John F. Lane was appointed a Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1824, from which he graduated 10th in the Class of 1828 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Artillery Regiment. His eight years in the Army involved him in a very miscellaneous series of assignments: he taught mathematics at West Point, built a breakwater in Delaware, was assigned to Indian removal for two years, was posted to various Eastern garrisons, worked in the Quartermaster-General's Office in Washington, DC, and finally, being promoted to Captain in the 2d Dragoons, was sent to fight in the Second Seminole War in June, 1836. He was assigned to the Mounted Creek Volunteers in September with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, saw combat near Tampa Bay, and died by his own hand soon after, at Fort Drane, in what some newspapers at the time attributed to an attack of insanity caused by encephalitis. He was 26 years old, making his probable year of birth 1810.
Sources: Cullum's Biographical Register of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Vol. I, p409; Veterans Administration records as posted at Interment.Net; and with thanks to Nora Barton Carver: Charleston Courier, Oct. 26, 1836 as quoted in several other contemporaneous newspapers, especially the Indiana American, Nov. 11, 1836.
Sources: Cullum's Biographical Register of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Vol. I, p409; Veterans Administration records as posted at Interment.Net; and with thanks to Nora Barton Carver: Charleston Courier, Oct. 26, 1836 as quoted in several other contemporaneous newspapers, especially the Indiana American, Nov. 11, 1836.
John F. Lane was appointed a Cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1824, from which he graduated 10th in the Class of 1828 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the 4th Artillery Regiment. His eight years in the Army involved him in a very miscellaneous series of assignments: he taught mathematics at West Point, built a breakwater in Delaware, was assigned to Indian removal for two years, was posted to various Eastern garrisons, worked in the Quartermaster-General's Office in Washington, DC, and finally, being promoted to Captain in the 2d Dragoons, was sent to fight in the Second Seminole War in June, 1836. He was assigned to the Mounted Creek Volunteers in September with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, saw combat near Tampa Bay, and died by his own hand soon after, at Fort Drane, in what some newspapers at the time attributed to an attack of insanity caused by encephalitis. He was 26 years old, making his probable year of birth 1810.
Sources: Cullum's Biographical Register of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Vol. I, p409; Veterans Administration records as posted at Interment.Net; and with thanks to Nora Barton Carver: Charleston Courier, Oct. 26, 1836 as quoted in several other contemporaneous newspapers, especially the Indiana American, Nov. 11, 1836.
Sources: Cullum's Biographical Register of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy, Vol. I, p409; Veterans Administration records as posted at Interment.Net; and with thanks to Nora Barton Carver: Charleston Courier, Oct. 26, 1836 as quoted in several other contemporaneous newspapers, especially the Indiana American, Nov. 11, 1836.
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