August 1862 attacks by Sioux at New Ulm MN

"At noon the next day, Colonel Crooks led the troops of the sixth Minnesota into New Ulm, a settlement whose population consisted primarily of German immigrants. It had been ransacked by Cut Nose and 600 braves, and left with only 25 homes still standing.

They bivouacked in the center of what remained of the town until the next day, allowing the troops to rest from tyhe forced march from St. Peter and to help care for the wounded and to bury the dead. All about them was carnage, smoldering ruins of what once had been homes and businesses, and corpses, many mutilated, strewn everywhere. The screams of the injured were in the air, drowning out the grieving moans and cries of the widowed and orphaned." (Description of New Ulm attacks taken from Blood on the Prairie - A Novel of the Sioux Uprising)

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