<p style="text-align:center"><strong>CALEB C. SIBLEY</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 568 · Class of 1829</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died February 19, 1875, at Chicago, Ill., aged 69 years.</strong></p><p>Brevet Brigadier-General Caleb C. Sibley, who died at Chicago, Illinois, on the 19th of February 1875, at the age of sixty-nine years, graduated at the West Point Military Academy in 1829, was assigned to the 5th Infantry, as Brevet Second Lieutenant, and joined his Company at Mackinac, on the expiration of his graduation furlough.</p><p>After this he continued on duty with the regiment for thirty years, during which he served at the then remote border posts of Forts Howard, Winnebago, Crawford, Snelling, Gibson and Smith, and at Forts Belknap, McIntosh, San Antonio, Ringold Barracks and Phantom Hill, in Texas. He also performed much arduous field service in Utah, New Mexico, Florida and California, taking part in the Seminole and Mexican wars, as well as in the late war. Indeed, his active service was almost continuous for forty years, when protracted exposure and toil finally undermined his eminently vigorous constitution, and compelled him to go upon the retired list.</p><p>General Sibley was a native of Massachusetts, descended from a family which numbered among its ancestors several Revolutionary sires, who were conspicuous for staunch adhesion to the cause they espoused, and for their sterling integrity of character.</p><p>Judge Sibley, an uncle of the General, and the father of Governor Sibley, of Minnesota, was among the earliest pioneer settlers of Detroit, and contributed greatly towards building up that city and developing the resources of Michigan. He was a contemporary and intimate friend of General Lewis Cass.</p><p>During twenty-six years that I served with General Sibley, our social relations were invariably of the most intimate character, and it is but a tribute of justice to his memory to say; that I never knew him to swerve in the slightest degree from those high-toned principles of honor which characterize the gentleman.</p><p>He was a conscientious, zealous and efficient officer, a rigid disciplinarian, but at the same time indulgent and kind to those whose conduct merited it, and he was especially conspicuous for providing for the comfort and welfare of his men.</p><p>In his intercourse with his brother officers he was unassuming, affable and compromising, and I doubt if he ever had an enemy�indeed, I have rarely ever known an officer who was so universally respected and esteemed, by both officers and soldiers, as General Sibley.</p><p>In a word, he was a genial companion, a steadfast friend, a kind and affectionate husband and father, and his memory will ever be cherished with sincere respect by all who knew him.</p><p style="text-align:right">� Brevet Major-General R. B. Marcy</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/9414">Annual Report, June 17, 1875, pp. 71�72 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>