<p style="text-align:center"><strong>HENRY PRINCE</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 815 · Class of 1835</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died August 19, 1892, at London, England, aged 81 years.</strong></p><p>General Henry Prince was born in 1811, at Eastport, Me. He entered the Military Academy in 1831, and was graduated with the class of 1835. Among his classmates were Generals Morell, Brooks, Meade, Neglee, Haupt, and Greer. He was brevetted Second Lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry in September 1835, and saw his first service in the Florida War, against the Seminole Indians.</p><p>General Prince rendered conspicuous service in the war with Mexico, and attained the brevet rank of Captain, for gallant and meritorious conduct in the Battles of Contreras and Churubusco. After the Battle of Molino del Rey, he was brevetted Major for gallant conduct in that action.</p><p>On the breaking out of the Civil War he was made Brigadier-General of United States Volunteers. He was captured in the Battle of Cedar Mountain, and held prisoner until paroled the following December. During the War he was twice brevetted for meritorious conduct.</p><p>At the close of hostilities, General Prince was honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, with the rank of Brigadier-General. Subsequently he served as Paymaster, at Boston, and Chief Paymaster, Department of the East, and was made Department Paymaster General, in 1877. He was retired from active service in December 1879, he being over sixty-two years of age. After his retirement he lived abroad.</p><p>He committed suicide in Morley's Hotel, London, England, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. No cause for the act was assigned.-New York Times, August 20, 1892.</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/11410">Annual Report, June 9, 1893, p. 47 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>