Edward Simpson, Sr. was a member of the first class of "middies" to graduate from Annapolis after only nine months of study. Over the following twenty years, Simpson followed a career that involved him in the Mexican War, had him working on the coastal survey, took him briefly to Canton and, finally back to the Naval Academy as an instructor in gunnery, until he was called to serve on both ironclads and frigates during the Civil War. He continued to serve at sea in the Gulf and Northern Pacific Squadrons until 1877. Simpson, author of the Treatise on Ordnance and Naval Gunnery (1859) and Report on a Naval Mission to Europe Especially Devoted to the Material and Construction of Artillery (1873), was a long-time advocate for naval modernization and maintenance.
Edward Simpson, Sr. chronology: U.S.S. Vixen (1847-48, ensign); U.S. Coastal Survey (1848-49); U.S.S. Congress (1850-53); U.S.S. Portsmouth (1855-58, lieutenant in 1855); U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis (1858-62, lt. commander in 1862); U.S.S. Wabash (1863, commander); U.S.S. Passaic (1863- May 1864); U.S.S. Isonomia (May 1864-Dec. 1864); U.S.S. Mohican/Mohengo (1866-68); U.S.S. Franklin/Wabash (1873-74, captain); U.S.S. Omaha (1875-77); New London Naval Station (1878-1880, commodore); League Island Navy Yard (1880-83); Gun Foundry Board (1883-84, president of, rear admiral as of 1884); Naval Advisory Board (1884-85, as president), Board of Inspection (1885-86, as president; retired).
- GLC#
- GLC05911
- Type
- Header Record
- Date
- 1840-1892
- Author/Creator
- Simpson, Edward, 1824-1888
- Title
- [Journals and log books of Edward Simpson Sr. and Edward Simpson, Jr.] [word processed inventory available] [Decimalized .01- .23]
- Place Written
- Various Places
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
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