Enos D. Hopping

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Enos D. Hopping (c. 1805 – September 1, 1847) was a brigadier general in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War.

Biography

He was born in about 1805 to Jehiel Hopping and Harriet Mead. A personal and political friend of Secretary of War William L. Marcy, Hopping was appointed a brigadier general in the Regular Army by President James K. Polk on March 3, 1847. He was commanding a camp of instruction in northern Mexico when he died on September 1, 1847.

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