. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . of thewar he was brevetted captain and major for gallant andmeritorious conduct. From May, 1878, to July, 1879, he was on duty at theArtillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Ordered toFort Trumbull, Connecticut, in July, 1879, he commandedBattery M, First U. S. Artillery, at that point untilNovember, 1881. Commanded post of Fort Mason, SanFrancisco, until February, 1889, nearly eight years. Hewas then removed to the Presidio of San Francisco, re-maining until April, 1889. Ordered to Alcatraz Island,San Francisco harbor,
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . of thewar he was brevetted captain and major for gallant andmeritorious conduct. From May, 1878, to July, 1879, he was on duty at theArtillery School at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Ordered toFort Trumbull, Connecticut, in July, 1879, he commandedBattery M, First U. S. Artillery, at that point untilNovember, 1881. Commanded post of Fort Mason, SanFrancisco, until February, 1889, nearly eight years. Hewas then removed to the Presidio of San Francisco, re-maining until April, 1889. Ordered to Alcatraz Island,San Francisco harbor, he was on duty with his batteryuntil May, 1890. At that date his regiment was orderedeast, and he has been, up to the present time, in commandof his batter)- at Governors Island, New York harbor. Major Darling is well known in the musical world asAugust Mignon, under which nom de plume have beenpublished, both in this country and in Europe, manyvocal and instrumental compositions of acknowledgedhih artistic merit. OFF/CURS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (.regular). REAR-ADMIRAL CHARLES HENRY DAMS. I (hi CI \S\ D). R i vr-Admirai Cii \rles Henry Davis, son of 1 )anielDavis, Solicitor-General of Massachusetts, was born inBoston January [6, 1S07. He entered Harvard Collegein [821, and on August ij, [823, was appointed mid-shipman in the navy. 11 i^ first cruise was in the Pacific,mi board the frigate United States, under CommodoreIsaac Hull. He served temporarily on board theschooner Dolphin, on a cruise to the Mulgrave Isl-ands, in search 11I the mutineers oi the whale-shipGlobe. He was attached to the sloop Erie, in the West In-dies, in [828 ; passed his examination in [829, taking highrank in his class; served as sailing-master of the < )nta-rin, in the Mediterranean, until (832; was commissi, medlieutenant in [831 ; sailed in the Yinccnncs as flag-lieutenant to Commodore Alexander Wadsworth, in [833,1 hi the itn Station; returned to the United States in[835 in command
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