Word: geronimo
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...inactivity in Boston of the position of a young doctor struggling to get practice he soon decided to enter the army as surgeon, and in 1885 was sent to the Mexican border. There he served under General Miles and more immediately under Captain Lawton in the pursuit of Geronimo and his Apache band. Owing to the shortage of line officers, but more particularly to his desire for active service, he acted temporarily as a line officer, and for the highest courage in that disheartening and dangerous pursuit was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Later he was assigned to Washington...