Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Getty a Georgetown, Washington, D.C. An nada shi zuwa Kwalejin Sojojin Amurka a West Point, New York, yana da shekaru 16, kuma ya kammala karatun 15th daga cikin masu digiri 42 a cikin Class of 1840. Daga cikin abokan karatunsa akwai janar din yakin basasa na gaba William T. Sherman da George H. Thomas na Sojojin Tarayyar da Richard S. Ewell da Bushrod R. Johnson na Sojojin Tarayyar. An sanya shi a cikin bindigogi a matsayin laftanan na biyu. A lokacin yakin Mexican-American, ya yi yaƙi tare da sojojin Winfield Scott kuma ya sami alƙawari a matsayin kyaftin din don ƙarfin hali a Contreras da Churubusco.
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya yi yaƙi da Indiyawa Seminole a Florida a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe biyu na Seminole na ƙarshe, yana ganin aiki a 1849 <unk> 50 kuma a 1856 <unk> 57.