April 12, 2024
ANTIQUE Old CIVIL WAR Navy NAVAL ORDNANCE GUNNERY Guns SHIPS JAMES HARMON WARD
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ELEMENTARYINSTRUCTION IN NAVAL ORDNANCE AND GUNNERY By James H. Ward 1862 Commander James Harmon Ward (September 25 th , 1806 – June 27 th , 1861) was the first officer of the United States Navy killed during the American Civil War. A recognized scholar in the field of ordnance and naval tactics, this was his first book. Born in Hartford, CT he graduated from the American Literary Scientific and Military Academy in Norwich, Vermont in 1823 and accepted an appointment as a midshipman in the Navy. The next years saw him serving on board ships in the Mediterranean, off Africa and in the West Indies. Back in the States Lt. Ward taught courses in ordnance and gunnery at the Naval School in Philadelphia, and was on the first faculty at the brand new Naval Academy in Annapolis in 1845. In the Mexican War he commanded the Cumberland and then commanded the steamer Vixen until 1850. In 1853 he was promoted to Commander. In 1861 with secession under way in the South, he was called to Washington to help plan for a relief expedition for Fort Sumter. Ward was to command the “Potomac Flotilla” aboard his flagship, the steamer Thomas Freeborn . The Flotilla saw its first action on June 1 st . On June 27 th , at the Battle of Mathias Point, Ward sent a landing party ashore to oust Southern troops, but the party met with strong opposition.
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