Author Archives: Sam Russell
Second Lieutenant Tommy Tompkins, D Troop, 7th Cavalry
…if I had not been with my Regiment when it went into action I should have regretted it all my life. Captain Godfrey’s second lieutenant, Selah R. H. Tompkins, was a young twenty-six year-old that had been with D troop … Continue reading
Posted in Officers, Wounded Knee Investigation
Tagged 1890, 1891, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Cavalry, ghost dance, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pink Whiskers, Tommy Tompkins, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Corporal Charles H. Newell, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Died of Wounds
Following the initial melee at Wounded Knee surrounding the council circle, many of the soldiers of B and K troops, the two units that formed a V around the Lakota men, lay dead or dying. Correspondent Charles H. Cressey furiously wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Casualties, Enlisted
Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, ghost dance, Killed in Action, Lakota, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Samuel M. Whitside letter, Part 1
Originally posted on Regular Cavalry in the Civil War:
Samuel Whitside, courtesy of the David Perrine collection. In a recent trip to the National Archives, friend Samuel Russell came across this letter from his ancestor, Samuel M. Whitside, and was…
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Army at Wounded Knee 