Alexander Mosely Pennock

{{Short description|United States Navy admiral (1813–1876)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}} {{Infobox military person | name = Alexander Mosely Pennock | image = Alexander Mosely Pennock.png | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1813|11|01}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1876|09|20|1813|11|01}} | burial_label = | birth_place = [[Norfolk, Virginia]] | death_place = [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]] | burial_place = | nickname = | allegiance = {{Flag|United States of America|1822}}<br/>[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] | branch = {{flagicon image|US Naval Jack 24 stars.svg}} [[United States Navy]] | service_years = 1828–1875 | rank = [[File:USN Rear Admiral rank insignia.jpg|35px]] [[Admiral (United States)|Rear admiral]] | unit = | commands = | battles = [[Paraguay Expedition]]<br>[[American Civil War]] | awards = | relations = [[David Farragut]] (brother-in-law) | other_work = }} '''Alexander Mosely Pennock''' (November 1, 1813 – September 20, 1876) was an officer of the [[United States Navy]] during the [[American Civil War]]. He was a [[Captain (naval)|captain]] during the war and rose to the rank of [[Rear admiral (United States)|rear admiral]] after the war.

==Biography== Alexander Mosely Pennock was born in [[Norfolk, Virginia]], on November 1, 1813.<ref name=Cyclopaedia>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QsdKAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA280 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=IV |publisher=James T. White & Company |page=280 |year=1893 |access-date=2020-12-05 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

He joined the United States Navy in April 1828. He was made a midshipman in 1834, commissioned as a lieutenant in March 1839, and as a commander in December 1855. In October 1859 he was appointed Inspector of Lighthouses in the 2nd Lighthouse District, centered on New York.<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 October 1859 |title=Naval Intelligence |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/593180973/?match=1&terms=%22A.%20pennock%22 |work=New York Daily Herald |pages=3}}</ref> In the fall of 1861 he was reassigned as [[fleet captain]] of Flag Officer [[Andrew Hull Foote|Andrew Foote's]] [[Mississippi River Squadron]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 December 1861 |title=The Mississippi Fleet |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/20434153/?terms=%22A.%20M.%20pennock%22 |work=The New York Times |pages=3}}</ref> where he served until 1864.<ref name="Cyclopaedia" /> He commanded the [[USS Crusader (1858)|USS ''Southern Star'']] in the [[Paraguay expedition]].

He was promoted to captain in 1863, to commodore in 1868, and rear admiral in 1872. He retired from the Navy in 1875.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>

Alexander Mosely Pennock died in [[Portsmouth, New Hampshire]], on September 20, 1876.<ref name=Cyclopaedia/>

==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite book | last = James Grant Wilson, John Fiske | title = Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography | publisher = D. Appleton & company | year = 1898 | location = New York | pages = [https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclop11fiskgoog/page/n765 718] | url =https://archive.org/details/appletonscyclop11fiskgoog| oclc=1511032707 }} *{{cite news | title=Funeral of Rear Admiral Pennock | date=September 23, 1876 | url =https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1876/09/23/93907220.pdf | work =The New York Times | accessdate = 2008-11-26 }}

==External links== *[https://www.navsea.navy.mil/Home/Shipyards/Portsmouth/History.aspx History of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard] *{{cite web|url=http://www.pennock.ws/surnames/fam/fam23001.html |title=Rash's Surname Index |accessdate=2008-11-26 |work=The Pennocks of Primitive Hall }}

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