Roger Billings, professor emeritus at Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law discusses the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of settlers and interrupted Union Army recruitment. After the Sioux defeat, 303 Sioux prisoners were condemned to death by a military tribunal. Lincoln stayed the execution of all but 38. What followed was the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
Topics: 1862 Sioux Uprising, Lincoln, Abraham, -- 1809-1865 -- Relations with Dakota Indians., Lincoln at...