Rank: Private
Unit: C Co, 2d Dragoons
Enlisted: July 17, 1840 in New York, New York. He was 19.
Date of birth: 1821
Hometown: Stamford, Vermont
Occupation prior to enlistment: Farmer
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 6 January 1842
Cause of death: Dysentery and scorbutus
Location of fatality: Saint John‘s Bluff, Florida
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Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
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