George Bartol White
Captain George Bartol White (27 March, 1836 – 27 February, 1890) served in the United States Navy.
Life & Career
White was born in Pennsylvania on 27 March, 1836. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy from that state on 28 September, 1854. He became an Acting Midshipman the same day.[1][2]
White graduated Annapolis with the Class of 1858, being confirmed as Midshipman on 11 June 1858.[3] His first assignment was to the steam sloop Saratoga.[4]
The deepening secession crisis of 1860 saw vacancies open as some officers resigned their commissions. White was promoted to the rank of Passed Midshipman on 19 January, 1861 and then to Master a few weeks later on 23 February. Within a few days after the attack on Fort Sumter, White was promoted to Lieutenant on 19 April. Appointment to the gunboat Ottawa followed, and White served aboard her until 1863.[5]
White was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander on 3 March, 1865.[6] From 1866 through 1868 he served aboard the steam sloop Dacotah of the Pacific Squadron.[7]
White was promoted to the rank of Commander on 13 August, 1872.[8]
White was appointed to command the screw sloop Kearsarge on 29 April, 1881.[9]
White was promoted to the rank of Captain on 8 November, 1884.[10]
White was appointed Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks with the relative rank of Commodore on 2 April, 1889.[11] He died of "apoplexy" at his home, 2015 Hillyer Avenue, Washington, D.C., on the morning of 27 February, 1890. Although White had been "suffering for some time with a severe cold" according to the Washington Post, he had seemed "almost restored to health" and had been in his office as usual the previous day.[12][13][14]
White's widow, Caroline Huddell White, died on 24 December, 1929.[15]
See Also
Bibliography
- Hamersly, Lewis Randolph (1870). The Records of Living Officers of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps; with a History of Naval Operations during the Rebellion of 1861-5, and a List of the Ships and Officers Participating in the Great Battles. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Service Records
| Naval Appointments | ||
| Preceded by Henry F. Picking |
Captain of U.S.S. Kearsarge 29 Apr, 1881[16] |
Succeeded by Horace Elmer |
Footnotes
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (1st ed). p. 205.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. p. 6-7.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (1st ed). p. 205.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (1st ed). p. 205.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Records of Living Officers (1st ed). p. 205.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 10.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1889. pp. 6-7.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1890. p. 6.
- ↑ "Commodore White Dead". Daily Alta California. Friday, 28 February, 1890. Volume 82, Number 59, col. D, p. 5.
- ↑ "Commodore White Dead". The Washington Post. Friday, 28 February, 1890. p. 2.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1891. p. 136.
- ↑ "Obituary". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Wednesday Morning, 25 December, 1929. col H, p. 20.
- ↑ Register of Officers, 1882. p. 10.
