Rear-Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, a leading naval leader in the recent war, and the architect of one of the North's first naval victories at Port Royal, South Carolina in November 1861, died suddenly while on a visit to Philadelphia from his home in Delaware. Removed from command in 1863 after a failed naval attack on Charleston, he was later vindicated and DuPont Circle in Washington D.C. was named in his honor in 1882. (By John Osborne)
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"Obituary; Admiral Samuel Francis Dupont," New York Times, June 24, 1865
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