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Prussian Butcher Private August Kellner, E Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Private August Kellner was a twenty-nine-year-old Prussian immigrant three months into his second five-year enlistment when he was shot in the head at Wounded Knee. He was one of two soldiers in Captain Ilsley’s E Troop to be killed that … Continue reading
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
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 