. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . r boats, without success, inBaffins Bay and Daviss Straits, until October 8, when itwas deemed expedient to return. He was upon the Board of Inspection in 1874-75 ; com-manding Lackawanna, Pacific Station, 1875-77 ; com-missioned captain April 26, 1876; commanding trainingfrigate Constitution, 1S77. In 1878 commanded sloop Constellation, which took exhibits to France for theParis Exposition ; commanded steamer Hartford, SouthAtlantic, in 1879; Board of Inspection, 1880-82; navy-yard, Washington, 1882-84; president of Naval
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . r boats, without success, inBaffins Bay and Daviss Straits, until October 8, when itwas deemed expedient to return. He was upon the Board of Inspection in 1874-75 ; com-manding Lackawanna, Pacific Station, 1875-77 ; com-missioned captain April 26, 1876; commanding trainingfrigate Constitution, 1S77. In 1878 commanded sloop Constellation, which took exhibits to France for theParis Exposition ; commanded steamer Hartford, SouthAtlantic, in 1879; Board of Inspection, 1880-82; navy-yard, Washington, 1882-84; president of Naval Exam-ining and Retiring Boards, 1885-87; commissioned ascommodore, May 19, 1886 ; as acting rear-admiral, com-manded the European Station, 1887-89; president ofBoard on Organization, Tactics, and Drills, 1889; presi-dent of Examining and Retiring Boards, 1S90; memberof the Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy, 1891 ;chairman of the Light-House Board, and now serving assuch; April 3, 1892, commissioned as rear-admiral. 23 i78 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). MAJOR STEPHEN W. GROESBECK, Major Stephen W. Groesbeck (Sixth Infantry) wasborn in Albany, New York, November 26, 1S40. At thebreaking out of the Rebellion he was teaching schoolin fowa. Encouraged by his uncle, Stephen Walley, ofWilliamstown, Massachusetts, he had prepared himselftn enter Williams College, but, like many young men ofthe period, he chose reluctantly to forego the advantagesof school to enter the service. He enlisted as a privatein the Fourth Iowa Cavalry on October 28, 1861 ; wasmustered in as company quartermaster-sergeant, and in h tober, 1862, promoted to second lieutenant. < In the 7thday of the following month he bore a conspicuous andmost honorable part in the cavalry engagement at Ma-rianna, Arkansas, and later in the same day received in askirmish, among other wounds, a gun-shot wound in theleft foot, the ball so lodging as to defeat the efforts of thesurgeons to locate and remov
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