Tuesday, September 22, 2015

On This Date in Minnesota History: September 22

September 23, 1862 – “On September 19, 1862, Col. Henry Hastings Sibley set out from Fort Ridgely with 1,500 volunteers to put down the Santee [Sioux] uprising. As they neared Wood Lake [in Yellow Medicine County] on [this date], Sibley’s men escaped an ambush by 700 warriors under Chief Little Crow and engaged them in a battle. Sibley’s force won the day inflicting heavy casualties on the Sioux. For this action, Sibley received a promotion to brigadier general. Wood Lake was the first decisive defeat of the Sioux since the uprising began.”

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/mn002.htm





Col. Henry Hastings Sibley 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Hastings_Sibley2.jpg




Chief Little Crow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Little_crow_c1862.jpg
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