Biography of Henry Sibley describing the Sioux Uprising, Dakota Conflict

 "In that moment when (Minnesota's) citizens were congratulating each other at being so far removed from the scene of civil war, a merciless and furious enemy perfected a plan of marvelous secrecy, which, in an instant, let loose upon her unsuspecting settlers almost a thousand warriors of the most warlike of all the Indian tribes upon the continent, reveling in a carnival of indiscriminate and cruel butchery, killing men, women, and children, saving only girls of tender years, and comely females, to minister to their brutal appetites." - Biography of Henry Hasting Sibley describing the Sioux Uprising of 1862.

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