Rank: Private
Unit: B Co, 2d Cavalry
Enlisted: March 1, 1877 in Fort Sanders, Wyoming Territory. He was 32.
Date of birth: 1845
Hometown: Hamburg, Germany
Occupation prior to enlistment: Tailor
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: 2 September 1878
Age at death: 32 or 33
Cause of death: Consumption
Location of fatality: Fort Keogh, Montana
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Place of interment: Custer National Cemetery, Crow Agency in Big Horn County, Montana
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