History Bezaleel W. Armstrong Graduated U.S. Military Academy and Bvt. 2d Lt., 1st Dragoons, 1845; 2d Lt., 2d Dragoons, 1846; served in Mexican War at Vera Cruz and Mexico City, 1847-48; died 1849, aged 26. Copy of daguerreotype, ca. 1846. (Army)
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