 After the war he continued his service in New York, Michigan, Kentucky and California.In 1852 Tripler was part of an expedition tasked with traveling down the east coast from New York to Panama where they would march across the country to the west coast and sail back.During the march through Panama, the unit's soldiers began to have an outbreak of cholera, malaria, diarrhoea, and dysentery which enlightened Tripler to the inadequate medical procedures in place by the Army.