Captured By The Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota

The brutal bloodletting of over 800 civilians during the Dakota War of 1862 was meant to drive out the white American settlements from Minnesota while the Union was preoccupied with more headline grabbing battles like the Second Battle of Manassas and Antietam. The war took its toll between Mid-August and Late- September 1862 when Little Crow, the leader of the Dakota, surrendered his 269 captives at Camp Release. Minnie Buce Carrigan's memoirs of living in the Minnesota River Valley are un...