The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-28

Fort Fisher Dewey was the executive officer
OF the Colorado. which was the biggest ship
he had ever been In. She carried forty guns
and crew OF nearly seven hundred. After tho
fight Dewey was assigned to Commander Nc
Combs squadron in the James River ana
then to the North Atlantic blockading squadron.
He served as Lieutenant in both the Brooklyn
and the Agswam. At the battle OF Fort Fisher.
where the Navy performed tho part OF the work
that the Army should have periormed-that is.
an assault by land-Dewsy distinguished him
self along with most OF the other young officers.
and some time after that battle he was pro-
noted to the rank OF Lieutenant Commander.
His mission stated that the promotion was
for mertorous conduct at the battle OF Fort
Fisher. The capture OF Fort Fisher was prac-
tically the last naval battle OF the war. and it
was the last fighting that Dewey saw fer
thirty three years. His whole fighting expert
ence until May l. 1888. is thus summed up. and
1t was IN the intervening years that Dewey
time end time again remarked on the briefness
OF the biography he had earned.
After the war was over. Dewey was sent to
the Portsmouth Navy Yard. He was a hero
there. where all naval officers are heroes. and
1t was there that he met Miss Susie P. Good
win. daughter OF New Hampshire's war Gov
ernor. Ichaboi Goodwin. She was q young
woman Of great beauty and OF fns education.
duu D6Wey 1911 III love with n0T anu cut out I'LL
the other suitors for her hand. They were
married on Oot "a. 1897. and were imme-
dintely separated, for Dewey was assigned
again to the Colorado and spent nearly year
In Europe. The next year he was assigned to
duty In the Naval Academy. Then he was
placed In command OF the Narragansett for
awhile. then in charge OF the Torpedo station
at Newport. and In April. 1873. when he got
his next promotion. that to the rank Of COM
mander. he was again assigned to the Nara
Gansett Tho following year Dewey's only
child was born George Goodwin Dewey. and
the young wife died.
There wasn't much OF q story In Dewey's life
after that until the preparation OF the war with
SPAIN In which he was to make everlasting
fame. he settled into the humdrum life OF the
ordinary naval officer. He went to tho Pacific
on a surveying expedition In 1873. In 1879.
he returned and was appointed Lighthouse
Inspector. He served two years at that and
then became Secretary OF the Lighthouse
Board. place no held until 1892 That year it
was his turn for sea duty. and he was sent to the
Asiatic squadron to command the Juniata. He
was sick year then and all but died. His pro-
motion to the rank OF Captain came in 1884.
20 years after he had been graduated from the
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