On 16 July 1800 he assumed command of the schooner USS Experiment and captured two armed French vessels and recapturing several American ships. Stewart was in charge of the ship's outfitting and recruiting of crew. At the age of nineteen, he was commissioned a lieutenant on 9 March 1798 and joined the frigate USS United States, under the command of John Barry, as fourth lieutenant for a cruise in the West Indies to restrain French privateers.
Early naval service ĭuring the Quasi-War with France, Stewart was one of the first officers in the rebirth of the United States Navy. He went to sea at the age of thirteen as a cabin boy and rose through the grades to become master of a merchantman.
Abercrombie's Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia where he met Stephen Decatur and Richard Somers. She later remarried a former bodyguard of General Washington. His father died in 1780, leaving his mother little means to support him and his three siblings. On 28 July 1778, Stewart was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Charles and Sarah Harding ( née Ford) Stewart, Scots-Irish immigrants from Belfast, only a month after the British evacuated the city. He lived a long life and was the last surviving Navy captain who had served in the War of 1812. He was promoted to rear admiral after he retired from the Navy. He later commanded the navy yard in Philadelphia and was promoted to become the Navy's first flag officer shortly before retiring. He saw service during the Quasi War and both Barbary Wars in the Mediterranean along North Africa and the War of 1812. Although a majority of the files consist of between two to four pages, a few contain up to four linear inches of material.Charles Stewart (28 July 1778 – 6 November 1869) was an officer in the United States Navy who commanded a number of US Navy ships, including USS Constitution. Materials continue to be added to these files. Additional material consists of newspaper clippings, journal articles, change of command/retirement brochures, and biographies printed from the websites of the Navy Chief of Information and Arlington National Cemetery. Many of the files consist of individual officer biographies produced during the 1950s through the 1970s by the Navy Office of Information, Internal Relations Division the Navy Office of Information, Biographies Branch and the Division of Naval Records and History (OP 29). Also see Navy Personnel: A Research Guide. For biographical information from the late 18th through the early 20th centuries, see the Navy Department Library's ZB files and Officers of the Continental and U.S. Navy officers who served during the Second World War and the Cold War-era, though their contents range from the Interwar period (1919-1939) through the War on Terrorism. The files are particularly noted for biographical coverage of senior U.S. These files have been accumulated since the early 20th century by the Navy Department Library to provide historical information to US Navy personnel and other researchers, both official and unofficial.
They are a combination of files collected by the Library and a ready reference collection of duplicate flag officer files formerly housed in the Archives Branch of the Naval History and Heritage Command. The Modern Biographical Files are located in the Navy Department Library's Rare Book Room.
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