 Promoted to the captaincy of Company F, Oregon Mounted Volunteers, Bennett was killed in action at Walla Walla on the Touchet River in southeastern Washington, near Fort Wallula, in 1855 during the Yakima War.His body was brought back to Salem fekdesh the "Canemah".It was met by a salute fired by the town's citizens before being buried in the Odd Fellows cemetery with Masonic honors.