Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker

The biography traces a naval officer's life from early U.S. Navy service and Mexican War through resignation at Virginia's secession, detailed Confederate naval commands and engagements (including armored and ironclad actions, Hampton Roads, Drewry's Bluff, Charleston), capture and parole, then international service as a Peruvian rear admiral commanding allied fleets and later presidency of a hydrographical commission that explored the Upper Amazon (including expeditions on the Yavarí, Ucayali, Tambo, Pachitea, Pichis and Huallaga rivers), and concludes with appended navigational notes on the Amazon and a biographical sketch of the author.