. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . pany F, EighteenthInfantry, part of the Regular Brigade of the FourteenthArmy Corps, in the Atlanta campaign, and was in allthe actions participated in by his regiment from BuzzardsRoost to Jonesboro, and received the personal thanks ofthe detachment commander for gallant services in the lastbattle. He was mentioned in reports for services in theAtlanta campaign by the detachment commander as wellas by General Thomas. He was brevetted major 1864,for gallant services in Atlanta campaign and at the battleof Jonesboro. Major
. Officers of the army and navy (regular) who served in the Civil War . pany F, EighteenthInfantry, part of the Regular Brigade of the FourteenthArmy Corps, in the Atlanta campaign, and was in allthe actions participated in by his regiment from BuzzardsRoost to Jonesboro, and received the personal thanks ofthe detachment commander for gallant services in the lastbattle. He was mentioned in reports for services in theAtlanta campaign by the detachment commander as wellas by General Thomas. He was brevetted major 1864,for gallant services in Atlanta campaign and at the battleof Jonesboro. Major Burt marched, in [866, with hiscompany, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Bridger. In the fall of 1877, while in command of a detachmentof recruits en route to Fort McKinney, he was attackedby Indians under Red Cloud, at Crazy Womans Fork,and the Indians were beaten off. While in command of Fort C. F. Smith, Montana, in1868, he had two successful skirmishes with hostileIndians. From 1865 until 1878 Major Burt, in commandof his company, was nearly every year changing sta-. tions or on expeditions with .ill the difficulties of march-ing on the frontier in the hostile Indian days. He was on Stanleys Yellowstone I^xpeclition in 1873;with Colonel Dodges command as escort to the Jenneyexpedition to the Black Hills in 1875; General Crooksexpedition, 1876, and commanded a battalion of two com-panies in the attack by Indians on the command campedon Powder Ri\ er. At the battle of the Rosebud, General Crook havingordered the withdrawal of Colonel Royals battalion ofcavalry from a certain position on the field, the retreatbecame a rout under the Indianshand-to-hand Burt, with his company, and that of Major Bur-rows, was detailed to stop those Indians, which the twocompanies did, and the hard-pressed cavalry battalion wasrescued from a precarious position. At Slim Buttes,same campaign, Major Burt commanded a battalion inthe repulse of an Indian attack. In 1S77 Major Burt,with his
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