Excerpt from The Papers of Francis Gregory Dallas: United States Navy, Correspondence and Journal, 1837 1859
Francis Gregory Dallas was born in Boston, October 10, 1824, and entered the navy as midshipman November 8, 1841. He does not appear to have been related to the well known Dallas family which counted among its members and collateral branches not only a secretary of the treasury and a vice-president of the United States, but many naval and military officers. Of his kinsmen, however, there were several in the national service. His father was Commander Alexander J. Dallas, U. S. Navy, but this was not his original name. In the navy register for 1820 he appears as James A. D. Brown, in 1821 as Alexander J. Dallas Brown, in 1825 as A. J. Dallas Browne, and in 1835 for the first time as Alexander J. Dallas; he entered the service in 1810 from Connecticut, his native State, and died in 1843. Three other officers of the same full name will be found on the navy list, the first of whom was the distinguished commodore, son and namesake of the secretary of the treasury mentioned above. Commanders Benjamin W. Booth and William Boerum of the navy and Lieutenant-Colonel Rene E. DeRussy of the army were uncles of F. G. Dallas, and Lieutenant, afterward Rear-Admiral, Robert H. Wyman was his brother-in-law.
The history of our navy between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, while less stirring than in times of national peril and less familiar to the general reader, is by no means devoid of interest.
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