2nd Lieut. Seward Mott

William Sparks, The Apache Kid, a Bear Fight and Other True Stories of the Old West (Skelton Publishing, Los Angeles, 1926) is said to have a detailed account of the shooting of Mott, pp20‑21.

https://www.newspapers.com/image/71793369/?terms=%22Pershing%22&mat...
see key for classmates at West Point (classmate of the future General of the armies John Pershing
No. 45 "Sukey" West Point Class of 1886
2nd Lt. Killed by an Apache March 11, 1887 (stabbed and shot during a land dispute)
Home was then said to have been Buckville, Madison County, NY (see: The Buffalo Times 15 Mar 1887, Tue ·Page 1 = https://www.newspapers.com/image/442539170/?terms=%22seward%20Mott%... )

stationed: Seward Mott
Thomas, Camp
Arizona
Fort Thomas, Arizona Territory
Mar 1887
Post Commander Alexander S B Keyes

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97079306/seward-mott

another photo at findagrave

Co.D, 2nd Lt. 10th Cav. (Buffalo Soldiers)
U.S., Buffalo Soldiers, Returns From Regular Army Cavalry Regiments, 1866-1916 for Seward Mott
United States Tenth Cavalry
1881-1888
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/106515:1934

outside source

SEWARD MOTT '82.
Among the members of the class of '82, few took as much interest in class and college affairs as Seward Mott of Bouckville, N. Y. Although comparatively young when he entered, he took a good rank in his class and an active part in class politics. His intimate friends, particularly his class-mates who were in Delta Upsilon, to which fraternity he belonged, will remember his tenderhearted devotion to those whom he liked and the droll humor which made his company so agreeable. At the end of his Sophomore year he left Cornell to prepare to enter West Point military academy. He finally secured an appointment, and after four years of hard work took his rank in 1886. He was at once commissioned for service and stationed under Captain Pierce at the White Mt. Indian reservation agency in the south eastern part of Arizona. He was detailed to take charge of a body of Indians who were digging ditches and building dams for a system of local irrigation. Two of the Indians became unruly and were put in confinement. This so enraged a son of one of the prisoners that he attacked Lieutenant Mott who was unarmed. The Indian shot Mott before bystanders could come to his rescue. Mott pluckily rode back to the agency, •nearly ten miles. His wounds were at first thought slight but they terminated in his death in the early part of March.