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Samuel Francis Du Pont, a Union admiral of the Civil War, commanded the Port Royal expedition in 1862, the Union navy’s first major victory over the Confederacy. The following year, his long and distinguished naval career ended with his defeat in Charleston Harbor. Du Pont was born in New Jersey in 1803 but grew up on the banks of Brandywine ...
6. Aug. 2015 · Samuel Francis du Pont, great-great grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, the founder of the family chemical empire, preferred to live at his spacious estate, Hexton, overlooking the Sassafras River. Sam started in policing in the late 1960s, a period characterized by much civil unrest across the nation. A presidential commission investigating ...
In Lincoln's Tragic Admiral: The Life of Samuel Francis Du Pont, Kevin J. Weddle challenges this reduction of Du Pont's legacy, combining new and known sources to uncover a thoroughly modern, though flawed, Du Pont. Despite the fact that Du Pont's name has become intertwined with the ironclad due to the catastrophic battle that brought shame on ...
Samuel Francis Du Pont, the son of Victor Marie Du Pont de Nemours, was born at Bergen Point, N.J., on 27 September 1803, and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 23 June 1865. He was appointed a midshipman in the navy from the state of Delaware in December 1815, his first sea service being on the Franklin, in the European squadron.
Samuel Francis Du Pont (1803--65) was a Union naval officer in the American Civil War. Born in Bergen Point (present-day Bayonne), New Jersey, he was a member of the prominent du Pont family. His paternal grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, was a French economist, diplomat, and advisor to Louis XVI. Du Pont started his naval career at the age of 12 as a midshipman on the USS ...
9. März 2002 · Samuel Francis Du Pont (1803–65), naval officer, was born at Bergen Point, New Jersey, and attended school in Germantown, Pennsylvania. President Madison appointed him a midshipman on 19 Dec. 1815, and he first went to sea in 1817. Du Pont was promoted to lieutenant in 1826, commander in 1843 (with the commission to date from 1842), captain ...
Samuel Francis Du Pont, an Admiral in the U.S. Navy during the Civil War, was lauded for helping to win an early Union victory in South Carolina. But his career and reputation were destroyed after the failed ironclad attack on Charleston in April 1863. A professor with the U.S. Army War College exposes the historical misunderstanding that led to Du Pont’s undoing.
