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John Gale, a surgeon in the United States Army, was born in New Hampshire in 1790 and died at Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Illinois, on July 27, 1830. Richard M. Coleman, an assistant surgeon in the United States Army, was born in Kentucky and died at Fort Armstrong, Rock Island, Illinois, on Sept. 2, 1832. Both men served with distinction at many frontier posts and, as surgeons of Colonel Henry Atkinson's expedition to the mouth of the Yellowstone in 1825, performed exceptional medical service.
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Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois · United States
