WADDELL
WADE
WADDELL, James Iredell, naval officer, was
born in Pittsborough, N.C., July 13, 1824; son of
Francis N. and Elizabeth (Moore) Waddell;
grandson of John and Sarah (Nash) Waddell, and
of Alfred and Rebecca (Williams) Moore; great-
grandson of Gen. Hugh Waddell (q.v.), and a de-
scendant of Judge Alfred (q.v.) and Susan
(Eagles) Moore. He was warranted midship-
man, U.S. navy, Sept. 10. 1841; was badly
wounded in a duel with a brother officer in May,
1842; served in the Mexican war; was graduated
from the U.S. Naval Academy, and promoted
passed midshipman, 1847. He was married in
1848 to Ann Sellman Igleliart of Annapolis, Md.
He cruised on the Brazilian station, 1855, being
promoted in September,^ 2d lieutenant, and ap-
pointed navigator of the Germantown; was at-
tached to the supply' ship Release, Isthmus of
Panama, when the entire crew was stricken with
yellow fever, and Lieutenant Waddell, the only
officer left in command, brought the Release back
to Boston, Mass. He was assistant professor of
navigation at U.S. Naval academy, 1858-59: com-
manded an expedition to China, 1860-61; re-
signed from the navy Nov. 20, 1861; ran the
blockade from Annapolis to Richmond in Feb-
ruary, 1863, and entered the Confederate navj- as
lieutenant, March 27, 1862, serving in various
commissions until 1863, when he was assigned to
the command of a cruiser being fitted out at
Liverpool. England. On Oct. 8, 1864, the Sea King
cleared from London for Bombay, carrying coal
as ballast, and with Lieutenant Whittle of the
Confederate navy as passenger; and on the same
day the steamer Laurel, purcliased ostensibly for
a blockade-runner, sailed from Liverpool with a
cargo of six guns and their appurtences, and with
nineteen passengers, who consisted of Captain
Waddell and eighteen other Confederate officers.
The two vessels proceeded directly to Madeira
and on Oct. 19, 1864, both crews were ordered on
board the Sea King, which was put in commis-
sion as the Shenandoah under the command of
Waddell. When the real character of the vessel
became known most of the seamen refused to
join her crew, and Captain Waddell was obliged
to sail with 23 instead of 120 seamen. On his
way to Melbourne he destroyed seven American
vessels and ransomed two others, thereby obtain-
ing 24 additional seamen. The Shenandoah re-
mained at Melbourne, Jan. 25-Feb. 8. 1865, on the
ground of necessary repairs; meanwhile rein-
forcing her crew with 42 new recruits; captured
three vessels on her northward course, April-
May, and twenty-five whalers off Behring Strait,
June 21-28, burning twenty-one and ransoming
the remaining four, an act which involved a loss
of §3,000,000 and that after the Confederacy had
virtually passed out of existence but, having been
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at sea for months, lie was ignorant of the fact.
On his way home, on Aug. 2, 1865, Captain Wad-
dell met the British bark Barraconta, from which
he received confirmation of the previous rumors
that the war was at an end. The Shenandoah, the
only ship which carried the Confederate flag
around the world, arrived at Liverpool, on Nov.
5, was surrendered to the British government;
in turn delivered to the United States, by whom
she was eventually sold to the Sultan of Zanzi-
bar, and some years after foundered with all on
board. Captain Waddell made his home for a
time in Liverpool and afterward in Paris, and in
1875, liaving returned to the United States, was
commissioned captain of the steamer San Fran-
cisco of the Pacific Mail company, which was
wrecked May 16, 1877, all the crew being res-
cued. He died in Annapolis, Md., March 15. 1886.
WADDILL, Edmund, Jr., jurist, was born in Charles Citj' county, Va., May 22. 1855; son of Edmund and Mary Louisa (Redwood) Waddill; grandson of Ricliard and Mary (Christian) Wad- dill, and great-grandson of Capt. J<iseph Chris- tian, a distinguished American officer in the Revolutionary war. He attended the local schools; was trained as a court clerk in the office of his fatlier; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1877, and practised in Richmond. Va., and surrounding counties. He was married, Dec. 19, 1878, to Alma C, daughter of John G. and Con- way Ella (Chisholm) Mitchellof Hanover county, Va. He was judge of Henrico county, Va., 1880- 83; U.S. attorney of the eastern district of Vir- ginia, 1883-85; a representative in the state legis- lature, 1885-89; the defeated Republican candi- date for representative from the third Virginia district to the 50th congress in 1886; was elected to the 51st congress in 1888, receiving 196 votes more than George D. Wise, Democrat, and serving 1889-91. He was appointed by President McKin- ley March 22, 1893, U.S. judge of the eastern dis- trict of Virginia.
WADE, Benjamin Franklin, senator, was born in Feeding Hills parish, near Springfield. Mass.. Oct. 27, 1800; son of James Wade, a Revohition- ary soldier, and a descendant of Jonathan Wade, who emigrated from Norfolk, England, and set- tled in Massachusetts in 1632. He received his early education from his niother; started for Ill- inois with his father's family in 1821, but they halted at Andover, Ohio, where he assisted in clearing land, and taught a winter school. He returned to Albany, N.Y., where he was engaged in studying medicine, teaching and doing manual labor, 1828-25, and after his return to Ohio was admitted to the Ashtabula county bar in 1828. He practised independently in Jefferson, Ohio, until 1831, when he became the partner of Joshua R. Giddings. He was prosecuting attorney of Asli-
