Category Archives: Casualties
Private Frank T. Reinecky, D Troop, 7th U.S. Cavalry – Killed in Action
My men killed three bucks and I had one man killed and one wounded. –Lieutenant Tommy Tompkins On the morning of 29 December 1890, Frank T. Reinecky, a private in Captain Godfrey’s D Troop, was mounted with his troop on the … Continue reading
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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
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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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Father Francis M. J. Craft – Missionary Wounded in Battle
Just as the tree can be traced from its smallest branches to its root, just so all this Indian trouble can be traced through all its phases to its true cause, starvation, abject misery, and despair, the cause of which is … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Brule, Father Francis Craft, Lakota, Military Investigation, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 