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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SDNCEM_041031_06.JPG: Fred Kahn, just an "employee" of the Quarter Master Corps
2. SDNCEM_041031_08.JPG: Patrick Grimley served with the US Colored Army (black) Corps
3. SDNCEM_041031_09.JPG: The tall spire is dedicated to the dead of the USS Bennington, which had an explosion in San Diego on July 21, 1905. 62 people died in or as a result of the boiler explosion. They never found the cause for the explosion.
4. SDNCEM_041031_11.JPG: Linda Hunter is a member of the Mormon Battalion. The gets a very cool gravestone honoring the Battalion whose members made the largest military march in U.S. history of over 2,000 miles from Iowa to San Diego in 1846-47 during the Mexican-American War.
5. SDNCEM_041031_54.JPG: This is the crematorium section
Wikipedia Description: Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
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Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is situated in city of San Diego on the Fort Rosecrans Military Reservation. The cemetery is located approximately 10 miles west of downtown San Diego, overlooking the bay and the city. Fort Rosecrans is named after William Starke Rosecrans, a Union general in the American Civil War.

Many Fort Rosecrans interments date to the early years of the California Republic, including the remains of the casualties of the Battle of San Pasqual. Shortly after the United States declared war on Mexico in May 1846, Brigadier Stephen W. Kearny was tasked with conquering Mexico's northern provinces, New Mexico and California. While Kearny demonstrated his considerable gift for administrative command with his acquisition of the New Mexican territory, he faced a more difficult task in California. Expecting a show of force from the Mexican Californios, Kearny set out west from New Mexico. Upon reaching California, Kit Carson intercepted him and his men, who informed him the territory had been taken by American settlers in the Bear Flag Revolt. Kearny sent 200 of his men back to New Mexico with the news and continued forward with one-third of his force. Unfortunately, the success of the revolt had been exaggerated and, before reaching their destination, Kearny and his men encountered a group of Californios intent on keeping more U.S. troops out of their homeland.

In the subsequent Battle of San Pasqual, 19 of Kearny's men and an untold number of Californios lost their lives. Initially, the dead were buried where they fell, but by 1874 the remains had been removed to the San Diego Military Reservation. Eight years later, the bodies were again reinterred at what is now Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery. In 1922, the San Diego chapter of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West had a large boulder brought from the battlefield and placed at the gravesite with a plaque affixed that lists the names of the dead.

Another notable monument in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is the USS Bennington Monument which commemorates the deaths of 62 sailors in a boiler explosion aboard USS Bennington (PG-4). The Bennington, which had just returned from maneuvers in the Pacific, was anchored in San Diego Harbor. On July 21, 1905, the crew was ordered to depart in search for Wyoming (BM-10), which had lost a propeller at sea. At approximately 10:30 a.m., an explosion in the boiler room ripped through the ship, killing and wounding the majority of the crew. Two days later the remains of soldiers and sailors were brought to the post cemetery and interred in an area known as Bennington Plot.

Fort Rosecrans became a National Cemetery on October 5, 1934. The decision to make the post cemetery part of the national system came, in part, due to changes in legislation that greatly increased the number of persons eligible for burial in a national cemetery. Grave space in San Francisco National Cemetery then grew increasingly limited. In addition, southern California was experiencing a phenomenal population growth during this period, and there was a definitive need for more burial sites.

Monuments and Memorials:

* The granite and bronze USS Wasp memorial commemorates the loss of fellow shipmates during Battle of Guadalcanal on September 15, 1942.

* The San Diego chapter of the Native Sons and Daughters of the Golden West installed the San Pasqual monument in 1922 to honor those soldiers who lost their lives in the 1846 Battle of San Pasqual during the Mexican-American War. The monument is composed of a stone boulder with a bronze plaque mounted on it.

* The USS Bennington Monument is a tall granite obelisk dedicated to the men who lost their lives on that ship in San Diego Harbor on July 21, 1905. The monument was dedicated on January 7, 1908.

* The USS Ommaney Bay monument is an etched granite memorial to the men lost in action when the ship was bombed in January 1945.

* A monument dedicated to the Mormon Battalion was erected in 1998.

* The Patriots of America memorial was dedicated in 1999 by the California State Society of the Founders and Patriots of America to honor all Americans who answered the call to arms.

* The 3rd Infantry Division monument was dedicated on February 16, 2002. The granite memorial is dedicated to their fallen comrades.

Battle off Samar:

Several monuments have been erected in memory of the sailors lost in the Battle off Samar, October 25, 1944, a part of the Battle of Leyte Gulf (Philippines), and in subsequent battles of the Pacific:

* The USS St. Lo, and Composite Squadron VC-65 was erected in 1994.

* The USS Hoel, Johnston, and Samuel B. Roberts monument is a large granite memorial dedicated in 1995.

* The granite Taffy 3 monument was dedicated on October 24, 1996.

