page_title: Wounded Knee Massacre
section_title: Order of battle
hierarchical_section_title: Wounded Knee Massacre / Order of battle
caption_attribution_description: English: Nineteenth century photo of Winfield Scott Edgerly in his dress uniform.
context_page_description: The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota people, by soldiers of the United States Army. It occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota, following a botched attempt to disarm the Lakota camp. The previous day, a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment commanded by Major Samuel M. Whitside intercepted Spotted Elk's band of Miniconjou Lakota and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota near Porcupine Butte and escorted them 5 miles westward to Wounded Knee Creek, where they made camp. The remainder of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, led by Colonel James W. Forsyth, arrived and surrounded the encampment. The regiment was supported by a battery of four Hotchkiss mountain guns.
  On the morning of December 29, the U.S. Cavalry troops went into the camp to disarm the Lakota. One version of events claims that during the process of disarming the Lakota, a deaf tribesman named Black Coyote was reluctant to give up his rifle, claiming he had paid a lot for it. Simultaneously, an old man was performing a ritual called the Ghost Dance.
context_section_description: 7th U.S. Cavalry
  
  Col James W. Forsyth
  Adjutant: 1st Lt. Lloyd S. McCormick
  Quartermaster: 1st Lt. Ezra B. Fuller
  Assistant Surgeon & Medical Director: Cpt. John Van Rennselaer Hoff
  Assistant Surgeon: 1st Lt. James Denver Glennan
  First Squadron
  
  Maj Samuel Whitside
  Adjutant: 1st Lt. William Jones Nicholson
  Troop A: Cpt. Myles Moylan, 1st Lt. Ernest A. Garlington
  Troop B: Cpt. Charles A. Varnum, 1st Lt. John C. Gresham
  Troop I: Cpt. Henry J. Nowlan, 2nd Lt. John C. Waterman
  Troop K: Cpt. George D. Wallace (k), 1st Lt. James D. Mann
  Second Squadron
  
  Cpt. Charles S. Isley
  Adjutant: 1st Lt. W.W. Robinson II
  Troop C: Cpt. Henry Jackson, 2nd Lt. T.Q. Donaldson
  Troop D: Cpt. Edward S. Godfrey, 2nd Lt. S.R.J. Tompkins
  Troop E: Cpt. Charles S. Isley, 1st Lt. Horatio G. Sickel, 2nd Lt. Sedgwick Rice
  Troop G: Cpt. Winfield S. Edgerly, 1st Lt. Edwin P. Brewer
  Battery E, 1st U.S. Artillery
  Captain Allyn Capron
  2nd Lt. Harry L. Hawthorne (2nd U.S. Artillery)
  4 Hotchkiss Breech-Loading Mountain Rifles
  Troop A, Indian Scouts
  1st Lt. George W. Taylor (9th U.S. Cavalry)
  2nd Lt. Guy H. Preston (9th U.S. Cavalry)
  Lakota
  120 men, 230 women and children
caption: Captain Winfield Scott Edgerly
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