Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-29
NAVAL COMMANDERS.


The naval part of the expedition is under
command of Commodore J. f. Dupont, one
Of the ablest officers of our navy. Captain
Dupont entered the navy December 10,
1916. He has therefore been in the service
forty. six years; Of which twenty-five have
been passed in service at sea, and eight years
and halfin shore duty, in our.various navy
yards, where officers get excellent training
in the preparation and use of arms and am
munition.
The feet captain is Commander Charles H.
Davis who stands in the revised navy list
nearly at the head of the commanders. He
| is a native of Massachusetts, entered tue SER
vice in 1923, has seen eighteen years sea SER
vice, and was last superintendent of the
Nautical Almanac, and engaged in other
special duty in Washington. He is counted
among the ablest and most skillful officers in
the service. The flag lieutenant, the remain
ing officer Of the Commodore's staff, is Lieu
tenant S. W. Preston, Canadian by birth,
and citizen of Illinois, from which State he
entered the service in 1857.
Captain L. M. Goldsborough, who is in
command of the northern half of the Atlantic
blockading squadron, will also take an active
part in aiding the expedition. He was born
in the District of Columbia, and entered the
service from Maryland, of which State he is
a citizen, in 1872.
He has been seventeen years at sea and
eleven years on shore duty, and was last in
command of the Congress frigate. His pres
ent ship is the Minnesota.
THE COMMANDERS.
The land forces are under command of
General Thomas W. Sherman, an able and
distinguished officer, who entered West Point
in 1882, was Second Lieutenant of the Third
Artillery in 1886, Assistant Commissary of
Subsistence in 1887, First Lieutenant in 1888,
and Captain in May, 1S46. He is distin-
guished as an artillery officer, Sherman's
battery having gained fame in the Mexican
War. Captain Sherman was brevetted 'for
gallant and meritorious conduct in the bat
tie of Buena VISTA" He is native of Rhode
Island.
General Shermans head. quarters are on
board the steamer Atlantic. which carries
over one thousand two hundred troops be-
sides her own crew.
The brigades of the land forces are COM
manded by Generals Viele, Stevens and
| Wright.
Eebert L. viele was graduated from the
| West Point Military Academy in the year
| l942 and was a classmate of General McClel-
Ian. He served in the Mexican War, and in
| 1853 resigned his commission to accept the
| position of Chief Engineer of the State OF
| New Jersey. Since then he has been En-
| gineer-in-Chief of the Central Parks in this
| city and Brooklyn. In the early part of the
rebellion he organized a battalion Of two
hundred men, and followed the Seventh
Regiment to Washington. He is considered
an able and experienced officer, and a
thirty. six years Of age ranks as a Brigadier
General.
Isaac Ingalls, Stevens, who is General il
command of the second brigade, was grsdu
ated at West Point in 1889, and entered th
corps of engineers. He resigned in 1853 Il
accept the appointment of Governor o
Washington Territory, and was elected q
Representative to Congress in 1857.
General Stevens was in Mexico, and wa
bIevetted Captain for gallant and meritoriou
conduct at Cherubusco, and was brevette
Major at Chapultepec, September 13, 1874
He was severely wounded on the same da.
Horatio Gates Wright, commanding th
third brigade, was graduated at West Poir
in 1887, and appointed Lieutenant in tt
engineers corps in l84l. Since his gradu,
tion he has been an assistant professor an
: professor at the United States Military Acat
J emy, and has the reputation of being
superior engineer and thoroughly efficiel
officer.