Page:Autobiography of Rear Admiral Charles Wilkes.djvu/26

 {| |width="15%" valign="top"|April 26 |width="85%"|Found guilty by court martial at Washington, D.C.; sentenced to a public reprimand and three year suspension. |- | valign="top" |December 30 |President Lincoln reduced suspension to one year. |- |1865 | |- | valign="top" |May 25 |Son, Charles Wilkes, born; died June 23, 1865. |- |1866 | |- | valign="top" |August 6 |Promoted to Rear Admiral on retired list. | |- |1870 | |- | valign="top" |June 27 |Ordered to duty to continue work on Exploring Expedition publications. |- | valign="top" |October 1 |Detached from Exploring Expedition publication duty. |- |1872 | |- | valign="top" |May 24 |Detailed to the Joint Library Committee of Congress to superintend Exploring Expedition publications. |- |1873 | |- | valign="top" |March 17 |Detached from duty with Joint Library Committee of Congress. |- |1874 | |- | valign="top" |February 5 |Severely injured his leg in fall at Hillsboro, North Carolina. |- |1875 | |- | valign="top" |April |Continued efforts to secure additional funding for Exploring Expedition publications. |- | valign="top" |September 1 |Stopped writing autobiography due to ill health. |- |1877 | |- | valign="top" |February 8 |Died in the morning at his home in Washington, D.C.; buried at Oak Hill Cemetary in the capitol city. |- |1909 | |- | valign="top" |August 17 |Reinterred at Arlington National Cemetary. |} Rh