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Indian Wars Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients
Gallery of U. S. Military Participants

Brigadier General Oliver Otis Howard, Commander, Department of the Columbia
Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, D. C.

Colonel John Gibbon, Seventh Infantry
Western History Department, Denver Public Library

Colonel Nelson A. Miles Fifth Infantry
Stanley Morrow, photographer; courtesy Brian C. Pohanka

Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, Seventh Cavalry, ca. 1864
Western History Department, Denver Public Library

Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Gilbert, Seventh Infantry
Special Collections, U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.

Surgeon (Major)
Henry R. Tilton
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.

Major Henry Clay Wood, Assistant Adjutant General, Department of the Columbia
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War

Captain Lawrence S. Babbitt, Ordnance Department, Department of the Columbia
Companions of the Military Order

Captain Frederick W. Benteen, Company H, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.

Captain Stephen P. Jocelyn, Company B, Twenty-first Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War

Captain Edward S. Godfrey, Company D, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.

Captain Owen Hale, Company K, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.

Captain Evan Miles, Twenty-first Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War

Captain Myles Moylan, Company A, Seventh Cavalry
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Crow Agency, Mont.

Captain David Perry, First Cavalry
Nez Perce National Historical Park, Spalding, Idaho

Captain Darius Bullock Randall, Idaho volunteer
Courtesy Ruby Rylaarsdam

Captain Simon Snyder, Company F, Fifth Infantry
Miles, Personal Recollections

First Lieutenant and Adjutant George W. Baird, Fifth Infantry
Miles, Personal Recollections

First Lieutenant Henry M. Benson, Seventh Infantry
Hunt, "Battle of Big Hole"

First Lieutenant Mason Carter, Company I, Fifth Infantry
Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

First Lieutenant William R. Parnell, Company H, First Cavalry
Courtesy Brad Dahlquist

First Lieutenant Henry Romeyn, Company G, Fifth Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War

Second Lieutenant Jonathan Williams Biddle, Company K, Seventh Cavalry
Special Collections, University of Oregon Library, Eugene

Second Lieutenant Lovell H. Jerome, Company H, Second Cavalry
Montana Historical Society, Helena

Second Lieutenant Oscar F. Long, Fifth Infantry
The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

Second Lieutenant Sevier McClellan Rains, Company L, First Cavalry, in 1876
Special Collections, U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.

Second Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood, Twenty-first Infantry
Special Collections, U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, N.Y.

Second Lieutenant Charles A. Woodruff, Seventh Infantry
Officers . . . Who Served in the Civil War

Corporal Roman D. Lee, Company H, First Cavalry, first army fatality in the Nez Perce War
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Stanton G. Fisher, civilian scout for General Howard
Brady, Northwestern Fights and Fighters

Hump, Minneconjou Lakota scout for Miles's command, photographed in the 1890s
R. L. Kelly, photographer; South Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre

Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly, scout for Miles's command
Western History Department, Denver Public Library

Young Two Moon, Northern Cheyenne scout for Miles's command
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

NEZ PERCE SUMMER, 1877
The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
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