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Robert Lee Howze |
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Graduate, U.S. Military Academy, Class of 1888 Engagements: • Indian Wars (1775 - 1924) intermittent• Spanish-American War (1898)• Philippine-American War (1899 - 1902)• World War I (1914 - 1918)• Mexican Expedition (1916 - 1917) |
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Biography: | ||||
Robert Lee Howze Major General, U. S. Army Medal Of Honor GENERAL ORDERS: GENERAL ORDERS: GENERAL ORDERS: GENERAL ORDERS: Robert Lee Howze, United States Army, was cited for gallantry in action during the Philippine Insurrection, 1899 to 1901. HOWZE, ROBERT LEE (1864–1926). Robert Lee Howze, winner of the Medal of Honor, son of Capt. James A. and Amanda Hamilton (Brown) Howze, was born at Overton, Rusk County, Texas, on August 22, 1864. After graduating from Hubbard College in 1883, he was admitted to the United States Military Academy and upon graduation was commissioned a second lieutenant in the cavalry. Howze's first assignment was to the Sixth Cavalry at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. He was awarded the Medal of Honor on July 25, 1891, for gallantry in a campaign to quell an uprising of Sioux Indians in South Dakota in January of that year. He married Anne Chiffelle Hawkins, daughter of Gen. Hamilton S. Hawkins, on February 24, 1897. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, Howze, now a cavalry captain, was made adjutant general of the cavalry in Cuba. Upon his return to the United States, he was appointed lieutenant colonel of volunteers and commanded the Thirty-fourth Volunteer Infantry throughout the Philippine Insurrection. He was promoted to captain in the United States Army on February 2, 1901; to brigadier general of volunteers on June 20, 1901; and to major of the Puerto Rico provincial regiment of infantry in 1901. He was commandant of cadets at West Point, with rank of lieutenant colonel, from 1905 until 1909. He returned to active military command in 1916 as a major in John J. Pershing's punitive expedition into Mexico. Howze commanded selected mounted men in the pursuit of Francisco (Pancho) Villa and upon his return was promoted for "valiant and conscientious service."Source and to read more about him at https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fho81 |
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Texas Exceptional Gallantry |
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Honoree ID: 318375 | Created by: drjones46 |