Antebellum Midshipmen: A survey of Navy portraits with images from the Dr. William Schultz Collection By MI Digital March 2, 2020January 26, 2022 A Rear Admiral's Son John Wilkes, Jr., sat for this portrait about 1847, the same year he graduated from the Naval Academy. Known as “Jack” to his friends, young Wilkes followed in the footstepSubscribe or log in to read the rest of this content.
