montgomery, Chief Engineer 327 
 
378 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Fletcher, William B,, Lieutenant 215 
 
 Fletcher, Arthur Henry, Lieutenant 217 
 
 Flint, Junes M., Medical Director 234 
 
 Flynne, Lucian, Lieutenant 226 
 
 Folger, William Mayhew, Captain 75 
 
 Forney, James, Colonel, Marine Corps 356 
 
 Forse, Charles Thomas, Lieutenant-Commander. 135 
 
 Forsyth, James M., Commander 91 
 
 Ford, John D., Chief Engineer 310 
 
 Foster, C. A., Lieutenant 225 
 
 Foster, Joseph, Paymaster 278 
 
 Fox, Charles Eben, Lieutenant 174 
 
 Frailey, Leonard A., Pay Inspector 276 
 
 Franklin, Samuel R., Kear-Admiral 19 
 
 Franklin, James, Lieutenant 222 
 
 Frazer, Reah, Paymaster 284 
 
 Freeman, Edward R., Chief Engineer 324 
 
 Freemont, J. C., Jr., Lieutenant 175 
 
 Fullam, William Freeland, Lieutenant 193 
 
 Furey, John, Paymaster 296 
 
 fl AINES, James H., Surgeon .... 267 
 
 ^J Galloway, C. D., Lieutenant * 224 
 
 Gait, Robert W., Chief Engineer 319 
 
 Gait, R H., Lieutenant 175 
 
 Gait, William H., Paymaster 285 
 
 Gardner, J. E., Surgeon 246 
 
 Garrett, Leroy Mason, Lieutenant 204 
 
 Garst, Perry, Lieutenant-Commander 139 
 
 Gatewood, James D.. Surgeon 248 
 
 Gearing, Henry C., Lieutenant 187 
 
 George, Harry, Lieutenant 216 
 
 Gheen, Edward Hickman, Commander 115 
 
 Gherardi, Bancroft, Rear-Admiral 23 
 
 Gibbons, John Henry, Lieutenant 207 
 
 Gibson, John, Lieutenant 206 
 
 Gibson, William ., Commander 98 
 
 Gihon, Albert Leary, Medical Director 250 
 
 Gill, William Andrew, Lieutenant 205 
 
 Gillis, James H., Commodore 48 
 
 Gil i more, James Clarkson, Lieutenant 190 
 
 Gilmore, Fernando P., Commander 108 
 
 Glass, Henry, Captain 62 
 
 Gleaves, Albert, Lieutenant 195 
 
 Glennon, James Henry. Lieutenant 199 
 
 Goldsborough, Worthington, Pay Inspector 292 
 
 Goodloe, Green Clay, Major and Paymaster Ma 
 rine Corps, (General Staff) ; 355 
 
 Goodrich, Caspar Frederick, Captain 73 
 
 Goodrell, Mancil C., Captain, Marine Corps 363 
 
 Goodwin, Walton, Commander Ill 
 
 Gorgas, Miles Carpenter, Lieutenant 211 
 
 Gove, Charles Augustus, Lieutenant 190 
 
 Gowing, B. C., Chief Engineer 348 
 
 Graham, James Duncan, Commander 122 
 
 Graham, Samuel Lindsay, Lieutenant 222 
 
 Grant, A bert Weston, Lieutenant 196 
 
 Gravatt, Charles U., Medical Inspector 239 
 
 Green, E. H., Surgeon 243 
 
 Green, James G., Commander 89 
 
 Green, Francis M., Commander 117 
 
 Greenleaf, Frederick William, Lieutenant 220 
 
 Greene, Francis E., Lieutenant 170 
 
 Greer, James Augustin, Rear-Admiral 27 
 
 Gridley, Charles Vernon, Captain 70 
 
 Grier, William, Medical Director 249 
 
 Griffin, Geo. H., Pay Inspector 277 
 
 Griffin, Thomas Dillard, Lieutenant 192 
 
 Griffith, S. H., Surgeon 247 
 
 Grimes, James M., Lieutenant 220 
 
 Guiteras, D. M., Surgeon 268 
 
 Gunnell, Francis M., Medical Director 250 
 
 TTABIGHURST, Conrad J., Chief Engineer 313 
 
 1 Haeseler, Francis Joy, Lieutenant 210 
 
 Hagenman, John William, Lieutenant 219 
 
 Haggerty, Fiancis S., Captain 78 
 
 Hall, M. E., Lieutenant 162 
 
 Halsey, W. K\, Lieutenant 178 
 
 Halpine, Nich. J. Lane Trowbridge, Lieutenant. 226 
 
 Hanford, Franklin, Commander 102 
 
 Hannum, John L., Chief Engineer , 311 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Hannum, William Gangmere, Lieutenant 191 
 
