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Home Town Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Last Address Boise, Idaho
Date of Passing Jul 17, 1936
Location of Interment Morris Hill Cemetery - Boise, Idaho
First Sergeant W. H. Abendroth, 72, Indian fighter and veteran of foreign campaigns, died early Friday morning at a local hospital.
Sergeant Abendroth's death was attributed to heart trouble which was caused by yellow fever contracted in a Cuban campaign.
As instructor of Boise ROTC, in 1919 and 1920, Sergeant Abendroth ended his active military career which commenced when he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1887 at Fort Sherman, Idaho. Mr. Abendroth was one of the organizers and charter member of the Boise chapter Veterans of Freign Wars. Since 1906, he made his home in Boise when he was not engaged in foreign campaigns.
FOUGHT SIOUX
Sergeant Abendroth saw service in the Sioux Indian wards in the Black Hills and the campaign against the Apache Indians in 1885 and 1886. At this time he was a member of G Troop 4th Cavalry. He served in H Troop 8th Cavalry during the Spanish-American War.
During the Philippine uprising in 1903-4-5 Sergeant Abendroth was with the K troop of the 14th cavalry. He retired from active service in 1911 after spending 30 years as a soldier. While the World war was being waged he again gave active service in the army as military instructor at the Univeristy of Idaho.
Description The American Indian Wars, or Indian Wars, were the multiple armed conflicts between European governments and colonists, and later American settlers or the United States government, and the native peoples of North America. These conflicts occurred across the North American continent from the time of earliest colonial settlements until 1924. In many cases, wars resulted from competition for resources and land ownership as Europeans and later Americans encroached onto territory which had been inhabited by Native Americans for the previous centuries. There was population pressure as settlers expanded their territory, generally pushing indigenous people northward and westward. Warfare and raiding also took place as a result of wars between European powers; in North America, these enlisted their Native American allies to help them conduct warfare against each other's settlements.
Many conflicts were local, involving disputes over land use, and some entailed cycles of reprisal. Particularly in later years, conflicts were spurred by ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, which held that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast on the North American continent. In the 1830s, the United States had a policy of Indian removal east of the Mississippi River, which was a planned, large-scale removal of indigenous peoples from the areas where Americans were settling. Particularly in the years leading up to Congressional passage of the related act, there was armed conflict between settlers and Native Americans; some removal was achieved through sale or exchange of territory through treaties.
