Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery is a federal military cemetery in the city of San Diego, California. It is located on the grounds of the former Army coastal artillery station Fort Rosecrans and is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The cemetery is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of Downtown San Diego, overlooking San Diego Bay and the city from one side, and the Pacific Ocean on the other. Fort Rosecrans is named after William Starke Rosecrans, a Union general in the American Civil War. The cemetery was registered as California Historical Landmark #55 on December 6, 1932. The cemetery is spread out over 77.5 acres (31.4 ha) located on both sides of Catalina Blvd.
Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, with the aircraft carrier USS Midway (CV-41) in the background.
A Seahawk flies past the cemetery.
Image: Fort Rosecrans Cemetery, CA (2013) DSCN0452
Image: Ft rosecrans entry plaque
USS Bennington was a member of the Yorktown class of steel-hulled, twin-screw gunboats in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the first U.S. Navy ship named in honor of the town of Bennington, Vermont, site of the Battle of Bennington in the American Revolutionary War.
The Bennington, photographed circa 1898 by William H. Rau
Bennington after the explosion on 21 July 1905 which killed 66 in San Diego
Removing the dead from the ship, following her boiler explosion
Sectional view of the gunboat Bennington – Boston Daily Globe, 23 July 1905