 Hanus, G. C., Lieutenant 169 
 
 Harbor, Giles B., Lieutenant-Commander 142 
 
 Harrington, Purnell Frederick, Captain 66 
 
 Hanington, Francis H., Captain, Marine Corps.. 363 
 
 Harris, Henry, T. B., Paymaster 281 
 
 Harrison, Horace Wellford, Lieutenant 197 
 
 Harris, Uriah Rose, Lieutenant-Commander 145 
 
 Harris, William H., Chief Engineer 307 
 
 Harlow, Charles Henry, Lieutenant 205 
 
 Harmon, George E. H., Surgeon 241 
 
 Haswell, Gouverueur K., Lieut.-Coinmander.... 152 
 
 Hawke, James Albert, Medical Inspector 237 
 
 Hawley, John M., Lieutenant-Commander 138 
 
 Hawley, C. E., Lieutenant-Commander 154 
 
 Haxtun, Milton, Captain 75 
 
 Haycock, George B., Captain, Marine Corps 373 
 
 Hazlett, Isaac, Lieutenant-Commander 155 
 
 Heilner, Lewis Cass, Lieutenant 162 
 
 Helm James M., Lieutenant 183 
 
 Hemphill, Joseph Newton, Commander 104 
 
 Hendee, George E., Pay Inspector 276 
 
 Henderson, Alexander, Chief Engineer 328 
 
 Henderson, Richard, Lieutenant 191 
 
 Heneberger, L. G., Surgeon 243 
 
 Herndon, C. G., Surgeon 243 
 
 Herwig, Henry, Chief Engineer 351 
 
 Heywood, Charles, Col. -Com. (Marine Curps) 352 
 
 Hibbett, Charles T., Surgeon 245 
 
 Higbee, John Henley, Lieut.-Col. (Marine Corps) 308 
 
 Higginson, Francis J., Captain 54 
 
 Hiland, Thomas, Surgeon 265 
 
 Hitherington, James Henry, Lieutenant 203 
 
 Hobbs, I. Goodwin, Paymaster 280 
 
 tiobson, Richmond Pearson, Lieutenant (junior 
 
 grade) 375 
 
 Hodges, Benjamin Ward, Lieutenant 195 
 
 Hodges, Harry M., Lieutenant 186 
 
 Hodgson, Albon Chase, Lieutenant 183 
 
 Hoehling, A. A.. Medical Director 262 
 
 Hogg, William Stetson, Lieutenant 193 
 
 Holcombe, John Hite Lee, Lieutenant 2<)l 
 
 Holman, George Frederick Warren, Lieutenant. 165 
 
 Holmes, Frank H., Lieutenant 180 
 
 Hood, John, Lieutenant 203 
 
 Hoogewerff, John Adrian, Lieutenant 213 
 
 Hooker, Edward, Commander 117 
 
 Hord, William T., Medical Director 256 
 
 Horwitz, Phineas J., Medical Director 253 
 
 Hosley, Harry H., Lieutenant 185 
 
 Houston, Nelson T., Lieutenant 161 
 
 Hourigan, Patrick William, Lieutenant 209 
 
 Houston, Edwin Samuel, Commander 94 
 
 Howard, T. B., Lieutenant 176 
 
 Howard, William L., Lieutenant , 216 
 
 Howell, C. P., Chief Engineer 317 
 
 Howell, John Adams, Commodore 36 
 
 Howison, Henry L., Commodore 37 
 
 Hoy, James, Pay Inspector 293 
 
 Hubbard, John, Lieutenant 162 
 
 Hubbard, Ho rates, Lieutenant-Commander 154 
 
 Hughes, Richard Morris, Lieutenant 201 
 
 Hughes, Aaron K., Rear-Admiral 12 
 
 Hughes, Edward M., Lieutenant 163 
 
 Hughes, Walter Scott, Lieutenant. 184 
 
 Hunker, John J., Commander 101 
 
 Hunker, J. J., Lieutenant 167 
 
 Hunt, Livingston, Paymaster 286 
 
 Hunt, Ridgely, Lieutenant 226 
 
 Huntingdon, Robt.W., Lieut.-Col., Marine Corps 357 
 
 Huse, Harry Pickney, Lieutenant 201 
 
 Hutchins, Charles T., Commander 105 
 
 Hutchins, Hamilton, Lieutenant 181 
 
 TDE, George E., Commander 95 
 
 L Impey, Robert E., Commander 97 
 
 Inch, Philip, Chief Engineer 300 
 
 Inch, Richard, Chief Engineer 314 
 
 Ingersoll, Royal Rodney, Lieutenant-Commander 131 
 
 Irwin, John, Rear-Admiral 26 
 
 Irwin, Wm., Lieutenant 169 
 
 Isherwood, Benjamin F., Chief Engineer 325 
 
 Iverson, A. J., Commander 120 
 
INDEX. 
 
