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.
In 1896, Major Edward S. Godfrey wrote an article for the Journal of Military Service Institution in which he described fire discipline and its connection to the training and control of soldiers in combat. He offers several vignettes from his … Continue reading →
Posted in Professional Journal
|
Tagged 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Cavalry, cavalry tactics, Edward Godfrey, fire discipline, Godfrey, Lakota, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
|
It would not be economizing fact very much to say that this man was literally shot to pieces. –Assistant Surgeon C. B. Ewing According to the 7th Cavalry field return of 31 December 1890, Captain Moylan’s A Troop suffered a … Continue reading →
Posted in Casualties, Enlisted
|
Tagged 7th Cavalry, Big Foot, Cavalry, Eskilstuna, Fort Riley, Herman Ewing, Lakota, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Sweden, Swedish Emigrants, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
|
A year after the battle along the Wounded Knee Creek Captain Charles B. Ewing, Assistant Surgeon of the Department of the Platte, addressed the Association of Military Surgeons of the National Guard at St. Louis, Missouri, on April 19, 1892 … Continue reading →
Posted in Casualties, Professional Journal
|
Tagged 7th Cavalry, Assistant Surgeon, Battlefield Wounds, Charles Ewing, Gunshot Wounds, Lakota, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
|
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 