Charles Braden
Home Town: East Saginaw, MI
General Orders No. 7, W.D., 1925
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Charles Braden, Second Lieutenant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near the mouth of the Big Horn River, Montana, August 11, 1873. Lieutenant Braden, with 20 men, having been attacked by nearly 200 Indians, although severely wounded in the encounter, by his personal gallantry and splendid leadership so inspired his small command as to enable it to repulse the attack by overwhelmingly superior numbers.
