settled in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he died on 8 Au-
gust 1947 at the age of 74. Despite having desired that
his body be returned to Russia, he was laid to rest in a
Russian cemetery in Jackson, New Jersey.
In 1994, following the end of Communist rule in
Russia, a monument was erected at the All Saints Church
in Sokol in Russia; titled “Reconciliation of the Peoples
Who Fought in the First and Second Wars, and the Civil
War,” it was dedicated in Denikin’s name. On 8 August
2002, on the 55th anniversary of Denikin’s death, a me-
morial was held in Moscow to honor his life.
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Dewey, George (1837–1917) American admiral
George Dewey was born in Montpelier, Vermont, on 26
December 1837, the son of a local physician who was
founder of the National Life Insurance Company, where
two of his sons joined him. For George Dewey, however,
a naval career was his only goal, and he began on this road
in 1852 when, at the age of 15, he enrolled in Norwich
University, a military academy in Hanover, New Hamp-
shire. After two years in that institution, he received an
appointment to the United States Naval Academy at An-
napolis, Maryland. Graduating fifth in his class from An-
napolis in 1858, Dewey was commissioned a lieutenant
in 1861 when the U.S. Civil War began.
Dewey was assigned to the Mississippi, an old steam
frigate that participated in the Union blockade of south-
ern ports during the war. In 1862, he was promoted to
executive officer of the Mississippi, and he saw action at
the battle of New Orleans (24–25 April 1862). At the
battle of Port Hudson, Louisiana (14 March 1863), the
Mississippi caught fire and sank. Dewey was then trans-
ferred to become executive officer of the Monongahela,
the flagship of Admiral David farragut’s naval force in
the Mississippi River region. By the end of the Civil War,
he had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander
and was serving as executive officer of the Kearsarge.
Following the war, Dewey was posted as an instruc-
tor at Annapolis for three years. In 1870, he was put
in command of the sloop Narragansett; however, when
that ship needed repairs, he was transferred to the store
ship Supply, and, in 1871, was ordered to sail to France
to bring food and other supplies to war victims of the
Franco-Prussian War. By the time he reached Cher-
bourg, the war had ended, and Dewey instead left the
supplies in London before sailing home. In 1872, he was
promoted to the rank of commander and assigned to a
torpedo station in Newport, Rhode Island.
When his wife died in childbirth, Dewey asked to
be relieved of duty in Rhode Island and was placed in
command of the Narragansett a second time. This time
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