Indian Campaign Medal

For British campaign medals in India, see British campaign medals and Orders, decorations, and medals of British India.
Indian Campaign Medal
Obverse
TypeCampaign medal
Awarded forService 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 bythe Department of War


ribbon and streamer

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.

  1. ^ §578.29 Code of Federal Regulations: Title 32—National Defense CHAPTER V—DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY PART 578—DECORATIONS, MEDALS, RIBBONS, AND SIMILAR DEVICES, CFR cites [13 Federal Register 6798, 19 November 1948] Accessed 24 January 2011