Jacob Trautman

Military Person

1840 – 1898

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Who was Jacob Trautman?

First Sergeant Jacob Trautman was a German-born soldier in the U.S. Army who served with the 7th U.S. Cavalry during the Indian Wars. He was one of twenty-three men who received the Medal of Honor for gallantry, killing a Sioux warrior in armed combat, at what was then called the Battle of Wounded Knee, but now commonly called the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890.

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Born
1840
Hamburg
Died
Nov 7, 1898
Pittsburgh

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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