. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . f Kealing in theisland of Formosa. He was upon several expeditions afterChinese pirates, which were successful, and received thethanks of our own commander-in-chief and the Englishadmiral for the one to Kulan. In the American steamerConfucius, he destroyed several pirate junks at Foo-chow-foo. On his return home, he was light-house inspector onthe coasts of Maine and New Hampshire; at the BostonNavy-Yard, and made acruise in the NarragansetfinthePacific. When the Civil War broke out he was orderedEast, at his own request,
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . f Kealing in theisland of Formosa. He was upon several expeditions afterChinese pirates, which were successful, and received thethanks of our own commander-in-chief and the Englishadmiral for the one to Kulan. In the American steamerConfucius, he destroyed several pirate junks at Foo-chow-foo. On his return home, he was light-house inspector onthe coasts of Maine and New Hampshire; at the BostonNavy-Yard, and made acruise in the NarragansetfinthePacific. When the Civil War broke out he was orderedEast, at his own request, and took command of Katah-din, in which vessel he joined Admiral Farragut, passedthe forts below New Orleans, and was in all the operationsup to Vicksburgand Grand Gulf. In August, 1862,he wastransferred to the command of the steam-sloop Oneida,having been commissioned as commander in the previousmonth. While on the blockade off Mobile, he was leftsenior officer present, on August 29, 1862, with three ves-sels, the other four of that station having gone for On September 4, a steamer, having every appearance of aBritish gun-vessel and flying English colors, came in aboutsix When she did not o>mc to, the Oneida firedthree shots ahead of her, and then, finding that she didnot bring to, fired a broadside, but the vessels superiorspeed enabled her to run in over the shoals and reach theshelter of the guns of Fort Morgan. This vessel provedto be the < )reto, which was built and fitted out by theEnglish, and under the command of John N. Maffitt. Shewas afterwards rechristened Florida. For not prevent-ing the Oretos running into Mobile, Preble was sum-marily dismissed the service, without a true understandingof the circumstances. These were war times, and allclasses were excited, so that cool judgment was not alwaysp< issible. Maffitt, who was a well-known officer of our oldservice, did full justice to Preble, saying, The superiorspeed of the Florida alone save
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