Tag Archives: Cavalry
Major Samuel Marmaduke Whitside’s Campaign Letters
I am fully convinced the trouble will terminate without a shot being fired. The 7th Cavalry arrived at the Pine Ridge agency on 27 November 1890 and Major S. M. Whitside, as with many of the officers, began writing letters … Continue reading
Second Lieutenant Tommy Tompkins, D Troop, 7th Cavalry
…if I had not been with my Regiment when it went into action I should have regretted it all my life. Captain Godfrey’s second lieutenant, Selah R. H. Tompkins, was a young twenty-six year-old that had been with D troop … Continue reading
Posted in Officers, Wounded Knee Investigation
Tagged 1890, 1891, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Cavalry, ghost dance, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pink Whiskers, Tommy Tompkins, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Corporal Charles H. Newell, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Died of Wounds
Following the initial melee at Wounded Knee surrounding the council circle, many of the soldiers of B and K troops, the two units that formed a V around the Lakota men, lay dead or dying. Correspondent Charles H. Cressey furiously wrote … Continue reading
Posted in Casualties, Enlisted
Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, ghost dance, Killed in Action, Lakota, Miniconjou, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 