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Sergeant Arthur C. Dyer, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Killed by “Gunshot wound of chest, penetrating” during engagement with Big Foot Band, hostile Sioux Indians, at Wounded Knee Post Office, S. D. Dec. 29, ’90. Sergeant Dyer had been with the A Troop for over eight and a half … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, Fort Riley, Killed in Action, Lakota, Miniconjou, Myles Moylan, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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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
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Tagged 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Big Foot, Cavalry, Ernest Garlington, Fort Riley, Miniconjou, Myles Moylan, Oglala Lakota, 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 