Monthly Archives: December 2013
Lakota Casualties at Wounded Knee
The number of Lakota that were killed as a result of Wounded Knee has remained an unknown question that the Army, reporters, historians, and, perhaps most importantly, the survivors and their relatives have wrestled with since the day of the engagement. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, Department of the Missouri, Department of the Platte, Forsyth, ghost dance, James Forsyth, Killed in Action, Lakota, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Samuel Whitside, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Corporal Horace Ross Forrest, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Harry R. Forrest was a twenty-four-year-old corporal in Captain Varnum’s B Troop at Wounded Knee with two and a half years of experience in the Army and that unit. As with the other six soldiers in B Troop that were killed … Continue reading
Assuredly it was a terrible, lamentable tragedy. But it seems to me that we should be a mature enough people to view it not in terms of the easy, conventional stereotypes of good guys and bad guys but in terms, … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 