GREAVES, CLINTON
Rank and Organization: Corporal, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and
Date: At Florida Mountains, N. Mex., 24 January 1877. Entered Service At:
Prince Georges County, Md. Birth: Madison County, Va. Date of Issue: 26 June
1879. Corporal, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry. Place and
Date: At Florida Mountains, N. Mex., 24 January 1877. Entered Service At:
Prince Georges County, Md. Birth: Madison County, Va. Date of Issue: 26 June
1879.
Citation:
While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians to
surrender, his group was surrounded. Cpl. Greaves in the center of the savage hand-to-hand
fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the swarming Apaches, permitting his
companions to break free .
