Rescue of Two White Girls by Lt. Frank Baldwin

This fight brought Frank D. Baldwin his second Medal of Honor; he had won the first as a Union captain at Peachtree Creek, Georgia, on July 20, 1864. In the Red River War he was chief of scouts, and after the first battle of Palo Duro Canyon he carried dispatches to Fort Supply in what became known as Baldwin's Ride. Later he scattered Sitting Bull's camp at Redwater Creek in 1876, fought at Wolf Mountains in 1877, served as agent at Anadarko and commanded troops in the Philippines, becoming a brigadier general in 1902. He died in 1923.

What the plaque says

Rescue of Two White Girls by Lt. Frank Baldwin Ten miles southwest of here Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin commanding two companies of United States troops attacked a large band of Cheyenne Indians and rescued two white girl captives, November 8, 1874.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Woody Guthrie Folk Music Center — 11 mi
  The old Harris Drug Store in Pampa, where a young Woody Guthrie jerked sodas and found his first guitar, now a folk music center with Friday night jam sessions.
• White Deer Land Museum — 11 mi
  The 1916 Pampa office of the land company that sold a foreclosed British ranch to wheat farmers, with an annex holding one of the Panhandle's largest Red River War collections.
• Phillips 66 Station, McLean — 19 mi
  A 1929 cottage-style Phillips 66 station on First Street in McLean, the town I-40 went around last and whose Route 66 business district stayed much as it was.
• Devil's Rope and Old Route 66 Museum — 19 mi
  Barbed wire and the Texas road in McLean's old brassiere factory: the fence that closed the open range, from the salesmen who sold it to the Panhandle ranches it divided.

More markers nearby

• Big Springs — 0.6 mi
• Site of Pampa Army Air Force Base — 7.8 mi
• Gray County — 9.1 mi
• Red River Expedition of 1852 — 9.3 mi