Organization of The 7th Cavalry
The table of organisation for the 7th Cavalry for the Black Hills Expedition of 1874 was as follows.
- Field and staff
- Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer
- Lt. Colonel Frederick D. Grant, 4th cavalry and acting aide
- Major George A. Forsyth, 9th cavalry commander
- First Lieutenant James Calhoun, adjutant
- First Lieutenant Algernon E. Smith, quartermaster
- Second Lieutenant George D. Wallace, commander of the Indian scouts
- Cavalry companies
- Company A - Captain Myles Moylan and Second Lieutenant Charles Varnum
- Company B - First Lieutenant Benjamin H. Hodgeson
- Company C - Captain Verlin Hart and Second Lieutenant Henry M. Harrington
- Company E - First Lieutenant M. McDougall
- Company F - Captain George W. Yates
- Company G - First Lieutenant Donald McIntosh
- Company H - Captain Frederick W. Benteen and First Lieutenant Francis M. Gibson
- Company K - Captain Owen Hale and First Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey
- Company L - First Lieutenant Thomas W. Custer
- Company M - Captain Thomas French and First Lieutenant Edward Gustave Mathey
- Medical staff
- Dr. John W. Williams, chief medical officer
- Dr. S. J. Allen, Jr. assistant surgeon
- Dr. A. C. Bergen, assistant surgeon
- Engineering
- Captain William Ludlow, chief engineer
- W. H. Wood, civilian assistant
- Mining detachment
- Horatio Nelson Ross
- William McKay
- Scientist
- George Bird Grinnell
- Newton H. Winchell
- A. B. Donaldson
- Luther North
- Photographer
- William H. Illingworth
- Correspondents
- William E. Curtis, Chicago Inter-Ocean
- Samuel J. Barrows, New York Tribune
- Nathan H. Knappen, Bismarck Tribune
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