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Second Lieutenant Tommy Tompkins, D Troop, 7th Cavalry
…if I had not been with my Regiment when it went into action I should have regretted it all my life. Captain Godfrey’s second lieutenant, Selah R. H. Tompkins, was a young twenty-six year-old that had been with D troop … Continue reading
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Tagged 1890, 1891, 7th Cavalry, 7th Cavalry Regiment (United States), Cavalry, ghost dance, Pine Ridge, Pine Ridge Agency, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pink Whiskers, Tommy Tompkins, Wounded Knee, Wounded Knee Creek, Wounded Knee Massacre
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Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 