Military officer; born in
Winchester, Tenn., Jan. 21, 1838; graduated at the United States Military Academy, and commissioned second lieutenant in the 4th United States Infantry in 1857; served on the
Pacific coast till 1861; had charge of the
United States steamer
Massachusetts during the
San Juan troubles in 1859; served through the
Civil War; brevetted lieutenant-colonel of volunteers in 1865; commissioned major, United States army, in 1878; promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1885.
In 1878 he was appointed military secretary to the joint commission of Congress on the reorganization of the army, and in the same year became chief of the Publication Office of War Records of the
Rebellion.
He was author of
Digest of the military laws of the United States.
He died in
Washington, D. C., March 5, 1887.