Rank: Private
Unit: K Co, 2d Cavalry
Enlisted: October 7, 1872 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was 22.
Date of birth: 1850
Hometown: Greenville, Illinois
Occupation prior to enlistment: Hostler
Campaign: Plains Indian War (post Civil War)
Died: 13 January 1873
Age at death: 22 or 23
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Location of fatality: Fort Sanders, Wyoming Territory
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Place of interment: Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell, Nebraska
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Note: He stood 5’9½” with grey eyes, brown hair, and sallow complexion.
Originally buried at Fort Sanders Cemetery at Laramie, Wyoming and reinterred in 1892 at Fort McPherson National Cemetery in Maxwell, Nebraska