Tag Archives: Nelson A. Miles
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
Lieutenant William Jones Nicholson, Adjutant, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry
…immediately the whole lot of bucks rose, threw off their blankets, faced about and delivered a volley directed towards K Troop and their own tepees, which were surrounded or occupied by women and children. On 29 December 1890 Lieutenant William … Continue reading
Captain Myles Moylan, Commander of A Troop, 7th Cavalry
…when the Indians opened fire it was regardless of the consequences to their women and children and to the inevitable destruction of them. Such Was the testimony on January 7, 1891, of the grizzled fifty-two-year-old commander of A Troop, 7th … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 