18 Facts About Percival Drayton

Percival Drayton was a career United States Navy officer.

Percival Drayton served in the Brazil Squadron, the Mediterranean Squadron and as a staff officer during the Paraguay Expedition.

Percival Drayton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, to Anna Gadsden and William Percival Drayton, a prominent lawyer and US Representative.

In 1833 the family relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, following the Nullification Crisis, as William Percival Drayton was a unionist.

Percival Drayton was appointed as president of the Second Bank of the United States.

William Percival Drayton was a descendant of what had been a large landholding family in South Carolina.

Percival Drayton was appointed a midshipman in the Navy in December 1827.

Percival Drayton served two tours of duty with the Brazil Squadron in the South Atlantic from 1828 to 1830 and from 1839 to 1842.

Percival Drayton served four tours in the Mediterranean Squadron from 1831 to 1832,1835 to 1838,1849 to 1850 and 1850 and 1852.

Percival Drayton served one tour in the Pacific Ocean from 1842 to 1843 and one in the East Indies from 1845 to 1848.

Percival Drayton attained the rank of Lieutenant in February 1838 and served aboard the schooner Enterprise.

Percival Drayton had shore duty assignments at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, and at the New York Navy Yard.

Percival Drayton was a general of the Confederate army and commanded the forts destroyed in this engagement.

Percival Drayton became commanding officer of the sloop-of-war Pawnee and was active in inshore operations in the waters of South Carolina, Georgia and northern Florida through the summer of 1862.

Percival Drayton oversaw her outfitting and worked with John Ericsson to improve elements of monitor design.

Percival Drayton commanded the squadron flagship, the big sloop-of-war Hartford and took part in the August 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay and the following operations within Mobile Bay.

Percival Drayton was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Navigation in late April 1865.

Percival Drayton died of an obstructed bowel in Washington, DC, on 4 August 1865 and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.