American naval officer, born at Alexandria, VA, on the 31st of January 1812. From 1855 to the breaking out of the war between the states, he was in charge of the receiving-ship Pennsylvania, at Norfolk. Upon the secession of Virginia he resigned his position in the United States navy, and became commander in the Virginia navy. He was afterward transferred to the Confederate navy, and served until the evacuation of Richmond, when he became a soldier in Ewell’s corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, and with that command covered the retreat of the Confederate army. In 1866 he was appointed a rear-admiral in the Peruvian navy, and during the war between Chili, Peru and Spain commanded the forces of the two republics. He returned to Virginia at the close of hostilities, and died at Petersburg, on the 12th of June 1883.