 379 
 
 PAGE 
 
 JACOB, Edwin Samuel, Lieutenant 219 
 
 Jackson, Samuel, Medical Director 2. f ,0 
 
 Jacoby, Harry Mnhlenburg, Lieutenant 222 
 
 Jasper, llobert T., Lieutenant-Commander 133 
 
 Jayne, Joseph L.. Lieutenant 215 
 
 Jewell, Theodore Frelinghuysen, Captain 74 
 
 Johnson, George R., Chief Engineer 334 
 
 Johnson, Mortimer L., Captain 61 
 
 Johnston, Marbury, Lieutenant 215 
 
 Jones, David Phillips, Chief Engineer 349 
 
 Jones, William H., Medical Inspector 205 
 
 Jordan, John Newell, Lieutenant 194 
 
 Jouett, James E., Rear-Admiral 21 
 
 Judd, Charles H., Lieutenant 218 
 
 Jungen, Charles William, Lieutenant 204 
 
 "IT" ANE, Theodore F., Captain 79 
 
 ^ v Karmany. Lincoln, Captain, Marine Corps 367 
 
 Kautz, Albert, Commodore 38 
 
 Kearny, George H., Chief Engineer 317 
 
 Keene, Henry C., Lieutenant 227 
 
 Kelley, James Douglas Jerrold, Lieutenant- 
 Commander 132 
 
 Kellogg, Augustus G., Commander 128 
 
 Kellogg, Wainwright, Lieutenant-Commander... 148 
 
 Kellogg, Frank Woodruff, Lieutenant 208 
 
 Kelton, Allen C , Captain, Marine Corps 364 
 
 Kempff, Louis, Captain 53 
 
 Kennedy, Duncan, Lieutenant-Commander 132 
 
 Kenny, Alberts.. Pay Director 273 
 
 Kerr, Leeds C., Paymaster 285 
 
 Key. Albert L., Lieutenant 216 
 
 Kidder, Benjamin H., Medical Director 260 
 
 Kiersted Andrew J., Chief Engineer 335 
 
 Kilburn. William, Lieutenant 167 
 
 Kimball, William Wirt Lieutenant-Commander 144 
 
 Kimmell, Harry, Lieutenant 202 
 
 Kimberly, Lewis A., Rear-Admiral 23 
 
 Knapp. John Joseph, Lieutenant 203 
 
 Kindleberger, David, Medical Director 258 
 
 Kin?, James W , Chief Engineer 331 
 
 Kirby, Absalom, Chief Engineer 341 
 
 Kirkland, William A., Rear-Admiral 1 
 
 Knapp, Harry Shepurd, Lieutenant 199 
 
 Knight, A. M., Lieutenant 176 
 
 Knox, Harry, Coimnan er 106 
 
 Kutz, George F., Chief Engineer 340 
 
 T AIRD, Charles, Lieutenant 14 
 
 " Lamberton, Benjamin Peffer, Captain 75 
 
 Lamson, Roswell H., Lieutenant 266 
 
 Lansdale, Philip Van Home, Lieutenant 196 
 
 Lasher, 0. E., Lieutenant 226 
 
 Latch, Edward Biddle, Chief Engineer 347 
 
 Law, Homer L., Surgeon 208 
 
 Lawrence, Jas. Peyton Stuart, Chief Engineer... 322 
 
 Laws, Elijah, Chief Engineer 337 
 
 Leach, Philip. Surgeon 249 
 
 Leary, Richard Phi lips, Captain 71 
 
 Lefavor, Frederick Herbert, Lieutenant 171 
 
 Leiper, Edward Faysson, Lieutenant 210 
 
 Leitch, Robert R., Chief Engineer ...... 351 
 
 Lemly, S. C., Lieutenant 177 
 
 Leutze, Eugene H. C., Commander 108 
 
 Lewis, D. O., Surgeon 244 
 
 Lillie, Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, Commander. 104 
 
 Lisle, Robert P., Pay Inspector 275 
 
 Lisle, Richard Mason, Lieutenant 219 
 
 Little, William McC., Lieutenant 218 
 
 Little, William, Lieutenant 220 
 
 Little, William N., Chief Engineer ". 323 
 
 Littlefield, Charles W., Paymaster 284 
 
 Lloyd, Edward, jr., Lieutenant 200 
 
 Longnecker, Edwin. Commander 94 
 
 Logan, Leavitt Cuitis. Commander 116 
 
 Looker, Thomas H., Pay Director 287 
 
 Loomis. J. Porter, Paymaster 281 
 
 Lope/, Robert Filf s, Lieutenant 200 
 
 Loring, Charles Harding, Chief Engineer 334 
 
 Lovering, P. A.. Surgeon 245 
 
 Low, William Franklin, Lieutenant ! 160 
 
 Lowe, John, Chief Engineer 306 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Lowry, Horatio B., Lieutenant-Colonel, Ma 
 rine Corps 369 
 
