Background
Richard Worsam Meade was the son of Capt. Richard Worsam Meade, 1807-1870, and Clara Forsyth (Meigs). He was born on 9 October 1837 at his maternal grandfather's home, Fourth and Perry streets, New York.
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Richard Worsam Meade was the son of Capt. Richard Worsam Meade, 1807-1870, and Clara Forsyth (Meigs). He was born on 9 October 1837 at his maternal grandfather's home, Fourth and Perry streets, New York.
Following study at Fordham School and Worcester Academy, Meade entered the Naval Academy at thirteen, and after six years' training, four of them at sea, graduated fifth in the class of 1856. Two years later, January 23, 1858, he was promoted to lieutenant.
In 1860 Richard Worsam was court-martialed and reprimanded for calling Lieut. Thomas Field of the Marine Corps "a liar and a coward. " In the Pacific Squadron at the opening of the Civil War, he was invalided home with fever, August 1861; served as ordnance instructor in the receiving ship Ohio at Boston; and after brief assignments in the Dacotah and Conemaugh, and promotion to lieutenant commander, was in command of the Louisville on the Mississippi, September-December 1862. Detailed to ordnance work in New York after a recurrence of illness, he had charge of the naval battalion which preserved order in the lower section of New York during the Draft Riots, July 13, 1863. He next commanded the Marblehead, September 1863-May 1864, on the Charleston blockade. Admiral John A. B. Dahlgren commended him in general orders following his action with shore batteries while supporting the flank of Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore in Stono Inlet, December 25, 1863, during which his ship was hulled thirty times in a two-hour bombardment. Afterward, until the end of the war, he commanded the Chocura in the Gulf, capturing seven prizes, and on January 22, 1865, cutting out and destroying the blockade runner Delphina in the Calcasieu River, Louisiana. He was head of the seamanship department, Naval Academy, 1865-68, and prepared for midshipmen's use Manual of the Boat Exercise at the U. S. Naval Academy (1868) and A Treatise on Naval Architecture (1868). Subsequently, he also published several translations of French naval articles, and wrote frequently on professional subjects. The famous yacht America, used as a training ship at the Academy after war service, was under his command, though he did not actually sail her, in the second America's Cup race off New York, August 8, 1870, in which there were eighteen entries; she finished fourth, and the British yacht, tenth. The year before he had commanded the Saginaw on an Alaskan cruise. Admiral Seaton Schroeder, then under him, describes him as a "well-known, daring, and skillful seaman, " naturally kind of heart, but "disconcertingly frank in both look and spoken expression". He had indeed great energy, emotional temperament, aggressiveness, and also combativeness. In 1871-73 he took the Narragansett on an extraordinary Pacific cruise 60, 000 miles, chiefly under sail, in 431 days during which he protected American interests in innumerable places, made the first treaty with Samoa, and according to the Secretary of the Navy, "accomplished more professional work than any other ship afloat for the past two years. " After ordnance duty in Brooklyn, he commanded the Vandalia, North Atlantic Squadron, 1879-82, Admiral Robert H. Wyman declaring that "as a commanding officer he has no superior". With the rank of captain, that he got on March 13, 1880, he was commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, 1887-90. On May 5, 1892 as commodore, he was naval representative at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago; and as rear admiral (Aug. 1, 1894) was selected to command the North Atlantic Squadron. After a very active cruise in the West Indies, during which he was thanked by the British government for the services of the fleet in preventing the destruction by fire of Port of Spain, Trinidad, Meade became dissatisfied with his relations with the Navy Department under Secretary Hilary A. Herbert, resigned his command, and voluntarily retired, May 7, 1895. Thereafter, he lived at Germantown, Pa. His death from appendicitis occurred in Washington, and he was buried at Arlington.
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In appearance Richard Worsam was strikingly handsome.
Meade was married, June 6, 1865, to Rebecca, daughter of Admiral Hiram Paulding, and had a son and four daughters.
21 May 1807 - 16 April 1870
20 January 1811 - 5 February 1879
1854 - 25 May 1858
25 December 1842 - 11 February 1910
4 January 1840 - 12 April 1897
22 December 1845 - 10 May 1920
1851 - 11 July 1851
8 October 1837 - 20 December 1921
6 April 1866 - 10 August 1951
2 July 1876 - 11 September 1967
