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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
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
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.
In short, the new territory of Minnesota was ready to offer homes and good farm lands to the land-hungry 1848 refugees, as well as to those who had preceded them in the Atlantic migration in search of cheap lands on the frontier.
New Ulm attracted members of a German political party called the Turners. Nearby Milford Township was settled by Bohemian Germans, while members of the German Evangelical churches settled across the river in Renville County.
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.
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Together with fellow Turners, Pfaender founded the New Ulm Turner Society in 1856. They built a Turner Hall in the center of the town a year later. The German Land Association set up several businesses in New Ulm, including a mill and a store.
