Tag Archives: Cavalry
Assuredly it was a terrible, lamentable tragedy. But it seems to me that we should be a mature enough people to view it not in terms of the easy, conventional stereotypes of good guys and bad guys but in terms, … Continue reading
Private John Costello, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
I will explain to Mr. Roosevelt how my brother died fighting for his Country and how his country has repaid his poor widowed mother for the sacrifice. –Gertrude, sister of Private Costello While most of the casualties in Captain Varnum’s B … Continue reading
Sergeant James Henry Ward, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Extraordinary Heroism
Frederic Remington’s “The Opening of the Fight at Wounded,” published in Harper’s Weekly.[1] …continued to fight after being severely wounded. Sergeant James H. Ward was a thirty-six-year-old sergeant in Captain Varnum’s B Troop at Wounded Knee. He was one of … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 