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Henry Rinaldo Porter
Henry Rinaldo Porter (February 13, 1848 – March 3, 1903) was a Surgeon in the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Early life Porter was born in Lee Center, New York. He graduated Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1872 and interned for three months at Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, DC. Military career He signed on in 1872 as an army contract surgeon for duty in the Arizona Territory under General George Crook where he was cited for bravery. In 1873, he was assigned as a contract Surgeon with the army at Camp Hancock in Bismarck, Dakota Territory. In 1876 he joined Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer who assigned Dr. Porter to Frederick Benteen's battalion during the march to the Little Bighorn River from May to June 1876 and to Major Reno's at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Porter was the only one of the 7th Cavalry's three surgeons available to the survivors on Reno Hill for the two days they were besieged. (Dr. George Edwin Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rinaldo Porter
Henry Rinaldo Porter (February 13, 1848 – March 3, 1903) was a Surgeon in the 7th U.S. Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Early life Porter was born in Lee Center, New York. He graduated Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1872 and interned for three months at Columbia Hospital for Women, Washington, DC. Military career He signed on in 1872 as an army contract surgeon for duty in the Arizona Territory under General George Crook where he was cited for bravery. In 1873, he was assigned as a contract Surgeon with the army at Camp Hancock in Bismarck, Dakota Territory. In 1876 he joined Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer who assigned Dr. Porter to Frederick Benteen's battalion during the march to the Little Bighorn River from May to June 1876 and to Major Reno's at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Porter was the only one of the 7th Cavalry's three surgeons available to the survivors on Reno Hill for the two days they were besieged. (Dr. George Edwin Lord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Little Bighorn
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the Lakota people, Lakota and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and also commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand, was an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of U.S. forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876. It took place on June 25–26, 1876, along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. Most battles in the Great Sioux War, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn (14 on the map to the right), "were on lands those Indians had taken from other tribes since 1851". The Lakotas were there without consent from the local Crow tribe, which had treaty on the area. Already in 1873, Crow chief Blackfoot had called for U.S. military actions against the Indian intruders. The stead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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