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First Lieutenant Charles Bare Gatewood (April 5, 1853 – May 20, 1896) was an American soldier / officer born in Woodstock, Virginia. He was raised in nearby Harrisonburg, Virginia , where his father ran a printing press.
Miles dispatched Captain Henry W. Lawton and Lt. Charles B. Gatewood to track down and capture the remaining Apaches in Mexico. On August 24, 1886, they caught up with Geronimo, and Gatewood informed Geronimo about the impending relocation to Florida. This deflated Geronimo, and he agreed to surrender, however, he would only surrender to Miles.
First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, who had studied Apache ways, succeeded in negotiating a surrender, under the terms of which Geronimo and his followers agreed to spend two years on a Florida reservation. Geronimo agreed on these terms, being unaware of the real plot behind the negotiations (that there was no intent to let them go back to ...
The plot centers upon Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, a West Point graduate charged with capturing Geronimo with the assistance of Sieber and Britton Davis, an ambitious but inexperienced cavalryman. Gatewood is torn between his grudging respect for Geronimo and his duty to his country.
Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853–1896) led many patrols out of Wingate and later convinced Geronimo to surrender; 1881–85 General Douglas MacArthur lived at the fort as an infant, with his father, a Captain in command of Company K, 13th US Infantry. 1889–90 General John J. (Black Jack) Pershing served as Lieutenant at the fort.
Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood, the officer who had negotiated the surrender of Geronimo and was now serving with the 6th Cavalry, was responding to the fire and was injured by a bomb blast in a barracks; his left arm was shattered, rendering him too disabled to serve in the Cavalry. The 6th was relieved of its duties in Powder River Country ...
Charles B. Gatewood, known to the Apache as Bay-chen-daysen, "Long Nose" Sheridan replaced Crook with General Nelson A. Miles . In 1886, Miles selected Captain Henry Lawton to command B Troop, 4th Cavalry , at Fort Huachuca , and First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood , to lead the expedition that brought Geronimo and his followers back to the ...
Lt. Charles B. Gatewood was a United States cavalry officer who had gained fame in 1886 when he took a small contingent of soldiers, scouts and interpreters and located the Apache war leader Geronimo at a remote location in Mexico, and then personally convinced Geronimo to make his final surrender to General Nelson Miles at Skeleton Canyon ...