Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 373: Assistant Surgeon, 1863; Fort West and scouting expeditions, 1864.
Very likely same person:
Farish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Filmer Bros. Electrotype Co., 1918, volume 2, page 148: "... A little soldier calling himself John T. Wright, scalped Mangus [Apache chief, Mangus Colorado] with an Arkansas toothpick, borrowed from Bill Lallier, the soldiers' cook, for the purpose. A few nights later the army surgeon, Dr. Sturgeon, exhumed the body, and obtained the huge skull to send East. ..."
Very likely same person:
Farish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Filmer Bros. Electrotype Co., 1918, volume 2, page 148: "... A little soldier calling himself John T. Wright, scalped Mangus [Apache chief, Mangus Colorado] with an Arkansas toothpick, borrowed from Bill Lallier, the soldiers' cook, for the purpose. A few nights later the army surgeon, Dr. Sturgeon, exhumed the body, and obtained the huge skull to send East. ..."
Master pnID
AMH-PN3604
Src1 DP
AHSL-DP
Residence(s)
Fort West