Revere, Joseph Warren (1812–1880)

US naval officer and army general. As a naval lieutenant, he raised the US flag at Sonoma in 1846 during the Mexican War. While ranching and trading in California, he organized the artillery of the Mexican army 1851–52. He rose to the rank of army general during the US Civil War, but was dismissed for removing his men from the battle of Chancellorsville in 1863.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the grandson of Paul Revere. He joined the US Navy as a midshipman in 1828. He wrote Keel and Saddle: A Retrospective of Forty Years of Military and Naval Service 1872.