Samuel Livingston Breese-- Part 4: Civil War

On 16 July 1862, he was commissioned commodore and placed on the Retired List because of his age.  On 3 September 1862, he was one of 13 commodores selected to become rear admirals when the rank was introduced to the U.S. Navy.

Placed again on the Retired List, he was appointed to lighthouse inspector the same year.  He was made Port Admiral of Philadelphia in 1869.

Samuel Breese died at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 17, 1870, and buried at Forest Hills Cemetery, Utica, New York.

--Brock-Perry