Cast
of
Characters
Seamus Donegan Samantha Donegan
Army Scouts
Frank Grouard (“The Grabber,” Yugata)
Louis (Louie) Richaud (Reshaw)
Baptiste Pourier (“Big Bat,” Left Hand)
William F. Cody
*Charles / James / Jonathan White (“Buffalo Chips Charlie”)
Tait / Tate
Baptiste Garnier (“Little Bat”)
John Wallace “Captain Jack” Crawford (“The Poet Scout”)
“Buckskin Jack” Russell
“Texas Jack” Omohundro
Military
Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan—Commander, Division of the Missouri (Chicago)
Brigadier General George C. Crook—commanding Department of the Platte (HQ—Omaha, Nebraska)
General Alfred H. Terry—commanding Department of the Dakota
Colonel Wesley Merritt—Commanding Officer, Fifth Cavalry (Brevet MAJOR GENERAL)
Colonel Nelson A. Miles—Commanding Officer, Fifth In-fantry
Lieutenant Colonel William B. Royall—Commanding Officer, Third Cavalry (Brevet COLONEL)
Lieutenant Colonel Eugene A. Carr—Fifth Cavalry (Brevet MAJOR GENERAL)
Lieutenant Colonel James W. “Sandy” Forsyth—headquarters staff, Division of the Missouri
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Nelson Garland Whistler—Fifth Infantry
Major Edwin F. Townsend—Post Commander, Fort Laramie (Brevet COLONEL)
Major Alexander Chambers—Commanding Officer, Fourth Infantry (Brevet COLONEL)
Major Andrew W. Evans—Second in Command, Third Cavalry (Brevet COLONEL) Battalion Commander
Major John J. Upham—Fifth Cavalry, Battalion Commander
Captain Julius W. Mason—K Troop, Fifth Cavalry (Brevet LIEUTENANT COLONEL) Battalion Commander
Captain William H. Jordan—Ninth Infantry, Commanding Officer, Camp Robinson (Brevet MAJOR)
Captain James “Teddy” Egan—K. Troop, Second Cavalry
Captain Emil Adams—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Captain Thomas B. Weir—Seventh Cavalry
Captain Edward W. Smith—adjutant to General Alfred Terry
Captain Thaddeus H. Stanton—Paymaster, Department of the Platte, Commander of Volunteers (Brevet MAJOR)
Captain Samuel Munson—C Company, Ninth Infantry
Captain Andrew S. Burt—H Company, Ninth Infantry (Brevet MAJOR)
Captain Gerhard L. Luhn—F Company, Fourth Infantry
Captain Daniel W. Burke—C Company, Fourteenth Infantry
Captain William H. Andrews—I Troop, Third Cavalry
Captain John V. Furey—Expedition Quartermaster, commanding wagon/supply train
Captain Henry E. Noyes—I Troop, Second Cavalry (Brevet MAJOR) Battalion Commander
Captain George M. (“Black Jack”) Randall—Chief of Scouts, Twenty-third Infantry (Brevet MAJOR)
Captain William H. Powell—G Company, Fourth Infantry Captain Anson Mills—M Troop, Third Cavalry (Brevet COLONEL)
Captain Frederick Van Vliet—C Troop, Third Cavalry (Brevet MAJOR)
Captain Alexander Sutorius—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
Captain Peter D. Vroom—L Troop, Third Cavalry
Captain Elijah R. Wells—E. Troop, Second Cavalry
Captain Samuel S. Sumner—D Troop, Fifth Cavalry (Brevet MAJOR)
Captain Robert H. Montgomery—B. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Captain Sanford C. Kellogg—I Troop, Fifth Cavalry (Brevet LIEUTENANT COLONEL)
Captain George F. Price—E. Troop, Fifth Cavalry Captain Edward M. Hayes—G Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Captain J. Scott Payne—F Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Captain H. J. Nowlan—Seventh Cavalry, acting assistant quartermaster to the Dakota Column
Lieutenant John G. Bourke—aide-de-camp to General Crook
Lieutenant Henry R. Lemly—Regimental Adjutant to Colonel Royall
First Lieutenant William L. Carpenter—G Company, Ninth Infantry
First Lieutenant Adolphus H. Von Luettwitz—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant Augustus C. Paul—M Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey—Seventh Cavalry
First Lieutenant Emmet Crawford—G Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant Henry Seton—D Company, Fourth Infantry
First Lieutenant Joseph Lawson—A Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant William C. Forbush—Fifth Cavalry, Assistant Adjutant General
First Lieutenant Charles King—Fifth Cavalry, Adjutant
First Lieutenant William P. Hall—Fifth Cavalry, Quartermaster
First Lieutenant Walter S. Schuyler—Fifth Cavalry, aide-decamp to Crook
First Lieutenant William Philo Clark—I Troop, Second Cavalry, aide-de-camp to General Crook
Second Lieutenant Robert London—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry (after Wilson resigns)
Second Lieutenant Charles M. Rockefeller—H Company, Ninth Infantry
Second Lieutenant Edgar B. Robertson—H Company, Ninth Infantry
