Search results
David Dixon Porter (June 8, 1813 – February 13, 1891) was a United States Navy admiral and a member of one of the most distinguished families in the history of the U.S. Navy. Promoted as the second U.S. Navy officer ever to attain the rank of admiral, after his adoptive brother David G. Farragut, Porter helped improve the Navy as the ...
Jun 4, 2024 · David Dixon Porter was a U.S. naval officer who held important Union commands in the American Civil War (1861–65). The son of Commodore David Porter, David Dixon Porter served in the Mexican War (1846–48). Promoted to commander early in the American Civil War, he participated in Union expeditions.
When the Civil War began in 1861, David Dixon Porter took command of the Powhatan in an abortive attempt to relieve Fort Pickens, Florida, and soon joined the Union's naval forces in the blockade of the Southern port cities.
Controversy surrounded David Dixon Porter at the beginning of the Civil War. Unbeknownst to Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, Porter took command of the frigate U.S.S. Powhatan and sailed it to relieve Fort Pickens off the coast of Florida.
Born on June 8, 1813 in Chester, PA, David Dixon Porter was the son of famed U.S. Navy Commodore David Porter. Five years earlier his father adopted the orphaned James (later David) Glasgow Farragut, who would also become one of the great Union naval commanders of the Civil War. David Dixon Porter joined the navy at age 16 In 1829 as a midshipman.
Mar 6, 2017 · Admiral David Dixon Porter was a key Union naval commander during the Civil War who commanded Union naval forces on the Mississippi River and later led forces in the Atlantic.
David Dixon Porter was a Mexican-American War veteran and U.S. Navy officer who distinguished himself in a number of actions in the Civil War. The son of David Porter and adoptive brother of David G. Farragut, Porter followed his father into the Mexican Navy at the age of 13 then transferred to the U.S. Navy three years later.
