Alfred Gibbs
22 April 1823 - 26 December 1868
Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Portsmouth, RI

from The New York Times, December 28, 1868

Brevet Major-Gen. ALFRED GIBBS, Major of
the Seventh United States Cavalry, died at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, on Saturday, aged 46 years.
Gen. GIBBS was born in the State, graduated at
West Point in 1846, and was at once appointed a Sec-
ond Lieutenant of Mounted Rifles. He was subse-
quently promoted Captain of the Second Cavalry.
During the war he was commissioned as Colonel of
one of the New-York Cavalry Regiments, and was
soon after made a Brigadier-General. For gallant
services in the Army of the Potomac he was bre-
vetted Major-General of Volunteers, and subsequent-
ly Major-General of the Army. At the close of the
war he was appointed Major of the Seventh Cavalry,
and served with his regiment up to the time of his
death.