Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865

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(lcsh) Mexican War, 1846-1848--Naval operations
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Naval operations

found: Merrill, J.M. Du Pont, the making of an admiral, 1986:CIP t.p. (Samuel Francis Du Pont)

found: NUCMC data from Bostonian Society for Devens, E.F. Papers, 1862-1866(Rear Admiral S.F. Dupont; commander of South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War)

found: WWWA:hist. v., 1607-1895 (Dupont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865; also commd. Philadelphia N. Yard)

found: RLIN, June 2, 1998([info. from Hagley Museum and Library, Greenville, Del.] Du Pont, Samuel Francis, 1803-1865)

found: Samuel Francis Du Pont papers:(Du Pont, Samuel Francis; Samuel Francis Du Pont; signature according to military usage, S. F. Du Pont; used "Frank" with intimates; unusual among his family in capitalizing the ""D" in Du Pont; b. Sept. 27, 1803 at Bergen Point, N.J., now part of the City of Bayonne; d. June 23, 1865 at Philadelphia; son of Victor du Pont and Josephine du Pont; naval officer; joined as midshipman, 1815; lieutenant, 1826; lieutenant commander, 1842; captain, 1855; rear admiral, 1862; commander, Philadelphia Navy Yard, 1860-61; commander, South Atlantic blockading squadron, 1861-63; relieved, July 6, 1863; Du Pont spent his active life in naval commands, primarily at sea, including service in the Mexican War (command of the U.S.S. Cyane in the California theater) and the Civil War, and commanding the U.S.S. Minnesota on an around-the-workd cruise in 1857-1859; his residence on land was Louviers, a country house in Brandywine Hundred near Wilmington, Del.)