Henry Clay Taylor
Henry Clay Taylor was a rear admiral in the United States Navy who served in the American Civil War and the SpanishAmerican War. He also served as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and President of the Naval War College.
Taylor was born in Washington, D.C.. He was appointed midshipman at the Naval Academy onSeptember 1860. When the Civil War expansion of the Navy engendered a pressing need for junior officers in the fleet, Midshipman Taylors class was graduated a year early. He was commissioned ensign onMay 1863 and posted to the steam sloop Shenandoah operating with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. In 1864, he was transferred to the sloopofwar Iroquois, in which he visited the Mediterranean and participated in the hunt for the Confederate raider CSS160Shenandoah.
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