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Category - Collectibles - Western - Collectibles - Winchester

Category
Collectibles - Western
Collectibles - Winchester

Historical Battle of Wounded Knee Guidon Flag. 7th CAV. F. COMPANY Indian Wars.

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2nd most important Indian Wars flag. Battle of Wounded Knee. 7th Cav F. Company Guideon Flag. 
During its posting from 1888 to 1892 at Fort Riley, Kansas the 7th would take part in the Battle of Wounded Knee-known to many of its critics as the Wounded Knee Massacre. In November 1890, soldiers from the 7th traveled by rail from Fort Riley to Wounded Knee, where they joined the 6th, 8th, and 9th Cavalry regiments to pursue a band of Sioux Indians, many of whom belonged to the mystic Ghost Dance movement which was prophesied by some of its followers to empty the Great Plains of white settlers and to restore the buffalo herds. 
On December 29, the Sioux leader Big Foot and several hundred of his people were camped along the banks of Wounded Knee Creek. As U.S. soldiers who had surrounded the camp moved to disarm Big Foot and his warriors, a shot rang out and chaos erupted. From the heights above the Indian camp, the soldiers fired not only at Big Foot's armed men, but indiscriminately at teepees holding dozens of women and children. 
Perhaps three hundred Sioux died at Wounded Knee, along with twenty-five U.S. soldiers. The battle-or massacre-crushed the Ghost Dance movement, ended the Indian Wars, and, for many soldiers of the 7th and large numbers of other Americans, constituted the final revenge for Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. .
During the late 1890s, the regiment used Fort Bayard in the New Mexico Territory and Forts Grant and Huachuca in the Arizona Territory as bases for pursuit of scattered bands of Indian raiders, sometimes into Mexico. Young Edgar Rice Burroughs, who would go on to fame as creator the Tarzan books, served briefly with the 7th at Fort Grant until his discharge from the Army because of a heart problem


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