Tag Archives: 1890
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
Posted in Casualties, Newspaper Articles, Wounded Knee Investigation
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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Second Lieutenant Thomas Quinton Donaldson, C Troop, 7th Cavarly
One of these bucks I took a rifle from; he was lying under a squaw’s blanket with her, and had evidently tried there to shield himself while firing ; both were dead. Lieutenant T. Q. Donaldson was one of the youngest … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Lakota, Military Investigation, Miniconjou, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, United States Military Academy, White Clay Creek, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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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 