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Joel Haworth Elliott (October 27, 1840 – November 27, 1868) was a Union major during and after the Civil War. Joining as a private in August 1861, with Company C, 2nd Indiana Cavalry Regiment. He saw action at the Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Perryville, Battle of Stones River, and was wounded twice.
The Battle of the Washita River (also called Battle of the Washita or the Washita Massacre [4]) occurred on November 27, 1868, when Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked Black Kettle's Southern Cheyenne camp on the Washita River (the present-day Washita Battlefield National Historic Site near Cheyenne, Oklahoma).
Trails lead from the parking area on 47A through the park. The visitor center features exhibits about the battle, the soldiers and the Cheyenne, as well as a film and a bookstore. The area that the historic site encompasses is part of a 315.2-acre memorial [4] associated with the 1868 Battle of Washita River. Landscape areas mainly to the east ...
Fort Elliott was a United States Army post in the Texas Panhandle, operational between 1875 and 1890 and named for Major Joel H. Elliott, a casualty of the Battle of Washita River in 1868. [ 2 ] : 6
Washington Lafayette Elliott (March 31, 1825 – June 29, 1888) was a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He led a division of IV Corps at the Battle of Nashville in 1864. In 1866, he was awarded the honorary grade of brevet major general, U.S. Army.
William Wilkerson Morris (born about 1843) was an American soldier who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions from September 9 to 11, 1874, during the Battle of the Upper Washita River in the Red River War, a part of the American Indian Wars.
English: The Battle of Washita, the attack on Black Kettle's Cheyenne camp, Washita river, Indian territory, by the seventh Regiment Cavalry under Major-General George A. Custer, Nov. 27th 1868.- See page 235.
He participated in 1868 Washita Campaign, and was present at the Washita Massacre, in present-day Oklahoma, on November 27, 1868. Moylan was then again promoted to the rank of captain in March 1872, and the same year married Charlotte "Lottie" Calhoun on October 22, 1872, at Madison, Indiana; they had no children.