Grave marker for General L. Grant, Oise Aisne American Cemetery
On March 27, 1945, the U.S. Army hanged Private Abraham Smalls, Private Lee A. Burns and Private General L. Grant at the Peninsular Base Section Stockade Number 1 at Aversa, Italy for the crimes of rape and murder. The remains of all four men were later buried at the American Military Cemetery Oise-Aisne at Seringes-et-Nesles, France. (The Fifth Field: The Story of the 96 American Soldiers Sentenced to Death and Executed in Europe and North Africa in World War II)
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Red Hawk; he fought against the expedition
Green Alexander Hampton. Green Hampton, a member of the 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition, was born on March 27, 1830 in Georgia. He married Susan Ford in 1858 in Linn Creek, Missouri. In 1863 he was listed as having 12 months of previous military service as a Quartermaster Sergeant in Company G of the Third Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia Infantry (Union) and that he was a boatman in Camden County. The unit fought at St. Joseph and in Henry and St. Clair, Counties in Missouri against Confederate bushwhackers. In 1873, the family lived in Diamond City, Montana Territory. Two of their three daughters died in childhood. The 1880 census listed Green Hampton’s occupation as a gold miner in Diamond City. Green Hampton died on April 5, 1922 at Wilsall, Park County, Montana and is buried at Tinkers Hill Cemetery in Park County. (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)