For the Irish politician, see Myles Keogh (Irish politician).
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Myles Walter Keogh
Keogh c. 1875, by David Francis Barry
Born
(1840-03-25)25 March 1840 Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland
Died
25 June 1876(1876-06-25) (aged 36) Little Bighorn River, Montana, US
Buried
Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York
Allegiance
Papal States United States of America
Service/branch
Papal Army United States Army
Years of service
1860–1862 (Papal States) 1862–1876 (USA)
Rank
Captain Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
Unit
Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac
Commands held
Company I, 7th U.S. Cavalry
Battles/wars
Expedition of the Thousand
Battle of Castelfidardo
American Civil War
Battle of Port Republic
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Stoneman's 1863 Raid
Gettysburg Campaign
Battle of Brandy Station
Battle of Upperville
Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Funkstown
Battle of Williamsport
Bristoe Campaign
Atlanta Campaign
Battle of Dallas
Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
Battle of Sunshine Church (POW)
Indian Wars
Battle of the Little Bighorn †
Awards
Pro Petri Sede Medal Knight's Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great
Myles Walter Keogh (25 March 1840 – 25 June 1876) was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification in 1860, and was recruited into the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a cavalry officer, particularly under Brig. Gen. John Buford during the Gettysburg Campaign and the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, Keogh remained in the regular United States Army as commander of I Troop of the 7th Cavalry Regiment under George Armstrong Custer during the Indian Wars, until he was killed along with Custer and all five of the companies directly under Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
Myles Walter Keogh (25 March 1840 – 25 June 1876) was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification...
When relocated one mile west in 1878, it was renamed Fort Keogh in honor of Captain MylesKeogh, who was killed at the Little Bighorn. In 1877, the fort...
evidently died in several groups, including on Custer Hill, around Captain MylesKeogh, and strung out towards the Little Bighorn River. According to Indian...
attended by his aide, future Battle of the Little Big Horn officer, Captain MylesKeogh, and by Edward, his black servant. Also present were Lieutenant Colonel...
Briscoe (FF) MylesKeogh (CnaG) Frank Kerlin (FF) 7th 1932 James Lynch (FF) 8th 1933 James McGuire (CnaG) Thomas Kelly (FF) 9th 1937 MylesKeogh (FG) Thomas...
Briscoe (FF) MylesKeogh (CnaG) Frank Kerlin (FF) 7th 1932 James Lynch (FF) 8th 1933 James McGuire (CnaG) Thomas Kelly (FF) 9th 1937 MylesKeogh (FG) Thomas...
1922 Thomas Kelly (PT-SF) Daniel McCarthy (PT-SF) William O'Brien (Lab) MylesKeogh (Ind) 4th 1923 Philip Cosgrave (CnaG) Daniel McCarthy (CnaG) Constance...
Custer himself in The Great Sioux Massacre (1965) and played Captain MylesKeogh at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in Walt Disney's Tonka in 1959....
Bacon Custer Thomas Custer Boston Custer Marcus Reno Frederick Benteen MylesKeogh James Calhoun Henry Armstrong Reed John Gibbon George Yates James Butler...
Reily, F Company 1st Lt. Donald McIntosh, G Company Commander Capt. MylesKeogh I Company Commander 1st Lt. James Porter, I Company 1st Lt. James Calhoun...
Custer, American officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1845) 1876 – MylesKeogh, Irish-American officer (b. 1840) 1882 – François Jouffroy, French sculptor...
infamous Andersonville Prison. In the course of the raid he and his aide, MylesKeogh were captured by Confederates outside of Macon, Georgia. However, the...
7th Cavalry guidon from Company I, the bloody gauntlets of slain Capt. MylesKeogh, government-issued guns and ammunition, and other related items. On September...
and leaders Enrico Cialdini Louis de Lamoricière Georges de Pimodan † MylesKeogh Strength 4,880 mobilized 6,550 mobilized Casualties and losses 62 killed...
overtook Custer's adjutant, Lieutenant William W. Cooke and Captain MylesKeogh, another officer from Custer's column who had accompanied Reno as far...
the engagement was a non-combatant. A nurse, Margaret Keogh, grand-niece of Captain MylesKeogh, responded to the sound of shots. As Keough attempted...
Global Information
Papal States
United States of America
Papal Army
United States Army
Captain
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel