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.
The mounted troops then pursued the renegades, who fought viciously and did severe execution in a most determined fight in which many were killed and wounded. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles’s court of inquiry into Colonel James W. Forsyth’s … Continue reading →
Posted in Officers, Wounded Knee Investigation
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Tagged 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Brevet, Cavalry, Forsyth, James Forsyth, John R. Brooke, Lakota, Military Investigation, Miniconjou, Nelson A. Miles, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Samuel Whitside, Sioux, whitside, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Muster Roll of Captain Myles Moylan’s Troop A of the Seventh Regiment of Cavalry, Army of the United States, (Colonel James W. Forsyth,) from the 31st day of October, 1890 to the 31st day of December, 1890. [Names in bold are … Continue reading →
Posted in Muster Rolls, Official Reports
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Tagged 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Cavalry, Lakota, Miniconjou, Myles Moylan, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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for courage, zeal , and attention to duty in action against hostile Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, especially after having been severely wounded through the lung. Sergeant George Loyd was one of the most experienced non-commissioned officers … Continue reading →
Posted in Award Recipients, Enlisted
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Tagged 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, George Loyd, Lakota, Medal of Honor, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, 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 