- Thomas Crook Sullivan
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name = Thomas Crook Sullivan
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birth_place = Montgomery County,Ohio
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death_place = Fortress Monroe,Virginia Thomas Crook Sullivan (
November 14 1833 –March 11 1908 ) was a brigadier general in theUnited States Army .Sullivan was born at
Montgomery County, Ohio , the son of Samuel Sullivan, the proprietor of Sullivan's Tavern, the brother of Ohio 2nd Dist Appellate Judge Theodore Sullivan, and the nephew of future Major GeneralGeorge Crook via older sister Maria Crook Sullivan. He graduated from West Point in 1856, ranking twelfth in a class of forty nine. His first assignment was as asecond lieutenant in the First U.S. Artillery serving on theTexas frontier and during this period was with the expedition againstJuan Cortina 's Mexican marauders, seeing combat nearFort Brown , Texas. He was later ordered to Washington City (DC), arriving in the Winter of 1861, and selected as a guard for president electAbraham Lincoln during his firstinauguration . He served throughout the Civil War and was brevetted major and lieutenant colonel onMarch 13 ,1865 for "faithful and meritorious service."He remained in the Army following the war, mainly in supply and subsistence roles until he retired on
November 14 ,1897 as Commissary General of Subsisence.He died at the Hotel Chamberlain,
Fort Monroe , Virginia, aged seventy four. The entire garrison of officers and enlisted men turned out and gave honors and services while his remains laid in state at Fortress Monroe chapel. His cremated remains were later buried in Section one ofArlington National Cemetery . He is buried in one of only twomausoleum s in Arlington, the other being that of Lieutenant GeneralNelson Appleton Miles in Section 3.External links
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