Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Getty na Georgetown, Washington, D.C. A họpụtara ya ịga United States Military Academy na West Point, New York, mgbe ọ dị afọ 16, ma gụchaa ya dị ka onye nke 15 n'ime ndị gụsịrị akwụkwọ 42 na Klas nke 1840. N'etiti ụmụ klas ya bụ ndị agha Civil War n'ọdịnihu William T. Sherman na George H. Thomas nke Union Army na Richard S. Ewell na Bushrod R. Johnson nke ndị agha Confederate States. E kenyere ya ọrụ n'òtù ndị na-agba ụta dị ka onye nke abụọ. N'oge agha Mexico na America, o so ndị agha Winfield Scott mee mkpọsa ma nata ọkwa onye isi maka ịdị uchu na Contreras na
Churubusco. Ọ lụrụ ọgụ megide ndị Seminole India na Florida na agha Seminole abụọ gara aga, na-ahụ ihe na 1849 <unk> 50 na ọzọ na 1856 <unk> 57.