Timeline:Special Order 55, September 28, 1862 Dakota Conflict

SPECIAL ORDER, No. 55
HEADQUARTERS, CAMP RELEASE
September 28, 1862

A military commission composed of Colonel William Crooks of the Sixth Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Marshall of the Seventh Regiment, Captains Grant and Bailey of the Sixth Regiment, and Lieutenant Olin of the Third Regiment, will convene at some convenient place in camp at ten o'clock this morning, to try, summarily, the Indians and mixed-bloods, now prisoners, who may be brought before them by direction of the colonel commanding, and pass judgment upon them if found guilty of murder or other outrages upon the whites during the present state of hostilities. The proceedings of the commission to be returned to these headquarters immediately after their conclusion for the consideration of the colonel commanding. The commission will be governed in their proceedings by military laws and usages. Lieutenant Heard, Adjutant Cullen Guards, will act as recorder to the military commission.

By order of H.H. Sibley, Commanding, Military Expedition.

                                             S.H. Fowler
                             Lieutenant Colonel, S.M., A.A.

Actual order establishing the Military Commission as recorded in the Ancestry Life and Times of H.H. Sibley, L.L.D 1889, the official biography of Henry Hastings Sibley.

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