Sully's Expedition, also called Sully's Campaign of 1863-1864 was a series of two major punitive expeditions led by General Alfred Sully during the immediate aftermath of the Dakota War of 1862. The c
The 8th Minnesota Infantry Regiment during the Battle of Killdeer Mountain by Carl L. Boeckmann
General Alfred Sully (seated at center) with (left to right): John H. Pell, Andrew J. Levering, and Josias R. King, c. 1862.
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Alfred Sully was an American military officer who served in the United States Army during the Mexican-American War and the American Indian Wars. He served as Brevet Brigadier General in the Union army
Sully's Expedition (1863–1864)
…Sully's Expedition, also called Sully's Campaign of 1863-1864 was a series of two major punitive expeditions led by General Alfred Sully during the immediate aftermath of the Dakota War of 1862. The campaign was aimed at displacing the Dakota people, Yanktonai, and Lakota people out of…
Brevet Brigadier General Alfred Sully
A young Alfred Sully painted c.1839 by his father Thomas Sully while attending West Point Military Academy
Our Camp at Cha-ink-pah River, watercolor, by Alfred Sully, c. 1856
Fort Pierre in 1857 from a painting by Sully