Class of 1851

Laurence​a Simmons Baker: Born May 15, 1830, Gates Co., NC.

Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1847, to July 1, 1851, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

Bvt. Second Lieut., Mounted Rifle­men, July 1, 1851.

Served: at the Cavalry School for Practice, Carlisle, Pa., 1851‑52; in garrison at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 1852; and on frontier duty at Ft. Laramie, Dak., 1852, — Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., 1852, — Ft. Scott, Kan., 1852‑53, — Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., 1853, — Expedition to the Plains,

(Second Lieut., Mounted Rifle­men, Mar. 31, 1853)

1853, — Ft. Gibson, I. T., 1853, — Ft. Inge, Tex., 1853‑54, — Ft. McIntosh, Tex., 1854, — Scouting, 1854, — Ft. Merrill, Tex., 1855, — San Antonio, Tex., 1855‑56, — Scouting, 1856, — Ft. Duncan, Tex., 1856, — March to New Mexico, 1856, — Ft. Thorn, N. M., 1856, — convoying train to Tucson, Ara., 1856‑57, — Ft. Thorn, N. M., 1857, — Ft. Stanton, N. M., 1857, — Scouting, 1857‑58, being engaged against Kiowa Indians, in a Skirmish at Ojo del Muerto, N. M., Mar. 12, 1857, — Ft. Stanton, N. M., 1858‑59, — Scouting, 1860, — Ft. Union, N. M., 1860‑61, — and

(First Lieut., Mounted Rifle­men, Nov. 22, 1859)

Ft. Stanton, N. M., 1861.

Joined in the Rebellion of 1861‑66 against the United States.​b

Civil History. — Farmer, near Suffolk, Va., 1866‑78. Agent of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, and Southern Express Company, and Manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, at Suffolk, Va., 1878 to 18–––.