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First Lieutenant Charles Bare Gatewood (April 5, 1853 – May 20, 1896) was an American soldier born in Woodstock, Virginia. He was raised in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where his father ran a press. He served in the United States Army in the 6th Cavalry after graduating from West Point.
Even though Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, using mutual respect and negotiation—not bullets and bravado—potentially saved the lives of countless cavalrymen, settlers, Native Americans, and Mexicans by ensuring Geronimo’s surrender in 1886 after years of contentious and bloody Indian wars, he was continually overlooked for promotion and ...
Mar 2, 2024 · “Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood of the 6th Cavalry, is perhaps the most expert scout, trailer, and mountain man of his years on the frontier. Twelve years ago this officer was a young country lad in Virginia mountains.
Dec 31, 2019 · Before his famous 1886 assignment to track down Geronimo, Lieutenant Charles Gatewood served as military commandant and ‘judge’ at the White Mountain Apache Reservation. Lieutenant Charles Gatewood has forever been linked with the Chiricahua Apache war leader and medicine man Geronimo.
Charles B. Gatewood was born in Woodstock, Virginia, on 6 April 1853. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1877 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Cavalry. He...
Sep 28, 2018 · Among those officers was Lt. Charles B. Gatewood, hero of the Geronimo Campaign in Arizona during the 1880s. Gatewood was the man who went into Geronimo’s stronghold and convinced the Apache war chief to surrender.
First Lieutenant Charles Bare Gatewood (April 5, 1853 – May 20, 1896) was an American soldier born in Woodstock, Virginia. He was raised in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where his father ran a press. He served in the United States Army in the 6th Cavalry after graduating from West Point.
