James Forsyth - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Forsyth
American Civil War
American Indian Wars
7th U.S. Cavalry
Wounded Knee
 

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

James Forsyth - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Forsyth
7th US Cavalry
Wounded Knee Massacre
 

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

James Forsyth (Civil War) - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Forsyth

Colonel of the 7th US Cavalry at Wounded Knee
 

Left to right - General Philip Sheridan, James Forsyth, General Wesley Merritt, General Thomas C. Devin, and George Armstrong Custer.

Green Lawn Cemetery
Columbus, Ohio

James Forsyth (Wounded Knee) - Green Lawn Cemetery

James Forsyth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Forsyth

Colonel of the 7th U.S. Cavalry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Cavalry_Regiment

In charge of the 7th U.S. Cavalry on December 29, 1890 at Wounded Knee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bury_My_Heart_at_Wounded_Knee

General Philip Sheidan is standing on the left.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan

James Forsyth is standing to the right of Sheidan.

George Armstrong Custer is seated at right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer

Sheridan standing on the left. Forsyth to the right of Sheridan. Custer is seated at right.

 Elizabeth Dennison Forsyth

Marian Forsyth Fitzgerald

James Forsyth (Wounded Knee) - Green Lawn Cemetery

Green Lawn Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lawn_Cemetery_(Columbus,_Ohio)
Section 56, lot 55
Columbus, Ohio

James Forsyth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Forsyth

On the morning of December 29, 1890, Colonel James Forsyth was in command of the 7th US Cavalry at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

James William Forsyth - Green Lawn Cemetery

 Green Lawn Cemetery, section 56 lot 55, Columbus, Ohio

 James Forsyth may not be a household name but he is connected to the Civil War, an event in the Indian Wars and someone killed in the Indian Wars.

James Forsyth was born in 1835 in Maumee, Ohio. Forsyth was Colonel of the 64th OVI when the Civil War Started. 

Forsyth is seated on the left. One person he is connected to is George Armstrong Custer is laying down ton the right.

Forsyth eventually became Adjutant of General Philip Sheridan. General Sheridan is on the left. Forsyth is to the right of Sheridan. George Armstrong Custer is seated on the right.

Sheridan on the right. Forsyth is to the right. Custer is seated on the right.

In 1886, Forsyth became Colonel of the 7th U.S. Cavalry, Custer's old unit. This is where Forsyth becomes connected with an event that probably no one would want to be known for. On December 29, 1890, Forsyth was commanding officer of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee. A confrontation with Black Coyote, a deaf indian set off the massacre.

Wounded Knee Massacre

Forsyth did have a brother die as a POW in the Civil War. George Forsyth is buried in Forest Cemetery in Toledo Ohio.