About Sam Russell
I am a fifth-generation retired Army officer with three decades of commissioned service. I have been researching the frontier Army for over eighteen years and am interested in documenting the lives of the soldiers that participated in the battle of Wounded Knee using primarily official reports, diaries, letters, newspaper articles and other primary source documents.
My interest in Wounded Knee stems from my kinship to one of the principal participants. I am the great-great-grandson of Samuel M. Whitside, who was a major and battalion commander at the battle.
I welcome and encourage comments on posts and pages and am always interested in any new primary sources. If you have copies of letters, diaries, etc, from participants and are willing to share, please contact me.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this blog are strictly my own, and should in no way be construed as official Army or U.S. Government positons.
…rushing forward and saving the life of a wounded sergeant of his troop by disabling his assailant. Harry W. Capron had turned twenty-four just a few short weeks prior to the battle at Wounded Knee Creek where he served as … Continue reading →
Posted in Award Recipients, Enlisted
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Certificate of Merit, Fort Riley, 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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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 →
Posted in Casualties, Official Reports
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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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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 →
Posted in Casualties, Enlisted
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Fort Riley, Killed in Action, Lakota, Miniconjou, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 