Taken from the American State Papers, this list of information from the 1815 Navy register covers the Navy’s 193 commissioned officers. It does not include those holding warrants, Passed Midshipmen, or Midshipmen. It does include all the officers of the Marine Corps.
Navy Register 1815 – Corrected as of August 1 |
Rank / # in Grade |
Name |
Date of Commission |
Captain |
Alexander Murray |
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John Rodgers |
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James Barron |
22 May 1799 |
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William Bainbridge |
20 May 1800 |
5 |
Hugh G. Campbell |
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Stephen Decatur |
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Thomas Tingey |
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Charles Stewart |
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Isaac Hull |
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10 |
Isaac Chauncey |
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John Shaw |
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John H. Dent |
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David Porter |
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John Cassin |
|
15 |
Samuel Evans |
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Charles Gordon |
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Jacob Jones |
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Charles Morris |
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Arthur Sinclair |
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20 |
Oliver H Perry |
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Thomas Macdonough |
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Lewis Warrington |
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Joseph Bainbridge |
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Wm. M. Crane |
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25 In Wasp believed lost |
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James T Leonard |
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James Biddle |
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Charles G. Ridgely |
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Robert T Spence |
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30 |
Daniel T. Patterson |
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Master Commandant |
Samuel Angus |
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Melancthon T. Woolsey |
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J. Orde Creighton |
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Edward Trenchard |
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5 |
John Downes |
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John D. Henley |
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Jesse D. Elliot |
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Robert Henley |
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Stephen Cassin |
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10 |
Daniel S Dexter |
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James Renshaw |
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David Deacon |
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Lewis Alexis |
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Michael B. Carroll |
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15 |
Sidney Smith |
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Thomas Brown |
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In Epervier believed lost |
William Lewis** |
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Lieutenant |
Nathaniel Haraadan |
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Francis J. Mitchell |
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George Merrill |
|
Date entered in register one year late |
Samuel Woodhouse |
4 May 1808****** |
5 |
Charles C. B. Thompson |
15 May 1809 |
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Joseph J. Nicholson |
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Alexander P. Wadsworth |
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John Pettigrew |
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George W. Rodgers |
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10 |
George C. Read |
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Henry E. Ballard |
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Thomas Gamble |
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William Carter, jr. |
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Benedict J. Neale |
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15 |
Joseph J. Nicholson |
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Walter Stewart |
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Wolcott Chauncey |
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John H. Elton |
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Edmund P. Kennedy |
|
20 |
Jesse Wilkinson |
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Alexander J. Dallas |
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John P. Nicolson |
20 May 1812 |
|
Beekman V. Hoffman |
21 May 1812 |
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George Budel |
23 May 1812 |
25 |
Thomas A. C. Jones |
24 May 1812 |
|
Joseph S. MacPherson |
26 May 1812 |
|
John Porter |
27 May 1812 |
In Epervier believed lost |
John T. Shubrick** |
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William Finch |
|
30 |
William B. Shubrick |
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Henry Wells |
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Benjamin W. Booth |
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Alexander Claxton |
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Enos R. Davis |
|
35 |
Charles W. Morgan |
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Samuel P. Macomber |
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Raymond H. J. Perry |
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Wm. H. Watson |
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40 |
Thomas Hendry Jr. |
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Foxall A. Parker |
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Edward R. McCall |
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Daniel Tuenr |
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William H. Allen |
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45 |
David Connor |
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John Gallagher |
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Thomas Holdup |
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James A. Dudley |
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James P. Oellers |
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50 |
William M. Hunter |
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John D. Sloat |
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John Packett |
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William H. Cocke |
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In Epervier believed lost |
John J. Yarnall* |
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55 |
Matthew C. Perry |
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Charles W. Skinner |
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Joseph Wragg |
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James Saunders |
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In Wasp believed lost |
James Reilly |
|
60 |
Samuel W. Adams |
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John R. Madison |
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Dugomier Taylor |
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George Pearce |
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Frederick W. Smith |
|
65 |
Henry S. Newcomb |
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Nathaniel D. Nicholson |
|
In Wasp believed lost |
Thomas Tillinghast |
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Otho Norris |
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John T. Newton |
|
70 |
P. A. J. P. Jones |
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Samuel Henley |
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Augustus H. M. Conkling |
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Joseph Smith |
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Laurence Rousseau |
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75 |
George W. Storer |
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Henry B. Rapp |
