Migrane - please tell why you have Arthur MacArthur. I take it you mean the father and not the brother of Doug?
Yes, the father. CMH winner Civil War. Charged up Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga with his Wisconsin platoon and took out the artillery pieces that were maiming the Union forces down below. He took it on his own initiative, crying out “On Wisconsin!”, and boy did they ever scoot up that ridge.
Sherman saw it and asked “Who sent those boys up that ridge?” The answer was, “Nobody!” On seeing their progress, Sherman declared, “That boy just won himself the Congressional Medal of Honor.”
Then he found he couldn’t live w/o the Army and mad a life of it, fighting Indians and taking a big hand in the protection of the Philippines.
He was making a speech around 1913, I think, at one of those gatherings of the old Civil War units. In the middle of the speech, he keeled over and died in his boots, just like he wanted to.