Rear Admiral Charles Jackson Train (14 May 1845 – 4 August 1906) was an officer in the United States Navy. He served in the Spanish–American War and later as the second Commander-in-Chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet. Naval career Train was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, on 14 May 1845, and was appointed to the United States Naval Academy on 27 November 1861, graduating in November 1864. From 1866 to 1867 he served aboard the flagship of the Mediterranean Squadron, the screw frigate , being promoted to ensign on 1 November 1866 and to master on 1 December 1866 while aboard Colorado. During 1868 he served aboard the screw sloop-of-war USS Frolic in the European Squadron, and was promoted to lieutenant on 12 March 1868 while aboard Frolic. He was aboard the screw frigate while she made midshipman training cruises to ports in Europe and the Mediterranean in 1869 and 1870, and was promoted to lieutenant commander on 30 June 1869. Train returned to the U.S. Naval Academy to serve as an instructor from 1871 to 1872. He was assigned to special duty in 1873, and in 1874 and 1875 had another special duty assignment to study the December 1874 transit of Venus. From 1875 to 1876 he was aboard the sloop-of-war on the Pacific Station. He had several assignments in 1877, beginning with duty at the Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, followed by a stint aboard the sloop-of-war on the Pacific Station, and then a return to the Naval Academy for a second tour as an instructor in navigation. Leaving the Naval Academy in 1881, Train received a special duty assignment aboard the sidewheel frigate from 1881 to 1884. He was assigned to the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting from 1884 to 1886 and was promoted to commander on 17 January 1886. Train took command of a training ship, the sloop-of-war , from 1886 to 1888, then was commanding officer of another training ship, the sloop-of-war , from 1888 to 1889. After service as a lighthouse inspector from 1889 to 1890, he took command of the schooner-rigged gunboat on 20 July 1893. Train reported for duty to the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, in June 1894, then in October 1894 became a naval member of the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia. In June 1896 he became a lighthouse inspector in the Fourth