During the Civil War served in the Union Army from May 1861 to December 1865, except three months in 1863, attached to the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry.
He was part of the Union forces during the American Civil War, serving from May 1861 to December 1865, with a brief stint with the Fourteenth Iowa Infantry and the Twelfth Indiana Cavalry in 1863.