Wolf Mountain Moon: The Battle of the Butte, 1877

Cast of Characters

Seamus Donegan Samantha Donegan

Military

Brigadier General George C. Crook—Department of the Platte

Colonel William B. Hazen—commanding Sixth U.S. Infantry, Fort Buford, M.T.

Colonel Nelson A. Miles—commanding Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.

Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie—commanding Fourth U.S. Cavalry

Lieutenant Colonel Elwell S. Otis—Twenty-second U.S. Infantry

Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Whistler—Fifth U.S. Infantry

Major Alfred L. Hough—Seventeenth U.S. Infantry, commanding at Glendive Cantonment

Major Henry R. Tilton—Surgeon, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Major Edwin F. Townsend—Commanding Officer, Fort Laramie, W.T.

Captain Charles J. Dickey—E Company, Twenty-second Infantry

Captain Ezra P. Ewers—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain—Randall—Quartermaster, Fifth U.S. Infantry, Tongue River Cantonment, M.T.

Captain Wyllys Lyman—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain James S. Casey—A Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Andrew S. Bennett—B Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Edmond Butler—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Simon Snyder—F Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Captain Edwin Pollock—Ninth U.S. Infantry, commander of Reno Cantonment

First Lieutenant Frank D. Baldwin—Fifth U.S. Infantry

First Lieutenant Cornelius C. Cusick—F Company, Twenty-second Infantry

First Lieutenant Mason Carter—K Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

First Lieutenant George W. Baird—regimental adjutant, Fifth U.S. Infantry

First Lieutenant Robert McDonald—D Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant Russell H. Day—Sixth U.S. Infantry, commanding garrison at Fort Peck

Second Lieutenant David Q. Rousseau—G Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant William H. Wheeler—Eleventh U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant Frank S. Hinkle—H Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Second Lieutenant Charles E. Hargous—Fifth U.S. Infantry, commanding mounted infantry to Wolf Mountain

Second Lieutenant Hobart K. Bailey—Fifth U.S. Infantry, aide-de-camp to Miles

Second Lieutenant James Worden Pope—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry, commanding Rodman gun

Second Lieutenant Edward W. Casey—Twenty-second U.S. Infantry, assisting Pope’s artillery detail: in charge of Napoleon gun

Second Lieutenant Oscar F. Long—Fifth U.S. Infantry, acting engineering officer

Second Lieutenant William H. C. Bowen—Fifth U.S. Infantry, in charge of supply wagons

Second Lieutenant James H. Whitten—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry, in charge of pack animals

Trumpeter Edwin M. Brown

Private Thomas Kelly—I Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Private Richard Bellows—E Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Private Philip Kennedy—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry Private

Patton G. Whited—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

Assistant Surgeon Louis S. Tesson

Civilians

Thomas J. Mitchell—agent at Fort Peck

Elizabeth Burt

Martha Luhn

Nettie Capron

Army Scouts

Johnny Bruguier / “Big Leggings”

Luther S. (Sage) “Yellowstone” Kelly

Robert Jackson

William Jackson

Victor Smith

John Johnston

George Johnson

James Parker

William Cross

Jim Woods

Tom Leforge

Joe Culbertson

Edward Lambert

George Boyd

Left Hand—Yanktonai scout for Baldwin on Fort Peck expedition

Buffalo Horn—Bannock scout for Miles on Wolf Mountain Campaign

Lakota

Sitting Bull

Gall

Three Bears

Little Big Man

Pretty Bear

Foolish Thunder

White Bull

Bull Eagle

Small Bear

Touch-the-Clouds

Roman Nose

Spotted Elk

Red Horse

Tall Bull

Packs the Drum / “Sitting Bull the Good”

Yellow Eagle

Foolish Bear

Important Man

Long Dog

Black Moon

Little Knife

Crow

Spotted Blackbird

Iron Dog

Yellow Liver

Four Horns

Red Horn

Drag

Hollow Horns

White Horse

Red Horses

Fat Hide / Fat on the Beef

The Yearling

Lame Red Skirt / Red Cloth

Lone Horn

Bad Leg

No Neck

Long Feather

Rising Sun

Jumping Bull

Black Shawl

Crazy Horse

Runs-the-Bear

He Dog

Hump

Long Hair

Cheyenne

“Tse-tsehese-staeste”

“Those Who Are Hearted Alike”

White Bull

Wooden Leg

Black Moccasin (Limber Lance)

Yellow Weasel

Black Hawk

Yellow Hair

Big Crow

Crow Split Nose

Sits in the Night

Morning Star

Little Wolf

Old Bear

Young Two Moon

Beaver Claws

Left-Handed Wolf

Beaver Dam

Big Horse

Crow Necklace

Gypsum

Brave Wolf

High Wolf

Box Elder

Coal Bear

Long Jaw

Medicine Bear

Cheyenne Party Captured by Miles’s Scouts

Old Wool Woman / Sweet Taste Woman

Crooked Nose Woman

Fingers Woman

Twin Woman

Crane Woman

Red Hood

Black Horse

Crow

Half Yellow Face

Old Bear

Assiniboine

White Dog

Casualties:

^* Private William H. Batty—C Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^* Corporal Augustus Rothman—A Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^* / ^† Private Bernard McCann—F Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry

^† Sergeant Hiram Spangenberg—F Company, Twenty-second U.S. Infantry

^† Corporal Thomas Roehm—F Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^† Private Henry Rodenburgh—A Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^† Private George Danha—H Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^† Private William H. Daily—D Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^† Private —— McHugh—H Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^† Private —— Simond—D Company, Fifth U.S. Infantry

^* —killed in action

^† partial listing of wounded in action