destroyers in honor of Percival Drayton, including: Drayton (Destroyer # 23, later DD-23) of 1910–1935; and of 1936–1946. References Further reading External links Hagley Digital Archives - Percival Drayton to Samuel Francis du Pont The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts - Percival Drayton Family Papers 1812 births 1865 deaths 19th-century American naval officers Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Death in Washington, D.C. Drayton family People from Charleston, South Carolina People of South Carolina in the American Civil War Southern Unionists in the American Civil War Union Navy officers United States Navy officers Deaths from bowel obstruction