Myles Moylan

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December 12, 1909 San Diego Union

MOYLAN-In this city. Dec. 11th. 1909. Major Myles Moylan, husband of Lottie 
Moylan of San Diego; a native of Ambery, Mass., age 71 years, 11 months, 24 
days.
	Friends and members of the Loyal Legion are invited to attend the 
funeral services at Johnson & Connell's chapel. D and Seventh streets, Tuesday. 
Dec. 14th. at 10 o'clock a.m. Rev. C. L. Barnes will officiate. Interment 
private at Greenwood cemetery.

NEWS ARTICAL: San Diego Union December 12, 1909 Page 5

	Major Myles Moylan, U.S.A., Retired, died at his home in this city, 
Second and Ive streets at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He leaves a widow but 
no children. The decedent had a long and distinguished career in the regular 
service and about two years in the Fourth Massachusetts Volunteers during the 
war of the rebellion.
	Major Moylan was born in Amesburg, Mass., Dec 17, 1833 and his military 
service dating back to June 8, 1857, including participation in the expedition 
to Utah under Gen. Sidney Johnson in 1858, the Indian campaigns up to 1860 and 
the civil war 1861 to 1865. He was brevetted major in April 1865, for 
distinguished service in the United States volunteers and served in the many 
Indian Campaigns against the various tribes in Kansas and Indian Territory with 
the famous Seventh United States cavalry under command of General Custer.

FOUGHT IN SIOUX CAMPAIGN
	Major Moylan was a captain in the Seventh cavalry in the Campaign 
against the Sioux Indians which was commanded by General Custer and 
which resulted in the massacre of the greater portion of that regiment in 1876 by 
Sitting Bull and his Sioux Tribe.
	Moylan, then a captain, was with Reno's battalion which fought for 
several days and nights the entire Sioux combination, after Custer's battalion 
had been annihilated and was finally rescued by the timely arrival of General 
Terry's command, but not until the lives of many brave soldiers and officers of 
Reno's battalion too had been sacrificed.
	Later on Major Moylan was actively engaged in the campaign against 
Chief Joseph and in the fight with these indians at Wounded Knee the major's 
command was greatly distinguished and he was given a medal of honor by congress 
for bravery in this action.
	He was a companion of the Grand Army of the Republic and a member of 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion.

FUNERAL NEXT TUESDAY
	Funeral services over the remains will be held at Johnson & Connell's 
parlors next Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. His friends and companions of the 
Grand Army of the Republic and members of the Military Order of the Loyal 
Legion are invited. Members of the Loyal Legion will wear the gold insignia of 
the order. The interment will be private at Greenwood cemetery.
	Major Moylan had been a resident of this city for about sixteen years