The Dakota have created panic in Minnesota…

The Dakota have created panic in Minnesota by their barn-burning, slaughter of men, women and children, and destruction of crops but, due to the Civil War, repeated appeals for help are required before President Lincoln appoints General John Pope to assemble troops from the Third and Fourth Minnesota Regiments to quell the violence.

Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey also instructs Colonel Henry Sibley (the state's first governor) to aid in the effort.

Sibley raises a volunteer militia force at Fort Snelling and sets out to punish the Sioux.

At Wood Lake, Sibley decisively defeats Little Crow (September 23, 1862), who escapes westward. (Returning the next year, he will be shot dead by a Minnesota farmer for the bounty on Sioux.)