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Private Adam Neder, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – Distinguished Bravery
…for distinguished bravery on December, 1890, while serving with Company A, 7th U.S. Cavalry, during the Sioux Campaign. Adam Neder was a twenty-five-year-old private in Captain Moylan’s A Troop and four years into his first enlistment when he found himself … Continue reading
Immigrant Soldiers – Saddler Frey and Privates Johnson, Logan, and Regan, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed by Gunshot Wounds to the Head
I lost only four men in my Troop, and they were of the guard across and in the vicinity of the ravine to the south and west… Captain Myles Moylan testified to the casualties in his troop on the first day … Continue reading
Captain Myles Moylan, Commander of A Troop, 7th Cavalry
…when the Indians opened fire it was regardless of the consequences to their women and children and to the inevitable destruction of them. Such Was the testimony on January 7, 1891, of the grizzled fifty-two-year-old commander of A Troop, 7th … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 