Captain Charles Stillman Ilsley, Commander, E Troop and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry

Originally posted on Army at Wounded Knee:

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, Commander, E Troop and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry, at Pine Ridge Agency, 16 Jan. 1891. Cropped from John C. H. Grabill’s photograph, “The Fighting 7th Officers.”

Captain Charles S. Ilsley, at fifty-three years of age, was themost senior and one of the two oldest of the captains in the 7th Cavalry. He had been...