, MARCHES THROUGH NORTH CAROLINA AND ARRIVES
AT RICHMOND--TUCKER ORDERED TO COMMAND AT DREWRY'S
BLUFF--CONFEDERACY AT ITS LAST GASP--EVACUATION OF
RICHMOND--TUCKER NOT INFORMED OF THE INTENTION TO EVACUATE
RICHMOND--SUCCEEDS IN JOINING HIS BRIGADE OF SAILORS TO
MAJOR-GEN. CUSTIS LEE'S DIVISION--ACTION AT SAYLOR'S CREEK;
DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE WHIPPED, THOUGHT THE FIGHT HAD JUST
BEGUN--SURRENDER--PRISONER OF WAR--RELEASED ON
PAROLE--EMPLOYED BY THE SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY 23

PART III.

TUCKER OFFERED THE COMMAND OF THE PERUVIAN FLEET, WITH THE RANK
OF REAR ADMIRAL--ARRIVES IN LIMA--NO PRECEDENT FOR THE
RETURN OF MONEY--COMMISSIONED A REAR ADMIRAL IN THE NAVY OF
PERU--COMMANDS THE ALLIED FLEETS OF PERU AND CHILE--SPANISH
WAR--TUCKER'S PLAN FOR A NAVAL CAMPAIGN; PROJECTED
EXPEDITION AGAINST MANILA--CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES--TUCKER
RETIRES FROM THE COMMAND OF THE FLEET, AND IS APPOINTED
PRESIDENT OF THE PERUVIAN HYDROGRAPHICAL COMMISSION OF THE
AMAZON--CROSSES THE ANDES AND REACHES THE AMAZON--EXPLORES
THE YAVARI RIVER--ORDERED TO THE UNITED STATES TO
SUPERINTEND THE BUILDING OF AN EXPLORING STEAMER--RETURNS TO
THE AMAZON WITH STEAMER _Tambo_. EXPEDITION UP THE UCAYALI
AND EXPLORATION OF THE TAMBO RIVER--ORDERED TO THE UNITED
STATES TO PROCURE A STEAMER OF LIGHT DRAUGHT OF
WATER--RETURNS TO THE AMAZON WITH STEAMER _Mairo_--SECOND
EXPEDITION UP THE UCAYALI--CANOE EXPEDITION UP THE PACHITEA
AND EXPLORATION OF THE PICHIS RIVER--EXPEDITION UP THE
AMAZON AND HUALLAGA RIVERS--ORDERED TO LIMA. ORDERED TO NEW
YORK TO SUPERINTEND THE CHARTS MADE BY THE HYDROGRAPHICAL
COMMISSION--PUBLICATION OF CHARTS ABANDONED ON ACCOUNT OF
THE FINANCIAL CONDITION OF PERU--LETTER FROM PRESIDENT
PARDO--LETTER FROM MINISTER FREYRE--TUCKER RETIRES TO HIS
HOME IN PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA--OCCUPATIONS AND AMUSEMENTS OF
OLD AGE--DEATH--CHARACTER AND QUALITIES--CONCLUSION 55

NAVIGATION OF THE UPPER AMAZON 81

CONCLUSION 112

Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker

A SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.

JAMES HENRY ROCHELLE, the author of the following pages, and the
subject of this sketch, was of French-English and Celtic, or
Scotch-Irish, extraction--English through his paternal
great-grandmother, who was th