150th Anniversary of the U.S. - Dakota War of 1862
Brown County, Minnesota


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IMAGES

PEOPLE

               
                               Little Crow                                Jon OtherDay                                          Cut Nose



                
               Big Eagle                         Henry Hastings Sibley                 Henry Benjamin Whipple            Mrs. Eastlick & children



     
    Charles Flandrau                                                             Defenders of New Ulm (1912)


PLACES

   
                                     Waraju Distillery                                        Waraju Distillery Marker


        
                                          Kiesling House (2011)                                       Kiesling House Marker


     
                                        Jacob Nix Store                                                            Forster Building



     
                                                      Dacotah House                                              Dacotah House Marker




       
                                               Defenders Monument                 Base of Monument by Anton Gag



            
                                          New Ulm Bakery                                    Wagon used by Colonel Ives to carry settlers to New Ulm




ARTWORK


     
                       Third Street Barricade - Anton Gag                                    Second Battle of New Ulm



     
                           Battle of New Ulm - Michael Eischens                                     Battle Scene at New Ulm



      
                                         Siege of New Ulm                                                    Second Battle of Fort Ridgely





     
                              The Attack at New Ulm                                                         Battle of Beach Cooley, MN





Photographs provided with permission from the Minnesota Historical Society, Brown County Historical Society and Kim Janke






The Brown County Historical Society has just acquired an original
 
Fort Ridgley Defenders Medal of Honor.
 
       

For the "True Story Behind the Fort Ridgely Medal of Honor" click on link below.

http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/47/v47i06p233-239.pdf

This is an article from the Minnesota History, 1981, Dian Olson Belanger



             





































 

 

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