The Punitive Expedition of Henry Sibley: Reevaluating the "Success" of his Campaign

Less than a year after the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862, General Henry Hastings Sibley led a military expedition against the Santee Sioux, Yankton, Yanktonai, and Teton living in the Dakota Territories.

*The sketch labeled "Camp Atchinson" is actually "Camp Atchison."

Information Sources:

Folwell, William Watts. A History of Minnesota. Vol. 2. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1924.

West, Nathaniel. The Ancestry, Life, and Times of Hon. Henry Hastings Sibley. United States: Pioneer Press, 1889.

McConkey, Harriet E. Bishop. Dakota War Whoop, Or, Indian Massacres and War in Minnesota, of 1862-'3. United States: Published for the author, 1864.

"Battle of Stony Lake," Wikipedia, Accessed Jan. 17, 2021, Last Updated Jan. 8, 2021, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stony_Lake.

Media Sources:

Images of Henry Sibley from the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Map of the expedition by Alan Ominsky. From Kenneth Carley, The Dakota War of 1862, 1976.

Image of Major General John Pope from Wikimedia Commons.

Photograph of Wyman X. Folsom from the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Sketches of Camp Pope and Camp Atchison and Camp Pope by H.F. Knieff and sourced from the Collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.

Image of Harriet E.B. McConkey from the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society.

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