32 MARYLAND OFFICERS [REGULAR], IN U. S. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS.

NAME.	RANK OR RATING.	DATE OF ENLISTMENT OR SHIPMENT.	DATE OF DISCHARGE.	VESSELS SERVED ON AND REMARKS.
David F. Ricketts	Asst. Surgeon.	Jan. 24, 1862		Died Jan. 8, 1866.
George H. Riley	2d Asst. Eng.	July 21, 1858	Oct. 17, 1865	Entered the service as 3d Asst. Engineer; promoted 2d
				Asst. Engineer, July 1, 1861; resigned.
Cadwallader Ringgold	Rear Admiral.	Mar. 4, 1819		Appointed Midshipman, March 4, 1819; Lieutenant,
				May 17, 1828; Commander, July 16, 1849; Reserved
				List, Sept. 13, 1855; Captain on Active List, April 2,
				1856; Commodore, July 16, 1862; Rear-Admiral, Re-
				tired List, July 25, 1866; died April 29, 1867.
Somerset Robinson	Medical Insp.	May 9, 1861		Entered the service as Asst. Surgeon; promoted
				Passed Asst. Surgeon, Oct. 26, 1863; Surgeon, Dec.
				18, 1864; continued in service, and subsequently pro-
				moted Medical Inspector.
Frederick Rodgers	Captain.	Sept. 25, 1857		Entered the service as Acting Midshipman; promoted
				Midshipman, June 1, 1861; Acting Master, June 10,
				1861; attached to frigate Santee, 1861-62; commis-
				sioned as Lieutenant, July 16, 1862; W. G. Blockading
				Squadron, 1862-63; engagements at Donaldsonville,
				La., Oct. 4, 1862; Port Hudson, La., March 14, 1863;
				steamer Grand Gulf, N. A. Blockading Squadron,
				1863-64; Grand Gulf, W. G. Blockading Squadron,
				1864-65; continued in service, and subsequently com-
				missioned Lieut.-Commander, Commander and
				Captain.
John Rodgers	Rear Admiral.	April 18, 1828		Appointed Midshipman, April 18, 1828; commissioned
				as Lieutenant, Jan. 22, 1840; Commander, Sept. 14,
				1855; in 1861, ordered to special duty in the West,
				superintending the construction of the Benton class
				of ironclads; 1862, assigned to the command of the
				ironclad steamer Galena, N. A. Blockading Squad-
				ron; on May 10, 1862, left Hampton Roads in com-
				mand of expedition of gunboats, with orders to enter
				the James river, and, if possible, to ascend to Rich-
				mond; after two engagements with rebel batteries,
				which were in each instance silenced, the fleet
				reached Ft. Darling, erected on the crest of a hill,
				which, together with sunken vessels, effectually ob-
				structed the channel; May 15, Commander Rodgers
				anchored the Galena in front of and at a distance
				of five hundred yards from the rebel fort; the Aroos-
				took and Port Royal, wooden gunboats, were sta-
				tioned eight hundred yards below the flagship; at
				8 A. M., the vessels opened fire on Ft. Darling, and
				until 12 M. kept up a vigorous bombardment; at 12.10
				P. M., having expended every shot and shell in the
				magazine and shell room of the Galena, withdrew
				from action, the vessels retiring in good order; the
				monitor being unable to give sufficient elevation to
				her guns, and the Naugatuck, better known as the
				Stevens Battery, having burst her rifle gun at the
				first fire, were rendered useless, so far as the fort
				was concerned, although both vessels did good
				service during the action with their crews as sharp-
				shooters, and picking off the rebel riflemen, who
				greatly annoyed the crews of the wooden vessels;
				the Galena was hit one hundred and twenty-nine
				times, losing in killed and wounded two-thirds of
				her crew; commissioned as Captain, July 16, 1862;
				in 1863, was ordered to the command of the monitor
				Weehawken, and sailed from New York in that ves-
				sel for S. A. Blockading Squadron; on June 17, 1863,
				in Warsaw Sound, Ga., encountered the powerful
				rebel ironclad Atlanta, a vessel of much greater
				tonnage than the Weehawken; five shots were fired
				by the Weehawken; the fight lasted but fifteen
				minutes, at the end of which time the Atlanta sur-
				rendered; commissioned as Commodore, June 17,
				1863; commanding ironclad Dictator, special service,
				1864-5; continued in service, and subsequently com-
				missioned Rear-Admiral.
John A. Rodgers	Lieutenant.	July 30, 1863		Entered as Midshipman; graduated June, 1868; con-
				tinued in service, and subsequently promoted Mas-
				ter and Lieutenant.
Edward A. Roget	Professor.	May 21, 1864		1864, Retired List.