A Memoir of Judge Ebenezer Thompson of Durham New Hampshire With Some Account
A Memoir of Judge Ebenezer Thompson of Durham New Hampshire With Some Account
Mary P Mary Pickering Thompson
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Rogers, serving as a private with such men as Gen. Thomas Stevenson, " the best vol- unteer soldier in the army of the Potomac, " as Gen. Burnside called him, and Gen. Miles, afterwards prominent in the conflicts with the Indians. At the breaking out of the civil war he was offered the choice of three positions, — that of quartermaster in the regular army, of a captaincy in the Ninth Infantry, also in the regular service, or that of pay- master in the U. S. Navy. The Hon. John P. Hale, then cha...irman of the U. S. Senate Naval Committee, persuaded him to take the appointment in the navy. He was examined by the U. S. Naval Board, New York, Aug. 21, 1 86 1, and out of thirty-six appoint- ments had the second place. August 23 he received his commission as assistant paymaster, U. S. N. , with the rank of lieutenant, and was ordered, Oct. 2, 1861, to the sloop of war " Mohican, " belonging to Admiral Dupont's squadron, which sailed from New York Oct. 20, 1861, and took part in the battle of Port Royal, S.
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