<p style="text-align:center"><strong>CHARLES B. GATEWOOD</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>No. 2663 · Class of 1877</strong></p><p style="text-align:center"><strong>Died May 20, 1896, at Fort Monroe, Va., aged 43 years.</strong></p><p>Lieutenant GATEWOOD was born in Woodstock, Va., April 6, 1853. He was graduated from the Military Academy in 1877, and commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Cavalry. He was promoted First Lieutenant January 3, 1885. His first nine years of service were spent in Arizona and New Mexico; the larger part of this time he was in command of Indian scouts, and in addition, was for several years in charge of the turbulent White Mountain Apache Indians, with whom he was always just and firm. The following is a recapitulation of some of the most important engagements with hostile Indians, in which he took part:</p><p>Black Range, N.M., November 1879, Victorio's band, two engagements; near Guzman Lake, Mexico, December 1879, Victorio's band, several engagements; Jembrillo Canon, N.M., April 1880, Victorio's band; near Tularosa, N.M., April 1880, Mescalero Apaches; headwaters Babispe River, Mexico, May 1883, Chato and Bonito's band. He was also in several minor engagements. He was commended in orders, for bravery in the engagements near Guzman Lake, by Colonel Morrow, who commanded.</p><p>He was with General Crook, during his campaign in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Mexico, in 1883, which resulted in the surrender of all the renegade Chiricahua Apaches. He was mentioned in General Orders No. 39, A. G. O., April 9, 1891, "as having distinguished himself by specially meritorious acts, in service during 1886, while commanding Indian Scouts; for bravery in boldly and alone riding into Geronimo's Camp of hostile Apache Indians and demanding their surrender, August 24, 1886." They did surrender to General Miles a few days after, Gatewood remaining with them until the surrender was accomplished.</p><p>Again mentioned in General Order No. 44, A. G. O., April 30, 1891,</p><blockquote><p>"as having distinguished himself by specially meritorious acts during the year 1883; for courage, ability, and devotion to duty, in a laborious march, followed by the surprise of a camp of hostile Apache Indians, under Chato and Bonito, the defeat of the Indians, the destruction of their camp, the rescue of five captives, and the recovery of a large amount of stolen property; this near the headwaters of the Babispe River, in the Sierra Madre Mountains, Sonora, Mexico, May 15, 1883."</p></blockquote><p>He was on duty as Aide-de-Camp to General Miles, commanding the Department of Arizona, from October 10, 1886, to September 14, 1890.</p><p>On May 18, 1892, while serving with his troop, he was seriously injured by a premature explosion of dynamite, while underneath a burning barrack at Fort McKinney, Wyoming, which he was endeavoring to blow up in order to save adjoining buildings. He was on sick leave after November 19, 1892, awaiting promotion and retirement.</p><p>His life was simple and unassuming. He suffered many hardships, but his kind heart, genial humor and gentle manners always gave evidence that nature had created him a true gentleman. His work was done in a comparatively limited field, and was unknown to and therefore unappreciated by the vast majority of our people; but to us who knew him and his deeds so well, it seems hard that he should have received no just reward for his services. His name is still on the lips of the people of Arizona and New Mexico, and will not soon be forgotten by his comrades in Indian campaigns.</p><p>He married Miss Georgia McCulloh, of Frostburg, Md., in the summer of 1881, and she and two children survive him.</p><p>A. P. BLOCKSOM, Class of 1877.</p><p style="text-align:right">� A. P. Blocksom, Class of 1877</p><p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://usmalibrary.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/aogreunion/id/12003">Annual Report, June 11, 1896, pp. 169�171 · U.S. Military Academy Library</a></p>