1852 Sailor, coastal cargo ships, China coast, First Officer (XO), cargo ship Gold Hunter, carrying coolie labor to Mexico.1851 First Mate, trading barque, San Francisco & Shanghai.Visits Gold Fields (?) Meets Giuseppe Garibaldi in Panama or Peru (?) 1850 First Mate, clipper ship Russell Clover, New York to San Francisco.
In 1850 he shipped out as first mate of the clipper ship Russell Clover. He attended for only a few months, before he left school and never returned. In 1849 Ward enrolled at the “American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy”, now Norwich University, in Vermont, where the curriculum included military tactics, strategy, drill, and ceremonies. On the Hamilton, Ward sailed from New York to Hong Kong in 1847, but probably saw little beyond the port city because the Qing Dynasty forbade foreigners from venturing inland ( Hong Kong Island had become a British Crown Colony in 1842, at the end of the First Opium War). Captain William Allen recalled that Ward possessed traits of “reckless daring”, but was on the whole a valuable officer. He was thrown overboard after complaints that he gave too many orders for a youth. Ward was given authority over many “old salts”. Another version is that Ward demanded to leave school. Ward was rebellious in his youth, so his father removed Ward from school in 1847 and found him a position as second mate on the Hamilton, a clipper ship commanded by a family friend. Ward was born in Salem, Massachusetts on November 29, 1831. 6 Ward's army - troop strength over time.5 Commander of the Ever Victorious Army.
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