. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ent and in thetrenches at the reduction of Vera Cruz, and at the cap-ture of Tuspan and Tabasco; Coast Survey, 1848-49;frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1850-51; frigateConstitution, coast of Africa, 1852-55 ; Coast Survey,commanding steamer Bibb ami schooner Gallatin,1856-57 ; steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squad-ron, 1858-59; commandant of midshipmen at NavalAcademy, 1860-61. Commissioned as commander Oc-tober 15, 1861; served in steam-frigate Wabash ascaptain and fleet-captain, 1861-63, commanding that shipat the
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ent and in thetrenches at the reduction of Vera Cruz, and at the cap-ture of Tuspan and Tabasco; Coast Survey, 1848-49;frigate Congress, Brazil Squadron, 1850-51; frigateConstitution, coast of Africa, 1852-55 ; Coast Survey,commanding steamer Bibb ami schooner Gallatin,1856-57 ; steam-frigate Wabash, Mediterranean Squad-ron, 1858-59; commandant of midshipmen at NavalAcademy, 1860-61. Commissioned as commander Oc-tober 15, 1861; served in steam-frigate Wabash ascaptain and fleet-captain, 1861-63, commanding that shipat the battle of Port Royal, November, 1861, and thenaval force in the trenches at the reduction of FortPulaski, January 27, 1862. While in the Wabash,much employed on detached service, in command of adivision of gun-boats, in retaking the coast and inlets ofGeorgia and Florida, and South Carolina south of PortRoyal; fleet-captain in the New Ironsides, in the attackon Charleston, April 7, 1863. Rear-Admiral Dupont, inhis official report of that engagement, says: On this, as. on all other occasions, I had invaluable assistance fromthe fleet-captain, C. R. P. Rodgers, who was with me inthe pilot-house directing the movements of the now over eighteen months in this war this officer hasbeen afloat with me, and in my opinion no language couldoverstate his services to his country, to this fleet, and tomyself as its commander-in-chief. Commanded steam-sloop Iroquois, 1863-65, on special service. Commis-sioned as captain July 25, 1866; navy-yard, Norfolk,[865-67; commanded steam-frigate Franklin, Medi-terranean Squadron, 1868-70. Commissioned as com-modore August 28, 1870; special service in Europe, 1871 ;chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks, October, [ as rear-admiral June 14, [874; superin-tendent Naval Academy, 1874-78; commanding PacificSquadron, 1878-80; superintendent Naval Academy,1881. Retired 1881. Died 1892. In 1884 Rear-Admiral Raymond Rodgers was pres
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