MILITARY UNITS IN US WHERE NAME FORMED COMMANDER SERVED AT READ ABOUT IN: notes note: First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, most from St. Paul, did not fight in the Dakota Conflict. St. Paul Civil War only

Paynesville, Richmond, Sauk https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/1 First Minnesota Centre, New Ulm, Sunrise, Ft. st_Regiment,_Minnesota_Cavalry_%28Mounte Cavalry (First Ridgely, Ft. Snelling, St. Peter., d_Rangers%29 Minnesota Mounted Expeditionary forces, DW 89, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Minnesota_V Rangers) Col. Samuel McPhail DWUsarmy 95 olunteer_Cavalry_Regiment

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Second Minnesota Wood Lake Military Battle Deaths for 2nd Volunteer Infantry Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. MH 5:43 Ft. Ridgely Aug. 28, relieved Capt. Marsh's reduced forces. Most mounted men returned Ft. Ridgely Woolworth: Woodlake essay home soon after.

Mark Hendricks Civilian arftillery battery Osman, MH 3 Civil War, Murfreesboro, then sent to MN to join Sibley's forces Sept. 1862, Wood Lake. Some Third Minnesota were sent to the St. Cloud area List: Wood Lake Military Battle Deaths: MH Volunteer Infantry to help protect settlers there. Osman, MH 3 5:43 Some sent to Ft. Abercrombie,

Third Minnesota 275 with Sibley at Wood Lake. MAJ. ABRAHAM Regiment Ft. Abercrombie WELCH, COMMANDING AT WOOD LAKE Co. C: Ft. Ridgely, Co. D & G at https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/4th_Re 4th MN Infantry Ft. Abercrombie giment,_Minnesota_Infantry https://sites.google.com/site/co 2/3 from Chatsfield. Fillmore & Olmstead Co. mpanyafifthminnesota/home/ser Play at Chatsfield's Wilt's End Theatre Aug. Fifth MN. Infantry Capt. John Marsh OnFt. RidgelyAug. 18,1862,, Redwood first F erryday of vice-record 2012 commemorating 2nd L. Tom Gere. the attack, Ft. Ripley was garrisoned by 77 men of Company B, Fifth Minnesota Capt. John Vander Horck, St. Paul. regiment. USArmy p.46, at Edwin D. Steele, Co. D, from http://www.ftabercrombie.org/ftabersiege.htm Fifth MN. Co. D Ft.Abercrombie 1862: Mankato l https://sites.google.com/site/companyafifthmi Fifth MN SEE WEBSITE nnesota/home/service-record WHERE MILITARY UNITS IN US DAKOTA WAR OF 1862 NAME FORMED COMMANDER SERVED AT READ ABOUT IN: notes 940 fresh recruits, untrained, 10 Hokah, companies,reached Ft. Ridgely Aug. 29, 1862. Sixth MN. Volunteer HOUSTON Letter WW Braden, Hokah Chief, written Sept. Infantry CO. MN Wm. Crooks, St. Paul Birch Coulee, Wood Lake Osman, MH 3 23, 1862 from camp near Y.M. some stationed at Glencoe, Forest City, Kingston,Ft. Riplely, Wood Lake, Sibley's Hiram Grant, Lt. Col.leading Co. A. ,died at Sixth Minnesota Expeditionary Forces, DW 89, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/ Birch Coulee, bur. Oakland Cemetery in St. Regiment DWUsarmy 95 26276/26276-h/26276-h.htm Paul List of Wood Lake Military Battle Deaths, MH Seventh MN. 5:43. W.W. Braden, TDU 138, J.O. letter (Volunteer?) Infantry Wood Lake Osman, MH 3 TDU 139, mentions Capt. Horatio Selfridge Company C, many of those who were from Stillwater, guarded the prisoners at Mankato and accompanied the prisoners when they Fairmont, Tivoli,Winnebago City, were taken down river to Dubuque-Rock Fort Abercrombie, Madelia,South Island. Some of Company D sent to the St. Bend. Wood Lake, Sibley Cloud area to help protect settlers.Company D Expeditionary Forces DW 89, to Ft. Abercrombie, 2 companies at Wood Lake Seventh MN Regiment DWUsarmy 95 . Monticello, Ft. Snelling, Ft. Ripley, Paynesville, post war service to guard settlers and Some of Company G and Company H were protect supply line between St. sent to the St. Cloud area to protect settlers Cloud and Ft. Abercrombie, there.Co. G of 8th under Capt. George guarding the stage route, Little http://www.annandaleonline.co Atkinson sent to Ft. Abercrombie. Cap.Marcus Eighth MN Regiment at frontier Falls, Ft. Abercrombie, Sauk m/History/HistoryClub/Programs Butterfield, Sgt. Wm. Edwards. Had been at Volunteer Infantry posts Centre DW 89 /RGeisinger-CivilWar-1993.htm Paynesville.DUV 21 Co.B 9th MN. under Capt.Strout attacked at Acton trying to reach Hutchinson, 6 soldiers Co. G and Co. H stationed for a were killed in an attack by the Dakota led by time in the St. Cloud-Sauk White Spider, half-brother of , Centre area. Hutchinson, St. inlcuding Edwin Stone of Minneapolis, George Peter, Judson, Ft. Abercrombie, Gideon of Excelsior, and Alva Getchell of Glencoe, Butternut Valley, Ft. Brooklyn. This company also fought at Wood Ridgely. Expeditionary forces, Lake. Photo of drummer boy James Ames, Ninth MN Regiment DW 89, DUV 15 Osman, MH 3 son of Dr. Ames of Mpls TDU 142. Wabasha Sent to the frontier to protect the Garden City Co., 1000 area south of Mankato, remaining there volunteers through the fall and winter of 1862.(B. Adams, from Steele Co. Hist. Soc.) Stationed at LeSueur at Steele end of the conflict, patrolling daily. DW 87. County Winnebago Agency, Henderson, The Tenth started guarding the Dakota became Garden City, Ft. Ridgely, Le prisoners at Fort Snelling in April 1863, and Company Sueur, Swan City, Norway Lake, was a significant part of the Sully and Sibley Tenth MN Regiment A. DWUsarmy 95 Osman, MH 3 Expeditions ito . WHERE MILITARY UNITS IN US DAKOTA WAR OF 1862 NAME FORMED COMMANDER SERVED AT READ ABOUT IN: notes

Eleventh MN Regiment New Ulm New Ulm

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The Dakota War: the United States Army http://chroniclingamerica.loc.go Versus the , 1862-1865, Michael v/ Clodfelter, 1998. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.c http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/lb00052 om/~mnwabcw/allunits.shtml /lb00052-000001.pdf http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu /m/moawar/waro.html https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.co m/~xander/minnesota-records.htm