Tag Archives: Forsyth
B Troop, 7th Cavalry, Pine Ridge, S.D., Jan. 18th, 1891
L. T. Butterfield was one of the many photographers that converged on the Pine Ridge Reservation in January 1891 following the affair at Wounded Knee. The photographer from Chadron, Nebraska captured this image of a formation of cavalrymen of B … 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
Lieut. J. C. Gresham’s Account of Wounded Knee
The following article appeared in the 7 February 1891 issue of Harper’s Weekly less than two weeks after the 7th Cavalry Regiment had returned to Fort Riley. In his account, First Lieutenant John C. Gresham provides the first complete narrative … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 