Enos D. Hopping

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|name= Enos D. Hopping

|birth_date= c. 1805

|death_date= {{death date|1847|09|1}}

|birth_place= New York City

|death_place= Mier, Mexico

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|allegiance= United States of America

|serviceyears= 1847

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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.

{{cite book |title=The Diary of James K. Polk During His Presidency, 1845 to 1849 |editor-last=Quaife |editor-first=Milo Milton |year=1910 |publisher=A. C. McClurg & Co. |location=Chicago, Illinois |pages=[https://archive.org/details/diaryjameskpolk00quaigoog/page/n416 402]–404|url=https://archive.org/details/diaryjameskpolk00quaigoog|accessdate=2009-03-04}}
{{cite book |title=Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War |last=Winders |first=Richard Bruce |year=2001 |publisher=Texas A&M University Press |location=College Station, Texas |isbn=1-58544-162-7|page=41}}