Brackett's Battalion: Minnesota Cavalry in the Civil War and Dakota War

After two years in the Southern theater of the Civil War, Brackett’s Battalion became part of the Northwestern Indian Expedition of 1864 and rode into Dakota Territory to seek out and engage the Indians in response to the attacks on settlers in Minnesota. On July 28, 1864, during a decisive battle against a large Dakota contingent at Killdeer Mountain, Brackett’s men conducted a remarkable three-mile-long saber charge that resulted in vicious hand-to-hand combat and eventually turned the tide of the battle.

Told through the extant journals, diaries, and letters of the troopers themselves, Brackett’s Battalion brings to light a long neglected aspect of Minnesota's role in the Civil War and reveals a side of the conflict rarely portrayed in the war's literature.

Author: Kurt D. Bergemann
Publisher: Borealis Books
Published: 02/09/2004
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.96h x 5.98w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780873514774

About the Author
Kurt D. Bergemann has long been a student of the Civil War. This book is a result of his research on his great-great-grandfather, who served in Brackett's Battalion.

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