Catholic Builders of the Nation (1923) says that he was a convert to the Catholic Church and that he was buried in the National Cemetery at Arlington.
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"Catalog of Alpha Delta Phi Society" says he was a member of that from Manhattan in 1863.
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In "Lincoln's Bold Lion: The Life and Times of Martin Davis Hardin" (2015) says that among the general's social circle in St. Augustine, Florida, was Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, the hero of the naval battle of Santiago in the Spanish-American War and one Henry Walton Grinnell.
The book described Grinnell as "probably one of the most colorful of Hardin's military coterie in St. Augustine." Furthermore Grinnell was "famed as the Mikado's 'Yankee Admiral' for his service aboard a Japanese battleship during the 1895 Battle of Yalu in the Sino-Japanese War, which ended in the destruction of the antiquated Chinese armada.
"The scion of a wealthy family had also served with Admiral David Farragut during the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay. In 1904, the old sailor married a young lady less than half his age."
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The Official U.S. Navy Register for September 1867 shows Grinnell as serving on board the USS Oneida.
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Served as an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Chrysostom P. Donahue. (I haven't been able to find out anything else about this man.)
--Old B-Runner
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