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James Harmon Ward was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of James and Ruth (Butler) Ward and the descendant of Andrew Warde, an English emigrant who died in Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1659.
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James Harmon Ward was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the son of James and Ruth (Butler) Ward and the descendant of Andrew Warde, an English emigrant who died in Fairfield, Connecticut, about 1659.
In 1823 he was graduated from the American Literary Scientific and Military Academy at Norwich, Vt. , later Norwich University, and on March 4, 1823, was appointed a midshipman in the navy. The following year he sailed on the Constitution for the Mediterranean, where he remained for four years. On his return he entered Washington College (now Trinity) at Hartford, where he spent a year in scientific study.
His subsequent service took him to the Mediterranean again, the coast of Africa, and the West Indies. He was one of the most scholarly officers in his service and was a recognized authority on ordnance and naval tactics. In 1844-45 he delivered a popular course of lectures on ordnance at the naval school at Philadelphia, which he published as An Elementary Course of Instruction on Ordnance and Gunnery (1845). This book became widely known and exerted a real influence on the improvement of naval science. In 1852 it was officially adopted as a textbook at the Naval Academy at Annapolis. He urged upon the government the necessity of establishing a naval school, and when the naval school, later the Naval Academy, was opened at Annapolis in October 1845 he was appointed to be executive officer, a post soon designated as commandant of midshipmen. He also acted as head of the department of ordnance and gunnery. Detached in 1847, he commanded the Cumberland, Matthew C. Perry's flagship on the Mexican coast, during the remainder of the war. In 1856 and 1857, while cruising in the Jamestown off the African coast, he wrote A Manual of Naval Tactics (1859), a scholarly work that ran into four editions. In 1860 he published a popular treatise on steam, called Steam for the Million. When the Civil War broke out, he, then a commander, was stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Gideon Welles summoned him to Washington to plan for the rescue of Sumter. He volunteered to command a relief expedition but was finally convinced by General Scott that such an expedition would be futile. He proposed a "flying flotilla" for use on Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River. His idea was accepted and in May he was given command of a small fleet called the Potomac Flotilla, consisting of three steamers, the Thomas Freeborn, the Reliance, and the Resolute, and three coast survey schooners. On June 1 he silenced the Confederate batteries at Aquia Creek. On June 27, in an attempt to dislodge another battery at Matthias Point, he sent a working party ashore to throw up breastworks. As it was returning to the boats it was attacked by a large hostile force. Covering the embarkation with the guns of his fleet, he was shot in the abdomen as he was in the act of sighting the bowgun of the Thomas Freeborn. He died within an hour. His body was taken to Hartford, where it was buried with the rites of the Roman Catholic Church.
Ward was one of the five founders of Naval Academy opened in Annapolis, Maryland. He was one of the first line officers to pass along the benefits of his own experience to young midshipmen. One of the most scholarly officers of the Navy of his day, Ward held the office of executive officer (a post which later became that of the Commandant of Midshipmen), with collateral duties as instructor of gunnery and steam engineering. USS Ward was named for him, as was Fort Ward, one of the defenses of Washington during the American Civil War.
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On April 11, 1833, he married Sarah Whittemore. They had three sons.
