George Morton Randall

Infobox Military Person
name= George Morton Randall
born= birth date|1841|10|8
died= Death date and age|1918|6|14|1841|10|8
placeofbirth= Conneaut, Ohio
placeofdeath=Denver, Colorado


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allegiance= United States of America
branch= United States Army
serviceyears=1861–1905
rank= Major General
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unit=4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
14th New York Heavy Artillery
8th Infantry Regiment 23rd Infantry Regiment
battles=American Civil War
*Battle of Gaines' Mill
*Battle of Malvern Hill
*Second Bull Run
*Battle of Fredericksburg
*Battle of the Wilderness
*Battle of Antietam
*Battle of the Crater
*Battle of Fort Stedman
Indian Wars
* Battle of Turret Peak
* Powder River Expedition
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George Morton Randall (8 October 1841 – 14 June 1918) was a Major General in the United States Army, noted for his service in the American Civil War and Indian Wars.

Civil War

Born in Conneaut, Ohio, Randall enlisted as a private in the 4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the fall of 1861. He served in New York and Washington, DC, and in the field with the Army of the Potomac. He was a 2nd Lieutenant at the Siege of Yorktown, Battle of Gaines' Mill, Battle of Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run (where he commanded Company C), and Fredericksburg; and a 1st Lieutenant at the Battle of the Wilderness. He was brevetted Captain for gallant service in the Battle of Antietam. He served as a Major in the 14th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment, part of Major General George Meade's IX Corps on the Richmond-Petersburg Front in 1864, and was commander of the regiment at the Battle of the Crater. The Dansville Advertiser reported on 7 September that he assumed command of the regiment on 18 August. This article also reports that he was wounded in the battle on 19 August. He was brevetted Lieutenant Colonel, and then Colonel for gallantry in the Battle of Fort Stedman.

Indian Wars

In 1873 he served under General George Crook in Arizona during the Tonto Basin campaign. On March 27, 1873 he led a small force that attacked a group of Yavapai Indians in the Battle of Turret Peak.On April 25, he led a force that surrounded the camp of Tonto Apache chief Delshay on upper Canyon Creek. Delshay surrendered when the troops started firing, the last of the Apache war chiefs to surrender and move to a reservation.He also served with General Crook in the 1876 Powder River Expedition during the Black Hills War. From 1879 to 1880, Randall commanded Fort Reno in Oklahoma.

Alaska and the Philippines

In January 1900, in response to large numbers of immigrants flooding into the Alaskan Territory in search of gold, President William McKinley assigned Randall, now a colonel, to command an army division there. He was the first commander of Fort St. Michael, and submitted a recommendation calling for a telegraph line between the various Alaskan posts. By September, he was promoted to Brigadier General. In his Annual Report for the Department of Alaska, he noted that "the Eskimo has been unnoticed by those he has befriended and has been allowed to die for the lack of proper care and food." He later served at New York and Knoxville, Tennessee, prior to commanding the Department of Luzon in the Philippines from 1903 to 1905. After further duty in St. Louis, Missouri, General Randall retired on 8 October 1905, and died on 14 June 1918 in Denver, Colorado. He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin.

USS|General George M. Randall|AP-115 was named for him. He is also a Prominent Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.

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Persondata
NAME = Randall, George Morton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = United States Army general
DATE OF BIRTH = October 8, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH = Conneaut, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH = June 14, 1918
PLACE OF DEATH = Denver, Colorado