Rank: Captain
Unit: 2d Dragoons
Commissioned: United States Military Academy class of 1840 and appointed from New Jersey.
Date of birth: 1817
Hometown: New York
Married: Mary C. Kindell
Campaign: Plains Indian War (pre Civil War)
Died: 8 August 1851
Age at death: 33 or 34
Cause of death: Exhaustion from pursuing Indians
Location of fatality: San Saba River, Texas
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Place of interment: San Antonio National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas
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Notes: 19 in his class of 41 graduated cadets. Second Lieut., 2d Dragoons, July 1, 1840.
Served at the Cavalry School for Practice, at Carlisle, Pa., 1840; in the Florida War, 1840‑41; in garrison at Baton Rouge, La., 1841, — and at Ft. Jessup, La., 1841‑42.
Recruiting service, 1842; on frontier duty at Ft. Jessup, La., 1842‑44; in garrison at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
First Lieut., 2d Dragoons, Aug. 31, 1843
1844‑45; in Military Occupation of Texas, 1845‑46
War with Mexico, 1846‑47, being engaged in the Battle of Palo Alto, May 8, (Major, 10th Infantry, Apr. 9, 1847) 1846, — and Battle of Resaca-de‑la‑Palma, May 9, 1846
In garrison (Lieut.‑Colonel, 16th Infantry, May 23, 1848) at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1848.
Disbanded, July 20, 1848.
Reinstated in the U. S. Army by Act of Congress of February. 19, 1848, as First Lieut., 2d Dragoons, to rank from Aug. 31, 1843.
Served at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 1848‑49.
Frontier duty at Ft. Graham, Tex., 1849‑50, Austin, Tex., 1850, Ft. Graham, Tex.
Captain, 2d Dragoons, July 25, 1850) 1850, Austin, Tex., 1851, and Ft. Mason, Tex., 1851.