Rank: Second Lieutenant
Unit: 2d Dragoons
Commissioned: United States Military Academy class of 1849 and appointed from New York.
Date of birth: 1826
Hometown: Connecticut
Campaign: Plains Indian War (pre Civil War)
Married: Marie
Children: Julia
Died: 24 May 1854
Age at death: 27 or 28
Location of fatality: Fort Bliss, Texas
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Location of internment: Lake View Cemetery in Interlaken, New York
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Notes: 20th in his class of 42 graduated cadets.
Bvt. Second Lieut., 1st Dragoons, July 1, 1849.
Served at the Cavalry School for Practice in Carlisle, Pa., 1850.
Promoted to Second Lieut., 2d Dragoons, Jan. 13, 1850.
Frontier duty, at Austin, Tex., 1851, Ft. Croghan, Tex., 1851, and Ft. Mason, Tex., 1851‑52.
Cavalry School for Practice, Carlisle, Pa., 1853.
Frontier duty at Ft. Conrad, N. M., 1853‑54, Ft. Craig, N. M., 1854, Scouting against Apache Indians, 1854, being engaged in a Skirmish at Agua Caliente, N. M., Apr. 8, 1854, and at Ft. Bliss, Tex., 1854.
