Mexican-American War; Frontier Service
After Gibbs graduated from the U. S. Military Academy in 1846, he served in the Mexican–American War in the Regiment of Mounted Rifles and was wounded. He was awarded the ranks of brevet first lieutenant and brevet captain for gallantry. He then served as aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Persifor F. Smith until 1856.
From 1856 through the beginning of the American Civil War, Gibbs was on frontier duty with his troop of Mounted Rifles. He was wounded in a skirmish with Apaches at Cooke's Spring, New Mexico in 1857.
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