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Joshua Barney served in both the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. He was taken prisoner several times and several times exchanged during the Revolutionary War. In the War of 1812 he assembled, outfitted, and manned a flotilla of barges that served to delay but not deter the British forces from attaching Washington. He died in Pittsburgh in 1818. He was on his way to Kentucky where he planned to retire. His body was buried in Pittsburg's Allegheny Cemetary. Joshua Barney died before Alonzo Chappel was born.
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![Two African American Navy officers, [left to right] Ensign J. J. Jenkins and Clarence Samuels, aboard a cutter on the North Atlantic patrol](https://d2l9jrtx1kk04i.cloudfront.net/002bd622d4583a56aaafd693926f16280398ef34.png "Two African American Navy officers, [left to right] Ensign J. J. Jenkins and Clarence Samuels, aboard a cutter on the North Atlantic patrol")
