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Id'd US Regular wearing famous "Pill Box" hat! Cdv of Lt. Christopher Columbus Wolcott, West Point Class of 1867, wearing the style of military cap that was the fashion in the mid 1860's onward. Wear as shown in the photographs.

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Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, Sep. 1, 1863, to June 17, 1867, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to Second Lieut., 3d Artillery, June 17, 1867.

p103 Served: on Frontier duty at Ft. McPherson, Neb., Oct. 16, 1867, to May, 1868, — Ft. Kearny, Neb., to Nov., 1868, — Omaha Barracks, Neb., to Apr., 1869. — Ft. Riley, Kan., to Sept. 5, 1870 (leave of absence Dec. 16, 1869, to Jan. 28, 1870), — Scouting in Kansas, June to Sep., 1870; on leave of absence, Sep. 5 to Nov. 8, 1870; in garrison at Key West, Fla., to Feb., 1871; on Signal duty at Ft. Whipple, Va., Mar., 1871, to May 5, 1875 (leave of absence, Dec. 13, 1872, to Mar. 10, 1873); In Navy Department (First Lieut., 3d Artillery, May 1, 1873)

under orders of Secretary of the Navy, May, 1875, to May, 1878; and in garrison at Ft. Monroe, Va. (Artillery School for Practice), May 1, 1878, to May 1, 1880, — and Ft. Niagara, N. Y. (leave of absence, June 1 to Nov. 20, 1880), to Nov. 1, 1881. Resigned, Nov. 1, 1881.

Civil History. — Civil Engineer, since 1881.

Lt. Wolcott was the first graduate of the Military Academy to have a success­ful naval career other than as a Marine or a scholar.