August 16, 1870

Pompey Factor, the Arkansan son of a black Seminole chief, enlisted in the U.S. Army. He and other scouts were later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for saving a superior officer’s life at Eagle’s Nest Crossing during the Red River War between the United States and the Comanche and Kiowa.

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