Philadelphia, PA 19111
U.S. Navy Rear John Lorimer Worden and wife, Olivia Akin Toffey Worden, down town Route 22, Pawling, N.Y.
The Duchess County, 83 E Main Street, Route 22 in cemetery, Great-Grand Childres: First; Danial Toffey IIGeorge Toffey Jr.; William Vermily Toffey I (uncle to grandfather, William Vermilye Toffey II, burial site Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y.); Mary Toffey and husband, William Bailey Wheeler; [My hero] John James (Civil War Army) and wife Mary Sip Toffey. John’s father, George Akin and Mary DeReimer Cooks Toffey. Next stone in front, George sister, Olivia Akin Toffey and husband John Lorimer Worden in Civil War Navy.
In Civil War battles ironclad warships, United States Navy Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden, USS Monitor, and great brother, Daniel Toffey II, clerk, C.S.S. on the Monitor.
Confederate ironclad in Virginia, dawn, on March 9, 1862, Americancivilwar.com/Monitor, Union Navy Ship, action between USS Monitor and Merrimack, C.S.S. Virginia. Well love captain, John Lorimer Worden, the Union Navy's own ironclad, voyage from New York. "USS Monitor Officer", 1 of 12 picture, "John Lorimer Worden." Down, 1 of three pictures, "USS Monitor Crew," 1 of twenty pictures, "Daniel Toffey II," USS Monitor. YouTube, USS Monitor, mariner's museum, September 17, 2012, Virginia!
John Lorimer Worden: Amzon.com/John Lorimer Worden: "Ironclad: The Monitor & The Merrimack" - $17.95 paperback. (In Pennsauken home, "Ironclad: The Monitor & The Merrimack," in shelf [2/14.)
Daniel Toffey, Clerk; Monitor - Ironclad: "As the battle progressed, it became obvious to the men in the Monitor that there were some serious drawbacks in Eriksson's revolutionary design. One of the problems to manifest itself concerned the communications link between the two most vital areas of the ship, the pilothouse and the gun turret. Early in the action the speaking tube link broke down, and two of the ship's officers, Lieutenant Keeler and the captain's clerk, Daniel Toffey, were assigned to run back and forth between the polot-house and the turret to relay orders from the captain. As Lieutenant Greene, in the turret, described it, "The situation was novel: a vessel of war was engaged in desperate combat with a powerful foe, the captain, commanding and guiding, was enclosed in one place, and the executive officer, working and fighting the guns, was shut up in another." Greene was quick to prick to praise Keeler and Toffey for their zeal and alacrity, "but both being landsmen, our technical communications sometimes miscarried." [Book: "MONITOR; James Tertius DeKey - The Story of the Legendary Civil War Ironclad."; Daniel Toffey, 188-189 pages (end, 236 pages)]
"The men working the gun stripped to the waist as the heat from engine, boilers, and guns rose inside the turret… Worden the effect it had, if any. Yat, he found that Keeler, assisted by D. Toffey [Daniel Toffey[, Worden's clerk, did the work 'with zeal and alacrity,' though he notices that, both of them being un experienced at sea..."
[Book: "Duel Between the First Ironclads," by William C. Davis. Great grand brother, Daniel Toffey, 123 (end, 201 pages) [2014].