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Sergeant · U.S. Army

Frederick Jarvis

Sergeant Frederick Jarvis, Army, received the Medal of Honor for actions on October 20, 1869 in Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory during the Indian Campaigns.

Indian Campaigns October 20, 1869

Sergeant Frederick Jarvis, a soldier in the U.S. Army, received the Medal of Honor for gallantry on October 20, 1869 in Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory during the Indian Campaigns. At the time he was serving with Company G, 1st U.S. Cavalry. Jarvis was about 28 years old.

32 other service members also received the Medal of Honor for actions on the same day. The medal was presented on December 20, 1869.

Jarvis was born in 1841 in Essex County, New York. His Medal of Honor is credited to Hudson, Lenawee County, Michigan. Jarvis died on April 8, 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the age of about 53. He is buried at City Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Jarvis is one of 426 Medal of Honor recipients from the Indian Campaigns and one of 112 credited to Michigan.

Official Medal of Honor citation

Gallantry in action.

Citation text: U.S. Government, public domain.

Battles and campaigns

Also served in: American Indian Wars, Apache Wars.

Places

  • Born: Essex County — map
  • Died: Salt Lake City — map
  • Buried: Salt Lake City Cemetery — map

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Timeline

  1. 1841
    Born in Essex County, New York
  2. October 20, 1869
    Act of valor — Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory
    Age about 28. Company G, 1st U.S. Cavalry
  3. December 20, 1869
    Medal of Honor presented
  4. April 8, 1894
    Died in Salt Lake City, Utah
    Age about 53.
  5. Resting place
    City Cemetery
    Salt Lake City, Utah

Biography

Sergeant Frederick Jarvis (1841 – April 8, 1894) was an American soldier in the United States Army who served with the 1st U.S. Cavalry regiment during the Apache Wars. He was one of thirty-two men received the Medal of Honor for gallantry fighting Cochise and the Apache Indians in the Chiricahua Mountains of Arizona, known as the "Campaign of the Rocky Mesa", on October 20, 1869.

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Also honored for actions on October 20, 1869

JC John Carr Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 CD Charles H. Dickens Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 JD John L. Donahue Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 EE Edwin L. Elwood Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 JG John Georgian Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 MH Mosher A. Harding Blacksmith · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 BK Bartholomew T. Keenan Trumpeter · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 CK Charles Kelley Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 NM Nicholas Meaher Corporal · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 EM Edward Murphy Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 FO Francis Oliver First Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869 EP Edward Pengally Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869

See all 33 recipients for October 20, 1869 →

More Indian Campaigns recipients from Michigan

Frank Dwight Baldwin First Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1874 HJ Henry Johnson Sergeant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1879 WL William Leonard Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1877 Henry Romeyn First Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1877 WW Wilber Elliott Wilder First Lieutenant · Army Indian Campaigns · 1882 JW John Walker Private · Army Indian Campaigns · 1869
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