James Madison DeWolf

Dr. James Madison DeWolf (January 14, 1843 – June 25, 1876) was an acting assistant surgeon in the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment who was killed in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

Born in Mehoopany in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, DeWolf was a farmer prior to the American Civil War.

Following the war, he became an enlisted man in the Regular Army's 14th U.S. Infantry and entered Harvard Medical School, graduating in June 1875.

He became a contract surgeon later that year with the 7th Cavalry at Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory.

He and his orderly had made the difficult crossing of the buffalo ford and for some reason were going up a side path in a coulee.