American soldier, born in Greenfield, MA, on the 30th of September 1824. He was graduated from West Point in 1845, and entered the army service. For his bravery during the Mexican War he was advanced to the rank of captain; was stationed as chief of ordnance in California in 1851–57; resigned his commission, and became a member of an exploring party in the Sonora Valley, Mexico. He re-entered the army in 1861, and served as inspector-general of the militia of the District of Columbia; was afterward assigned to a brigade; was responsible for the Federal losses at Ball’s Bluff on the Potomac, October 21, 1861, and for two years was imprisoned. Upon his release in 1863 he was assigned to the Department of the Gulf as chief of staff to Gen. N. P. Banks. At the close of the war he returned to private life until 1870, when he was appointed chief of staff to the Khedive of Egypt. This office he retained until 1883. As engineer-in-chief of the erection of the statue Liberty Enlightening the World, in 1886, he was in charge of the dedication of that work. He died in New York City, on the 24th of January 1887.
