Service:

 Captain, 23d Pennsylvania Volunteers

Captain, Company I, 61^st Pennsylvania Volunteers

Captain, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, Staff of Brigadier-General David B. Birney

Captain, Acting Assistant Inspector General, Staff of Major-General Phillip Kearney

Colonel, 21^st New Jersey Infantry

Colonel, 33d New Jersey Infantry

Brevets:

 Brevet Brigadier-General, U. S. Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for general good conduct

during the campaigns from Savannah, Ga., to Goldsboro, N. C.

 Brevet Major-General, U. S. Volunteers, March 15, 1865, for gallant and meritorious

service in the battles of Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, and Mills Creek Gap, near

Dalton, Ga.

Born:  August 8, 1841 near Frankfurt, Germany

Died:  July 20, 1907, New York City

Education:  Philadelphia Central High School, 1859

Occupation:  Jeweler and U. S. Customs Officer

Buried:  Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. (Section 3, Lot 1568)

 

Source:  Hunt, Roger D. & Brown, Jack R. Brevet Brigadiers in Blue, Gaithersburg, MD: Olde Soldiers Books, 1990.