He was married to Lenka, the daughter of George Pantelic, a merchant from Sremska Mitrovica.

[1] He left the army on his own initiative in January 1863, together with Sava Grujić and Dimitrije Đurić, because their request to return to Serbia after the Čukur Fountain incident was not granted.

During 1867, he spent seven months as a state cadet in the topography department in Paris.

[1] He returned to the civil service in 1867, so from 1867 to 1868 he was a sergeant in the artillery, and then he served for several months in the general military department of the Ministry of Defense and was an aide to Mihailo Obrenović.

From 1873 to 1875, he taught the history of war skills and strategy at the Military Academy as a professor.

At the beginning of the Second Serbian-Turkish War in December 1877, he was the commander of the Danube Division of the Timok Corps.

[1] Until April 1880 he served in the General Staff and was a professor at the Military Academy.

[2] After the Serbian defeat at Slivnica, he replaced him on December 2, 1885 by Jovan Petrovic as Chief of Staff of the Supreme Command.

From April 4, 1886, until February 17, 1887, he was the Minister of Construction in the government of Milutin Garašanin.