A soldier in the Civil War, a member of the 52nd Regiment of "nine month's men;" was in the Battle of Baton Rouge, of Indian Bend, forty day's siege at Port Hudson and several skirmishes (Severance, B. Frank. Genealogy and biography of the descendants of Walter Stewart of Scotland and of John Stewart who came to America in 1718 and settled in Londonderry, N.H. Greenfield, Mass. : T. Morey & Son, 1905, pg. 69, 111).