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Excerpt from The Records of Living Officers of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps Bancroft Gherardi. - Born in Louisiana, November 10, 1832. Ap pointed from Massachusetts, J une 29, 1846; attached to frigate Ohio, Pacific Squadron, 1846 - 50 steam - sloop Saranao, Home Squadron, 1850 - 1 Naval Academy, 1852. Promoted to Passed Midshipman, June 8, 1852; sloop St. Louis, Mediterranean Squadron, 1853 - 5. Promoted to Alaska 1855. Commissioned as Lieutenant, September 16, 1855 sloop Saratoga, Home Squadron, 1856 - 8 rendezvous, Boston, 1859 steam-sloop Lancas ter, Pacific Squadron, 1861 - 2. Commissioned as lieutenant-commander, July South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1862; engagement with Fort Macon, 1862 steam-sloop Mohican, special service, 1863 com manding steam-gunboat Chocura, Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 1863 - 4; commanding steamer Port Royal, Western Gulf Boekading Squadron, 1864; battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; commanding steamer Pequot, North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, 1864 - 5. Com missioned as Commander, J uly 25, 1866 rendezvous, Philadelphia, 1866 - 7 navigation duty, Navy Yard, Philadelphia, 1868 - 70; commanding J ames town (third-rate), Pacific Fleet, 1871 commanding receiving - ship Inde pendence, 1872-3. Commissioned as Captain, November 9, 1874; com manding Pensacola, flag-ship North Pacific Station, 1875 - 6 commanding receiving-ship Colorado; 1877 - 80 commanding U. S. S. Lancaster, flag ship European Station, 1881 - 3; leave in Europe, 1884. Promoted to Com modore, November, 1884; Member of Examining Board, 1884 - 5; Governor Naval Asylum, 1885 - 6. Promoted to [fear-admiral, August, 1887; com manding Navy Yard, New York, 1887 - 9; commanding North Atlantic Station, 1889 to June, 1893; commanding New York Navy Yard, June 1, 1893, to date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
