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The "Hanging Monument" in Mankato, Minnesota, was a four-ton granite marker that read "Here Were Hanged 38 Sioux Indians: Dec. 26th, 1862." [ 142 ] [ 43 ] : 333 It was erected in 1912 by two Dakota War veterans, Judge Lorin Cray and General James H. Baker , to commemorate the 50th anniversary of "the city's most significant event". [ 143 ]
With a stripped-down army of 2,056 men – 1,436 infantry, 520 cavalry, and 100 artillery plus 60 mixed blood and Sioux scouts – Sibley located the Santee encampment on July 24. [4] He halted nearby and sent scout and interpreter Joseph LaFramboise, one-half Sioux, to the Indian camp to propose a meeting with Upper Sioux leader Standing ...
Execution of the 38 Sioux Warriors at Mankato, Minnesota guarded by Companies of the 9th & 10th Minnesota Regiments Mankato hanging monument erected for 50th anniversary and removed in 1971. The 10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment was a Minnesota USV infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War .
About 600 Sioux, mostly Santee, took refuge in Canada after the battle. They were followed by 3,000 more in 1864. [21] Minnesota expelled all Sioux, including those who had not participated in the Dakota War of 1862 and also expelled the friendly Winnebago. The State confiscated and sold all Sioux land in the state.
More than 4,000 Santee and other Sioux congregated in the summer of 1863 in a large encampment in present-day Kidder County, North Dakota. [1] In June and July 1863, Brigadier general Henry Hastings Sibley led a military expedition to punish the Santee. Sibley had 2,056 men – 1,436 infantry, 520 cavalry, and 100 artillery and white and Indian ...
The U.S. won the war, the aftermath which included a mass hanging of 38 people on December 26, 1862, the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The remaining Santee Dakota people were exiled by the U.S. government to the Dakota Territory. [10] The end of the war did not solve the conflicts between Native Americans and the Americans.
Wabasha III (Wapahaśa) (c. 1816–1876) was a prominent Dakota Sioux chief, also known as Joseph Wabasha. He succeeded his father as head chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota in 1836. Following the Dakota War of 1862 and the forced removal of the Dakota to Crow Creek Reservation, Wabasha became known as head chief of the Santee Sioux. [1]
The Tenth Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-1865: A History of Action in the Sioux Uprising and the Civil War, with a Regimental Roster. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. ISBN 978-0786465934. "Battle of Acton Historical Marker" www.hmdb.org "The U.S Dakota War of 1862 and the Battle of Acton" Tri County News P. 1