The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-19
HERO OF HAMPTON ROADS
DEATH OF REAR ADMIRdL JOHN [.
 WORDEN or MONITOR FAME.

Was Eighty Years of Age-Last of the Great Naval Commanders of the Civil war-A Career Hepiete With Patriotic
 Deeds-A Navy Officer for Nearly Two thirds of Centuty.
 Washington, Oct 1S.--Rear Admiral John l.. Worden, retired, died in this city to-day. He commanded the Moni- tor during it's engagement with the
 Merrimac.
 Pneumonia was the immediate cause of Admiral Worden's death He was eighty years of age and up to last Sat urday was in very good health. Then the disease from which he died develop ed rapidly from cold and this morning it was announced by his physicians that he could not live throughout the day
 Admiral Worden was one of the few
 remaining heroes of that old regime which made the United States navy so glorious in it's achievements and helped to make such an indellible mark of prowess and patriotic devotion upon the pages of the country's history. For nearly two-thirds of a century he was a navy officer, having been appointed a midshipman from Fishlil!, Duchess county, New York, over sixty-three years ago. He was a native of New York state, born at Sing Sing, West chester county. His career was full of exciting incidents, and his name long ago became a synonym in the navy for all that meant honorable devotion to duty under the most trying circum- stances.
 Admiral Worden rendered valuable services throughout the war, but the crowning achievement of his career was in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, when
 he commanded the famous Monitor in her duel with the Confederate ram Mer-
 rimac This engagement has passed into history as one of the most wonder full naval battles on record. July Il l following President Lincoln approved the joint resolution of congress tender ing the thanks of that body and the American people to Lieutenant Worden and to officers and men of the Monitor under his command flor the skill and gallantry exhibited by them in the late remarkable battle between the Monitor and the rebel ironclad steamer Merri- mac"
 | Later in 1862. upon the recommenda- | tion of the president, another vote or 1 thanks was passed by congress to Lieu | tenant Worden, who had meanWhile, in July of that year, been promoted to be
 q commander, authorizing his advance
 ment one grade for highly distinguish ed conduct in the engagement between l the Monitor and the Merrimac. His vic | tory was received with great demon- strations of joy throughout the United States, and in the cities of the Atlantic
 coast north of Chesapeake Bay public meetings were held and resolutions of
 gratitude to Lieutenant Worden passed with great enthusiasm By his bravery
 and self-sacrifice he had relieved that coast of the terrible dread they had ex-
 perienced from the stories of the Mer-
 rimac, which, 1t was expected, would
 devastate the Union fleet at Hampton Roads and then start on voyage of
 destruction up the Atlantic. Admiral
 Worden bore his honors simply and
 with the modesty that characterized
 him through life.
 After the war his principal service
 was as superintendent of the naval
 academy from 1869 to 1874 and as com
 mander of the European squadron from
 1874 to 1877. The last years of his life
 had been spent in comparative retire
 lnent, though he kept up to the last a lively interest in affairs and was known
 to public men as an unusually safe | judge of events