Category Archives: Casualties

Posts concerning soldiers that were casualties at the battles of Wounded Knee or White Clay

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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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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