USS Brooklyn (1858)
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USS Brooklyn was a sloop-of-war authorized by the U.S. Congress and commissioned in 1859. Brooklyn was active in Caribbean operations until the start of the American Civil War at which time she became
USS Brooklyn
USS Brooklyn dressed overall and with her yards manned at the Naval Review on April 29, 1889.
Brooklyn under attack by CSS Manassas
David Dixon Porter
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David Dixon Porter was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the
USS Brooklyn (1858)
…departed Mobile Bay on September 6 and headed for Hampton Roads for service in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Soon thereafter, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter began to concentrate his warships for a joint Army-Navy operation against Fort Fisher, North Carolina. The fort guarded the approaches to Wilmington…
Porter in the 1860s, during the American Civil War
~ David Farragut ~ David Dixon Porter ~Issue of 1937
Perry and Porter attacked and took San Juan Bautista (now Villahermosa) in the Second Battle of Tabasco.
Porter, on the right, in 1860. The other officers are Sidney Smith Lee and Samuel F. Du Pont.