Minnesota 6th Volunteer Infantry (Union)

Wood Lake

Otherwise focused on military campaigns across the Confederacy in 1862, the U.S. government largely ignored the growing signs of frustration and dissatisfaction among the Indians in areas of white settlement and did little to quell the possibility of an outbreak of hostilities. Inside many of the tribal councils, there was much heated debate between factions for war and those opposed to hostile action. In Minnesota, the Lower Santee Sioux tribe's democratically elected leader, Traveling Hail, refused to gi…READ MORE