General henry dodge biography for kids
General henry dodge biography for kids
Henry dodge (1782–1867) - missouri encyclopedia...
I received a letter the other day from Phoenix asking whether I could supply information on the background of U.S. Indian Agent Henry L. Dodge, who was killed by Apaches in 1856.
Few people remember Dodge, but in his day, he was an interesting and well-known character on the Southwestern frontier. I happen to have a file on the man.
Henry dodge
Dodge was born into a prominent Missouri family in 1810. His father was a noted Army general, and his brother became a U.S. senator. Henry thought a military career was for him, and at age 22, he fought in the Black Hawk Indian War.
But he seems to have left the service, and early in 1846, he turned up in New Mexico. When Gen. Stephen W. Kearny conquered the province later that summer, he noticed Dodge and appointed him treasurer of the new American government formed in Santa Fe.
A few years after that, the Army made him agent for the Quartermaster Department at the outpost of Cebolleta in the mountains west of Albuquerque. That put him on the edge o