1. Edgar Jadwin was commissioned in the US Army Corps of Engineers.
15 Facts About Edgar Jadwin
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Edgar Jadwin's classmates included Colden Ruggles, Fred W Sladen, Frank M Caldwell, Clint C Hearn, Daniel W Ketcham, Herbert Deakyne, Francis Marshall, Harry H Bandholtz, Henry D Todd Jr.
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All of these men would, like Edgar Jadwin himself, attain the rank of general officer.
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Edgar Jadwin's son, Olympic equestrian Cornelius Comegys Jadwin II, was born in 1896.
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Edgar Jadwin was promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 12,1913.
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Edgar Jadwin was promoted to colonel in the National Army on July 6,1917, exactly three months after the American entry into World War I Edgar Jadwin received a brevet to brigadier general on December 17,1917.
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Edgar Jadwin directed American construction and forestry work there for a year and received the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the citation for which reads:.
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9,1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Army Distinguished Service Medal to Brigadier General Edgar Jadwin, United States Army, for exceptionally meritorious and distinguished services to the Government of the United States, in a duty of great responsibility during World War I As Commanding Officer of the 15th Engineers, General Jadwin inaugurated the important project at Gievres.
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From 1922 to 1924, Edgar Jadwin headed the Corps' Charleston District and Southeast Division.
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Edgar Jadwin then served two years as Assistant Chief of Engineers.
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Edgar Jadwin retired as a lieutenant general on August 7,1929.
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The dredge Edgar Jadwin is used mainly in the deep draft ship crossings of the Lower Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans to keep a federally mandated channel depth of no less than 48 feet and width of 500 feet.
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The Edgar Jadwin operates on the Lower Mississippi River above Baton Rouge to maintain the shallow draft channel of 9 feet deep by 300 feet wide.
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Edgar Jadwin received the Army Distinguished Service Medal, the Companion Order of the Bath from Great Britain, and the Commander in the Legion of Honour from France.
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Edgar Jadwin died in Gorgas Hospital in the Panama Canal Zone on March 2,1931, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.