Frontier Soldier Grave
General Howard and his men crossed the Continental Divide at Monida Pass, Montana and made their way to Junction Station, Idaho, where Captain James E. Calloway and 55 Montana volunteers armed with a mountain howitzer joined them. After the arrival of Captain Randolph Norwood’s Second Cavalry on August 18, General Howard’s forces moved on. They rested that night at Dry Creek Station just 18 miles west of the Nez Perce camp and about 10 miles south of the present location of the Frontier Soldier Grave. On Sunday, August 19, the command started east and shortly thereafter came upon the trampled trail of the Nez Perce.
After the battle at Camas Meadows U.S. Army casualties were sent back this way towards Virginia City, Montana. Samuel A. Glass, a blacksmith with the Second Cavalry, having been shot through the bladder during the Camas Meadows battle (see in app), finally succumbed to his wound and was buried here.
