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William Harwar Parker was born on Ocrober 8, 1826 in New York, United States. He was the son of Foxhall Alexander and Sara Jay (Bogardus) Parker and the nephew of Richard Elliot Parker.
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William Harwar Parker was born on Ocrober 8, 1826 in New York, United States. He was the son of Foxhall Alexander and Sara Jay (Bogardus) Parker and the nephew of Richard Elliot Parker.
In 1847 - 1848, William Harwar Parker was at the Naval Academy, graduating first in his class.
On October 19, 1841, William Harwar Parker was appointed midshipman, and made his first cruise in the Columbus to the Mediterranean and Brazil, 1842 - 1844. In the Potomac through the Mexican War, he saw active fighting with the naval battery at Vera Cruz and at the capture of Tabasco. In 1847 - 1848, he was at the Naval Academy, graduating first in his class. Subsequent service included an African cruise in the Yorktown, ending in shipwreck off the Cape Verde Islands; an instructorship at Annapolis, 1853 - 1857, and duty on the Pacific station in the Merrimac. An excellent student and a clear, facile writer, Parker while returning from this station wrote Instructions for Naval Light Artillery (1862) and translated a French work, Tactique Navale, both used subsequently at the Naval Academy, where he was again instructor, 1860 - 1861. By the time of the Civil War he had been promoted through the various grades to lieutenant. Unlike his brother, Foxhall Alexander Parker, he joined the Southern navy, and in command of the gunboat Beaufort fought in Lynch's flotilla at Roanoke Island, February 7, 1862, and below Elizabeth City, February 10. In the latter action Parker was ordered to leave his boat, which escaped to Norfolk, and man a battery on shore. He again commanded the Beaufort in the battle of Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862, where his ship's force came under heavy fire from shore while alongside the surrendered Congress. Parker was an active participant in the post-bellum controversy over the Monitor-Merrimac action, of which a valuable record appears in his Recollections.
During the winter of 1862 - 1863, he was executive of the ironclad Palmetto State at Charleston, took part in the attack on the Union blockading force January 31, and in April - May had charge of two projected torpedo expeditions which were thwarted, once by the withdrawal of the Federal monitors, and again by a deserter's warning. Made captain in 1863, Parker that autumn organized and became superintendent of the Confederate Naval Academy, which consisted of about fifty midshipmen, quartered aboard the gunboat Patrick Henry, the ship still remaining part of the James River defense forces. Though commanding the ironclad Richmond during the summer of 1864, he continued superintendent of the academy until the close of the war, taking justifiable pride in the quality of its training. In 1863 he published Questions on Practical Seamanship: Together with Harbor Routine and Evolutions, and in 1864, Elements of Seamanship. On the evacuation of Richmond, he and his cadets were given charge of the government archives and treasure (about $500, 000), and guarded them inviolate during the month's retreat southward.
After the war, Parker was captain of a Pacific Mail steamer between Panama and San Francisco, 1865 - 1874, publishing in 1871, Remarks on the Navigation of the Coasts Between San Francisco and Panama; president of the Maryland Agricultural College, 1875 - 1883, and minister to Korea in Cleveland's first administration, 1886. His wide reading, charm as a raconteur, and fair-mindedness appear in his Recollections of a Naval Officer 1841 - 1865 (1883), one of the most enjoyable books of its type. He also wrote Familiar Talks on Astronomy (1889). He died suddenly in Washington, D. C. , and was buried at Norfolk, Virginia.
William Harwar Parkes was a distinguisged naval officer. He served in the United States Navy and in the Confederate States Navy. As author, Parker famous for his books such as Instructions for Naval Light Artillery (1862), Recollections of a Naval Officer 1841 - 1865 (1883), Familiar Talks on Astronomy (1889).
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On December 14, 1853, William Harwar Parker married Margaret Griffin, daughter of Burwell Mosely of Princess Anne County, Virginia. They had no children.
