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Daniel Ammen was born on May 16, 1819 in Brown County, Ohio, United States. He was the son of David and Sally (Houtz) Ammen, both of Swiss-German ancestry, and the brother of Jacob Ammen.
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Daniel Ammen was born on May 16, 1819 in Brown County, Ohio, United States. He was the son of David and Sally (Houtz) Ammen, both of Swiss-German ancestry, and the brother of Jacob Ammen.
Ammen spent three months in special study at West Point, where his brother was a graduate instructor.
Ammen entered the Navy as a midshipman, July 7, 1836. From then until the Civil War his life was passed chiefly in long cruises, including a voyage in Commodore Biddle's squadron to China and Japan, 1845-1847, a tour in Germany and Italy in 1849-1850, a surveying expedition up the Paraguay River in 1853-1854, and a cruise in the Pacific in 1857-1860.
His special experience was in monitors and new types of ordnance. In the gunboat Seneca he took part in the attack on Port Royal, November 7, 1861, hoisted the flag next day on Fort Beauregard, and won Admiral Du Pont's commendation for "intelligent and energetic conduct" of subsequent operations on the St. John's River, Florida. In the monitor Patapsco he participated in the bombardment of Fort McAllister, March 3, 1863, and in the unsuccessful attack on Charleston in the next month. During the summer he was on sick-leave, but in the autumn he was again off Charleston in Admiral Dahlgren's flagship.
On May 15, 1864, in charge of 220 naval recruits from New York to Panama on the merchant vessel Ocean Queen, he suppressed a mutinous outbreak by shooting down two of the leaders. In command of the steam sloop Mohican he took part in the two attacks on Fort Fisher in the winter of 1864-1865.
After the war Ammen was called from sea duty to Washington through President Grant's influence, and from 1868 until his retirement as rear admiral, June 4, 1878, he was in charge, first of the Bureau of Yards and Docks for three years, and then of the Bureau of Navigation.
His range of interest appears also in his books: The Atlantic Coast (1883), in the Navy in the Civil War series; Country Homes and Their Improvement (1885); and an entertaining volume of reminiscences, The Old Navy and the New (1891).
His mechanical bent is seen in the invention of a cask life-raft used in the navy, and the design of the "Ammen ram, " a small coast-defense type, of which only one was completed, the Katahdin (accepted for service January 4, 1896).
Ammen lived after about 1870 on his estate "Ammendale, " in the suburb still so named thirteen miles north of Washington. He died on July 11, 1898.
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Ammen was of medium height, thin and active. His reputation as a resolute and dependable ship commander in the Civil War is suggested in the phrase of a brother officer, "that grim, truehearted fighting man, Daniel Ammen. "
Ammen's first wife was Mary Jackson, the daughter of an English army officer. He was survived by his second wife, Zoe Atocha, a Louisianian of distinguished French-Spanish descent whom he married April 11, 1866, and by whom he had five children.