He served in the Philippines in 1909 and was awarded the Medal of Honor after being wounded leading an attack into a cave occupied by hostile Moro insurgents.

In World War I he served as a field artillery officer and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the National Army.

[1] During World War II he was the Post Commander at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1942 to 1945 with the rank of Brigadier General.

He retired from the Army on January 31, 1946, and died at the Veterans Hospital in Columbia, South Carolina on September 26, 1969.

Citation: While in action against hostile Moros, he entered with a few enlisted men the mouth of a cave occupied by a desperate enemy, this act having been ordered after he had volunteered several times.