. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . at-teries at Ship Island, and, in December, off Mobile withthe rebel gun-boat Florida, which, during the tem-porary absence of the Huntsville, had come out in acalm to destroy the sailing-frigate Potomac. He was ordered to the Mississippi River fleet in April,1862, and commanded iron-clad St. Louis at the siegeof Fort Pillow and in action with rebel rams, May, 1862 ;capture of Memphis in June, 1862. Served on the ad-mirals staff! Commanded the Sumter at the siege ofVicksburg, and passed the batteries there with Farragut,Ju
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . at-teries at Ship Island, and, in December, off Mobile withthe rebel gun-boat Florida, which, during the tem-porary absence of the Huntsville, had come out in acalm to destroy the sailing-frigate Potomac. He was ordered to the Mississippi River fleet in April,1862, and commanded iron-clad St. Louis at the siegeof Fort Pillow and in action with rebel rams, May, 1862 ;capture of Memphis in June, 1862. Served on the ad-mirals staff! Commanded the Sumter at the siege ofVicksburg, and passed the batteries there with Farragut,July 15, 1862. At the battle of Baton Rouge August 6,1862, and destruction of rebel ram Arkansas August7, 1862. Lieutenant-commander on July 16, 1862. He returned to the east to join the naval howitzerbattery in Maryland, with General McClellan, during theAntietam campaign, and in October, 1862, joined themonitor Patapsco as executive-officer. Engaged at FortMcAllister in March, 1S63, and attack on forts at Charles-ton in April, 1863. Steam-frigate Niagara on special18. service on Atlantic coast from November, 1863, to May,iSf4. In July, [864, he was ordered to command monitor Chimo and then the monitor Tunxis, which vesselswere intended to destroy the ram Albemarle, but werefound unseaworthy and condemned. In October, 1864,ordered to command Ponola, West Gulf Squadron,and captured, under the guns of batteries at Matagorda,Texas, the schooner Dale and the boats of the torpedostation, with twenty men; broke up the the batteries at Galveston in attempting thedestruction of a blockade-runner, the Let Her Be. InJuly, 1865, he was ordered home, and was on duty at theNew York Navy-Yard during 1866. From 1867101869he commanded steamers 1 Iuron, Kansas, and Paw-nee on South Atlantic Station. He was commissionedcommander in 1868. During 1871-72 he was upon ord-nance and rendezvous duty in New York, and in 1873commanded the monitor Manhattan at Key West dur-ing the cr
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