. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ts Stockton, McKavett, and Concho, Texas,to August 23, 1874, when he was appointed engineer-officer of the second column of the Indian Territory ex-pedition, remaining as such to November 27, 1874, andon temporary duty at Head-quarters Department ofTexas to February 1, 1875. After serving in Texas and Colorado to April 3, 1877,at Forts Clark and Garland, and having in the mean timebeen promoted first lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry, Jan-uary 27, 1876, he was placed in charge of the expeditionto preserve order among Souther
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . ts Stockton, McKavett, and Concho, Texas,to August 23, 1874, when he was appointed engineer-officer of the second column of the Indian Territory ex-pedition, remaining as such to November 27, 1874, andon temporary duty at Head-quarters Department ofTexas to February 1, 1875. After serving in Texas and Colorado to April 3, 1877,at Forts Clark and Garland, and having in the mean timebeen promoted first lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry, Jan-uary 27, 1876, he was placed in charge of the expeditionto preserve order among Southern Utes at Parrott City,Colorado, to November, 1876, and at Los Pinos Agency,Uncompagre Utes, for a similar purpose from April 3 toJune 16, 1877. Lieutenant Conline was then stationed at Fort Bayard,New Mexico, to October 10, 1877, when he was granteda sick-leave of absence to August 20, 1S78, and was thenstationed successively at Fort Selden, Ojo Caliente, andFort Union, New Mexico, performing various staff dutiesat each. Being transferred to Troop A, Ninth Cavalry,3. July 2^,, 1879, he was placed in command of it at FortStanton, and was in the field on Indian expeditions twohundred and seventy days in one year. He also com-manded A and G Troops on scouting expeditions duringpart of 1880, and, with Company C, Fifteenth Infantryadded to his command, he had charge of three hundredand eighty-four Indians at South Fork, New Mexico, in1880. The lieutenant was in an engagement with hostileIndians in Alamo Canon, Sacramento Mountains, NewMexico, Sunday, February 2S, 1880; he captured andburned their camp, all equipage and provisions, andcaptured all their stock,—twenty-one horses and was also in the engagement with Victorios band ofhostile Indians, in Mimbrillo Canon, San Andreas Moun-tains, on the afternoon of April 5, 1880, which lasted twohours, the Indians being defeated. After the campaignwas ended he went on sick-leave of absence, May 1, 1881,by authority of the Secre
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