He is the first Medal of Honor winner to be buried at Miramar National Cemetery. Miramar Cemetery (in San Diego) is fairly new. Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery (in San Diego located on Point Loma) filled up about a year ago. Fort Rosecrans has the second most Medal of Honor winners after Arlington.
He was among the members of the 1st and 8th Cavalry, under the commands of Lieutenant William H. Winters and Captain Reuben Bernard, who pursued an Apache raiding party led by Cochise that had massacred a stage coach en route to Tucson and attacked a group of cowboys in the Sulphur Springs Valley on October 5, 1868. The cavalry detachment pursued the Apache to Cochise’s stronghold in the Chiricahua Mountains where they did battle on October 20, 1869.