He was commissioned as captain and assigned to Company D the 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry.
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During the Civil War entered the Union Army in 1862 as captain of Company C, 6th Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry, and served three years in areas of conflict with Native American tribes in the northern Great Plains.