President Lincoln and the Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1862

[RJNorton]

(06-05-2017 04:05 PM)L Verge Wrote:  I received the Spring 2017 issue of The Lincoln Forum Bulletin, and there is an article by Roger D. Billings, Jr., retired Professor of Law at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University, entitled Lincoln, The Law, and the 1862 Indian Uprising. I'm not sure that it will tell us anything new and different, but I will forward the Bulletin to Roger to see if he can transfer it to the forum.

Laurie, it is online here.

Professor Billings writes, "If Washington politicians, the Army, and Minnesota citizens had had their way probably all of the condemned Indians would have been hanged. That Lincoln took time during his conduct of the War to save eighty percent of them is remarkable."