As captain of the famed USS Constitution, Gwinn sailed on December 9, 1848, and arrived at Tripoli on January 19, 1849.
While transporting U.S. ambassador Daniel Smith McCauley and his family to Egypt, McCauley's wife gave birth to a son, who was named Constitution Stewart McCauley.
At Gaeta on August 1,Gwinn received on board King Ferdinand II and Pope Pius IX. This would be the first time a pope had set foot on American territory.
At Palermo on September 1, 1849, Captain Gwinn died of chronic gastritis and was buried bear Lazeretto on the 9th, ending a forty-year Navy career.
Gwinn's body was removed to Glenwood Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a few years and remained there until 1931, when he was reinterred at Arlington National Cemetery.
--Brock-Perry
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