Career
He was one of three men who were received the Medal of Honor for gallantry against the Apache Indians at Red Creek in the Arizona Territory on September 23, 1869. George Ferrari was born in New York City, New York in 1845. He later joined the United States. Army in Cleveland, Ohio and was assigned to Company Doctorate of the 8th United States. Ferrari was sent to the Arizona Territory where he took part in the Apache Wars in the late-1860s.
Although he was the first and only Italian-American ever to receive the Ministry of Health during the Indian Wars, little of his life is known prior to and after leaving the military.
