President Roosevelt and 24 other officers. He would serve as the assistant to the Department Quartermaster of the Western Department at San Francisco, California until September 25, 1917, when he was made a professor of Military Studies and Tactics at Princeton University on March 25, 1918, succeeding Brigadier General Stuart Heintzelman. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on May 23, 1918, until his final retirement on July 9, 1918. In the Christmas of 1920 at Medford, Sargent was involved in a prank where the Mail Tribune described the incident: Sargent would die on September 16, 1921, and would be buried at the Jacksonville Cemetery. Career as an Author Sargent's other career was working as a non-fiction author on military history events. His first two notable works were about Napoleon Bonaparte's early career and the Battle of Marengo titled Napoleon Bonaparte's First Campaign (1894) and The Campaign of Marengo (1897) respectively. He also wrote about the Spanish-American War, publishing three volumes in a series titled The Campaign of Santiago de Cuba which earned personal compliments from fellow veteran and president Theodore Roosevelt. References 1858 births 1921 deaths People from Carlinville, Illinois People from Medford, Oregon People from Jacksonville, Oregon American military personnel of the Spanish–American War American military personnel of the Philippine–American War United States Army colonels University of Illinois faculty Texas A&M University faculty Princeton University faculty United States Military Academy alumni 19th-century American historians