Myles Walter Keogh first served with the armies of the papal states during the war for Italian unification, he then rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the union army during the American ...

Myles Keogh is commemorated by a monument in Leighlinbridge, and his name is inscribed on the Little Big Horn battlefield ...

One letter from Keogh to his sister Ellen was written from Atlanta during the Civil War. He tells of his experiences after two months as a prisoner of war. He was captured with his commanding ...

Comanche, the war horse, was the only survivor, and the regimental tune was "Garryowen." Capt. Myles Keogh owned Comanche, and he reportedly introduced "Garryowen" to Custer.

When I checked the meaning of those three letters Bvt, I learned that Myles Keogh got a field promotion called a brevet on two occasions for gallantry during the American Civil War; and behind ...

Notable people buried at Fort Hill Cemetery include Harriet Tubman, William Seward, Myles Keogh and Martha Coffin Wright. Former slave and leader of the Underground Railroad, Tubman freed ...

Keogh, who was born Ireland, previously fought in the papal army in Italy and earned a medal for heroism. He came to America to fight in the Civil War and caught the eye of Custer.

Myles Walter Keogh was a restless spirit who often found himself in the vanguard of history. During his all too short life, he would make the Vatican his home, come within a hair's breadth of ...

One of 11 children, Myles Walter Keogh was born at Orchard in Leighlinbridge on March 25, 1840, and was an Irish soldier who fought in the Pope's Irish Battalion during the Papal War of 1860 ...