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Private George Hobday, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – the Gallant Cook from Kent, England
..displayed conspicuous and gallant conduct in battle, when voluntarily leaving his work as cook, his gallantry was noticed by several officers. On the morning of December 29, 1890, while troopers of 7th Cavalry’s 1st Battalion were manning their posts as … Continue reading
Private Dominick Franceschetti, G Troop, 7th Cavalry – Left for Dead
He had been scalped, his head crushed in, hands cut off and in other ways horribly mutilated. Private Dominick Franceschetti, who had been with the 7th Cavalry Regiment for a year, came through the Battle of Wounded Knee unscathed. He was not … Continue reading
Major Samuel Marmaduke Whitside, Commander of 7th Cavalry’s 1st Battalion
The mounted troops then pursued the renegades, who fought viciously and did severe execution in a most determined fight in which many were killed and wounded. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles’s court of inquiry into Colonel James W. Forsyth’s … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 