 Lowry, Francis, Captain 78 
 
 Luby, John Fra/,er, Lieutenant 212 
 
 Luce, Stephen Bleecker, Rear-Admiral 20 
 
 Ludlow, Nicoli, Captain 67 
 
 Lumsden, George Peebles, Surgeon 246 
 
 Lyon, GeorgH A., Pay Inspector 674 
 
 Lyon, Henry Ware, Commander 99 
 
 Lyons, Timothy Augustine, Commander 125 
 
 A/TcCALLA, Bowman H., Commander 86 
 
 1VJ - McCann, William P., Commodore 46 
 
 McCarteuey. Charles Macklin, Lieutenant 226 
 
 McCartney, Daniel P., Chie|Kngineer 342 
 
 McCawley, Charles L., Quart erm aster, Marine 
 
 Corps (General Staff) 356 
 
 McClure, George McCully, Lieutenant 227 
 
 McClurg, W. A., Surgeon 243 
 
 McCormick, Alexander H., Captain 56 
 
 McCrackin, Alexander, Lieutenant 162 
 
 McCrea, Henry, Lieutenant 172 
 
 McDonald, Mitchell C., Paymaster 285 
 
 McEluiell, Jackson, Chief Engineer 330 
 
 McGowan, John, Commander 88 
 
 Mclntosh, H. P., Lieutenant 217 
 
 McKay, Charles E., Lieutenant Commander 151 
 
 McKean, Frederick G., Chief Engineer 343 
 
 McLean, Thomas Chalmers, Lieut. -Commander... 134 
 
 McLean, Walter, Lieutenant 190 
 
 McMechan, Andrew Charles, Lieutenant 222 
 
 McMurtrie, Daniel, Medical Director 232 
 
 McNair, Antoine H., Lieutenant-Commander 151 
 
 McNair, Frederick Vallette, Commodore 35 
 
 McNary, Isaac R., Chief Engineer 343 
 
 Maccarty, GilnertM. L., Chief Engineer 344 
 
 Mackenzie, M. R. S., Commander 100 
 
 Machette, Henry C., Paymaster 297 
 
 Macomb, David B., Chief Engineer 328 
 
 Magee, Edward A., Chief Engineer 350 
 
 Magee, George W.. Chief Engineer 348 
 
 Magruder, A. F., Surgeon 267 
 
 Mahan, Alfred T., Captain 77 
 
 Mahan, Dennis Hart, Lieutenant 160 
 
 Main, Herschell, Chief Engineer 351 
 
 Manney, Henry Newman, Commander 103 
 
 Mansfield, Henry B., Commander 110 
 
 Marix, Adolph, Lieuteuant-Commander 131 
 
 Marmion, Robert Augustine, Medical Inspector. 237 
 
 Marsh, Charles Carlton, Lieutenant 204 
 
 Marstellar, E. H., Surgeon 247 
 
 Marshall, W. A., Lieutenant 169 
 
 Martin, John R., Paymaster 285 
 
 Martin, William, Surgeon 268 
 
 Mason, Henry, Chief Engineer 347 
 
 Mason, Theodorus Bailey Myers, Lieut.-Com 158 
 
 Mason, Newton Eliphalet, Lieut. -Commander 143 
 
 Matthews, E. 0., Rear-Admiral 3 
 
 May, Edward, Pay Director 270 
 
 Mayer, Augustus Newkirk, Lieutenant 211 
 
 Maynard, Washburn, Commander 99 
 
 Mayo, Henry T., Lieutenant 188 
 
 Mayo, William Kennon, Commodore 44 
 
 Maxwell, William John, Lieutenant 212 
 
 Mead, William Whitman, Commander 94 
 
 Monde, Robert L., Lieut.-Colonel, Marine Corps.. 359 
 
 Means, Victor C. B., Surgeon 249 
 
 Meeker, E. P., Captain, Marine Corps 371 
 
 Melville, George W., Chief Engineer 3ol 
 
 Menefee, Danit-1 Preston, Lieutenant 207 
 
 Mentz, George W., Lieutenant 167 
 
 Mertz. Alhert, Lieutenant 175 
 
 Merrell, John Porter, Commander 107 
 
 Merriam, Greenlief Augustus, Lieutenant 166 
 
 Merry, John F., Commander 98 
 
 Mich ler, A. K., Paymaster 284 
 
 Mickley, Joseph P., Chief Engineer 318 
 
 Miller, Frederick Augustus, Lieut. Commander.. 155 
 
 Miller, James M., Commander 112 
 
 Miller, Joseph N, Rear-Admiral 1 
 
 Miller, Merrill, Captain 60 
 
 Milligan, Robert W., Chief Engineer 314 
 
 Milton, J. B., Lieutenant 167 
 
380 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Minett, Henry, Lieutenant 192 
 
