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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ts succeeded, in all of which he brought to bear judgment, good scientific attainments, and industry. He was for a time on the Coast Survey; then on topographical duty in the West; for a year engaged in building a military road from Big Sioux river to St. Paul. Minn. From 1854 to 1857 he was stationed at Frankfort Arsenal, near Philadelphia. He was afterward Chief Ordnance officer to Gen. A. S. Johnston in the Utah expedition, and remained there till 1859, when he was detached and sent to Mount Vernon Arsenal Alabama. He was afterward stationed at Leavenworth, Kansas, where he was when the war broke out. He was killed about 7 o'clock Sunday evening, and the following account of his death is thus given in a letter to the N. Y. Herald: He, with his staff, was standing a little back of the wood on a field, the rebel forces being directly in front. A body of his troops were just before him, and at this point the fire of the rebels was directed. A Minnie ball struck him an