Second Lieutenant Henry D. Huntington—D Troop, Second Cavalry
Second Lieutenant Edward L. Keyes—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Second Lieutenant J. Hayden Pardee—Twenty-third Infantry, aide-de-camp to Merritt
Lieutenant William C. Hunter—U.S. Navy (Brevet COMMODORE)
Dr. Bennett A. Clements—Surgeon, Expedition Medical Director (oversaw eight medical personnel, assistant surgeons and stewards)
Dr. Albert Hartsuff—Assistant Surgeon
Dr. Julius H. Patzki—Assistant Surgeon
Dr. Charles R. Stephens—Assistant Surgeon
Dr. J. W. Powell—Assistant Surgeon, Fifth Cavalry
Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy—Assistant Surgeon
First Lieutenant Alfred B. Bache—F Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Second Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka—M Troop, Third Cavalry
Second Lieutenant George F. Chase—L Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant John W. Bubb—Commissary of Subsistence
First Lieutenant Emmet Crawford—G Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant William B. Rawolle—E. Troop, Second Cavalry
Lieutenant Frederick W. Sibley—E. Troop, Second Cavalry
Sergeant Oscar Cornwall—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Sergeant Charles W. Day—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Sergeant G. P. Harrington—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
†Sergeant Edmund Schreiber—K. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
†Sergeant John A. Kirkwood—M Troop, Third Cavalry
†Sergeant Edward Glass—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
Corporal Thomas C. Warren—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Corporal Thomas W. Wilkinson—K. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Corporal J. S. Clanton—B. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Private Valentine Rufus—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private Patrick Hasson—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private George Rhode—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private George Watts—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private Henry Collins—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private William Evans—E. Company, Seventh Infantry
Private Benjamin F. Stewart—E. Company, Seventh Infantry
Private James Bell—E Company, Seventh Infantry
Private Christian Madsen—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry
*Private John Wenzel—A Troop, Third Cavalry
Private Albert Glavinski—M Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private Orlando H. Duren—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
*Private Edward Kennedy—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry
†Private John M. Stevenson—I Troop, Second Cavalry
†Private August Dorn—D Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Private Cyrus B. Milner—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry
†Private Edward Kiernan—E Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private William B. DuBois—C Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private August Foran—D Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private Charles Foster—B Troop, Third Cavalry
Shoshone Allies
Washakie
Sioux
American Horse Little Eagle
Dog Necklace Antelope Tail
Charging Bear Red Horse
Iron Thunder
Cheyenne
Yellow Hair Rain Maker
Civilian Characters
John “Trailer Jack” Becker—packer on Sibley Scout
Wilbur Storey—owner/publisher, Chicago Times
Clint Snowden—city editor, Chicago Times
Thomas Moore—Chief of Pack Train
Richard “Uncle Dick” Closter
Grant Marsh—captain, Far West steamboat
Dave Campbell—pilot, Far West steamboat
†James B. Glover—packer
E. B. Farnum—Mayor of Deadwood
Martha Luhn—officer’s wife at Fort Laramie
Elizabeth Burt—officer’s wife at Fort Laramie
Robert Strahorn—correspondent, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Chicago Tribune, Cheyenne Sun, and the Omaha Republican
John F. Finerty—correspondent, Chicago Times
Joe Wasson—correspondent, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Press, and San Francisco Alta California
Reuben B. Davenport—correspondent, New York Herald
T. B. MacMillan—correspondent, Chicago Inter-Ocean
J. J. Talbot—correspondent, New York Graphic
Barbour Lathrop—correspondent, San Francisco Evening Bulletin
Cuthbert Mills—New York Times
Tom Cosgrove—civilian leader of the Shoshone battalion
Nelson Yarnell—Cosgrove’s lieutenant
Yancy Eckles—Cosgrove’s sergeant
*killed in the battle of Slim Buttes
†wounded at the Battle of Slim Buttes