Indian Campaign Medal | |
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Type | Campaign medal |
Awarded for | Service in enumerated campaigns or "against hostile Indians in any other action in which United States troops were killed or wounded between 1865 and 1891." |
Presented by | the Department of War |
The Indian Campaign Medal is a decoration established by War Department General Orders 12, 1907.[1] The medal was retroactively awarded to any soldier of the U.S. Army who had participated in the American Indian Wars against the Native Americans between 1865 and 1891.