Mexican War: USS Macedonian
Civil War: Company G, 2nd California Infantry
George Coffee enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Macedonian* during the War with Mexico. After the war he settled in California. After the coming of the Civil War he enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company G, 2nd California Infantry, at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1861. Private Coffee was mustered out at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1864, but reenlisted as a corporal in the same company December 26 and was mustered in December 27, 1864. He was listed on the company rolls at the Presidio as a deserter April 19, 1865 (Orton, pp. 478-479). George filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in California March 8, 1897, and received application No. 1,187,141 and certificate No. 966,102. He was a resident of Merced, California, when he was admitted to the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, California, November 16, 1894. His Sawtelle Home record indicates he was 5' 10" tall and single when he was admitted.
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*The second USS Macedonian, was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate of the US Navy, carrying 36 guns. Rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia beginning in 1832, the new Macedonian and was launched and placed in service in 1836, with Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command. During the War with Mexico, the USS Macedonian was assigned to the West Indies Squadron to cruise in the West Indies and along the west coast of Africa from 1839 to 1847 as a continuing deterrent to Caribbean pirates. By a joint resolution of Congress on 3 March 1847 Macedonian and sloop-of-war USS Jamestown were placed in civilian hands to carry food to Ireland during the Great Famine of the late 1840s. With a volunteer crew, USS Macedonian, Capt. George C. De Kay in command, departed New York on 15 June with 12,000 barrels of provisions for Ireland donated by private citizens of the United States, returning to Brooklyn Navy Yard some months later to resume U.S. Navy service.
Biography by Steve
Civil War: Company G, 2nd California Infantry
George Coffee enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Macedonian* during the War with Mexico. After the war he settled in California. After the coming of the Civil War he enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company G, 2nd California Infantry, at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1861. Private Coffee was mustered out at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1864, but reenlisted as a corporal in the same company December 26 and was mustered in December 27, 1864. He was listed on the company rolls at the Presidio as a deserter April 19, 1865 (Orton, pp. 478-479). George filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in California March 8, 1897, and received application No. 1,187,141 and certificate No. 966,102. He was a resident of Merced, California, when he was admitted to the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, California, November 16, 1894. His Sawtelle Home record indicates he was 5' 10" tall and single when he was admitted.
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*The second USS Macedonian, was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate of the US Navy, carrying 36 guns. Rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia beginning in 1832, the new Macedonian and was launched and placed in service in 1836, with Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command. During the War with Mexico, the USS Macedonian was assigned to the West Indies Squadron to cruise in the West Indies and along the west coast of Africa from 1839 to 1847 as a continuing deterrent to Caribbean pirates. By a joint resolution of Congress on 3 March 1847 Macedonian and sloop-of-war USS Jamestown were placed in civilian hands to carry food to Ireland during the Great Famine of the late 1840s. With a volunteer crew, USS Macedonian, Capt. George C. De Kay in command, departed New York on 15 June with 12,000 barrels of provisions for Ireland donated by private citizens of the United States, returning to Brooklyn Navy Yard some months later to resume U.S. Navy service.
Biography by Steve
Mexican War: USS Macedonian
Civil War: Company G, 2nd California Infantry
George Coffee enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Macedonian* during the War with Mexico. After the war he settled in California. After the coming of the Civil War he enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company G, 2nd California Infantry, at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1861. Private Coffee was mustered out at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1864, but reenlisted as a corporal in the same company December 26 and was mustered in December 27, 1864. He was listed on the company rolls at the Presidio as a deserter April 19, 1865 (Orton, pp. 478-479). George filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in California March 8, 1897, and received application No. 1,187,141 and certificate No. 966,102. He was a resident of Merced, California, when he was admitted to the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, California, November 16, 1894. His Sawtelle Home record indicates he was 5' 10" tall and single when he was admitted.
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*The second USS Macedonian, was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate of the US Navy, carrying 36 guns. Rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia beginning in 1832, the new Macedonian and was launched and placed in service in 1836, with Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command. During the War with Mexico, the USS Macedonian was assigned to the West Indies Squadron to cruise in the West Indies and along the west coast of Africa from 1839 to 1847 as a continuing deterrent to Caribbean pirates. By a joint resolution of Congress on 3 March 1847 Macedonian and sloop-of-war USS Jamestown were placed in civilian hands to carry food to Ireland during the Great Famine of the late 1840s. With a volunteer crew, USS Macedonian, Capt. George C. De Kay in command, departed New York on 15 June with 12,000 barrels of provisions for Ireland donated by private citizens of the United States, returning to Brooklyn Navy Yard some months later to resume U.S. Navy service.
Biography by Steve
Civil War: Company G, 2nd California Infantry
George Coffee enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the USS Macedonian* during the War with Mexico. After the war he settled in California. After the coming of the Civil War he enlisted as a private and was mustered into Company G, 2nd California Infantry, at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1861. Private Coffee was mustered out at the Presidio of San Francisco November 18, 1864, but reenlisted as a corporal in the same company December 26 and was mustered in December 27, 1864. He was listed on the company rolls at the Presidio as a deserter April 19, 1865 (Orton, pp. 478-479). George filed for a Civil War veteran's pension in California March 8, 1897, and received application No. 1,187,141 and certificate No. 966,102. He was a resident of Merced, California, when he was admitted to the National Soldiers' Home at Sawtelle, California, November 16, 1894. His Sawtelle Home record indicates he was 5' 10" tall and single when he was admitted.
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*The second USS Macedonian, was a three-masted, wooden-hulled sailing frigate of the US Navy, carrying 36 guns. Rebuilt from the keel of the first Macedonian at Gosport (later Norfolk) Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia beginning in 1832, the new Macedonian and was launched and placed in service in 1836, with Capt. Thomas ap Catesby Jones in command. During the War with Mexico, the USS Macedonian was assigned to the West Indies Squadron to cruise in the West Indies and along the west coast of Africa from 1839 to 1847 as a continuing deterrent to Caribbean pirates. By a joint resolution of Congress on 3 March 1847 Macedonian and sloop-of-war USS Jamestown were placed in civilian hands to carry food to Ireland during the Great Famine of the late 1840s. With a volunteer crew, USS Macedonian, Capt. George C. De Kay in command, departed New York on 15 June with 12,000 barrels of provisions for Ireland donated by private citizens of the United States, returning to Brooklyn Navy Yard some months later to resume U.S. Navy service.
Biography by Steve
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