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By Shane Dunning www.redshalereflections.com The citation reads: The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pleasure in presenting the Medal of Honor to Sergeant Thaddeus Brown Glover, United States Army, for extraordinary heroism on 10 April 1879 and 10 February 1880, while serving with Troop B, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, in action at Mitzpah [sp.] and Pumpkin Creek, Montana. While in charge of small scouting parties, Sergeant Glover fought, charged, surrounded, and ca...
On the early winter morning of January 16, 1927, Charley Flory got on his horse and left his homestead on Anderson Creek near Decker in Southeastern Big Horn County, Montana. He was headed to the house of his father-in-law, E.T. Ostrum, who coincidently also went by the name "Charley." The sixty-five-year-old Ostrum worked as a ditch-digger and was an immigrant from Sweden. The 35-mile trip at a horse-friendly pace would take two days during cold winter weather with at least one river crossing....
