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The 2nd Cavalry was ordered to charge into the Nez Perce camp. 110 Troopers of the 7th Cavalry followed the 2nd as support on the charge into the camp. 145 Soldiers of the 5th Infantry, mounted on horses, followed as a reserve with a Hotchkiss gun and the pack train. Miles rode with the 7th Cavalry.
In January 1867, Benteen departed for his new assignment with the 7th US Cavalry Regiment and its field commander Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. He was assigned to this regiment for 16 years, through many of the Indian Wars. Until 1882, except for periods of leave and detached duty, Benteen commanded H Troop of the 7th US Cavalry.
Myles Walter Keogh (25 March 1840 – 25 June 1876) was an Irish soldier. He served in the armies of the Papal States during the war for Italian unification in 1860, and was recruited into the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving as a cavalry officer, particularly under Brig. Gen. John Buford during the Gettysburg Campaign and the three-day Battle of Gettysburg.
Reinforcements arrived in the late afternoon and evening, and wounded were evacuated late in the evening, and the battle was over. The casualty toll for the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, was 155 killed, 125 wounded and at least four men missing in action. [3] The battle lasted 16 hours. [2] McDade would continue to lead the 2nd Battalion until ...
Thomas Mower McDougall in full dress uniform.. Thomas Mower McDougall (21 May 1845 – 3 July 1909) was an officer in the United States Army.The salient point in his military career occurred when he took part in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, surviving because he and his unit was not with George Armstrong Custer and the main body of the 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Hugh Thomas McGinnis (April 11, 1870 in Castlewellan, Ireland – March 22, 1965 in Iron Mountain, Michigan) was the last survivor of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. He emigrated from Ireland to America in 1887, he lived in New York and St Louis, Missouri with his sister prior to enlisting in the U.S. Army in 1890.
7th Light Cavalry, a regiment of the British Indian Army during the First and Second World Wars; 7th Cavalry Regiment, a unit of the United States Army; 7th Arkansas Cavalry Regiment, a Confederate regiment during the American Civil War; 7th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, a Union regiment during the American Civil War
7th Queen's Own Hussars - British army cavalry; 7th Royal Tank Regiment - World War II British army unit; 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery - World War II Canadian army unit; 2/7th Armoured Regiment (Australia) - World War II unit; 7th Hariana Lancers - British Indian army unit; 7th Light Cavalry - British Indian army unit