Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

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Wilbur Elliott Wilder was in the West Point class of 1877 and joined the 4 th Cavalry in Arizona
shortly after graduation. He earned a Medal of Honor as a first lieutenant on 23 april 1882 at
Horseshoe Canyon, New Mexico, for helping to rescue a wounded soldier under heavy fire. He
would eventually command the 5 th Cavalry as a colonel in 1911 and was second in command to
Pershing during the 1916 Punitive Expedition. He served in World War I as a brigadier general
and retired in 1920. He died in 1952 on Governors Island, NY, at the age of 95.
Voices from the Canyon: Lieutenant Mills Writes His
Mother
In April 1880 Stephen C. Mills and his Company D of Indian Scouts were assigned to
Camp Huachuca. Mills was a young Second Lieutenant of the 12th Infantry but he had already
seen some action in the Southwest. He would be brevetted a First Lieutenant for his gallant
service against Victorio’s Warm Springs Apaches in the San Andreas Mountains of New Mexico
HUACHUCA ILLUSTRATED