About: Horace Bivins

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Horace Wayman Bivins (or Bivens or Bivans or Bevans) (May 8, 1862, Accomack County, Virginia—1960, Billings, Montana) was a career soldier and member of the 10th Cavalry in the United States Army. The Indians in the West referred to the African-American unit as Buffalo Soldiers. Bivins gained the rank of sergeant and fought in the Indian Wars and in the Spanish–American War of 1898, receiving a Silver Star for his service in Cuba.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Horace Wayman Bivins (or Bivens or Bivans or Bevans) (May 8, 1862, Accomack County, Virginia—1960, Billings, Montana) was a career soldier and member of the 10th Cavalry in the United States Army. The Indians in the West referred to the African-American unit as Buffalo Soldiers. Bivins gained the rank of sergeant and fought in the Indian Wars and in the Spanish–American War of 1898, receiving a Silver Star for his service in Cuba. In 1903, he received the first Army Distinguished Pistol Shot badge, retroactively for achievements recorded in 1894. He is also the first U.S. Army Double Distinguished Shooter. He retired in 1913 but returned for a period in the Army after the United States entered World War I, being commissioned as a captain. He retired to Billings, Montana where he resided with his wife until her death in 1943. He died December 4, 1960 at the age of 94 and is buried in Baltimore National Cemetery. (en)
dbo:battle
dbo:militaryUnit
dbo:serviceEndYear
  • 1913-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:serviceStartYear
  • 1887-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 11130416 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 7094 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1112366629 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:battles
dbp:birthDate
  • 1866-05-08 (xsd:date)
dbp:birthName
  • Horace Wayman Bivins (en)
dbp:birthPlace
dbp:deathDate
  • 1960-12-04 (xsd:date)
dbp:deathPlace
  • Billings, Montana, United States (en)
dbp:name
  • Horace Bivins (en)
dbp:rank
dbp:serviceyears
  • 1887 (xsd:integer)
dbp:unit
  • 10 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dct:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Horace Wayman Bivins (or Bivens or Bivans or Bevans) (May 8, 1862, Accomack County, Virginia—1960, Billings, Montana) was a career soldier and member of the 10th Cavalry in the United States Army. The Indians in the West referred to the African-American unit as Buffalo Soldiers. Bivins gained the rank of sergeant and fought in the Indian Wars and in the Spanish–American War of 1898, receiving a Silver Star for his service in Cuba. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Horace Bivins (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Horace Bivins (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License