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(CIVIL WAR--NAVY.) Signed carte-de-visite of Samuel Dana Greene, hero of the USS Monitor. Albumen photograph, 3½ x 2 inches, on original mount with photographer's backmark; minimal wear; inscribed on verso "For my dear mother on her sixtieth birthday, 27th Oct. 1869, from her loving son Dana, San Francisco, California." San Francisco, CA: Bradley & Rulofson, 1869
Samuel Dana Greene (1839-1884) was a career naval officer serving as lieutenant aboard the USS Monitor during its fateful March 1862 battle with the CSS Virginia (a.k.a. Merrimac). When the Monitor's captain became temporarily blinded during the battle, Greene assumed command, made a temporary retreat to assess damage, and then led his ship back into battle.
Greene remained in the Navy after the war in the Pacific Squadron, rose to the rank of Commander, and was serving as head of the Portsmouth Navy Yard at the time of his death. His mother Martha Barrett Dana Greene was born on 27 October 1869. Another example of this portrait is held by the Naval History and Heritage Command.
