Tag Archives: Sioux
Hunting for Big Foot, part 3: 25 December 1890.
Big Foot has had time enough to reach the Bad Lands, but was not there this morning nor had his trail been found by Henry. –Brig. Gen. J. R. Brooke This day 125 years ago… as Christmas Day dawned over … Continue reading
Posted in Official Reports
Tagged 1890, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Battle of Wounded Knee, Big Foot, Cavalry, Department of the Platte, John R. Brooke, Lakota, Miniconjou, Nelson A. Miles, Oglala Lakota, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Captain Joseph Henry Hurst and Lieutenant Harry Clay Hale, 12th Infantry – Courage, Fortitude, Good Judgment, and Tact
The statement of the services immediately performed by Capt. Hurst and Lieut. Hale carries with it so evident a suggestion of every meritorious conduct on their part that special remark thereof would seem superfluous. –Brigadier General Thomas H. Ruger Second … Continue reading
Colonel Eugene A. Carr, 6th Cavalry, Commander’s Report of the Campaign
I found the Indians retiring, though still firing, and pursued them for some distance towards their camp, when as night was falling and they were fully repulsed and the policy was not to bring on an engagement, I returned. Colonel … Continue reading
Posted in Officers, Official Reports
Tagged 1890, 1891, 6th Cavalry, Eugene A. Carr, Grass Creek, Medal of Honor, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Sioux
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Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 