Orizoba Spence
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Orizoba O. Spence, alternatively spelled Orisoba, was a sergeant in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action during the Indian Wars.
Headboard of O. O. Spence
Cochise
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Cochise was the leader of the Chiricahui local group of the Chokonen and principal nantan of the Chokonen band of the Chiricahua Apache. A key war leader during the Apache Wars, he led an uprising tha
Orizoba Spence
…Company G of the 8th Cavalry Regiment. On October 20, 1869, Spence earned a Medal of Honor for gallantry after a battle against a band of Apaches led by Cochise. Spence was discharged from the army as a sergeant at Fort Selden, New Mexico in 1873. He married in 1874 and briefly resided in Grant County, New…
Bronze bust of imagined likeness of Cochise by Betty Butts, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona
Dragoon Mountains in Southeastern Arizona, where Cochise hid with his warriors
Cochise Stronghold, Dragoon Mountains, southeastern Arizona