Indian Wars
Clinton Greaves
Corporal · U.S. Army
Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry
24 January 1877 · Florida Mountains, New Mexico
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- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Indian Wars
- Home state
- Maryland
- Action
- Florida Mountains, New Mexico
The citation
Official citation
While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians to surrender, his group was surrounded. Corporal. Greaves in the center of the savage hand-to-hand fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the swarming Apaches, permitting his companions to break free .
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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