Stanislaus Roy (Medal of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Stanislaus Roy

Medal of Honor

Battle of the Little Bighorn

George Armstrong Custer

7th US Cavalry

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio
 

James Forsyth - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Forsyth
American Civil War
American Indian Wars
7th U.S. Cavalry
Wounded Knee
 

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

James Forsyth - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Forsyth
7th US Cavalry
Wounded Knee Massacre
 

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

George Geiger (Medal of Honor) - Dayton National Cemetery

George Geiger
Medal of Honor recipient for actions at the Battle of Little Big Horn, during the Indian Wars
7th US Cavalry

Dayton National Cemetery
Dayton, Ohio

George Armstrong Custer Artifacts - Motts Military Museum

George Armstrong Custer Artifacts

Motts Military Museum
Groveport, Ohio

Clinton Greaves (Buffalo Soldier Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetey

Clinton Greaves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Greaves

9th Cavalry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Cavalry_Regiment_(United_States)

Medal Of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Buffalo Soldier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier

Green Lawn Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lawn_Cemetery_(Columbus,_Ohio)

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

Michael Corcoran (Medal Of Honor) - Calvary Cemetery

Michael Corcoran
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Corcoran_(Medal_of_Honor)

Medal Of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

8th US Cavalry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Cavalry_Regiment

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Calvary Cemetery
Cleveland, Ohio

George Geiger (Medal of Honor) - Dayton National Cemetery

George Geiger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Geiger

Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Battle of the Little Bighorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Dayton National Cemetery
Dayton, Ohio

Clinton Greaves (Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Clinton Greaves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Greaves

Medal of Honor recipient
Rank and organization: Corporal, Company C, 9th U.S. Cavalry

Place and date: At Florida Mountains, N. Mex., 24 January 1877

Entered service at: Prince Georges County, Md.

Date of issue: 26 June 1879

Citation: While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians to surrender, his group was surrounded. Cpl. Greaves in the center of the savage hand-to-hand fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the swarming Apaches, permitting his companions to break free.

Medal of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Buffalo Soldier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Stanislas Roy (Medal Of Honor) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Stanislas Roy

Medal of Honor recipient
Rank and organization: Sergeant, Company A, 7th U.S. Cavalry

Place and date: At Little Big Horn, Mont., 25 June 1876

Date of issue: 5 October 1878

Citation: Brought water to the wounded at great danger to life and under a most galling fire of the enemy

Medal Of Honor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor

Battle Of Little Bighorn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn

Indian Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars

Clinton Greaves (Medal of Honor & Buffalo Soldier) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Clinton Greaves
Green Lawn Cemetery
Section 27, lot 88
Columbus, Ohio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Greaves

Citation
While part of a small detachment to persuade a band of renegade Apache Indians to surrender, his group was surrounded. Cpl. Greaves in the center of the savage hand-to-hand fighting, managed to shoot and bash a gap through the swarming Apaches, permitting his companions to break free.

James Pratt (Medal Of Honor) - Bellefontaine City Cemetery

Bellefontaine City Cemetery
Bellefontaine, Ohio

James Pratt
Blacksmith
Co. I 4th US Calvary
Indian Wars Medal Of Honor recipient

For Gallantry In Action at Red River, Texas on September 29, 1872

James William Forsyth - Green Lawn Cemetery

 Green Lawn Cemetery, section 56 lot 55, Columbus, Ohio

 James Forsyth may not be a household name but he is connected to the Civil War, an event in the Indian Wars and someone killed in the Indian Wars.

James Forsyth was born in 1835 in Maumee, Ohio. Forsyth was Colonel of the 64th OVI when the Civil War Started. 

Forsyth is seated on the left. One person he is connected to is George Armstrong Custer is laying down ton the right.

Forsyth eventually became Adjutant of General Philip Sheridan. General Sheridan is on the left. Forsyth is to the right of Sheridan. George Armstrong Custer is seated on the right.

Sheridan on the right. Forsyth is to the right. Custer is seated on the right.

In 1886, Forsyth became Colonel of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Custer's old unit. This is where Forsyth becomes connected with an event that probably no one would want to be known for. On December 29, 1890, Forsyth was commanding officer of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. A confrontation with Black Coyote, a deaf indian set off the massacre.

Wounded Knee Massacre

Forsyth did have a brother die as a POW in the Civil War. George Forsyth is buried in Forest Cemetery in Toledo Ohio.