Rank: Private
Unit: E Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: December 21, 1844 in Fort Jesup, Louisiana. He was 22.
Date of birth: 1822
Hometown: Rensselaer, New York
Occupation prior to enlistment: Dentist
Campaign: Mexican American War
Died: 8 September 1847
Age at death: 24 or 25
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Molino del Rey, Mexico
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Place of interment: Old Pioneer Cemetery in Alexandria, Ohio
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Note: Private Lansing had blue eyes, black hair, dark complexion, and stood 5’11”.
Private Lansing’s death is cited in the book:
Also killed in the action were Privates Brown, Jacobin, Jansen, Lane, and Ulenbrook. Captain Croghan Ker, Lieutenant A. D. Tree, Lieutenant William. D. Smith, and twenty enlisted men were wounded in this action. Twenty-seven horses killed and fifty-two wounded.