WOOD, LEONARD
Rank and organization: Assistant Surgeon, U.S. Army. Place
and date: In Apache campaign, summer of 1886. Entered service at:
Massachusetts. Birth: Winchester, N.H. Date of issue: 8 April
1898.
Citation:
Voluntarily carried dispatches through a region infested with
hostile Indians, making a journey of 70 miles in one night and walking 30 miles the next
day. Also for several weeks, while in close pursuit of Geronimo's band and constantly
expecting an encounter, commanded a detachment of Infantry, which was then without an
officer, and to the command of which he was assigned upon his own request.