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 [decorative delimiter] Class of 1875

Vol. III
p247
2575

(Born Vt.)

Henry D. Huntington

(Ap'd Io.)

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Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, Sep. 1, 1871, to June 16, 1875, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

Second Lieut., 2d Cavalry, June 16, 1875.

Served: on frontier duty at Camp Stambaugh, Wy., Oct. 5 to Nov. 4, 1875, — Ft. Fred Steele, Wy., Nov. 10, 1875, to May 13, 1876 (leave of absence, Feb. 6 to Mar. 7, 1876), — on Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition, May 13 to Nov. 5, 1876, — Ft. Sanders, Wy., to Sep. 3, 1877 (leave of absence, Dec. 23, 1876, to Feb. 16, 1877), — Ft. Custer, Mon., Sep. 30, 1877, to July 30, 1878, — Scouting, to Sep. 19, 1878, — Ft. Custer, Mon., Sep. 19, 1878, to Apr. 19, 1879, — Ft. Ellis, Mon., to Dec. 7, 1881, — Ft.

(First Lieut., 2d Cavalry, Oct. 26, 1881)

Custer, Mon., and guarding construction parties on Northern Pacific Railroad, to July 26, 1883, — Ft. Assinniboine, Mt., to June 3, 1884, — and Ft. Bidwell, Cal., to Dec. 26, 1885; and in garrison at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to May 4, 1886.

Died, May 4, 1886, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.: Aged 36.

Portrait and obituary in Annual Report, Association of Graduates, for 1886.º


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