 Moore, Charles B. T., Lieutenant 179 
 
 Moore, And ew Moses, Surgeon 266 
 
 Moore, Edwin King, Lieutenant-Commander 136 
 
 Moore, John H., Lieutenant-Commander 151 
 
 Moore, John W., Chief Engineer 329 
 
 Moore, William I., Commander 107 
 
 Moore, William S., Chief Engineer 317 
 
 Morgan, Stokeley, Lieutenant 210 
 
 Morley, Albert W., Chief Engineer 341 
 
 Morong, John C., Commander 121 
 
 Morrell, Henry, Lieutenant 178 
 
 Morrison, George F., Lieutenant-Commander 153 
 
 Morse, Jerome E., Lieutenant 217 
 
 Moser, J. F., Lieutenant-Commander 133 
 
 Mudd, John A., Paymaster 287 
 
 Muir, William Carpenter Pendleton, Lieutenant. 210 
 
 Mullan, Dennis Walbach, Commander.. 113 
 
 Mulligan, Richard Thomas, Lieutenant 192 
 
 Murdock, Joseph Ballard, Lieutenant 163 
 
 Murphy, Paul St. C., Captain, Marine Corps 366 
 
 Murray, James D., Pay Director 288 
 
 Muse, William S., Lieut.-Oolonel, Marine Corps.. 362 
 
 "M"AILE, Frederick Irvin, Commander 1-2 
 
 111 Nauman, William H., Chief Engineer 319 
 
 Nazro, Arthur P., Lieutenant-Commander 144 
 
 Neilson, John L., Medical Inspector 238 
 
 Nelson, Thomas, Commander 117 
 
 Nelson, Valentine Sevier, Lieutenant 197 
 
 Newman, William B., Commander 120 
 
 Newton, John Thomas, Lieutenant 189 
 
 Niblack, Albert Parker, Lieutenant 209 
 
 Nichols, Henry Ezra, Commander 93 
 
 Nichols, Smith Woodward, Commander 123 
 
 Nicholson, Augustus S., Major Marine Corps 368 
 
 Nicholson, Reginald*F., Lieutenant 177 
 
 Nicholson, Somerville, Commodore 43 
 
 Nickels, John Augustine Heard, Lieutenant- 
 Commander 150 
 
 Niles, Kossuth, Lieutenant 160 
 
 Niles, Nathan Eric, Lieutenant-Commander 140 
 
 Noel, York, Lieutenant 182 
 
 Nones, Henry Beauchamp, Chief Engineer 340 
 
 Norfleet, Ernest, Surgeon 268 
 
 Norris, John A., Lieutenant-Commander 148 
 
 Norton, Charles S., Rear-Admiral 4 
 
 OBERLY, A. S., Medical Inspector 264 
 Ogden, Julien S., Chief Engineer 317 
 
 Oliver, James Harrison, Lieutenant 198 
 
 O Neil, Charles, Captain 73 
 
 Orchard, John Madison, Lieutenant 194 
 
 Osborn, Arthur Patterson, Lieutenant-Com 
 mander 143 
 
 Osterhaus, Hugo, Lieutenant 163 
 
 T3AINE, Sumner Cummings, Lieutenant-Com 
 mander 142 
 
 Parker, James Philips, Lieutenant 195 
 
 Parker, John F.. Lieutenant 181 
 
 Parker, Joseph B., Medical Director 236 
 
 Parks, Rufus, Pay Director 271 
 
 Parks, Wythe M., Chief Engineer 323 
 
 Patch, Nathaniel Jordan Knight, Lieutenant- 
 Commander 149 
 
 Payne, E. D., Surgeon 265 
 
 Peacock, David, Lieutenant 225 
 
 Peck, George, Medical Director 254 
 
 Peck, RobertG., Lieutenant 161 
 
 P ndleton, p:dwin C., Commander 110 
 
 Penrose, Thmas N., Medical Director 260 
 
 Percy, H. T., Surgeon 248 
 
 Perkins, Chas. Plumner, Lieutenant-Commander 141 
 
 Perkins, George Hamilton 49 
 
 Perry, J. H., Chief Engineer 318 
 
 Perry, Thomas, C mmander 95 
 
 Persons, Remus C.. Surgeon 243 
 
 Peters, George Henry, Lieutenant 180 
 
 Peterson, Arthur, Paymaster 284 
 
 Phelps, Harry, Lieutenant 208 
 
 FAGK 
 
 Phelps, Thomas Stowell, Lieutenant-Commander. 149 
 
 Phelps, Thomas S., Rear- Admiral 14 
 
 Philip, John W., Captain 52 
 
 Phythian, Robert L., Commodore 49 
 
 Picking, Henry F., Captain 52 
 
 Pigmau, G orge W., Commander 88 
 
 Pillsbury. John Elliott, Lieutenant-Commander.. 130 
 Pope, P. C., Lieutenant-Colonel Marine Corps.... 358 
 
 Porter, Theodoric, Lieutenant-Commander 150 
 
 Porter, Carlile P., Captain Marine Corps 364 
 
 Potter, Edward E., Commodore 48 
 
 Potter. William P., Lieutenant-Commander 142 
 
 Potts, Robert, Chief Engineer 338 
 
 Potts, Stacy, Chief Engineer 321 
 
 Potts, Templin M., Lieutenant 187 
 
 Pond, Chai les Fremont, Lieutenant 189 
 
 Poundstone, Homer Clarke, Lieutenant 216 
 
 Poyer, John M., Lieutenant 209 
 
 Price, Abel F., Medical Inspector 237 
 
 Prime, Ebenezer Scudder,Lieutenant-Commander 140 
 Prince, Thomas C., Captain and Assistant Quar 
 termaster Marine Corps ((ieneral Staff) 356 
 
 Pritchard, Arthur J., Pay-Director 290 
 
 Purcell, John Lewis, Lieutenant 208 
 
 Putnam, Edwin, Pay-Inspector 275 
 
 (UINBY, John Gardner, Lieutenant. 
 
 "DAE, Charles Whiteside, Chief Engineer 316 
 
 -" Ramsay, Francis M., Rear-Admiral 32 
 
 Randall, William P., Lieutenant Commander 156 
 
 Rand, Stephen, Jr., Paymaster 281 
 
 Ransom, George B., Chief Engineer 320 
 
 Ray, Charles M., Paymaster 285 
 
 Read, George H., Paymaster 299 
 
 Read, John J., Capta n 61 
 
 Rearick, P. A., Chief Engineer 303 
 
 Reamey, Lazarus Lowry, Lieutenant 165 
 
 Redfield J. Bayard, Paymaster 280 
 
 Reed, Allen V., Captain 76 
 
 Reeder, William Herron, Lieutenant-Comman 
 der. 130 
 
 Rees, Corwin Pottenger, Lieutenant 164 
 
 Rees Rush, William, Lieutenant 199 
 
 Reeves, Isaac S. K., Chief Engineer 322 
 
 Reid, George C., Adjutant and Inspector, Ma 
 rine Corps (General Staff.) 355 
 
 Reid, Robert I., Chief Engineer 325 
 
 Reisinger, William Wagner, Commander 101 
 
 Reiter, George Cook, Commander 93 
 
 Remey, George C., Commodore 39 
 
 Reynolds, Alfred, Lieutenent 179 
 
 Rhoades, Archibald C., Medical Inspector 264 
 
 Richman, Clayton Scott, Lieutenant 161 
 
 Ring, James A., Paymaster 283 
 
 Ripley, Charles Stedman, Lieutenant 227 
 
 Rittenhouse, H. 0., Lieutenant 161 
 
 Rixey, M. D., Presley Marion, Surgeon 242 
 
 Roben, Douglas, Lieutenant 218 
 
 Robeson, Henry B., Commodore 41 
 
 Robie, Edward Dunham, Chief Engineer 328 
 
 Robinson, John Marshall, Lieutenant 179 
 
 Robinson, Lewis Wood, Chief Engineer 306 
 
 Robinson, Erastus R., Captain Marine Corps 363 
 
 Roche, George W., Chief Engineer 342 
 
 Rockwell, Charles H., Comrnandr 89 
 
 Rodgers, Frederick, Captain 53 
 
 Rodgers, Raymond P., Lieutenant Commander.. 133 
 
 Rodgers, John R., Lieutenant Commander 138 
 
 Rodgers, Thomas Slidell, Lieutenant 198 
 
 Rodgers, William Ledyard, Lieutenant 200 
 
 Rodman, Hugh, Lieutenant 213 
 
 Rodney, Robert Burton, Paymaster 298 
 
 Roe, F. A.. Rear-Admiral 16 
 
 Roelker. Charles R., Chief Engineer 310 
 
 Rohrer, Karl. Lieutenant-Commander 149 
 
 Rohrbacher, Joseph Hamilton, Lieutenant 211 
 
 Roller, J. E.. Lieutenant 169 
 
 Rooney, William R. A , Lieutenant 182 
 
 Ross, John W., Surgeon 266 
 
 Ross, H. Schuyler, Chief Engineer 310 
 
 Ross, Albert, Commander Ill 
 
INDEX. 
 
