B.
Detachments at the Attack on Tabasco
Forces landed from the Flotilla on the 16th of June to attack Tabasco, the whole under the command of the Commander-in-Chief, Commodore Matthew C. Perry, USN.
Staff
Lt. James L. Parker, Flag Lt., Commanding Flag Guard of Seamen
Pursers
Nathaniel Wilson
William H. Kennon
J. George Harris
Midshipmen
Thomas S. Fillebrown
Joseph B. Smith
Adrien Deslonde
Acting Adjutant
General
Capt. Isaac Mayo
Aides
Acting Master Matthew C. Perry, Jr.
Passed Midshipman Albert N. Smith
Midshipman H. H. Key
Clerk Charles W. Flusser
INFANTRY
First Division - Capt. Samuel L. Breese, USN
Albany's Detachment
Lt. Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers
Lt. Benjamin S. Gantt
Passed Midshipman John W. Bennett
Passed Midshipman Charles Dyer, Jr.
Midshipman Charles W. Morris (Aide)
Midshipman James F. Milligan
Brig Washington's
Detachment
Lt. Commanding Samuel Phillips Lee
Lt. Benjamin Franklin Sands
Lt. James Robert Mullaney
Acting Master Gustavus Fox
Passed Midshipman Richmond Aulick
Clerk Henry Moses
Mississippi's
Detachment
Commander Henry A. Adams
Lt. James Alden
Lt. William May
Passed Midshipman E. R. Calhoun
Midshipman Jefferson Maury
Midshipman T. B. Wainright
Potomac's Detachment
Lt. Henry S. Stellwagen
Midshipman Augustus McLaughlin
Second Division - Capt. French Forrest, USN
Raritan's Detachment
Lt. M. G. L. Claiborne
Lt. William A. Parker
Passed Midshipman Francis Gregory
Midshipman Francis G. Clark
Midshipman Charles Gray
Clerk H. Watson
Boatswain John Monroe
Decatur's Detachment
Lt. W. H. Ball
Lt. E. T. Shubrick
Lt. Napoleon Collins
Passed Midshipman Pierce Crosby
Midshipman Malachi Ford
Midshipman Edward T. Carmichael
Third Division - Commander W. J. McCluney, USN
John Adams'
Detachment
Lt. C. F. M. Spotswood
Acting Master George W. Rodgers
Midshipman A. W. Habersham
Midshipman Daniel L. Baine
Germantown's
Detachment
Commander F. Buchanan
Acting Master H. Rolando
Midshipman Joseph Lewis Breese (Aide)
Midshipman L. C. Sawyer
Midshipman Thomas Henry Looker
Midshipman William L. Powell
Midshipman Felix Grundy
Midshipman William Leigh
Artillery
First Division -
Commander W. S. Walker
Lt. Guert Gansevoort
Lt. John R. Tucker
Lt. James S. Biddle
Midshipman John Gale
Midshipman John McL. Murphy
Gunner George J. Marshall
Boatswain W. Colson
Master's Mate J. M. Ballard
Second Division -
Commander A. S. McKenzie, USN
Lt. H. C. Flag (Aide)
Lt. Oliver H. Perry
Lt. Simon F. Blunt
Acting Master T. M. Crossan
Passed Midshipman William Neilson
Passed Midshipman Dominick H. Lynch
Gunner Samuel Allen
Third Division -
Commander George A. Magruder, USN
Lt. Thornton Alexander Jenkins
Lt. Augustus Ludlow Case
Acting Master F. Key Murray
Midshipman D. P. McCorkle
Fourth Division -
Commander G. J. Van Brunt, USN
Lt. Benjamin F. Shattuck
Acting Master C. W. Place
Midshipman James H. Rochelle
Medical Corps
Surgeons
Samuel Barrington
Solomon Sharps
Lewis W. Minor
Ninian Pinkey
Passed Assistant
Surgeons
John Hastings
L. S. Williams
John H. Wright
Assistant Surgeon
Thomas B. Steele
Pioneers
Lt. Lafayette Maynard
Midshipman W. H. Parker
Lt. George S. King
Clerk A. Dorsey
First Assistant Engineer Joshua Follansbee
Marine Detachment -
Capt. Alvin Edson, USMC
Lt. William Bond Slack
Lt. William Louis Shuttleworth
Lt. Matthew Ralston Kintzing
Lt. George Adams
Lt. Felix Grundy Mayson (Commanding Flag Guard Marines)
Lt. William F. Perry
Officers Wounded
Lt. William May of the Mississippi
Passed Midshipman William H. Hudson of the Scorpion
Sources: Dispatch
of Commodore Matthew C. Perry to the Hon. John Y. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, June 24,
1847. Aztec
Club of 1847 -- Sesquicentennial History. Richard
Breithaupt, Jr. Walika Publishing Company, Los Angeles. 1988. pp
1031-1488.