George Morton Randall George Morton Randall ( October 8 , 1841 – June 14 , 1918 ) was a Major General in the United States Army , noted for his service in the American Civil War and Indian Wars . Civil War . He was born in Conneaut , Ohio , the son of Brewster Randall ( 1807 – 1880 ) and Harriet Eliza Fifield Randall ( 1819 – 1878 ) . Randall enlisted as a private in the 4th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the April 1861 . He then accepted appointment as 2nd Lieutenant in October . He served in New York and Washington , D . C . , and in the field with the Army of the Potomac . He was a 2nd Lieutenant at the Siege of Yorktown , Battle of Gaines ' Mill , Battle of Malvern Hill , Second Bull Run ( where he commanded Company C ) , and Fredericksburg ; and a First Lieutenant at the Battle of the Wilderness . He was appointed a brevet Captain for gallant service in the Battle of Antietam . He served as a major in the 14th New York Heavy Artillery Regiment , part of Major General George Meade ' s IX Corps on the Richmond - Petersburg Front in 1864 , and was commander of the regiment at the Battle of the Crater . The Dansville Advertiser reported on 7 September that he assumed command of the regiment on 18 August . This article also reports that he was wounded in the battle on 19 August . He was appointed a brevet Lieutenant Colonel , and then Colonel for gallantry in the Battle of Fort Stedman . He mustered out of the Volunteer service on 26 August , and was appointed Captain in the 4th US Infantry on 23 September 1865 . Subsequently he served at Davids ' Island Military Reservation , New York Harbor , where he was in December 1867 . Indian Wars . He was assigned to the 23rd Infantry on 31 December 1870 , and served with them in the West for more than 20 years . In 1873 he served under General George Crook in Arizona during the Tonto Basin campaign . On March 27 , 1873 , he led a small force that attacked a group of Yavapai Indians in the Battle of Turret Peak . On April 25 , he led a force that surrounded the camp of Tonto Apache chief Delshay on upper Canyon Creek . Delshay surrendered when the troops started firing , the last of the Apache war chiefs to surrender and move to a reservation . He also served with General Crook in the 1876 Powder River Expedition during the Black Hills War . From 1879 to 1880 , Randall commanded Fort Reno in Oklahoma . He was promoted to Major on 15 January 1891 , and returned to the 4th Infantry Regiment . He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Infantry on 1 March 1894 , then Colonel of the 17th US Infantry in the Spanish - American War on 8 August 1898 . A month later he transferred back to the 8th US Infantry . Alaska and the Philippines . In January 1900 , in response to large numbers of immigrants flooding into the Alaskan Territory in search of gold , President William McKinley assigned Randall , now a colonel , to command an army division there . He received commission as Brigadier General of Volunteers on 20 January 1900 . He was the first commander of Fort St . Michael , and submitted a recommendation calling for a telegraph line between the various Alaskan posts . He was appointed Brigadier General , USA , on 6 February 1901 . In his Annual Report for the Department of Alaska , he noted that " the Eskimo has been unnoticed by those he has befriended and has been allowed to die for the lack of proper care and food . " He later served at New York and Knoxville , Tennessee , and commanded at Vancouver , Washington , prior to commanding the Department of Luzon in the Philippines from 1903 to 1905 . After further duty in St . Louis , Missouri , General Randall retired on 8 October 1905 , and died on 14 June 1918 in Denver , Colorado . He is buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Janesville , Rock County , Wisconsin ( Block 20 , lot 9 , grave 6 ) . During his long service , he was awarded six brevets : Captain ( 17 September 1862 ) for Antietam ; Major ( 2 April 1865 ) for Petersburg ; Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel of Volunteers ( 26 March 1865 ) for the attack on Fort Stedman ; Lieutenant Colonel ( 27 February 1890 ) for actions against Indians at Turret Mountain , Arizona on 27 March 1873 and Diamond Butte , Arizona , on 22 April 1873 ; and Colonel ( 27 February 1890 ) for " action against Indians near Pinal , Arizona 8 March 1874 " and " distinguished service during the campaign against Indians in Arizona . Namesake . was named for him . He is also a Prominent Companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States . General Randall is not to be confused with the Rt . Rev . George Maxwell Randall ( 1810 – 1873 ) , Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Colorado , one of the founders of the Colorado School of Mines .