Everything about James Madison Dewolf totally explained
Dr. James Madison DeWolf (
January 14,
1843 –
June 25,
1876) was an acting assistant surgeon in the
U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment who was killed in the
Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Born in Mehoopany in
Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, DeWolf was a farmer prior to the
American Civil War. In August 1861, he enlisted in the
Union Army in the 1st Pennsylvania Artillery at the age of 17. He first saw combat at the
First Battle of Bull Run. He was promoted to
Corporal, but was severely wounded in the arm and discharged in October 1862. He re-enlisted in September 1864 in Battery A, 1st Pennsylvania Artillery, serving in that battery until his discharge on
June 14,
1865.
Following the war, he became an enlisted man in the
Regular Army's
14th U.S. Infantry and entered
Harvard Medical School, graduating in June 1875. He became a contract surgeon later that year with the 7th Cavalry at
Fort Abraham Lincoln in the
Dakota Territory.
In the spring of 1876, he was assigned to
Major (United States) Marcus Reno's
battalion. A letter to his wife is the only first-hand account of Reno's scouting expedition to the Black Hills. Dr. DeWolf was killed
June 25 during Reno's retreat from the wood to "Reno Hill". He and his orderly had made the difficult crossing of the buffalo ford and for some reason, were going up a side path in a
coulee. As DeWolf reached the top of the coulee, he was shot.
He was initially buried on the battlefield near where he fell, then moved to the National Cemetery. As an officer, Dr. DeWolf's remains were exhumed and returned to his family in 1877. He was reinterred in Woodlawn Cemetery in
Norwalk,
Ohio.
Evan S. Connell, in
Son of the Morning Star, stated that there's only one photograph known of him.
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