Prior to the war, this bewhiskered Union general manufactured firearms in Rhode Island
[DOC] [TLE] Miller [PAR] Nothing had occurred before December, 1860, to make the Evansville, Indiana, 
steamboat ..... Captain Dexter, that gruff, fearless, outspoken but lovable and 
bewhiskered ... See United States Naval War Records, Official Records of the 
Union and .... One of the boats ordered to Cairo by General Grant was the "Fanny 
Bullitt.