. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . DAVID D. PORTER, Rear-Admiral U. S. X., born in Philadelphia, about 1814 ; instructed atNaval School, Annapolis; entered navy as midshipman, Feb. 2,1829 ; cruis-ed in the Meditterranean for several years; became passed-midshipman, July3d, 1835, and for some years engaged in the Coast Survey; Lieut., Feb. 27,1841, and ordered to Meditter
. Lloyd's battle history of the great rebellion : complete, from the capture of Fort Sumter, April 14, 1861, to the capture of Jefferson Davis, May 10, 1865, embracing General Howard's tribute to the volunteer ... and a general review of the war for the union . DAVID D. PORTER, Rear-Admiral U. S. X., born in Philadelphia, about 1814 ; instructed atNaval School, Annapolis; entered navy as midshipman, Feb. 2,1829 ; cruis-ed in the Meditterranean for several years; became passed-midshipman, July3d, 1835, and for some years engaged in the Coast Survey; Lieut., Feb. 27,1841, and ordered to Meditterranean and afterward Brazil Squadron;assigned to duty at Observatory, Washington, 1845; took part in the captureof Vera Cruz, Mexican War; was ordered to Naval Rendezvous, NewOrleans, and thence to Coast Survey; commanded mail steamers Pana-ma and Georgia, 1849-53; , 1855, on storeship Sup-ply, and at Portsmouth Navy Yard ; Commander in 1861, on the Powhatan,AYest Gulf Blockading Squadron; commanded mortar fleet, in 1862, belowNew Orleans ; cruised on Mississippi River till Aug., 1862 ; ordered to theJames River, and on Oct. 22, assigned to command Upper Mississippi fleet,as Acting Rear-Admiral; co-operated in the siege of Vicksburg, sen
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