Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1889 — Commodore Fitzhugh Dead. [ARTICLE]

Commodore Fitzhugh Dead.

Washington, Aug. 4.—A telegram has been received at the Navy Department announcing the death at 1 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the hospital in the Naval Home, Philadelphia, of Commodore William JE. Fitzhugh, of a complication of diseases. Commodore Fitzhugh was born in Ohio, Oct. 18, 1832, and graduated from the naval academy in 1854. He served in the Atlantic and Pacific souadrons prior to the war, and was made a Lieutenant Commodore in 1862. He commanded the Iroquois, of the North Atlantic blockading squadron, was present at the capture of Fort Morgan in 1864, and as commander of the Ouchati received the surrender of the Confederate naval forces on Red river. Since the war he has filled various stations on sea and shore, being promoted to a Captaincy in 1876, and to be Commodore in 1878.