Enos D. Hopping | |
Birth Date: | c. 1805 |
Birth Place: | New York City |
Death Place: | Mier, Mexico |
Placeofburial Label: | Place of Burial |
Allegiance: | United States of America |
Branch: | United States Army |
Serviceyears: | 1847 |
Rank: | Brigadier General |
Battles: | Mexican–American War |
Enos D. Hopping (c. 1805 – September 1, 1847) was a brigadier general in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War.
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.