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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alden , James , 1810 -1877 (search)
Alden, James, 1810-1877
Naval officer; born in Portland, Me.. March 31, 1810; became a midshipman in 1828; lieutenant in 1841; commander in 1855; captain, Jan. 2, 1863; commodore, July 25, 1866; and rear-admiral, June 19, 1871.
He was a participant in the South Sea Exploring Expedition under Lieutenant Wilkes, and served under Commodore Conner on the Gulf coast of Mexico during the war with that country.
He was active in the reinforcement of Fort Pickens; in the expedition against Galveston; as commander of the Richmond in the passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip in the capture of New Orleans; and at Vicksburg, Port Hudson. Mobile Bay, and Fort Fisher.
He was appointed chief of the Bureau of Navigation and Detail in 1869, and, after his promotion to rear-admiral, commander of the European squadron.
He died in San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 6, 1877.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Ward , Frederick Townsend 1831 -1862 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wilkes , Charles 1798 -1877 (search)
Wilkes, Charles 1798-1877
Naval officer; born in New York City, April 3, 1798; nephew of John Wilkes, the eminent English politician; entered the navy in 1818.
In 1830 he was appointed to the department of charts and instruments.
He was appointed commander of a squadron of five vessels that sailed from Norfolk, Va., Aug. 18, 1838, on an exploring expedition, and for his discoveries during that cruise Wilkes received a gold medal from the London Geographical Society.
He returned to New York in June, 1842.
In 1861 he was sent to the West Indies, in the frigate San Jacinto, to look after the Confederate cruiser Sumter, when he fell in with the British steamer Trent and took from her James M. Mason and John Slidell (q. v.), and conveyed them to Boston, for which he was thanked by Congress and received popular applause.
But the President finally disapproved his act, as a stroke of state policy.
In 1862 he commanded the flotilla on the James River, with the rank of commodore; an