| Brackett's Battalion: Minnesota Cavalry in the Civil War and Dakota War Contributor(s): Bergemann, Kurt D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0873514777 ISBN-13: 9780873514774 Publisher: Borealis Books OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2004 Annotation: A history of Brackett's Battalion of Minnesota Cavalry, which fought in both the Civil War and the U.S.-Indian Wars. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi |
| Dewey: 973.747 |
| LCCN: 2003017276 |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.98" W x 8.96" (0.68 lbs) 196 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Minnesota - Topical - Civil War |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |