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Date of enlistment: 5 December 1872

Age given at enlistment: 21

Rank: Private

Company: M

Location on 25 June 1876: Valley fight



Henry Gordon had brown eyes, brown hair, a fair complexion, and was 5′ 6″ tall. He participated in the Yellowstone Campaign (1873) and the Black Hills Expedition (1874).

Was killed during the retreat from the valley fight, on the east side of the river, halfway up the bluffs.

Listed as HENRY GORDON on the battle monument.

A wayside sign near the Garryowen Post Office. An Alan Wellbelove photograph

Final Statement of  Henry Gordon [late a Private of Captain Thomas H. French's Company] signed by 2nd Lt. J. C. Gresham, Commanding Company, at Fort Rice, 3 December 1876.

    DUE SOLDIER
    For retained pay under act of May 15, 1872 … $25.26
    For clothing not drawn in kind … $78.12
    Proceeds of sale of effects [February 24, 1877] … $31.65
    DUE UNITED STATES
    For tobacco … $1.71
    The above statement does not take into account basic pay due for the period May 1 to June 25, 1876.

John C. Gresham (1851-1926) retired with the rank of colonel [10th Cavalry] in 1915.

John Chowning Gresham, appointed to the 7th Cavalry effective from 26 June 1876, was awarded the Medal of Honor for distinguished gallantry in voluntarily leading a party into a ravine to dislodge Indians concealed therein in action at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, 29 December 1890 while serving as a 1st Lieutenant in the 7th Cavalry. He was wounded during this action.