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Assistant Surgeon Leonard Wood voluntarily carried important messages through the Arizona territory region during the Apache Campaigns during the summer of 1886. He was recognized for making a journey of 70 miles in one night, and for walking 30 miles the following day, in order to accomplish his mission. While in pursuit of Geronimo and his warring band of Indians, he encountered an Infantry detachment that was without an officer. He requested and received permission to command that unit, and did so, throughout the summer campaign. He served as a member of the expedition that conducted the army's final campaign against the legendary American Indian fighter Geronimo.
During the Spanish-American War Leonard Wood joined with Theodore Roosevelt to raise and train the 1st U.S. Volunteers, better known as the "Rough Riders".
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