Brigadier Alfred Sully, after leaving men at…

July 1864 CE

Brigadier Alfred Sully, after leaving men at Fort Rice and to guard the emigrants bound for the goldfields, has twenty-two hundred men for the attack on the Sioux.

He also has two artillery batteries with eight howitzers.

On July 26, Sully’s native scouts skirmish with thirty Sioux warriors near present day Richardton, North Dakota and one scout is wounded.

With the Sioux now aware of his presence, Sully advances rapidly but carefully.

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Richardton Stark North Dakota United States View →

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Alfred Sully View → John Pope View →

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Lakota, aka Teton Sioux (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Dakota, Territory of (U.S.A.) View →

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Sioux Wars View → American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Killdeer Mountain, Battle of View → American Civil War & Reconstruction; 1864 through 1875 View →

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