American soldier and author, born in Albany, NY, on the 12th of October 1844; graduated from West Point (1866); served in garrison duty (1866–69); at the Military Academy (1869–71); frontier duty (1874–79). He was made captain in May of 1879, and retired in June, on account of wounds received in line of duty. He was inspector-general of the Wisconsin National Guard and colonel of the Fourth Regiment (1882–89), and then became commander of cadets at the Michigan Military Academy. He wrote The Colonel’s Daughter (1882); Famous and Decisive Battles (1884); Marion’s Faith (1885); Captain Blake (1891); Cadet Days (1894); Trooper Ross (1895); and many shorter stories.
