Category Archives: Casualties
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
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
Private Jan De Vreede, C Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Private Jan DeVreede, a thirty-two-year-old Belgium immigrant, was the only soldier from Captain Henry Jackson’s C Troop that was killed at Wounded Knee. By December 1890 he had over four years experience with the unit and the regiment. Like many … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 