Seventh Cavalry insignia
Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment arrived by train at Darlington, South Carolina on June 14, 1871 to begin Reconstruction duty. Company M remained in Darlington until October 18, when it left on a four-day march to Spartanburg, South Carolina. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Staff Sergeant Thomas F. Robinson of 1933 Daly Avenue, Bronx, New York City. A baker in civilian life, Thomas F. Robinson probably accompanied hangman John C. Woods on thirty-two executions. Robinson, the son of John Robinson and Lillian Dunn, was born in New York in 1920; his mother passed away when he was seven. Robinson married Mae Elizabeth Decker in Yonkers, New York on June 14, 1942. At the time of his enlistment on September 15, 1942 in Bayonne, New Jersey, he was living in Westchester, New York. He stood 5’11” tall and weighed 156 pounds. Thomas Robinson was assigned to the 554th Quartermaster Depot prior to working with Woods. (American Hangman: MSgt. John C. Woods, The United States Army’s Notorious Executioner in World War II and Nürnberg)