Rank: Private
Unit: H Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: September 27, 1839 in Fort Columbus, New York. He was 24.
Date of birth: 1815
Hometown: Washington, Maine
Occupation prior to enlistment: Coach painter
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 4 May 1840
Age at death: 24 or 25
Cause of death: Accidentally shot by Lieutenant Inge
Location of fatality: Fort No. 4, Florida
Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
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Note: He stood 5’6” with blue eyes, dark hair, and fair complexion.
Listed in Ponce de Leon Land and Florida War Record By George M. Brown (1902).
Listed on U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs Database.
Listed in U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914