Abner Read
| Abner Read | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 5, 1821 Urbana, Ohio |
| Died | July 7, 1863 (aged 42) Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Allegiance |
 United States
|
| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
|
| Years of service | 1839–1855, 1858–1863 |
| Rank |
 Lieutenant Commander
|
| Commands held | New London |
| Battles/wars |
Paraguay expedition American Civil War |
Abner Read (5 April 1821 – 7 July 1863) was an officer of the United States Navy who distinguished himself in the American Civil War. He died of injuries sustained while patrolling the Mississippi River, in command of the New London. At the time of his death, he had attained the rank of lieutenant commander.
Abner Read was born in Urbana, Ohio to Ezra Read and Nancy Read (née Clark). Abner's brother Daniel Read served as the President of the University of Missouri. His other brother, Nathaniel Read, would later serve as an Ohio Supreme Court Justice. A third brother, Ezra Read, would go on to become a well respected doctor in Terre Haute, Indiana and the father-in-law of Ambassador Bayless W. Hanna. Abner Read studied at Ohio University, but left that institution a year before graduating to accept a warrant as a midshipman, effective 2 March 1839. Assigned to Enterprise, he departed New York City in that schooner on 16 March 1840 and proceeded to South American waters where he served first in Enterprise and then in Delaware until the latter sailed for home early in 1844.
Following a year of study at the naval school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Read was promoted to passed midshipman on 2 July 1845. Dolphin then took him to the Atlantic coast of Africa where she operated against slavers through the summer of 1847.
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