Isaac Payne

Isaac Payne, or Isaac Paine, (c. 1854–1904) was a Black Seminole who served as a United States Army Indian Scout and received America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the Indian Wars of the western United States.

Biography

Payne and other Black Seminoles enlisted in the army October 1871 and became known as one of the Seminole-Negro Indian Scouts. On April 25, 1875, he was serving as a trumpeter by the Pecos River in Texas where, "[w]ith 3 other men, he participated in a charge against 25 hostiles while on a scouting patrol."

A month later, on May 28, 1875, Payne was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the engagement. Two of the other men who took part in the charge, Pompey Factor and John Ward, both Black Seminoles, also received Medals of Honor.

Payne was discharged in January 1901, and moved back to Mexico, where he lived until his death at age 49 or 50.^[1] He was buried at the Seminole Indian Scout Cemetery in Brackettville, Texas.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Trumpeter, Indian Scouts. Place and date: At Pecos River, Tex., April 25, 1875. Entered service at: ------. Birth: Mexico. Date of issue: May 28, 1875.

Citation:

With 3 other men, he participated in a charge against 25 hostiles while on a scouting patrol.

See also

• Adam Paine
• List of Medal of Honor recipients
• List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Indian Wars
• List of African American Medal of Honor recipients
• List of Native American Medal of Honor recipients

References

External links

• "Isaac Payne". Claim to Fame: Medal of Honor recipients. Find a Grave. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
• "Indian War Period Medal of Honor recipients". Medal of Honor citations. United States Army Center of Military History. 2005-04-19. Archived from the original on 2013-08-03. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
  

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Buffalo Soldiers

Predecessors

• United States Colored Troops
• Bureau of Colored Troops

Original units

• 9th Cavalry Regiment
• 10th Cavalry Regiment
• 24th Infantry Regiment
• 25th Infantry Regiment

Medal of Honor recipients
(1866–1918)

• Edward L. Baker Jr.
• Dennis Bell
• Thomas Boyne
• Benjamin Brown
• George Ritter Burnett
• Louis H. Carpenter
• John Denny
• Pompey Factor
• Clinton Greaves
• Henry Johnson
• George Jordan
• Fitz Lee
• Isaiah Mays
• William McBryar
• Adam Paine
• Isaac Payne
• Thomas Shaw
• Emanuel Stance
• Freddie Stowers
• William H. Thompkins
• Augustus Walley
• George H. Wanton
• John Ward
• Moses Williams
• William Othello Wilson
• Brent Woods

Notable battles
(1866–1918)

American Indian Wars	Saline River Texas–Indian wars Beecher Island Wichita I Beaver Creek North Fork Red River War Wichita II Apache Wars Victorio Campaign Fort Tularosa Bannock Uprising Yaqui Uprising Bear Valley Meeker Massacre
Spanish–American War	Las Guasimas Tayacoba El Caney San Juan Heights Santiago
Philippine–American War	Moro Rebellion
Border War	Pancho Villa Expedition Carrizal Ambos Nogales
World War I	Third Battle of the Aisne Second Battle of the Marne Meuse–Argonne offensive Oise-Aisne Offensive

See also

• Wham Paymaster Robbery
• Brownsville Affair
• Bisbee Riot

• United States Army
• Military history of African Americans

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