Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-11-18


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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER - IseR
The Late near AAHiral sessbAxs!
This officer. whose death vas aaaeaneel
last Monday, was born IA Hbilndll
July %, ITS. He eatsesd thS uasy T.
MarcL, 1898, as first leuteuant ard p
formed his first service in the A1gA1l
United States, Commodore John Barfy
He remained in this ship, which. was -.
ployed in the West Indies for the Peoteo-
ton of American commerce agsinst
French privateers, until July 1900, when
he was appointed to the command Of the
schooner Experiment, Of 10 guns, upop
the same station. In 1901 the Experiment
arrived at Norfolk, Va, and was sold out
Of service. In the following year, Lieu.
tenant Stewart made short cruise as first
lieutenant of the frigate Constellation,
employed in the blookate Of TripoE
Upon the termination Of this cruise he
was appointed to command Ithe the brig
Siren, in the squadron of Commodore
Edward Preble, and participated in the
naval operations of 1904 agains,
Tripoli. He co-operated with Lieu.
tenant Commander Stephen Decatur
Jr., in the destruction of the frigate
Philadelphia, on February 16, as well as
in the several naval attacks on the city
and its defences. and for his services in
the bombardment of August 8, 1904, he
received the thanks of Commodore Pre-.
BILE in general orders. He was promoted
to the rank of master and commander,
and upon the conclusion Of peace with
Tripoli returned to the United States in
command of the frigate Constitution. In
1906 he was made captain, and was en-
ploy cd in experimenting the construction
of gunboats at New York.
Ip the war of 1912 Captain Stewart
was appointed to the Ifrigate Constella-
tion, then lying at Norfolk. In the sum-
mer of 1913 he was transferred to the
Constitution. In December he sailed
from Boston upon cruise which extend
ed to the coasts of Surinam, Berbice,
Demerara, and the Windward Islands.
About the middle of December following
Captain Stewart sailed in the same ship
upon second cruise, fell in with and
captured tho chip Cyanc, Captain Falcon,
after an action of forty minutes.
On March 10 the Constitution ar
rived at Porto Praya, Cape Verd Islands,
with her prizes The Constitution ar
rived in New York about the middle of
May. the Cyane having arrived on the
10Th Of April. Civic honors were bestow-
ed upon Captain Stewart by New York
and Philadelphia; Congress voted him a
gold medal, and silver one to each of
his commissioned officers, and also passed
vote Of thanks to him, his officers and
men, and Pennsylvania voted him a
sword. From 1916 to 1920 Commodore
Stewart commanded a squadron in the
Mediterranean, the Franklin, ship-of-the-
line, bearing his flag. In 1921 he hoisted
his a AZ in the same ship for the Pacific
station, where he commanded three years.
His latter services bave been upon the
Board of Navy Commissioners, from 1880
to 1883, and in command of the home
squadron and of the naval station at
Philadelphia. He also rendered impor-
The navy, and submitted to the Navy
Department, Of different times, valuable
papers on the subject. In 1857 he was
placed upon the reserved list of the navy,
his advanced age, in the opinion of the
board appointed under the act of Congress
of January IS of that year leaving them
no discretion in his case but in March,
1859, he was placed upon the active list
by special legislation, under new COM
mission as senior flag officer. On the 10th
Of July, 1862, he was commissioned as
Rear Admiral of the United States Navy,
and placed in command of the Philadel-
phia navy-yard. During the same year,
however. he was, at his own request, re-
licved and retired to his home in
Rordentown, New Jersey, where he re-
sided up to the time Of his death. His
funeral took place in Philadelphia last
Wednesday. Admiral Stewart was one
of the few remaining heroes of the
younger Republic whose deeds shed luster
upon cur naval record. One by one they
have passed To their reward, nourned by
the American people, who can never fail
to bear their glorious deeds in grateful
and proud remembrance.