Execution of Dakota Indians, Mankato, Minnesota

The 10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment was a Minnesota USV

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that served in the

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during the

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Service

The 10th Minnesota Infantry Regiment was recruited into Federal service at Garden City, Winnebago Agency,

Fort Snelling Fort Snelling is a former military fortification and National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Minnesota on the bluffs overlooking the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. The military site was initially named Fort Saint Anth ...

and

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, between August 12 and November 15, 1862. Milita that took part in the defense of New Ulm on 24-25 August 1862 were posted to the 10th afterwards.10th Regiment, Minnesota Infantry, Battle Unit Details, Union Minnesota Volunteerss, National Park Service, Department of the Interior websit

/ref> Companies G & I were at

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. A Company I detachment was at both the

Battle of Birch Coulee The Battle of Birch Coulee occurred September 2–3, 1862 and resulted in the heaviest casualties suffered by U.S. forces during the Dakota War of 1862. The battle occurred after a group of Dakota warriors followed a U.S. burial expedition, incl ...

and the Battle of Wood Lake. In December Companies A, B, F, G, H, and K were guards at the execution of 38 Santee Sioux in

Mankato Mankato ( ) is a city in Blue Earth, Nicollet, and Le Sueur counties in the state of Minnesota. The population was 44,488 according to the 2020 census, making it the 21st-largest city in Minnesota, and the 5th-largest outside of the Minnea ...

. Companies D, E, and H of the 9th Minnesota were posted there too. The Regiment was part of Col.Sibleys force at the

Battle of Big Mound The Battle of Big Mound was a United States Army victory in July 1863 over the Santee Sioux Indians allied with some Yankton, Yanktonai and Teton Sioux in Dakota Territory. Background The defeat of Little Crow in the Dakota War of 1862 ...

, Battle of Buffalo Lake, and the

Battle of Stony Lake The Battle of Stony Lake was the third and last engagement of Henry Hastings Sibley's 1863 campaign against the Santee, Yankton, Yanktonai and Teton Sioux in Dakota Territory. Following the battle, the Indians fought delaying actions again ...

. On May 4 1863 Company G boarded the

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Davenport at Fort Snelling as the escort of the first eastern Dakota to leave the Pike island encampment. The Davenport and the G Company made three trips south with native Americans. Minnesota History Magazine Vol 38, Issue # 8, December 1963, Minnesota Historical Society, 345 W Kellogg, St Paul, MN 38i08p353-364.pdf/ref> Afterwards the Regiment was sent south to the District of St. Louis. From there they joined the 1st Brigade, 1st Division Army of Tennessee and later the 16th Army Corps in west Mississippi. The 10th Minnesota Infantry was mustered out on August 18, 1865. The 10th Minnesota Infantry suffered 2 officers and 35 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, while 4 officers and 111 enlisted died of disease, for 152 fatalities tota

References

* {{Cite book , editor1-first=C. C. , editor1-last=Andrews , editor1-link=Christopher Columbus Andrews , publisher = Printed for the state by the St. Paul Pioneer Press, Pioneer Press Co , location = St. Paul, Minn , title = Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865 , date = 1891 , ol=7088819M

External links

The Civil War Archive

Narrative of the 10th Regiment, by Gen. J.H. Baker

Minnesota Historical Society page on Minnesota and the Civil War

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