Tag Archives: Wounded Knee Creek
Sergeant Albert Walter McMillan, E Troop, 7th Cavalry – Conspicuous Gallantry
While engaged with Indians concealed in a ravine, Sergeant McMillan assisted the men on the skirmish line, directed their fire, encouraged them by example, and used every effort to dislodge the enemy. Sergeant Albert W. McMillan had been in the … Continue reading
Captain Charles Stillman Ilsley, Commander, E Troop and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry
I might say, in the general rush of the bucks, it was impossible for the men to distinguish the bucks from the squaws. Captain Charles S. Ilsley, at fifty-three years of age, was the most senior and one of the two … Continue reading
Map of Wounded Knee and Its Maker – Second Lieutenant Sydney Amos Cloman, 1st Infantry Regiment
As Major General Miles contemplated an investigation of Colonel Forsyth and the 7th Cavalry Regiment’s actions at Wounded Knee, he knew he needed a detailed map depicting the location of the troops, the Indian council and their village, and the … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 