First Lieutenant William L. Carpenter—G Company, Ninth Infantry
First Lieutenant Adolphus H. Von Luettwitz—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant Augustus C. Paul—M Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant Edward S. Godfrey—Seventh Cavalry
First Lieutenant Emmet Crawford—G Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant Henry Seton—D Company, Fourth Infantry
First Lieutenant Joseph Lawson—A Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant William C. Forbush—Fifth Cavalry, Assistant Adjutant General
First Lieutenant Charles King—Fifth Cavalry, Adjutant
First Lieutenant William P. Hall—Fifth Cavalry, Quartermaster
First Lieutenant Walter S. Schuyler—Fifth Cavalry, aide-decamp to Crook
First Lieutenant William Philo Clark—I Troop, Second Cavalry, aide-de-camp to General Crook
Second Lieutenant Robert London—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry (after Wilson resigns)
Second Lieutenant Charles M. Rockefeller—H Company, Ninth Infantry
Second Lieutenant Edgar B. Robertson—H Company, Ninth Infantry
Second Lieutenant Henry D. Huntington—D Troop, Second Cavalry
Second Lieutenant Edward L. Keyes—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Second Lieutenant J. Hayden Pardee—Twenty-third Infantry, aide-de-camp to Merritt
Lieutenant William C. Hunter—U.S. Navy (Brevet COMMODORE)
Dr. Bennett A. Clements—Surgeon, Expedition Medical Director (oversaw eight medical personnel, assistant surgeons and stewards)
Dr. Albert Hartsuff—Assistant Surgeon
Dr. Julius H. Patzki—Assistant Surgeon
Dr. Charles R. Stephens—Assistant Surgeon
Dr. J. W. Powell—Assistant Surgeon, Fifth Cavalry
Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy—Assistant Surgeon
First Lieutenant Alfred B. Bache—F Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Second Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka—M Troop, Third Cavalry
Second Lieutenant George F. Chase—L Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant John W. Bubb—Commissary of Subsistence
First Lieutenant Emmet Crawford—G Troop, Third Cavalry
First Lieutenant William B. Rawolle—E. Troop, Second Cavalry
Lieutenant Frederick W. Sibley—E. Troop, Second Cavalry
Sergeant Oscar Cornwall—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Sergeant Charles W. Day—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Sergeant G. P. Harrington—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
†Sergeant Edmund Schreiber—K. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
†Sergeant John A. Kirkwood—M Troop, Third Cavalry
†Sergeant Edward Glass—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
Corporal Thomas C. Warren—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Corporal Thomas W. Wilkinson—K. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Corporal J. S. Clanton—B. Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Private Valentine Rufus—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private Patrick Hasson—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private George Rhode—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private George Watts—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private Henry Collins—Second Cavalry, Sibley Patrol
Private William Evans—E. Company, Seventh Infantry
Private Benjamin F. Stewart—E. Company, Seventh Infantry
Private James Bell—E Company, Seventh Infantry
Private Christian Madsen—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry
*Private John Wenzel—A Troop, Third Cavalry
Private Albert Glavinski—M Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private Orlando H. Duren—E. Troop, Third Cavalry
*Private Edward Kennedy—C Troop, Fifth Cavalry
†Private John M. Stevenson—I Troop, Second Cavalry
†Private August Dorn—D Troop, Fifth Cavalry
Private Cyrus B. Milner—A Troop, Fifth Cavalry
†Private Edward Kiernan—E Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private William B. DuBois—C Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private August Foran—D Troop, Third Cavalry
†Private Charles Foster—B Troop, Third Cavalry
Shoshone Allies
Washakie
Sioux
American Horse Little Eagle
Dog Necklace Antelope Tail
Charging Bear Red Horse
Iron Thunder
Cheyenne
Yellow Hair Rain Maker
Civilian Characters
John “Trailer Jack” Becker—packer on Sibley Scout
Wilbur Storey—owner/publisher, Chicago Times
Clint Snowden—city editor, Chicago Times
Thomas Moore—Chief of Pack Train
Richard “Uncle Dick” Closter
Grant Marsh—captain, Far West steamboat
Dave Campbell—pilot, Far West steamboat
†James B. Glover—packer
E. B. Farnum—Mayor of Deadwood
Martha Luhn—officer’s wife at Fort Laramie
Elizabeth Burt—officer’s wife at Fort Laramie
Robert Strahorn—correspondent, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Chicago Tribune, Cheyenne Sun, and the Omaha Republican
John F. Finerty—correspondent, Chicago Times
Joe Wasson—correspondent, New York Tribune, Philadelphia Press, and San Francisco Alta California
Reuben B. Davenport—correspondent, New York Herald
T. B. MacMillan—correspondent, Chicago Inter-Ocean
J. J. Talbot—correspondent, New York Graphic
Barbour Lathrop—correspondent, San Francisco Evening Bulletin
Cuthbert Mills—New York Times
Tom Cosgrove—civilian leader of the Shoshone battalion
Nelson Yarnell—Cosgrove’s lieutenant
Yancy Eckles—Cosgrove’s sergeant
*killed in the battle of Slim Buttes
†wounded at the Battle of Slim Buttes
At Laramie I told the commissioners that I had seen the Sioux commit a massacre; they killed many white men. But the Sioux are still here, and still kill white men. When you whites whip the Sioux come and tell us of it. You are afraid of the Sioux. Two years ago I went with the soldiers; they talked very brave. They said they were going through the Sioux country to Powder River and Tongue River. We got to Pryor Creek, just below here in the Crow country. I wanted to go ahead, but the soldiers got scared and turned back. The soldiers were the whirlwind, but the whirlwind turned back. Last summer the soldiers went to Pryor Creek again; again the whirlwind was going through Sioux country, but again the whirlwind turned back. We Crows are not the whirlwind, but we go to the Sioux; we go to their country; we meet them and fight; we do not turn back. But then we are not the whirlwind! … The Sioux are on the way, and you are afraid of them; they will turn the whirlwind back.
—Blackfoot
Crow war chief
The people must be left with nothing but their eyes to weep with.
—Lieutenant General Philip H. Sheridan