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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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Private Dominick Franceschetti, G Troop, 7th Cavalry – Left for Dead


He had been scalped, his head crushed in, hands cut off and in other ways horribly mutilated. Private Dominick Franceschetti, who had been with the 7th Cavalry Regiment for a year, came through the Battle of Wounded Knee unscathed.  He was not … Continue reading

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Excerpt from Field Return of Seventh Cavalry “In the Field,” Commanded by Colonel James W. Forsyth, for the Month of December, 1890


As required by Army Regulations, the 7th Cavalry submitted its monthly return on the last day of December, two days after the battle on Wounded Knee Creek and the day after the battle on White Clay Creek near the Drexel … Continue reading

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