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Commander John C. Febiger - LOC. This photo uses the same backdrop as in the original post. Probably a post-war photo. The shoulder strap has two anchors with a star between them. Admiral?
 
Certainly postwar; John Carson Febiger (born Pittsburgh, 14 Feb 1821; died 9 Oct 1898 in Londonderry MD; buried in Arlington) made Commodore in 1874 and Rear Admiral in 1882 briefly before retirement later that year.

During the war, as a lieutenant commander and then a commander, he skippered the USS Kanawha in the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, the river monitor Osage in the Mississippi Squadron, and then the Mattabesset in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Interestingly, he later took charge of the ex-Confederate ironclad Stonewall in Havana, Cuba, though my source (Cogar's Dictionary of Admirals) does not specify if he was the one who sailed her to the navy yard in Washington DC.
 
It is said that one day not long after the action at Fort Henry, Foote attended services at a church where the minister failed to show up. Accustomed to conducting his own services aboard ship, Foote took the pulpit and delivered a sermon using the text, "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me." According to the reminiscences of James B. Eads published in Century Magazine (and later collected in Battles & Leaders), his niece, upon hearing of it, said that he ought to have said, "ye believe in God, believe also in the gun-boats." (This quote is sometimes wrongly attributed to Foote himself; but as a devout believer, it would have been entirely out of character for him to say it.)

Another story related in Century/B&L by Foote's brother John was that soon after his religious awakening, Foote became troubled by the thought that the profession of naval officer was incompatible with the tenets of Christianity. He talked to his father about it; his father asked, is a navy necessary? Of course, said Foote, 'the seas must be policed.' Well then, asked his father, should the Navy be in the charge of good men or of bad men? 'Of good men,' the son responded, and never doubted it afterward.
 
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Admiral Andrew H. Foote - LOC

Here's Foote from Vicksburg's Union Navy Monument - notice that his left hand is SUPPOSED to be resting on the hilt of a non-existent sword! At some point it was removed, as has also been that of Charles Davis. Either one or the other of them was used to restore Grant's missing sword on his equestrian monument there not too long ago.

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Rear Admiral Gregory was an officer on the Retired List who was brought back on duty as an administrator for the Union's ironclad building program. Before and after the War of 1812, he was active in suppressing piracy in the Caribbean.

He spent some time as a prisoner in England during the War of 1812. A story told about him is related on his Wikipedia page:

He had been placed under "house arrest" at a country estate, where he lived by a gentleman's agreement not to attempt escape by passing beyond certain boundaries, one of which was defined by a large stone marker. At some point, there was a formal dinner party at another estate a mile or so away that the captain wished to attend, yet was beyond the set boundary.

The dinner guests were surprised during the party by the arrival of the American captain, and he was accused of violating the terms of his incarceration by going beyond the marker.

The captain smilingly ushered the complainants outside...where they found a wheelbarrow parked at the far corner of the house containing the large marker stone.​
 
IIRC, Gwin was lost due to his habit of standing outside the armored casemate of his gunboats. It's something like the conundrum of the tank commander-- you're much safer buttoned up; but on the other hand, you're much safer when you poke your head out to have a clear field of view. Dilemma.
 
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