In April 1863--after the U.
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Desperate to connect with their families, many of these prisoners of war learned to write.
More than 120 men died.
Separated from their wives, children, and elder relatives, with inadequate shelter, they lived there for three long, wretched years.
History-- some 270 Dakota men were moved from Mankato, Minnesota, to a prison at camp McClellan in Davenport, Iowa.
Dakota War of 1862, after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the largest mass execution in U.
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In April 1863--after the U.
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