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1184……..(Born Vt.)
George Stevens
(Ap’d Vt.)………….18
Military
History. – Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1839, to July 1, 1843,
when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
Bvt. Second Lieut.,
Rifles, July 1, 1843.
Second Lieut., 2d
Dragoons, Aug. 31, 1843.
Served: on
frontier duty at Ft. Jesup, La., 1843-45; in Military Occupation of Texas,
1845-46; and in the War with Mexico, 1846, being engaged in the Battle of
Palo Alto, May 8, 1846, -- Battle of Resaca-de-la-Palma, May 9, 1846, -- and
in the Passage of the Rio Grande was
Drowned, May 18, 1846:
Aged 25. |
