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Title: Official Dewey souvenir programme : commemorating the reception by the City of New York to Admiral Dewey, September 29th and 30th, 1899 /
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Alder, Fred T Green, Harry C New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Plan and Scope John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Dewey, George, 1837-1917 Admirals Spanish-American War, 1898 Parades
Publisher: New York : F.T. Alder and H.C. Green
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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he navy to the army,and secured an appointment to Annapolis, which he enteredin 1854. There were fourteen men in the graduating class of 1858,and George Dewey stood fifth in his class. After his graduationhe was ordered to the steam frigate Wabash, then cruising withthe Mediterranean squadron. In 1859 he returned to the NavalAcademy to receive his final examinations. W hen Sumter was fired on, Dewey was at Montpelier.Just one week later, April 19, 1861, he was commissioned asLieutenant and assigned to duty on the sloop of war Mississippi,of the West Gulf squadron, under Farragut. The Mississippi, aside-wheel steamer of seventeen guns, commanded by MelanctonSmith, was the third in the line in the famous dash past FortsJackson and St. Philip. It was the Mississippi that shelled andsank the Confederate ram Manassas. A year later, the old side-wheeler ran aground in the Mississippi river near Port Hudson,and, completely riddled by the Confederate batteries, was burnedto the waters edge.26
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After the loss of the Mississippi, Lieutenant Dewey was assigned to the smaller gunboats of the squadron,and early in 1864 was transferred to the gunboat Agowan, of the North Atlantic Squadron. In March of thefollowing year, Lieutenant Dewey was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander, and assigned to dutyon the famous old sloop Kearsarge. At the close of the war he was transferred to the steam frigate Colorado,flagship of the European squadron. Lieutenant-Commander Dewey was ordered home from the European station early in 1867, andassigned to duty at the Kittery Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. It was while in Portsmouth that hemet Miss Susan B. Goodwin, a daughter of Ichabod Goodwin, War Governor of New Hampshire, whom hemarried in October, 1867. Shortly after his marriage he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Two years laterhe was placed in command of the Narragansett, and on April 13, 1872, he was promoted to the rank ofCommander. In 1876, Dewey was called

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