President Lincoln and the Sioux Indian uprising in Minnesota in 1862

[LincolnToddFan]

That's an excellent point Eva. How many leaders would sit down and carefully write out all those names-phonetically-to make certain that no one was executed in error? That struck me when I first read it.

Rape and murder were crimes that even White men would have been put to death for. Other than simply pardon all the accused, I'm not sure how else AL could have proceeded.