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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], The New York Herald of the 15th. (search)
a. He is a citizen of the State of Maryland, but received his appointment in the United States Navy from the District of Columbia. His first entrance into the Navy bears date June 18, 1812. He has consequently been nearly fifty years in the United States service, over eighteen of which he has passed at sea in the various grades of the naval service. Among others, he commanded the Marion, thirty-eight guns, in 1842, at the time she was attached to the squadron of Commodores Ridgely and Morris, as Brazil. In 1847 he commanded the Ohio, seventy-four guns, and afterwards commanded the Cumberland, forty-four guns, and the Levant, eighteen guns, at the time those vessels were attached to the squadron of Commodore Silas H. Stringham, in the Mediterranean. The Cumberland was the flagship while under his command. His term of service on shore is about twelve years, and he has been off active duty about eighteen years. the Federal gunboats. Names.Commanders.Guns. Brickner