RoadTrippin' With Theo Timby-- Part 2: Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Continuing with Roadtrippin Through History with Theodore Timby.  His body was removed from Evergreen(s) Cemetery in New York City and moved to this cemetery in the nation's capital.

These people, as in the last post, are not necessarily involved in the Civil War.  They're just people I've heard of or thatn I found interesting reading some about them.

**  DEAN ACHESON: (1893-1971)  Presidential cabinet secretary.  Secretary of State.

**  JOSEPH K. BARNES:  (1817-1883)    Union Surgeon General.  On the morning after Lincoln was assassinated, he attended  the death bed and oversaw the autopsy.  Also served as surgeon for the dying President  James Garfield after he was mortally wounded by an assassin.

**  HORACE CAPRON:  (1804-1885)  One of the oldest field officers in Union Army.    His son, Horace Capron, Jr. was a Medal of Honor recipient and killed in action.

**  SALMON CHASE:  (1808-1873)  U.S. Senator, Ohio governor, Lincoln Presidential cabinet secretary

**  WILLIE LINCOLN:  (1850-1862)  Third child of President Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln.  Reburied in Springfield, Illinois with his father.

--Old B-R'er

USS Baltimore-- Part 3: Multi Service During the War

The Baltimore was seized by the Union Army on the Potomac River on April 21, 1861, and turned over to the Navy department where it was commissioned the same month with Lieutenant J.H. Russell in command.

During the Civil War, the Baltimore was used as an ordnance vessel between the Washington Navy Yard and  nearby ammunition depots.  She was also used to ferry Army troops across the Potomac River.

On 19 May 1861, she ran aground at the mouth of the Potomac and was attacked by a Confederate Navy ram.  Nine people were killed.  She was refloated with the assistance of the USS  Mount Vernon (was at both Battles of Fort Fisher).

After that, the Baltimore saw some service with the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron as a dispatch and supply vessel.

On May 9, 1862, she transported President Abraham Lincoln and Secretaries  Edwin M. Stanton and Salmon P. Chase, from Fort Monroe to Norfolk, Virginia, to get a close up view of the  destroyed Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia.

The Baltimore was turned over to Norfolk Navy Yard on May 22, 1865, and sold on June  24, 1865, at Washington, D.C.

--Old B-Runner

Revenue Cutter W.L. Marcy

From Friends in Peace and War: The Russian Navy's Landmark Voyage.

At the beginning of the Civil War, the only armed government vessel available to protect San Francisco was the revenue cutter W.L. Marcy, under command of Captain William Cooke Pease.  It was a 94-foot topsail schooner that arrived in San Francisco in 1857.

In April 1861, after Fort Sumter was fired upon, the Secretary of the Treasury (the revenue cutters were a part of the Dept. of the Treasury) Salmon P. Chase ordered the Marcy to be fit for sea "for the purpose of overhauling vessels supposed to be contraband of war, or owned by members of the Confederate states."

The Marcy then sailed up the Bay of Martinez to Mare Island for extensive repairs and new armament.

It was noted that this extensive overhaul cost more than the ship had originally cost to build.

--Old B-Runner