Christopher C. Augur photograph, circa 1860.

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Christopher C. Augur photograph, circa 1860.

1 cartes-de-visite 1/4 studio portrait of Augur in uniform.

1 photographic print ; 2.5 x 4 in.

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Augur, Christopher Columbus, 1821-1898

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Augur was born in Kendall, New York. He moved with his family to Michigan and entered West Point in 1839. Augur graduated in 1843 in the same class as General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant. Following his graduation, Augur served as aide-de-camp to Generals Hopping and Cushing during the Mexican–American War, and during the 1850s took an active part in the campaigns of the western frontier against the Yakima and Rogue River tribes of Washington and, in 1856, against the Oregon Indians. In Oregon, ...