File:William A. Webb, Commander, CS Atlanta.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

William_A._Webb,_Commander,_CS_Atlanta.jpg(301 × 418 pixels, file size: 25 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]

Licensing

[edit]
Description
English: Commander William A. Webb, USN & CSN, served as an Officer of the Line, United States Navy with the rank of Midshipman, 26 January 1838. He was appointed to the rank of Passed Midshipman on 2 July 1845; served during the Mexican War as a Passed Midshipman on the USS Southampton. Sailed from Norfolk, Virginia 7 February 1847. He was appointed to the rank of Master on 9 October 1853. He was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant on 12 June 1854. He resigned his commission effective 17 May 1861 to accept a commission in the Navy of the Confederate States of America. With the rank of Commander he was the CSS Atlanta's Commanding Officer; had been captured on CSS Atlanta in June 1863 and held at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, while a prisoner of war; paroled in September 1864 and exchanged in October 1864. His widow, Elizabeth Ann Webb applied for a pension on his Mexican War service, 1 February 1887.
Date between 1861 and 1865
date QS:P,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1865-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source http://www.geocities.ws/coh41/WebbWA.jpg via http://www.geocities.ws/coh41/FtWarren.html
Author Unknown authorUnknown author
Other versions
image extraction process
This file has been extracted from another file
: William A. Webb, Commander, CSN.jpg
original file

Licensing

[edit]
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country.
Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_A._Webb,_Commander,_CS_Atlanta.jpg

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current00:40, 18 March 2018Thumbnail for version as of 00:40, 18 March 2018301 × 418 (25 KB)Taterian (talk | contribs)File:William A. Webb, Commander, CSN.jpg cropped 12 % horizontally and 22 % vertically using CropTool with precise mode.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Metadata