Biography
Carleton was born in Lubec, Maine. He was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the US Army in 1839, during the Aroostook War, and took part in the Mexican-American War. He served in the 1st U.S. Dragoons in the American West, participating as a Lieutenant in a friendly expedition in 1844 to the Pawnee and the Oto.
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