Fort Missoula had its share of heroes and villains. On the Texas frontier, in 1874, Ernest Veuve earned the Congressional Medal of Honor. He later went on to serve as sergeant with the quartermaster's office at Fort Missoula from November 1877 to January 1880. He resigned from the army, married a local woman, and went into business in Missoula as a wood merchant. He is buried in the Missoula Public Cemetery.
Sergeant Guenther Gustav Rumrich, alias Thodor Koerner was a member of the U. S. Army stationed at Fort Missoula. Not only was he a drug addict, an alcoholic, an army deserter - twice, and an embezzler of mess funds from Fort Missoula; he became a spy for the Germans from May 1936 to February 1938. He was captured, tried, convicted and sentenced to two years in prison. He disappeared from the record after his release.