Rank: Private
Unit: H Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: May 10, 1837 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was 24.
Date of birth: 1813
Hometown: Hamburg, Germany
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 10 February 1840
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Wacassassa, Florida
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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
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