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William F. Lynch
United States Navy officer (1801–1865)
For other persons with a similar name, see William Lynch.
Captain William Francis Lynch (1 April 1801 – 17 October 1865) was a naval officer who served first in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy.
Personal life
William F. Lynch was born in Virginia.[1] On 2 June 1828, one month after his promotion to lieutenant, Lynch was married in New Haven, Connecticut, to Virginia Shaw, the youngest daughter of a senior navy officer and sister-in-law of another.
They had two children, but separated in the 1840s and divorced in 1850s.[2]
Early Navy service
He was appointed a midshipman 26 January 1819, and first saw service with the USS Congress and next with the schoonerUSS Shark under Lieutenant Matthew C.
Perry. Subsequent service included duty with Commodore David Porter's "Mosquito Squadron" in the West Indies and in the Mediterranean.