Thomas Crook Sullivan was a brigadier general

Brigadier general (United States)

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 in the United States Army

United States Army

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Sullivan was born at Montgomery County, Ohio

Montgomery County, Ohio

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, 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 General George Crook

George Crook

George R. Crook was a career United States Army officer, most noted for his distinguished service during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars.-Early life:...

 via older sister Maria Crook Sullivan. He graduated from West Point

United States Military Academy

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 in 1856, ranking twelfth in a class of forty-nine. His first assignment was as a second lieutenant

Second Lieutenant

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 in the First U.S. Artillery serving on the Texas

Texas

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 frontier

Frontier

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 and during this period was with the expedition against Juan Cortina

Juan Cortina

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's Mexican

Mexico

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 marauders, seeing combat near Fort Brown

Fort Brown

Fort Brown was a military post of the United States Army in Texas during the later half of 19th century and the early part of the 20th century.-Early years:...

, Texas. He was later ordered to Washington City (DC), arriving in the Winter of 1861, and selected as a guard for president-elect Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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 during his first inauguration

Inauguration

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He served throughout the Civil War and was brevetted major and lieutenant colonel on March 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

Fort Monroe

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, Virginia, aged seventy-four. The entire garrison of officers and enlisted men turned out and gave honors and services while his remains lay in state at Fortress Monroe chapel. His cremated remains were later buried in Section one of Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

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. He is buried in one of only two mausoleum

Mausoleum

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s in Arlington, the other

Miles Mausoleum

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 being that of Lieutenant General Nelson Appleton Miles in Section 3.

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