| Flag Officers, January 1, 1866 |
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| The following is a list of the flag officers of the US Navy in January 1866. The Navy had just been authorized to promote its first flag officers during the Civil War, and at this time had only one Vice-Admiral, four Rear-Admirals, and 19 Commodores on the Active List. A further seven Rear Admrials and twenty-nine Commodores were on the retired list. The list is in order of seniority. For retired officers, all had the same Date of Rank, 16 July 1862, the date such ranks were first authorized. |
| Active List |
| Name Vice Admiral David G. Farragut Rear Admiral L. M. Goldsborough Rear Admiral Charles H. Davis Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren Rear Admiral David D. Porter Commodore Thomas O Selfridge Commodore Theodorus Bailey Commodore Thomas T. Craven Commodore Henry K. Heff Commodore Henry H. Bell Commodore John W. Livingston Commodore Henry K. Thatcher Commodore Robert B. Hitchcock Commodore Stephen C. Rowan Commodore Joseph Lanman Commodore Thomas Turner Commodore Charles H. Poor Commodore James F. Schenck Commodore Timothy A. Hunt Commodore Sylvanus W. Godon Commodore James S. Palmer Commodore William Radford Commodore John Rodgers Commodore John A. Winslow |
| Date of Rank 21 December 1864 16 July 1862 7 February 1863 7 February 1863 4 July1863 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 16 July 1862 29 August 1862 13 December 1862 2 January 1863 2 January 1863 2 January 1863 2 January 1863 7 February 1863 24 April1 863 17 June 1863 19 June 1864 |
| Duty Station Waiting Orders Commanding, European Squadron Superintendent, Naval Observatory Waiting Orders Superintendent, Naval Academy Commanding, Navy Yard, Philadelphia Commanding, Navy Yard, Portsmouth Waiting Orders Ordnance Duty, Philadelphia Commanding, East India Squadron Waiting Orders Commanding, Gulf Squadron Commanding, Navy Yard, Norfolk Waiting Orders Commanding, Atlantic Squadron Special Duty, Philadelphia Waiting Orders Commanding, Naval Station, Mound City Ordnance Duty, Boston Commanding, Brazil Squadron Commanding, West India Squadron Commanding, Navy Yard, Washington, DC Commanding, Special Squadron Under orders to: Commanding, Gulf Squadron |
| Retired List |
| Name Rear Admiral Charles Stewart Rear Admiral William B. Shubrick Rear Admiral Joseph Smith Rear Admiral Francis Gregory Rear Admiral Silas H. Stringham Rear Admiral Samuel L. Breese Rear Admiral Hiram Paulding Commodore John D. Sloat Commodore William Mervine Commodore Thomas Crabbe Commodore John B. Montgomery Commodore Cornelius K. Stribling Commodore Joshua R. Sands Commodore Charles H. Bell Commodore Joseph R. Jarvis Commodore William C. Nicholson Commodore Joseph B. Hull Commodore Wm. H. Gardner Commodore T. Aloysius Dornin Commodore Frederick Engle Commodore John Rudd Commodore Charles Lowndes Commodore John Marston Commodore Henry A. Adams Commodore George F. Pearson Commodore John Pope Commodore Levin M. Powell Commodore Charles Wilkes Commodore Henry Eagle Commodore William M. Glendy Commodore George S. Blake Commodore Andrew A. Harwood Commodore Hugh Y. Purviance Commodore Cadwalader Ringgold Commodore James L. Lardner Commodore William Smith |
| Date of Rank 16 July 1862 - for all retired officers |
| Duty if any (otherwise Waiting Orders) Chairman, Light-House Board Chief, Bureau of Yards & Docks Superintending construction of gunboats Commandant, Navy Yard, Boston Light-House Inspector Commanding, Navy Yard, New York Light-House Inspector Governor, Naval Asylum, Philadelphia Light-House Inspector Special Duty, Philadelphia Commanding, Pacific Squadron Light-House Inspector Light-House Inspector Light-House Inspector Light-House Inspector Secretary of Light-House Board Special Duty, New York Special Duty, Philadelphia |