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Montana Veterans Remember Rough Riders and Captain Tilly
The article recalls Lt. Brad Shaw and Montana’s Rough Rider company under fire from morning to afternoon with several insurgents killed. It highlights Captain George H. Tilly of Helena, his perilous dispatches and ultimate murder near Escalante. It also recounts Delos D. Babcock’s wounding, Tilly’s career, and Montana’s role in providing troops to the Third Cavalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradshaw
Montana
George H. Tilly
United States Volunteer Signal Corps
Tilly
Helena
Western Union
San Francisco
Philippine Islands
Signal Corps
S. S. Pennsylvania
Philippines
Montana Regiment
E. S. French
Captain Tilly
Iloilo
Escalante
Presbyterian Church
Jamaica
Long Island
George E. Tilly
Delos D. Babcock
Caloocan
United States Cavalry Volunteers
Charles F. Loyd
Grigsby
Rough Riders
Butte
Missoula
Miles City
Billings
Chickamauga Park
Chickamauga
Troop A
Charles S. Conners
Division
Clarence S. Langley
William S. Sweet
Miles K. Diamond
Wilbur L. Boyce