of the Smithsonian Institution and a member of the Lighthouse Board. He died in Washington, D.C., on November 5, 1873. The Secretary of War ordered that 13 guns be fired in his memory at West Point. He is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York. Family Delafield's first wife Helen Summers, whom he married in 1824, passed away after four months into the marriage. In 1833 he married Harriet Baldwin Covington (1811–1894) with whom he had eight children, among them: Henry Baldwin Delafield (1834–1847) Susan Parish Delafield (1836–1896) Juliet Covington Delafield (1837–1925) Emma Delafield (1840–1938) Laura Delafield (1843–1886) Albert Delafield (1846–1920), who married Julia Floyd (1846–1929), granddaughter of U.S. Representative William Floyd See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) References This article contains public domain text from External links Civil War Defenses of Washington, Historic Resource Study, by the U.S. National Park Service, Part 1, Chapter 5 Civil War Defenses of Washington, Historic Resource Study, by the U.S. National Park Service, Part 2, Chapter 1 “ Ridiculous failure” - George McClellan and the Delafield Commission America's Civil War Comes to West Point Engineers In The Civil War Transportation Of The Wounded In The Civil War 1798 births 1873 deaths People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery Cornell family Union Army generals Superintendents of the United States Military Academy United States Military Academy alumni Military personnel from New York City Delafield family