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The Battles of New Ulm, also known as the New Ulm Massacre, were two battles in August 1862 between Dakota men and European settlers and militia in New Ulm, Minnesota early in the Dakota War of 1862. Dakota forces attacked New Ulm on August 19 and again on August 23, destroying much of the town but failing to fully capture it. After the second ...
- August 19, 1862 and August 23, 1862
Oct 17, 2017 · The fight at New Ulm, culminating the first week of the uprising, was the most intense battle waged by any tribe against any fort or town in all the Western Indian wars. The uprising had begun a week earlier, on Sunday, August 17, when four Dakotas killed five white settlers and stole food near Acton, Minn.
- Gregory Michno
Attack on New Ulm, 1862, by Anton Gag, 1904. On the afternoon of August 19, 1862, New Ulm came under siege by a relatively small group of Dakota warriors. This skirmish lasted several hours and left five settlers dead.
Joining the residents of New Ulm were hundreds of settlers fleeing the Dakota assault. Free-roaming bands of Indians broke off from the main war army to attack farms and travelers. Settlers were killed in places with names like Acton, Milford and Slaughter Slough.
Learn more at www.colinmustful.com. Map created by Curtis Dahlin. First painting by Anton Gag courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society Collections. Im...
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The Attacks on New Ulm. On the afternoon of August 19, 1862, New Ulm came under siege by a relatively small group of Dakota warriors. This skirmish lasted several hours and left five settlers dead.
On August 18, a recruiting party of New Ulm men had left town to gather volunteers for the Union Army from the scattered farm homesteads in the area. Sioux warriors ambushed them at Milford Township, killing 11 and causing the survivors to fall back to New Ulm.
