Military officer; born in
New Jersey, March 9, 1813; graduated at
West Point in 1832, entering the artillery corps.
He was aide to
General Eustis in the
Seminole War, and in 1838 became a lieutenant in the corps of topographical engineers.
He was colonel of the 4th New Jersey Volunteers in the
Pensacola campaign, and was afterwards chief engineer of the Department of Ohio.
In March, 1865, he was brevetted brigadiergeneral, United States army.
Having been on surveying expeditions in the
West, he published a
Journal of a military reconnoissance from Santa Fe to the Navajo country;
A report on the Union Pacific Railroad and its branches; and
Essay on Coronado's March in search of the seven cities of Cibola.
He died in
St. Paul, Minn., March 2, 1883.