Indian Wars
Leonard Wood
Assistant Surgeon · U.S. Army
U.S. Army
In Apache campaign, summer of 1886. · Place not recorded
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- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Era
- Indian Wars
- Home state
- Massachusetts
- Action
- Leonard Wood, In Apache campaign, summer of 1886.
The citation
Official citation
Voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with hostile Indians, making a journey of 70 miles in one night and walking 30 miles the next day. Also for several weeks, while in close pursuit of Geronimo's band and constantly expecting an encounter, commanded a detachment of Infantry, which was then without an officer, and to the command of which he was assigned upon his own request.
Sources
- U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
- Wikipedia. Linked only. The article text is not copied here.