BESSEY, CHARLES A.
Rank and Organization: Corporal, Company A, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place and
Date: Near Elkhorn Creek, Wyo., 13 January 1877. Birth: Reading, Mass. Date
of Issue: 15 May 1890. Corporal, Company A, 3d U.S. Cavalry. Place and
Date: Near Elkhorn Creek, Wyo., 13 January 1877. Birth: Reading, Mass. Date
of Issue: 15 May 1890.
Citation:
While scouting with 4 men and attacked in ambush by 14 hostile Indians, held his
ground, 2 of his men being wounded, and kept up the fight until himself wounded in the
side, and then went to the assistance of his wounded comrades.
