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Two days after the historic and tragic battle at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, fifty-three men of the Sixth Cavalry escorted a supply train to the regiment's camp at the site of the battle. As the train prepared to cross the partially frozen White River on the route of their march, they were engaged by a force of 300 Indians. Six men earned Medals of Honor in the engagement that followed. Second Lieutenant Robert Howze, in charge of a detachment, parked his horses and wagons and fortified his position quickly. He then calmly awaited the attack and, when the enemy approached within 600 yards, unleashed his defenses with such fury that the attacking Indians broke away and scattered in all directions.
Robert Howze graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1888. Years after his service in the Indian Campaigns, General Howze was presiding officer in the court martial of William "Billy" Mitchell.
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