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THADDEUS HIGGINS
1037…..(Born
Pa.) (Ap’d
Pa.)…..21
Military
History. --- Cadet at the Military Academy, July 1, 1836, to July 1, 1840,
when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to
Second Lieut., 4th
Infantry, July
1, 1840.
Served: on
frontier duty at Ft. Jesup, La., 1840-42, -- and Ft. Gibson, I. T., 1842; in
garrison at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., 1842-44; on frontier duty at
Natchitoches (Camp Salubrity), La., 1844-45; in Military Occupation of
Texas, 1845; and by the bursting of a steamer’s boiler, was
Killed,
Sep. 12, 1845, near
Corpus Christi, Texas.: Aged 28.
Source:
Cullum, George W.
Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the
U. S. Military Academy
at West Point, N.Y. from its Establishment. in 1802 to 1890, with the Early
History of the United States Military Academy.
Third edition., revised and extended.
Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.
Transcription by: Rosa
G. Gonzales
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