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Sergeant Alvin H. Haselwood, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – Last to Die of Wounds
Captain Myles Moylan’s Troop A suffered five soldiers killed in action and six wounded in action at Wounded Knee, one of whom died of wounds the following day at Pine Ridge. The dead included Sergeant Arthur C. Dyer shot in … Continue reading
Private Adam Neder, A Troop, 7th Cavalry – Distinguished Bravery
…for distinguished bravery on December, 1890, while serving with Company A, 7th U.S. Cavalry, during the Sioux Campaign. Adam Neder was a twenty-five-year-old private in Captain Moylan’s A Troop and four years into his first enlistment when he found himself … 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
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 