EDGAR R. ASTON MEDAL OF HONOR MEMORIAL MARKER
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Listing Details
Access: Cemetery
Wars Commemorated: INDIAN WARS
Photograph By: DON MORFE
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
With 2 other men he volunteered to search for a wagon passage out of a 4,000-foot valley wherein an infantry column was immobile. This small group passed 6 miles among hostile Apache terrain finding the sought passage. On their return trip down the canyon they were attacked by Apaches who were successfully held at bay.[6]
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