Prado. Peruvian Hydrographic Commission of the Amazon Tucker resigned from the Peruvian Navy in 1871. He was then appointed president of the Hydrographic Commission of Peru on the Amazon River, which included a group of American and Peruvian naval officers and engineers, James Henry Rochelle, David Porter McCorkle, Walter Raleigh Butt, and Thomas Wing Sparrow, among others. The expedition surveyed the upper Amazon River and its tributaries and discovered two new rivers, the Trinidad and the Herrera-yacu. Tucker traveled to New York upon completion of the expedition to have maps and atlases made and the commission's findings published. John Randolph Tucker died in his home at Petersburg, Virginia, on June 12, 1883. His remains were interred in Norfolk, Virginia where his wife was already laid to rest after she died in 1858 at age thirty-nine. His collected papers are preserved in the library of Old Dominion University. Family On June 7, 1838, Tucker married Virginia Webb, daughter of U.S. Navy captain Thomas Tarleton Webb, and they had nine children. See also Confederate States Navy Peruvian Navy References Further reading Rochelle, James H. Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker, Commander in the Navy of the United States, Captain and Flag-Officer in the Navy of the Confederate States, Rear Admiral in the Navy of the Republic of Peru, and President of the Peruvian Hydrographical Commission of the Amazon with an Appendix Containing Notes on Navigation of the Upper Amazon River and its Principal Tributaries. Washington: Neale Pub. Co, 1903. Werlich, David P. Admiral of the Amazon: John Randolph Tucker, His Confederate Colleagues, and Peru. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. External links Captain John Randolph Tucker, Confederate States Navy at the United States Naval Historical Center Biography of John Randolph Tucker at Old Dominion University Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) Tucker, John Randolph (1812-1883) John Randolph Tucker (1812-1883) American people of English descent