George M. Bache

He was born in Washington, D.C., to Lt. George Mifflin Bache, USN, who was lost at sea in 1846, and Elizabeth Catherine Patterson.There is a monument in the Congressional Cemetery on Washington to the elder Lt. Bache and the 22 men under his command who were lost in that incident. He was the grandson of Richard Bache, Jr., who served in the Republic of Texas navy and was an elected representative in the Texas legislature, and Sophia Burrell Dallas, daughter of Arabella Maria Smith and Alexander James Dallas, who served as the U.S. Treasury Secretary under President James Madison. He was also a great-grandson of Sarah Franklin Bache and Richard Bache, and a great-great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, as well as a nephew of George Mifflin Dallas, the 11th Vice President of the United States, serving under James K. Polk. His uncles included Alexander Dallas Bache, Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and Admiral David Dixon Porter. ==Education and career==

His father was killed in 1846, swept overboard during a gale while in command of the brig , but despite this Bache joined the United States Navy in August 1855, serving as captain's clerk aboard the sloop-of-war until May 1857. He then briefly served aboard the U.S. Coast Survey schooner as acting-master's mate under the command of Lieutenant Richard Wainwright, another uncle by marriage, before entering the United States Naval Academy ==Civil War and later life==

During the war, he first served aboard . Promoted to lieutenant on July 16, 1862, He was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. The destroyer (1942–1968) was named in his honor. ==References==