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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.
The Gatewood family was an English family which arrived in Rappahannock County (now Essex County), Virginia in the 1660s. Among its descendants are Thomas Roderick Dew (through his mother) and 1st Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood.
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 ...
Finally, young First Lieutenant Charles B. Gatewood (1853-1896), who had studied Apache culture and ways, succeeded in meeting with and negotiating a surrender of the war chief at a subsequent meeting arranged and held with General Miles, under the terms of which Geronimo and his few remaining followers agreed to temporarily spend two years in ...
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.
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 ...
Sieber was in the field but not present when the Apache leader and renegade Geronimo surrendered to young Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-1896), and commanding General Nelson Miles (1839-1925), in September 1886, finally ending the Indian Wars in the old Southwest. Sieber stayed on at San Carlos as Chief of Scouts for the Army for another 13 years.
Charles Robert Gatewood (November 8, 1942 – April 28, 2016) was an American photographer, writer, videographer, artist and educator, who lived and worked in San Francisco, California. Biography [ edit ]