President Lincoln and the Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1862

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What were done with the remaining 264 Sioux who were not sentenced to hang? Wikipedia says they were imprisoned for nearly four years, and 1/3 (88) died of disease. That brings the death toll to 126. The survivors were apparently banished to Nebraska after their imprisonment.

Depending on which source one reads, the Sioux committed only two rapes during the uprising, or they committed horrors beyond description (taking a child live from its mother's womb, and nailing it to a tree). Two of the Sioux may have been wrongfully hanged. Apparently, the hanged Sioux bodies were almost immediately exhumed from their shallow grave and used as medical cadavers.

http://usdakotawar.org/history/war-after...ls-hanging

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862