Category Archives: Award Recipients
First Lieutenant John Chowning Gresham, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Extraordinary Heroism
Send me more men; there is a whole raft of them; let’s get them out; I don’t know what they are. In December 1890, thirty-nine-year-old John Gresham was an experienced officer that had been with the 7th Cavalry for over … Continue reading
Corporal Harry Wadsworth Capron, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Extraordinary Gallantry
…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
Sergeant James Henry Ward, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Extraordinary Heroism
Frederic Remington’s “The Opening of the Fight at Wounded,” published in Harper’s Weekly.[1] …continued to fight after being severely wounded. Sergeant James H. Ward was a thirty-six-year-old sergeant in Captain Varnum’s B Troop at Wounded Knee. He was one of … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 