. The Civil War literature of Ohio : a bibliography with explanatory and historical notes . unteers. Cincinnati: n. p. 1910. Pamphlet. 8 vo. pp. 17, with Full Page Portrait. During the Civil War, only two naval officers reached thehigh rank of Vice Admiral in our Navy. One of these wasDavid S. Porter, who became Admiral on the death of AdmiralFarragut, and the other, Stephen C. Rowan, was made Vice Ad-miral by selection when Porter was promoted to Farraguts this paper the author writes of the life and career of was born in Ireland December 25, 1808. His father emi-grated to Pe
. The Civil War literature of Ohio : a bibliography with explanatory and historical notes . unteers. Cincinnati: n. p. 1910. Pamphlet. 8 vo. pp. 17, with Full Page Portrait. During the Civil War, only two naval officers reached thehigh rank of Vice Admiral in our Navy. One of these wasDavid S. Porter, who became Admiral on the death of AdmiralFarragut, and the other, Stephen C. Rowan, was made Vice Ad-miral by selection when Porter was promoted to Farraguts this paper the author writes of the life and career of was born in Ireland December 25, 1808. His father emi-grated to Pennsylvania and afterwards to Piqua, Ohio. YoungRowan entered Miami University in 1825, and in 1826 was ap-pointed Midshipman in the Navy by Hon. William McLean, From that time he spent the whole of his active life in theservice of his country, serving with distinction in the War withMexico and in the Civil War. He died March 31, 1890, in theeighty-second year of his age. A monument to his honor hasbeen erected at Piqua, Ohio, by J. G. Schmidlapp; it was dedi-cated October 13,
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