. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . lated him for his manyservices at this critical period. His next service wasas fleet-captain, Asiatic Fleet, under Admiral Rowan,where he served three years. Captain, April 1, 1872;Naval Rendezvous at San Francisco; captain of theyard, Boston, to June, 1873 ; then in command of Lan-caster, as chief of staff, also on a cruise on the coastof Brazil ; at the Naval Station, New London; memberof Board of Examiners at the Naval Academy in April,1879; served as president of a board to revise the allow-ance books of the Bureaus of
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . lated him for his manyservices at this critical period. His next service wasas fleet-captain, Asiatic Fleet, under Admiral Rowan,where he served three years. Captain, April 1, 1872;Naval Rendezvous at San Francisco; captain of theyard, Boston, to June, 1873 ; then in command of Lan-caster, as chief of staff, also on a cruise on the coastof Brazil ; at the Naval Station, New London; memberof Board of Examiners at the Naval Academy in April,1879; served as president of a board to revise the allow-ance books of the Bureaus of the Navy Department;received letters of commendation from Department, andfrom Admiral Le Roy; torpedo station, as president ofthe Board of Examiners, 1S83; governor of the U. Asylum, Philadelphia, October, 1883; commis-sioned a rear-admiral in the navy, October, 1885; de-tached from the command of the Naval Asylum, andtransferred to the retired list, under the operation of thelaw, having reached sixty-two years of age. OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AXD NAVY (regular). CAPTAIN WILLIAM PENNOCK ROGERS, Captain William Pennock Rogers (Seventeenth In-fantry) was born in Maryland September [6, [842. Heentered the volunteer service early in the war of the Re-bellion as corporal of Company II, of the Seventh Mary-land Infantry, August 21, 1862, and served with his regi-ment in the operations of the Army of the Potomac fromthat time to 1S65. lie was engaged in the battle ofSharpsburg, Maryland, July, 1863 ; Haymarket, Virginia,October, 1863; the Wilderness, Virginia, and Spottsyl-vania, Virginia, 1864, in which he was wounded and losthis left arm. He was discharged from the volunteer ser-vice May 4. 1865, and was appointed in the regular service,second lieutenant Forty-fourth Infantry, July 28, 1X66. He was at Fort Greble, Maryland, from December,1 86, to ()ctober, 1867, guarding public property ; then atWashington City until 1869, when he was transferred tothe Seventeenth Infant
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