 381 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Koper, J. M., Lieutenant 174 
 
 Rose, Waldemar d Arcy, Lieutenant 189 
 
 Rogers, Eustace B., Paymaster 285 
 
 Rogers, Allen Grey, Lieutenant 202 
 
 Rogers, Charles Custis, Lieutenant 189 
 
 Rogers, Franklin, Surgeon 240 
 
 Russell, Benjamin K., Captain Marine Corps 365 
 
 Rutherford, William H., Chief Engineer 346 
 
 Rush, Richard, Commander 114 
 
 Russell, Alexander W., Pay Director 288 
 
 Russell, Averley Claude Holmes, Surgeon 247 
 
 Rush, William H., Surgeon 247 
 
 Ryau, Thomas William, Lieutenant 205 
 
 212 
 223 
 
 C AFFORD, William Edwin, Lieutenant 
 
 O Salter, T. G. C , Lieutenant 
 
 Sampson, William T., Captain 51 
 
 Sands, James H., Captain 65 
 
 Sargent, Nathan, Lieutenant 165 
 
 Sartori, Louis C., Commodore 42 
 
 Sawyer, F. E., Lieutenant 175 
 
 Sawyer, George A., Paymaster 295 
 
 Schenck, Caspar, Pay Director 290 
 
 Schetky, Charles A., Commander 118 
 
 Schley, Winfleld S., Commodore 42 
 
 Schofleld, Walter K., Medical Director 228 
 
 Schouler, John, Commander 83 
 
 Schroeder, Seaton. Lieutenant- Commander 134 
 
 Schuetz, W. H.. Lieutenant 176 
 
 Schwenk, Milton Klinger, Lieutenant 226 
 
 Scot, John A., Chief Engineer 344 
 
 Scott, Bernard 0., Lieutenant 182 
 
 Seabury, Samuel, Lieutenant 224 
 
 Sears, James H., Lieutenant 188 
 
 Sears, Walter J., Lieutenant 205 
 
 Sebree. Uriel, Commander 109 
 
 Seely, Henry B., Captain 77 
 
 Sensner, George W., Chief Engineer 347 
 
 Selfridge, James Russell, Lieutenant-Commander 137 
 
 Selfridge, Thomas , Rear- Admiral 6 
 
 Selfridge, Thomas O., Jr., Rear-Admiral 34 
 
 Sewell, W. E., Lieutenant 172 
 
 Shearman, John A., Lieutenant 186 
 
 Sharp, Alexander, Jr., Lieutenant 185 
 
 Shaw, Charles P., Lieutenant 219 
 
 Shepard, Edwin M., Captain 61 
 
 Sheppard, Francis H., Lieutenant-Commander... 154 
 
 Sherman. Francis Rowland, Lieutenant 192 
 
 Shipley, John H., Lieutenant 203 
 
 Shippen, Edward, Medical Director 253 
 
 Shock, William II., Chief-Engineer 325 
 
 Sicard, Montgomery, Rear-Admiral 2 
 
 Siegfried, Charles A., Surgeon ... 239 
 
 Sigsbee, Charles D., Captain 70 
 
 Singer, Frederick, Lieutenant-Commander 139 
 
 Simons, Manly H., Surgeon 241 
 
 Simpson, Edward. Lieutenant 210 
 
 Simpson, George W., Paymaster 287 
 
 Sims, William Lowden, Lieutenant 211 
 
 Skelding, Henry T , Paymaster 295 
 
 Slamm, Charles W., Pay Inspector 278 
 
 Smith, D. A., Pay Inspector 277 
 
 Smith, David, Chief Engineer 338 
 
 Smith, Frederick Robinson, Commander 127 
 
 Smith, Howard, Surgeon 268 
 
 Smith, James T., Lieutenant 187 
 
 Smith, John A. B., Chief Engineer 312 
 
 Smith, Joseph Adams, Pay Director 272 
 
 Smith, Roy Campbell, Lieutenant 200 
 
 Snow, Albert Sydney, Commander 92 
 
 Snowden, Thomas, Lieutenant 207 
 
 Soley, John C., Lieutenant 217 
 
 Southerland, W. H. H., Lieutenant 173 
 
 Spear, John C., Medical Inspector 263 
 
 Speel, John N., Paymaster 283 
 
 Sperry, Charles Stillman, Commander 100 
 
 Speyers, Arthur Bayard, Lieut.- Commander 140 
 
 Spicer, William F., Captain Marine Corps 365 
 
 Stafford, George Henry, Lieutenant 2()2 
 
 Stancliff, Henry Trumbull, Paymaster 297 
 
 Stanton, J. R., Paymaster 283 
 
 Stanton, Oscar F.."Rear-Admiral 29 
 
 Staunton, S. A., Lieutenant 167 
 
 Stedman, E. M., Lieutenant-Commander 153 
 
 Steele, John M.. Surgeon 246 
 
 Stembel, R. N., Rear-Admiral 7 
 
 Stephenson, Frauklin Bache, Surgeon 242 
 
 Stevens, Thomas II., Lieutenant-Commander 141 
 
 Stevenson, John H.. Pay Inspector 293 
 
 Stevenson. H. N., Chief Engineer... 315 
 
 Stewart, Edwin, Pay Director 271 
 
 Stewart, Henry, Surgeon 267 
 
 Stewart, John W., Lieutenant 180 
 
 Stillman. Charles A., Captain Marine Corps 372 
 
 Stirling, Yates, Captain 66 
 
