"General Nelson A. Miles who visited the scene of carnage, following a three-day blizzard, estimated that around 300 snow shrouded forms were strewn over the countryside. He also discovered to his horror that helpless children and women with babies in their arms had been chased as far as two miles from the original scene of encounter and cut down without mercy by the troopers. ... Judging by the slaughter on the battlefield it was suggested that the soldiers simply went berserk. For who could explain such a merciless disregard for life? ... As I see it the battle was more or less a matter of spontaneous combustion, sparked by mutual distrust."
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Hugh McGinnis, "I Took Part In The Wounded Knee Massacre" , Real West Magazine, January 1966; at Our Family History Website Hugh McGinnis, First Battalion, Co. K, 7th Cavalry
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