Cicero Price

Commodore Cicero Price (2 December 1805 – 24 November 1888) was an officer in the United States Navy.

[5] After duty at the Memphis Navy Yard in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1850, Price served on the staff of the Pacific Squadron in 1851, was on ordnance duty during 1853, and was assigned to the receiving ship at Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1854.

Promoted to commander on 14 September 1855, he was first lieutenant aboard the sloop-of-war USS Constellation in the Mediterranean Squadron during parts of 1855 and 1856.

[6][7] After the American Civil War broke out in April 1861, Price was commanding officer of the steamer USS Huntsville in the Gulf Blockading Squadron in the Gulf of Mexico, taking part in the Union blockade of the Confederate States of America.

Promoted to captain on 16 July 1862, he was commanding officer of the sloop-of-war USS Jamestown from 1862 to 1865, serving also as commander of the East India Squadron from 23 September 1862 to 11 August 1865, engaged in the protection of American commerce from Confederate privateers in East Asia and the Western Pacific through the end of the war in April 1865.