Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Richard Jr. WAINWRIGHT
Rank and organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy. Born: 15 September 1881, Washington, D.C. Accredited to: District of Columbia. G.O. No.: 177, 4 December 1915. Citation: For distinguished conduct in battle, engagements of Vera Cruz, 21 and 22 April 1914. Lt. Wainwright was eminent and conspicuous in command of his battalion; was in the fighting of both days, and exhibited courage and skill in leading his men through action. In seizing the customhouse, he encountered for many hours the heaviest and most pernicious concealed fire of the entire day, but his courage and coolness under trying conditions were marked .
"On the night the Maine was blown up in Havana harbor Wainwright stood beside Sigsbee on the quarterdeck as the vessel was sinking, and it was Wainwright who issued the order to lower the lifeboats in which the survivors of the crew escxaped. From the beginning Wainwright was one
of those who believed the Maine was not blown up by accident, and none was more impatient than he for a chance to avenge the death of the 266 officers, bluejackets, and marines who went to their death in the battleship...
"Promoted to Commander on March 3, 1899, he served as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy until March 15, 1900 when he was appointed Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy...Commissioned Rear Admiral on July 8, 1908..."
(Wainwright Family Genealogy, submitted by Paul Wainwright, Sr., 5 Jan 1994)
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