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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of Commodore Platt. (search)
Death of Commodore Platt. Another of our most eminent public servants has gone to his final rest. Commodore Charles T. Platt, the aid of Commodore McDonough in the battle of Lake Champlain, and late commander of the Albany, in the home squadron, died at Newburg, New York, on the 12th inst., in the sixty-sixth year of his age. Commodore Platt was born at Plattsburgh. N. Y. on the 10th of October, 1795. His father was the proprietary of that township. The son was left, while a child, in the dependence of orphanage. The shelter of his boyhood was found under the roof of Judge Jonas Platt, and with Charles Z. Platt, at Albany, then Treasurer of the State. On the outbreak of hostilities between this government and Great Britain, he was an eager aspirant for the perils and honors of naval heroism. His public career commenced with a midshipman's warrant, dated June 18, 1812. The order accompanying it, directed him to repair at once to his station in the flag-ship of our fleet