From Find-A-Grave.
Garrett J. Pendergrast commanded the Union Navy in the early days of the war in southern Chesapeake Bay. He is buried at Laurel Hill Cemetery, Section 1, Lot 106, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His son, Commander Austin Pendergrast is also interred on the plot but there is no mention of him on the family obelisk monument there. Austin Pendergrast was the one who surrendered the USS Congress and had another command of his, the USS Water Witch, captured by a Confederate raiding party. Austin died in 1874.
But, the monument does have an anchor.
Wikipedia refers to Garrett Pendergrast as being Austin's uncle.
A Naval Followup to the Battle of Gloucester, Virginia.
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