Commodore Schley is a fine tactician, possesses a winning personality and his work with the _Brooklyn,_ off Santiago, on July 3, was neither more nor less than his friends expected of him.
Robley D.Evans, known everywhere as "Fighting Bob," was born in Virginia in 1846.

When his father died he made his home with his uncle in Washington, D.C., where he attended Gonzaga College.

In 1859 a Congressional Representative from Utah appointed him to the Naval Academy.

It was necessary for the boy to take up a nominal residence in that distant territory, and on the journey thither and back he encountered many personal dangers through all of which he conducted himself with the pluck and bravery which afterward distinguished him in the service of his country.

He entered the academy in 1860 and upon his graduation became a midshipman and ensign, first on the frigate _Powhatan_, and before he had attained his majority took part in the desperate assault on Fort Fisher.