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Henry Sibley oversaw the military commission. On this date, November 5, in 1862, a military commission concluded the trials of more than 300 Dakota men and condemned them to death for participating in the US-Dakota…

Note: This is a continuation of a post of last week titled, “Introducing Sarah Wakefield, My Friend and Hopefully Yours (Someday).”   Sarah Wakefield Early on August 18, 1862, when war broke out in and…