 Stockton, Charles Herbert, Commander 96 
 
 Stoney, George M., Lieutenant 186 
 
 Streets, Thomas H., Surg^n 241 
 
 Strong, Edward T., Commander 97 
 
 Strong, William Couenhover, Lieutenant 222 
 
 Stuart, Daniel Delehanty Vincent, Lieut. -Com... 150 
 
 Sturdy, Edward William, Lieut-Commander 132 
 
 Sullivan, John Thomas, Lieutenant 219 
 
 Suruner, George Watson, Captain 55 
 
 Swan, Francis H., Pay Inspector 293 
 
 Swanu, Thomas L., Commander 123 
 
 Swift, Franklin, Lieutenant 212 
 
 j Swift, William, Commander 110 
 
 I Swinburne, William Thomas, Commander 104 
 
 ; Symonds, Frederick Martin, Commander Ill 
 
 BANNER, Zera L., Commander ... 
 Tappau, Benjamin, Lieutenant 
 
 120 
 
 190 
 
 Tarbell, John F., Paymaster 297 
 
 Taussig, Edward David, Lieutenant-Commander. 129 
 
 Taylor, A. S., Captain Marine Corps 374 
 
 Taylor, Henry Clay, Captain 63 
 
 Taylor, John Y., Medical Director 256 
 
 Taylor, William E., Medical Inspector 263 
 
 Terry, Silas Wright, Captain.. 59 
 
 Thomas, Chauncey, Lieutenant 168 
 
 Thomas, Charles Mitchell, Commander 92 
 
 Thompson, Charles P., Paymaster 295 
 
 Thompson, Theodore S., Paymaster 279 
 
 Thomson, James W., Chief Engineer 340 
 
 Thomson, William J., Paymaster 280 
 
 Tilley, Benjamin Franklin, Commander 106 
 
 Tillman, Edwin Hord, Lieutenant 207 
 
 Tilton, McLane, Lieutenant-Col. Marine Corps... 368 
 
 Todd, Chapman Coleman, Commander 103 
 
 Tolfree, James E., Pay Director 273 
 
 Tower, George E., Chief Engineer 345 
 
 Tracy, Charles Wurtz, Lieutenant-Commander... 153 
 
 Train, Charles J., Commander 86 
 
 Tremain, Hobart L., Lieutenant 220 
 
 Trilley, Joseph, Chief Engineer 302 
 
 Truxtun, William, Lieutenant 209 
 
 Tryon, J. Rufus, Medical Director 234 
 
 Turnbull, Frank, Lieutenant 218 
 
 Turner, Thomas J., Medical Director 256 
 
 Turner, William Henry, Lieutenant-Commander 147 
 Tyler, H. R., Lieutenant 217 
 
 UNDERWOOD, E. B., Lieutenant 177 
 Upshur, John H., Rear-Admiral 16 
 
 Usher, Nathaniel R., Lieutenant 184 
 
 TTAIL, Holman, Lieutenant-Commander 155 
 
 Van Duzer, Louis Sayre, Lieutenant 211 
 
 Van Reypen, William K., Medical Inspector 229 
 
 Veeder, Ten Eyck DeWitt, Lieutenant 179 
 
 Very, Samuel Williams, Commander 103 
 
 Vreeland, Charles Edward, Lieutenant 164 
 
 "\17ADIIAMS, Albion Varette, Lieut.-Comman- 
 W der 136 
 
 Wadleigh, George Henry, Captain 64 
 
 Waggener, James R., Surgeon 240 
 
 Wainwright, Richard, Lieutenant-Commander... 136 
 Wainwright, Robert Dewar, Captain Marine 
 
 Corps 374 
 
 Wales, Philip S., Medical Director 259 
 
 Walker, Asa, Commander 100 
 
382 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE I PAGE 
 
 Walker, John G., Rear-Admiral 32 | Wilner, Frank A., Lieutenant 178 
 
 Wallace, Rush R., Commodore 49 Wilson, D. L., Lieutenant 225 
 
 Wallach, Richard, Captain Marine Corps 364 j Wilson Fletcher A., Chief Engineer 339 
 
 Waller, Littleton W. T., Captain Marine Corps... 367 j Wilson, Henry B., Lieutenant V513 
 
 Walling, Burns Trcy, Lieutenant 187 Wilson, John Clark, Lieutenant- Commander 144 
 
 Walton, Thomas Cameron, Medical Director 2 9 Winder, William, Lieutenant 178 
 
 Warburton, Edgar T., Chief Engineer 324 j Windsor, William A., Chief Engineer 310 
 
 Ward, Aaron, Lieutenant 168 I Winn, John K., Commander 119 
 
 Watmongh, James H., Pay Director 287 : Winslow, Cameron McR., Lieutenant 183 
 
 Watson, Eugene W., Commander 98 : Winslow, Francis, Lieutenant 223 
 
 Watson, J. Critt-nden, Commodore 41 ; Winslow, George F., Medical Director 235 
 
 Watts, William, Lieutenant 218 Winslovv, Herbert, Lieutenant-Commander 147 
 
 Weaver, Aaron Ward, Rea,r- Admiral 28 Wiuterhalter, Albert Gustav. Lieutenant 193 
 
 Webb, William H., Lieutenant-Commander 156 Wise, Frederick May, Commander 112. 
 
