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Sergeant Albert Walter McMillan, E Troop, 7th Cavalry – Conspicuous Gallantry
While engaged with Indians concealed in a ravine, Sergeant McMillan assisted the men on the skirmish line, directed their fire, encouraged them by example, and used every effort to dislodge the enemy. Sergeant Albert W. McMillan had been in the … Continue reading
Captain Charles Stillman Ilsley, Commander, E Troop and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry
I might say, in the general rush of the bucks, it was impossible for the men to distinguish the bucks from the squaws. Captain Charles S. Ilsley, at fifty-three years of age, was the most senior and one of the two … Continue reading
First Lieutenant William Wallace Robinson, Jr, Adjutant, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry
They turned like a flash of lightning almost, throwing off their blankets, all of them grasping their rifles, and fired a volley into the men to the direction of the battery. At forty-four years of age, First Lieutenant William W. … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 