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Lewis German |
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Joseph Cassin |
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Robert M. Rose |
|
80 |
Beverly Kennon |
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Edward Shubrick |
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Charles A. Budd |
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Francis H. Gregory |
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Edward Barnewall |
|
85 |
John M. Maury |
|
In Wasp believed lost |
Frederick Baury* |
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Benjamin Cooper |
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Philip F. Voorhees |
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John H. Clack |
|
90 |
Isaac Mayo |
4 February 1815 (?) |
|
William L. Gordon |
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James Ramage |
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Robert F. Stockton |
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Thomas M. Newell |
|
95 |
Delaney Forrest |
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Eli A. F. Vallette |
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Silas Duncan |
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Thomas Cunningham |
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Isaac McKeever |
|
100 |
Paul Zantzinger |
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John W. Gibbs |
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Henry Gilliam |
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William D. Salter |
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William A. Spencer |
|
105 |
Silas A. Stringham |
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William Laughton |
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Edward Haddaway |
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Nelson Webster |
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William Mervine |
4 February 1815 (?) |
110 |
Richard Dashiel |
|
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Richard Winter |
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John Percival |
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William V. Taylor |
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Mervine P. Mix |
|
115 |
Bladen Dulaney |
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Thomas W. Magruder |
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John Tayloe |
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Robert Spedden |
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Thomas F. Webb |
|
120 |
James McGowan |
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Nath’l L. |
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A. C. Stout |
|
In Epervier believed lost |
John T. Drury |
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Charles E. Crowley |
|
125 |
W. A. C. Farragut |
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Gustavus W. Spooner |
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William W. Brailsford |
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William Elliot |
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Thomas Crabb |
|
130 |
John T. Wade |
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George B. McCulloch |
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Walter G. Anderson |
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Stephen Champlin |
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William Lowe |
|
135 |
Walter G. Montieth |
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David Geissinger |
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Charles F. McCauley |
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John H. Bell |
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Francis B. Gamble |
|
140 |
John H. Aulick |
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Charles T. Clark |
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George Vancleave |
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Richard G. Edwards |
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William K. Lattimer |
|
145 |
Edward B. Babbitt |
1 May 1815 |
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George Hamersley |
5 May 1815 |
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MARINE CORPS |
|
Lt. Col. Commandant |
Franklin Wharton |
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Major |
Daniel Carmick |
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John Hall |
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Captain |
Anthony Gale (Bvt. Major) |
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Robert Greenleaf |
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Archibald Henderson |
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Richard Smith (Bvt. Major) |
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Robert Wainwright |
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William Anderson |
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Thomas R. Swift |
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Samuel Miller (Bvt. Major) |
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John Crabb |
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Henry H. Forde |
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John M. Gamble |
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Charles S. Hanna |
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Alexander Sevier (Bvt. Major) |
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Alfred Grayson |
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William Strong |
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James Heath |
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H. B. Breckinridge |
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William Hall |
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Francis W. Sterne |
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1st Lieutenant |
F. B. D. Bellevue |
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John R. Montegut |
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P. B. D. Grandpre |
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Lyman Kellogg |
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Samuel E. Watson |
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William L. Brownlow |
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Thomas W. Legge |
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William H. Freeman |
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Joseph L. Kuhn |
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Henry Olcott |
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Charles M. Broome |
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Benjamin Richardson |
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Francis B. White |
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William Nicoll |
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Charles Lord |
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Levi Twiggs |
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Edmund Brooke |
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John Harris |
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Samuel B. Johnston |
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2nd Lieutenant |
Henry Stephens |
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Thomas A. Linton |
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Richard Auchmuty |
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Joseph Bosque |
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James Edelen |
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Christopher Ford |
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James J. Mills |
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Francis A. Bond |
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Park G. Howle |
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George B. English |
|
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Henry W. Kennedy |
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Richard D. Green |
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Singleton Duvall |
|
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Charles Snowden |
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James G. Singletary |
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William F. Swift |
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Gillies Thompson |
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Edward S. Nowell |
9 May 1815 |