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From Dakota to Dixie

By Buswell, George W

From Dakota to Dixie Memories

From Dakota to Dixie

By Buswell, George W

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The remarkable account of a Union soldier whose service took him from Indian Country to the heart of the Confederacy In the summer of 1862, young Minnesotan George W. Buswell enlisted in the Union army, but his marching orders did not take him to the South to fight the Confederacy, as he had hoped, but to the US-Dakota War. Until the end of 1863, Buswell served with the 7th Minnesota Infantry, witnessing and describing that war's infamous final act: the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men at Mankato, the largest officially sanctioned mass execution in American history. Afterward, he volunteered as an officer to lead the 68th US Colored Infantry, serving in the Civil War's Western Theater and seeing action in Mississippi. Buswell's unique diaries--published here for the first time--offer an extraordinary record of his unusually wide-ranging experience, taking readers through the Dakota War, into Union prisons in St. Louis and Memphis, onto picket lines where he searched Confederate women suspected of smuggling, and into the ranks of a Black regiment that fought against Confederate forces led by Nathan Bedford Forrest. His eyewitness accounts represent a vital contribution to the ongoing debate over the parameters of the American Civil War.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2025-04-09
Publication Date:
2025-04-16
Publisher:
University of Virginia Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0813952786
ISBN13:
9780813952789
Weight:
471 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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