James H. Ward
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James Harmon Ward was the first officer of the United States Navy who was killed during the American Civil War.
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![The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn [left] at Mathis Point June 27, 1861](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/USS_Thomas_Freeborn_at_Matthias_Point.jpg/500px-USS_Thomas_Freeborn_at_Matthias_Point.jpg)
The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn [left] at Mathis Point June 27, 1861
The steam tug USS Thomas Freeborn in 1861. The photo shows some of the ship's officers and men demonstrating how her late commanding officer, Commander James H. Ward, was sighting her bow gun when he was mortally wounded on 27 June 1861, during an action with Confederate forces at Mathias Point, Virginia. The gun is a 32-pounder smoothbore of 60 hundredweight, on a "Novelty Carriage". This mounting was developed by Commander Ward before the Civil War
USS Ward
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USS Ward was laid down as a 1,247-long-ton Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War I, later converted to a high speed transport in World War II. She was responsible for the f
James H. Ward
…struck by a bullet in his abdomen and fell to the deck, mortally wounded. He died within an hour. He was the great-grandfather of actor Andy Devine. USS Ward (DD-139) was named for him, as was Fort Ward, one of the defenses of Washington during the American Civil War. Ward Hall, site of the US Naval Academy's computing…
Ward in dazzle camouflage in 1918 (as DD-139)
A Ko-hyoteki-class two-man submarine
Ward, after being hit by a kamikaze on 7 December 1944. She was sunk by U.S. Navy fire later the same day
Ward's 4-inch gun at the Minnesota State Capitol