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2LT George Stevens

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2LT George Stevens Veteran

Birth
Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont, USA
Death
18 May 1846 (aged 24)
Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, USA
Burial
Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section B, Site 12
Memorial ID
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Disinterred from Brownsville National Cemetery in 1911 and reinterred at Alexandria National Cemetery
US Military Academy at West Point Graduate 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.

Cenotaph at Stevens Cemetery, Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont.



Disinterred from Brownsville National Cemetery in 1911 and reinterred at Alexandria National Cemetery
US Military Academy at West Point Graduate 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.

Cenotaph at Stevens Cemetery, Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont.




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