2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
He was one of the four sons of American Revolution Marine William Gamble who joined the Navy. One, John Marshall Gamble became a Marine officer.
From Find-A-Grave.
CAPTAIN THOMAS GAMBLE
BORN: 24 December 1783, Chesterfield, New Jersey
DIED: 9 October 1818, Pisa, Italy
BURIED: English Cemetery, Livorno, Italy
--Brock-Perry
From Find-A-Grave.
In the last post, I mentioned that William Gamble was buried in Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C. Some other notables buried there:
John Quincy Adams-- President
Matthew Brady-- Photographer Civil War
Preston Smith Brooks-- Attacked Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor.
David Herold-- Lincoln conspirator
J. Edgar Hoover-- FBI
Owen Lovejoy-- Abolitionist
Thomas "Tip" O'Neill-- House of Representatives
John Philip Sousa-- Marches
And, lots of members of Congress.
--Brock-Perry
In the last post, I wrote about William Gamble being a Marine veteran of the American Revolution and having four sons who followed him into service, building a bit of a Gamble dynasty.
What about this patriarch?
From Find-A-Grave
MAJOR WILLIAM GAMBLE
BIRTH: Unknown
DEATH: 15 January 1833
BURIAL: Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
From the Congressional
In this city, on Tuesday morning, the 15th instant, Major William Gamble, an officer of the Revolutionary war, aged 78 years. The funeral will proceed from Mrs. Arguelles', Pennsylvania avenue, at one o'clock this afternoon.
The friends of the deceased, and those of his son, Col. Gamble, of the U.S. Marine Corps, are respectively invited to attend without further invitation.
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This would explain why John M. Gamble became a Marine after initially being a midshipman in the Navy.
--Brock-Perry
From the "Biographical Register of Saint Andrew's Society of the State of New York" by William Munro MacBean.
Colonel John Marshall Gamble
** Colonel Gamble was one of four sons of Major William Gamble of the United States Marine Corps, all of whom served in the U.S. Navy.
** Captain Thomas Gamble of the U.S. Sloop of War Erie, the eldest, died at Pisa, Italy, October 10, 1818. He was named after his uncle who was Quartermaster-General of British forces in North America in 1769, and died as a Major in London in 1821 at the age of 86, leaving 14,500 pounds toward paying off the British national debt, probably because he never forgave his brother and nephews for their disloyalty.
** Lieutenant Francis R. Gamble, commander of the U.S. Storeship Decoy, died off Cape Hatteras, September 29, 1824.
** Lieutenant Peter Gamble, the youngest of the four brothers was killed at the Battle of Lake Champlain, on Commodore Macdonough's ship.
--Brock-Perry
