The Dakota War: The United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862-1865 - Softcover

Clodfelter, Micheal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786427264 ISBN 13: 9780786427260

Publisher: McFarland & Company, 2006

Synopsis

As the United States fought the Civil War in the early 1860s, the country's western frontier was simultaneously the site of significant military campaigns that took the lives of both American and Sioux. The Dakota campaign, led by Commander Henry Hastings Sibley and Brigadier General Alfred Sully against the Sioux between 1863 and 1864 was greater in scope, intensity and bloodshed than almost all other Indian battles fought in the West but is often overlooked. The Minnesota War of 1862 and the Dakota War of 1863-1865 were among the most significant U.S. victories in the Indian wars, but did not temper the passions of the Sioux to preserve their people and land or the desires of the whites to settle the frontier. The wars only incited the Teton Sioux to enter into a long-term resistance that would end only at Wounded Knee in 1890.

About this title

About the Author:

Micheal D. Clodfelter, a Vietnam veteran, has also written Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and Other Figures, 1500-1999. Second edition (2002) and Vietnam in Military Statistics (1995). He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Review:

Recommended...all-but-forgotten story of the West --Choice

Detailed and well-documented...an important contribution --The Journal of American History

Contains a detailed analysis of the politics, strategy, and tactics of the campaign --C&RL News

About this edition

• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0786427264
• ISBN 13: 9780786427260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 279