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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 (born June 8, 1813, Chester, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 13, 1891, Washington, D.C.) 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).
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.
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.
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.
On the eve of the Civil War, David Dixon Porter commanded the side-wheel frigate Powhatan, which in early April 1861 was sent to relieve the Pensacola, Florida, Navy Yard and nearby Fort Pickens. After the outbreak of hostilities, she served on blockade duty off the mouth of the Mississippi River.
David Dixon Porter was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on June 8, 1813 to Commodore David Porter, a War of 1812 hero, and Evalina (Anderson) Porter. In 1824, his father became head of the Mexican Navy, and young David became a midshipman in that service, serving on the frigate Libertad.
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.
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Jun 11, 2018 · Porter, David Dixon (1813–1891), American admiral.Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, Porter was the son of David Porter, naval hero in the War of 1812. A midshipman in the U.S. Navy at sixteen, young Porter commanded his first ship at thirty‐three during the Mexican War.
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