Ensign Worth Bagley
A unlive of Raleigh and allacliod fo Ihe
lorp«‘«lo boat ll’iii.vfoir. «luring llie Spaiiisli-
Aiii«»ricnn War. lie was the first Ameriean
to lost* liis life «luring that struggle*.
AKOLINA has had a naval
hero in every great war in which
our nation ha* been engaged.
John Paul Jones, father of the Amer¬
ican Navy, so intimately associated
with North Carolina, was the hero of
the Revolutionary Navy; Captain
Johnston Blakeley, commander <»f the
1Г//.Ч7*
was a like hero of lint War of
1M2; Captain James I. Waddell of
the cruiser, Shenandoah, was the only
son of the South to carry the Confed¬
erate Hag around the world : Knsign
Worth Bngley of the Winslow, whose
story is here told, was the fir«t Ameri¬
ean officer to fall in the Spanish war
of 1898; and no American naval ofli-
eer underwont a more thrilling oxno-
rionec than Lieutenant Commander
David Worth Bagiev (brother of
Worth Bag ley) of the World War,
commander of the destroyer Jacob
Jones, whose ship was torpedoed by
the Germans off the English coast. His
ship went down in eight minutes; a
Lumber of officers and men were killed
when the ship was torpedoed; and the
survivors underwent almost incredi¬
ble hardships on the open sea before
final rescue.
Two Interesting Monuments
There is but one monument on
Са|ь
itol Square at Raleigh commemorat¬
ing an individual Carolina soldier;
there is but one commemorating a
sailor; and there are two singular
facta connected with these two memo¬
rial- : The soldier, Henry 1,. Wyatt,
was the first to fall in the strife of t ho
’GO'e ; the sailor, Ensign Bnglcy, was
the first to fall in the Spanish
war of ’98. The second singular fact
is that both monuments arc oddly
connected with the Supreme Court.
At Big Bethel, first battle of the
Civil War. GoL
I».
H. Hill, com¬
manding the First Carolina regiment,
called for volunteers to burn a house
which wn- obstructing his line of fire.
Henry L. Wyatt, Robert H. Bradley,
and several oilier members of the
Edgecombe Guards responded. Wyatt
was killed, hut Robert H. Bradley,
who was by Wyatt’s side, lived through
four years of war, and served for
many, many years as Marshal of
the Supreme Court.
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By R. C. LAWRENCE
Major William H. Bagloy, father
of Ensign Bagloy, was also connected
with the Supreme Court, serving as
its clerk for nourly twenty years and
until hi* death in L88U. Before the
Civil War he had been a lawyer, and
editor of the Elizabeth City Sentinel:
and during the war he served as Ma¬
jor of the Sixty-eighth North Caro¬
lina, except while at home as a pa¬
roled prisoner, when he served as
State Senator. After the war he be¬
came private secretary to Governor
Jonathan Worth, who waged such a
magnificent fight against the carpet¬
baggers 'luring reconstruction. Major
Bagloy married the Governor’s daugh¬
ter. Miss Adelaide, and of this union
the children now living are Addic
Worth, wife of Ambassador Josephus
Daniels; and Admiral David Worth
Bagiev of the Navy, above referred
to. Another daughter of Governor
Worth was Mrs.
К.
K. Moffitt, head
of Carolina IJ.D.O.s, and outstanding
in club and social woman’s life in
our state so many years. A niece of
the Governor married Col. Robert
Bingham, headmaster of the famous
Bingham School, father of Ambassa¬
dor Robert Worth Bingham.
Was Born in Raleigh
Ensign Worth Bnglcy was horn in
Raleigh April 0, IS7-I. In 1889 lie
received an appointment to the Naval
Academy at Annapolis from Con-
ressman B. II. Bunn. Governor
’a ace always contended that for ev¬
ery friend he made through an ap-
|N>intment to public office, be made ten
thousand enemies — consisting of
those whom lie did not appoint and
their numerous friends. Congressman
Bunn evidently believed Vance wus
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right, so he made his appointments
only after a competitive examination,
young Bagiev stood such an examina¬
tion and won. It would have been
strange if he had not won, because
he was educated at Morson and Den¬
son's famous Raleigh Academy.
All the "Who’s Who” who were
reared in Raleigh attended this fa¬
mous academy, its masters being
Hugh Morson, classical scholar and
rigid disciplinarian (in whose honor
Morson High School at Raleigh was
named); and Captain
С.
B. Denson.
Confederate veteran, whose daughter
Olivia married Richard B. Raney,
who presented Raleigh with the Raney
Public Library.
Young Bagiev graduated from An¬
napolis in 1895. and the outbreak of
the Spanish war in 1898 found him
an ensign attached to the torpedo boat
Winslow, commanded by Lieutenant
John B. Bernadou. May 1S98 found
the Winslow a part of a Vnitod States
squndron patrolling the Cuban coast,
looking for Spanish gunboats thought
to ho in hiding in the harbor. The
Winslow had temporarily left her sis¬
ter ships fo replenish her fuel sup¬
ply, but on the morning of May 11.
1898, she rejoined the blockading
squadron off Cardenas Bay. This
squadron consisted of
Г.
S. S.
Machias, Wilmington. Winslow, and
the revenue cutter Hudson.
Captain Todd of the Wilmington,
in command of the squndron, deter¬
mined to enter the harbor to search
for the gunboats which might he hid¬
den in the inner harbor. Three chan¬
nels led into the harbor, two of which
had liceii mined. The third channel
was shallow but was practical for the
American vessels at high tide. The
Winslow was directed to sweep for tor¬
pedoes in this channel, a duty which
was performed, and about noon the
squndron entered the harbor. As it
was thought tin- Spanish hunts might
try to escape through one of the other
channels, the Hudson was sent along
the west side of the bay, and the
B’lWou' along the east side, to inter¬
cept them. As no gunboats were seen,
the Hudson and Winslow rejoined the
Wilmington in front of the town.
Here a small gunboat was observed,
