CDV PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN JOHN P. BANKHEAD

CDV PHOTOGRAPH OF CAPTAIN JOHN P. BANKHEAD

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This Carte de Visite (CDV) photograph of Bankhead is a full-standing studio view of him in uniform with sword. Clarity and contrast is very fine. Image is on a typical, double-ruled mount. The bottom corners are trimmed round. E. & H.T. Anthony, New York backmark.

John Payne Bankhead, born at Fort Moultrie, South Carolina, 1821; entered the United States Navy, 1838; promoted commander, July 16, 1862, and captain, July 25, 1866; commanded the USS Monitor, September 1, 1862 to December 31, 1862, when it sunk; later commanded the USS Florida. He died on board the steamer Simla at the Port of Aden (Yemen), April 27, 1867.

During the Civil War, Bankhead was stationed on the Pembina and was sent to Charleston for blockade duty. In the middle of August, the Pembina was ordered to New York for repairs. Flag Officer DuPont wrote a letter on Bankhead's behalf to Captain Gustavus Fox, Secretary of the Navy, requesting that he be transferred to an iron vessel. Bankhead was given the Monitor and took command from Thomas Stevens on September 10, 1862. Shortly after Bankhead took command the Monitor's boilers and engines were condemned, and on October 3, 1862, the ironclad arrived at the Washington Navy Yard for repairs. By November the ship was finished and returned to Hampton Roads. Orders were issued on December 24, 1862, for the Monitor to move to Beaufort, North Carolina, to join the blockade off Charleston. On December 31, 1862, a storm hit seas off Hatteras, and the Monitor, under tow by the USS Rhode Island, foundered and sank with the loss of four officers and 16 men. Bankhead himself was saved but suffered from exposure. After his recovery he was given command of the side-wheeler Florida and participated in blockade duty off Fort Fisher, North Carolina. In 1864, Bankhead was transferred to the Otsego, but was eventually relieved of command due to poor health. Bankhead ended the war in command of the Wyoming, which was stationed in the Pacific searching for the CSS Shenandoah. The Wyoming was transferred to the Asiatic Squadron, and Bankhead remained in command until 1867, when due to poor health he requested to be relieved of duty. He died that same year on his way home to the United States.  [jet]  [ph:L]

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