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COMMANDER // 1840–1876

Myles W. Keogh

colonelIreland1 battle1 war

Lifespan

18401876

18401845185018551860186518701875Great Sioux War of 1876 · 1876-1877Battle of the Little Bighorn — June 25, 1876 · Crow scouts · Great Sioux War of 1876

Active service 18761 battle across 1 war; first command at age 36.

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Myles Walter Keogh was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification in 1860, and was recruited into the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a cavalry officer, particularly under Brig. Gen. John Buford during the Gettysburg campaign and the three-day Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, Keogh remained in the regular United States Army as commander of I Troop of the 7th Cavalry Regiment under George Armstrong Custer during the Indian Wars, until he was killed along with Custer and all five of the companies directly under Custer's command at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.

Source · Wikipedia · Q591982

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Last verified June 2026
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