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Indian Wars
Hampton M. Roach
Corporal · U.S. Army
Company F, 5th U.S. Cavalry
At Milk River, Colo., 29 September to 5 Qctober 1879. · Place not recorded
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Indian Wars
- Home state
- Louisiana
- Action
- Hampton M. Roach, At Milk River, Colo., 29 September to 5 Qctober 1879.
The citation
Official citation
Erected breastworks under fire; also kept the command supplied with water 3 consecutive nights while exposed to fire from ambushed Indians at close range.