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Cromwell, Bartlett Jefferson, RADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Washington, DC
Last Address 1525 New Hampshire Ave NW Washington, DC
Date of Passing Jun 24, 1917
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
FUNERAL OF NAVY OFFICER
Rear Admiral Cromwell to Be Buried at Arlington Today
The body of Rear Admiral Bartlett J. Cromwell, U.S.N., retired, who died at Montrose, Pa., Sunday, will be interred in Arlington this morning. The funeral will take place from the family residence, 1525 New Hampshire avenue northwest, at 11 a.m.
Admiral Cromwell was born in Georgia. He was appointed to the navy from Nebraska in September, 1857. He served in both the civil and Spanish wars, and was named rear admiral in March, 1899. He was honorably retired in 1902 on account of age and had resided in Washington since that time. [Washington Post 27 Jun 1917]
Other Comments:
Was the Commander in Chief of the European Squadron
Have requested USS Rio Bravo be added so can add to his profile
Civil War
From Month/Year
April / 1861
To Month/Year
April / 1865
Description The American Civil War was an internal conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. The Union won the war, which remains the bloodiest in U.S. history.
Among the 34 U.S. states in February 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the U.S. to form the Confederate States of America. War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates attacked the U.S. fortress of Fort Sumter. The Confederacy grew to include eleven states; it claimed two more states, the Indian Territory, and the southern portions of the western territories of Arizona and New Mexico (called Confederate Arizona). The Confederacy was never diplomatically recognized by the United States government nor by any foreign country. The states that remained loyal, including border states where slavery was legal, were known as the Union or the North. The war ended with the surrender of all the Confederate armies and the dissolution of the Confederate government in the spring of 1865.
The war had its origin in the factious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Four years of intense combat left 620,000 to 750,000 soldiers dead, a higher number than the number of American military deaths in World War I and World War II combined, and much of the South's infrastructure was destroyed. The Confederacy collapsed and 4 million slaves were freed (most of them by Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation). The Reconstruction Era (1863–1877) overlapped and followed the war, with the process of restoring national unity, strengthening the national government, and granting civil rights to freed slaves throughout the country.