![]() Weldon’s brother, Thomas, 187 Bowery Street, New York City, on 20 April 1877, requested his brother’s personal effects be sent to him.Company F left Fort Lincoln for Fort Totten several days before Donnelly and the other 154 recruits arrived at the post on 21 October 1875, which means the photograph must have been taken in Goff’s Bismarck studio shortly before the regiment set out as part of General Alfred Terry’s Dakota Column on, not October 1875 as I’ve seen quoted.The 22 year old was killed with Custer’s column on the first day of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, but his body not identified. Louis to Fort Lincoln, and joined Company M at Fort Rice, Dakota Territory on 29 October. Second Lieutenant James Garland Sturgis, son of Samuel Davis Sturgis, the Seventh’s commanding officer, also accompanied the group of 150 new recruits from St.The Post Returns of Jefferson Barracks 1872-77 are missing (Ancestry site). The five are Blacksmith John King, Company C Trumpeter James McElroy, Company D Trumpeter John Quinn (Gorham), Company D Trumpeter Charles Fisher (Hanke), Company M and Trumpeter Henry Weaver also Company M. His body was identified (one of the few) by Dennis Lynch, a private in the same company. Nineteen-year-old Donnelly was a member of Custer’s column at the Battle of the Little Big Horn on 25 June 1876 and killed with several other members of Company F in Deep Ravine. (*): Although ‘Visitor UK’ deems Dallington’s claim to be village ‘folklore’ it has generously added the address of this webpage to its own website. ![]() Army records do not show a specific county makes it even more surprising that the Dallington in East Sussex, just five miles west of the site of the historic Battle of Hastings, should so proudly boast its unfounded association with ‘Custer’s Last Stand,’ but freely admits that “Unfortunately, there is no-one who can put a name to the East Sussex recruit who died at the hands of the Sioux, …” It would be remarkable if anyone could as no such person ever existed!* The other Dallington, now incorporated into the town of Northampton, wisely avoids making such a fallacious claim. While no such place as Dullington exists there are two villages in England called Dallington, one in East Sussex and the other in Northamptonshire, though not County Durham. 111) assumes the second letter is a ‘u’ and concludes that Donnelly was born in Dullington, whereas Men With Custer (p.
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