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2 unusual facts about John McLeod Murphy


John McLeod Murphy

He took command of gunboat Carondelet 4 March 1863, skippering that ship during the joint Army‑Navy Expedition in Steele's Bayou under Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter, 18 to 24 March, in which he landed with two boat howitzers and 300 men near Rolling Fork to hold that place until the Union ships could cover it with their guns# One of his officers was Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Julius H. Kroehl.

He served during the War with Mexico at Vera Cruz and Tabasco on board the USS Stromboli He resigned as a passed midshipman 10 May 1852 after his last mission as an assistant on John G. Barnard's survey of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.



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