Fayette Washington Roe Frances Roe CLASS OF 1871 Roe’s family came from upstate New York, though he was born in Virginia. When he graduated from West Point, he married another upstate New Yorker, Frances Mack. Roe’s first post took the couple west to Colorado, and over the next fifteen years, to Montana, Utah, and the Dakotas. Roe’s military career was an unremarkable series of clerical and administrative posts. He would have passed into obscurity had he not appeared as Frances’s beloved comrade “Faye” in her lively and perceptive account of frontier life, Army Letters from an Officer’s Wife (1909). Captivated by the beauty of western landscapes, Frances described in telling detail the scenes and events in their army communities. She carefully balanced tales of lively social life with attention to the harsh conditions and isolation that military families endured. NEXT Ranald Slidell Mackenzie George Armstrong Custer 1839–1876 Class of 1861 Fayette Washington Roe 1850–1916 Class of 1871 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie 1840–1889 Class of 1862 Henry Ossian Flipper 1856–1940 Class of 1877 George Crook 1829–1890 Class of 1852
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