Tag Archives: Wounded Knee Creek
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
Sergeant Major Richard W. Corwine, 7th Cavalry Regiment, Killed in Action
When I die nobody will ever know more of me than now. On November 27, 1868, on the Washita River, the 7th Cavalry Regiment’s sergeant major, Walter P. Kennedy, was killed in action along with Major Joel H. Elliott and … Continue reading
Sam Russell
Army at Wounded Knee 