Apache Campaigns - Fort Huachuca - U.S. Army

Eugena Asa Carr graduated from West Point in 1850, serving with the Mounted Rifles in
Kansas, the Indian Territory and Texas. He was wounded in an 1854 battle with Mescalero
Apaches. During the Civil War he became a colonel of the 3d Illinois Cavalry and a brigadier
general of volunteers. He received the Medal of Honor for his bravery at Pea Ridge, Arkansas,
on 7 March 1862. After the war he became a major in the 5 th Cavalry, campaigning against
Cheyennes and Sioux. As a colonel he commanded the 6 th Cavalry and joined them at Camp
Lowell, Arizona, in April 1879. He was often in the field after Victorio and in July 1881 he led
two cavalry troops to arrest the medicine man Noch-ay-del-klinne at Cibicu, resulting in a
desperate fight and withdrawal to Fort Apache. He served at the Pine Ridge campaign in
South Dakota and got in on the figthting at Wounded Knee. He was promoted to brigadier
general in 1892 and retired in 1893. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1910. Carr Peak in the
Huachuca Mountains is named for him.
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