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Corporal Horace Ross Forrest, B Troop, 7th Cavalry – Killed in Action


Harry R. Forrest was a twenty-four-year-old corporal in Captain Varnum’s B Troop at Wounded Knee with two and a half years of experience in the Army and that unit.  As with the other six soldiers in B Troop that were killed … Continue reading

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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

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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

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