John Adolphus Dahlgren
✓ Source-basedstableUnited States Navy admiral (1809-1870)
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John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren was a United States Navy officer who founded his service's Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in gunnery.
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Rear Admiral Dahlgren, on board the USS Pawnee, beside a 50-pounder Dahlgren rifle, one of his bottle-shaped cast-iron cannons, c. 1864
Dahlgren during the American Civil War
Dahlgren's tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery
An 1888 color lithograph of Dahlgren from a series by Allen & Ginter CigarettesIn their orbit 1
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About this person
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United StatesCategory
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Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
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Lived 1809 to 1870 · aged 60
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