Male

April 22, 1823

December 26, 1869

Astoria, NY

Leavenworth, KS
Portsmouth, RI

Alfred Gibbs was born on April 22,1823 to LFA student, Laura Wolcott Gibbs and George Gibbs III. He was the grandson of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Secretary of the Treasury. On December 27, 1855, he married Virginia resident, Peggy Forshee Clair. Together they had two sons who led successful lives.

In 1846, Gibbs graduated from West Point and had a long successful military career. He served in the Mexican-American War, the Apache Wars, and the American Civil War. Shortly after his graduation, he was assigned to the Regiment of Mounted Rifles. His regiment fought in the Mexican-American War, and Gibbs was captured twice and wounded. He was award ranks of Brevet First Lieutenant and Brevet Captain.

In 1847, he served in the Army of Occupation in Mexico City and participated ...in the Aztec Club. Near the end of the war, he served as an aide-de-camp to Brigadier General, Persifor F. Smith until 1856. In the following year, he was wounded at Cooke's Spring by the Apaches.

During the American Civil War, Gibbs lead a very detailed and successful career. He was involved in numerous battles and commanded many brigades. In the beginning of the Civil War, he served as First Lieutenant of the Regiment of Mounted Rifles in the U.S. Regular Army. He has also served as Colonel of the 130th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Captain of the 3rd United States Cavalry Regiment and commanded Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan.

Post Civil War, Gibbs was nominated for numerous awards and ranks by Presidents. The first was the Honorary Rank of Brevet Major General of the United States Volunteers and Brevet Major General of the United States Army in 1866.

On December 26,1868, he died while on active duty as a Major in the 7th U.S. Cavalry in Kansas at Fort Leavenworth from "congestion of the brain."

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"Brevet Major-Gen. ALFRED GIBBS, Major of the Seventh United States Cavalry, died at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Saturday, aged 46 years. Gen. GIBBS was born in the State, graduated at West Point in 1846, and was at once appointed a Second Lieutenant of Mounted Rifles. He was subsequently promoted Captain of the Second Cavalry. During the war he was commissioned as Colonel of one of the New-York Cavalry Regiments, and was soon after made a Brigadier-General. For gallant services in the Army of the Potomac he was brevetted Major-General of Volunteers, and subsequently Major-General of the Army. At the close of the war he was appointed Major of the Seventh Cavalry and served with his regiment up to the time of his death."

New York Times, December 28, 1868.

Dartmouth College
West Point, graduated in 1846

Military

Bowen, Rev. J. R Regimental History of the First New York Dragoons (Originally the 130th N.Y. Volunteer Infantry) During Three Years of Active Service in the Great Civil War. New York: 1900.