PropertyValue
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Horatio Bridge
rdfs:comment
  • Commodore Horatio Bridge (1806—March 1893) was an officer of the United States Navy who, as Chief of the Bureau of Provisions, served for many years as head of the Navy's supply organization. Appointed by his former college mate, President Franklin Pierce, Bridge held this post under various administrations, including the whole period of the Civil War.
owl:sameAs
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate
serviceyears
  • 1838
Birth Date
  • 1806
Commands
  • Bureau of Provisions and Clothing
Branch
  • United States Navy
death place
Name
  • Horatio Bridge
Caption
  • After a portrait by Eastman Johnson
Birth Place
  • Augusta, Maine
death date
  • March
Rank
  • 35
Battles
ID
  • Horatio_Bridge
honorific prefix
  • Commodore
abstract
  • Commodore Horatio Bridge (1806—March 1893) was an officer of the United States Navy who, as Chief of the Bureau of Provisions, served for many years as head of the Navy's supply organization. Appointed by his former college mate, President Franklin Pierce, Bridge held this post under various administrations, including the whole period of the Civil War. He also had the distinction of being the first man in the Navy to employ the idea of comprehensive fleet supply. Under his direction, the systematic supply of Navy vessels on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts during the Civil War was established and carried out with conspicuous success.