Dabney Overton Carr (ca. 1807–30), soldier, was the son of TJ’s nephew Samuel Carr, of Albemarle County. He studied Italian at Monticello in 1823 before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point as a cadet. Expelled the following year for poor scholarship, Carr was readmitted in 1825 but resigned in 1827, traveled to South America to join Simon Bolívar’s army, became a lieutenant, and was mortally wounded in a battle outside Bogotá, Colombia (Virginia J. Randolph [Trist] to Nicholas P. Trist, 16 Jan. 1823 [DLC: NPT]; William Ward, List of Cadets admitted into the United States Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., from its origin till September 1, 1886 [1887], 18; Calhoun, Papers description begins Robert L. Meriwether, W. Edwin Hemphill, Clyde N. Wilson, and others, eds., The Papers of John C. Calhoun, 1959–2003, 28 vols. description ends , 7:239, 8:526; Clay, Papers description begins James F. Hopkins and others, eds., The Papers of Henry Clay, 1959–92, 11 vols. description ends , 6:366; Catharina V. R. Bonney, comp., Legacy of Historical Gleanings [1875], 2:18–9, 25–6, 32, 33; Baltimore Patriot & Mercantile Advertiser, 10 Dec. 1830).