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U.S. Army

William Russell Parnell

ConflictIndian Campaigns

RankColonel

Year of Action1877

Unit/Command1st U.S. Cavalry

Citation

With a few men, in the face of a heavy fire from pursuing Indians and at imminent peril, returned and rescued a soldier whose horse had been killed and who had been left behind in the retreat.

Branch: U.S. Army Conflict: Indian Campaigns Year of Action: 1877

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Ernest VeuveU.S. ArmyConflict: Indian Campaigns

William Thomas SimmonsU.S. ArmyConflict: Civil War

Reuben SmalleyU.S. ArmyConflict: Civil War

Allen ThompsonU.S. ArmyConflict: Civil War

Frank TolanU.S. ArmyConflict: Indian Campaigns

Michael ValenteU.S. ArmyConflict: World War I

Henry W. WheelerU.S. ArmyConflict: Civil War

James B. ThompsonU.S. ArmyConflict: Civil War

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