USS Monitor Legacy Program: Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter
Son of the War of 1812 naval hero Commodore David Dixon Porter, the younger Porter joined the navy at the age of 10. After a brief service with his father in the Mexican Navy, he joined the US Navy in 1829. Learn more about Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter’s extensive naval career by attending John Quarstein’s lecture!
Image credit: Photograph of David Dixon Porter leaning on a cannon. From The Photographic History of The Civil War in Ten Volumes: Volume Six, The Navies. The Review of Reviews Co., New York. 1911. p. 195. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
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