Gustavus Cheyney Doane
| Gustavus Cheyney Doane | |
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Lt. Doane, 1875
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| Nickname(s) | Gus |
| Born |
May 29, 1840 Galesburg, Illinois |
| Died | May 5, 1892 (aged 51) Bozeman, Montana |
| Buried | Sunset Hills Cemetery, Bozeman, Montana (45°40′31.93″N 111°01′35.38″W / 45.6755361°N 111.0264944°WCoordinates: 45°40′31.93″N 111°01′35.38″W / 45.6755361°N 111.0264944°W) |
| Service/branch | US Army |
| Years of service | 1862–1865, 1868–1892 |
| Rank | Captain |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Gustavus Cheyney Doane (May 29, 1840 – May 5, 1892) was a U.S. Army Cavalry Captain, explorer, inventor and Civil War soldier who played a prominent role in the exploration of Yellowstone as a member of the Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition.
Gustavus Cheyney Doane was born in Galesburg, Illinois, the oldest of six children of Solomon Doane and Nancy Davis Doane. After a move to St. Louis, Missouri in 1844, the Doanes, with their one son Cheyney traveled west to Oregon Territory settling in Oak Grove, Oregon south of Portland in 1846. In May, 1849, the Doanes, now with two sons, moved to Santa Clara, California to take up farming there. As a young boy growing up in California during the 1850s, Doane was heavily influenced by the exploits and writings of General John C. Fremont, explorer, Mexican-American War hero and California statesman. Gustavus C. Doane entered college at the newly created California Wesleyan College in Santa Clara in 1857, graduating first in his class in Latin, Greek and mathematics on June 13, 1861.
Desiring to participate in the American Civil War, in October, 1862 after unsuccessful attempts at gaining an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, a 22-year-old Doane volunteered at San Francisco for the 2nd Regiment of Cavalry, Massachusetts Volunteers known as the California 100. This group of volunteers, after paying their own way to Boston by ship from California, were inducted into the U.S. Army in January 1863. A month after his enlistment, Doane was made a Sergeant and began seeing combat in actions around Washington, D.C. against forces of Confederate Colonel John S. Mosby, also known as the Gray Ghost.
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