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| Seige of New Ulm, Minnesota |
SAINT PAUL, MINN., August 21, 1862-4 p.m.
Honorable E. M. STANTON,
Secretary of War:
The Sioux Indians on our western border have risen, and are murdering men, women, and children. I have ordered a party of men out, under Colonel H. H. Sibley, and given the command of the Sixth Regiment, also ordered up, to Captain A. D. Nelson, U. S. Army. I must have Nelson. Telegraph at once.
ALEX. RAMSEY.
Official Records, Series I., Vol. 13, Part 1, Page 590.
On August 17 a Sioux hunting party had attacked and killed five settlers. At a council it was decided to try and drive all the white settlers in the region away. Approximately 800 men, women, and children were killed. Battles continued for the next several months. Ultimately, army forces were sent to the area to stabilize the situation and the Sioux were driven out of Minnesota to Nebraska and South Dakota.
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