1849 United States Naval Deaths This file is part of the DCGenWeb Archives Project: http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm ********************************************* http://www.usgwarchives.net/dc/dcfiles.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************* Contributed to The USGenWeb Archives Project by: Melissa ----------------------------------------------- Name & Rank Date Place Captains William C Bolton Feb. 22, 1849 Genoa, Sardinia William M Hunter March 5, 1849 Philadelphia, John Gwinn Sept. 4, 1849 Palermo, Sicily Commanders Irvine Shubrick April 5,1849 Wilmington, Delaware Jacob Crowninshield July 15, 1849 On board the mail steamer Oregon, Pacific. Lieutenants Fras. Huger Jan. 6, 1849 Charleston, S.C. Jas. P Oellers Feb. 20,1849 Philadelphia, John E Bispham March 24, 1849 Philadelphia, Woodhull S Schenck May 9,1849 St Louis, Missouri Fras. Alexander May 11, 1849 On board the frigate Raritan, at sea. Fitzallen Deas July 31, 1849 Charleston, S.C. Thomas M Mix Aug. 24, 1849 Rhinebeck, New York John H Sherburne Nov. 2, 1849 McLean Asylum, near Boston Surgeon Saml. C Lawrason July 14, 1849 Navy yard, Pensacola, Fa. Passed Assistant Surgeon Silas Holmes May 24, 1849 Drowned in Mobile Bay, Alabama Assistant Surgeons Alexr. Robinson, jr. March 11,1849 Naval hospital, Pensacola, Florida Albert Pearson July 27, 1849 Naval hospital, Pensacola, Florida Pursers Wm. B Hartwell July 12, 1849 On board the sloop, Falmouth, at sea. Nathl. Wilson Oct. 26, 1849 Boston, Mass Passed Midshipman E. T. Andrews Jan. 22, 1849 On his way to California Midshipman Wm B Hays Aug. 10, 1849 On board the sloop, Dale, at sea. Gunners John F Erskine Sept. 13, 1849 Naval hospital, N. Y. Chas. S McLane Nov. 13, 1849 Killed by the bursting of a gun at Washington yard. Thos. Dewey Nov. 16, 1849 At Chelsea, Mass Carpenters John McDevitt April 15, 1849 Naval hospital, N. Y. R.L. Sheffield March 17, 1849 Mamaroneck, N. Y. Engineer Joseph A Van Zant, 3d April 7, 1849 Washington, D. C. assistant