. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . he Pacific in variousvessels,— Supply, Savannah, and Vincennes,—andupon his return home was in the Hydrographic Depart-ment of the Naval Observatory. Promoted master Sep-tember 14, 1855, he was made lieutenant the next on board the sloop John Adams, in thePacific, he was navigator, and commanded a party fromthat ship which attacked and destroyed the village ofVutia, in the Feejee Islands, on account of the piraticalacts of its inhabitants He was also engaged in successfulskirmishes with the Feejeeans on other o
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . he Pacific in variousvessels,— Supply, Savannah, and Vincennes,—andupon his return home was in the Hydrographic Depart-ment of the Naval Observatory. Promoted master Sep-tember 14, 1855, he was made lieutenant the next on board the sloop John Adams, in thePacific, he was navigator, and commanded a party fromthat ship which attacked and destroyed the village ofVutia, in the Feejee Islands, on account of the piraticalacts of its inhabitants He was also engaged in successfulskirmishes with the Feejeeans on other occasions. Lieu-tenant Badger afterwards served on the experimentalcruise of the Plymouth, the Macedonian in theMediterranean, and the flag-ship Minnesota. When the Civil War occurred, he commanded the Anacostia, of the Potomac flotilla, and was in theattack upon Cockpit Point, Acquia Creek batteries, andseveral others. He led with the Anacostia, pilotingthe Pensacola, under a heavy fire, past the entire lineof batteries, and was favorably mentioned in Tii the same vessel he was employed at the siege ofYorktown and Gloucester Point, and especially men-tioned by General McClellan for his services there. He became a lieutenant-commander in July, 1862, andwas in charge of the ordnance for gunboats building onthe Western waters, 1862-63. After this, as chief ord-nance officer of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron,he was engaged against the Morris Island batteries. Hecommanded the iron-clad Patapsco in the attack onFort Wagner in July, and on Forts Wagner, Gregg, andSumter on August 17 of that year. On the 22d ofSeptember, he commanded the Montauk, in the nightattack on Sumter. Lieutenant-Commander Badger wasappointed fleet-captain of the squadron upon the deathof Commander George W. Rodgers,—killed in battle,—and was serving in that capacity in the night attack uponSumter, when he was dangerously wounded, his rightleg being shattered by a metallic splinter.
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