 Webster, Frank D., Captain Marine Corps 374 Wise, John C., Medical Inspector 238 
 
 Webster, Harrie, Chief Engineer 315 Wise, William Clinton, Captain 66 
 
 Webster, Leroy C., Captain Marine Corps 366 Witzel, Horace Mark, Lieutenant 193 
 
 Wells, Henry M., Medical Director 259 Wood, Albert Norton, Lieutenant 200 
 
 Wells, Howard, Surgeon 241 ! Wood, Benjamin F., Chief Engineer 342 
 
 Werlich, Percival Julius, Lieutenant 199 j Wood, Edward Parker, Commander Ill 
 
 West, Clifford Hardy, Commander 106 | Wood, Moses Lindley, Lieutenant 185 
 
 Wharton, Benjamin B. H., Chief Engineer 336 Wood, Spencer Shepard, Lieutenant 214 
 
 White, Charles II., Medical Director :...-.. 230 i Wood, Thomas L., Captain Marine Corps 366 
 
 White, Edwin, Commander 86 i Woodhull, William W., Pay Inspector 276 
 
 White, Harry K., Captain Marine Corps 367 Woodrow, David C., Lieutenant-Commander 153 
 
 White. William Potter, Lieutenant 202 j Woods, George Worth, Medical Director 230 
 
 Whitehouse, Edward N., Paymaster 299 Woolverton, Theoron, Medical Inspector 264 
 
 Whittelsey, William B., Lieutenant 215 I Worthington, Walter Fitzhugh, Chief Engineer.. 323 
 
 Whiting, Robert, Surgeon 269 i Wright, Edward Everett, Lieutenant 194 
 
 Whiting, William Henry, Captain 71 Wright, Henry T., Pay Inspector 277 
 
 Wieber, Francis W. F., Surgeon 249 Wyckoff, Ambrose Berkley, Lieutenant 220 
 
 Wilcox, Willis B., Paymaster 287 
 
 Wilde, George F. F., Commander 85 
 
 Williams, rhas. F^eVt . -Colonel MarVne Corps . 359 V UNG JameS M Tl) Ca P tain Marlne Corps... 361 
 
 Williams, C. S., Paymaster 286 ^ung, Lucien, Lieutenant 173 
 
 Williams, William W., Pay Director 270 
 
 Williamson, Thomas, Chief Engineer 330 
 
 Willits, Albert B., Chief Engineer 322 yANE, Abraham V., Chief Engineer 321 
 
 Willits George S., Chief Engineer 323 ^ Zeller, Theodore, Chief Eugineer 326 
 
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 Can be cured 
 
 BY USING 
 
 LAVILLE S REMEDIES 
 
 LAVILLE S LIQUOR (compound kino and 
 colocynthin) is the remedy for the acute 
 and inflammatory form. It relieves quickly 
 after one or two doses. Taken at the 
 first sign of an attack Laville s Liquor 
 prevents its development. 
 
 DOSE : One to two teaspoonfuls a day ; in violent attacks 
 three teaspoonfuls. 
 
 LAV1LLL S PILLS of silicate of soda, are 
 used in cases of chronic gout, and taken 
 between the attacks they prevent their 
 return. 
 
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STANDARD HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES. 
 
 DR. D. JAYNE S 
 
 FAMILY MEDICINES 
 
 Are prepared with great care expressly for family use, and are so admirably 
 calculated to preserve health and remove disease that no family should be 
 without them. They consist ot 
 
 Expectorant f r Colds, Coughs, Asthma, Consumption and all 
 Lung and Throat Affections. It may be depended 
 
 on to promote cures by facilitating expectoration, and allaying inflammation. 
 
 Jayne s Tonic Vermifuge. There is no better ToNIC for- Adults or 
 
 - Children, and it is especially useful in all 
 
 cases of Disordered Digestion. For General Debility, Dyspepsia, and 
 Sour Stomach, it is a certain curative, and for Worms and Intermittent 
 Fevers of Children it is an old-time remedy. 
 
 Jayne s Carminative Balsam, for Bowel and summer complaints, 
 
 - - - -- Colics, Cramps, Cholera, etc. It is a 
 certain cure for Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus, and Inflammation of the 
 Bowels. 
 
 Jayne s Specific for Tape-Worm is a sure destroyer of this 
 
 - - - -- some parasite, and usually drives 
 it from the body in two or three hours. 
 
 Alterative * s tne surest medicine for Purifying the Blood, and 
 of established efficacy for curing Scrofula, Goitre, 
 
 Dropsy, Epilepsy, Salt Rheum, and all Diseases of the Skin and Bones. 
 
 Liniment or Counter Irritant, for Sprains, Bruises, Soreness in 
 the Bones or Muscles, helpful in Rheumatism or 
 
 Neuralgia, and useful in all cases where an external application is 
 appropriate. 
 
 Sanative PillS, sma]1 size sugar-coated, and a mild Aperient or 
 active Purgative, according to dose, and an 
 
 effective remedy for all Bilious Affections, Liver Complaints, Costive- 
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 Hair ToniC, f r tne Preservation, Beautifying, Growth, and 
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 In settlements and localities where the attendance of a Physician cannot 
 be readily obtained, Families will find these Remedies of great service. The 
 Directions which accompany them are in plain, unprofessional language, 
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 Guide to Health, to be had gratis of all Agents, contains besides a reliable 
 Calendar, a Catalogue of Diseases, THE SYMPTOMS BY WHICH THEY MAY BE 
 KNOWN, together with advice as to the proper remedies to be used. 
 
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