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 [decorative delimiter] Class of 1843

Vol. II
p169
1184

(Born Vt.)

George Stevens

(Ap'd Vt.)

18

Born June 8, 1821.

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.

Buried, Ft. Brown, TX.


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