On May 15 Sergeant Patrick J. Leonard and Privates Heath Canfield, Michael Himmelsbach, Thomas Hubbard, and George W. Thompson were sent to search for lost horses on Spring Creek. Near this spot on May 17 the five soldiers were attacked by about fifty Indians. After a two-hour skirmish in which Hubbard was wounded and the cavalrymen's horses killed, the Indians withdrew.
When a report of the skirmish reached Secretary of War William W. Belknap, he ordered Medals of Honor presented to Leonard, Canfield, Himmelsbach, Hubbard, and Thompson. More Medals of Honor were won in this brief engagement than in any other incident in Nebraska's military history.
HM Number | HM16N9 |
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Series | This marker is part of the Medal of Honor Recipients series, and the Nebraska: Nebraska State Historical Society series. |
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Marker Number | 330 |
Placed By | Nebraska State Historical Society |
Marker Condition | No reports yet |
Date Added | Friday, October 24th, 2014 at 9:30am PDT -07:00 |
UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 14T E 594342 N 4444672 |
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Decimal Degrees | 40.14710000, -97.89240000 |
Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 40° 8.826', W 97° 53.544' |
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 40° 8' 49.56" N, 97° 53' 32.64" W |
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Area Code(s) | 402 |
Closest Postal Address | At or near 175 Unnamed Road, Nelson NE 68961, US |
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