Charles James Barclay (admiral)
Template:Short description {{#invoke:Other people|otherPeople}} Template:Infobox military person Rear Admiral Charles James Barclay (8 September 1843 – 26 September 1909) was a United States Navy officer.<ref name="EUSH">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
Biography
Barclay was born in Philadelphia<ref name="EUSH"/> to William James Barclay and Anna Musgrave.<ref name="death"/> He entered the U.S. Naval Academy on 21 September 1860 with the rank of acting midshipman, graduating on 6 October 1863, as an acting ensign.<ref name="callahan">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
During the Civil War Barclay took part in the capture of the Confederate cruiser Template:Ship at Bahia, Brazil, by Template:USS in October 1864, and served on board the Template:USS in 1865–66.<ref name="EUSH"/>
He rose through the ranks post-war, being promoted to master on 10 May 1866,<ref name="callahan"/> to lieutenant on 21 February 1867,<ref name="callahan"/> to lieutenant commander on 12 March 1868,<ref name="callahan"/> to commander on 25 November 1881,<ref name="callahan"/> and to captain on 1 October 1896.<ref name="callahan"/>
Barclay recommissioned the monitor Template:USS at Norfolk on 2 October 1897, commanding her during the Spanish–American War, and taking part in the bombardment of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on 12 May 1898, and then serving on blockade duty.<ref>Template:Cite DANFS</ref> He was still in command of her in 1899.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
He was the commandant of the Naval War Academy from 1900, and was therefore delegated captain of the Navy Yards at Boston and then at Puget Sound.<ref name="EUSH"/>
Barclay was promoted to rear admiral on 20 November 1903,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and retired in 1905.<ref name="EUSH"/>
He died of diabetes at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, aged 66.<ref name="nyt"/><ref name="death">Massachusetts, U.S., Death Records, 1841–1915</ref>