Person Information

Biography

Electus Backus was a military officer. He graduated from West Point in 1824. He fought in the Sauk and Fox War in 1837, and against the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1840. He also fought in the Mexican-American War. After the war he was promoted to major and served at Fort Defiance, New Mexico. 
Electus Backus married Mary L. Backus and had a son Samuel Preston Backus.

Letter References

Letter from Augustus Henry Seward to Frances Adeline Seward, February 18, 1861

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Biography: 
Electus Backus was a military officer. He graduated from West Point in 1824. He fought in the Sauk and Fox War in 1837, and against the Seminole Indians in Florida in 1840. He also fought in the Mexican-American War. After the war he was promoted to major and served at Fort Defiance, New Mexico. Electus Backus married Mary L. Backus and had a son Samuel Preston Backus.
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http://library.uta.edu/usmexicowar/item.php?bio_id=13
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A Continent Divided: The U.S.-Mexico War: The University of Texas Arlington
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Backus, William. A Genealogical Memoir of the Backus Family. Norwich, Conn.: Press of The Bulletin Co., 1889. Heitman, Francis. Historical Register and Dictionary of the U.S. Army from 1789 to 1903. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903. © 2016 The University of Texas Arlington. All rights reserved.
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Find A Grave
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BURIAL Elmwood Cemetery Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA PLOT Sec A MEMORIAL ID 97788172 · View Source
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Ancestry.com. U.S., Registers of Deaths in the Regular Army, 1860-1889 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Registers of Deaths in the Regular Army, compiled 1860–1889. 18 volumes. ARC ID: 1226156. Records of the Adjutant General's Office. Record Group 94. National Archives at Washington, D.C.