FORT SULLY DAKOTA TERRITORY MINNESOTA CIVIL WAR CAVALRY For Sale

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FORT SULLY DAKOTA TERRITORY MINNESOTA CIVIL WAR CAVALRY:
$145.00

Fort Sully, DakotaTerritory was a strategic Civil War post, maintaining protection of the emigrants from the Teton Sioux. Company C of the regiment was composed of soldiers enlisted form Minnesota and Iowa . An OriginalMarch 1866 Order issued at Fort Randall, D.T. for the transportof 5 soldiers of the unit to Sioux City, Iowa, in responseto an order issued at District HQrs Clinton, Iowa. The 5 named soldiers include Private Alpheus Banning, Company C, Bkts Bn Cav (Bracketts Battalion Cavalry) and 4 others of his unit and is signed by the Fort Sully Post Adjutant 4th US Volunteers. The Order comes w service info for Bracketts Minnesota Cavalry and the service records of the 5 soldiers, all Minnesotans most of whom who enlisted to fight in the Civil War in 1864 at Olmsted County, Minnesota and took partin the August, 1864 Expedition and battlewith the Sioux. 1p 8 x 11" ink. Water stains and rt edge damage , Overall fair and legible.