 He willed his Tivoli manor "Rose Hill" to a local Children's Home.He was the author of "Life of Field Marshal Torstenson" (1855), "The Dutch at the North Pole" (1857), "Caurausius, the Dutch Augustus" (1858), "Life of Baron Cohorn" (1860), "The Decisive Conflicts of the Late Civil War, or Slaveholder's Rebellion" (1867), "Personal and Military History of General Philip Kearny" (1869), "The Life and Misfortunes and the Military Career of Brig.-Gen. Sir John Johnson" (1882), and "Gypsies