Career
Serving first as a Private in Company C, 21st New Jersey Volunteer Infantry (a nine-month service regiment) from August 28, 1862 to June 19, 1863, he was commissioned as a First Lieutenant in Company F, 33rd New Jersey Volunteer Infantry on August 23, 1863, and was mustered into the unit on August 29, 1863. His wounds forced his discharge from the 33rd New Jersey on June 2, 1864, and he was appointed into the Veteran Reserve Corps. He served in the VRC as a lieutenant until June 1866.
While still in service, he was an eyewitness to Lincoln"s assassination at Ford"s Theater, participated in the search for the conspirators, testified at their trial and witnessed their subsequent execution.
Post-War After the war he went on to have a life of extensive public service in Hudson County, New Jersey.