Set 1: Trials and Execution
Set 2: First
Violence
Cartoon Set 3: Last
Battle
& Surrender
The morning of Sept.
23, 1862, found Col. Henry H. Sibley and 1,600 soldiers camped near
Wood Lake. Less than a mile away were Chief Little Crow and 700 Sioux
waiting to ambush Sibley's army. |
The Third Minnesota infantry regiment troops, recently added to Sibley's force, were a bitter, unruly lot. They'd been surrendered to the Confederates by their officers at Murfreesboro. The South then freed the regiment to go north and fight the Indians. |
Hoping to find fresh potatoes and corn, a dozen men from the third slipped out of camp on a foraging trip. They headed for the farms of the Upper Indian agency, just three miles away.
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