. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . f Indian agent for the Sioux In-dians in Dakota, from J Line, 1869, to December, 1870,having been assigned to the Twenty-second Infantry theprevious October. Captain Poole participated with his company in expe-ditions to the Yellowstone country in 1871-73; thenemployed in suppressing riots at New Orleans in1874-75. He took part in the Big Horn and Yel-lowstone expeditions of 1876-77 against Sitting Bull,and was engaged in suppressing the labor riots at Chi-cago and Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, in July, 1877. Hewas then on ga
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . f Indian agent for the Sioux In-dians in Dakota, from J Line, 1869, to December, 1870,having been assigned to the Twenty-second Infantry theprevious October. Captain Poole participated with his company in expe-ditions to the Yellowstone country in 1871-73; thenemployed in suppressing riots at New Orleans in1874-75. He took part in the Big Horn and Yel-lowstone expeditions of 1876-77 against Sitting Bull,and was engaged in suppressing the labor riots at Chi-cago and Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, in July, 1877. Hewas then on garrison duty in 1878, and transferred toTexas, where he served during 1879-S0. Then he wasdetailed for two years on recruiting service at New York. He was appointed major and paymaster July 5, 1882,and has served at different stations throughout thecountry, his present station (1891-92) being at Cincin-nati, Ohio. Major Poole performed the duties of adjutant of theFirst Wisconsin Infantry from June 24, 1861, to Au-gust 21, 1861. OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (regular). ADMIRAL DAVID D. PORTER, , (deceased). Admiral David D. Porter was born in Chester,Pennsylvania, and, as a mere lad, accompanied his father,Captain David Porter, United States Navy, on a cruisein the West Indies for the suppression of piracy. Thiswas in 1X24. In 1S20 his father was given command ofthe Mexican Navy, and his sun accompanied him, beingappointed midshipman in that service, and sent to theCity of Mexico to learn the Spanish language. He sawservice in cruising against Spanish commerce, and alsoin operations against Spanish men-of-war, and was finallya prisoner of war in Havana. In February, 1829, youngPorter was appointed midshipman in the United StatesNavy, and, after serving in the Mediterranean, in thefrigates Constellation and United States, and theship-of-the line Delaware, was made passed midship-man in 1835; lieutenant in 1841. In tjic Mediterranean;the Naval Observatory; and commissioner to
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