biography
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Miles, Nelson (Appleton)
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| lived:
| (1839–1925)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born in Westminster, Massachusetts, USA. A clerk in a crockery store when the Civil War broke out, he fought in the Army of the Potomac, ending the war as a brigadier general. After the war, he was Confederate President Jefferson Davis's jailer at Fortress Monroe, VA, and was criticized for keeping Davis shackled in his cell. He then fought the Indians on the W frontier (1869–91), capturing Chief Joseph (1877) and Geronimo (1886); but his reputation never recovered from allowing the massacre at Wounded Knee (1890). He became commander-in-chief of the army in 1895, and led the US forces that occupied Puerto Rico in 1898. |
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