A meeting of the officers of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry was held ... to take into consideration the untimely death of Captain Louis M. Hamilton ... who was killed in the battle of Washita ... : Canadian River, Indian Territory : resolution, 1868 Dec. 4.

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A meeting of the officers of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry was held ... to take into consideration the untimely death of Captain Louis M. Hamilton ... who was killed in the battle of Washita ... : Canadian River, Indian Territory : resolution, 1868 Dec. 4.

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Resolutions honoring Battle of Washita casualty, Capt. Louis M. Hamilton, passed Dec. 4, 1868, at a meeting of the officers of the Seventh Cavalry, held on the Canadian River in Indian Territory (probably at Camp Supply).

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