Timeline: Dakota Conflict, Sioux Uprising Change of Military Command

"On the twenty-fifth day of November, 1862, by virtue of the removal of Major  General Pope to Madison, Wisconsin, his new headquarters, General Sibley, notwithstanding all previous dispositions and arrangements, became general commanding the military district of Minnesota, General Pope commanding the remainder of the department of the Northwest."

Taken from the Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley, L.L.D. page 284.

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