- Winfield Scott Schley, Union Captain, Commander and Rear Admiral, Hero of the Battle of Santiago and a member of the resupply and rescue of the ill fateful Greely Expedition - Report of Winfield S. Schley, Commander, U. S. Navy, Commanding Greely Relief Expedition of 1884, by Schley, Winfield Scott, Washington: Government Printing Office. Poor. 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. ¼ leatherbound presentation volume. The second endpaper has a rare inscription from Captain Winfield Scott Schley, who later became a rear admiral famous for the Battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American War. Contains 31 plates including frontispiece and 3 map leaves of a track chart map in sections. Schley and his command rescued the unfortunate Greely Expedition's six surviving members from Greenland. ; BandW Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 74 pp; Signed by Author. From Wikipedia: “Schley graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1860, and went as midshipman on board the frigate Niagara to China and Japan. On his return in 1861, the American Civil War was in progress. He was made master, and was assigned to the frigate Potomac of the Western Gulf Squadron until 1862. He then served on the sidewheel gunboat Winona of that squadron, and later on the sloops Monongahela and Richmond, and participated in all the engagements that led to the capture of Port Hudson, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River in 1863, (part of the campaign to split the Confederacy at Vicksburg), having been promoted to lieutenant on 16 July 1862. He was ordered from the waters of the South in 1864 to the Pacific Squadron, where he served on the sidewheel gunboat Wateree as executive officer until 1866. He suppressed an insurrection of Chinese workers on the Chincha Islands in 1865, and later in the same year landed at La Unión, El Salvador, to protect American interests during a revolution. He was promoted lieutenant commander in 1866.