Author: United States Navy
Title: Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the United States, Including Officers of the Marine Corps, and Others, for the Year 1848 [with] 1849, [with] 1850, [with] 1851, [with] 1852, [with] 1853
Description: Washington [D.C.], C. Alexander, Printer / J. & G.S. Gideon, Printers, 1853. First edition. Three quarter calf over marbled boards. 173; 144; 136; 136, 140, 140 pp. 8vo. Printed by order of the Secretary of the Navy, in compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the United States, of December 13, 1815. Six complete years of the register, some with annotations. Four are signed by W. S. W. (William Samuel Waithman) Ruschenberger (1807-1895) who joined the Navy's Medical Corps as Surgeon's Mate in 1826. From 1836 to 1839, he was Fleet Surgeon in the East Indies and China, in charge of the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn (1843-1847), and later served in many other positions including at Philadelphia, as well as writing a number of books on his travels. Contains extensive service information on officers: place of birth, residence, dates of entry, commission, years at sea, shore duty, how long unemployed, when last at sea, present assignment, deaths, resignations, dismissals, plus general service information including pay grades, Department organization, vessels, squadrons, stations, Naval Yards, and more. Backstrip and rear board lacking, front board and a few rear leaves detached, some browning and chipping to the edges on a few early leaves, one leaf opened roughly.

Keywords: , Americana, Americana, 19th c., United States Navy, Marine Corps, Naval,


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