17th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment 24th U.S. Infantry Regiment Fifth Army Corps Department of California
Battles/wars
List
American Civil War
Operations in Northern Virginia
Battle of Ball's Bluff
Peninsula campaign
Richmond–Petersburg campaign
Battle of Fair Oaks
Middle Tennessee Operations
Battle of Thompson's Station
Franklin–Nashville campaign
Battle of Nashville
American Indian Wars
Spanish–American War
Santiago Campaign
Battle of San Juan Hill
Battle of El Caney
Siege of Santiago
Awards
Medal of Honor
William Rufus Shafter (October 16, 1835 – November 12, 1906) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War who received America's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of Fair Oaks. Shafter also played a prominent part as a major general in the Spanish–American War. Fort Shafter, Hawaii, is named for him, as well as the city of Shafter, California and the ghost town of Shafter, Texas. He was nicknamed "Pecos Bill",[1]inspiration for the fictional character of the same name in tall tales.
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delays, the army, led by Major General WilliamRufusShafter, on June 22, landed near Santiago de Cuba. Shafter's army engaged the Spanish forces on July...
advance on the San Juan Hills, as had been requested of General WilliamRufusShafter.: 131 Nevertheless, American forces advanced on San Juan Hill the...
Cuba and was charged with scouting for the U.S. advance by General WilliamRufusShafter, overall commander of V Corps. He was ordered not to engage the...
mustered in for three-year service under the command of Colonel WilliamRufusShafter. The regiment was attached to Post of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Department...
sometimes at intervals of days or weeks. U.S. Army Major General WilliamRufusShafter was repeatedly sidelined with Cuban fever after he returned home...
command of the 2nd Division, Fifth Army Corps, serving under General WilliamRufusShafter. His unit was sent to Cuba, where it spearheaded the invasion of...
itself was one of three divisions in the V Corps under Major General WilliamRufusShafter. Roosevelt and his men landed in Daiquirí, Cuba, on June 23, 1898...
Queen of the Sea monument (1914), Corpus Christi, Texas Bust of WilliamRufusShafter, (1919), Galesburg, Michigan, Lawrence Sullivan Ross (1917–1919)...
Colonel WilliamRufusShafter assumed command at Fort Davis in March 1881. He had been the commander of the First Infantry Regiment at Fort Davis. Shafter had...
for departure from Major General WilliamRufusShafter. Under heavy prompting from Washington D.C., General Shafter gave the order to dispatch the troops...
fourth of six children born to WilliamRufusShafter and his wife Mary (née Lovell). His older brother, Oscar L. Shafter, served as an associate justice...
United States General WilliamRufusShafter laid siege to the city. Spain later surrendered to the United States after Admiral William T. Sampson destroyed...
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Rear Admiral William T. Sampson's North Atlantic Squadron in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba, the largest naval battle of the war. Shafter laid siege to...
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