Admirals of the New Steel Navy by James C. Bradford

Author:James C. Bradford [Bradford James C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781612512594
Publisher: Naval Institute Press

NOTES

1.Winfield Scott Schley, Forty-five Years under the Flag, 1–2 (hereafter cited as Schley, Forty-five Years); Washington Post, 3 October 1911. Schley discusses his youth through Naval Academy years in the last articles he wrote, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story.”

2.Schley, Forty-five Years, 2–5; Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 4–14. Of his youthful environment Schley wrote late in life that “everything around and about me, though peaceful and beautiful to see, was reminiscent of venture and had come about from warfare.” Schley’s father, although trained as a lawyer, admired the military skill of Napoleon, and had a porcelain inkstand on his desk modeled in the bust of the emperor.

3.Schley, Forty-five Years, 5–10; Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 188–90; New York Times, 3 October 1911; Robert Seager II, Alfred Thayer Mahan: The Man and His Letters, 26–27; Robert Seager II and Doris D. Maguire, eds., Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan, 1:8, 33, 48, 54. For insights into life at the Naval Academy at this time see Park Benjamin, The United States Naval Academy, 210–26; Jack Sweetman, The U.S. Naval Academy: An Illustrated History, 45–59; and Charles Todorich, The Spirited Years: A History of the Antebellum Naval Academy, 101–32.

4.Schley, Forty-five Years, 11–20. For an account of the mission see The American Japan Society, The First Japanese Embassy to the United States of America, and Lewis W. Bush, Seventy-seven Samarai: Japanese Embassy to America.

5.Schley, Forty-five Years, 20–23.

6.Ibid., 24–27; U.S. Navy Department, Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series I, V:629 (hereafter cited as ORN).

7.Schley, Forty-five Years, 28–29. Confederate records identify the ship as the schooner Andrieta, formerly the J. W. Wilder. See ORN, I, XVIL:57–66. Schley’s report is on 61–62; Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 198.

8.Schley, Forty-five Years, 31–36; Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 367–68.

9.Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 368–69; Schley, Forty-five Years, 37–46. For reports of the Winona’s activities on the Mississippi see the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy for 1862, 404–5, 418–20.

10.Schley, Forty-five Years, 47–52; Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 369–70.

11.Schley, “Admiral Schley’s Own Story,” 370; Schley, Forty-five Years, 52–53. From Schley’s marriage three children were born: Thomas Franklin, later an infantry officer in the Spanish–American War; Winfield Scott, Jr., who became a physician and surgeon; and Mary Virginia, who became the wife of an Englishman, the Honorable Ralph Montagu Stuart Wortley.

12.The Wateree, officially designated as a sidewheel gunboat, was commissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 20 January 1864 and departed for the Pacific Squadron soon after this. Under the command of Commander Francis Key Murray, the ship reached San Francisco in mid-November 1864 in a damaged condition. She was repaired and had her hull scraped at the Mare Island Navy Yard. In late February 1866, she left Mare Island for patrol duty on the coast of South America. See U.S. Navy Department, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, VIII: 159. With a company of bluejackets and a Gatling gun, Schley guarded the American property and customs house in San Salvador during a period of revolution in El Salvador.

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