Leonard Wood-Arlington, VA
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Don.Morfe
N 38° 52.500 W 077° 04.482
18S E 320023 N 4304950
Indian Campaigns Medal of Honor Recipient for action during the Apache Campaign in the summer of 1886. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Section 21, Site S-10.
Waymark Code: WMYK3F
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 06/23/2018
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He was born on October 9, 1860 in Winchester, NH and died on August 7, 1927 in Boston, MA. He attained the rank of Major General in the U.S. Army. His Medal of Honor information and citation is: WOOD, LEONARD
• Rank and organization: Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army.
• Place and date: In Apache campaign, summer of 1886
• Entered service at: Massachusetts
• Date of issue: 8 April 1898
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.
Armed Service: Army
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