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English: Pompey Factor received the Medal of Honor for “Conspicuous valor and gallantry” while part of the 24th Regiment (), on a scouting patrol on 25 April 1875, when he participated in a charge against 25 hostiles at Pecos River, Texas..

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Source: US Army photo Scanned from Page 40 of the following book.

• Carney, John T. (2003). U.S. Special Operations Forces, 328pp, Levin, Hugh Lauter Associates. Page 4, last line: “All photography and illustrations are courtesy United States Special Operations Command unless otherwise credited.

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