About 60 results for "1859_ships"

• Edwin T. Woodward

  received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy and began his studies there on November 21, 1859. One of several whose academy careers were foreshortened by the war, he served on the sloop USS

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• Jacob Zeilin

  Brigadier General Jacob A. Zeilin (July 16, 1806 - November 18, 1880) was the first United States Marine Corps non-brevet general. He served as the seventh Commandant of the United States Marine Corps from 1864

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• Robley Dunglison Evans

  its worldwide cruise from the Atlantic Ocean through the Straits of Magellan to the Pacific Ocean. In 1859 Utah Territory delegate William Henry Hooper offered Evans the territory's nomination to the United States Naval

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• Frederick Townsend

  on 21 September 1825 to Isaiah and Hannah Townsend. He was the grandson of Solomon Townsend, a ship's captain during the American Revolution, and great grandson of Samuel Townsend a member of the New

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• Scott Shipp

  Scott Shipp (also spelled Ship, born Charles Robert Scott Ship ) (August 2, 1839 - December 4, 1917) was an American military figure, Confederate States Army officer, educator and educational administrator born in Warrenton, Virginia. He was

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• Charles Dwight Sigsbee

  Charles Dwight Sigsbee (January 16, 1845 - July 13, 1923) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. In his earlier career he was a pioneering oceanographer and hydrographer. He is best remembered as the

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• Franklin Buchanan

  Franklin Buchanan (September 13, 1800 – May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War, and commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia

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• Charles Henry Davis

  Charles Henry Davis (January 16, 1807 – February 18, 1877) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, serving primarily during the American Civil War and with the United States Coast Survey. Davis was born

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• Ninian Pinkney

  For other persons named Pinkney, see Pinkney Ninian Pinkney, born in the Hammond-Harwood House in Annapolis, Maryland, on 7 June 1811, graduated from St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, in 1829, and from Jefferson

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• William D. Porter

  shell suitable for naval use. After leaving Washington, Porter spent the next decade superintending the outfitting of new steam ships for the Navy, commanding supply vessels, and delivering mail and supplies to Navy units abroad.

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• Stephen A. Hurlbut

  established a law practice in Belvidere. He was a presidential elector for the Whig Party in the 1848 Presidential Election. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1859 and again in 1861.

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• John Newland Maffitt (privateer)

  John Newland Maffitt (February 22, 1819–May 15, 1886) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy who was nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers" due to his remarkable success as a blockade runner and commerce

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• Louis M. Goldsborough

  Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough (February 18, 1805 – February 20, 1877) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy during the Civil War. He held several sea commands during the Civil War, including the North Atlantic

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• James Alden, Jr.

  James Alden, Jr. (March 31, 1810 – February 6, 1877) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. Alden was born in Portland, Maine, and was a direct descendant of John Alden, a Mayflower pilgrim

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• Samuel Barron (1809 – 1888)

  Samuel Barron (November 28, 1809 – February 26, 1888) was a United States, and later Confederate naval officer, acting as a representative in Europe for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Born to a prominent

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• Samuel Phillips Lee

  Samuel Phillips Lee (13 February 1812 – 7 June 1897) was a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. He commanded the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron from 4 September 1862 to 12 October 1864. His flagship

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• Cornelius Stribling

  Cornelius Kinchiloe Stribling (22 September 1796 – 17 January 1880 ) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the War of 1812, the Second Barbary War and the American Civil War. Stribling was

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• James H. Sands

  Washington, D.C.. Sands was appointed Acting Midshipman in the United States Naval Academy on 25 November 1859. During the American Civil War, he served in Tuscarora, Juniata, and Shenandoah and, in the years which

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• USS Cherokee (1864)

  For other ships of the same name, see USS Cherokee. The USS Cherokee was a 606 ton screw steam gunboat in the US Navy during the American Civil War ship. The ship later served in

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• Edward Terry

  was appointed midshipman at the United States Naval Academy on September 21, 1853 and graduated on June 10, 1857. He served in the sloop Germantown, attached to the East India Squadron, from 1857 to 1859.

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• John Grimes Walker

  Template:Otherpeople John Grimes Walker (20 March 1835 – 16 September 1907) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served during the Civil War. After the war, he served as Chief of the Bureau

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• Richard Worsam Meade

  in 1856, he served in the steam frigate Merrimack in 1856-1857 and off Africa in 1857-1859 on board the corvette Cumberland and the sloop of war Dale. Promoted to Lieutenant in 1858, Meade

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• CSS Grand Duke

  CSS Grand Duke, a steamer built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1859, was outfitted as a cotton-clad gunboat for service with the Confederate States Army in February 1863. Grand Duke transported troops to Fort Taylor

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• James F. Schenck

  James Findlay Schenck (11 June 1807 – 21 December 1882) was an admiral in the United States Navy who served in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. Born in Franklin, Ohio, he was

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• George C. Remey

  Remey was born at Burlington, Iowa, 10 August 1841, graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1859. Initially assigned to USS Hartford on the Asiatic Station, he returned to the United States with the

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