Military officer; born in
Fairfax county, Va., Aug. 18, 1824; graduated at
West Point in 1845, entering the dragoons.
Accompanying
Kearny to
California in 1846, he was in the principal battles of the war with
Mexico.
He was also active in
New Mexico, afterwards, against the Indians.
In 1861 he was made major of cavalry, and early in 1862 brigadiergeneral of volunteers, commanding a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
After serving in the campaign on the
Peninsula, he was transferred (August, 1862) to the Department of the Mississippi, and cooperated with
General Steele in the capture of
Little Rock, Ark. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in March, 1865; promoted to lieutenant-colonel, 10th Cavalry, in 1866; was
Professor of Military Science in Kansas Agricultural College in 1868-71; promoted to colonel, 2d Cavalry, in 1879.
He died in
St. Paul, Minn., June 26, 1881.