Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Alexander Dallas Bache” in chapter 1.5, section c.1.7.1, page 10 of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29.:
...ember, 1823, when, at the age of fifteen years, he was oppointed to West Point, where he was a contemporary, amongst others, of his life-long friends, Albert Sidney Johnston, Bishop Leonidas Polk and Alexander Dallas Bache .
He graduated honorably in 1828; received his brevet as lieutenant of infantry, and was immediately ordered to service on the frontier.
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