* The granite USS Gambier Bay monument was dedicated on October 25, 1996. Family members and survivors donated the monument.

Notable burials:

Medal of Honor recipients:

(Dates are of the actions for which they were awarded the Medal of Honor.)

* Quartermaster Second Class Charles Francis Bishop (Mexican-American War), Seizure of Vera Cruz, U.S. Navy. USS Florida (BB-30), Mexico, April 21, 1914 (Section O, Grave 4562).

* Commander Willis W. Bradley (World War I), U.S. Navy. USS Pittsburgh (CA-4) (Section O, Grave 2925).

* Major Mason Carter (Indian War Campaign), 5th U.S. Infantry. Bear Paw Mountains, Mont., September 30, 1877 (Section PS-4, Grave 102).

* Staff Sergeant Peter S. Connor (Vietnam Conflict), U.S. Marine Corps, Company F, 2nd Battalion. Quang Ngai Province, Republic of Vietnam, February 25, 1966 (Section A-E, Grave 1005).

* Boatswain's Mate William S. Cronan, U.S. Navy. USS Bennington (PG-4), San Diego, Calif., July 21, 1905 (Section T, Grave 534).

* Lieutenant Junior Grade Albert L. David (World War II), U.S. Navy. USS Pillsbury (DE–133) French West Africa, June 4, 1944 (Section OS, Grave 125-A).

* Corporal James L. Day (World War II), U.S. Marine Corps. Ryukyu Islands, Okinawa, May 14–17, 1945 (Section P, Grave 1748).

* Captain Jesse Farley Dyer (Mexican Campaign), U.S. Marine Corps. Vera Cruz, April 21, 1914 (Section P, Grave 1606).

* Vice Admiral Middleton S. Elliott (Mexican-American War), U.S. Navy. Vera Cruz, April 21–22, 1914 (Section P, Grave 2828).

* Captain Michael John Estocin (Vietnam Conflict), U.S. Navy. Haiphong, North Vietnam, April 20 & 26, 1967 (Section MA, Grave 112).

* Lieutenant Junior Grade Donald A. Gary (World War II), U.S. Navy. USS Franklin (CV-13) off Japanese Home Islands near Kobe, Japan, March 19, 1945 (Section A-1, Grave 3-B).

* Seaman Ora Graves (World War I), U.S. Navy. USS Pittsburgh, July 23, 1917 (Section W, Grave 1208).

* Second Lieutenant Howard Hanneken (World War I), U.S. Marine Corps. Grande Rivera, Republic of Haiti, October 21 & November 1, 1919 (Section C, Grave 166-D).

* Gunnery Sergeant Jimmie Earl Howard (Vietnam), U.S. Marine Corps, Company C, 1st Reconnaissance Battalion. Republic of Vietnam, June 16, 1966 (Section O, Grave 3759).

* Sergeant Ross L. Iams (Haitian Campaign), U.S. Marine Corps. USS Connecticut (BB-18), Fort Riviere, Republic of Haiti, November 17, 1915 (Section P, Grave 2930).

* Ensign Herbert Charpoit Jones (World War II), U.S. Navy. USS California (BB-44), December 7, 1941 (Section G, Grave 76).

* Coxswain John Edward Murphy (Spanish American War), U.S. Navy. Santiago, Cuba, June 1898 (Section OS, Grave 363).

* Sergeant James Irsley Poynter (Korean War), U.S. Marine Corps. Sudong, Korea, Hill 532, November 4, 1950 (Section O, Grave 729).

* Sergeant Anund C. Roark (Vietnam War), U.S. Army. Kontum Province, Vietnam, May 16, 1968 (Section O, Grave 1855).

* Sergeant Henry Frank Schroeder (Spanish American War), U.S. Army, Company L, 16th U.S. Infantry. Carig, Philippine Islands, September 14, 1900 (Section S, Grave 854).

* Lieutenant Commander Robert Semple (Mexican-American War), U.S. Navy. Vera Cruz, April 21, 1914 (Section OS-A, Grave 192).

* Lieutenant William Zuiderveld (Mexican-American War), U.S. Navy. Vera Cruz, April 21, 1914 (Section A-1, Grave 9-B).

Other Burials:

* Richard Garrick, film director and actor. He served in army during Philippine-American War.

* Major Reuben H. Fleet, World War I aviator, interred in the cemetery. The Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater and Science Center in San Diego was named after Major Fleet.

* Laurence Stallings was a screenwriter with over two dozen writing credits, including What Price Glory.

* General Holland Smith, U.S. Marine Corps, commanded the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) in the Pacific during World War II and led the "island hopping" campaign in the central Pacific.

* Commander Lloyd M. Bucher, United States Navy (September 1, 1927 – January 28, 2004), Captain of the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), which was captured on January 23, 1968 by the North Koreans.
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