Tag Archives: 1890
Private William S. Mezo, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Private William S. Mezo was one of the new recruits that joined Captain Charles A. Varnum’s B Troop at Pine Ridge on 6 December three weeks prior to the battle at Wounded Knee Creek. He was twenty-five years of age … Continue reading
Sergeant Haselwood and Mount
Sergeant Alvin H. Haselwood, A Troop, 7th Cavalry, with his mount, likely at Fort Riley, Kansas, circa 1890. Haselwood died of pneumonia in the Fort Riley Post Hospital while recovering from wounds he received in battle at Wounded Knee. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Fort Riley
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Sergeant Arthur C. Dyer, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Killed by “Gunshot wound of chest, penetrating” during engagement with Big Foot Band, hostile Sioux Indians, at Wounded Knee Post Office, S. D. Dec. 29, ’90. Sergeant Dyer had been with the A Troop for over eight and a half … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, Fort Riley, Killed in Action, Lakota, Miniconjou, Myles Moylan, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Army at Wounded Knee 