RoadTrippin' with Theo Timby-- Part 5: Stanton, Wilkes, a Confederate General and Spy

And, these are just a few of the notable burials in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C..

**  Joseph Bryant Smith (1826-1862)--  USN.  Acting commander of USS Congress and decapitated in the fight with the CSS Virginia.

**  Also, his father Josph Smith (1790-1877)   Rear Admiral.  In 1862 appointed  Chief of Bureau of Yards and Docks.  And his brother Albert Nathaniel Smith (1822-1866), Commander USN  Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting.

**  Edwin McMasters Stanton  (1814-1869)--  Lincoln's Secretary of War.

**  Abel Parker Upshur  ((1790-1844)--  Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State under President Tyler.  Killed by explosion of cannon on the USS Princeton.  This ship used some of John Ericsson's inventions including the cannon that blew up.

**  Bettie Duval Webb  (1845-1891)--  Confederate spy.

**  Cadmus Wilcox  (1824-1890)--  Confederate general.

**  Charles Wilkes  (1798-1877)--  Union naval officer.  As commander of the USS San Jacinto, he stopped the British ship Trent and removed Confederate commissioners  Mason and Slidell.  Reburied at Arlington National Cemetery.

--Old B-Runner

RoadTrippin' with Theo Timby-- Part 4: The Famed Rodgers Naval Family and Howard K. Smith

Continuing with notable and interesting burials in Washington, D.C.'s Oak Hill Cemetery.

**  George Peter  (1779-1861)--  Officer in War of 1812.    U.S. House of Representatives.

**  John Rodgers  (1812-1882)--  U.S. Navy.  Son of Navy hero John Rodgers.    Commanded South Atlantic Blockading Squadron during Civil War.

**  William Ledyard Rodgers (1860-1904)--  U.S. Navy.  Son of John Rodgers (above).  Officer in Spanish-American War and World War I.

**  George Washington Roosevelt (1843-1907)--  Third cousin of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Civil War Medal of Honor recipient.

**  Howard K. Smith  (1914-2002)--  Famed pioneer television newscaster.

--Old B-Runner

RoadTrippin' With Theo Timby-- Part 3: Some More Burials at Oak Hill Cemetery

Continuing with Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

**  John Harris  (1793-1864)  USMC, commissioned 2nd lt. in 1814.   War of 1812.   Commandant of USMC during first three years of the Civil War.

**  John Berrien Montgomery  (1794-1873)  War of 1812 and at Battle of Lake Erie.  Mexican War.  Also Civil War.  I have written about the USS Montgomery destroyer which was at Pearl Harbor and is named after him in my World War II blog.

**  John George Nicolay  (1832-1901)  Lincoln's personal secretary.  Involved with day to day details of the Lincoln administration.

**  Charles Harting Percy  (1919-2011)  U.S. Senator from Illinois.

**  Jesse Lee Reno   (1823-1862)  USMA graduate Class of 1846.  Classmates included George Pickett, George B. McClellan and Stonewall Jackson.  Mortally wounded September 14, 1862, near Battle of South Mountain in the Antietam Campaign.

--Old B-Runner