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Second Lieutenant Sedgwick Rice, E Troop, 7th Cavalry
One of these mounted squaws was armed and fired on our line, and one of the men said then “There is a buck.” And I said “No, it is a squaw, don’t shoot on her,” and he said “Well, by … Continue reading
Posted in Award Recipients, Officers, Wounded Knee Investigation
Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Battle of Wounded Knee, Big Foot, Cavalry, Cavalry Troop, Drexel Mission, Fort Leavenworth, Fort Riley, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Irish Immigrant Sergeant Robert H. Nettles, E Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action
Troop “E” 7th Cavalry was deployed in skirmish line along the north side of a ravine from a pocket in which they were endeavoring to drive several Indians who were good shots and doing great injury to the men who … Continue reading
Posted in Casualties, Enlisted
Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Battle of Wounded Knee, Cavalry, Fort Riley, Killed in Action, Lakota, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Private Mosheim Feaster, E Troop, 7th Cavalry – Extraordinary Gallantry
For extraordinary gallantry, advancing to an exposed position and holding it, in action against hostile Sioux Indians, at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota. Twenty-one-year-old Mosheim Feaster had been in the Army little more than a year and in the 7th … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 