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Brackett's Battalion - Minnesota Cavalry in the Civil War and Dakota War (Paperback)
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Brackett's Battalion - Minnesota Cavalry in the Civil War and Dakota War (Paperback)
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Amidst the chaos of a two-front war--one against the Confederacy
and the other against the Dakota Indians--Brackett's Battalion of
Minnesota Cavalry transformed from raw recruits into seasoned and
battle-hardened troops and served longer than any other Minnesota
unit in the Civil War. After two years in the Southern theater of
the Civil War, Brackett's Battalion became part of the Northwestern
Indian Expedition of 1864 and rode into Dakota Territory to seek
out and engage the Indians in response to the attacks on settlers
in Minnesota. On July 28, 1864, during a decisive battle against a
large Dakota contingent at Killdeer Mountain, Brackett's men
conducted a remarkable three-mile-long saber charge that resulted
in vicious hand-to-hand combat and eventually turned the tide of
the battle. Told through the extant journals, diaries, and letters
of the troopers themselves, Brackett's Battalion brings to light a
long neglected aspect of Minnesota's role in the Civil War and
reveals a side of the conflict rarely portrayed in the war's
literature.
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