Rear Admiral
Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers (November 4, 1819 – January 8, 1892) was an officer in the
United States Navy. He served in the
Mexican–American War and the
American Civil War, and also as Superintendent of the
Naval Academy, President of the
United States Naval Institute, and Commander-in-Chief of the
Pacific Squadron. Rodgers was appointed
midshipman in 1833 and served in the Pacific Squadron and at the
New York Navy Yard, later taking part in operations in the
Second Seminole War from 1839 to 1840. He was assigned to the
Home Squadron in 1847 to serve in the Mexican–American War; he participated in the
Siege of Veracruz in March, and in the capture of
Tabasco and
Tuxpan by his uncle Commodore
Matthew C. Perry. In 1859, Rodgers was appointed
Commandant of Midshipmen at the Naval Academy, serving there until the start of the Civil War in 1861, in which he saw action at the
Battle of Port Royal and the
Siege of Fort Pulaski. After the war, he served as Chief of the
Bureau of Yards and Docks from 1871 to 1874 and later as Superintendent of the Naval Academy until 1878, before a two-year tour as Commander of the Pacific Squadron and returning to the Naval Academy as superintendent in 1881, retiring in November of that year.
This picture of Rodgers was taken sometime between 1860 and 1865, during the Civil War, and is in the collection of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.Photograph: unknown; restored by Eddie891