Rear Admiral Andrew Bryson (25 July 1822 – 7 February 1892) was an officer in the United States Navy.
He fought in the American Civil War and served as commander of the South Atlantic Squadron.
He took command of the monitor USS Lehigh in the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron in 1863, and led her in the reduction of Fort Macon in North Carolina and in all major actions that U.S. Navy ironclad warships fought against the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, between 22 September 1863 and 5 April 1864, during one of which he suffered a slight wound inflicted by a shell fragment.
[11][12] After the end of the Civil War, Bryson was promoted to captain on 25 July 1866 and returned to the steamer Michigan on the Great Lakes as her commanding officer from 1866 to 1869.
[13][14] Promoted to commodore on 14 February 1873, Bryson was a member of the Board of Examiners in 1873, then was commandant of the Portsmouth Navy Yard at Kittery, Maine, from 1874 to 1877.