Tag Archives: Samuel Whitside
Samuel M. Whitside letter, Part 1
Originally posted on Regular Cavalry in the Civil War:
Samuel Whitside, courtesy of the David Perrine collection. In a recent trip to the National Archives, friend Samuel Russell came across this letter from his ancestor, Samuel M. Whitside, and was…
Lakota Casualties at Wounded Knee
The number of Lakota that were killed as a result of Wounded Knee has remained an unknown question that the Army, reporters, historians, and, perhaps most importantly, the survivors and their relatives have wrestled with since the day of the engagement. … Continue reading
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
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 