Death
After the war, he retired to his family farm in Vermilionville (now known as Lafayette), Louisiana, where he died in 1873 at age fifty.
His grave is Cemetery of Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral in Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, USA.
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