Saturday, April 25, 2020

Black Seminole scouts rescue commander from Comanches

Pompey Factor

(Texas Day by Day) On this day in 1875, three Black Seminole scouts earned the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action. Pompey Factor, Isaac Payne, and John Ward, along with their commander, Lt. John Lapham Bullis of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry, were pursuing a band of twenty-five or thirty Comanche Indians near Langtry. Continued

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