. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . June 1, 1861. Heserved during the war of the Rebellion, and was employedin scouting on the Spanish trail to New Mexico, andthen stationed at Fort Marcy, Albuquerque, and FortDefiance, when he participated in the Navajo campaign,and scouting the San Juan country and Chasco he was at Forts Craig and Union. He was en-gaged with Confederates at Los Perios. He pursuedthe hostile Texans down the Rio Grande to FortSumner. He was appointed military superintendent of NavajoIndians at Bosque Redondo Reservation, and was
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . June 1, 1861. Heserved during the war of the Rebellion, and was employedin scouting on the Spanish trail to New Mexico, andthen stationed at Fort Marcy, Albuquerque, and FortDefiance, when he participated in the Navajo campaign,and scouting the San Juan country and Chasco he was at Forts Craig and Union. He was en-gaged with Confederates at Los Perios. He pursuedthe hostile Texans down the Rio Grande to FortSumner. He was appointed military superintendent of NavajoIndians at Bosque Redondo Reservation, and was actingcommissary of subsistence and agent until 1866. Captain Bristol was brevetted March 13, 1S65, asmajor, for faithful and meritorious services in NewMexico; and lieutenant-colonel for faithful and meri-torious services in New Mexico, and particularly for hisuntiring zeal and energy in controlling the Navajo tribeof Indians at the Bosque Redondo Reservation, and forhis praiseworthy efforts in advancing their condition fromthat of savages to that of civilized In 1S66 Captain Bristol was detailed on recruiting ser-vice in New York harbor, anil Detroit, Michigan, in1867. He was then stationed at Bedloes Island, andwas employed in conducting recruits to San Francisco,and returned to Chicago on recruiting duty in [e was at Fort Reynolds, California, in 1869 ; Forts Har-ker, Larned, and Dodge to 1871, and then was employedalong the line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-way, west to the Colorado line, engaged in the Comanchecampaign. He was also engaged in the Sioux campaign,and at Fort Keogh, Montana, from 1877 to date of re-tirement, March 20, 1879. 56 OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY (.regular)
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