George A. Custer
On August 7, 1867, General in Chief of the United States Army, Ulysses S. Grant, ordered that a General Court Martial be convened the following month at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to try Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Henry Nowlan
On August 7, 1876, First Lieutenant Henry J. Nowlan, the regimental quartermaster of the Seventh Cavalry – who was serving during the 1876 campaign as the quartermaster on General Terry’s staff and the entire Dakota column – saw Zed Daniels at Terry’s headquarters and promptly signed him as a scout through October 7, 1876 at $100 a month, at which point Daniels went to Glendive. (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gold and Guns: The 1874 Yellowstone Wagon Road and Prospecting Expedition and the Battle of Lodge Grass Creek)
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Private Daniel Mahoney, Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment died on August 7, 1885 at the Old Soldiers’ Home in Washington, DC. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)