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Frederick Stuart
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b. 1811 – d. 25 Jan 1878
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66 yrs.
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R57 S237
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- Private secretary of Admiral Wilkes (1839 to 1841) and for many years after the Exploring Expedition.
- Capt. Ringgold’s exploring expedition to Behring’s straits (1853-1857).
- Served throughout the Civil War, briefly under Wilkes in the West India Squadron.
- Read Wilkes recollection.
- Grand Sire of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of the U.S. (I.O.O.F.).
- Died of a chill caught attending his wife’s funeral less than 2 weeks earlier.
- Funeral was so well attended that the cemetery had to hire off-duty policemen to handle the crowds.
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Alexander McCormick
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b. 1842 - d. 21 Aug 1915
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73 yrs.
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R67 S276
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- Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- Entered the Navy in 1859 and graduated from the Naval Academy in 1863.
- 34th commandant of the Navy Yard (1898-1900).
- Served 15 years 1 month at sea and more than 23 yrs on shore duty.
- Brother-in-law of RAdm. Pigman. Both married daughers of William Howard.
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George Pigman
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b. 1849 - d. 30 Jun 1920
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77 yrs.
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R68 S277
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- Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
- Brother-in-law of RAdm McCormick, both married the daughters of William Howard.
- Graduated from the Naval Academy in 1864.
- Served as ordnance instructor at the Navy Yard for several years.
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Robert Platt
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b. 1835 - d. 7 Dec 1910
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R73 S320
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- Commander, U.S. Navy.
- “Commander Platt bore the distinction and was known as the man who piloted the Federal fleet under Admiral du Pont into Charleston harbor in April 1863, taking the first fire of the Confederate shore batteries as he pointed the way in the small pilot vessel and sticking to his wheel after a shell had demolished the pilothouse and given him a severe concussion.”
- War record was characterized as "one without precedent" by the committee on naval affairs of the Senate in 1897.
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