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Congressional Medal Fifty Years After Herron Valor
Leander Herron of Company A Third United States Infantry earned the Medal of Honor for a 1868 wagon train defense near Fort Dodge Kansas. Surviving with five others, Herron directed defense from a buffalo wallow as Indian forces outnumbered them, earning special pension and Washington recognition as one of Nebraska’s last frontier heroes.
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Leander Herron
Company A
Third
United States Infantry
Santa Fe Trail
Kansas
Congress
Herron
Corporal Herron
Great Plains
Buffalo Hil’ Cody
Bil’ Hickock
Kit Carson
Cody
Kansans
Pony Express
Fort Dodge
Fort Larned
Big Coon
Sol
Dodge
Paddy Boyle
Indiana
Jerron
Jiogle
AML Six
Doyle
Tfelieving Boyle
Goodman
O'Donald
Nolan
Verron
Boyle
Kentucky
Washington
Arlington
Eighty-third Pennsylvanian Infantry
Venango County
Fighty-third Pennsylvania
Fifty-fifth
New Hampshire
Young Herron
Kansas Plains
Carson
Feoxas
Military Department
Gorporal Herron
Army
Big Coon Creek
Hierron
Dearborn Independent