There Sure Were a Lot of Reads in the U.S. Navy

I have found  several occasions where a particular family has had a lot of members in the U.S. Navy.  I looked at a list of Naval and Marine Officers from 1798 to 1900 and saw a lot of Reads.  There were 19 of them.

Unfortunately, I don't know if any of these were related to George Campbell Read.

Quite a few were Civil War era so one or more might have been his sons or grandsons.  At least one of the Reads served in both the U.S. and Confederate navies, Charles W. Read, who compiled quite a record of daring exploits.

And, of course, he was related to the famed Dale family through marriage, having married Revolutionary War's Richard Dale's daughter.

--Brock-Perry