Early named 10K gold medal named to H. Liebmann of Company K, 20th U.S. Infantry and weights 7.61 grams of gold with a smelt value of 187.52 in today's market.

 

One of the many Infantry regiments that were established in response to Abraham Lincoln’s call for troops on 3 May 1861, the 20th Infantry Regiment was organized about a month later on June 6 at Fort Independence, Missouri as the 2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry. The Regiment would see combat soon: Commanded by General George Sykes at the Second Battle of Bull Run, its troops would help form a defensive line that shielded retreating Union troops from General Longstreet’s powerful but long-delayed counterattack, earning it the nickname “Sykes’ Regulars.”

 

Reorganized and redesignated as the 20th Infantry in 1866, the Regiment or elements of it took part in the Little Big Horn and Pine Ridge campaigns of the Indian War, the War with Spain, and the Philippine Insurrection.

 

20th U.S. Infantry, Fort Seward

Soldiers were stationed at Fort Seward between 1871 and 1877 for the purpose of protecting the railroad construction crews and homesteaders from hostile Sioux Indians as well as to enforce territorial law under the direction of federal marshals. (North Dakota did not gain statehood until 1889.) Fort Seward was abandoned in 1877 when the threat from hostile attacks had subsided and military presence in the Jamestown area became nothing more than records in history books.

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