1st Dakota Cavalry Battalion

1st Dakota Cavalry Battalion April 19, 1862 – November 15, 1865 23px United States Union Cavalry Company "A"Dyer, (1959), p. 1,116.Company "B"Dyer, (1959), p. 1,116. The CoyotesClodfelter Micheal D. The Dakota War: The United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862–1865 2006 McFarland Publishing 978-0-7864-2726-0 158 Sully's Expedition (1863–1864) Battle of Killdeer Mountain Battle of the Badlands Powder River Expedition Battle of Bone Pile Creek May 9, 1865Dyer, (1959), p. 1,116. The 1st Dakota Cavalry was a Union battalion of two companies raised in the Dakota Territory during the American Civil War. They were deployed along the frontier, primarily to protect the settlers during the Dakota War of 1862. Service Company A By order of the Department of War, organization of the 1st Dakota Cavalry began in the winter of 1861, with recruiting stations established at Yankton, Vermillion, and Bon Homme.Lounsberry, pg 286 At Yankton, the 98 men of Company A were mustered into service on April 19, 1862 under the command of Captain Nelson Miner.Armstrong, pg 33Lounsberry, pg 286. This ref page includes roster of those enlisted into Co A They first were stationed at Fort Randall under Lieutenant Colonel Pattee of the 7th Iowa Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, but detachments of the company were afterward sent to protect the settlements at Yankton, Vermillion, Sioux Falls and Brule Creek, Dakota Territory. During the August 1862 Sioux uprising, Company A escorted settlers as they moved to protective stockades. Governor William Jayne also called for "every able-bodied man to arms in defense of the homes of Dakota", with 399 men responding.Robinson, pg 95 Company B At this time Captain Alpheus G. Fuller, an early settler in the territory, began raising a cavalry militia in Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties, the "Militia Brigade of Dakota".HisSoc, pg 417,427 After failing to form a company for U.S. service, the men were merged with volunteers organizing at Elk Point. On March 31, 1863, these men were mustered in to form Company B at Sioux City, Iowa, with Captain William Tripp commanding. This company was known by settlers as the "Dakota Rangers".Armstrong, pg 121 Both companies were engaged in the protection of the Dakota frontier towns while Generals Henry H. Sibley and Alfred Sully, with regiments of infantry and cavalry from Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, sought out the hostile Indians throughout the territory. The two companies were split into detachments for use in the several settlements. As the Civil War and Indian conflicts were drawing to a close, Companies A and B were mustered out on May 9, 1865, and November 15, 1865 respectively. The battalion had a total of 194 soldiers.Historical Data Systems, Tuxbury, MA. American Civil War Soldiers. Ancestry.com(subscription site) Engagements In June 1864, the 1st Dakota Cavalry Battalion served as guard for Brig. Gen. Alfred Sully as he traveled to Fort Sully, Dakota Territory to rendezvous with various companies there. Upon the completion of the brigade, the expedition left Fort Sully on June 24, 1864. On July 28, 1864, Sully's force of 2,200 soldiers encountered a camp of over 5,000 Sioux warriors. During the subsequent Battle of Killdeer Mountain, United States forces lost 5 men killed and 10 men wounded. On August 13–15, 1865, 24 soldiers in Company B participated in the Battle of Bone Pile Creek against Native American warriors near present-day Wright, Wyoming. The detachment suffered two casualties, Privates Anthony Nelson and John Rouse (both killed in action).Lounsberry, pg 297 See also American Civil War List of Dakota Territory Civil War units References Bibliography A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Dyer Frederick H. 1908 1959 Sagamore Press, Inc New York, N.Y. Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, 3 Volumes Thrapp Dan L 1991 University of Nebraska Press 978-0-8032-9420-2 1698 The Dakota War of 1862 Carley Kenneth 2001 Minnesota Historical Society Press 978-0-87351-392-0 Early History of North Dakota https://archive.org/details/earlyhistoryofno00lou Lounsberry Clement Augustus 1919 Liberty Press Washington, DC South Dakota Historical Collections: a History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians Robinson Doane State Historical Society 1904 News Print Co Aberdeen, SD The Early Empire Builders of the Great West https://archive.org/details/earlyempirebuild00arms Armstrong Moses Kimball 1901 E.W. Porter St Paul, MN Dakota's First Soldiers: History of the 1st Dakota Cavalry, 1861-65 English Abner M 1899–1902 Monthly South Dakotan Yankton, SD Clodfelter, Micheal The Dakota War: The United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862-1865 McFarland, 2006 ISBN 0-7864-2726-4 Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Dakota Territory Category:1862 establishments in Dakota Territory Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865