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Sesquicentennial of the Dakota Conflict is over in 2 Days by Steven M Ulmen 12/23/2012 8:52:46 AM
Two more days until the 150 year anniversary of the hanging of 38 Sioux warriors at Mankato MN following the Dakota Conflict of 1862. This was the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
Read the story now, so that all the world may know. Tr... more
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Timeline: December 16, 1862 Dakota Conflict by Steven M Ulmen 12/16/2012 5:18:07 PM
EXECUTIVE MANSION
Washington, Dec. 16, 1862
Brig. Gen. H.H. SIBLEY
St. Paul, Minn.:
As you suggest, let the execution fixed for Friday, the 19th instan... more
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Come on Down to Mankato MN this Saturday! by Steven M Ulmen 12/11/2012 12:26:02 PM
Free of charge! Everyone Welcome!
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Timeline for December 4 Dakota Conflict, Sioux Uprising by Steven M Ulmen 12/4/2012 7:41:00 PM
"December 4, 1862 - Several hundred civilians, armed with hatchets, clubs, and knives, attack the camp where the condemned Dakota are being held (in Mankato MN) but are surrounded and disarmed by soldiers."
2012 is the 150th anniversary of ... more
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Timeline: Dakota Conflict, Sioux Uprising Change of Military Command by Steven M Ulmen 12/2/2012 1:08:53 PM
"On the twenty-fifth day of November, 1862, by virtue of the removal of Major General Pope to Madison, Wisconsin, his new headquarters, General Sibley, notwithstanding all previous dispositions and arrangements, became general commanding the milita... more
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Timeline: November 1862 Dakota Conflict, Sioux Uprising by Steven M Ulmen 11/19/2012 6:58:35 PM
Rev. Riggs and Bishop Whipple urge clemency for Dakota involved in battles and executions only for those proven to have committed rape or killed women or children.
Now, this time in history, we are commemorating the 150th anniversary of Minn... more
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Hurry! Free Promotion At Amazon Ends Today! by Steven M Ulmen 11/18/2012 9:48:26 AM
The free Amazon promotion of this title for all you Kindle users ends at midnight tonight. The Dakota Conflict caused the most civilian deaths in an Indian war in U.S. history and resulted in the revenge hanging of 38 Sioux warriors by the Union Army... more
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Timeline For November 15, Dakota Conflict, Sioux Uprising by Steven M Ulmen 11/15/2012 9:53:47 AM
Timeline For November 15, Dakota Conflict, Sioux Uprising
On November 15, 1862, General Pope, commander of US troops in the Northwest Territory, forwards records of the trials of the renegade Sioux to President Lincoln along with a letter u... more
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Timeline: November 9, 1862 Dakota Conflict by Steven M Ulmen 11/9/2012 10:19:09 AM
On this date in history, 1862, exactly 150 years ago, General Henry Sibley and his troops and Indian hostages were facing a Minnesota prairie winter. He loaded the 303 condemned into wagons and moved downriver from the lower agency to Camp Lincoln ne... more
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Chapter 10 "Blood on the Prairie - A Novel of the Sioux Uprising (conclusion) by Steven M Ulmen 11/5/2012 7:13:23 AM
FEEDBACK APPRECIATED
Background: Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War hospitalized at Fort Snelling. He meets a mortally wounded young soldier named Edwin Balch f... more
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Chapter 10 "Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising" (continued) by Steven M Ulmen 11/4/2012 6:27:45 AM
Background: Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War hospitalized at Fort Snelling. He meets a mortally wounded young soldier named Edwin Balch from Glencoe, Minnesota, and ... more
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Chapter 10 "Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising" (continued) by Steven M Ulmen 11/3/2012 6:40:18 AM
Background: At this point in the story line, Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War hospitalized at Fort Snelling. He meets a mortally wounded young soldier named Edwin Balc... more
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Chapter 10 "Blood on the Prairie: A Novel of the Sioux Uprising" (continued) by Steven M Ulmen 11/2/2012 8:31:40 AM
Chapter 10 "Blood on the Prairie: A Novel of the Sioux Uprising" (continued)
Background: At this point in the story line, Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War hospitali... more
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Chapter 10 Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising (continued) by Steven M Ulmen 11/1/2012 3:18:44 PM
Background: At this point in the story line, Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War hospitalized at Fort Snelling. He meets a mortally wounded young soldier named Edwin Balch... more
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Chapter 10 Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising Serial (continued) by Steven M Ulmen 10/30/2012 2:07:51 PM
Background: At this point in the story line, Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War
at Fort Snelling. He meets a mortally wounded young soldier named Edwin Balch from Gle... more
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Chapter 10 Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising by Steven M Ulmen 10/29/2012 10:14:30 AM
Background: At this point in the story line, Chief Scout Toby Ryker is visiting the sick and wounded soldiers from the Dakota Conflict and the larger Civil War at Fort Snelling. He meets a mortally wounded young soldier named Edwin Balch from Glencoe... more
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American Civil War, Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising, Dakota Conflict by Steven M Ulmen 10/26/2012 4:15:00 PM
American Civil War, Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising, Dakota Conflict
Coming soon for your review is a serialization of chapter 10 of "Blood on the Prairie A Novel of the Sioux Uprising," telling the story of a young union... more
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Fighting an Indian War is Tedious for You and Me. We Need a Break (Continued) by Steven M Ulmen 10/25/2012 2:58:23 PM
Fighting an Indian War is Tedious for You and Me. We Need a Break (Continued)
We are back at the Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul with Chief Scout Toby Ryker, who is on furlough from the Dakota Conflict authorized by his commander, Henry Sibl... more
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Fighting an Indian War is Tedious for You and Me. We Need a Break. by Steven M Ulmen 10/24/2012 1:18:27 PM
So do our characters. Fictional scout Toby Ryker is, by this time, experiencing burnout, battle fatigue, shell-shock, or as it is called today, Delayed Stress Syndrome. He realizes this and asks Sibley for a leave of absence for some R & R. Sibley ag... more
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Letter From Governor Ramsey to President Lincoln by Steven M Ulmen 10/22/2012 3:25:45 PM
State of Minnesota, Executive Department,
St. Paul, October 22, 1862
To His Excellency ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
President of the United States,
Dear Sir:
As I have before informed you on the 17th of August last the Sioux commenced a ... more
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