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About Hugh McGinnis
- Hugh McGinnis (Castlewellan, Ireland; April 11, 1870 - March 22, 1965; Iron Mountain, Michigan) 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.
- He was a twenty-year-old private in Co.
- K, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry during the Wounded Knee Massacre, where he was wounded twice.
- When he died he was the last survivor of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee.
- McGinnis wrote an extensive account of his experiences at Wounded Knee which was published in Real West Magazine in January 1966: The screams of mothers as machine gun bullets tore their bodies apart.
- The curses of the Indian warriors, fighting machine guns and cannons with old muskets, knives and tomahawks, being cut down in rows by demon-crazed white soldiers. All this happened seventy-four years ago at Wounded Knee Creek where soldiers of the 7th cavalry massacred in cold blood Indian men, women and children.
- I am now ninety-four, the last surviving member of Troop K, 7th Cavalry.
- The seventy-four years have never completely erased the ghastly horror of that scene and I still awake at night from nightmarish dreams of that massacre.
- The news that I am the only surviving member of the 7th Cavalry at that massacre brings back many memories to me.
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