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tates navy, and until the latter part of the year was on duty with the gunboat Huntress between Charleston and Savannah. He was then for several months with a river battery near Savannah, after which he was transferred to the Sampson of Commodore Tattnall's fleet, and later to the Huntress. Just before the capture of New Orleans he was ordered there to serve upon an ironclad, but was unable to reach the city, and went to Richmond. In that vicinity he participated in the famous repulse of Ericsson's monitor by the Drewry's Bluff battery, and remained at that station on the James river until early in 1864, when he was ordered abroad for duty on the vessels building in Europe. He sailed to Nassau, Havana, Southampton and London, and thence crossed to Paris, but found that the international complications were likely to prevent active service. He was assigned to the old sloop-of-war Rappahannock, and remained in the harbor of Calais several months, the French authorities refusing to p