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The Gallant Commander Ingraham.

The Gallant Commander 1ngraham. {
The New York Times has been favored
rom reliable source, with a biographical
sketch of Commander Ingraham, whose late
gallant conduct in command of the st. Louis,
in the harbor of Smyrna, has given him a
world wide reputation.
Commander Duncan N. Ingraham is the
son of the late Nathaniel Ingraham, Esq, of
Charleston, s. c., and belongs to a family
eminently naval in its character. All of them,
with one exception, were officers in the Ma
Wy. His father being the intimate friend of
of Captain John Paul Jones, volunteered un-
Bon Homme Richard, in l779, and fought
with him in the battle with the British frig-
ate Seraphis, one Of the most desperate ac-
tions in the annals of naval warfare. His |
uncle, Captain Joseph Tngraham, U. s. NJ,
was lost in the u s. ship Pickering, which !
went down at sea, and was never heard of, at
the beginning of this century. His cousin,
William Ingraham, was killed at the age Of
twenty, when Lieutenant in the u. S. N.
The sole exception in the family was his
uncle, Duncan Ingrabam, Esq, from whom
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most accomplished gentlemen of his day, and
though intimate with the leading political
men of our country, yet from taste and early
associations, he was a loyalist in his views.
At the opening of tho Revolution in l774,
he went to Europe, and remained there until
its close. John Adams when Commissioner
to France, in 1878, frequently speaks of him
in his Diary, lately published, as his associate
in Paris. He returned, however, to this coun-
try in 1884, gave in his adherence to the Gov
ernment, and permitted his son to enter the
navy--thc Lieut.. William Ingraham whom
we have mentioned as being killed in the SER
vice.
Capt. Ingraham received his Midshipman's
warrant, at the age Of nine years, during the
last war with Great Britain. Commodore
Smith, of South Carolina, the intimate fren
of his father, being about to sail in the frigate
Congress, requested Mr.. Ingraham to allow
him to take his son with him. ave shall
probably have an cngagement"-said he
"and it will do him good He accordingly
went to sea ut once, at that tender age, and
remained in active service for two years, un.
til the close of the war. He then returned
home, at the age of eleven, and resumed his
education at school. Since then he has,
duty. He commanded the ill-iutcd Somers
, in the blockade duty at Vera Cruz and other
parts of the Gulf, during the whole of the
Mexican war, and being prostrated by sick
, ness, was sent home but short time before
she was lost. For two years previous to his
sailing for the Mediterranean, in the St.
Louis, he was attached to the Navy Yard in
this city. The society of Philadelphia will
, long remember him and his accomplished
, family.
! Captain Ingraham married Harriet Rutledge
Laurens, of South Carolina, grand daughter
on the paternal sde of Henry Laurcns, the
, President of the first Continental Congress
and who, afterwards, was captured by a Brit
: ish frgute, while on his way to France as
, American Commissioner, and confined for a
long time in the Tower of London. On the
maternal side she s tho grand daughter OF
Edward Rutledge, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. His eldest
son, Henry Laurens Ingraham, Is now a Mid
, shipman ut the Naval Academy at Annapolis.
1t is curious circumstance, that by in
termarriage with the American family the
, Ingraham blood flows in the veins of some
of the most distinguished officers of the British
Navy. Among those was the late Capt Mar
ryatt, C. b., (he author) and Sir Edward
Belcher, X. q. b., who lately commanded the
Exploring Expedition round the world, and
who now commands the Arctic Expedition,
lately sent out by the British Admiralty in
search of Sir John Franklin. The grand
mother of both these officers was an Ingra-
ham, tho near relative of Commander lngra-
ham.
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