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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
1891 Annual Report of Major General Miles – Part 4
Major General Nelson A. Miles concluded his annual report of 1891 by detailing the affairs at Wounded Knee and Drexel Mission, the effect those two incidents had on the overall campaign, and the eventual surrender of all the hostile Indians. … Continue reading
Major Whitside’s Official Report of the Capture of Big Foot’s Band
Following the battles of Wounded Knee Creek on 29 December and White Clay Creek on 30 December, and the military funeral of thirty 7th Cavalry troopers on 31 December, Major Samuel M. Whitside finally had an opportunity to write his official … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 